finally, some present-day soup ingredients!! i apologize for any bouts of food poisoning that may have been caused by the previous batches of soup; they were very old. 1. gink ref 2. fuzzbo's goal in life is to fix every pothole in massachusetts. he keeps falling in them and getting stuck 3. a special request from the mollusk 4. horse head and horse body united 5. artfight spinky for @stickbirdanimations !! i miraculously still remember how to animate after all these years 6. longing for the nest 7. MAGIC MAN DEPLOYS THA CHARMS, for ghostskull 8. dexter the tired triangle, for spacialcube 9. cat break 10. accordion fish, for @iatesomebody 11. 654 (with some sort of inflorescences), for @shalebridge 12. art fight wore me out to the max despite my mediocre attack output, so 188 was my final day of drawing lines on a strict daily basis 13. #1 pick of sea monsters everywhere 14. regular guy mckenzie has a riveting conversation 15. greater dirt devil 16. i think there's a guy who hunts dirt devils for religious reasons and he is completely decked out in furs all the time 17. zaggles, the man with the zaggly stripes 18. unfinished cheez it picture 19. i wanted to paint a fruit bowl but didn't have access to any fruit besides a banana and a bunch of tomatoes. the cucumber is there for contrast. also gink 20. grady deadman 21. anotha cat. love cats 22-23. AND THEN, Mouth-Eyes Michard re-manifested. you may remember him from a single picture that i drew back in 2020. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/170522706/ ) well he's back and he's my new #1 favorite guy to draw. 24-25. after a bit of experimentation i decided that i like michard better with an upright posture, a long face, konjac speckles, and colossal whiskers. also decided that he absolutely needs to play multiple saxophones simultaneously, partly as a reminder to practice playing my own saxophone more often but also as a tip of the hat to rahsaan roland kirk: the coolest saxplayer of all time (also the man behind the music in this project) 26-29. he was originally supposed to be depressed and lonely until shale suggested yet another excellent idea that couldn't be ignored: give him a drum friend who is all arms. thus, Perpetual Arms Peterson was born 30-31. and they're available for hire 32. fancy michard portrait 33. someday i'll feel ambitious enough to draw a fully functional saxophone complete with keys and mechanisms 34-35. two of the three christmas cards that i recently painted (one of them is still a secret) !! i haven't actually sent the horse one or the secret one yet because As Usual i've made things more complicated by assigning myself with bonus crafts to send alongside them. this time the theme is beeswax 36. pointy guy is so nice. he's best known for pre-twirling the spaghetti at club meetings so no one has to do it with their fork 37. the illusive forward-facing peterson 38. and an illusive sideways-facing michard 39. look at this smug little guy. with his smug little eye ok good nightmorning