#THIS POST HAS LIVED IN MY BRAIN FOR A WHILE

[serenitiesbloom]

guess who just finished kpop demon hunters and is currently hyperfixated hahahha! anyway I love baby saja so here’s some brain food from yours truly.

tw: spicy food, pinch of yan. possibly ooc :( spelling errors wc: 637

thinking about…baby saja who loves his hot sauce and when the saja boys aren’t performing, goes to nearby mini marts and convenience stores to buy bottles of hot sauce to devour at the shared apartment he has with the other boys.

Baby saja who posts reviews of different hot sauce brands online and becomes an internet sensation overnight thanks to his trademark sass and deep voice voicing in all his videos and streams. (who knew hot sauce was such an interesting topic?)

Baby saja who meets you one day, you the clueless human staring at two bottles of hot sauce like you were about to make a life-altering decision.

Baby saja who stares at your focused expression and suggests the bottle in your left hand as his favourite and you, instead of freaking out over a member of THE saja boys speaking to you, nod and walk off with the bottle in hand. (though he does look familiar, you think to yourself as you stroll past a billboard with an up-and-coming boy band including a vaguely familiar member with mint blue hair.)

Baby saja who meets you again entirely by chance at a street food market while he was trying all the spicy food and spots you, the odd human in that mini mart. 

Baby saja who offers to walk around the food fair with you.

Baby saja who recommends all his favourite spicy food.

Baby saja who purposely picks the spiciest food to have you try just to see your cheeks flush with heat and your lips pucker from the spice.

Baby saja who makes fun of your red face but finds it cute so he continues to give more spice.

Baby saja who ends up eating all the food you find ‘too spicy’. 

Baby saja who walks you home after eating with promises of treating you to more spicy food.

Baby saja who makes sure to keep in contact with you by visiting you or texting. (how did he even get your number anyway?)

Baby saja who grows close to you over the course of a few ‘spice dates’ as you would call it after he keeps bringing spicy food whenever you meet him.

Baby saja who will sass you into oblivion yet steal your heart with his devastating face card.

Baby saja who despite telling himself he’ll steal your soul soon, just can’t seem to do that after seeing you smile sweetly at him. 

Baby saja who despite knowing that all demons feel are their past feelings of regret and grief, he knows that what he feels for you a simple human isn’t hunger for your soul but desire to see you at his side. 

Baby saja who spots you in the crowd at the saja boy’s live performance of ‘Soda Pop’ and makes sure to keep eye contact with you as the song ends.

Baby saja who after the performance assures you that he’ll still visit and offer you buldak no matter how busy he is with idol things (or stealing souls for gwi-ma).

Baby saja who quite literally lives up to his namesake behaving like a baby be it for the fans or for you. (but he is softer with you ehehehehehe)

Baby saja who hates aegyo with all his demon life but will still begrudgingly do it for you if you ever asked  just you.

Baby saja who gives you saja boy merch after seeing how you decided to support them. (how come all of them are all of him though?)

Baby saja who is a little spoon and likes to snuggle into your chest like a baby.(pun totally intended.)

Baby saja who eventually tells you about him being a demon sent to steal human’s souls but he won’t ever steal yours! Just say the word and he’ll spirit you far far away from all the pain with his embrace so please just believe in him only. ♡ 

a/n: this was super rushed but i hope you like it! :3 might make more of this haha.

as for my jinwoo fic will be temporarily paused due to my laptop giving up on me but it will be continued!

buldak: korean spicy chicken

© serenitiesbloom 2025

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Saw the wizard tower comic post you reblogged and loved it. But also I have gravity falls brainrot so now. Picture that with the Stan twins.

Stanley agrees to do some sort of dubious job for a guy who fancies himself a wizard. Quick cash, ya know? At the end when he comes to collect his money, he finds a letter congratulating him and telling him he’s now the wizard and the tower is his. On one hand, it’s all very weird and Stan has to come to terms with the fact that wizards are a thing real quick. On the other hand, free tower. And turns out whoever owns the tower is considered a high standing member of the magical community. Guess Stanley is a wizard now.

On the other side, Stanford has been working on his wizardry for years. He’s having a hard time getting respect in the magical community because they all call him a scientist. And yes, he is a scientist, but he’s also trying to be a wizard now. He can do both, he’s an overachiever. So he’s been learning all he can, studying spells and practicing magic. He’s going to be a wizard and make them all take him seriously damnit!

The petty rage and jealousy Ford feels when he happens to bump into Stan at a wizard market is immense. What do you mean Stan was just given a tower and the title of wizard? Has he even cast any spells?! Does he even know what he���s doing?! Ford has been working so hard at being a wizard and Stan was just handed it?? He probably doesn’t even appreciate it! Do you know how old and coveted that tower is Stanley?! Do you know how much cool stuff is stored there??!

Ford having a jealous meltdown while Stanley is just there like uh. You can just come on over and visit if it bothers you this much? I’m a cool awesome wizard now, so you’re allowed to visit my tower :)

And Ford does but he’s soooo envious because he wants to be a cool awesome wizard too. This is so not fair >:(

How dare you drop this brain worm here/j

Hmm. Wizard titles are something that's inherited from another wizard or bestowed onto someone by the Wizard Council majority. Every wizard has their own way of choosing who inherits their title, and Stan's 'Wizard Grandpa' (That guy was not his master, they had no relationship before this old guy rolled up and offered him 700 bucks to go on a 'quest' then exploded into stardust or something. Thats what Stan's decided happened to him, since all he has is this letter and a cool wizard tower) chose Stan based on vibes and secret wizard reasons. The reason was Stan was so good at staying in his lane and full on ignoring all the magical things happening around him to complete the quest he passed the wizard trial he didn't know he was on. Like, he has to go into the Enchanted Woods and Return the Lost Tome (forgotten library book) and Stan is holding up hands by his eyes so he doesn't see the fairy chittering, the lake monsters roaring, and the damsels crying for help. Stan has 700 bucks on the line for the easiest job ever, he's not gonna let what's gotta be some kind of hallucinations distract him. Full on side steps talking animals and doesn't stop to help little old ladies cross the road. He's got a job and he's doing it.

He really needs that 700.

Except now he's got a room full of gold and a giant library and enchanted kitchen and a fancy garage and a cool hat and living furniture and a bed and he can do magic now? He's still figuring it out but give him time.

He is imposter syndrome his way through wizard life, getting invited to wizard things, people deferring to his opinion on things. Is waiting for someone to realize he's not supposed to be here and kick him out, except they wont. This is just his towers version of hazing basically, everyone knows Stan knows nothing but he was chosen and his tower always produces excellent whimsical wizards once they get the hang of it.

Meanwhile Ford has been trying for years to get called a wizard. He's trying so hard to get acknowledged by the wizard council for a wizard title. Either hasn't realized or doesn't care about wizard inheritance laws. He's gonna get so knowledgeable in spell craft and magic it'll wow them away and then he'll be a wizard scientist like the overachiever he is.

So seeing Stan, in the middle of the wizard market, wearing a wizard hat with a bunch of wizards nodding at him is setting off every anger and jealous signal he has. Stan obviously doesn't know what he's doing! He has no idea what any of the spell components he's pocketing do! How did he get a wizard title! And whats the real story! What did you do to the wizard Stanley! Yes i want to see the inside of your tower >:(

Stan is faking it til he makes it but by god is he gonna fake it good in front of Ford. Obviously he knows spells Ford! Watch this! (panic does something he's sorta read from a spell book and shoves his surprise down when it works) Watching Ford seethe is the best worst thing because now he has an in to talk to Ford but Ford is so angry but its great because for the first time in his life Stan's the prefered Pines twin and its a high he's never had or ever imagined having. Obviously hes a fraud and any moment all the other wizards will kick him out of the tower but until that happens he is rocking this wizard life and gonna fake knowing spells and magic and not so secretly smugly showing off his cool wizard tower.

[m0n0lithical]

☆ oc tag game !

Tagged by @vampwan 💖 Ahhh thank you this gave me an excuse to actually develop more for a character who doesn't have a bunch established for him yet - or at least stop waffling about some aspects of him and decide for good. Also to post someone other than asshole cat rofl.

NAME: Varrien Burns NICKNAME: Ren (which isn’t TECHNICALLY accurate, but he likes it so poo on letter order accuracy) GENDER+PRONOUNS: Trans Man, He/Him AGE: 22 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Simlish, Toki Sulani, Tartosiano OCCUPATION: Uni student. ☆ favorite COLOR: Pink, purple, & yellow. ENTERTAINMENT: Home decorator shows. Cooking competition shows, too – particularly baking, since he can be properly judgmental in those cases. DRINK: Plumberry nectar for alcoholic, lemonade for non-alcoholic. PAST-TIME: Baking or gymnastics if he has to be indoors, soccer or swimming if he can be outdoors. Generally, just a lot of sports or demanding physical activities. FOOD: Poke bowl (BUT if you manage to convince him to admit he loves sweets, then he’ll tell you that he makes sweet potato pie for himself constantly) ☆ have they...? PASSED UNIVERSITY: Working on it! (but not yet) HAD SEX: Definitely. HAD SEX IN PUBLIC: Yes, but only a couple times – not really his thing. GOT TATTOOS: Several! - hands/back/shoulder are the commonly visible ones, but he also has a subtle one along his top scars. GOT SCARRED: He has a few that are often visible – each arm has at least two, and one going down the right side of his torso. The ones usually covered are one that is vertical down his left thigh, as well as his top scars. HAD A BROKEN HEART: Not yet, no – he thought he did in highschool when his first crush strung him along a bit before embarrassing him in front of his class, but in hindsight, it definitely wasn’t as bad as his 14-year-old-self thought it was – and certainly not dramatic enough to constitute a broken heart. ☆ are they...? A CUDDLER: Yes – he’s very open with his affection towards people, particularly in public. As long as the target of the affection is okay with it, he will squeeze the life out of you. Funny enough, he’s more reserved in private, but still shows physical affection often – just probably in more subtle ways. EASILY JEALOUS: Not even remotely. Comes with the territory of being polyamorous – only loving one person at a time doesn’t come naturally to him, so he doesn’t expect it of anyone else, either. TRUSTWORTHY: Uhhhhh...look, just don’t sign any of his contracts. He doesn’t want to fuck you over, mind, but if he wants to keep living as he is now, some monkey’s paw punishment has to be done to whoever signs on the line. ☆ family SIBLINGS: Nada – an only (adopted) child. PARENTS: Power couple real estate mogul lesbians – they had no plans for kids whatsoever, until one of their neighbors had a dilemma of an unknown child being literally dropped on their doorstep. Them taking Varrien in was supposed to be temporary (the neighbors who found him had no room or money for another child), but he was basically a ‘foster fail’, just without any actual foster system. CHILDREN: God no, and he’d not even consider it for at least a decade, really. PETS: Two dogs (a pomeranian & a chihuahua), but his moms have them both while he’s attending university.

Tagging @igotsnothing @freezerbnuuy @southernsimmin @sadraccoon061 @herzblau & @marzipaneavocado ! I was MIA for like...4 days while my brain hyperfocused on C A T so I'm not totally sure whose been tagged but - if any of you want and excuse to do it, here it is ✨ As always no obligation/feel free to ignore the tag if you don't want to do it 💖

[leafing-from-view]

i think i wanna take the time to tack onto this post i did since there's been a couple people actually viewing it. also hi! thanks for reblogging my post and getting it a tiny bit of traction.

so, as an inhuman alter who had originally split in case we ever did lose our comfort item... it's not bizarre or weird for something like that to happen. your brain continuously works on coping as a system, and while it hurts you a little bit more it's ultimately trying to help. now, don't quote me on this or take it as cold hard facts -- we as a whole are just a mentally ill adult who looks into the specifics of our own disorder for fun every now and again.

not to mention how into symbolism and hypotheticals i am, i can maybe at least give people some semblance of understanding of why what splits for what purposes? things like that, y'know.

abusers are the most common that split or maybe fictives split that remind you of people in your life, maybe they remind you of yourself, maybe they're just a favorite from a media you enjoy. abuser introjects take on whatever forms there are, like i said. they can be a mirror of the actual person they're based off of, they could be totally different appearance wise and just have memories from a third person perspective of the person.

your brain can do some fucked up shit to cope with trauma. we have an introject of our biological father in our system who has actively caused so many issues for us. but uh, i think i know why he split now? i've been sitting here trying to think about it for a while, a lot of us were stumped on how or why he was here but he does have a purpose. they all have a role, but they also don't have to be vocal about what their role is to them. it always really just is a guessing game with some of 'em. i'm not fully comfortable sharing things about him specifically besides the origins and that's about it.

in my specific case though, i'm technically in the role of "soother"? i'm one of the calmer people, i just kind of exist to make sure we're doing okay, bring us a sense of comfort. my "source" was this plush panda bear we had growing up into adulthood. we had it all throughout the discovery process, held onto it as tight as possible from being afraid of the consequences that would come with it, etc. collectively, we all found a sense of comfort in it and eventually when the stress grew too much and we had to get rid of it? i fully figured out my identity was just... the comfort bear. over time, you obviously change shape and have different preferences.

now? i'm just a little fella who's full of dirt, i'm a living cultivator for life now. it's really nice to think about? but also kind of complicated to explain if people ask me "hey, what's your source?" or "what do you do?". i usually don't have an answer, i just laugh and shrug like "oh yeah, i don't have a source" or "i don't really do much". i kind of shifted towards being a red panda instead of the traditional black and white panda bears. things like that, but yeah!

uhh, i didn't proof-read this post too much but i hope it adds some miscellaneous insight to reasonings behind introjects.

friendly reminder to any and all systems: you can introject anything -- abusers, friends you've been close to forever that bring you a sense of comfort, relatives in your family, fictional characters, comfort items, etc. and it doesn't make you any less of a system for any of these introjects. it's okay to not be happy with an introject (to an extent) based on their origin but keep in mind; this is their whole own person right now, they may not do or say the things you'd expect the actual person to say or they could be totally on point to the origin point.

doesn't make you any less of a system. and i'll keep saying that.

[parfaitmew]

been thinkin' about the twins lately♡

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Sasha using the title "Lord" in RiAAU after taking over Toad Tower and presumably killing Grime and stealing Barrel's Warhammer from him, and other political and military leaders assuming she's a man because, well, Sasha is a gender neutral name, so they hear Lord Sasha and assume they're talking about an adult male toad warrior. The second most powerful person in the known world and only real threat to the Leviathan reign!

Cue princess Marcy fleeing Newtopia and her father seeking refuge with his worst enemy hoping to offer information and political levarage in exchange for protection, perhaps even offering herself in marriage to transfer eventual inheritances and whatnot, and she finds out that Lord Sasha is not, indeed, a dark and domineering toad warlord, but a beautiful, terrifying girl her age that looks like her and oh god her poor little lesbian heart can barely take it.

[nitedulalaruata]

oKay, so I might be only slightly insane, but there's enough unmedicated ADHD in me to make this a reality. Enjoy?

This is an edit of @hareofhrair's Cake Song video, which was based on a post by @reliqvia. please forgive me for some jankiness in the editing I had so many technical issues and ended up doing this on my laptop with 4GB RAM ._.

More info on how I made this under the cut:

So first of all I grabbed the lyrics from OPs video (slightly altered to fit the actual audio):

Beautiful women will be like "I baked a cake!" And you'll ask "Oh? What flavor is it?" And they'll say, well…

It's a honey lemon fig persimmon orange blossom sponge cake soaked in elder flower mint reduction champagne lipgloss in conjunction with an almond anise chocolate lattice saffron soufflé earl grey syrup balanced by scallions simmered in a coffee carob spear mint julep swiftly snipped and shipped round trip and kissed by only kosher lips and whipped with rich amalfi lemon foraged from the fields of heaven just a hint of limoncello parsnip poppy and tangelo arsenic olive steeped in aloe sous vide in a vegan jack fruit tallow lemon thyme lemon balm matcha wine hearts of palm fetta and nettle petal fresh with a fennel frond beurre blanc and beurre monté served burning on blancmange ensconced in: cream cheese goat cheese blue cheese brie cheese head cheese soil swimmin in a ribbon of my liminally limited extra virgin olive oil

(GET SCONED?)

Whipped chantilly meringue frosting please stop me if this gets exhausting bergamot and apricot and almond anise cardamom And seven swans! A golden ring! Lords are leaping! Here's the thing! It's topped with poppies picked in Oz~* Sugar gauze and puppy paws all sourced sustainably because it was a gift from Santa Claus

I juiced the moon for blue moon goo! And killed a cop for mountain dew! I fucked with space time yeah it's true And found out what those photons do I stole Schrödinger's cat so you could have this cake and eat! it! too!

And you're like Ok. I want to spend the rest of my afternoons walking around inside your beautiful mind like a garden.

Cake break down

Then I broke the lyrics down into the different cake parts, which was difficult as the lack of punctuation allows for multiple different readings on how exactly the ingredients are combined. After a bit of rearranging I ended up with this list and constructed a rough sketch from it (for the final product I again shuffled some of the planned stuff in the picture, but this is the gist):

Some of the ingredients are inedible or have an ambigous meaning (this is complicated by English being my second language and some words can be translated in multiple ways) or are .. uh .. hard to source (side eye to difficult trade relations with Heaven and Oz), so I swapped them out for ingredients that are safe for consumption and available to me.

Recipes

Some things I've made before and already had working recipes for - for most things though I had to look up recipes. I think it goes without saying that I had to alter the recipes HEAVILY, but the base recipes were:

Sponge Cake: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/sponge-cake-recipe/

Soufflé: https://eggs.ca/recipes/basic-souffle/

Mint Julep: https://iba-world.com/iba-cocktail/mint-julep/

Blancmange: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018142-blancmange

Beurre blanc: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/246931/chef-johns-beurre-blanc/

Beurre monté: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/7939-how-to-make-beurre-mont%C3%A9-

Meringue Frosting: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/best-frosting-recipes/

(only used recipes in English for reader's convenience and reader's convenience only)

From the lyrics and the recipes I gathered the strangest (and most expensive) shopping list I ever made.

Figuring out the Fire Situation

As noted in the cake break down, the burning beurre on blancmange would be swimming in olive oil. Which - as I'm sure you can imagine - is not ideal for fire safety. First I thought about separating the blancmange from the oil underneath by some aluminum foil, but there's still the fact that I'd have a burning liquid on the tippy top of a cake. I'm not even sure if the beurre has a high enough percentage of fat to catch flame, but burning butter on a cake decorated with flammable things like fondant, flowers and almond flakes is uh … not great. And I'm not prepared to burn down my kitchen for a shitpost, so kiddie version it is: boring old cake candles far away from flammable stuff but actually they're cool because they glitter

(My kitchen has a fire blanket, just in case anything would go wrong. QUICK PSA: If you don't have some kind of fire safety stuff in your kitchen, please get at least a fire blanket. They're cheap and can save your life (and your kitchen) in case you get flames.)

Preparations

After the planning phase I grabbed the biggest bags I have and went to the biggest store in my area, fingers crossed that I'd be able to get every ingredient on my list.

Well. It's a scroll.

🫠 (honestly my estimate was around 180€, so yay?)

BUt at least I got almost everything!

*cough cough* if you wanna throw a Euro or two at me to help compensate for this grocery bill you can do so via my kofi

Baked the sponge cakes and prepared the "lipgloss", horrible syrup™️, scallions in julep, and blancmange, before calling it a day and falling into bed exhaustedly.

Assembly

Next day I sous vide'd the olive for the "tallow", made the swans and the chantilly and assembled the various remaining parts. Then meringue frosting and decorating, while beurre blanc and buerre monté simmered along. Multitasking babyy!

Then, finally, the cake is done and I can light the candles to bring everything together:

Video

During all of this ordeal I took a bajillion progress shots and some extra photos. I never used a video editor or made an animation in my life before AND MY COMPUTER DECIDED TO RANDOMLY FORCE ME TO RESET IT BECAUSE APPARANTLY MY 15 YEAR OLD PHOTOSHOP VERSION CAUSED IT TO CRASH REALLY BADLY (curse be upon ye, Windows 11 and Adobe!), so my learning curve was steep, but I had the combined power of great stubbornness and multiple energy drinks on my side.

Every picture that is not otherwise credited to someone else was made by me. The background for the "space and time" part is a crochet work I made, following the Arcanoweave pattern by Julia Hart of Draiguna.

The final product took a total of 10 days to make: one for planning, two for shopping and baking and making the damn thing, one for extra shots, and six for editing the video (including two whole days of troubleshooting the tech issue).

Taste Test

Bottom half: Sponge cake and cream were fine (not surprising as those are the most regular cake ingredients in this abomination), but I got a cardamom pod in the same bite, which was not as pleasant. Next bite: the parsnip-poppy-grapefruit jello is a bit unusal but ok. Next bite: jackfruit and olive. I actually spit that one out. Bwah.

Top half: Sponge cake and cream again, fine. Next bite: blancmange - grainy (as detailed below), the milky almond taste is okay, but I think I've overdone it with the cardamom. The beurres were okay with it too (I mean it's just butter, what can go wrong with that?). Next bite: The cheeses were an unexpected savory flavor, but the cream cheese with a bit of blancmange and sponge cake was actually nice (no surprise again, as cream cheese is also a normal cake ingredient).

Decoration: Did not eat the flowers (obviously). Cotton candy and chocolate were tasty (obviously), the apricots were fine I guess? I'm not a big fan of (dried) apricots, so *shrug*

Overall: Some great things in there - but also some truly horrible stuff. Looks very pretty though, 5/10

Detailed version of the individual parts

Honey lemon fig persimmon orange blossom sponge cake

Easy peasy: base recipe for sponge cake, add some honey and lemon peel and figs (and no persimmon as SOMEHOW the store didn't have any? (usually they do), also no orange blossom) to the batter, be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of batter and scramble to find enough cake tins for it all, then have a minor meltdown as you realise mid-baking you've set the oven to the wrong temperature and try to save your 7 eggs worth of cake by encasing it in foil, while cursing heavily because you just burned your arm on the oven door, and be glad that in the end the cakes came out only slightly over- and undercooked simultaneously.

Elder flower mint reduction champagne lipgloss

Uh elder flowers are not available on their own, so elder flower tea it is. Throw in some mint and reduce. Then mix the elder flower mint reduction and champagne (I'm not rich, so sparkling white wine it is) and make lipgloss out of that. Well, edible lipgloss is not a thing (or you know, there are dubious listings on various websites that claim otherwise but usually lipgloss contains stuff you shouldn't ingest in great quantities), but oils are a big part of their base, so we'll just throw in some coconut oil to give it a more creamy consistency.

Almond anise chocolate lattice saffron soufflé earl grey syrup

First I made saffron soufflé (first time I made soufflé and I feel lied to by all the people saying soufflés are hard to make - it was really easy). Then I tempered dark chocolate to make some chocolate lattices (free hand - I had already cleaned so many dirty bowls and tools just to use them again right away, I really was not in the mood to clean more chocolate tools than neccessary). While soufflé and chocolate were cooling, I threw some almonds and anis into a pan to toast. Added some water and an earl grey tea bag and let it steep. Removed the tea bag after a couple of minutes, cut out a cute shape from the soufflé to marry to its chocolate lattice …aaand ruined it immediately by putting it into the horrible abomination in the pan. Stir stir stir and shred in a mixer, strain the mixture through a sieve while trying not to puke from the smell. Reduce this liquid down and add sugar to make the worst sirup in history.

Scallions simmered in a coffee carob spear mint julep

Another easy thing: Pour hot water over some instant coffee and carob powder in a cup. Crush some mint with sugar and a little bit of water, fill with bourbon. Mix both drinks in a pot and add chopped scallions. Let simmer for a couple minutes, done.

(The scallions were super fresh so I assume they were swiftly snipped and shipped round trip. But I don't know anything about kosher etiquette, so I did not kiss the scallions just to be sure)

Whipped with rich amalfi lemon foraged from the fields of heaven

The lyrics say: "… [horrible] syrup, balanced by scallions … whipped with … [lemon]", so I made lemon sirup (from counterfeit lemons as I'm a dirty atheist) and combined those three things into a creamy sauce. (Had to add some whipped cream or it would have been too runny)

Just a hint of limoncello parsnip poppy and tangelo

There's no specific serving form given for those ingredients so I took it to mean those things can be present in any form. I chose to finely chop the parsnip and put it together with poppy seeds into a sheet made of a gelatinized mix of limoncello and grapefruit juice (no tangelo available to me - but it's a hybrid of grapefruit and mandarin orange, so that's close enough).

Arsenic olive steeped in aloe sous vide in vegan jack fruit tallow

Ah, another thing that is not advised for human consumption. Of course I'm talking about the olive (singular?), not arsenic :P (please, this is a joke, DO NOT eat arsenic). Forgot to buy aloe, so I sous vide'd the single (non arsenic) olive. Vegan tallow is an oxymoron - but "vegan [thing]" is often used to describe something made of vegan stuff that has similar properties to [thing], so no problem here. Just puree the jack fruit and place the olive in there.

Can I just say that all the websites that told me "jackfruit has a neutral taste" were lying. Jackfruit is the worst thing I ever smelled and tasted - even worse than the horrible syrup I just made - and while I am open to trying vegan alternatives any day, this can of jackfruit was the only ingredient that I just threw away after making this cake instead of using it up, because ugh. no.

Lemon thyme lemon balm matcha wine hearts of palm Fetta and nettle petal fresh with a fennel frond

Again, no specific form, though they could be served on the blancmange together with the beurres, but there's only so much that I can put onto a fragile pudding shape before it collapses. Better idea: chop what can be chopped and soak in what can soak, then sprinkle in between the cake layers. Substitutions made: Lemon thyme -> regular thyme, lemon balm -> lemon balm tea, matcha -> NOT FOUND, hearts of palm -> NOT FOUND, nettle petal fresh -> nettle petal not fresh (tea)

Beurre blanc and beurre monté served burning on blancmange

As the recipe for beurre blanc states, it can't be reheated so I saved the beurres for assembly day. Blancmange though needs fridge time, so: followed the recipe, got really frustrated with american measuring units (I have a set of measuring cups / spoons, but guys, that's extra stuff I have to CLEAN. Just use a scale, for god's sake), and it turned out grainy because I don't own a cheese cloth but that's fine with me. Beurre blanc and buerre monté were easy enough, just followed the recipe (in american units. hmpf.)

Ensconced in: cream cheese, goat cheese, blue cheese, brie cheese, head cheese, soil

It's just a list of (mostly) cheeses, nothing special here. I made the "soil" out of oreo non-denominational cocoa cookies.

Swimmin in a ribbon of my liminally limited extra virgin olive oil

Just plain old olive oil. It wasn't a limited edition, which makes it liminally limited indeed.

Whipped chantilly meringue frosting

Decided that this meant that both chantilly and meringue were used (not a combination of both). So whipped chantilly (which is just cream with sugar, but I added a stabilizer to make it more - well - stable as it is a load bearing part of the cake) for the inside, and meringue frosting for the outside it is. Number of times I made sirup in the past two days: 3 - new personal record.

Bergamot and apricot and almond anise cardamom

Another case of no specified serving form, but it comes after the frosting, so I assume these are toppings. Bergamot orange was not available, and I learned only after the fact that apparently in France (?) this can also refer to limes (?), but I did find some bergamot lemonade. Soaked the apricots in it before they went onto the cake, and sprinkled some almond flakes and the spices onto it too.

And seven swans!

Yay some sculpting! Swans are easy to make out of fondant: Just roll a ball, then squish it into a somewhat elongated scallot form with a point to form the tail. Make a snake and place it at the dull end of your scallot, then bend it into the typical swan neck pose. Now squish the end of the head to form its beak. Some food coloring for the eyes and beak and we're done! For assembly purposes I staked them - otherwise the moisture from the blancmange would dissolve the fondant.

Can you tell I did not look up how exactly swans look like before making these? Eh, geese should be fine for this cake, too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A golden ring!

Those come premade:

It's topped with poppies picked in Oz

I really tried to find poppies, but somehow you can't buy them anywhere?? Even though they are pretty flowers? After store number three I gave up looking and just bought a plant that had the most similar flowers. Obviously this means that they are not from Oz either… (I lied to you in the video- shame on me)

(also: I'm living in a city. If I had been visiting my parents' house in the countryside, I'd have plenty of wild poppies, but alas… (not driving 2h just for accurate cake decoration))

Sugar gauze and puppy paws

Sugar gauze? Not quite sure what that is, but I figured that cotton candy would be close enough? And while "puppy paws" is not a name for cookies, Bärentatzen or Katzenpfoten ("bear paws" or "cat paws") are a thing here. Unfortunately the store didn't have any (outrageous, I know), so I opted for Katzenzungen ("cat tongues") instead (no way I'd do more baking for this thing). Cat tongues are close enough to puppy paws, right?

Blue moon goo

Next blue moon is still far away, so I just used "blue" as a color descriptor for the goo - blue curaçao is the obvious choice here.

Mountain dew

While mountain dew is available here I didn't find it at the store, so for the visual I used some green Fanta. (I thiiink I tried mountain dew once and didn't like it anyway, so it was better that way)

Schrödinger's cat

Guest appearance: My precious kitty baby meow meow (she's 19)

Outtakes

My fridge has never been this full, let alone so full with useless items:

Almost everything in this picture went into the cake.

And kitty apparently wanted in on the space time fuck:

There was like one (1) frame in a whole two minute video that I could use, the rest was just kitty taking the spotlight.

[ineffablefool]

gahhhh the last few weeks I have been starving for fics or art where Aziraphale is clearly, legitimately fat (with adoring attention paid to his physical features which are associated with said fatness) and also clearly, legitimately loved ("desired" would be okay but oh give me cherished, give me treasured and held dear and, again, adored)

and I know that this is one of those things where I should just be the change I want to see in the world, but the last few weeks I have also been [flops face-first onto bed and doesn't move for 45 minutes], so clearly that is not happening

[sulky-cabbage]

The sukugo fight can't get animated any sooner I'm craving sukugo tiktok edits

[nenoname]

been seeing too many posts insisting ford should call stan "lee" lately, i'm seconds away from writing the most jarring fic where dipper inexplicably calls mabel "belle" the entire time

[birb--birb]

I am physically incapable of packing my room up at normal hours it's always 1-3am that I'm most productive I swear

[steampunk-raven]

a ranking of shaperaverse characters based on how much i (plural system) relate to them because of that. v silly not serious

henry/hurl. 10/10. it is an integral part of many types of system dynamics to have one guy who is there and another guy who is also there the key difference being the second guy just has their tits out 24/7

jakob/jesse. I staunchly believe that the “unborn twin” thing is just a lie and these two actually just. have DID. because genuinely before I figured some stuff out that is what my headmates told me. so. however jakob sucks so they don’t get to be first place

timothy/zoe/everyone else in his head. technically this is ghostie weirdness but 1) i love ghostie weirdness can i claim it? i love it it’s great 2) the conversations they have are possibly the best depiction of intersys dynamics i’ve ever seen. if anyone was wondering what’s going on in my brain during like. a math test or something. it’s that it’s literally just that. the whole slenderman musical is plural

the rose sisters :3 for similar reasons to the one below but like. the lil creatures are more plural about it i think

floozies! technically one could argue they are the exact opposite of plural because they are one (more or less) identity in multiple bodies as opposed to multiple identities in one. but i love them and also theyre plural as fuck fight me

raven/david. this was originally gonna be lower/tied with the next one but these two actually talk to each other. however i do feel like their relationship is an equally good (or maybe even better but ik it’s super subjective lol) metaphor for many other topics. but i love them and my understanding of their characters is DEFINITELY heavily influenced by my own plurality and experiences. so *shrug*

sarah. somethding deeply wrong with her <- person who is obsessed with her. anyways. “masks all the way down” “erasing memories to forget the versions of herself she doesn’t identify with” sarah mckiggan i need to dissect you. obviously she’s having an identity crisis (general version) but i like imagining there’s a bit of identity crisis (plural version) in there too.

the cabaret gang. like conceptually. couldn’t really figure out to place this so it is tied with whatever you think it should be tied with

the narratives. no explanation needed.

every single character from puppetshades. something up with them i think.

lloyd. many things wrong with him. he should become multiple guys about it

mary. i like her so I’m claiming her. people get so confused about her amount of legs because one headmate wanted 10 legs, one was really obsessed with spiders so just said theyre all a spider, one was just kinda bad at counting, and the others were just glad to be included. canon to me (/j)

[rosetheocto]

…is it stupid that I’m starting to feel kinda scared with how suddenly relevant/“big” the community is getting...?

[xerith-42]

If Blaze has 50 fans, I'm one of them. If Blaze has 30 fans I'm one of them. If Blaze has 10 fans I'm one of them. If Blaze has 1 fan I have bested all the other fans in the fine art of being in love with this collection of pixels. If Blaze has 0 fans I have fallen alongside my brethren after a battle hard fought, and I am rewarded by the grace of death in my loves arms before I am to be reborn and fall in love all over again.

[coelacat]

the thing they don't tell you is that when you're depressed and poor that the food is actually what drives you most fucking insane

[dungeonmalcontent]

Twilight, but it's a reexamination of the way elves age in most fantasy universes.

"I know what you are. You're skin is pale and you're unbelievably fast."

"Not that fast. Marginally faster than most people. On average."

"Sometimes you speak like you're from another time, I've never seen your ears... and I've only ever seen you eat root vegetables."

"Just say it"

"no, you have to do the line..."

"*fine* Say it, out loud."

"You're an elf."

"Cool. Now can you please just not tell anyone about this?"

---

"How old are you?"

"I dunno, like... 460."

"But you don't look older than 17."

"I spent about 50 years looking like I was 10."

"And how long have you looked like you were 17?"

"uh--probably 200 years? I don't know. We don't age in reverse dog years, there isn't math for this."

"Ugh, Sindreth, you're so stupid."