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First we got the yaoi update and now we’re getting the yuri update

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Stargazing || GingerBrave’s gang & Reader

Disclaimer: mention of panic attacks, Baker AU, self-indulgent and THIS IS ALL PLATONIC

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‘The stars sure are beautiful tonight’

Night was one of the few moments where you didn’t need to hide who you truly are: a human.

Just feeling the grass under your skin, the serene breeze passing through your ears, the sound of a nearby creek…

Nature always helped to calm you down.

But admiring the new world around you wasn’t the reason for your stargazing.

You heard footsteps coming out from the tent not so far away from your position and a subtle strawberry aroma getting closer.

It seemed you weren’t the only one still awake.

“Can’t sleep either, right?”

Strawberry Cookie sited next to you, bringing her legs close to her chest

then looked at the moon.

“I… don’t,” 

Her voice was flat and you could see milk tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes, lips trembling.

“…You really think…”

She stopped, wiping her face with the sleeve of the pink hoodie,

“We can… defeat her?”

She whispered the last words but you still heard that.

The answer was what was keeping you awake.

You were a group of four kids, a thief and an inexperienced (as much you didn’t want to admit it) witch against the biggest threat that Earthbread has ever seen that even the Ancients couldn’t fully stop.

The odds weren’t in your side.

And we don’t talk about the other complications.

You wrapped your arm around her, resting her head on your chest.

For while you stayed like that: you rubbing circles around her back and she silently crying, you didn’t care if it would ruin your clothes.

“Where does this beating come from?” she sniffed.

‘Beating?’

“Uhm, you mean my heart?”

“Your heart can do that?,” she adjusted herself in a more comfortable position, “I like it”

‘Cookie’s hearts don’t beat?!’

You didn’t have time to ask what was so strange about it that a sudden weight pushed you forward.

It was Gingerbrave.

“So you two were here! We searched you everywhere!” his hugs tightened around your neck.

Okay, maybe a little too tight.

“You should’ve at least left a note,”

Said Wizard Cookie from behind slowly reaching you. 

He yawned as he sited next to you, leaving some space for Gingerbrave that now instead of strangle your neck was just squeezing your arm.

Strawberry Cookie was still resting in your lap, didn’t seem bothered by noise.

“Why are you here anyways?” asked the same cookie, but also GingerBrave looked right into your eyes.

Yeah, maybe leaving in the middle of the night without notice for wasn’t your best idea but to be far you didn’t expect to be out for more than 5 minutes.

And definitely not an hour.

Crumbs, you were taking too long to respond.

“Ehm, I just wanted… some fresh air” you broke the eye contact, not really comfortable with it, but with the corner of your eyes you could see him still staring.

“And I-“ you quickly paused, realising that you spoke before thinking, too late to take it back as the kid’s attention was fully focused on you.

And you wanted to cry without they seeing you, 

And you started to hyperventilate inside that tent,

And you was on a brick of a panic attack because all those awful, horrible things that happened could have been avoided if you just hadn’t-

“And I wanted to see the stars,” you did your best to not stutter. “They are beautiful, you know”

Wizard Cookie narrowed his eyes at you, probably suspecting you weren’t telling the whole truth but didn’t say anything. GingerBrave, in the other hand, didn’t seemed to notice and said

“Well, then we should enjoy them together, don’t we?” He turned to see the night sky and you did the same.

Together. Even if the odds were against you…

Yeah, you could do that. Who cares about logic anyway?

You are going to find Pure Vanilla Cookie. Got to her castle or whatever and kick her ass butt, her butt.

But for now, you can just admire the stars. You’ll think about your problems tomorrow.

A/N: The ending was originally different but I wanted to post it before my birthday and the start of my exam month so sorry it felt rushed The “cookies’heart dont beat” is from this site I don’t know if it’s still canon but I mean I write fanfic I can do whatever Anyways hope you have an amazing day/night and thanks for reading all the way

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I can’t believe that Fire Spirit Cookie was talking to himself in that room and later they animated CM Alyssa into the video 🥀

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Prune Juice Slime 🤤

chat is this a safe space. can i say something insane

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BROO THIS IS LITERALLY MY MAGICAL BAKER AU

What if a cookie-sized human did wind up in Earthbread, but the cookies couldn't tell if they were a witch or not...

And the human just spends the entire time gaslighting everyone that they are some cake monster and cookie hybrid freak-of-nature. They wear mittens to hide their fingers, long clothes to hide their flesh, a bandana to cover their teeth and mouth, and just say that they have unique "icing" for eyes and hair. Just telling constant lies about why they look so weird and lots of people buy into their lie, so much so that most cookies that know them just go "oh that's y/n 'cookie' and they have mixed dough with cake monster in them". The lie just gets more detailed and solid as they continue through Earthbread by lying their fucking ass off. Shadow Milk Cookie would find that funny as shit, tbh.

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When The Mine update drops, I’ll do my best to not make any Minecraft jokes

(I’ll fail)

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Forgotten Paradise

“Oh, hey! It’s you again. You wanna play together?”

The little light pink creature, followed by a blue and yellow one, circled around you.

“Oh, no! No way!”, you stepped ahead, “If I have fun with you I'll forget who I am and be stuck here forever.”

“Yeah! Doesn't that sound great?!”

“Nice try but I came prepared.”

You take your mirror from your pocket, right when it started to buzz.

“You are Y/N, the Baker. You must help Hollyberry Cookie and get everyone home”

“I’m Y/N, the Baker. I must help Hollyberry Cookie and get everyone home”

“Okay, have fun! We'll see ya soon!”

The last thing you heard the small creature as you went ahead into the forgotten paradise, determined in your mission.

A/N: Yeah I can’t wait for Eternal Sugar to join, the creatures mentioned are those little things in the background of her image. As you probably can tell this drabble was inspired by the magic realm from svtfoe. I like the idea that if humans stay to much in a place with high concentrations of magic/sugar they get dumb and completely forget who they are. Hope no one will take advantage of that.

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Demons make themself look beautiful to deceive you

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April’s Fools

A-ah, there they are!

Between your old broken computer and other junk, there was reason of your excitement , a  small terrarium with colourful mushrooms inside.

So, you had the idea of putting rainbows cubes and mushrooms together after a weird dream (?) you had a while ago and you followed your impulse thought, just to mess around and find out.

 Only to forget it two hours later in the back of the storage and consequently for many other months.

But with the faithful day arriving, this memory resurfaced in your mind and you decided to check if your little experiment could be used for some pranks.

he…he

Ha…Ha…Ha

MUAH-HA-HA-

Y/N, ARE YOU DONE GETTING THE TOPPINGS? WE NEED TO OPEN THE BAKERY IN FIVE MINUTES!!!

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Strawberry Crepe is 100% gatekeeping the console fr fr

Some food for thought on Self Aware AUs

cws: psychological horror elements, existentialism, ddlc mention and some use of machine lingo. this is mainly focused towards cookie run self aware aus, but this could apply to any fandom, really.

thinking about how horrifying a self aware au would be, strictly speaking. like, no magic, no multiversal shenanigans, just "these are characters INSIDE A GAME that become aware of the fact that they're in a game." of course you kinda have to take some liberties, but what would they be able to do, realistically? i understand the appeal of the idea, but i feel people take way more liberties than what would actually happen.

i mean, their options are extremely limited. you would think "well, why can't they just change their code?" but in effect, that'd be like trying to perform surgery on yourself while you're still awake.

speaking as a programmer, it's nearly impossible to edit anything inside of a program while it's running. you HAVE to shut it off before making ANY change. there are some cases where you can edit a program while its running, but you would be unable to see the effects until you reboot the software, and there's a good chance that any half-baked edits may cause a game breaking bug. they're insanely common in just small programs, god forbid a whole-ass game.

the best case for being able to make a significant change while a game is running would be using console commands/dev tools. you know that black box monika pulls up whenever she deletes a character? that's what i'm talking about. she can't change or add anything significantly new to the game, but a console? a console is completely different.

while trying to edit code while a program is running is, again, practically impossible, accessing console commands is a whole different ballpark. a game like crk has to have a console, they're basically mandatory to make any bug-testing actually feasible. the only drawback is that you're limited to the actual commands available, which is probably just simple stuff. there's also a good chance that a dev tool like that would be removed from the public releases of the game.

stuff like this probably means that only cookies who already have some programming experience under their belt would be the ones able to do anything significant. cookies like strawberry crepe, clotted cream, and mozzarella (or the cheese empire cookies in general) probably have the most power here. i could also see black sapphire or butter roll having some knowledge on this end too, but they probably have more experience on the hardware end, rather than the software end.

meanwhile the beasts and ancients (minus golden cheese) have to squint at the screen old man style wondering what the fuck those youngins are doing.

that leaves us with the topic of the player. i mean, we all know that the player must be a godlike figure to them, but they can't really learn anything about them asides from how they interact with the world. again: anything they aren't already programmed to do would be basically impossible to achieve, so no checking the camera or looking up browser history. (and thank fuck for that too, i do NOT need a bunch of cookies seeing the shit ive searched up.)

they probably do what they can to make things easier for you, to keep you engaged, without scaring you off. a couple more materials and soulstones here and there, cutting down the timers on a couple things, sending you more notifications than usual (or even turning your notifications ON if you previously had them off.) to have more and more of your attention.

most of the cookies probably have mixed feelings about some sort of god having such an effect on their lives, but even then, you don't have as much of an effect as they think. you don't control the story. their fate is left up to the whims of faceless gods who only wish to use their likenesses as a motive to make more profit for themselves. they're entertainment. they're money. and the player is just another consumer, indulging on what is in front of them.

some of them want to be mad, but they can't. it's not like they know why they were designed this way. shadow milk especially hates your guts, but that's only because that means there's someone more powerful than him. he's the one most likely to try to do something, anything, to finally be able to one-up their oh-so wonderful and powerful god, but inadvertently breaks things beyond repair.

i'm not saying that the way self-aware aus are done right now are BAD, but i do think some people are missing their true potential. i hope that people see this and get inspired to write something beautifully horrifying, just for fun.

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ehm….

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YOU ARE REALLY COOKING UP SOMETHING!

Immagine if the player have already completed the side stories but the cookies just reset everything so you have to them all over again but this time with higher rewards.

Or during gacha events they would have more missions so they HAD to play longer

Or how now after an update when they touched the cookies would say different lines referring to them but without voice

yeah the Ancients/Beasts would be a little annoyed to have to depend on younger cookie to interact with you

Some food for thought on Self Aware AUs

cws: psychological horror elements, existentialism, ddlc mention and some use of machine lingo. this is mainly focused towards cookie run self aware aus, but this could apply to any fandom, really.

thinking about how horrifying a self aware au would be, strictly speaking. like, no magic, no multiversal shenanigans, just "these are characters INSIDE A GAME that become aware of the fact that they're in a game." of course you kinda have to take some liberties, but what would they be able to do, realistically? i understand the appeal of the idea, but i feel people take way more liberties than what would actually happen.

i mean, their options are extremely limited. you would think "well, why can't they just change their code?" but in effect, that'd be like trying to perform surgery on yourself while you're still awake.

speaking as a programmer, it's nearly impossible to edit anything inside of a program while it's running. you HAVE to shut it off before making ANY change. there are some cases where you can edit a program while its running, but you would be unable to see the effects until you reboot the software, and there's a good chance that any half-baked edits may cause a game breaking bug. they're insanely common in just small programs, god forbid a whole-ass game.

the best case for being able to make a significant change while a game is running would be using console commands/dev tools. you know that black box monika pulls up whenever she deletes a character? that's what i'm talking about. she can't change or add anything significantly new to the game, but a console? a console is completely different.

while trying to edit code while a program is running is, again, practically impossible, accessing console commands is a whole different ballpark. a game like crk has to have a console, they're basically mandatory to make any bug-testing actually feasible. the only drawback is that you're limited to the actual commands available, which is probably just simple stuff. there's also a good chance that a dev tool like that would be removed from the public releases of the game.

stuff like this probably means that only cookies who already have some programming experience under their belt would be the ones able to do anything significant. cookies like strawberry crepe, clotted cream, and mozzarella (or the cheese empire cookies in general) probably have the most power here. i could also see black sapphire or butter roll having some knowledge on this end too, but they probably have more experience on the hardware end, rather than the software end.

meanwhile the beasts and ancients (minus golden cheese) have to squint at the screen old man style wondering what the fuck those youngins are doing.

that leaves us with the topic of the player. i mean, we all know that the player must be a godlike figure to them, but they can't really learn anything about them asides from how they interact with the world. again: anything they aren't already programmed to do would be basically impossible to achieve, so no checking the camera or looking up browser history. (and thank fuck for that too, i do NOT need a bunch of cookies seeing the shit ive searched up.)

they probably do what they can to make things easier for you, to keep you engaged, without scaring you off. a couple more materials and soulstones here and there, cutting down the timers on a couple things, sending you more notifications than usual (or even turning your notifications ON if you previously had them off.) to have more and more of your attention.

most of the cookies probably have mixed feelings about some sort of god having such an effect on their lives, but even then, you don't have as much of an effect as they think. you don't control the story. their fate is left up to the whims of faceless gods who only wish to use their likenesses as a motive to make more profit for themselves. they're entertainment. they're money. and the player is just another consumer, indulging on what is in front of them.

some of them want to be mad, but they can't. it's not like they know why they were designed this way. shadow milk especially hates your guts, but that's only because that means there's someone more powerful than him. he's the one most likely to try to do something, anything, to finally be able to one-up their oh-so wonderful and powerful god, but inadvertently breaks things beyond repair.

i'm not saying that the way self-aware aus are done right now are BAD, but i do think some people are missing their true potential. i hope that people see this and get inspired to write something beautifully horrifying, just for fun.

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I can’t be the only one. DJ MIYA IS AN IDOL!!!

This game looking good so far

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I GOT SO SCARED WHY SHE IS LOOKING AT US LIKE THAT WHEN WE TOUCH THE SCREEN 😭😭

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My dreaming wedding… is… a bit unique. Since it’s for…them.

Aww. You must really love your partner! I wonder who they are.

It’s me!

B-baker?…

Actually I’m here just to represent the Witches… I mean the Divines. When Black Forest Cookie asked me I couldn’t break her dream!

It can’t be a wedding without a little smooch…he…he.

(This update’s gonna be crazy 😭🙏)

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SO COOL LOVE IT

𝖠 𝗋𝗈𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗇 𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗅𝖾'𝗌 𝖼𝗈𝗋𝖾

realizing a certain sweet apple wasn't so sweet after all, instead having a rotten core that led you straight to the jester's trap

ft. Candy Apple Cookie (Apple Faerie), Shadow Milk Cookie and Y/N Cookie. cw. none, if there is pls comment!!! pls reblog, comment if liked!!

You sat quietly, in a field full of cream sheep. Their wool comforting you as you tried to calm yourself down, you had trusted her. You had trusted Apple Faerie, she had convinced you that your friends needed you.

And she lead you somewhere where they weren't. It was odd. She was such an innocent looking Cookie, and here you were distrusting her.

At first you were supposed to help her herd some cream sheep, then follow her back to where your friends where. But then you two suddenly got "lost". How could you possibly get lost in an open space, you didn't know.

Each turn and step felt calculated, Apple Faerie would reassure you she knew where she was going but it felt like she didn't but she did at the same time.

It was like a setup, a trap, some sort of trick to keep you away as much as possible from PureVanilla and the others. So the moment she wasn't looking, you dashed off. Anywhere you could go, any place of shelter or hiding spot you needed to find.

"Oh, Y/N Cookie!!!~" Apple Faerie Cookie cupped her mouth and spun around, searching around for you.

"Where did you run off to, I sure hope you're not lost, we must return back to the spire towers!! Your friends will meet us there, we must quickly return!!!"

You could hear Apple Faerie call your name, she was looking for you, but you didn't want to be found. Especially not in a weakened condition, you prayed to the witches who baked you that you would not submit to this awful mind game.

You were the first Cookie to have suspicions, the first to grow wary and extra cautious when Apple Faerie joined your journey with PureVanilla and GingerBrave to defeat the Beast of Deceit.

Normally you weren't the type of Cookie to judge based off dough or frosting and flavor, but something was just.. off .. about Apple Faerie. She seemed overly happy and too calm in the situation talking about the Beast. You knew it wasn't going to be easy heading to the Beast Yeast with your friends, especially since he had grown to like you.

But you couldn't help it, she seemed so trusting, so sweet, so nice. You shoved that gut feeling down and made a mistake, you trusted Apple Faerie. Believing that maybe, in this Beast Yeast, maybe all cookies weren't out to get you.

Then you heard her footsteps crunch louder on the ground, you knew that she had found you.

"Y/N Cookie, there you are!!! Gosh, you sure are a sleepyhead aren't you? I can't blame you though, the pastures of these fields can make a Cookie just want to doze off."

Apple Faerie walked towards you, convinced you had ran off to wonder and nap, a friendly smile on her face, you could just tell she was pretending.

You backed away, crawling till your back hit the trunk of the tree. Hesitant, almost afraid of her. You were battling with your own paranoia, doubting yourself as the small Cookie approached.

"Y/N Cookie.. Is something wrong, you seem lost in thought. Was it something I said, are you okay Y/N?" Apple Faerie tilted her head and played her small frown, an ace card against you, you couldn't tell what was genuine and what wasn't.

It was like your mind was tricked so much it was accustomed to the thought of being lied to, his voice that rang through your head so often it was starting to get quieter and quieter as his laughter grew. You hadn't told anybody about it, but if you had would it change anything?

You told the Cookie to back away, threatening her that she needed to stay away from you. Your tone shaky, you could fight back if you wanted to but Shadow Milk's voice came back to mess with your head again, haunting you every time you were forced to listen.

"What's wrong, dontcha TRUST her? Ain't she a sweet cookie? Are ya sure you want to do this? C'moonn, don't be a meanie, she's being nice to ya!! Maybe you're wrong maybe you're right, you don't know yet doughbrain!!"

His voice rang in your head, you couldn't help but feel just vulnerable when you heard him. Shadow Milk could easily make you crumble before him, and instead of doing so he was messing with you.

Making you weak, unable to fight back, just another useless blank puppet he could control at his will.

As Apple Faerie took another step forward, trying to reach out to you and reason with you, you flinched and snapped at her. Telling her that you were done with the games and mind tricks.

To which Apple Faerie suddenly stopped.. and paused to stand and stare dumbfoundedly at you. You had figured it out, what a smart cookie you were. It's probably why Shadow Milk took interest in you in the first place.

"Ah, so you know.. I must not be very good at pretending as I am lying." Apple Faerie blandly spoke, her once cheery and peppy tone now sounding empty of emotion. She had been caught.

At your surprise and fright, Apple Faerie giggled while a grin crept on her face looking at her feet. It was an unsettling sight to see, but you couldn't just look away or even attempt to run again. You knew you'd get caught.

"Welp, guess the gig's up!!! I guess I don’t gotta play pretend anymore!!!” Apple Faerie quickly revealed her face, before transforming into a completely different cookie.

She continued to laugh and smile, like it was nothing to her. That she had just tricked you, and lied to you this whole time. Making you believe what she wanted to lure you to the beast.

Her lies had worn off, no longer effecting you, but it was too late. You were already too deep in the web of lies to pull yourself out, tangled in the strings that trapped you tightly.

"Oh, Master Shadow Milk Cookie will be sooo PROUD of me!! I can’t wait— I’ve done such a good job, I’ve tricked Y/N Cookie!! He’ll be happy that you’ll be in his hands now!!”

And before you knew it— Everything got all hazy and weird, it was like you were seeing things that weren’t real but felt like it. Tarot cards floating around you, rabbits hopping in circles, chess pieces knocking eachother over.

The last thing you saw before completely being knocked out was Candy Apple standing in front of you, her smug smile spread on her face. As black and blue and white smoke surrounded you. She mouthed a simple,

“Nighty night~ Sleep tight, don’t let Master Shadow Milk bite~”

You coughed and choked on the fog that swarmed you trying to cover your mouth from inhaling the drugged storm that surrounded you, but it was no use. It had already invaded your mind in physical form, weakening you and putting you to sleep.

And then it went black, you were out cold. You could feel the surroundings change, and you most definitely felt the arms of the lying beast pick you up with ease. Shadow Milk, now holding you in his arms he could only smirk and nod, satisfied with his newly delivered gift.

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BYE BYE RAINBOW CUBES