#cake shop asks

[supernovaodessa]

Cheesecake, red velvet and carrot cake! 🍰

Cheesecake: What is your favourite sweet treat?

Oh God, I don't know if I could pick just one! My favorite since childhood would be linzer cookies. They're buttery cookies filled with raspberry jam in the middle topped with powdered sugar. In the same realm, I also love those chewy almond thumbprint cookies with jam in the middle.

However, as of recently I've been craving tiramisu something fierce.

Red Velvet Cake: Name your ultimate guilty pleasure.

Perfumes! Scent and memory mean so much to me. If I ever won the lottery, 90% of it would probably go to Dior 😅 Candles as well, especially from a brand called Nest. And binge watching tv shows. I have no shame in becoming one with the sofa.

Carrot Cake: What does someone have to do to get you to be their friend? 

I really appreciate kindness, patience and empathy. Life has been pretty hard the past couple of years and I don't have a lot of down time. Their ability to understand and not take it personally if I'm quiet for a while and then be able to pick it up right where we left off like no time has passed? That means a great deal to me.

Irl, cooking a meal or buying me a coffee will make me your bff. I'll make us matching friendship bracelets. My love for you may even rival that of my caffeine addiction. In all seriousness though, feeling taken care of/ being cared for in that way makes me feel immense love for that friendship.

This had to have been one of my favorite ask games, so thank you @thehazeldruid for allowing me to take part in it! I enjoyed it immensely. Please reblog it if you'd like and tell me what your answers would be! I'd really love to know.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find some tiramisu...

[kaiserouo]

sevagoth reads rhino so well it's basically telepathy

[holocene-sims]

grandma aoife's bakery 🍰✨🥧

[despairforme]

[ I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who took the time to send Nnoitra a birthday ask yesterday! It was super sweet of you and I had a blast! ;O;// I still have some asks that I got after I went to bed but I will try to get to those today! Thank you for making writing Nnoitra so lovely. I truly love it here! uvu// ]

[coffeecakecatt]

Hello hello, I am dying of the heat but am going to be working on charm designs today including some fandom ones!

I already have a few Fate characters with the idea of being charms in mind finished, but I'm curious what characters people are really wanting if there was the idea of them getting a charm.

[vitiateoriginator]

Klaus is being so sweet today he keeps giving hugs and he's laying on my pillow with me purring so loud. Everybody tell him what a good boy he is

[huenistar]

IM LATE IM SRY💀

HAPPY BIRTHDAY‼️‼️ ILY&UR ACC SM UR ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHIFTERS&I HOPE U HAVE (had??) AN AMAZON BDAY‼️‼️💕💕

ITS ALRIGHT DONT WORRY N OMG…. i’m one of ur heh.. favorite shifters..? WOOOOO WE CHEERED!!!

[padded-daydreams]

have you ever checked out the shop "AngelCakesAgere"?

Nope, I am broke! For anyone who would like to check out this shop though, here is a link so you don’t have to search it. It looks like a cute shop!

[fleetingpetal]

strawberry shortcake, birthday cake and italian cream cake for the ask game :D

ask game — greetings anon ‹3 thank you for your time. this was fun to do ~

Strawberry Shortcake: Name five of your favourite fictional characters.

. . . 1 . the wanderer from genshin impact. ( honorable mention: columbina )

2 . aventurine from honkai: star rail. ( honorable mention: acheron )

3 . edogawa ranpo from bungou stray dogs. ( honorable mention: nakahara chuuya )

4 . kocho shinobu from kimetsu no yaiba. ( honorable mention: tomioka giyuu )

5 . akaashi keiji from haikyuu. ( honorable mention: wakatoshi ushijima )

Birthday Cake: What is on your birthday wishlist? 

. . . it's a little crazy to think i am turning twenty in just five months. but i suppose that for my birthday wishlist this year is to simply get there when i have physically healed, managed to get myself a new violin and potentially already starting on my plans to move out. a bit ambitious, but that's really all i hope to achieve before then.

Italian Cream Cake: Name five of your top travel destinations.

. . . i don't have a lot apart from japan and london. though i am a bit of a curious, wandering spirit who wishes to see more of the world. so i suppose i'll be travelling the destination that my mind sets itself to by then ~

[supernovaodessa]

Curious... Vanilla cake, lemon cake, Italian cheese cake.

Vanilla Cake: How do you spend a lazy, rainy day?

Ahh...my favorite kind of day 😍 It starts with morning snuggles in bed with my kitty. Then drawing a bath filled with scented bath oils, flower petals and candles lit all around. Listening to a rainy day playlist and reading a book. If I'm feeling up to it I'll cook up something nice and cozy. However, if it's a proper lazy day I'll end up ordering takeaway and enjoying it on the couch whilst binge watching something like Downton Abbey, Killing Eve or Game of Thrones/ House of the Dragon.

Lemon Cake: What/who makes you smile the most?

What comes to mind immediately is the first snow of the season. I'm smiling just thinking about it! Winter is my favorite and when I feel the first chill in the air I get so excited. You can smell the snow before the first flake even falls from the sky. And that night when everyone else is asleep I go outside and watch it. How the pearl white snow twinkles like diamonds and stars in the moonlight. Nothing can ever beat that.

Italian Cream Cake: Name five of your top travel destinations.

The UK

Spain

France

Italy

South Korea

I hope these answers have satiated your curiosity.😊 What would your answers be?

[biblicalhorror]

Yesterday I saw one of those dumb articles claiming a donut shop in MY town was "voted best in the state" and I didn't even know we HAD a doughnut shop so I decided to go check it out this morning and yall. my life is changed

[villainsidestep]

🥳 I hope you have fun today 🥹💕

FISH SHUT UP THAT IS SO CUTE…. 😭💖

[dollywons]

What was your favorite order to make?

TYSM FOR THIS ASK I HAVE SO MANY BUT I WILL PICK 4

♡︎ Jungmatcha Cake

♡︎ Haered Velvet Cake

♡︎ Coffee with Suga

♡︎ Minjelly Donut

[cangrellesteponme]

10, 12,14,17, 19 👁️👁️

10. what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

i’ve had to check my files for this. Sweeter Days (latest fic i posted, touchstarved vn) was in the drafts from april 13th 2023 to the very end of march 2024. nearly a year.

(and i thought it was the longest, but if we count drafts i do plan on finishing, it clearly isn’t. i started writing Running From Our Ends (kuro) on february 3rd 2022. it’s not done yet. there’s also the Breaking Point (d:bh) sequel but let’s not…)

(also, i wrote Staring Contest in like a day. so yeah not all fics are created equal…)

12. a trope you’re really into right now

right now, i think i have brainrot about two tropes: temporary amnesia and one-sided feelings. but that’s mostly for reading, i don’t write that at all (well… arguably Dichotomies (bnha) was one-sided). i don’t write a lot of tropes, but recently a lot of my writing has been about the mind and the body in conflict but also being one and the same?

14. where do you get your inspiration?

depends on what we’re talking about. for original works, my brain is just a little weird and comes up with weird stuff very often. for fanfic, mostly just from aspects of the characters i want to know more about? like how i wrote Staring Contest before we got a more detailed idea of how bard worked. and for poetry, my shower thoughts are very weird!

(as for art, which is not the focus here but who cares, i enjoy mashing concepts together a lot. so when i do more complex pieces, it’s mostly just that i thought of a thing and went “make it kuro!!”)

17. talk about your writing and editing process

well, The Ota Method is a mess. but it’s pretty systemised.

have some kind of weird thought and deem it worthy of being written.

run to pc (or, if we must, notebooks) and write the basics down (sometimes, a few lines)

whenever there’s enough time for that, do a little writing session (with background music ofc) and write as much information and details as possible. most of what i write then isn’t the actual words you’ll see in the final draft. it’s things like “something about fear but no fight-or-flight, sentiment left aimless as the fight has left him already.” (this is an actual quote from the first draft of dadbastian week day 7) that indicate what ideas i have, what metaphors i want to put in, but are simplified enough so i won’t be stuck on finding the right words immediately. usually when that’s done i have a more global idea of how it’s all going to look. (sometimes, a whole passage is often reduced to a sentence, something like: “after it’s done”, which is again a real quote from the same draft)

then, i do a second writing session. sometimes it’s later on the same day, or the next day, or it can be ages later. first draft notes are put in bold so they stand out as unfinished. and then i just write. one draft note can lead to something like “— it is hard to see any fear in him in the complete absence of fight-or-flight, hard to put an adequate name on this aimless and dulled terror, and the calm facade reigning over it all. Sebastian would once have found it fascinating. He is now appalled at the lack of fight left in his young master.” (again, from dadbastian week day 7) the process is repeated as many times as needed to finish the damn thing. i usually write paragraphs about feelings first, along with everything that involves metaphors. dialogues and more descriptive parts are often done last.

when it’s all done, it’s time to proofread (ugh) which first consists in checking that i didn’t forget to write anything, removing some repetitions (and sometimes adding some), making sure transitions make sense, and asking myself “does this actually convey the right thing?” which never leads me anywhere. and then i read it again and check for typos and other mistakes.

then i sigh as i remember i have to write a summary and figure out tags for ao3, i have a heated debate against myself about the rating, i give up and just pick one, do the things, struggle with formatting for a little while, and boom. posted.

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

well. i don’t do historical research because i hate history (and i’m very dumb), so that’s 99% of the interesting things out of the way. most of my research is one of three things: i’m trying to understand every single way a word or phrase can be used and understood in english (or just making sure i’m remembering it right, or checking that my vocabulary choices match the typical british standard), i want to have a specific image in mind about a thing i’m writing even if i don’t describe it (this is mostly about fashion. and food, oddly enough), or i’m neck deep into psychology and psychiatry for some obscure reason (so far, for all of my writing, i’ve researched anxiety, bpd, npd, aspd, bipolar but just the diagnosis criteria, ptsd, and cptsd. don’t ask me why, it just comes up!!)

I’d say the most interesting one was… well. it’s a tie between looking up the recipes of a bunch of lemon cakes and aspd.

[cake-shop-rarepair-bingo]

hey, I won't be able to finish the rare-pair bingo in time, would it still be ok for me to tag you if/when I do end up writing fics for the rest of the prompts?

Absolutely. We're here to encourage and enable people to write, explore, and enjoy rarepairs - and sometimes life gets busy! I know mine did the last few weeks. Feel free to @ us, for us to cheer you on. Usually after the bingo runs I go back and reblog everyone's work again, just to make sure everyone got seen. Which! Everyone else: Please don't hesitiate to poke me if I missed reblogging! Me and my helpers are very busy, and we do our best, but we absolutely always want to see your works, and share them. Yes, even after the event is over. <3

[kieraillustrations]

Pleinair day 3