#that someone made look all fancy *specifically* to shame people for their taste in fiction'

[momentsofamberclarity]

don't make me tap the fucking sign

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[nightcoremoon]

everyone loves cake. chocolate cake, yellow cake, spice cake, there’s so many different varieties of cake out there, and they all taste great. some cakes might not suit your specific taste but that’s fine because you can just eat a different cake. some people are allergic to the things in cake so alterations may have to be made, but a cake without wheat or egg or milk or whatever is still a cake. gluten free or dairy free or vegan cakes all exist and people with restrictions like that still deserve cake too. it’s not cool to be a dick to someone about having a different preference of cake.

now, sometimes there are locations that will only ever serve one kind of cake. let’s say, white cake. angel food. you know how it tastes. light. fluffy. airy. there’s nothing wrong with white cake every now and again. of course I do love variety; who doesn’t? you gotta have chocolate cake every so often. keep your palate diverse. appeal to people of a wide variety of tastes. I mean, there’s over a billion people who love chocolate cake most, over a billion people who love vanilla cake most, and only ever investing in all white cake all the time can get bland and boring and stale. eventually you’ll get sick of cake and it will all meld into one and the same thing. and that’s a real damn shame.

but anyway if you’re gonna make chocolate cake, you should do it right. you can’t just put chocolate frosting on a vanilla cake and call it devil’s food, like ned flanders or something. you should actually invest in purchasing cocoa powder and understanding how to use it properly, maybe discuss with people who use cocoa regularly in their baking. oh and don’t put all your eggs in one basket either; invest in ginger, carrot, coffee, rum, maybe even cheese. a strong eclectic diverse rainbow of different flavors in your… cake baking.

and if you want to decorate your cake too, go nuts! go bananas! go strawberries and cream! put some fondant on it and look fancy. as long as you have a good solid substance beneath all the fancy shit, people are going to love the cake you baked. although… don’t put too much fondant on it either, because you don’t want people to dig forever through a bunch of fluff and filler just to get to the meat of your cake. and when you advertise your cake, don’t just give a bulleted list of your ingredients. describe the flavor, the texture, the things you notice below the surface level presentation. you worked hard on that cake, and you deserve to have people give it the attention and praise it deserves.

I’m not talking about cake by the way.

This is a metaphorical allegory for fiction.