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#Artistically crafted sunset beverages into the face of someone you'd like to engage in fisticuffs. For just a moment it would be so lovely.
chimericarchitect · 3 years
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❗ request denied. what does this weapon do?
Perfectly despicable of you.
#answered asks#anonymous#Let me tell you a tale of edible glitter.#For a while after I'd been freed of my previous living arrangements I took a fancy toward cooking food myself with fresh ingredients#And recipes and bakeware and the whole shebang. In particular I had a fondness for the idea of homemade chocolates. This has absolutely#Nothing to do with the edible glitter but it does mean that I was watching a lot of cooking videos for various treats. I also picked up a#Lot of skill with more 'standard' dishes during my stay on the ship. You know. The meal kind. Pasta and vegetables and meats of all sorts.#I've always hated working with eggs as they are both merciless and unpredictable. Unfortunately they are also a key component in a great#Many culinary efforts. I didn't know they came in cartons for the longest time! No more opening the awful vessels of condensed chicken#Intent. It was absolutely absurd stuff. (Thank you Wicked for the tip! It remains a real game-changer. ☆) Anyway! I watched a lot of cooking#Videos (as I said) and that led me to observing a particularly curious set of two-tone beverages. (This is the part where the glitter comes#In.) The drink I am thinking of in specific was this really lovely purple to blue fade? A very sparkly little thing full of stars. Do you#Have any idea how much I wanted to muck about with one of those? Absolutely dashing. Speaking of dashing please imagine dashing one of these#Artistically crafted sunset beverages into the face of someone you'd like to engage in fisticuffs. For just a moment it would be so lovely.#And then for the moment to follow it would be a very different sort of beautiful if you're into that sort of thing. Because of the way my#Psi works I have a great fondness for liquids bearing charming hues. This has nothing to do with anything. Maybe you've caught on by now#That I am fucking with you. Stalling as it were. If you've read this far then you're probably going to read all the way down but I will make#You work for it. That's just how it is! So anyway. I was on the hunt for edible glitter after I saw one of those terrifically sparkly drinks#And at first I didn't even know that 'edible glitter' was a thing. I thought those silly little aliens were eating plastic crinklespecks.#Could you imagine? That sounds dreadful but I wouldn't put it past half the chaotic youths and decadent ancients that make up the population#Of the stars and beyond. It was a pleasant relief to find edible glitter and then to utilize it. I ran into a problem where I kept using too#Much. My sparkle-bound hubris knew no bounds. I was the modern Icarus of the kitchen. Edible glitter adds a nice and elegant touch when used#In moderation but sometimes you just have to make thirteen too-twinkly disasters in a row and refuse to learn any better. It had to contain#The absolute MAXIMUM amount of dissolved excellence (the weapon is a type of E.M.P. in function so to speak) in order to appease me. I did#Not want to settle for less than that. Thirteen attempts is still well within the bounds of scientific pursuit as opposed to idiocy.#Sometimes you just have to pour a whole tablespoon of pearl dust into a flower vase and that's just fine.#I remember running out of tags to write in once before and now that I'm doing it on purpose I find that was kind of amazing of me.#You go you mouthy little cuss. I wonder what the raw hell I was rambling about that time. It couldn't possibly have been anything good.#What's nice about edible glitter is that it has no taste which means you can add it to anything. You want gay spaghetti? BAM.#Take your pasta and get lost-a. They do have a texture though! That was the problem with my thirteen attempts at drinkable art.
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