After Lucifer’s multiple requests for pancakes, Alastor finally made chicken and waffles as an attempt at a truce.
SOUTHERN COMFORT FOOD SERIES
Sweet Tea
Peach Cobbler
Hushpuppies
Crab Boil
Fried Catfish
Shrimp and Grits (debating on this one, b/c it came out in the '50's?)
Biscuits and Gravy
Cornbread
Gumbo
[Image description: Lucifer flings himself into Alastor with a giddy hug, nearly knocking him over. Alastor is starting to transform, as he holds a slotted spoon in one hand and a plate of hot chicken and waffles in the other.
Alastor: If you make me drop this, I WILL THROW YOU INTO THE DEEP FRYER!!
Crab/Crawfish Boil! Coloring the food was a challenge of "what shade of Copic Marker is this?"
The last time I had a Crab Boil was in… middle school? My friend’s mom dumped the whole thing on a giant plastic sheet on the dining room table and it was DELICIOUS. Definitely made an impression, that's for sure!
SOUTHERN COMFORT FOOD SERIES
Chicken and Waffles
Sweet Tea
Peach Cobbler
Hushpuppies
Fried Catfish
Shrimp and Grits
Cornbread
Gumbo
Biscuits and Gravy
Image description under the cut!
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 5 panel comic
PANEL 1: (Charlie stands to the side, looking at something offscreen.)
C: Hey Dad?
L: Yeah?
C: We’re you expecting a package from Uncle Levi?
L: A what?
PANEL 2: (Charlie looks at two giant towers of seafood crates. One has a note that reads “2 Luci w/ ❤️.” Another note reads, “Call more often u dick.”)
C: It’s a bunch of boxes from Uncle Levi!
PANEL 3: (A blur runs by Charlie in a flurry of feathers, sending her hair flying askew.)
L: WOO YEAH!
PANEL 4: (Lucifer bounds away, the crates stacked high above his head.)
L: SEAFOOD IS HERE - FRESH FROM ENVY! AL, GET THE KITCHEN READY!!
C: Uh… Dad?
PANEL 5: "A few hours later…" (There is a giant, messy pile of cooked crab, shrimp, crawfish, potatoes, corn, and sausage on a long table. Charlie is agape with amazement, and Alastor hands her a plate.)
A: Charlie - be a dear and fetch the others for dinner please? And you’re going to catch flies if you keep gawking.
(Lucifer is taking photos with his phone, sending them to a group chat.)
L: Eatin’ good 2nite! Thx Levi! <crab emoji>
Levi: OMG JEALOUS
Levi: Is that a GODDAMN CRAB BOIL?? F U
Bee: No fucking way bitch u only cook pancakes
Bee: Who’s cooking 4 U?? DEETS U BITCH <heart emoji heart emoji>
if Broadway doesn’t want bootlegs floating around then they need to get their act together and make legal recordings. you can say all you want that theater is meant to be enjoyed live, but the fact of the matter is not everybody can get to NYC to go to a Broadway show. not everybody can afford to take the time off of work and buy a plane ticket to NYC and buy a night in a hotel AND get the ticket to the show. people want to see the shows, that’s why there’s a bootleg market in the first place, but it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone has the time, money, and ability to make it out to the one place in the world to see something on Broadway, especially if it’s a limited engagement. so record that shit, slap some subtitles on it, and sell it so we can buy it legally.
When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere.
Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.
The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay.
Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.