Blind Prophet

He will miss.

Americans:

From Wikipedia: A graham cracker is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour.

The next ingredient (which is also extremely traditionally American but slightly more variable) is typically Hershey's chocolate, but you could probably swap this out in the UK with any plain chocolate bar.

Last ingredient is big marshmallows, the kind you do the chubby bunny challenge with, like the size of your thumb and twice as thick.

A proper s'more, the most traditional possible variety, involves to graham cracker squares, two slab segments of Hershey's chocolate, and one to two marshmallows depending on your preference for filling and gooeyness. You put a slab of chocolate on one of the graham cracker squares. Your marshmallows should be toasted, usually over a campfire but if you're doing them at home over a gas stove burner is fine, but the fire part is critical. You can toast them to whatever degree you like, some people like them nice and golden brown but still kind of firm in the middle, me personally? I want that bitch to CATCH ON FIRE, I want it gooey and sticky as hell in the middle, crispy and burnt on the outside. Slap that motherfucker on your graham cracker and chocolate square, top with the other one so your marshmallow and chocolate are sandwiched together by graham cracker on the outside. You do this with your freshly toasted marshmallow because ideally it will be hot enough to start to melt the chocolate so it sticks to the marshmallow and the graham cracker and, combined with the gooey marshmallow, it keeps the whole thing together, and for that reason some people will let them sit for a hot second to let the melting process happen (especially if like me you have chocolate on BOTH graham cracker squares, not just one, because you're a sugar fiend), but if you are a young child you do not have that degree of patience and you eat that shit immediately, unmelted chocolate and all. Consume your summer camp delight like a tiny club sandwich, get gooey sticky marshmallow and chocolate all over your hands, and enjoy.

The first is that you don't pull the marshmallow off the roasting stick and somehow put it on the chocolate. Your staging area will look something like this, with the graham crackers and chocolate already set out (though not usually on the fire like this, for us it was always someone's lap or a picnic table or something)

And when your marshmallow has reached appropriate roasting perfection, you use the graham crackers to slide it off the stick.

and ideally, as a CHILD you are using a literal stick. Like you walked around and spent time looking for The Perfect Stick off the ground while the adults set up the fire. It has to be thin enough the marshmallow will fit, sturdy enough that it won't bow, long enough that you won't burn yourself roasting your marshmallow. And preferably doesn't have a lot of bark that's sloughing off, OR so much bar sloughing off you can peel it all back and get to the clean stick under it. If you're smart, you might stick the tip into the fire first to "wash" it/burn off anything that was still lingering, but. well, most kids don't.

When you bite in, the marshmallow and chocolate SHOULD ooze out all over you. If you don't kinda look like this eating it, you've probably done it wrong:

You find a spot, not above all the logs where everyone sticks their marshmallows by default, but at the heart of the fire. Ideally between a couple logs already glowing gold. Something like here:

Below the leaping flame. Near the logs. There's probably only one or two spots good enough for this on any given fire, but that's okay because everyone else is up above. They will get their marshmallows faster. They will be either firm or burned or both. That's not your goal.

Rotate the marshmallow slowly. Ideally come in at an angle so the part closest to the flame is the side, not the tip. The spot closest to the fire is the spot that turns a crispy golden brown, and you want that everywhere, on the tip and around the circle.

You keep going, slowly turning, for several minutes. Several people will rotate in and out of the higher sections, getting their fast delight. Eventually, your marshmallow will start sagging badly, risking falling. Maybe it does fall and got start over. But eventually it will be golden brown all over, and so liquid it no longer clings to the stick. It is ready, finally.

You say "who hasn't gotten one yet?" And deposit it onto their waiting graham crackers and chocolate. You've made an excellent marshmallow. It isn't for you. Get another while you're over by the bags and go back to the heart of the fire.

That's your evening. One, slow, perfect marshmallow at a time, given to whomever still wants s'more. You're making art for children to stuff into their mouths cheerfully. You're watching the movement of the fire and the heat of the logs, like you would if you were maintaining it — maybe you would be, maybe you were the one who built it — but right now that's not the goal. Let someone else put more logs on, while you take only the one stick and find the best spot for it to live.

You will, eventually, finish a marshmallow and find that nobody moves to accept it. Maybe they're all eating right now, or maybe they've gone through so many they're hesitating. Eat your masterpiece then. Enjoy it, the hardest and most perfect result from a fun and beautiful moment. Go back in for another, until you've run out of marshmallows and the fire is too low or until even you are done with s'mores, until you have made enough.

Okay scene by scene breakdown:

Firstly the "plans" for getting the workers

V's suggestion about leaving the planet freaked her the fuck out just based on how she shouted "NO" because she knew that was very against the rules and she really doesn’t want to face and potiential punishments from cyn because she is so afraid of her. And shes afraid of what will happen to v an n again because she truly does care about them. (And also she might be worried if anything goes wrong with this mission, cyn may wipe the two's memories again and all of this will be forgotten leaving only her to remember)

And then after this she hides in her secret office (which is actually so lovely) trying to get that corpo high.

Really interesting ans so charming how she used individual pieces of paper to make her have a corner view skyscraper office.

AND HER DETOX ROOM WITH HER DRAWINGS EVERYWHERE AND IT BEING A MESS. Shes so autism coded its fucking insane. She has to cool off her social battery for the day by getting wasted and being herself without her mask.

And then she gets the fucking phone call and I immediately got spamton core from it. Evil wretched red phone.

And the fucking cinematography in this scene was IMSANE. like holy fuck. The detail of her trying ti hurry cyn along so she can not hear her voice.

AND THEN CYN SAYING SHE WANTS TO DO A FACE TO FACE MEET UP. poor fuking j is MORTIFED at this because she knows seeing cyn in person means seeing the stretched out contoured rotting corpose of her former best friend (lover) again.

AND THEN CYN TELLS HER "do not be afraid. J. You aligned with the. Correct side. It was the only rational calculation. Wouldn't you agree?" And she solemnly agrees almost certainly thinking about tessa and how she has given everything to this eldritch monster in order to save herself and the closest thing she has to a family.

And like FUUUUCK I WASNT EXPECTING THIS FROM A POST SHOW MURDER DRONES SHORT. THIS SLOTS SO WELL INTO EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT J'S CHARACTER ITS INSANE.

You are smart. Not just in obvious ways, but in the quiet ways too. In how you think, how you notice things, how you keep trying even when it’s hard.

You are amazing. Not because you are perfect, but because you keep going, you keep feeling, you keep showing up in your own way. That counts more than you think.

You are not a problem. You are not “too much,” not “too sensitive,” not something that needs to be fixed to be acceptable. You’re a person who has been through things, who feels deeply, who is still learning and growing.

You are not boring. You are thoughtful, and there is depth to you that not everyone takes the time to see.

You are not annoying. You are expressive, you care, and your presence has a place in this world.

You are not replaceable. The way you think, the way you exist, the way you show up, no one else does it the same way.

You are not a burden. Needing support sometimes doesn’t make you heavy to carry. It makes you human.

You are not behind. You are moving at a pace that fits what you’ve been through, even if it doesn’t match others.

You are allowed to take up space. You are allowed to exist without constantly apologizing for it.

You are not less than anyone else. You are not failing at being a person.

And even if it doesn’t feel true right now, even if your mind argues with every word… you still deserve to hear it.

So I’ll say it again, just in case you needed it a little more today.

MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.

is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.