Someday I will put here a title

A lot of people wanting and expecting spaces and events and services without wanting to contribute any time or money or labor to support them has been a constant problem. Throughout my entire career, I've done most of the work myself, and I've paid for most of what I need to do that work out of my own pocket.

Which is not to say that nobody helps. But out of 50+ people who might show up to a free event with provided food, five or six showed up to a yard sale to fund said event, stayed for a couple hours, and then left my husband and I alone for the rest of the weekend.

It has a 100% fatlity rate. Nobody who jumps in comes out. That's not hyperbole: There's never been a historical case of survival.

But the number of people who leap into rivers and lakes and reservoirs when it gets hot and die due to undertow or thermoclines…

Actually, I once leapt into the North Sea. I was with friends, and we were at a cove marked safe for swimming. My friend pointed to a rock and said 'Let's swim to the rock!".

I am a strong swimmer.

A few minutes in, we realised due to a little optical illusion, the rock was actually the island of Skomer, several miles away. We turned around, and all was well.

Yeah: No plot twist here, but we did get a crash course in how water density means that you can have a layer of very cold water just under the surface layer of merely cold water (It was the North Sea. The North sea does not do warm. It mostly does fatalities).

We didn't get into trouble because we are not dumbasses, and we were lucky.

The Bolton Strid is 6 feet wide and about 40 ft deep, and is a vertical vortex that sucks down anything that falls in and hammers it on the bottom, then tosses it into one of the underwater caves.

Bodies are often not recovered.

On days where all six of my chronic illnesses are acting up, there's only one reliable failsafe preventing me from going into the random water that someone pointed to while saying "go in, it's a good idea".

Which is not my brain realizing in time. No; multiplied flare-up puts my brain mostly offline, sparking on average six half-baked thoughts per hour.

It would be because one of my chronic illnesses is fibromyalgia so at the time brain gives up, walking is long ago unavailable.

Anyways telling the kids to go collect their parental units at the end of an event is a) funny b) gender neutral and c) just refers to the person currently doing your parenting

Like, seems like to some of ya, she's like the queen of the whole world, even the universe, and yet to some a-ya she's a nobody

Well, I guess I do kinda gets that. I s'pose bein' in power means there's gonna be people tryin-a undo any work ya try ta get done, doesn't it?

Seems worse here tho. I don't envy the queen of earth (izzat her title? Or just like queen of the queer folk? Sorry if ya haven't made anything official yet. It's just with the crown an' all, I kinda assumed..)

Aaanyway, where is it on this planet a girl can get some qeffler? It obviously came from your queen's mind so somebody's gotta have made it 😍

You wouldn't be able to mistake qeffler! Ya got all the stuff for it here!

Flaky pastry dough? Ya seem to sell that in explod'n packages! (By the way, your queen told me this place was violent but when she told me you needed bombs for your bread packaging? I'm still a lil weirded out over that one!)

Peaches and apples ya got by the truckload! The peaches are maybe a bit smaller here than on Abelia but they've got heart! You gonna tell me you never took the sweetness of a peach and the sourness of an apple and..

Well OK the drizzle is a little complicated b'cuz ya needs ta make 'em separately and combine 'em when you pour. But I know some of ya can make a fine drizzle with a bit-a fruit, water, heat, honey/sugar/sweetener and some time. Time seems to be the strongest magic in this universe. It can create anything and destroy anything! So use your time magic in that pot and watch your syrups take shape! Some places combine the syrups into one but my favorite place (was in my favorite city but it seems the city moved) they pour them separately and it's so much better 😍

Ohhh... the hard part is the sweet cream between the layers

Just to be clear

And I don't actually have subjects. That's why there's no official title.

Anyway uhm wait let me see cuz I do think I found something that illustrates at least that we can put stuff between layers of flaky pastry:

The local bread shop hasn't done me wrong so here's a free advertisement for them. (I'm using one of their pictures)

The "Pistasjdrøm" (Pistachio Dream 😍)on the left is a pretty good approximation of "sweet cream between the layers"

And/or Intention magic

As with anything you can find places who don't, either for cost cutting or because they're "purists"

All personal philosophy to be certain, but the depth of the flavor profile when the you bite into that flaky pastry and that sweet cream melts away? It just transports you someplace magical 💖

What types of...

Hmmmmm.

The cream is smooth and luxurious even from the most cost-conscious of places!

Some Abelian citizens believe the invention was a cultural program that spanned a continent! All I remember is that no matter where you went or what language they spoke, everyone knew qeffler!

There's about as many recipes as there are bakers capable of making it!

Midway through talking about my symptoms my voice audibly started shaking as I was describing them, clearly upset.

In the middle of my monologue he turns the tablet to face me, closes whatever program he has open and the wallpaper is this fucking collage of pictures of lord farquaad from shrek, lovingly decorated. Dude just sat there placidly smiling at me until I noticed and stopped dead in the middle of a sentence. We sat there in silence like this for like a solid minute before I started wheezing laughing. Before I could even say anything else or process it he picked up the tablet and wordlessly left the room, and I just sat there dumbfounded until the doctor showed up. 10/10 doctor experience tbh

I didn’t own a cell phone at the time to get a photo so this rendition from memory is all I can provide you