SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING

Fallen Ancients AU [Archives, page 1-2]

Alright everyone, time for poor Golden Cheese to finally get a bit of a break lol. I have been looking forward to working on this chapter! :3

Oh absolutely. Caramel Arrow & Crunchy Chip have really only ever known Cacao as "very serious, doesn't eat sweets, battle-hardened warrior", so they often end up not realizing he needs/wants things like naps, or his plushie, or cups he doesn't accidentally drop. Or comment on things like him playing with toys

They don't realize they're upsetting Cacao, and Cacao is too self-conscious to say anything about it

So he just keeps bottling it up, until something minor happens one day and he has a little bit of a breakdown (which came completely out of nowhere from Carrow & Chip's perspective)

challenged myself to make a video in 24 hours to practice making smthn imperfect… ended up 48 hours because i had to learn new editing techniques 😃

anyway, enjoy this little Shadowed Prince amv that touches on some plot things 😄 i am totally sane abt my own AU ✌✨

Idk what they put in this blonde twink but Im gonna need like 15 of them

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

here's the intro