the arcana of poop and pee

firstly, this update was a huge "full circle" moment for me, because i started playing crk around the time when hollyberry was first added (which was early into my freshman year of HS), and she was always my favorite ancient. her awakening update dropped right at the end of my senior year of HS. isn't that so cute 🥹

wednesday, june 4th: the update drops.

this date was not ideal for me because i was a busy high school senior with a bunch of projects to wrap up and finals to study for, and i did not want to be distracted. that week in particular, i had a major project for my AP psychology class due that friday, so i told myself i would not touch beast yeast ep 10 until the project was done and i had submitted it.

the night of thursday, june 5th: insanity takes root

the project i had to do for AP psych was to create a book for 3rd graders that explains the major structures of the brain. for my book in particular, i needed to print out 11 sheets of paper, and then create illustrations by hand. for most of my high school career, i did not have access to a working printer. luckily, my mom had recently bought a smart printer! hooray for me! no more mooching off my friends for print jobs!

unfortunately, it was a smart printer.

the entire night of june 5th into the 6th was spent frantically figuring out how to work the printer, revising the book's manuscript, doomscrolling pinterest while trying my absolute darndest to avoid BY10 spoilers, and just overall losing touch with reality. luckily, i got it to work around 5am! all 11 sheets were now printed out, but i still had to do the illustrations. and it was a LOT of illustrations that needed to be done. but i needed to take a break to save my sanity and get ready for school, so that's what i did.

friday, june 6th, part I: artistic delirium

i put on my cutest outfit and was off to school. twas a grey and cloudy day. i remember it like it was yesterday. 75% of that day was dedicated to me sitting in silence and frantically drawing with an assortment of pencils, highlighters, and gel pens. my HS ran on a 4 block schedule, and i was very lucky with how my schedule turned out for the day

block 1: choir. our spring concert was over so it was basically just a free block

block 2: AP macroeconomics. we had a sub so it was also basically just a free block

block 3: AP psych. once again, basically just a free block because our teacher just let us put the finishing touches on our projects. i also got a bonus 20 minutes of Lock In time because of lunch. yes, i was able to finish the project before the block was over.

block 4: english. i don't even remember what happened in this class that day

normally after that i'd just go home but unfortunately i had to go to a mandatory national honor society meeting that was really irritating for reasons not worth recounting here. but i had a cupcake there and it was pretty good. and after that...

friday, june 6th, part II: the moment we've all been waiting for

i went home. it was FINALLY time to see just what the ever loving fuck happens in beast yeast episode ten. i didn't even change my clothes or eat anything (fun fact: the only two things i ate during this entire epic saga was that cupcake i mentioned before and a cup of yogurt i had for lunch earlier that day), i just hopped into bed and got to work.

given everything i just laid out here, it's no shock that i was a little... emotional... going into BY10. everything hit me 10x harder than i was expecting it to. for example: the trope of "cannibalism/consumption as a metaphor for desire" has never really done anything for me. but i got genuinely worked up over that one scene where raspberry, wildberry, and tiger lily watch a deer maul a lion in the forest. i still really love that scene guys hnghgc

when hollyberry ate that berry, i officially lost it. i erupted into deranged, wailing sobs. for the entire rest of the storyline, i was in complete and total shambles. this was the second of 2 times that i have ever cried over a cookie run storyline (the first time was over a mermaid's tale back in 2023)

by the end of the little epilogue scene where sugarfly sets up the whole "silent salt was actually in kahoots with elder faerie" thing, i was about 75% of the way composed. i don't remember how i got my hands on them, but i had 3000 lights of true passion ready to use. so i used them.

i do my first 10 pulls. nothing

i do my second 10 pulls.

"WORRY NOT, MY SHIELD IS STRONGER THAN EVER!"

i immediately collapse onto the floor and start bawling my eyes out even harder.

at some point in the midst of it all, i got a phone call from my mom, who was still at work. she asked if i was ok and i was all "yy🥺y😖yyyyyess...*sniff* iiiim🥺🥺🥺o☹️k..."

epilogue

about half an hour later, i went roller skating with my irl best friends like nothing ever happened. we had a brief chuckle about all this. we also recorded a cover of the cup song in the roller rink food court which was pretty fun

the printer would continue to be a little bitch and put me through similar situations until december of that year, when i finally figured out how to ACTUALLY work it

my mom never followed up with me about that weird phone call

i do not know what grade i got on the psych project. i never checked because i was too scared and it was senior year anyways so who cares about my grades. it was probably not a very good grade, as you can imagine due to the... circumstances... i faced, that project was NOT my best work. besides, like i said, it was supposed to be a book for 3rd graders, and i think my concept for the plot might've been a little too complicated for 3rd graders. honestly, in retrospect, the concept would've made for a better RPG than a book. idk.

the end