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Jessica.

Jessica are you alive????

I was trying to do a good thing and update in a timely manner.

So here's the thing, over a year ago I found a new bakery in town and it was amazing. Everything about it seemed wondrous and all of my fellow customers were warm and delightful.

But the amazing thing was this chocolate cake. Simple, timeless, beautiful chocolate cake. This cake was plentiful and loved by all, platters of full chocolate cakes were everywhere. There were different variations of the cake, but they all had the same core ingredients.

To the side there was another cake, a German chocolate cake that some people liked and indulged in. And that's fine. After all it's silly to get so upset over something like a cake.

But over time more and more people started eating the German chocolate and ranting and raving about how it was the best thing ever. So, I try a piece. And I don't like it. Why? It's just not to my tastes. But I respect people who like it and I kind of wished I liked it too because then I could eat both classic chocolate and German chocolate cake. But, I simply just don't like the German chocolate.

And it was fine.

But it seemed like every time I visited the bakery, more and more people started ordering the German chocolate and soon the two cakes had an equal amount. And that's all fine. I order my favorite chocolate cake, but someone notices. They ask why not the German chocolate? I explain to them that while I respect the German chocolate, it's something that I just don't like. The German chocolate lover gasps, throwing daggers at me and declaring me a terrible person. Because after all, everyone who even bothers to eat chocolate cake should like the classic and the German chocolate. Because equal opportunity in the kitchen is the best thing ever.

I don't let it get to me though. Because unlike that person, there are other great people around me. People who just like the classic chocolate as well. People who like both and don't fault someone for not liking one or the other. People who just like the German chocolate or prefer it and don't mind that I'm a classic chocolate lover.

Eventually though the amount of German chocolate at the bakery overpowers the amount of classic chocolate. Their spots are reversed and everyone is eating and making German chocolate cakes, saying that they're tired of classic chocolate and that there are already so many classic chocolate cakes out there.

So, I decide for me and the rest of the classic chocolate cake lovers that I'm going to make the best chocolate cake ever with no hint of German chocolate in it. After making the first layer, I share it and people seem to really like it, excited for more.

But then someone comes up. It's an extreme German chocolate cake lover and they have a gleam in their eye. They ask why don't I add a fewer layers of German chocolate to my cake. That'll make it even better. I decline, saying that I don't like eating or making German chocolate cake before suggesting they eat one of the many of German chocolate cakes around us. But this isn't good enough for them and they huff and start being mean. Because if I'm going to make such a big cake, then the least I can do is add a few layers of German chocolate. Just all classic chocolate will get boring.

I tell them that this is my cake and I'm only going to put ingredients into it that I love. They continue to get upset, calling me a terrible person because a lot of people like German chocolate and I'm being selfish. I tell them that I bake for myself and then choose to share with friends, but they still don't understand, going on and on about how awful I am.

I try to explain that there are probably amazing German chocolate cakes out there or being made that have classic chocolate in them too. But it's not enough. For some reason I have to be the one to bake the cake for them despite what I want.

And I just don't understand. Because cakes are such a stupid thing to get this upset about. Sure I've complained about the amount of German chocolate lately, but I've never gone to the bakers and demanded my classic chocolate back. I'm making my own cake. I'm taking it into my own hands.

I swear the spoilers arent anything too life-altering. its mostly just really cute!

don’t know about crying BUT IM FREAKING OUT CUZ CECIL’S SO PRECIOUS I LET OUT AN INHUMAN SCREECH

so people ship me with kels? i'm up for this awww yeee <333