#krownest

idk if this helps but i asked about your tagging situation re: your comic + the hate you were getting in a big zosan server (i also have the same questions about tagging since i also draw zosan/zolu/zosanlu) and everyone agrees that you tagged correctly and the anon was wrong and overreacting!!

anyway, i'm really sorry you had to go through all this, it's really shitty and unfair that the anon sent you all that nonsense and as a result you feel down about your art. really really hope you feel better soon and i hope you know lots of ppl love your art! (and honestly like. if the anon doesn't like the art they can go make their own wtf. nothing better to do than harass ppl who are having a nice time)

Thank you so much! Hearing from ZoSan shippers does make me feel better knowing that they did not see my comic as that anon did and how I intended my comic to be read. I thought about asking some of the one piece servers im in, but them being mostly zolu servers i felt like they would take my side and it wouldn't be fair to the zosan shippers that did feel hurt by my comic. It's important to hear from both sides of an issue.

I just need to remind myself that it was just one person, and i am making these comics for myself. My art might not be for everyone and that is ok and I dont have to please everyone I meet.

oooo this is a very fun question krow!!!!! ive actually been thinking about this a lot while walking around work so thank you hgjdlsag. important disclaimer on this is that i work with large scale cafeteria dessert production, with very little bread production but occassional catering/cake decorating/plated desserts. so this is likely not all universally applicable but heres my big things!!!

the average baker is an absolute neurotic mess. most ppl who work in kitchens have some combination of high strung + extreme adhd which is also true of bakers but bakers are also often INSANE perfectionists and generally pretty prideful?? so when choosing your baker character for a bakery au dont go with the soft kind hearted one, go with the asshole who has to be right, is always working, and is a high strung perfectionist. like when the fiona and cake series made prince bubblegum be a baker that was the right choice. correct statement

its a sort of weirdly solitary job??? like you work in close quarters with people, but in general everyone does Their Own Projects with very little overlap with each other. does not make one particularly team oriented

not particularly surprising, but it Is a very physically demanding job and you get pretty good at tossing around 50+ bags of flour or lifting up absurdly heavy 60qt bowls. i heart putting a 30lb box on my shoulder and walkin around

despite the aforementioned perfectionism things do just sort of go wrong in baking, and its usually not that big a deal. the more of it you do, the more you realize baking isnt Really a science and its fine to sort of fudge stuff, and even if you make something the exact same way 100 times probably 20 of those times itll turn out like crap for literally no reason at all. it happens. also literally all of us burn stuff at one time or another

its Very, Very repetetive. you got a lot of time to think about whatever the hell you want while youre like scooping 800 cookies or whatever. great news for the bakery au fic: this is a perfect time for a character to stew in whatever relationship drama theyre in

yes, you do have to go in that early. getting out at like 12 or 1 is GREAT but it puts your schedule CRAZY at odds with everyone else in the world

handful of really small things that i think would be fun to include in a fic: you always come home smelling like whatever you baked last, you get small burns on your arms pretty damn often, you have to spend just as much time cleaning as you do actually making product, you loose your sweet tooth REALLY fast (i used to have a crazy sweet tooth and when my coworker told me this i was like haha yeah right! she was right.), baking things at small scale becomes weirdly difficult (wdym 4 tblsp butter not 16lbs???? what???), you get weirdly good at being able to weigh amounts by feel alone (ive become that onionguesser guy at the grocery store)

cake decorating is REALLY GODDAMN HARD.

anyways yay!!!!! i will admit i dont read Too too many modern au type fics so im not sure what tropes are out there and arent, but youre right and its really interesting to think about!!!!! if you ever see anyone with questions about a bakery au feel free to send em my way :salute:

Thank you so much! I definitely have more gifsets planned once I get some sleep (turns out if you stay up to watch new Andor at 2am, the excitement of getting watch new Andor will keep you awake all day).

You are very kind. Thank you

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