Thirty One Spoons {Written}

[cyan_maid]

If there has been anything I have loved more than baking ever since I was a little girl, it would have to be mysteries!
Mysteries and detectives, dapper and intelligent and just a tad eccentric! Or at least, that's how they are in stories.
I know real cases aren't populated by such characters, but a girl can dream, can't she? :B

But let me get to the point!
I would very much like to hear about mysteries from other worlds today!
Perhaps we could toss about a bit of speculation on their solutions?

Comments

[whichwayyoulean]

We don't really have mysteries in my world. Just stories with heavily implied morals.

[aphoenixsong]

Mysteries, hm? I know quite a few.

[cyan_maid]

But I like your stories! Surely some of them have an element of mystery to them?

[cyan_maid]

Do you?
Well, I would certainly like to hear about them!

[whichwayyoulean]

Not really, I guess my world is a little too big on the obvious.

[cyan_maid]

Aw, that's a shame.
Then there are no surprises!

[whichwayyoulean]

Only if you don't want to see the obvious.

[cyan_maid]

Sometimes the obvious isn't so obvious, though.
Or it's far too obvious, and nobody sees it!

[whichwayyoulean]

People overthink things, sometimes.

[cyan_maid]

How so? I'd love to hear an example!

[anytime]

what baking
for real
doesnt baking involve more sitting around waiting for the oven timer to chime than anything else
because that seems kinda boring

[whichwayyoulean]

Like. Okay, so say there's a regular boring street that you walk down every day. But one day, you decide to weave a complicated story about a parade that goes through. It starts simple, just a dog in a tutu or something, but by the end it's this over complicated mess with fire juggling elephants.

But at the end of the day, you still walked down the same boring street. Nothing changed, you just pretended it did.

[cyan_maid]

Fire juggling elephants.
That is certainly a case of exaggeration that I would certainly find hard to believe.

[cyan_maid]

Oh really now?
I'll have you know that baking entails quite a lot of activities!
The measuring, the mixing, the preparation, the cleaning afterwards...
And more often than not, you'll have to decorate the finished product, which cam be quite time consuming and very tricky depending on your skill level and what you are trying to do!
I dare you to attempt making a perfect rose out of icing on your very first try! Not even I could do that.

[whichwayyoulean]

See? So you've got to find the point where the story is still cool but convincing at the same time.

[anytime]

ok i was totally convinced by that argument on account of not actually caring
besides making a perfect rose out of icing is practically the opposite of what id do
what id do being awesome
anyway more importantly
theres no way cleaning isnt boring
seriously there is not a universe around where cleaning is actually an enjoyable thing
if you enjoy cleaning youre probably broken
like karkat

[cyan_maid]

Regular cleaning, you mean.
Regular cleaning is very boring.
Baking cleaning is not!
For example, it's not like there's a rule against eating the leftover batter from the bowl before you wash it!
Er, so long as your guardian or parental figure doesn't catch you in the act, I mean. Then you'll be subject to salmonella lectures, and the fun will have officially been sucked from your day.
You could also sing while you clean! That's fun!

[cyan_maid]

Hmmmmm.
I don't know.
Doesn't it also depend on the person telling the story?
Even if they introduced the most subtle and plausible of fabrications, if they were known to lie, that too might become hard to swallow.

[whichwayyoulean]

True. I guess you never can tell for sure.

[cyan_maid]

It's the sort of thing I have to keep in mind.

[anytime]

what youre describing sounds like a straight to tv lifetime film with all the feel good trappings of domesticity
and a side of disney princess
all you need are some forest animals to help start your day
ive never eaten raw batter before though
unless
i dunno
frozen cookie dough counts

[cyan_maid]

I don't know about that Lifetime movie bit! They usually degenerate into hopelessly sickening situations, and I'd rather my life not end up that way.
I'd much prefer it if things turned out like the show about the four old ladies living in Florida together. :B
And yes, frozen cookie dough counts.

[anytime]

sweet
in that case
ive got shit on lockdown like dersite contraband
up to my neck in frozen frogs like a kid in the ballpit at chuck e cheese
ive eaten enough cookie dough that the keebler elves can only doff their hats and weep

[cyan_maid]

Hmm! So you say, but are you sure you could handle fresh batter?
It's quite a different animal, in a manner of speaking. Very messy, very sneaky.

[anytime]

is that a challenge