#Burnt Marshmallow

[official-williewoo]

You touch the forbidden tum-tum? Jail for mother, jail for one thousand years!!

#cats of tumblr #cousin belle #toasted #burnt marshmallow

[phrackingineffable]

This is now the second fandom that I’ve been in where the fans went in to a long awaited season THRILLED that their ship had finally come in, and left it stunned and heartbroken. And let me tell those of you who did not watch Veronica Mars, that first time was truly awful.

I don’t mind spoilers (actually appreciate knowing them if something bad is coming) so I started seeing the season 2 reactions when I was only 2/3 done with the season. It felt familiar in an awful way - “heartbroken, gutted, can’t believe he did this to us”. I was terrified. So when I was sad at the end of the season but not hysterical like I was post VMars season 4, I was pretty relieved.

But the wonderful thing to watch has been the different reaction as the fandom had time to process it. Post VMars season 4, we were mad and we just got madder. The more we thought about it, the more we realized how badly written it was, and how cruel and out of character Veronica was. We felt betrayed. We spent weeks crying and raging as a fandom and then just walked away from this thing most of us had loved for decades. 4 years later I still can’t watch any Kristen Bell shows without getting upset.

By contrast, as the GO fandom has processed, people are realizing that this was heartbreaking, but it made sense. I will always be mad that their kiss was like that (and hope to hell we find out later that that was not their first kiss), but the relationship and character arcs were supported. It has made us more desperate to see more, not less.

So everyone, watch, watch, and watch some more! Leave it running in the background! We need to give Neil the chance to give us (and them!) the happy ending.

Of course, it probably helped that GO didn’t kill off half the ship.

#good omens #good omens spoilers #veronica mars #burnt marshmallow #justice for Logan

[hopeymchope]

No hardcore fandom has ever died so quickly and so completely as Veronica Mars. This is the story of its murder.

They should study Veronica Mars in Hollywood. I'm serious. It's an incredible story of how to go from "loud, passionate fanbase with its own fandom name that campaigns and advocates constantly for it" to "absolutely zero fucking interest" damn near OVERNIGHT with just ONE epically terri-bad decision.

If you weren't there, you don't understand: From 2007 to 2014, the fandom — the "Marshmallows," as they called themselves — were everywhere in the Internet's geek spaces, my friends. They routinely beat the drum about the series' three seasons and its excellence, lamented its cancellation, pushed others to give the show a try, and always - ALWAYS - proudly and loudly called for the series to be revived.

FULL DISCLOSURE/CONFESSION: I've not even watched that much Veronica Mars, frankly... ? Yeah, I'm sorry! it does seem pretty good from like the four-or-five hours I've experienced firsthand. I just never took the time to sit down with it. Regardless, I find fandoms and their dynamics ��� both how they operate internally and how they display to others externally — deeply fascinating. And I honestly find them easier to study from the outside than the inside. Like, if I'm IN a fandom, I'm more likely to stay in my corner and ignore places that seem negative. But being on the outside lets me just... absorb what's out there, looking into every forum without judgment. It's like studying pop-culture sociology or something? And it helps that I'm very close to some serious(-ly burnt) Marshmallows. It makes it so much easier to find and absorb the gamut of the fandom.

Besides: There is NO fandom story I've ever seen that's anything like what happened to Veronica Mars and the Marshmallows.

(Time to insert a brief explainer for the uninitiated: Veronica Mars was a TV series that aired from 2004-2007 on the now-deceased UPN network wherein Kristen Bell played the titular character, a high school girl whose single dad was a private detective in the fictional community of Neptune, California. She grew up working "unofficially" as his assistant, which meant that she herself was effectively a teenage private detective.

The three core elements of the series were: 1) Veronica investigating each week's big mystery with plenty of quips and snark, 2) Watching Veronica's various relationships develop and shift, with most of the focus given to a) her relationship to her father and b) Her romantic pursuits (which began as the Veronica/Duncan/Logan triangle before eventually becoming focused on the slow-burn, off-on Veronica/Logan love story), and 3) The gradual development of that season's "mytharc" — the overarching BIG MYSTERY that doesn't get resolved or wrapped until the season finale. So it went over the course of two seasons that took place in high school and the third, shorter season that was at the start of Veronica's collegiate career.)

Just how big and how passionate were the Marshmallows? WELL! When series creator Rob Thomas (not the Matchbox 20 guy) and star Kristen Bell announced the Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie in March 2013, it achieved its heretofore-unprecedented goal of TWO MILLION GODDAMN DOLLARS within less than 12 hours. At that time, it was the biggest Kickstarter goal to ever succeed — and certainly the fastest to reach that kind of height. Fans fell OVER themselves to pay out for it. Hell, my own significant other was DEEP in the tank for VM at the time and invested enough to get multiple t-shirts as backer rewards as well as a disk copy of the movie when it eventually came home.

And AFTER the movie hit in 2014? It was thankfully beloved and embraced! The once-teenage characters were adults who were actually out living on their own and working for a living, but the fandom had grown up with them, so it wasn't like they were begging for them to stay young students. They embraced Adult Veronica and her new adventure. The fandom rejoiced loudly and continued to be all over the geek side of the Internet... where they, of course, still wanted more. Sure, there were new novels in the aftermath (which were written by the creator of the series), but most of the Marshmallows were calling for more movies or a streaming revival.

And then, at long last... season four was actually announced. And there was much (premature) rejoicing yet again.

Yes, Veronica Mars returned for a fourth season on Hulu in 2019. It was just eight episodes, and it was heavily centered on one season-long mystery instead of sprinkling that amongst a bunch of smaller ones, but it would still feature the same ol' Veronica. They promised a new, more "adult" mystery/investigation plus a strong focus on Veronica and Logan's love story.

New Hulu purchased the rights to the first three seasons and hyped up its presence on the platform while marketing the return for the new run. The marketing team played up the most popular quips from the show's history plus put out TONS of stuff centered on the Logan/Veronica ship to pump up the fans.

The season was dropped all at once using the classic Netflix "binge" model in July 2019. And then... afterwards?

There was a brief explosion of LOUD RAGE from the Marshmallows at what series creator Rob Thomas had to done to burn and spite the fandom and ruin his own goodwill.

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4: See, at the end of the movie, Veronica and Logan finally entered into a long-term relationship. In season four, they've been dating for years, and Logan proposes marriage. But of course there has to be drama/obstacles: In this case, Veronica isn't sure she's ready to marry... or capable of being in a marriage. Ah, but of course she eventually realizes how much Logan means to her. The two are married, and, in the season finale... Logan is killed by a car bomb in the penultimate scene. The final scene is a flashfoward to a year later, where Veronica leaves Neptune alone.

For most fandoms, that'd be a memorable point of pain. A big ol' speed bump that ultimately throws some people off the bus, leaving only the die-hards. But the fact that fans had been invested in this relationship for literally 15 years and that Hulu (and creator Rob Thomas) had heavily marketed the new season as being a big romantic event for the ship... it was too much. Unlike the aftermath of the Star Wars sequels, there was no lingering group of die-hard fans who were open to whatever was next — at least no significant one. I did some Googling and could only find TWO people who still wanted another season.

Funnily enough? Critics LOVED this. Hell, Vanity Fair infamously penned an editorial about how Veronica Mars had "finally grown up" with this finale. I suppose all the other murders and deaths and drug overdoses and r*pe weren't "mature" enough before now for... some... reason. (The same editorial also featured the author openly hating on Veronica ever being in a relationship because it causes "arrested development" and declaring that the movie -- which was acclaimed by both critics AND fans alike, I remind you -- was a lame dud. So. The writer must be a reeeaaaal fun person.)

But a series doesn't live based on critical acclaim, as it turns out. The fandom was murdered overnight. "Marshmallows" stopped appearing in geek spaces online entirely. No one expressed interest in seeing the next season or the next movie. The constant flow of fan AMVs on YouTube and fanfics on AO3 dried up to nothing or damn nearly so.

Since 2019 ? Nothing. Chirping crickets. An intensely dedicated fandom of 12 years was just... vaporized.

I've never seen anything like it before OR since.

That's why it's so fucking fascinating.

So what went wrong?

Creator Rob Thomas was adamant about two things: ONE, the series was intended to be a noir show, which meant there couldn't be any happiness for its protagonist. And TWO, the death of Logan was necessary to evolve and grow the series.

Thomas thought that having Veronica in a relationship would be holding her back, and that a marriage would absolutely kill the series and leave her stagnant. It never even occurred to him that marriage isn't the end of a character's life and growth. It never occurred to him that plenty of drama can be had AFTER someone is married, or that development/growth could be that the characters mature enough to be capable of maintaining a committed relationship. Thomas' view of his own universe was so myopic that he couldn't conceive of any possible way that Veronica could still be a private detective involved in life-threatening investigations AND be married at the same time. Futhermore, he felt that fans just wanted Veronica to become a pregnant housewife, which is about as far from what Marshmallows were after as you can get without straight-up killing Veronica and/or Logan. He managed to do the only thing wronger than what he wrongly thought was their insistence.

On top of the above, Rob Thomas only viewed "noir" as a vehicle for total fatalism... despite the fact that many of the most famous noir stories are cynical and full of moral ambiguity, but they still feature a positive outcome. The Big Sleep still has the protagonist get the girl. The Set-Up arguably ends with the happiest possible ending in spite of the beating the hero receives.

Perhaps most importantly? Despite Thomas own insistence that Veronica Mars was always "noir," the majority of both TV critics and fans did not think that designation ever truly applied. I suspect that's the reason why Thomas decided to go as dark and fatalistic as possible: He wanted to be noir, and he was being told that he wasn't. So he went so far into noir that he killed his own most popular property.

He was adamant that it was the only way for the series to grow. But as it turns out, it was instead the only way for the series to permanently end. Without that season four finale, a passionate group of fans would still be begging for more. With it? It's over. Nobody fucking cares now.

That's kind of amazing.

#veronica mars #rob thomas #fandom #dead fandom #marshmallows #burnt marshmallows #fandom histories #the death of veronica mars #the day veronica mars died #gifs #television gifs #tv gifs #veronica mars gifs #vmars

[graphixteeteam]

Burnt Marshmallow process drawing

#Burnt marshmallow #illustration #artists on tumblr #camping #hiking #smore #marshmallow #toasted marshmallow

[pickedpiper]

This was a random idea I had: what if Elsens were like marshmallows where their skin feels like the surface of a marshmallow and if you licked them they tasted sweet

When they begin to burn their faces start melting off and the top of their head begins splitting open

#off game #off rpg #off rpg maker #off the game #mortis ghost off #off mortis ghost #off elsen #not really a shitpost #I just thought about how they looked like marshmallows #and when they start turning burnt they melt like marshmallows over a fire #I’m weird but what can I do

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

the funniest thing about these is that i don't actually hc that he got burned at all bsdklmfoemfklsd

#KNOX ART (me) #sometimes you just draw to draw ig bGJAWMOEF #Monkey King | Sun Wukong #Monkie Kid #LEGO Monkie Kid #burns tw #burns #scorch marks more like #i know real burns don't look like this i was just thinking about charred immortal vibes #Burnt Marshmallow!Monkey King #and all that bKAMOWFFSDKJ #Burnt Marshmallow the remix #bGKLAMWOEF #i probably won't go anywhere with this other than these doodles tbh skdmflsdfj #i do have one ask about burnt marshmallow au specifically and Mk's monkey forms fur being charred and i really like that actually so I might #draw for that eventually BNGKAWMEOF #anyway off i go #just a silly li'll thing #that i brainrotted for absolutely no reason bGKAMWOFE #breakdances away #i can't actually breakdance i feel the need to point out in this chilis tonight- BGKJAWMOEF

[austim]

Scorchio Roasting Marshmallow

◻️ 🔥 ◻️ | ◻️ 🔥 ◻️ | ◻️ 🔥 ◻️

#stim #stimmy #stimboard #my stimboards #neopets #scorchio #marshmallow #marshmallows #dragon #dessert #fire #roasting #scales #burnt food #plushies #red #white #brown

[ghouljams]

The way you write about hidin the pickle makes me wonder if I’m missin out. Never met anyone where I thought “Yeah imma fuck’em” or “I’d let’em fuck me” but I’m tempted to start being a slut on main.

Reminds me of that TikTok where the dude was like “If I had some of that fanfic dick y’all be writing then I’d sit the fuck down and shut up” or somethin like that. All I know is that you write the devils tango really well.

Also I read a post about your sister on your blog and respectfully and I mean this in the kindest way possible… Your sis reminds me of slightly burnt grilled cheese sandwich.

Sex is fully dependent on your partner and communication, but it can be a great time. I'm fully in the "be a slut do whatever you want" camp, just be safe y'know.

Thank you my love, you're very kind. That's high praise, I'm gonna hang this up on my wall. There's nothing better than well written sex(except maybe actual sex but that's not for everyone)

Also I told Spec you said she was a slightly burnt grilled cheese and she was confused. She says that's actually how she likes her grilled cheese. So... take that as you will.

#ghoul speaks #my grilled cheese always ends up a little burnt #I get distracted and always forget how quick the cheese grills #Spec also said “don't tell them how I cook my marshmallows”

[moeblob]

Right in time for bad weather to roll in!

There's a game on the Vita that I adored because you created both your character and also a second character that followed you around. (in that game, you're a little fella and your secondary is basically your babysitter who can't feel emotions and is programmed to be not be fond of you)

On many consoles, there's another game where you create your character and also create a secondary and it's very much your first in authority. (Arisen and Pawns? Multiple people knew of the game when I posted fanart of my silly duo so.)

However, there's tragically a third game I found in which you also have two characters and the first one is a fella, a hooman... and the second is AI. And absolutely adores you. Buuuut I made my primary a kind of indifferent fella named Adam and then in honors of the first one I mentioned, I named my secondary 'sqlmn' which is basically pronounced 'salmon'. Which is what my angy babysitter was named, Salmon.

Anyway I'm too embarrassed to admit which game I'm playing so have fun guessing!

#adam and sqlmn #thats gonna be their tag cause i do not want to admit what game it is #but also since they are both made in character creator its not actually characters anyone would recognize #in the vita game i mentioned though i also had a little girl as my primary (as in short girl not age) #and she had what i described as burnt marshmallow hair #which is what i attempted with adam here but the colors arent us popping as the other game so it looks more silvery blue than white #and then the burnt parts are either obnoxious orange or very mild #and i opted for the mild #anyway i like giving my ai bot who adores me a suit cause hes taller than adam #and i just thought it was funny to have him look like he should be in charge #because his dialogue is just him calling you Master #which im like does he know i would kill for him cause i would i love this weird tall freak who loves me unconditionally #and tbh i wanna grab them and use them for my own purposes and not have them attached to the game i created em in

[laughableillusions]

#it’s burnt but it’s still good :( #michael myers #marshmallow

[jupejumble]

i think pyro loves burnt marshmallows

#yeah this isn’t all that creative #BUT i like burnt marshmallows #so they do too #jex speaks

[hopelessotaku8305]

The idea of Wukong letting himself be more chaotic in @ninja-knox-ur-sox-off ‘s Burnt Marshmallow!Monkey King Au has been running around in my head and I love it.

#monkie kid #lego monkie kid #monkie kid monkey king #lmk #monkie kid sun wukong #sun wukong #burnt marshmallow!monkey king au #I love this au so much #CHAOS

[ghostoffuturespast]

𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝚆𝙰𝙺𝙴𝚂 𝚄𝙿 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃?

𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙴𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙵𝙵𝙴𝙴?

❤️ For Grandpa and River pls! Asking both because they aren't always the same person. 😏

Thanks for the asks! 🧡

Soft ship meme questions here

Who wakes up first? & Who makes the coffee?

9 out of 10 River wakes up first and makes the coffee. I headcannon he’s a light sleeper, mild insomniac, and just used to being up ass early after all those years working at the NCPD. Also, I imagine the man runs on sheer force of will and coffee. So that first homemade cup of joe in the morning is sacred, especially when you’re forced to drink the chooh that’s been burning in the coffee pot at work the rest of the day.

Grandpa’s sleep schedule is all over the place so she’ll sleep in any opportunity she gets, and she sleeps pretty heavily. The 1 out 10 times she is up first it’s probably because Nibbles harassed her awake for breakfast. River tends to let V sleep in, unless they've got places to be, so he’ll go read or find something quiet to do to keep himself occupied. On the occasion they’ve both slept in, River might roll over and find a nice way to wake her up… Grandpa will offer moral support when River makes coffee though provided she manages to get her butt out from underneath the covers. Sleepy seatbelt.

#ask away #cyberpunk 2077 #oc: valerie hye jin li #river ward #v x river ward #my grandpa v #stinky not fresh #otp: so it goes #making a s'more with two giant burnt marshmallows #crusty on the outside squishy on the inside

[hqmillioncorn]

Coco! Coco! Help me Cocoooooooooo

As Pancake settled into her tent she noticed that Cherrypit was sitting down on the ground, chewing on a singed branch. "Cherry? I thought you said you wanted to sleep in Coco's tent" That's what Pancake could remember hearing him say anyway. Cherrypit laughed. "I am!" He helpfully explained. "Wha-?" Before Pancake could ask him what he meant she heard Coco scream. She poked her head out of the tent just in time to see him run out of his own tent, followed by another Cherrypit with a scary face on. "H-Huh...?"

Lalapril 4/13 Blazing with coco cocoda and @windupnamazu 's Pancake (and also coco cocoda)

Cherrypit opened the front door of the mansion and stumbled his way outside. In his hands he was carrying a big bag of marshmallows, something that Babycorn had told him was crucial for tonight.

It was a little dark out but Cherrypit wasn’t scared because he was gonna be in the dark with his friends. 

He took a small step forward and called out for his friend. “Coconuts! Panka!” With the bag of marshmallows covering his view it was hard to see anything that wasn’t a marshmallow. 

Before he knew it, the marshmallows were lifted up into the air and away from him. “I got it! Thanks Cherry!” Pancake smiled at him and led him over to where she and Coco were putting up their tents for the night. 

“Are you excited to go camping, Cherry?” 

Cherrypit looked up and nodded really fast. “Yeah! Yeah! I’m ex-pited!”

It had only been a few days ago when Pancake learned she would be camping outside with Coco tonight. Cherrypit had also been invited along, or more accurately he had invited himself after he heard Pancake ask Butter about going camping again, grabbing onto Pancake’s arm and joining her in asking Butter to let her sleep outside.

There was no way Butter could resist both Pancake and Cherrypit staring at him with such sad little eyes. And Babycorn couldn’t even be counted as a contender. 

With the permission to go camping secured they just needed someone to chaperone them. When the idea of Coco taking Pancake and Cherrypit camping was first being tossed around, he assured both older siblings that he was an expert at this sort of stuff. 

“I’ve read the official Onion Knights guide cover to cover more times than I can count!” Had been Coco’s exact words. It was a pretty hefty book too. At least, that’s what both Butter and Babycorn imagined. 

Both Babycorn and Butter nodded their heads at all the different things Coco listed off that he had done. From learning to tie knots, learning how to make a campfire and sleeping outside in tents. It sounded really exciting and exactly what Pancake had been asking for weeks now.

The only question was how did she find out Coco had even done this stuff in the first place? 

A question for another day probably.

The only real obstacle to overcome now was the tiny little problem that Babycorn and Cherrypit had where they couldn’t really go anywhere without the other. A problem that was quickly solved when Butter suggested that they could go camping nearby.

Which ended up being the front lawn of the mansion.

Neither Pancake or Cherrypit were disappointed with that. The two of them couldn’t have been more excited about it. 

Tonight was finally the night. Pancake couldn’t stop talking about it since morning.

When Pancake walked back to the tents with Cherrypit she noticed that Coco was gone. “Huh? Where did he go?” She looked around everywhere for any sign of his fluffy little head but he was nowhere to be seen. “...Do you think a Spriggan ate him?” 

“Bahbah!” Cherrypit helpfully added.

“You’re right he would probably be too fuzzy to eat.”

As Pancake started to wonder if the bird she had seen circling the house was a seagull or not she noticed something moving underneath the tent. “Woah! What the-!?” She took a step back and made sure to get in front of Cherrypit to keep him safe. That didn’t do much to deter Cherrypit from jumping into action. 

Pancake barely even noticed Cherrypit running under her arm and right towards the tent.

“Cherry wait!” 

Cherrypit happily babbled as he pulled the tent away and revealed what it was exactly that had been under the suspiciously shaped Coco Cocoda lump.

Unsurprisingly it was indeed Coco. “Uwah!!” Coco uwah’ed in shock. He was convinced that he was going to be trapped inside of the tent for the rest of his life. “Oh hi guys!” Coco waved at Pancake and Cherrypit, then he jumped to his feet and placed his hands on his hips. “Glad you could join us tonight Cherry!” 

Pancake couldn’t help but think that Coco sounded pretty confident for some guy who had just a few seconds ago been trapped inside of an unmade tent. 

“I told you! It’s part of the process!” Coco insisted. 

Cherrypit paid Coco no mind as he grabbed a fistful of tent and began chewing on it. 

Taking things out of Cherrypit’s (and babycorn’s) mouth was pretty much second nature now to everyone who spent a lot of time with them. So Coco pulled the tent out of Cherrypit’s mouth as he continued to explain why the tent still wasn’t set up. “I accidentally dropped something I needed for the tent and I’ve been looking for it. No sign of it yet though.” He’d be looking for it ever since Pancake went to go fetch Cherrypit. 

“Ooohh.”  Pancake stared down at the ground to help Coco look for whatever it was he was looking for.

Completely on a whim Pancake decided to take a closer look at Coco. That’s when she noticed a strange object sticking out of his hair. “Hey what’s that in your hair?!” Pancake suddenly shouted.

“Wahuh?” Coco gasped and ruffled around his hair. Until he found the very thing he was looking for. To Pancake it just looked like some sort of weird stick, unsure what it was for. 

Coco beamed, “Yeah that’s it! Thank you!” 

“You’re welcome! Yay!” Pancake was just happy to help.

As Coco began to demonstrate how to set the tent up, Pancake noticed something. Coco was wearing all sorts of funny buttons on his shirt. “Wooaaahh! What’s that?” Pancake pointed right at them, “Are they really fancy buttons? Where’d you find them? Did you buy them somewhere?” It was so odd, some of them had really cool pictures on them and there were so many of them.

“Oh!” Coco was stopped mid explanation but he didn’t mind. “These are my merit badges!” 

“Wow…What’s that?” Pancake asked.

As Coco picked out some grass from Cherrypit’s mouth he continued to explain. “They’re like special pins that you get from doing something really cool!” His eyes sparkled with glee, a sharp contrast to how his eyes usually looked. Which was more like a crying cat. 

“Neat!” Pancake pointed at a badge with a lightning bolt on it. “What’s this one for?” Maybe it was for running really fast. Like-quick as a lightning flash kind of thing?

Coco scoffed, “That one was for surviving a thunderstorm.”

“Huh?” That sounded kind of cool but not really that much of a feat. She had technically done that too but from inside her house. She pointed at another badge with a bee on it. “What about this one?” Maybe that one was for beekeeping? 

“That one’s for stepping on a bee!”

“Is that so…?” That last one didn’t sound cool at all. It sounded like something that people would make fun of him for years after the fact. Definitely not badge worthy. “What’s this one?” Pancake asked. They did say that the third time was the charm.

“I got this one for surviving sinking in quicksand!” Coco looked particularly proud of that one. 

“I see.” While that one did sound a little impressive there was still the fact that Coco had walked into quicksand in the first place. “These sound...Really specific.” 

“Well yeah they’re for really specific things!” 

“Is there a Being an adorable girl named Pancake badge?” 

“They’re not that specific.”

Pancake rolled her eyes, if that was the case why have them be specific if they’re not too specific? She took another look at the badges and pointed at yet another one. This one had a picture of a bear on it. It looked really cute, not as cute as her stuffed animals of course but still cute.

“Well there was this time that a bear rampaged through our tents and...” 

“A bear?! Are we going to get to fight a bear?!” Pancake shouted in disbelief. This was the one badge that actually sounded cool. “Did you get it cause you fought the bear!?”

Cherrypit looked at Pancake in surprise and then at Coco, with his eyes shimmering in anticipation. “Bear? We fight a bear?” He had a big teddy bear at home so if he got to meet the real thing that would be really exciting! 

“No, no!” Coco waved his hands in a panic in front of him. “I got it because I managed to make sure the bear didn’t eat our lunches!”

“Oooh…” Not as cool as she thought. Pancake turned away from Coco with a smirk and whispered to Cherrypit. “Is there one for being a big sucker in love without knowing it?” She giggled to herself, while Cherrypit was really confused about Pancake’s gossip. 

“What was that?” Coco asked, trying to hoist up the tent.

“NOTHING!” 

Smooth. 

Eventually the tent had been pitched and the snacks had been gathered around them. Cherrypit had wasted no time and had opened the bag of marshmallows as quickly as he could. He took a handful of them and happily ate them in one big bite. 

“Don’t eat too many Cherry.” Coco gently warned him, “If you eat them all we won’t have any left over for roasting them by the campfire!” 

Cherrypit immediately understood what Coco was talking about. He nodded and spit out the marshmallows he had eaten, they were completely intact. “Here! Marshmallow!” He handed them over to Coco for safekeeping. 

“I…” Coco grabbed one of the handy tins he had grabbed from the kitchen and held it under the marshmallows, “Just drop them in here. Okay?” Cherrypit did exactly what Coco said to do and laughed as the marshmallows fell into the bowl. They reminded him of eyeballs, just like grapes did. 

Pancake sneakily took the bag of marshmallows away from Cherrypit just in case that he forgot he wasn’t supposed to eat them yet. “How are we supposed to roast marshmallows if we don’t have a fire?” There was a pile of logs in front of them but they were very distinctly not on fire. 

Coco was ready for that too. “That’s exactly what we’re going to do next!” Behind Coco's back appeared a pair of sticks and what looked like a rock. “We’re going to learn how to start a campfire-!”

“Yaaaaay!!” Cherrypit cheered. He looooooooooooved fire! It was so fun to start and to play with!

“-Without magic!” Coco happily picked up a pair of sticks and wiggled them around.

Cherrypit instantly set his arms down with a pout. 

Pancake gave Cherrypit a sympathetic pat on the head. “There, there. It's gonna be a lot of fun!” She was trying her best to cheer Cherrypit up but she’d be lying if it wasn’t cute the way he was crossing his arms and trying to look really mad.

Pancake couldn’t help give a little snort of laughter when Cherrypit stuck his tongue at Coco. 

Coco was turned around so he couldn’t see what Cherrypit was doing. 

“Don’t worry I’ve started a fire like this before so this’ll be quick!” Coco smiled and got to work on trying to figure out how to start a fire from the things he had brought with him. Cherrypit still thought starting a fire with magic would be easier and funner than this. 

The aura of pure confidence coming off of Coco was unnerving Pancake a little, but she kept that thought to herself. When minutes upon minutes went by of Coco still trying to light a fire she was starting to feel bad for him. “Are you sure you can do it?” She asked. 

“O-Of course!” Now Coco ‘s eyes were the familiar watery looking that Pancake was used to. He pointed to another badge on his shirt. “See? You can see I got the merit badge for starting a fire so I'm not lying I promise. :(” 

“Heh. Must have started it with your eyes closed…” Pancake mumbled. 

“What was that?”

“NOTHING!”

Another save for Pancake.  

As time marched on without any sign of a fire Pancake was getting kind of bored. As she stopped Cherrypit from eating grass for the umpteenth time she had a thought. “Hey. Can I try lighting the campfire?” Tossing the grass in her hand aside she scooted over closer to Coco.

Coco was very tired at this point so he was more than willing to let someone else try. “Sure…Go ahead!” He handed Pancake the sticks and collapsed onto the ground next to her. Cherrypit was quick to climb on his back and pat him like he was a small horse. 

Coco opened up only one of his eyes, watching Pancake closely. Thinking he was soooo cool for sneaky plan of his.

“Okay!” Pancake concentrated and tried to remember the movements that Coco had been doing earlier. While she may have been bored out of her mind during Coco’s efforts it's not like she wasn’t paying attention. Pancake took the sticks in both hands and copied Coco’s movements closely. For a few seconds it looked like she was going to have to have the same results as Coco did but that’s when they all saw it. 

A spark, and then some smoke. “Ah! I did it! I’m doing it!” Pancake cheered. 

“You’re doing it!” Coco cheered alongside her as he adjusted the sticks on the pile. From a relatively safe distance He knew from the start this awesome and amazing and well thought out plan of his would work.

Sitting next to him, Cherrypit happily clapped along. The fire could be a lot bigger but Pancake had still made it happen all by herself, she was more than happy, she was elated. 

Cherrypit clapped for Pancake and ran around her, cheering for her, “Panka! Panka! Yaaaay! Panka!” He thought Pancake learned to do fire magic too! Just like him! 

Cherrypit was so excited about the fire and how they could roast marshmallows now that he ran over, grabbed the bag of marshmallows and threw the entire thing in the fire. 

“Ah.”

“Ah.” 

“Waaahahahaha!!!” Cherrypit cheered as the marshmallows burst into flames.

#lalapril #lalapril 2024 #Cherrypit #Pancake #Coco #entire one based on a small drawing i did like a year ago returns with a vengance #meanwhile inside babycorn has her face pressed against the window while drooling #she wants the marshmallows #shes tied to a chair so she wont run outside #cocos trying to look soooooo cool and for what #also yea cherrypit burnt plastic opps

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I assume you like sweet stuff, so I've brought you stuff to make smores! Thought I'd leave the roasting part to you! -Chef Anon

Ooooo!! Fink fhu!! ^^ 🔥 ❤️

#who likes burnt marshmallows! #roasted over a totally normal campfire! #Mod does :)) #answered asks #anon ask

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So I just thought of a scene in the burnt marshmallow monkey king au where the gang is in some sort of danger, and mk, in a moment of desperation picks up wukong and carries him like a football, cause he’s like four feet tall, and just BOOKS it

Wukong: do I weigh anything to you?

Mk: nah, it’s just like holding a bag of grapes

Wukong: >:(

Mk wouldn't even get the chance to, straight up, Wukong would scoop Mk up and book it and you'd just have the visual of

carry ur son to safety day--

#I'M SORRY THIS WAS ALL I COULD THINK OF #BGL;AKMEFOW #knox rambles #asks #rainbowcatblaster #burnt marshmallow!monkey king au #Burnt Marshmallow!Monkey King #Monkie Kid #ALTHOUGH #now that i'm thinking about it there may be a specific set of circumstances where Mk might actually have to carry Monkey king #but like he'd be too out of it to actually ask if he weighed anythingbg;lkmds;f #KNOX ART (me) #doodles #bG;LAKMWEF