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artsyunderstudy · 1 year
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In my mind, this is Watford-Era, an alt first kiss. Interpret however you like, though. ❤️
This was created for Carry on Countdown for a few prompts! I wish I could have posted on one of these days but it takes the time it takes.
Day 19: Heal Day 20: Fangs Day 23: Hurt/Comfort
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@carryon-countdown
Day 10: Angst
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“Fighting doesn’t feel good anymore. It feels like breaking something because you don’t know how to fix it” - @rainbowrowell
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letraspal · 1 year
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Goodbye kisses
A watford-era AU | Day 2: AU @carryon-countdown
Sorry friends, this was supposed to be my yesterday’s entry for COC but I was indisposed. Watford AUs and Friends to Lovers AU is something highly appreciated in this house. I like them being awkward teenagers around stuff like PDA and good bye kisses. In this matter, shout out to “Can’t fight this feeling” by @sailorblossoms because it was an amazing friends to lovers and it made my day. You must read it as well. Happy Sunday (:
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laura-art77 · 1 year
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COC day 7: Veil
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brendughh · 1 year
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COC DAY 29: PARTY
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"I’m not in a hurry, so I stop to drain every rat I find on the way. This school is going to be infested when I leave." -Baz CO epilogue
But first, they party. As above, so below.
Y'all know im a sucker for these rats.(and baz too) (a sucker) (for rats)
@carryon-countdown
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martsonmars · 1 year
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The Vampire and the Boy in the Tower [T, 10k]
Simon grows up at the top of a tower.
Baz keeps finding in his conservative parents' library forbidden books that speak to his soul.
For @carryon-countdown.
Start reading on AO3.
Veil.
Lyrics.
Staff.
Devour.
Devotion.
Bridge.
Ritual.
Hurt/Comfort.
Turn/Shiver.
The Beginning.
Updating when the prompt fits the story <3
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sailorblossoms · 1 year
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@carryon-countdown day 5: bloodlines
I remembered this magnificent piece of art exits so I quickly put this silly thing together. Seems very fitting for “be gay and fuck the expectations for heterosexual marriage and heirs tied to Pitch Manor” lol 
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Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Orange Buttercream
I am back! It’s been a  very long hiatus but I’ve still been trying out recipes and  cooking foods mentioned in the Simon Snow Series! 
Today seemed a particularly good day to post, as Carry On Countdown is going on and today’s prompt is CAKE!! 
This cake comes from chapter 89 of Any Way the Wind Blows and is courtesy of Lady Ruth Salisbury, of course. 
“There’s chocolate cake with chocolate-orange butter cream.” (Simon POV, Ch 89, Any Way the Wind Blows, by Rainbow Rowell.) 
I’ve made this cake a few times now. The family seems to love it for birthdays. It’s very rich, very dense and very good.
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate-Orange Buttercream
Ingredients
Cake:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup of canola oil
1 cup milk (I used lactose free)
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup boiling water
1/4 cup orange juice (which I forgot to include in the picture)
Buttercream:
8 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped, or 8 oz bittersweet chocolate chips
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
6 oz shortening ( or more butter if you prefer, I used vegetable shortening) also at room temperature
3-4 cups powdered/ confectioner’s sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
1 tsp orange zest
1 tbsp cornstarch
Method
Cake: 
Preheat the oven to 350F. 
Grease two 8-inch cake pans and line with parchment paper. 
Whisk the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in one large bowl.
Gently whisk the eggs in a separate bowl until yolks and whites are combined then add oil, milk, and vanilla then mix well. Save the boiling water and orange juice for a bit later.
Add the egg/milk/oil mixture to the dry ingredients and mix. 
Then add the boiling water and orange juice to the mixture.
Divide the batter evenly between the two cake pans.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until center set and toothpick inserted comes out clean. 
Remove from oven and allow to cool on wire rack. 
Buttercream:
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and allow to cool slightly
Whip the butter and the shortening until creamy
add orange juice and orange zest, mixing well
add 3 cups of powdered sugar, one at a time. 
add cornstarch
add melted chocolate
add up to one more cup powdered sugar, to reach desired consistency (the first time I made it I ended up with the entire extra cup, last time I used 3/4)
if it feels too thick you may add a tablespoon more of orange juice 
Place one of the cakes on a plate and cover top with buttercream. Gently place the second cake on top of the first and apply the buttercream liberally over the top and sides of cake. Slice and serve. 
Enjoy!
Recipe with photos below!! 
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Ingredients (sorry the orange juice is MIA in the photo)
Cake:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup of canola oil
1 cup milk (I used lactose free)
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup boiling water
1/4 cup orange juice (which I forgot to include in the picture)
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(dry ingredients in photo!) 
Cake Method: 
Preheat the oven to 350F. 
Grease two 8-inch cake pans and line with parchment paper.
Whisk the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in one large bowl.
Gently whisk the eggs in a separate bowl until yolks and whites are combined then add oil, milk, and vanilla then mix well. 
Save the boiling water and orange juice for a bit later.
Add the egg/milk/oil mixture to the dry ingredients and mix. 
Then add the boiling water and orange juice to the mixture.
Divide the batter evenly between the two cake pans.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until center set and toothpick inserted comes out clean. 
Remove from oven and allow to cool on wire rack.
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wet ingredients! 
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Cake cooling 
Buttercream Ingredients:
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(there is the orange juice!)
Buttercream:
8 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped, or 8 oz bittersweet chocolate chips
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
6 oz shortening ( or more butter if you prefer, I used vegetable shortening) also at room temperature
3-4 cups powdered/ confectioner’s sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
1 tsp orange zest
1 tbsp cornstarch
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shortening and butter
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The buttercream!!! 
Buttercream Method:
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and allow to cool slightly
Whip the butter and the shortening until creamy
add orange juice and orange zest, mixing well
add 3 cups of powdered sugar, one at a time. 
add cornstarch
add melted chocolate
add up to one more cup powdered sugar, to reach desired consistency (the first time I made it I ended up with the entire extra cup, last time I used 3/4)
if it feels too thick you may add a tablespoon more of orange juice
Putting the cake together:
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A slice of cake: 
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Enjoy the cake!  
@carryon-countdown​ 
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Carry On Countdown Day 1 - The End
Offically my first C.O.C ever.
I'm attempting to do all 30 days - we'll see how that turns out.
Anyways... here's the fic :)
Baz
I cannot believe Father convinced Snow to do this.
But somehow he did.
And now, for some incredibly heteronormative reason, I’ve spent the entire night & day before my wedding alone.
Ok, so no one said I necessarily had to spend it alone, but if I can’t be with Simon, who else would I want to be with?
I tried to tell Simon that it was stupid. I mean, this tradition only existed for arranged marriages.
He insisted nonetheless. Something about trying to get my father to like him.
I also tried to tell him that Malcolm Grimm “likes” no one.
But nothing worked.
I couldn’t sleep.
I haven’t slept alone for years.
The room felt too quiet without Snow’s grunts and snuffles. But, no matter.
It will all be worth it, just to see Simon.
 
Simon
I can’t believe I was convinced to do this. 
I couldn’t sleep. I just kept thinking of Baz.
How he wiggles in his sleep. How the room feels almost unbearably hot without him and his freezing cold hands to cool me down.
But, I keep telling myself that I’ll be fine.
I only have 4 hours & 35 minutes until I see him. Till he walks down the aisle. (Baz insisted we have countdowns on our phones. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it just feels like it’s taunting me).
Lady Ruth comes in to help me get ready.
She fixes my hair about a million times, but I just keep tugging at it.
I don't even know why I'm so stressed.
 
Baz
I think my father realises the separation was a horrible idea when he and Daphne come in to help me get ready.
The bags under my eyes speak for themselves. (Fiona had to duck out and buy new concealer - she spent an hour trying to find the lightest shade - safe to say I was not her favourite person in the world).
Simon
Only three minutes until he walks down the aisle.
I’ve been standing at the altar for what feels like forever (although my watch tells me it’s only been 7 minutes).
Now it’s two minutes.
Penny elbows me in the ribs again, hissing at me to stop playing with my hair.
I think I’m going to get a bruise.
She’s right though.
Suddenly I hear the music start to play.
I startle and stumble back on to Penny (karma for her almost breaking my ribs), and she shoves me back up. Across from me, Aggie gives me the thumbs up.
Here we go.
Baz
I used to think I’d feel differently about marriage. 
Like it was the end. 
And it is, I suppose. 
The end of life as we know it.
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shrekgogurt · 1 year
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Carry On Countdown 2022: Day 19 - Heal
Well folks, I wrote a song for the “Heal” prompt @carryon-countdown from the perspective of a WS/mainly AWTWB Simon. I got some of the little words mixed up in the recording but my fingers hurt and I didn’t want to redo it, but under the break are the intended lyrics!
“Chamber by Chamber”
I thought running made me brave stealing keys from musty caves and took more than I gave with all that's left of me staring at a screen
too selfish for me to stay always getting in the way I know what people say I'm not what I used to be or ever have been
but chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain
just let me keep you
so I lived to enjoy the view is this what people do? try their best to push on through every urge to run and hide? then buy a bedside light?
when chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain can't stand when you're gentle or beg for a thing bite down, surrender, tuck you under my wing
just let me keep you let me keep you
what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep?
chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain can't stand when you're gentle or beg for a thing bite down, surrender, tuck you under my wing
just let me keep you (what did I keep?) let me keep you (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying (let me keep you) (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying (let me keep you) (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying
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artsyunderstudy · 1 year
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Boyfriends being boyfriends. Naps and cuddles and wearing each other’s clothes.
Last minute entry for Day 25 of Carry on Countdown. Sleep. 💜💜
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@carryon-countdown Day 1:
The End
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“And they all lived happily ever after. The end”.
(I could have hurt you, but I didn’t for now; you’re welcome)
Little sketchier than I was aiming for, but I have a sick kiddo this week (which inspired this a bit). Highly recommend “Maiden and Princess” (and “Prince and Knight”) for the littles in your life!
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letraspal · 1 year
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You can start a family who will always show you love…
I came back from work earlier (well, technically, I sneaked out, but that's another story) to find my favorite album playing softly in the background and my favorite people giggling on the carpet in front of our tree surrounded by a mess of toys. Simon is doing a funny voice for the wood horse and our kid finds his father’s quip very amusing.
Henry is in that lovely age - that I wish we could freeze for a while longer - where he thinks Simon and I are the coolest people alive. Especially Simon, he's always so awestruck with his father, and Simon... Simon is all heart-eyes for him.
"Looks like you two are having fun, can I join you?" I say and they immediately jump on me. Henry hugs my leg and Simon wraps his arm around us both.
I'm home.
COC 2022, DAY 8: LYRICS @carryon-countdown
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laura-art77 · 1 year
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Carry On Countdown 2022
Day 1: The End
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Hands And Lips
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Summary: Snow Is mad at me for a change.
Carry On Countdown: fluff
Words: 575
Ao3:https://archiveofourown.org/works/43528467
@carryon-countdown​ 
Baz
Snow is mad at me for a change.
I was on my way to a music room for my violin practice when I felt myself being pulled into an empty corridor. Now, he has me cornered against a wall. His magic spills out of him.
I want to go to rehearsal. I hope this will be quick. I look him straight in the eye and raise an eyebrow.
"I saw what you did yesterday," he says.
"Be more specific. You spend all day following me around."
He lets out a growl. Sounds like a very annoyed cat.
"I saw you with Agatha. You kissed her."
Oh, that. True, but it's not as he thinks.
I ran into her on the playground. She was coming out of Lacrosse and I was coming out of Soccer. We said hello and I noticed she looked kinda sore and was rubbing her hand. I asked her about it; she fell during practice. I offered to fix her up and she accepted.
Since I stopped flirting with her to upset Snow we got along better. The spell I used needed a kiss to work properly. I guess he saw us. After all, he always goes to watch me train.
But I don't have to explain it to him.
"So what if I did? It's not my fault that your girlfriend prefers me over you"
Snow looks angrier.
"She's not my girlfriend anymore!"
That's interesting. I place my violin case down carefully and fold my arms.
"Don't worry, you'll get back together"
It pains me to say it, but it's true. Someday they're going to get married and have beautiful, magical babies.
"Not anymore, she's interested in someone else. Leave her alone."
"If that's so, then I don't understand why you're angry with me."
"Just don't do that again, Baz. It bothers me," he says menacingly.
"Are you jealous, Snow?"
"Maybe"
His face changes completely and he turns away from me. I didn't expect that answer. I wonder if I can have fun with him. I use my most flirtatious smile on him and his face turns red.
"Simon, if you want a kiss too, all you have to do is ask."
He opens and closes his mouth, but doesn't manage to say anything. He raises his right hand and brings it closer to me. Is this happening for real?
I take his hand in mine and bring it to my mouth. I press my lips against his skin and stay there for a few seconds. His warmth makes it hard to think. This feels like a dream.
I go for his wrist now. I can feel his pulse beating beneath my lips. I want to bite him, but I know how to control myself. I don't want to injure him. My tongue brushes his skin and he gasps. I glimpse down at him and he looks like he's about to faint.
That's enough for now. I let him go and move away.
"Baz..." He squeezes his hand against his chest, looking shy. It fills me with affection.
"It's late, I have to go," I cut him off. "Shall we talk later in our room?
He nods. I pick up my violin case again. Before I leave, Simon comes over and gives me a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Good luck at rehearsal," he says and runs off.
I touch my face. Hopefully, I'll finish rehearsal quickly
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Hello!
I wasn't planning on posting anything today, but I was free and this came out <3 it's just fluff without much sense.
Thanks so much for reading!
Ciao!
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