Magic and cooking are much the same. A lot of cooking is sort of hedge-magick—you do it by feel, add herbs that seem right, summon fire. It does about what you expect it to, usually.
But baking! Baking, candy-making, and so forth—these are the schools of Higher Magics. Who can say when the time is right for the making of Divinity? A wise old woman peers at her barometer, the sky, and guesses. Often, she is wrong. And baking! To the talented young acolyte, baking is a heady power, a dangerous pastime, and a science fraught with unknown knowledge. 10 minutes precisely! Do not make the magical kneading hand motions too oft! The balance of magical powders must be precise! Be wary with your summoned fire elementals! Constantly, she wonders if her mistakes, changes, and experiments will stretch the weave of the magic too far. But somehow, always, it does not.
And, dude, rhubarb is way too weird to be anything but a spell component.
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True 'dat, yo....
Yea veriily, rhubarb is indeed weird stuff. The texture, the visuals, the strange taste… it’s up there with “eye of newt,” IMO.
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In further me=Willow and Matt=Oz news, we had the closest thing to an argument that we’ve had in like 6 months, over Willow and Oz having a falling-out. Fake people! Not real!
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Now that’s just creepy.
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You’re telling me. It didn’t actually escalate to an argument because I said, “Stop! Stop! We are about to have an argument about FAKE PEOPLE!”
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And Willow keeps stealing my me! Yesterday she said “So I said to my self, ‘Self,’ I said…” which is something I say (I got it from my dad) and have never heard anyone from outside my family say before. And then she started baking! To relieve negative feelings!
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Hehe! When I saw that I thought of you. I’m not so sure about 4th season Xander though. He’s getting kinda flaky. But then again…
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But then again, I’m not planning on becoming gay. The whole “marriage” thing tends to preclude exploration of alternative lifestyles. Let’s not push the Buffy-cast pizza here.