Subject: They're called coriandoli not confetti! CORIANDOLI!
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Posted on: 2013-07-23 18:50:00 UTC
Please, English language, stop mangling the Italian language when scavenging for loanwords... *headdesk*
Subject: They're called coriandoli not confetti! CORIANDOLI!
Author:
Posted on: 2013-07-23 18:50:00 UTC
Please, English language, stop mangling the Italian language when scavenging for loanwords... *headdesk*
...remind me why I decided to hang out with Dean Winchester and the Eleventh Doctor, again? *licks off frosting* *munches an apple* Wait, I was supposed to be...oh, hey, right!
Lookit! I'm back! *waits for confetti*
I mean, my internet still isn't super-consistent, since I'm moving around every couple days and will be doing so for the next week, but at least it's rather more there than it was for the past three weeks. Which were awesome, by the way.
So, how are all of you? And what have I missed? Let's catch up! *throws Gummyblee Tanks--yes, tanks, like the big metal rolly-things#--and squares of Swiss Bleepolate in the air, along with the odd tribble*
~DF
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#Yes, this is my brain on too much Buffy. What can I say, I spent two weeks watching season 1 and assorted other episodes--a new friend and I formed a little club. As it stands, I'm Tosh, she's the Chosen One, and someone walked by and said my voice sounds like season 1 Buffy's, so...wait, I'm rambling. Time to stop. Hi! ~DF
*throws even more confetti* IT'S THE ALMIGHTY CONFETTI APOCALYPSE! Flee! Flee!
Yay, another Buffy fan! I wasn't aware we had any, although that may just be because I've only gotten into the show recently. I've been on vacation as well, which I may or may not have forgotten to mention. *shifty eyes*
Anyway, hi again, and have a jiggly boomerang, because those two words are fun to say and even more fun to say when put together.
Here, have a... have a... Okay, just have a cupcake. It'll magically conform to your personal flavor preferences and regenerates immediately after consumption. :D
-- Len
Thanks, though :) *dances around in confetti and starts running tests on the cupcake to make sure it isn't sentient*
~DF
The Element Lord of Cupcakes and the Lord of Frosting and Sugar may one day meet, and if they do, they will either destroy each other... or the world.
Boom! Dramatic Thunder!
I'm not sure what would cause them to be any more or less able to articulate than any other kind of food-based construct.
Mute, perhaps, if they were made without an analogue to vocal cords or didn't have any way to produce sounds recognizable as speech, but not aphasic. Besides, since the Cupcake Lords can reshape pastries to their whim, they could just create a pastry golem of some sort to speak for them if they were mute.
The Element Lord of Cupcakes opened its single frosting-laced eye, glaring out at the world. It was laying on a table, in a blank gray room with a blank gray ceiling, but it could sense hundreds, if not thousands, of its brethren in the halls and levels of the structure-saturated land it now inhabited. Yes, it thought, deep within its sugary mind. A new world. A world of flesh and bone, yet a world I myself can rule with a moist and succulent fist.
Its musings on world conquest were interrupted, however, by a massive creature behind it taking a massive bite from its anterior side. The Element Lord of Cupcakes howled in pain, thrashing out at its offender with a tendril of frosting, but its desperation caused it to miss by inches.
Its upper frosting distorted with glee as the hole in its front regrew, and the massive being of bone and flesh widened its primitive observation spheres, taking a single step back. Seizing the opportunity, the Element Lord of Cupcakes rose a tendril dramatically.
Down the hall, the remnants of a birthday party were just being cleaned up. A sound from the table drew the attention of one of the cleanup staff, who stared in confusion as the remaining birthdays pastries suddenly floated into the air and hovered out the door three at a time. In the halls, they joined a slew of assorted other pastries, mostly cakes and cake-related products, all converging on a single room.
The flesh-and-bone had just regained its poise, and had begun to advance solidly toward the Element Lord of Cupcakes. It raised a hand to grab at its much smaller opponent, when suddenly a cloud of pastries flew in through the door, striking the flesh-and-bone as one. It grunted in pain and shock, flying across the room to be quickly buried by sugary food.
Leaping up and down in satisfaction, the Element Lord of Cupcakes instructed some of its new subjects to fly toward it. They obeyed, and upon reaching within three feet of their new master, they were merged and converted into a single oblong delicacy, sporting a noticeable dent in the top and a haphazard arrangement of frosting colors, sprinkles, and coconut topping.
The gleeful cupcake leapt to the top of its new creation, settling itself into the dent before driving the delicacy out the door, a vestige of the swarm of summoned food following in its wake.
Now, it thought to itself, I will see what else this strange and wondrous new world has to offer.
You may be disturbed to know that I gave Legacy a duplicate for his welcome-back gift. Rivalry of the Cupcake Lords? Worse, an alliance? Oh, the malicious possibilites I have unleashed on humanity!
Well, you did all the work, but a girl's got to keep up her sense of evil self esteem somehow. :D
-- Len
Curses! The tribbles have eaten too many of the fallen Gummyblee tanks, and some started to breed! I'm going to need to set up some sort of barrier to keep them from spreading, or we'll be overrun!
Or I could just throw them into a Sarlaac's mouth and let them go into a vicious cycle of breeding and being digested. Nah. I don't want to choke the poor Sarlaac.
So, as it turned out, nobody actually ended up writing more of the Sue Lord mission when you were away, which is good because you can contribute in the same ratio you already were, and bad because that was three weeks of nobody writing anything. (coughs in embarrassment) That worked out how it worked out, I guess.
Now allow me to ply you with baked goods.
*Shoves cookies at you*
It's great to see you again. I've fallen back into semi-lurker mode myself, even if I'm in the middle of writing various things. I'm doing great, and it's awesome to hear that it's the same for you.
Hi again!
*something falls on head*
Ouch! Stop tossing tribbles everywhere!
-Aila
Please, English language, stop mangling the Italian language when scavenging for loanwords... *headdesk*
And here, have some peperoni, the pepper that inspired the name of the American pizza topping. Don't hurt yourself by hitting your head on that desk. English is a strange language that periodically rifles through other languages' luggage for words to use.
I'm really not sure what the link between red sausage and those yellow peppers is, but I'm pretty sure that English just nabbed that word and ran off when it saw a few offended languages coming around the corner with pitchforks and truncheons, so I'm willing to forgive it for making assumptions.
One of the flavors of pizzas you can find in almost every pizzeria here in Italy is peppers and sausages or salami. (Which, on an unrelated note, is Italian too. Althought "salami" is plural. The singular is "salame")
So, it was probably one of the first toppings imported in America, an Americans heard "peperoni" and liked the word. They decided to use it for the toppings, only that they accidentally used it for the sausages instead of the peppers.
The English language has mangled every other language on the planet while mugging them for loanwords, why would Italian be exempt?
Well, I'm just beginning to prepare my sahur. I guess I could have this instead. How's the moving going? Hectic, I guess? If you wish for more of Supernatural, I heard there is an anime you can watch. Dean looks more handsome there, but the anime hadn't done Sam justice. Check it out.
Oh yes.
*rips many pieces of coloured paper, and sprinkles it lazily at DawnFire's direction*
I also just got back to the PPC after a month and a half of playing opera, though you wouldn't know it from my Library updates. (Thanks to TacoMagic for taking care of that for me. :D)
But yeah, fun times are had for all. I'm doing awesome, how're you?
(Catches Swiss Bleepolate) Ooh! Yum.
And, yes I just got back the other day from an extended vacation as well... so...
A somewhat awkward greeting?
Have a fluffy velociraptor!