#chefs

[mysharona1987]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

When it comes to pickles, the Dutch don't play.

[nintendonut1]

BY ALL THE GODS IN THE MULTIVERSES I DID IT

The 2026 ArtFight Bake-Off, a 100-character mass attck of chefs, cooks, and bakers!

As you can imagine I canNOT possibly tag everyone here, so visit the attack's post for character details and credits. Characters are listed from Bottom to Top, Left to Right. Swee is mine. :3

Click the Keep Reading below for more info (from the post's description), detail shots, and a bonus!

Since last year, my goal for Art Fight 2026 was going for broke and attempting a 100-character mass attack, and giving love to as many chefs, cooks, and bakers as I could. The original idea was an “Art Fight Bake-Off” with 50 chefs from each team facing off on either side of the piece…and then Art Fight hit us with three teams and that ruined my plan completely LMAO 

As I prepared for the event, the chefs I started bookmarking struck a nifty dichotomy between “man, I’m just happy to be here” and “I will pick a fight with God and WIN”, so that’s how I ended up splitting them up, and some additional preliminary planning led to this absolutely chaotic scene of my boy Swee just trying to hold a nice and normal bake-off, the sad sap.

But, why chefs? Because food unites everyone, and the people who make it every day, to share with us and keep us all happy and well, are so, so important. The act of creating food, to make something that is here and gone, yet sticks with you as an experience, is art in itself, one that’s rooted very much in the present, as fleeting yet long lasting as Art Fight itself. My love for both cooking and this incredible art-trading event was poured into every bit of this attack, and every single chef drawn.

Yes, I read all your character profiles to get a sense of their personalities, and it became an honestly fun-as-hell puzzle to properly place them and even form some micro-scenes and interactions. I’ll admit the task was daunting at first, and a part of me was worried it wouldn’t be possible, but I will say this isn’t my first rodeo. (shameless plug of my webcomic, GO!) To be honest, my biggest concern was file size and potentially breaking my poor CSP with it LOL, but my computer held on tight even while each save took several seconds, and I didn’t even have to extend my canvas, everyone fit! =D

Speaking of, this is OBVIOUSLY not the full size of the piece, I had to shrink it down to fit the size limit for the site. The full size piece can’t even be posted on Tumblr, though that version is still bigger but within THAT site’s limits. If you’re interested in the full piece and you’d like me to send it to you, DM me.

If you’re skeptical of whether or not I started this early, here is a timestamped VOD from July 1st of me opening a fresh canvas to get started on it. The prelim sketch I opened next to it (doodled by both me and MSKirby) was purely for planning and visualizing, and was never used in the final piece.

Here are some detail shots too!

And then, as a bonus: every day I finished progress of the attack, I'd send the WIP to my Discord server, and starting on Day 3 I changed Swee's dialogue bubble text each day LMAO

I REALLY HOPE EVERYONE GUYS ENJOY THIS AAAAAAAAAA time to go work on all the revenges I owe people oops

[refinedtaste]

[copperbadge]

The Chicken Salad War

Available Friday, June 13th!

Many years ago, I was hired to serve as the personal chef to the royal family of Askazer-Shivadlakia, a small nation I did not know well.

I had advertised my services as an elite personal chef, and had many offers, but the Shivadh king swayed me because of what he told me when we met: that he had only a passing interest in gourmet food, and that he was hiring the best chef he could find not as a status symbol or from personal desire, but as a gift for his wife on the occasion of their fifteenth wedding anniversary. I was charmed by such a gesture, explained in the king's excellent French, and pleased that he was interested to hire my brother Hugo as sommelier, a position which had been open for some time.

King Michaelis and his wife Queen Miranda had a little boy of four, and the family had suffered a tragedy which meant they sometimes cared for a young girl the same age, their son's cousin. I knew I had chosen my new job well when, arriving in the kitchen for the first time, two solemn little children were waiting to greet me in prattling French.

Coming next Friday, the newest Shivadh romance!

Simon LeFevre, chef to the royal family, has spent thirty years looking after the Palace children, and now their children's children. This year, in addition to his domestic duties, he's sitting on the planning committee for the Reclamation Day Festival, overseeing the food tents and cooking competition. Unfortunately he's been partnered up for the project with the city's newest chef, Mr. Ylias Lazaar, with whom he's already clashed over...ricotta.

Ylias, glad to be home where nobody blinks much at a woman who prefers male honorifics, is opening her own restaurant at last, and enjoys putting Simon on the back foot. When she claims she could improve on the curried chicken salad he served for Prince Noah's graduation party, they decide they'll both enter the yearly cooking competition -- and may the best man win.

***

The Chicken Salad War will be posted to Archive Of Our Own, one chapter per day, beginning on June 13th; the entire text will also be made available in google docs. Both version will be linked here, day by day, starting on the 13th.

The author invites commentary and criticism so that he may edit the book appropriately ahead of publishing it as hardcopy, ebook, and PDF later this summer.

Stay tuned!

[oh-bother-stickers]

[sevrin-descaray]

Okay hear me, out cuthroat kitchen au:

Ilya is alton brown And Shane is a contestant, an ungodly amount of sexual tension as they banter through thinly veiled euphemisms; all the while shane is attempting to churn his own butter using a toy kitchen churner for a tomato soup and grilled cheese challenge