Does someone have more to say? Is a work of art half-completed? Is one person left wanting on purpose? It could be any of them!!
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The Rules are Simple:
Every Friday until the Season 3 premiere, I'll post a prompt.
You will have a week to write, draw, paper craft, record, completely scrap and start from the beginning after a crisis of confidence (oh, is that just me?), and post your interpretation of the prompt.
Tag your post #IneffablePromptAThon, #IneffablePAT #Ineffable Prompt-A-Thon, and/or #IPAT. Make sure to use them on Tumblr, X, IG, and AO3 so everyone can easily find your works!
Also tag your posts and AO3 with the Week Number and the Prompt, so we can all tell which prompt your creation accompanies.
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Add your contribution to the Ineffable Prompt-A-Thon collection on AO3 for this week. Link is below!
Look for the next prompt. Rinse. Repeat.
HAVE FUN!
This is meant to be zero stress. If you can't do a week, that's completely fine! Prompt not working for you? Skip it. Going to be late? No worries at all!
Week #18 Prompt: Summer Fruit | Word Count: 448 | Rating: T | POV: Eleven | Characters: Eleven | Relationships: El & Hopper, Canon Mention of El/Mike | CW: Former Neglect at the Lab | Tags: Finding Freedom on the Outside of the Lab, Trying New Things, Pineapple: The Food That Eats You Back
It is sweet, and cold.
That is her first thought. Beyond that it is hard for her to describe. She has never had anything like it. Watermelon, Hopper had said. Do not eat the seeds.
El does not. She spits them out onto her plate, and just eats the stringy, squishy, red flesh.
She likes watermelon, she has decided.
Then he brings other foods. Fruits, he explains. Another red one, even sweeter than the watermelon. A strawberry. With lots of little seeds. These seeds, she can eat.
And even more seeds in the kiwi. Slightly slimy, but she still likes it.
But the spiky topped one, the pineapple, is her favorite. She eats and eats, even as Hopper warns her, and wants to take it away. She does not understand why. It is so good. Sweet, and tangy, and she likes the texture of it.
She cries, and he lets her keep eating it.
Hours later, she understands what he meant. Her tongue hurts. Has gotten raw from eating too much of it. Why is anything that good so painful? She does not understand. It is food. How does it hurt her to eat it?
But it has, and yet she still wants more.
He tells her to wait a day or two, that her tongue will heal fast, but she is not sure she can wait. She wants it now.
He says they can compromise and she does not know what he means. But he brings her a can of pineapple.
"It won't hurt you," he says, as he pours it, juice and all, into the bowl in front of her at the table in the cabin.
She tries it. And it is good.
Not as good as the spiky one. Not quite the same. But it is good.
And it does not hurt her mouth.
Later, there are grapes, in several different colors. And apples. A pear that she finds too grainy to enjoy. It tastes like sand feels between her toes.
When she starts school, finally out of the cabin, no longer hidden away, they ask what her favorite food is. Eggos, and pineapple. Those are the answers she gives.
Her name is Jane Hopper and she likes Eggos and pineapple.
So, years later, when Argyle wants them to try pineapple on the pizza he has made, even if Mike is unsure, she is willing to try it. She has never thought of pineapple being eaten hot before, but she has always liked it cold.
Maybe hot will be alright as well.
And to her surprise, it is good on pizza too, even if Mike will not even try it.
More for her, she supposes.
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Week Eighteen is your favorite guest star character!
Will you make some cookies for Reani? A hummingbird tea for Shakaste? A wedding cake for Kashaw and Zahra? A natural 1 cake for Wil Wheaton?
Regardless, I look forward to seeing what everyone makes!
Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by the guest stars from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.
You will have until next Monday (August 10th) to make your dishes!
Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.