Chillout Corner

Hi I'm Castor - he/them - minor, NSFW DNI - fanfiction author

[wevibinwechillin]

Hi, I'm Castor!

I'm a fanfiction author who's been writing for 7+ years. Posting as a whole may be inconsistent as anything, and writing even more so, but feel free to send asks any time and I'll try to reply or write out the scenario whenever I can! Or, of course, just to talk! ^^

Fandoms I'm in (not in order):

Death Note, Bungo Stray Dogs, Black Butler, Record of Ragnarok, Blood of Zeus, Obey Me!, Bucchigiri?!, HunterxHunter, TWISTED WONDERLAND, Haikyuu!!, My Hero Academia, Poppy Playtime, Five Nights at Freddy's, Buddy Daddies, Sk8 The Infinity, Creepypasta, GENSHIN IMPACT, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, Spiral Dynamics

I love discussing/talking about these silly little shows/games and will yap at you till your ears fall off for some of them (*cough*Genshin*cough*). Please talk to me :') (just remember I'm a minor, 16+ but still)

Shows/fandoms I'm trying to get myself into (propaganda welcome):

Blue Lock, The Case Study of Vanitas, Prince of Stride: Alternative, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Tamon's B-Side, Witch Hat Atelier, Heaven Official's Blessing, Yuri!!! on ICE, Demon Slayer, Horimiya, and more probably

I will write for:

Five Nights at Freddy's

Poppy Playtime

EPIC: The Musical

My Hero Academia (PLEASE BE TAME IN REQUESTS)

Haikyuu!!

Buddy Daddies

Sk8 The Infinity

Record of Ragnarok (please don't request Aphrodite.)

Creepypasta

Genshin Impact (I haven't finished Mondstadt, so sorry for any mischaracterizing)

Zenless Zone Zero

Please feel free to request any of these fandoms! Patience with me and my sporadic motivation is greatly appreciated.

DO NOT INTERACT:

LGBTQIA+phobic

TERFs

Tr*mp supporters

NSFW blogs (including reblogs)

Hellaverse megafans and/or Vivsiepop supporters

I WILL NOT WRITE:

Smut

Heavy angst

Hurt without comfort

ANY sort of Dead Dove content

This is not the place for you to get that from; this is a place for giggling and being happy with comfort characters (because they deserve happiness :))

[regaliaofchaos]

Answer these questions and tag some people you want to get to know

tagged by @funnythingsidk thank you smmm <3

no pressure tags: @soldier-of-stardust @osamusghxst @lostinalora @nomatterwhatnomatterwhere @ammckk6262 @thecatcherlntherye and anyone else who wants to join!!

Name: let's just say it's Chaos heheheheh

Nickname: uhhh idk if i do nicknames? zozo?

Height: i'M FIVE FOOT THREE (almost)

Orientation: straight but i haven't had a crush because of some BISCH who basically made me unable to feel romantic attraction to anyone <3

Ethnicity: i'm the kimchi flavor of asian

Favorite fruit: idk man give me some CRUNCHY COLD GREEN GRAPES or grapes in general or COLD APPLES LIKE FKKKKK YESS or legit any fruit i can eat anything

Favorite season: probably fall because not too hot not to cold, pumpkin spice lattes, new swim season, and i get to spend time with my friends at school!!

Favorite book series: six of crows by leigh bardugo no doubt (inej ghafa step on me) WHO SAID THAT

Favorite fictional characters: you're funny <3 (i have too many) so uhh kenma (Haikyuu), tachihara (bsd), cater diamond and floyd leech (twisted wonderland), Valentin Viljoen (killer chat), inumaki (jjk), bachira (bllk) and check my pinterest i forgot lmao

Fictional character i'd like as a sibling: Kuroo Tetsurou. No doubt. Tbh he and my brother act similar but i'm pretty sure he wouldn't EAT ALL THE FKN SNACKS and also volleyball is fun yeah (and then i'd also be friends with kenma *cough cough*)

Favorite flower: amaryllis because YEAH THAT WORD SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL or columbine but like specifically black barlow columbine

Favorite scent: roses, something clean i hate overly sweet perfumes

Favorite color: GREENNNNNNNN LIKE DARK GREEN LIGHT GREEN ANY GREEEEEEN

Favorite animal: PUFFINS, foxes, or crows (mostly puffins i have like five or six puffin plushies)

Favorite band/artist: right now? i'd say rabbitology, laufey, or aurora

Coffee, tea, or cocoa: tea because you can do boba, coffee flavored tea or chocolate tea

Average sleep hours: eight ish? depends on the day but once i slept like eleven hours

Dream trip: Japan because stationary and cute stuff or like take me back to Korea (only been once but SKINCARE AND COLORED CONTACTS)

Last thing googled: "alexander hamilton historically correct"

Blog created: before i got a phone i think so uhh before april of 2025 lmao

How many blogs followed: 137 and counting!!

Number of followers: 25!!

What do you usually post about: good question... everything and nothing, yapping, schistposting i think it's called?

Do you get asks regularly: no but feel free to them in!!

What's your aesthetic: is basic a thing? like sort of athletic basic and t-shirt+jeans during school and a zip up but i want to dress downtown girl

[pinkgoatgirl]

doing this bc im bored as shit!!!

name: ralsei!!

nickname: rals, rally, princess, whatever!!

height: uhhh... 5'4-ish?

orientation: lesbian!!

ethnicity: half north african and half white ^^

favourite fruit: FAMOUSLY BLUEBERRIES I LOVE THEM!!!!!

favourite season: prolly spring or autumn!!

favourite book series: warrior cats!!

favourite fictional characters: all time favs are ralsei, mabel, pinkie pie and jayfeather!!

fictional character i'd like as a sibling: dipper pines!!

favourite flower: either violets, lavenders or daises!!

favourite scent: anything vanilla, 100%!!

favourite colour: PINK I LOVE PINK!!

favourite animal: orcas, cats r a close second tho!!

favourite band/artist: illit and tyler, the creator :P

coffee, tea or cocao: tea, always!! (matcha over everything tho lmao)

average sleep hours: uhhh 6-8 hours?

dream trip: probably either japan or the french countryside ^^

last thing googled: "british american girl doll"

blog created: sometime last year?

amount of blogs im following: 223!!

number of followers: 111 ^^ (hey an angel number!!)

usual posts: lots of reblogs, deltarune stuff, political range and general thoughts!!

do i get asks regularly: not usually, but i love getting them!!

whats my aesthetic: gyaru!! ;)

TAGS!!: @holidaygirl12251 @simonsjohnny @slumberingponies @sharxxybaitxdd @sharxxybaitxdd @nicoissucks616 @yourarabkogal + open tags!! (not forcing!!)

[yourarabkogal]

OMG TYY FOR THE TAGGGG

name: Rita

nickname: Frita , Paprika , ritouta , david

height: 167cm

orientation: straight

ethnicity: north african (moroccan)

favorite fruit: Mango , strawberries , bananas but TOP 1 is mango

favorite season: SUMMER UGHHHH

favorite book series: id say folk of air and honorable mention (not a series) is Circe

favorite fictional characters: Hitsugaya , akaza , paprika , Risa , Futaba

fictional character id like to have as a sibling: Rangiku

favorite flower: i actually dont have one.

favorite scent: anything sweet or floral , musky and oud scents also are soooo good

favorite color: the rainbow but a preference for PINK , ORANGE , BLUE , CYAN

favorite animal: cats , dogs , wolves and panthers

favorite band/artist : (currently) BIGBANG , ILLIT , Red Velvet and Crystal Kay

coffee , tea or cacao: TEA FOR LIFEEEE , i hate coffee and cacao isnt something id take daily but mhhh mhhh mhhh do i love tea , i drink it atleast twice a day

average sleep hours : depends but since its summer break id say either 10+ hours or 6 to 8h

dream trip : japan , china , costa rica , brazil

last thing googled : "favorite or favourite"

blog created : a bit more than a year

amount of blogs im following : 261.

number of followers : 85 (so clos to a hundredddd YESSS)

usual posts : reblogs , yaps , fashion , occasionaly pics i took , anime , kpop, fanfics and usually everything n anything

whats my aesthetic : litteraly CANNOT decide im just balling with whaterver i like

TAGGSGSGSGSGGS : @stayingswag @sillyseob @melfresita-ruri2 @afararraaaa @atetheluck @heroz-zz @feida1111 @aeminthyst @applepieandcupcakess

[afararraaaa]

OOH YAY TAG GAME TYTY

name : i prefere being called by my nickname!

Nickname : rara

Height : IDK

orientation: bisexual!

Ethnicity : west Asia (Arab)

Fav fruit : WATERMELLON (currently!)

Fav season : WINTERWINTERWINTER

Fav book series : uhh does orv count maybe dork diaries??

Favorite fictional characters : Kim Dokja , Klein moretti , maomao , AND NANAMI (kk)

Fictional character I would have as a sibling : nobara from jjk!

Fav flower : don’t have

Favorite scent : hmm idk those Arabic scents gng IDK

Favorite color : pink , green , blue

Fav animals : don’t have??

Favorite band / artist : hmm Enhypen , aespa ect ect

Coffee , tea or cacao : TEA TEA TEA FOREVER TEA

Average sleep hours : gng idk I sleep different hours everyday my sleep schedule is messed up 😭

Dream trip : china , Italy and Türkiye!

Last thing googled : “who won the World Cup” GNG IDK I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE WORLD CUP LMAO

Blog created : hmm I think summer 2025?

Amount of blogs I’m following : 103!

Number of followers : 119 hehe!!

Usual posts : kpop , anime , KIM DOKJA , lots of revolve esp orv , lots of tag games , rebloging fanarts

What’s my aesthetic : IDK YET

Omg this took me such a long time anyway..

Tags (no pressure)

@atetheluck @cynthiac0s @ellemetrixstar @zxmd1 @xx-all-purpose-nerd-xx @ch3rry15pin @danmeicloak @girlhood-is-peak @millionfishinatrenchcoat @nyakisses @ntixxx @omniscient-readers-reblogger @reescookies @urlocalstaygenemoa @ anyone who sees this!

[ellemetrixstar]

oh hello uh ty for the tag!!

Name: veron

Nickname: kubo, nico, nikki etc.

Height: 156 cm someone kill me

Orientation: bi/pan, idk yet

Ethnicity: slavic (nad tatrou sa blýska~~)

Fav fruit: idk prob peaches?? but only when theyre sweet

Fav season: def not summer (over 40°C this year youre fucking me what)

Fav book: ORV all the way

Fav fictional characters: theres a lot uhh... currently kim dokja, yoo joongyuk, kaveh, tenma tsukasa, kamishiro rui, i feel like im forgetting someone welp

Fictional character id have as a sibling: no idea, i have enough siblings as it is

Fav flower: idk sth white, i love all flowers

Fav scent: that one scent during/after rain. petrichor? is that what its called??

Fav color: BLUE. esp like a kind of greyish, steel-blue, like storm clouds huhuhu

Fav animal: wolf, i adore wolves so muchh

Fav band/artist: prob PinocchioP

Coffe, tea, or cacao: cacao

Average sleep hours: like 8

Dream trip: japan or south korea, the merch, the clothes, the cosmetics kill meee

Last thing googled: "execution clap lyrics"

Blog created: like this february. but ive been a tumblr lurker for years

Amount of blogs im following: 23

Number of followers: 7

Usual posts: either my own fanart or reblogged fanart

Whats my aesthetic: kinda alternative, dyed hair (currently dyed like tsukasas), mostly black/white/gray clothing, big platform boots, star motives, lots of accessories, i think children fear me sometimes help

Tags (all pressure)/jk :

@thyshallbedeath @duckydee-0 @mournsalvation and ofc my favourite bastard @starlingvertigo

[duckydee-0]

thannk u for tagging mee <3 !

Name: kainat

Nickname: i have a lot

Height: im like 5'5 or 5'6

Orientation: lesbian maybe

Ethnicity: Desi/Punjabi

Fav fruit: oranges!!

Fav season: any season but summer bruh

Fav book: ICANTPICKONE

Fav fictional characters: kdj, chrollo, osaragi, nagumo, gintoki, medicine seller, dean, kokichi

Fictional character id have as a sibling: kiyoshi teppei from knb omg

Fav flower: white spider lilies and baby's breath !

Fav color: red or yellow!!

Fav animal: RACOONS I WANT A PET RACOON SO BAD

Fav band/artist: Ashbury heights and ninajirachi !

Coffe, tea, or cacao: tea

Average sleep hours: 5

Dream trip: TAKE ME TO CHINA

Last thing googled: "ao3"

Blog created: THIS blog was created two-ish years ago, my firwst blog was when i was like nine

Amount of blogs im following: 326

Number of followers: 192

Usual posts: yap and rbs

aesthetic: i dont have any fixed one but its def more alt leaning :]

Tags!! @a-purple-z, @reapkusho, @lottiest @gummyboy300 @neverdimtofitin

[reapkusho]

THANK YOU FOR THE TAG!!! gods i've been wanting to get tagged in this for so long like genuinely. i didn't want to insert myself though BWAHHA

Name: reaper :)

Nickname: i, too, have many!! reap, rea, rai, ria, and raito (yeah. yeah)

Height: i'm short. I'm 5'0 and i have to wear three inch heels outside all the time

Orientation: aroace 😌

Ethnicity: Filipino 🫵🫵

Fav fruit: don't even JOKE LAD. MANGOES. I LOVE MANGOES SO MUCH. every time i eat a mango it's like a hot sweaty makeout session god i love mangoes

Fav season: of the two seasons in my country? rainy season. out of the four? autumn proooooobably

Fav book: too many please 😔 jane eyre (charlotte bronte), metamorphosis (franz kafka), and no longer human (osamu dazai) <- he never leaves my favs and i hate it

Fav fictional characters: my top two favorites are chuuya nakahara from bungou stray dogs and mello from death note. i have a thing for motorcycle-riding mafiosos

Fictional character id have as a sibling: hmmmmm. i can't think of one. if I said beyond birthday from death note would i get skinned

Fav flower: blue ternates/asian pigeonwings :) very pretty flowers

Fav color: blue <3 a very specific shade of royal blue :)

Fav animal: dogs and hyenas!!! i love spotted hyenas lots. recently i've been liking butterflies

Fav band/artist: i don't really have a fav artist but i listen to mitski too often for her not to be in my spotify wrapped. i also love anabelle dinda she's sooo good!! my favorite band is an opm band (parokya ni edgar) but for the sake of an answer. i'll just say radiohead

Coffee, tea, or cacao: coffee. but i can't have it

Average sleep hours: looks around to make sure none of my mutuals are here to scold me... i get three... on average ...

Dream trip: japaaaan <3

Last thing googled: monkeytype . the. the words per second typing test thing. i get 90wpm consistently thank god

Blog created: this blog was created in december 2024, but my first blog was made somewhere in 2022-2023

Amount of blogs im following: 228

Number of followers: okay i'll count sideblogs. on main i have 85 (i miss the 300 people on my old blog sighs.), my blue lock rp blog has 135, and my death note rp blog has 49. i have a few others but they all range from 10-35 so like it's nothing much

Usual posts: banger posts ONLY. /j. reblogs and random text posts about things that annoy me

aesthetic: I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S CALLED. i have lots of lace shirts and i wear flared pants 90% of the time. the other time is for maxi skirts. i indulge my leather boots too much. and also i have lots of rings. i would wear cute jackets if the weather wouldn't melt me into a puddle . i have a cute leather jacket i've only worn once 😔

@still-fatemeh @jelly-kibtyfish @someprettyname (PSPSPS) @soil-clown (i think you've already done this before but hm okay) @wabatle (you would enjoy this i think...) @doomedlikemyyaoi @beneathsakurashade + open :)

[still-fatemeh]

Ooooh (ФωФ)

This is lowky a cool one, thanks rai♤

Name: Fatemeh (in some countries it's Fatima, but what do I know man...)

Nicknames: Fate, Fati (my mum calls me this, and I have a visceral hatred towards it)

Height: 156 centimeters (I think that's 5'1 in not understandable measurement units?...)

Orientation: bisexual

Ethnicity: Iranian, Persian, whichever you'd wanna call it

Favourite fruit: cherries, peaches, summer fruits in general (I despise mangos though)

Favourite season: summer

Favourite book: hm, right now? the Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Favourite fictional character: anyone who's charismatic enough

Fictional character I'd have as a sibling: Choso

Favourite flower: Narcissus, or daffodils

Favourite colour: pink, baby blue, and grey

Favourite animal: Felines in general fascinate me

Favourite artist/band: Måneskin, the Smiths

Coffee, tea, or cacao: cacao, with not even a millisecond of hesitation

Average sleep hours: A good seven (I can sleep up to fourteen hours a day)

Dream trip: Japaaaaaaan

Last thing I googled: "What's 156 centimeters in feet?" Haha

Blog created: long long ago (I can't remember)

Amount of blogs I'm following: 270

Number of followers: 144

Usual posts: reblogging GREAT fanarts and based analysis and interacting with mooties

Aesthetic: girly pop meets suicide wannabe

Tags 🏷 : @uramiwritesstuff , @philosophist-forever , @pifnii , @jelly-kibtyfish + open tags♡

[pifnii]

Name: not telling

Nickname: Pifnii

Height: 168 cm

Orientation: asexual demiromantic (questioning if not aroace completely)

Ethnicity: Polish

Favorite fruit: apples and watermelon

Favorite season: autumn

Favorite book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Favorite fictional characters: Chuuya, Sigma and Atsushi from BSD; Hong Lu, Gregor and Yi Sang from Limbus Company; finally any robot or robot-adjacent character in most my fandoms (including but not limited to: Adam Frankenstein, Ineffa, Angela, Harold W. Lucraft); if I had to pick just one out of all of them it would be Adam though

Fictional character I'd have as a sibling: Sigma!!

Favorite flower: lavender

Favorite color: green, orangish yellow and purple

Favorite animal: raccoons and jellyfish

Favorite artist/band: tie between Mili and Luck Life

Coffee, tea or cacao: tea

Average sleep hours: like 8 and a half

Dream trip: Japan or South Korea or USA or Canada or

Last thing I googled: "What is a qpr"

Blog created: around November 2023, when TADC came out (I made my account only for the purpose of asking Goose questions)

Amount of blogs I'm following: 151

Number of followers: 58

Usual posts: moot interactions and reblogging nice fandom posts; if it's my own posts then usually they fall into one of the three categories: random theories, oc yaps and crashing out about my life

Aesthetic: some weird mix of academia (both dark and light) and cyberpunk

Tags: @missangels-heaven @cosmopolitanalienation @melancholic-whimsy @vinnythefrog @smoresxd @malacemizerhater @cigsanddepresso + all moots

[smoresxd]

ooh thank you for the tag :3

name: *irl name i can’t say* / smores / milo / dazai

nickname: marshmallow, zaizai, mackerel, biscuit, dinner, lunch, snack, yummy, tasty, nicknames for my irl name, etc.

height: in the 150-160 cm range i think

orientation: bisexual

ethnicity: american-british-other combo thingy (aka no idea)

favorite fruit: MANGO

favorite season: autumn

favorite book: no longer human by osamu dazai

favorite fictional characters: dazai, chuuya, tachihara, ranpo, nikolai, fyodor, Q and gin from bsd; vanitas, noe and chloe from vnc; hanako from tbhk; leo, nico and reyna from pjo/hoo; yozo from nlh; bachira from bllk

fictional character i’d have as a sibling: lots but i’ll pick ranpo for here :D

favorite flower: skeleton flowers or passionflowers

favorite color: blues, purples, light green, white, black

favorite animal: foxes, wolves, orcas, cats, dogs, dolphins

favorite artist/band: don’t have one

coffee, tea or cocoa: COCOA RAHH (i like all though!!)

average sleep hours: around 4

dream trip: JAPANNNNNN

last thing i googled: “what happens if you take 20 acetaminophen pills”

blog created: march 21st 2026 🥹

amount of blogs i’m following: 44

number of followers: 30 yayayaya

usual posts: stupid stuff, random thoughts, lots of bsd, occasional other media, vents, reblogs of other random stuff, the occasional ask

aesthetic: generally streetwear grunge i think but there’s a lot of other stuff thrown in and it mixes around pretty often

tags: @hxxrtlxss-ghxst @artemisardw @dazaisbaldspot + other mutuals :3

[wevibinwechillin]

name: Castor!

nickname: Honeybee, mostly, pretty much any bee endearments are fine

height: 175-180 cm (5'7-5'9)

orientation: pansexual ✨

ethnicity: uncomfy, no answer ^^'

favorite fruit: APPLESSSSS! Also pineapple, cherry and dragon fruit

favorite season: autumn/winter

favorite book: You can't make me Hunger Games these books to pick just one, so you get multiple: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Odyssey by Homer aaand Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan!

favorite fictional characters: CYNO, KAVEH (Genshin), Chuuya, Dazai, Fukuzawa (BSD), Idia, Azul, Malleus, Ortho (TW), Simeon, Leviathan, Satan (OM!)

fictional character I'd have as a sibling: Orthoooo! (TW) also Langa (Sk8) and Midoriya Izuku (MHA)

favorite flower: sunflowers, oleander and spider lilies

favorite scent: vanilla and lavender/apple, such good combos

favorite color: greens, blues, silver and black

favorite animal: orcas, deer, rabbits and bees!

favorite artist/band: Jorge Rivera-Herrans, Cyyu, Livingston, TX2!!!, Living Tombstone, All Time Low and Derivakat

coffee, tea or cocoa: Cocoa! With whipped cream, marshmallows and cinnamon!!

average sleep hours: 4-5 hours

dream trip: Edinburgh or Boston

last thing I googled: "what animals can make up chimera in mythology"

blog created: this blog was made I dunno how long ago lmao, first reblog was on September 27th, 2025, so some time before then ':D

amount of blogs I’m following: 43

number of followers: 9!

usual posts: reblogs, mostly art! Also general reminders and sometimes memes. Eventually I'll work up courage to add my fics to this category! :)

aesthetic: outfits are either dark academia or alt with no in-between

tags (no pressure!): @amtheraccoon + anyone else!

[fishheadakira]

[catmask]

by the way. it never is too late to decide you want to be happy. the woman who helped me get hormones didnt start hers until she was 70, and i met her at 73, beautiful and smiling - and told me that the last three years of her life had been her favorite. your favorites might be ahead of you too. why not hang around and find out?

[fucking-relax]

i have been so fucking cold and keep forgetting i can move to warm up

[fucking-relax]

i hate temperature extremes. for when i'm too fucking hot:

air flow and shade are your besties

sweating is a good thing

reduce humidity levels (shorter and warm-cold showers, wipe water off surfaces, and make sure that air is fucking moving if using a swamp fan)

you can go to the library. there's books and wifi and air conditioning there. a break in an AC area is better than "toughing it out"

STAY FRESH ‼️ HYDRATE

i love a frozen fruit, or putting things not usually in the fridge (cat's liquid treats, lotion) in the fridge to chill them

[tsukiboo]

why do i fall for the characters who have the least amount of fics

[thehumantrampoline]

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

[zac-n]

Ya if you say so bud

[shandzii]

revisiting old ocs

[fishheadakira]

[comikbook]

lets make bad art together

[comikbook]

[comikbook]

i just realized that i forgot to put the word “make” in the image and i think thats fitting lets bad art together

[snowyrey]

DAYBREAK NIGHT 1 RELEASE DATE

after some thinking, I’ve decided to release each night one at a time rather than all at once

so, that being said, Night 1 will be dropping on July 18th, this coming Saturday, at 3pm EST!

there will be six nights in total, with multiple endings to find! hopefully the gap between this night and the others doesn’t end up as long, aha-

[sweetdolli]

how do i actually make friends on this app instead of stalking my mutuals like a crow and mindlessly scrolling on your blogs for hours at a time all while having no actual interactions with you all

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Yall can blame @void-existence for this one

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Cursed mental image of perkeo doing 67

[miraculouspaon]

GBBO: “A s’more is basically just an Italian merengue sandwiched between two ganache-covered digestives”

Americans:

[flange5]

in case anyone in wondering, this is Paul Hollywood's idea of a s'more

[theequeerstrian]

You know what, their absolute inability to grasp Mexican foods makes more sense every day

[ennairea]

[starlightshadowsworld]

Nodding my head in support of the Americans despite having no clue what a s’more is.

[mankillercalledbunny]

Okay, American immigrant to the UK here to explain all the mistakes from Paul Hollywood happening here: there is one fundamentally American ingredient required to make a s'more correctly but which is basically not available anywhere at all in the UK, and that is graham crackers. A plain digestive biscuit close-ish, but still a very different beast.

From Wikipedia: A graham cracker is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour.

The next ingredient (which is also extremely traditionally American but slightly more variable) is typically Hershey's chocolate, but you could probably swap this out in the UK with any plain chocolate bar.

Last ingredient is big marshmallows, the kind you do the chubby bunny challenge with, like the size of your thumb and twice as thick.

A proper s'more, the most traditional possible variety, involves to graham cracker squares, two slab segments of Hershey's chocolate, and one to two marshmallows depending on your preference for filling and gooeyness. You put a slab of chocolate on one of the graham cracker squares. Your marshmallows should be toasted, usually over a campfire but if you're doing them at home over a gas stove burner is fine, but the fire part is critical. You can toast them to whatever degree you like, some people like them nice and golden brown but still kind of firm in the middle, me personally? I want that bitch to CATCH ON FIRE, I want it gooey and sticky as hell in the middle, crispy and burnt on the outside. Slap that motherfucker on your graham cracker and chocolate square, top with the other one so your marshmallow and chocolate are sandwiched together by graham cracker on the outside. You do this with your freshly toasted marshmallow because ideally it will be hot enough to start to melt the chocolate so it sticks to the marshmallow and the graham cracker and, combined with the gooey marshmallow, it keeps the whole thing together, and for that reason some people will let them sit for a hot second to let the melting process happen (especially if like me you have chocolate on BOTH graham cracker squares, not just one, because you're a sugar fiend), but if you are a young child you do not have that degree of patience and you eat that shit immediately, unmelted chocolate and all. Consume your summer camp delight like a tiny club sandwich, get gooey sticky marshmallow and chocolate all over your hands, and enjoy.

Important note: this is a kids treat. It is a traditional summer camping trip dessert. It should be something any ten year old with adult supervision and access to the ingredients can make (and make a mess of). They're called s'mores because kids always "want s'more". If you are using a blowtorch, chocolate biscuits, and merengue, you are so far beyond the bounds of s'more-hood that you have thoroughly lost the plot. If you offered Paul Hollywood's concoction to an American child and called it a s'more, they'd tell you flat out that not only is it not a s'more, it looks dumb and you didn't do it right because it's not gooey.

[roach-works]

the point is the mess. the point is getting to make a food, at age seven, whose two basic food groups are 'sugar' and 'fire'. the other point is that this food item is so crumbly, chaotic, sticky, on fire, and prone to being dropped (outside, in the dark, while you are surrounded by other children who are also sticky and on fire) that your supervisors cannot accurately monitor how many smores you personally have consumed. the point is also that you may get away with a smore that is five blocks of chocolate and two marshmallows if you move fast and let nothing stop you.

if you haven't accidentally yet unrepentantly eaten a chunk of twigs or dirt or a bug that got enmeshed in the creative process around smore number 3st, you are too old to have any legitimate input into what makes a smore.

[kedreeva]

There's 2 other points that I think are important.

The first is that you don't pull the marshmallow off the roasting stick and somehow put it on the chocolate. Your staging area will look something like this, with the graham crackers and chocolate already set out (though not usually on the fire like this, for us it was always someone's lap or a picnic table or something)

And when your marshmallow has reached appropriate roasting perfection, you use the graham crackers to slide it off the stick.

and ideally, as a CHILD you are using a literal stick. Like you walked around and spent time looking for The Perfect Stick off the ground while the adults set up the fire. It has to be thin enough the marshmallow will fit, sturdy enough that it won't bow, long enough that you won't burn yourself roasting your marshmallow. And preferably doesn't have a lot of bark that's sloughing off, OR so much bar sloughing off you can peel it all back and get to the clean stick under it. If you're smart, you might stick the tip into the fire first to "wash" it/burn off anything that was still lingering, but. well, most kids don't.

When you bite in, the marshmallow and chocolate SHOULD ooze out all over you. If you don't kinda look like this eating it, you've probably done it wrong:

[figmentera]

The description of the marshmallows as being either brown on the outside but still firm on the inside or fully melted but burned on the outside is missing the true art: fully molten in the middle, without the black burns. Not to say OP is wrong for preferring the burn! But there is a technique for perfection and it goes like this:

You find a spot, not above all the logs where everyone sticks their marshmallows by default, but at the heart of the fire. Ideally between a couple logs already glowing gold. Something like here:

Below the leaping flame. Near the logs. There's probably only one or two spots good enough for this on any given fire, but that's okay because everyone else is up above. They will get their marshmallows faster. They will be either firm or burned or both. That's not your goal.

Rotate the marshmallow slowly. Ideally come in at an angle so the part closest to the flame is the side, not the tip. The spot closest to the fire is the spot that turns a crispy golden brown, and you want that everywhere, on the tip and around the circle.

You keep going, slowly turning, for several minutes. Several people will rotate in and out of the higher sections, getting their fast delight. Eventually, your marshmallow will start sagging badly, risking falling. Maybe it does fall and got start over. But eventually it will be golden brown all over, and so liquid it no longer clings to the stick. It is ready, finally.

You say "who hasn't gotten one yet?" And deposit it onto their waiting graham crackers and chocolate. You've made an excellent marshmallow. It isn't for you. Get another while you're over by the bags and go back to the heart of the fire.

That's your evening. One, slow, perfect marshmallow at a time, given to whomever still wants s'more. You're making art for children to stuff into their mouths cheerfully. You're watching the movement of the fire and the heat of the logs, like you would if you were maintaining it — maybe you would be, maybe you were the one who built it — but right now that's not the goal. Let someone else put more logs on, while you take only the one stick and find the best spot for it to live.

You will, eventually, finish a marshmallow and find that nobody moves to accept it. Maybe they're all eating right now, or maybe they've gone through so many they're hesitating. Eat your masterpiece then. Enjoy it, the hardest and most perfect result from a fun and beautiful moment. Go back in for another, until you've run out of marshmallows and the fire is too low or until even you are done with s'mores, until you have made enough.

"We don't want a gooey mess" pfft even the artistry studied at the feet of my father is inherently a gooey mess. That's the whole point!

[jssangel]

Every word of every addition to this post is both 100% true and Pulitzer Prize winning writing.

[fucking-relax]

and unclench your jaw 😤

[a4th]

Some flowers bloom only in darkness.

ig: asheruto

[wevibinwechillin]

holy shit wait that's a paintin.