There is a point in anyone’s descent into madness where they could turn back.
Having started the sound track for the world’s second longest book (okay, I’m not sure, but I have a feeling) we can all agree I’ve gone too far and have now passed the point of no return. I’m so sorry.
However, you can’t have me committed on the basis of “I Got to Bake” is a prima facie sign of insanity. I mean, Skip DOES like to bake. Yes, he’s my character. You say that like I have any control over him. As you know, it’s complicated.
And no, I’m not going scene by scene. Otherwise I’ll still be doing this next Christmas.
And yes, there will be lyrics videos, but that’s fiddly work, and I’m trying to do the final edit on Witch’s Daughter. So, possess your soul in patience. The lyrics are in the text on youtube.
According To Hoyt 
“…it is not unlike the relationship between the pulp writer and the music-making android, in Gently Came the Clanker. By Stichling, you know. Almost as sensitive a writer as Brochet.”
(I’m being incredibly obscure.)
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That baking song is quite something.
Reminds me of any of the animes that treat cooking like a life-or-death competitive sporting event
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Well, Skip just finds it a good way to relax, and boy does he need relaxing. He bakes across the length and breadth of Elly and subverts their government with baked good. (the benighted orphans don’t even have cookes!)
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I find baking a good way to make a Gawdawful mess, but when the baking is done and the mess is cleaned up I get a lot of satisfaction. And calories.
Tomorrow, if we’re all spared, I’m baking the Magyar kifli. Kifli are cookies with cream cheese in the dough, filled with ground walnuts or raspberry filling or apricot filling (probably my favorite now) or lekvar (prune butter, a lot better than it sounds) or cheese Danish-style cream cheese filling…or poppyseed, which I don’t do because I don’t much care for poppyseed. I’ll make all the others, though.
I baked the annual batch of Magyar kalacs last weekend (yeast dough with sour cream, same fillings except for the cheese Danish, rolled thin and rolled up). Sugar-cookie cutouts slated for Tuesday.
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Making bread by hand can be therapeutic.
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I am making condensed milk right now, in preparation for making pumpkin pie later. Neither activity has a tiny fraction of the therapy value of beating dough half to death before incinerating it alive.
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I think you captured it. My headcanon is Coop from Megas XLR trying to bake…using Megas XLR….
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Do they have a “Broadway Musical” style? The headbanging style doesn’t support your poetry (lyrics). Or maybe like something out of PDQ Bach? (They probably don’t have the AI for “Bargain Countertenor”, alas.)
Excuse me. I’m a philistine. … I wonder how W.S.Gilbert would have done the “Gotta Bake” lyrics.
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I like the headbanging style with I Got to Bake, but some of my tastes are weird.
They don’t have anything except what “tastes” vaguely Irish ballad-ish to me.
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For other suno users, I have had some luck asking ai chatbots for advice on prompting suno in specific styles.
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Oof! The first example I could think of for a sort-of similar situation is the monologue song in La Cate aux Folles, specifically: “A Little More Mascara”. And that brings up the King of Elly’s appearance at Parliament. My brain boggles at the concept.
I’ll stick with the head-banging baking. Without mascara.
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I can only wonder how great a Big Band / Swing version of I’ve Got to Bake would be… the version here is… well, it exists.
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I rather like the contradiction between the relaxing nature of baking and the head-banging music. (I suppose it could represent Skip’s attitude just before he got to the flour.)
Of course, I’ve been corrupted by listening to Sabaton all year. :)
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me too.
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C4C
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“Yes, he’s my character. You say that like I have any control over him.”
We do not control the characters. We follow along behind, stay out of the way, and write down what they do. ~:D If we get ideas of our own, they raise a skeptical eyebrow at us and say “That’s dumb. I would never do that.”
I said that to some puppy-kicker authoress on some Lefty site one time, as a joke of course, and didn’t she just start in ranting and biting the furniture? Oh, that was the most heinous insult I could have said.
But her writing is Lefty shite, so I considered the source and soldiered on.
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Depends on the character. The love interest of Even After appeared from nowhere and instantly displaced my original idea of a love interest, a character already introduced. Then I realized that original idea could be amalgamated to a character I had planned, and he mildly agreed, and they dissolved into one.
Of course, my character also just stare at me blankly sometimes when I ask what happened.
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They give me a lot of the staring blankly as well, usually in response to “why”. Leading cause of Star Master Book 2 taking forever to write.
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In A Diabolical Bargain, I twice got to what I thought was the end only for Nick to tell me he wasn’t happy. Not that he would tell me what would make him happy just that I hadn’t done it yet.
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Remember that time honored truth:
“I’m not suffering from insanity. I’m enjoying every moment of it.”
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It’s always the orange cats….
https://x.com/Yoda4ever/status/2001717193156042780?s=20
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The orange cats should be telling Voiceover Karen something along the lines of “this is our nature,” like the scorpion in the parable.
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Uhhh…they’re orange cats. They don’t have a clue what they’re doing, they just do it.
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Do, or do not. There is no why.
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