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This is the Tree for [personal profile] corpsebrigadier! Below are the requested Pears it can be decorated with (beginning 24 December).




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Request 1: Fiction or artwork depicting Bagpuss or his companions as some manner of occult entities. For those of you unfamiliar with Bagpuss, he is the star of a soothing British children's television program about secretly living toys and objects that repair lost artifacts such that their owners can identify them. The typical-for-kids-media focus on repetition and structure lend it a sort of magic ritual vibe, as does Bagpuss's ability to visually project his thoughts. You can watch the collected episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh-Mj_oSkpi75Oxs3r-LbWTKQ0a3RnWMZ. All hail Bagpuss and his works. (DNW: Sexual content, although violence/dark themes are fine)

Request 2: Any creative content whatsoever (fic, illustration, meta, fanmixes, napkin art, game manual blackout poetry, parodic mosfungus recipes, anything) for the original Final Fantasy Tactics (as opposed to Advance or A2). I tend to like darker content, and the older Beoulve brothers and the Folles siblings are my faves, but seriously, I will accept almost anything for this canon. I will accept Worker 7/Worker 8 incestuous robot a/b/o. I will accept surrealist artwork of Ramza Beoulve awakening from troubled dreams to find himself transformed into a cockroach. I will accept a treatise regarding Beowulf Cadmus' hypothetical ratings for every dildo in the Bad Dragon catalog. If you ever played this game (or even if you haven't!) and you can imagine content you would like to create for it, I will enjoy it. My only DNW is content that eroticizes or makes light of Rafa's rape; absolutely everything else is game.

Request 3: Fic of any length for your favorite game you could play on a computer in the 1980-1990s. I am a nostalgia hound for pretty much anything from this era, and I want to know what other people loved about it. If you can include an explanation of what it is and why you like it, that's awesome, and Let's Play links would additionally be appreciated.

Request 4: Instructions or ideas for anything nifty I can make with my two hands (recipes, spells/charms, crafts) that will use the basil I keep generating. I do not have a ton of basil at any one time, but I keep growing it and I am perpetually propagating more cuttings to try to keep plants from going woody when I don't prune them for actual culinary purposes fast enough. This means I have a ton of little basils, and they keep generating more little basils, and my windowsill is just becoming a glorified basil colony. Anything cool involving tiny amounts of basil would be excellent.

Request 5: Fiction or artwork featuring the Golux from James Thurber's The 13 Clocks. This mere device was one of my earliest childhood crushes. I would love anything with him, particularly works showing his interactions with the children who apparently inhabited the castle at one point and played with him with a star-spangled ball. As I understand the artistic limits by which mortal beings are bound, feel free to make his hat describable. (Unlike my other requests for media for/featuring children, NSFW is fine if you are really driven to compose Golux porn this holiday season, just... not featuring the aforementioned kids.)

Request 6: Folk/rock playlists or song recs about cannibalism (survival or otherwise). I'd recommend Captain Tractor's "A Tale They Won't Believe" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtOveWcfAY) as a starting point for the general vibe I appreciate. Holiday-themed cannibalism songs are a plus, although I realize this is a season where people celebrate Jesus being born and not Jesus being eaten.

Request 7: Drabbles or quick sketches of Gau from Final Fantasy VI. For the latter, envision something you can complete in less than 15 minutes. In-character self portraits of Gau appreciated. Inclusion of Gau's two muscledads (Cyan and Sabin) encouraged. I love this funky little feral child. (DNW: NSFW)

Additional Information: I'm not personally keen on scat, watersports, pregnancy kink, and a/b/o, but everything I've requested either DNWs NSFW content or is intentionally open-ended enough that you should feel free to do as thou wilt. As for likes, I particular dig any use of herbalism, floriography, or other plant-based symbolism; dark content (angst, non-con, character death, etc...); and stuff with religious and/or occult vibes (Catholicism left its mark on me).



Date: 2019-12-24 02:21 am (UTC)
theseatheseatheopensea: Illustration by William Nicholson, from the book The velveteen rabbit, by Margery Williams. (The velveteen rabbit.)
From: [personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea
Oh, basil, my favourite! My go-to recipe is caprese salad: mix tomatoes, mozzarella and basil to taste, add some olive oil, and that's it!

As for spells: my favourite home cleanser is sea/coarse salt mixed with a pinch of basil, put into a glass and then topped with a bit of vinegar. You can leave it in any room in your home that needs cleansing, and replace it when it dries out.

Happy holidays! :)

Date: 2019-12-24 07:22 pm (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
Awesome! The salad seems like it would be a great way to help make use of the steady but unending basil output, and the spell would probably be ideal for some of the older, woodier plants. Thank you so much!

Date: 2019-12-24 07:28 pm (UTC)
theseatheseatheopensea: Lyrics from the song Stolen property, by The Triffids, handwritten by David McComb. (La donna é mobile.)
From: [personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea
Yes! For the salad, fresh basil is better, and for the spell, you can use dried/older plants. You're very welcome, I hope you have a nice day! :)

Gau drabble for ya!

Date: 2019-12-26 12:41 pm (UTC)
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)
From: [personal profile] shinon
The days get long and the days get short again. The sky fills up with geese. Gau runs after them in the frosty grass, waving his arms and shouting back in goose language.

Goose language is just ten ways to say the same thing: "This is where I am." Humans have many clever words. But humans get lost.

The birds make a shape in the air like writing. Cyan comes to see what he's looking at, and he points up and says "Poem." Cyan goes quiet, so impressed that this time he doesn't even tell Gau to put shoes on.

Re: Gau drabble for ya!

Date: 2019-12-26 04:44 pm (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
This piece reads like a poem in and of itself. It's all so succinctly beautiful: Gau's appreciation of animal simplicity and how that translates into poetry Cyan can be impressed with is such a gorgeous idea. The stark descriptions of frosty grass and the shape of the birds in the sky are such a perfectly atmospheric thing to read in the winter too! Thank you so much for this!

Date: 2019-12-29 10:40 am (UTC)
tanaqui: Illumiinated letter T (Default)
From: [personal profile] tanaqui
I'm not sure this is exactly what you wanted, but I hope you enjoy it anyway!

The Day-King (1021 words) by Tanaqui
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bagpuss
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Bagpuss (Bagpuss), Organ Mice, Madeleine the Rag Doll, Gabriel the Toad, Professor Yaffle
Summary: What is the power behind the magic that allows Bagpuss to wake up when Emily recites her verse?

Date: 2019-12-30 04:03 am (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
This is, in fact, exactly what I wanted! This is AMAZING!

Date: 2020-01-02 08:39 am (UTC)
eggsbenedict: (Preserves)
From: [personal profile] eggsbenedict
Have you tried making basil simple syrup? You can use it in cocktails/mocktails/lemonades, otherwise it tastes great with strawberries and ice cream.

Ingredients: ½ cup basil leaves, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup water

Method: In a small saucepan, heat the sugar and water. Stir occasionally until the mixture boils and sugar dissolves. Turn off the heat and add the basil leaves. Steep the leaves in the syrup for 15 minutes. Strain into a clean jar or bottle and store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Happy new year! :D

Date: 2020-01-05 12:07 am (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
Hey! I wanted to report that made this tonight and that it turned out to be both delicious and a delightful, just barely green color that is suggests I am storing something either poisonous or radioactive in my fridge (which is very much my aesthetic). I can't wait to try it out on or in something.

A happy belated New Year back at you!

Date: 2020-01-07 08:38 am (UTC)
eggsbenedict: (Fu Xi)
From: [personal profile] eggsbenedict
Heheh, basil makes liquids pretty like that. :D Thanks for the report back!

Date: 2020-01-04 07:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ningloreth
It's taken me ages to track down this recipe! It was the first thing I thought of when you mentioned basil, though it may use a bit more than you have to hand. It's from a book called 'Food from Green Places: vegetarian recipes from garden and hedgerow' -- how cool is that? -- by Rosamond Richardson, and she describes it as an old English version of pizza. I've made it once; it was very nice.

Tomato Tart

Shortcrust pastry (I used ready-made)
700g tomatoes, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper
75g fine oatmeal
olive oil for frying
large bunch of fresh basil, chopped
3 tablespoons grated cheddar cheese

Line a 22 cm tart tin with the pastry.* Season the tomato slices with salt and pepper, dip them in the oatmeal until well coated, then fry in the olive oil until the oatmeal forms a golden crust. Fill the tart crust with layers of tomatoes & basil, then sprinkle with the cheese. Bake at 220 degrees C for 15 minutes, then at 190 degrees C for a further 2 mins. Cool a little on a wire rack before serving.

*The recipe doesn't mention baking blind, but I think the result would have been better if I had.

Date: 2020-01-05 04:37 am (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
This sounds delicious, and that book honestly sounds very much up my alley. Thank you so much for both the recipe and the roundabout rec. :)

Request 7 - Gau self-portrait from FF6

Date: 2020-01-04 08:53 pm (UTC)
chacusha: (ff - moogle)
From: [personal profile] chacusha
I hope this is akin to what you were looking for:



(I also spent way more than 15 minutes on this... But hey, only about 15 minutes per character!)

Re: Request 7 - Gau self-portrait from FF6

Date: 2020-01-05 04:34 am (UTC)
corpsebrigadier: (Default)
From: [personal profile] corpsebrigadier
This is adorable! I love the giant smile on Gau's face and the general, goofy, kid's drawing vibe to everything (both Cyan and Sabin's giant eyes and general expression are great). You convey the very well the feeling of something a feral child would draw upon discovering that he had both a family and crayons. Thank you so much for this!

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