Ficlet: Quiver

[anodyna]

Title: Quiver
Characters/Pairings: Spock Prime/Gaila
Rating: R
Warnings: None.
Summary: After the banquet, there's one more dish to be served.

Author's note: I blame this story on my new cookbook, which contains the following irresistible image, and on lymanalpha, who is a blancmange-enabler. ETA: If you'd like to make your own, the recipe is here.

Comments

[lymanalpha]

*is aquiver*

Also, if this is what comes of blancmange-enabling -- there is no end in sight, prepare to be enabled FOREVER.

[anodyna]

*\o/*!

[illariy]

Delicious story! Loved the serving girl and this observation of his especially: "Perhaps it is the softening effect of the lamplight. Or the chocolate." *giggle*

Only tiny nitpick: if this is genuine gelatine, it's not vegetarian. So he could refuse on ethical grounds or not but I'd expect him to mention it. If it's replicated from some non-animal source, though, no problems for him. ;-)

[rubynye]

I'm pretty sure I've seen blancmange recipes with agar/carragheenan, which would be vegetarian, so Spock can have his dessert and eat it from her fingers too. :)

[illariy]

Yay! \o/ I love how you can totally tell how intrigued he is by the idea, even though he feels he shouldn't (eat that with his fingers). Nom nom. :D

[anodyna]

Yay, I'm so glad you liked it! This cookbook, dude; it's all blancmange and pink wiggly desserts and anecdotes about how Marie Antoinette and her courtiers would dig right in their hands--and there were Spock Prime and Gaila, just hanging out, a little hungry. One thing led to another. :D

I'm totes going with the plant-based gelatin theory! One of my ex-BFs used to love this stuff called "grass jelly" that came in a can, and it was agar. And gross. But, vegetarian whee!

*pokes blancmange, wiggles it at you*

[igrockspock]

This is so adorable and so much fun!

[anodyna]

:D Thank you so much, I'm delighted you enjoyed it!

[rubynye]

Oh, that is -- well, delicious.

[anodyna]

Thank you bb! I think of your Gaila whenever I write her. So mischievous and snuggly! :)

*snuggles Gaila*

[soixante_quinze]

Argh, hot! But why am I reading this when I should be:

a) going to the gym, aaaand

b) writing our SW story?

Because SP/G/Blancmange is clearly awesome, and I never said I was sensible.

[anodyna]

UM WHY AM I WRITING IT INSTEAD OF SW STORY?

Okay, because writing Spock and Spock Prime interacting without calling one of them "his younger self" or "the older Vulcan" or something every two sentences was giving me a headache. I needed some blancmange to clear my brain. Now back to SW!

(How are you handling that btw is making me insane. Can't call S the Commander & am fumbling along. Considering using X and Y and filling in pronouns later. Desperation move Y/Y?)