Cooking for the Disinterested, Monday

[captainskullpoopl]

There were about three giant bags of Taco Bell at the front of the class today. So, clearly the lesson was on making pancakes! Mmmm. Pancakes.

"I'd go for a pancake," Deadpool agreed with the narrative, tilting his head as he thought it over. "But we have these meat paste and cheese tubes. Can we do pancakes next time, babe?"

"We sort of did pancakes in week one," Vanessa pointed out. "But we can do pancakes again! There are no rules. We're not being held to any type of educational standards here. Anyway, this week we have Taco Bell." Which was not cooking, but see above re: educational standards. Maybe they would find a way to make it into cooking! But probably not.

"Which you can buy a shit-ton of," he added, lifting one of the massive bags. "So, you should figure out how to do something with it so you don't get sick of it. Or are on mind-altering substances and have a hankering for a different thing, but all you have is Taco Bell."

"Also, apparently Taco Bell is a good choice if you're vegan?" Vanessa said. "Probably because their meat doesn't legally count as meat. Anyway! Here's the food. Do something with it. I don't know. Do you know?" she asked Wade.

Deadpool shrugged at that. "Maybe cut up a taco and put it in a salad?"

That was healthy, right?

"So that's your assignment!" Vanessa said. "Do something creative with this stuff from Taco Bell. And then you have to eat it, no matter what you did to it." Might God have mercy on your souls.

Library, Monday

[intotheout]

Tip was hard at work today, after her mythology class on Anansi, looking up various tricksters from around the world. There were definitely some strong themes across cultures about what a trickster was for. Her favorites were the stuff where the tricksters ended up actually creating the world or bringing power to mankind or things like that. Her teacher had definitely been onto something with the whole "representing freedom and dignity" thing.

She could definitely do with more trickster women in mythology, though. She found a couple lists that threw in, say, Laverna from Rome or Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, but most examples she found of female tricksters were thoroughly modern. Sure, Loki did enough shapeshifting and drag to be considered at the very least thoroughly genderqueer -- he'd even given birth a time or two -- but it wasn't the same when every single text she found referred to tricksters in general as "he".

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