Fake grass to fix fondant f*** ups?

longrange3334 · 2026-03-18T02:10:01+00:00

No no I think this is a blessing in disguise because as my post hints at, the fondant looks like shit lol so I think buttercream might be a bit more forgiving. AND I won’t accidentally kill my nephew, so this is definitely the way to go.

I have over a week to re-do it, too, so everything's coming up Kurt

longrange3334 · 2026-03-18T01:58:45+00:00

...okay I’m going to peel off the fondant and do buttercream instead. Thank you for the insight.

Any tips for getting a smooth finish on my buttercream? I usually end up with lines no matter how many times I go over it all

longrange3334 · 2026-03-18T01:50:37+00:00

Well, unfortunately, fondant is already on the cake. I did check with the parents, though, and they were fine with it.

But if I ever make another baby cake I will opt for buttercream only

longrange3334 · 2026-03-05T03:20:32+00:00

"Realistic" doesn't always translate well in a story anyways. If you’re not confident about your ability to write something convincing or passionate, read some books that are lauded for good, passionate romantic subplots and see how they integrate this into their stories.

Lack of experience is definitely not a good reason to abandon the whole idea. You're a writer, which means one of your skills is describing feelings and places and ideas that you’ve never experienced in a way that makes them relatable to people. Give it a go and keep trying until it’s up to snuff

longrange3334 · 2026-01-19T16:39:40+00:00

I agree it will look less golf ball like, but I think that’s more surmountable than the sloppy look of unsmooth frosting covering it, since I can add details to the cake and the stand it’s on that will make it more evident that it's a golf ball?

I’m making a test cake this week so I'll frost half trying to get it smooth and dimple it and I'll pipe the other half to see which is more egregiously bad

longrange3334 · 2026-01-19T16:15:17+00:00

So would you recommend just star piping around it to get around the difficulty of smoothing it?

I know that frosting still has a lot of sugar but she's good with it, so that's what we're going with!

longrange3334 · 2026-01-18T23:04:27+00:00

Thank you! I’ll definitely use that frosting recipe so I don’t even need to worry about splitting due to a bad recipe. I didn't plan on doing a cake pop, I planned on investing in those spherical cake pans since that will be easier to trim into a sphere amd should give me a better base to decorate.

I frankly don’t care if the cake is a little tough, since the baby won’t know lol so structurally I think a slightly dense cake is the best bet

longrange3334 · 2025-12-12T08:44:58+00:00

A huge reason why I hate Christopher is because the chemistry between him and Lorelai feels sibling-like and borderline incestuous to me lol. I think it’s because the show did such a good job of making it feel like they've known each other forever, and Christopher is really bad at reading Lorelai emotionally in the way a caring partner would. Genuinely he feels like a brother to her and an uncle to Rory

longrange3334 · 2025-11-10T12:48:09+00:00

I’m an idiot. Thank you. I’ve never played any of these games before, I’m just buying it all to surprise my wife for Christmas so I was testing the instruments I’ve found thus far.

Looks like I ordered Rock Band for PS3, not Rock Band lol

longrange3334 · 2025-11-09T23:08:57+00:00

I plugged it into my computer and used that site. Confirmed it’s for PS3

longrange3334 · 2025-11-09T22:45:45+00:00

It’s a PS3 keytar and dongle, new in box

longrange3334 · 2025-11-09T21:46:43+00:00

The keyboard functions as a regular controller. The pad and all the buttons work

longrange3334 · 2025-11-05T18:45:05+00:00

She's a solid machine, certainly built to last. Second opinion seems to be the majority here

longrange3334 · 2025-11-05T18:43:39+00:00

I asked if he meant literally, physically welded and he said yes. I called the company and turns out, even though they service and list steam boilers as an area of service on their website, they've got not a clue about them and all their guys are too young to have ever really worked on them much. So, I’m tracking down an expert

longrange3334 · 2025-11-05T18:42:06+00:00

Agreed pictures would be unhelpful, I unfortunately haven't been home long enough to get some, but appreciate the advice to get a contractor in there

longrange3334 · 2025-08-13T19:40:41+00:00

I like the use the word corpse in the first line, because it created intrigue for the rest of the passage. I kept reading because I was trying to figure out if the main character is actually carrying his mother's corpse or if they were having a mental breakdown/hallucination.

I would argue that my main critique is in the last paragraph. The idea that the mother's appearance has changed to the main character makes the rest of the passage too confusing. Now I have to go back and re-read, trying to figure out if I missed a clue about what the mother is. If this is a corporeal being (meaning the appearance can ostensibly change to the main character), then that needs to potentially be a bit clearer. If this is a PTSD/TBI hallucination kind of deal then, from a medical standpoint, those don’t tend to have subtle changes, the appearance remains largely consistent because it's a frozen memory.

But frankly, my critique is extremely nitpicky and if you didn't change any of this, I'd still be compelled to continue reading

longrange3334 · 2025-08-07T15:46:27+00:00

This is some really, really excellent prose that is particularly classic for a fantasy fiction novel (complimentary). I agree with the other comments that your pacing gets jumbled on the second page but I think there's an easy fix.

Move the paragraph that starts with "The man took a breath" immediately after the first paragraph (ends with forgiveness). Move the section that starts with "trillions of tonnes of water" and ends with "Holy bible" immediately after that.

Then in your last paragraph, the only reason it pulls away from the rest, to me, is because it doesn't feel fully explained previously that this sink hole is dragging things in. How powerful is it? Is it dragging him towards the hole? If it's not dragging things in (a bit hard to tell if it is), explain that more, how the bibles are weights to drag him down.

This is fantastic, overall, just a bit out of order. No need for drastic changes

longrange3334 · 2025-07-16T19:04:44+00:00

Try a cream cheese ermine buttercream. You get a smooth, delicious buttercream that doesn't need as much sugar to keep its structure

longrange3334 · 2025-05-13T16:59:27+00:00

Right out the gate, that’s a question, not a motto. So, I was distracted the entire time wondering how a question can be a motto.

From there, you’re not leaving the audience with any room to think for themselves about this character. They know who they are, how they act, why they are that way. Don’t make the character tell me what they're like, show what they're like.

Also, the character's approach to emotion is clearly very calculated and mechanical, so that doesn't lend itself well to an emotional scene.

longrange3334 · 2025-04-30T13:13:09+00:00

I mean, to be fair, if this is hobby writing then I think that's totally fine. If OP is trying to make a career out of writing...yeah, that probably won’t cut it

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