Though also the fact that it seems so unique makes me a little sad. It's prob'ly not good to read something that feels super relatable and go, "Oh, I didn't know you could write humanizing stories about that."

I'm not sure that's something I've seen done before (at least with "Little" adjacent stuff), let alone so well. It's really compelling!

"I must have slept weird," I tell myself. "Tossed and turned, probably." But no! Fast asleep or fitful, side or back or tummy, it makes no difference. It is knitted with treachery, and it will find its moment to strike!

...

Anyway, I forgot to change before bed last night, and now I'm in a mood.

Also, I think, the clearest example I've seen of an ABDL company going, "Wait, what if we just let a fabulous artist run wild doing our designs?" which...it still amazes me wasn't just the niche-industry norm from the start, given how stacked the options are there.

This post brought to you by me drinking dandelion tea nightly for months, making dandelion tea-infused milk punch a little while back, then getting served a new fernet by a bartender last week and going, "...huh, I know that taste! I wonder what that flavor is???"

Reader, it was fucking dandelion.

I wish I could say it's the only time that's happened, but, uh...

I'm not sure whether this was worse than the first time, because of the sheer distance I covered before noticing, or better, because at least this time I wasn't alerted by a Megamax full-on flopping out onto the city sidewalk.

Though mages are at times surprised to learn that other magic types don't see binding them as different in kind from taking any other familiar.

Or that there's little that tames the impetuous curiosity that makes them appealing like needing those diapers they can't take off anymore changed daily.

Overprecaution is the watchword here. You may not be able to keep your ethereally beautiful fae from charming everyone they meet, but you can enchant those braces you had them fitted for to make them start lisping and drooling whenever they try to bend the truth with a mortal without permission.

A thoroughly ill-considered financial decision, but they *are* cute.

(Pay no attention to my excellent work on the laces.)

Verdict: Fiiiine, but not worth recreating. I think the flavor profile was probably already too mild for clarifying to add much. It stripped the dandelion notes out, too. 4/10!

...that said, it was weirdly drinkable served in a bottle, which did confirm the initial idea behind this dumb experiment!

(I am sure that throwing this wildly bullshit spec together rather than practicing with, like, someone else's *good* recipe first will not cause me any problems. I definitely considered that before spending days on this one.

It did not only cross my mind for the first time after. Certainly not.)

I will not get to actually test it until tonight, but I have christened this test batch:

Dumb Baby Juice #1 -
Dandelion root-infused Irish whiskey, apple brandy, honey syrup, lemon, milk, half-and-half.