Every time I do a page like this, I worry that the cakes aren't weird enough. Like, I'm not sure the cakes pictured here are the kind of cakes the average Victorian would eat? But my instinct says that if the props I design are too normal or generic-looking, that's lazy (hence why Hyde-as-Jekyll eats jellied eels in Chapter 14 as opposed to, say, fish and chips). It didn't occur to me until just now that that's a rule I just made up for myself to make things more difficult--normal cakes would have done the job just fine!!

In less whimsical news, yesterday I attended the No Kings rally in downtown Los Angeles. Despite what certain politicians might tell you, Los Angeles is not a warzone--I didn't even see any Waymos on fire. The most dangerous aspect was that my shoulders got pretty badly sunburned, since we were told not to wear anything oily in case the police used chemical weapons, and I couldn't be bothered to track down oil-free sunscreen. I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to activism--and in more prosperous times, I generally prefer to donate to people who actually know what they're doing--but with all the recent attacks on immigrants, it was nice to do something, even something as small as showing up.