Dessert Day!

Today (14 October) is Dessert Day!

I made perfectly pumpkin cupcakes (from a mix called Perfectly Pumpkin with matching cream cheese icing) and while they are fine cupcakes, they don't really taste like pumpkin at all!

So, that's that.

What is your favorite dessert?

My poem: two Murderbot poems

For the fandom empire challenge, two Murderbot Diaries poems (prompts were freedom and uniform + science fiction).

Uniform Quatern by okapi

armour cuts down on unnecessary interaction
with humans. But won’t allow me to pass as augmented.
terrifying rogue Murderbot changes its uniform
goodbye opaque helmet, goodbye armor. you will be missed.

blacks and greys, shirts and jackets, collars that hide a data port
armour cuts down on unnecessary interaction
but doesn’t have pockets, so score one for human clothing
wolf goes about in sheep’s wool-skin but will it fool the sheep?

after the trouble is all over, realization dawns
protecting the wearer from hard bullets and stares alike
armour cuts down on unnecessary interaction
but wearing the crew uniform of a new friend is….nice

thrill. why is it like finding a show almost as good as
Sanctuary Moon? this is no uniform, these clothes were
chosen, selected by the wearer despite the fact that
armour cuts down on unnecessary interaction

Port FreeCommerce Pantoum by okapi

Port FreeCommerce. The Station had a name
I never knew. The Company I kept
kept me a construct without any claim
to freedom until a rogue intercept.

I never knew the company I kept
in port, awaiting deployment; no urge
to freedom until a rogue intercept
accompanying massacre and purge

in port, awaiting deployment, no urge,
once hacked, on mission of discovery;
accompanying massacre and purge
begins to piece together carefully.

Once hacked, on a mission of discovery,
Kept-Me, a construct without any claim,
begins to piece together carefully.
Port FreeCommerce. The Station had a name.