Cupcake class was meeting in the Home Ec room as it had so many years ago. Where else would you hold a class on cupcakes? Besides, perhaps at Jeff, God of Biscuits but field trips were for later. Definitely not for the first day.

At the front of the room was an array of unfrosted cupcakes (not muffins!) in various flavors. There were also small containers of frosting, some food coloring, and an assortment of sprinkles and small candies.

Behind the food was an alien, smiling only somewhat nervously at the class. It had been a long time since he did anything like this. “Welcome to ‘In Space No One Can Give You Chocolate and Other Problems Solved by Cupcakes',” Stark said. “I’m Stark.” Hopefully they’d all figured that out by how he was at the front of the room and was listed as the teacher, but you never knew. This was Fandom and the odds were high that someone might be in the class without having signed up for it.

“Today I thought we would start with something easy. Not really solving any problems today. Unless you’re hungry. That one we can solve. Or you need a cupcake. Something fun. Something you can eat without having to wait for it to bake and cool. So,” he waved his hand at the things in front of him. “We will decorate.” He paused. “And eat, if you want.” If you didn’t want to eat cupcakes he wasn’t really sure why you would be here but he would try his best not to judge. Much.

"So, grab some supplies. Introduce yourselves, if you like. And enjoy."

[It has been YEARS since I made a post bear with me while I slowly put up OCD oh man this is weird, friends]