So I don't wanna say I "wasted" my weekend trying to get a fluid setup to work, but I definitely didn't get quite where I'd hoped.
I was playing around with a fluid painter normally used in still images and attempting to rig it to move, but I've hit a few hiccups.
But here's a little test I did. With various types of saliva strings in the still image, and the more basic ones I got working in the video test.
Personally I'd like to work on it a bit more, get the stands to kinda slowly droop when the mouth is mostly static, but I'd like to hear what you guys think.
(The vid also shows a janky wip of the follow up pose to the current animation, closer to the mirror, with a yet to be animated snack who seems to be contemplating the meaning of the universe in there for now.)