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shifty_gardenera few ridiculous things have happened to me today ._____________________. I've been doing a cookingstravaganza, i.e. making a few things but doing so many substitutions that it feels like making 5-6 things instead. The two most ridiculous things, by far, happened in succession: first, I discovered that while the whole chickpea aquafaba thing might work, if you add it to whipping cream if you, say, ran out of whipping cream for the recipe or something, THE WHIPPING CREAM WILL CURDLE. And everything will be super. Gross.
I was willing to wait it out and see if it could actually be blent into (gross) whipped...material, but I was urged to just pop over to Vons and buy actual whipping cream. I acquiesced, gaining momentum via a particularly satisfying pull-through parking spot. It was super hot, I was wearing definitely indoor clothing outdoors (here, a lacy croptop and lacy skirt from 2001, greasy hair in braid), but things would be great! Until I completed my purchases and walked outside, arms full of groceries I decided against purchasing a bag for, to find the car gone.
I called home to tell the fam that I'd gotten the car stolen in the middle of suburbia, right across the street from an elementary school ffs, and happily discovered my mum had also been shopping and took the car on her way home. BUT STILL. RIDICULOUS. WTF.
Things Learned Today:
* be aware of your surroundings, just in case your mom is nearby and about to take your car
* DO NOT mix dairy with anything it has, to your knowledge, never been mixed with before
* lentil noodles will make anything you make with them taste like pea soup, yes even if they're red lentils
* don't make vegan gravy with whole wheat flour
That said, today has still been fun. Except for the part where I actually signed up to Kal-Elle a day late for getting sherlock jewelry ;______________________________________________; WHY AM I SO DUMB. luckily you can buy past crates from there...but for about $10 more, sigh. Do I do it???
Fic I've read of late:
This super amazing Ino-centric Naruto fic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It starts out a bit slow but it's been making me so happy, you guys. It starts right after the chuunin exams where she realizes she wasn't chosen by Shikamaru to help retrieve Sasuke because she was weak, so she decides to make herself stronger and as a side thing, Sakura has to deal with her civilian parents not really accepting her shinobi lifestyle. jfkld;ajfkld;sa there's also cute, slow burn Shikamaru having a crush on Ino in this way that also goes into his family's jutsu and also his mild misogyny (not in a negative way, just in a, the two of them need to work on that in their friendship way) and potential for Sakura/Kiba that I WANT TO HAPPEN and the first Naruto/Hinata I've ever seen anywhere that I am convinced by.
I love how Naruto is similar to HP in that it has a huge multi-generational cast of characters that are only kind of fleshed out and a world that's only partly (and superficially) explored. It gives sooooooooooo much opportunity for random, amazing fic focused on side characters or random relationships that will make you love them forever. If either of you, Unags and Yvonne, have random naruto fic you've loved, please feel free to share.
I've also started reading James Bond fic again because I ran across a James-has-to-take-care-of-his-suddenly-extant-niece fic that was actually fairly quality for the first half (but then devolved, alas), which segued into a fic that was promising despite rampant use of epithets, the most favoured being Q referred to as "the boffin" (which also devolved), but then it lead to this fic, which was actually great. Such a good author! Read it, you guys, it is indulgent but with a light touch. I was shocked I hadn't run across it in all of my other Skyfall binges, but I sorted by bookmarks rather than kudos this time, so diamonds in the rough (and many terrible but indulgent fic) surfaced. I regret nothing. Heh.
I'm a little put out to see that all of the gen Q-centric fic I liked back when Skyfall came out is kind of unbearably pretentious. Or at least, the characterization of Q is. Siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
I was willing to wait it out and see if it could actually be blent into (gross) whipped...material, but I was urged to just pop over to Vons and buy actual whipping cream. I acquiesced, gaining momentum via a particularly satisfying pull-through parking spot. It was super hot, I was wearing definitely indoor clothing outdoors (here, a lacy croptop and lacy skirt from 2001, greasy hair in braid), but things would be great! Until I completed my purchases and walked outside, arms full of groceries I decided against purchasing a bag for, to find the car gone.
I called home to tell the fam that I'd gotten the car stolen in the middle of suburbia, right across the street from an elementary school ffs, and happily discovered my mum had also been shopping and took the car on her way home. BUT STILL. RIDICULOUS. WTF.
Things Learned Today:
* be aware of your surroundings, just in case your mom is nearby and about to take your car
* DO NOT mix dairy with anything it has, to your knowledge, never been mixed with before
* lentil noodles will make anything you make with them taste like pea soup, yes even if they're red lentils
* don't make vegan gravy with whole wheat flour
That said, today has still been fun. Except for the part where I actually signed up to Kal-Elle a day late for getting sherlock jewelry ;______________________________________________; WHY AM I SO DUMB. luckily you can buy past crates from there...but for about $10 more, sigh. Do I do it???
Fic I've read of late:
This super amazing Ino-centric Naruto fic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It starts out a bit slow but it's been making me so happy, you guys. It starts right after the chuunin exams where she realizes she wasn't chosen by Shikamaru to help retrieve Sasuke because she was weak, so she decides to make herself stronger and as a side thing, Sakura has to deal with her civilian parents not really accepting her shinobi lifestyle. jfkld;ajfkld;sa there's also cute, slow burn Shikamaru having a crush on Ino in this way that also goes into his family's jutsu and also his mild misogyny (not in a negative way, just in a, the two of them need to work on that in their friendship way) and potential for Sakura/Kiba that I WANT TO HAPPEN and the first Naruto/Hinata I've ever seen anywhere that I am convinced by.
I love how Naruto is similar to HP in that it has a huge multi-generational cast of characters that are only kind of fleshed out and a world that's only partly (and superficially) explored. It gives sooooooooooo much opportunity for random, amazing fic focused on side characters or random relationships that will make you love them forever. If either of you, Unags and Yvonne, have random naruto fic you've loved, please feel free to share.
I've also started reading James Bond fic again because I ran across a James-has-to-take-care-of-his-suddenly-extant-niece fic that was actually fairly quality for the first half (but then devolved, alas), which segued into a fic that was promising despite rampant use of epithets, the most favoured being Q referred to as "the boffin" (which also devolved), but then it lead to this fic, which was actually great. Such a good author! Read it, you guys, it is indulgent but with a light touch. I was shocked I hadn't run across it in all of my other Skyfall binges, but I sorted by bookmarks rather than kudos this time, so diamonds in the rough (and many terrible but indulgent fic) surfaced. I regret nothing. Heh.
I'm a little put out to see that all of the gen Q-centric fic I liked back when Skyfall came out is kind of unbearably pretentious. Or at least, the characterization of Q is. Siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
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Date: 2017-09-04 05:57 pm (UTC)I've mostly been reading mysteries [The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French is great!! But mos def not cozy] (and watching Poirot which apparently is going off Netflix on the 30th D:) and slowly but surely rereading HP (currently on book 4). Witch Please has kicked off my need to re-read/re-watch the series haha.
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Date: 2017-09-12 02:39 pm (UTC)Sadly I do not have Naruto fic to share, as I have not read in that fandom in ages. HOWEVER, I recently reread the plot summary of FMA and WHAT A GREAT SERIES THAT WAS if you have fic for that do divulge!!!