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Mememememe (also: cooking!)
I made bagels yesterday using this recipe (except I altered it a bit: let them rise quite a bit longer, and didn't put in that much salt) and they turned out good! Very chewy and tasty and bagel-y. And they're actually no more work than making bread (at least I didn't think so). The one ingredient I didn't have was malt sugar, so I just used a little molasses and honey (instead of sugar), and it gives them a really nice, subtle, flavorful sweetness. Gonna have to do that again. And next time I'll make more sesame-seed ones, because the plain ones are good, but the sesame ones are divine.
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astridv and frith_in_thorns, thought it sounded fun:
Name a fandom you know (that you think I know too!) and I'll tell you:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would totallysmooch hug
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
I altered #6, since fantasy kissing/sexing fictional characters doesn't do anything at all for me, but hugging them? That I could totally imagine. *g* Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think I'm not going to do #6 at all - it's too fourth-wall-breaking for me, for some reason. I'll still do the rest of it, though! :D
Anything I've written is fair game, of course, as well as anything I've watched (or read!) a lot of, now or in the past: i.e. Fringe, Community, Supernatural, Fullmetal Alchemist, Heroes, X-Men, etc.
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astridv and frith_in_thorns, thought it sounded fun:Name a fandom you know (that you think I know too!) and I'll tell you:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would totally
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
Anything I've written is fair game, of course, as well as anything I've watched (or read!) a lot of, now or in the past: i.e. Fringe, Community, Supernatural, Fullmetal Alchemist, Heroes, X-Men, etc.
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1. The first character I first fell in love with
Rose. I started watching Nu Who during the time that I was fanning very heavily on SGA, but starting to get frustrated and disillusioned with how SGA wrote female characters - or, rather, what kind of storylines they were allowed to have. And Rose was like a breath of fresh air: a female character who was openly sexual, who was funny and flawed and made mistakes, who was our viewpoint character on the world. I fell for her hard in the first two episodes.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
Rory. I didn't really bond with anybody for a lot of season five (which apparently makes me a total anomaly in fandom, I think!), and I just thought Rory was kind of funny-looking. Then I started really loving the way Arthur Darvill delivered his lines, and, um. Kind of loved him a lot by the end of the season.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
Amy. She's one of those characters that I enjoy in combination with other characters (with Rory, with Eleven, with River) but not really on her own.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
Mickey, I think? Well, I don't get the impression that people hate him, just that he's sort of a nonentity in fandom, but he was one of my favorite characters from that era of the show.
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
... Rose. *facepalm* I adored her in season one, then became seriously disillusioned and unhappy with her in the second season. (There are a few other characters in Nu Who with whom I've had similar problems - River, Jack, Rory a little bit - but never such a harsh turnaround as happened with Rose.)
7. The character I’d want to be like
Most of the Companions, actually, but perhaps Donna most of all. I adore her down-to-earth attitude and the fact that she loves the Doctor but doesn't put up with any nonsense off him, rather than regarding him with the wide-eyed adoration that so many of the Companions do.
8. The character I’d slap
... I don't know! There have been some very slappable villains in some episodes. Sometimes it is quite tempting to slap Ten when he's being all ~GLOOM~ (though overall I quite like him).
9. A pairing that I love
Amy/Rory
10. A pairing that I despise
I don't really like Doctor/Companion pairings. I wouldn't say despise, but I am much more fond of the buddies-seeing-the-universe-together dynamic, rather than wanting romance in there.