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donutsweeper) wrote2025-03-27 09:39 am
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Crafting and Baking and Reccing, Oh My!
Having an exchange assignment to stress over and avoid meant I got a lot of crocheting done these past two weeks! I finished the big blanket I started January 1st:
It's huge, 82"x44" or so and used about 4k yards of yarn, as planned (all but one skein I purposely bought for it this past Black Friday sale as well as the majority of the yarn left over from the dragon scales blanket I did a year and a half ago)
Attempt four of the oven mitt finally worked (and it was only after I finished it that I realized despite this being my fifth mitt, I've been doing the thumb wrong this entire time but oh well). The multicolored yarn I bought for it didn't turn out how I'd hoped but oh well, still, oven mitt!
While crocheting I watched The Imperial Coroner, a Tang Dynasty(ish) set drama about a woman who wants to be coroner for the investigative branch of the government (led by a prince who was the most well written awkward bean of character I've seen in a while) and how they end up unraveling both current and decades old mysteries together. I tried it because it starred Wang Ziqi and it was very good and nice change from all the modern crime c-dramas I've been watching because despite engaging mysteries that sometimes involved murder or death or whatever, it showed basically *nothing* - no drugs, no rapes, no real violence... even the autopsies were done by her explaining what she'd done while cartoonish sketches show what she'd discovered during her VO. All the main characters (those two, the deputy of the investigative branch, the prince's (female) best friend and his elder brother) were all great and could have made a wonderful polycube but the actual canon pairings are nice too. It available on youtube and viki.
Egg prices have finally started to come down here but are still about 3x more than they were even 2 years ago. However, they'd reached $9.49 a dozen at the regular supermarket and $11 at the fancy one so I will take the current $7.99. (Actually, I won't because the fancyschmancy eggs that I normally wouldn't consider because usually they ran about 2x the price of normal eggs due to being cage-free/whatever are, while more than they used to be, still only $6.50. Which says something about capitalism and corporate greed to me. SIGH)
I haven't started using an egg substitutes for cookie baking but I have begun using a flax seed meal replacement for muffins and quick bread (2 eggs = 2 tbsp flax seed meal + 5 tbsp water - mix and let sit a few minutes for it to thicken; I've never had a problem with it affecting the baked goods rising, but supposedly using a slightly heaping spoons of baking soda or powder or whatever leavening agent the recipe calls for will help with that if it's needed.) Another option is 3 tbsp of unsweetened applesauce per egg, but I've found that can alter the taste a bit more, although it can be barely noticeable in most muffins/breads. There's a few other substitutions, especially ones more for cookies rather than breads, that I might try if egg prices rise again but hopefully they won't.
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recthething recs! Tumblr art recs for 911, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and X-Files and an Untamed/MDZS fic rec:
It's huge, 82"x44" or so and used about 4k yards of yarn, as planned (all but one skein I purposely bought for it this past Black Friday sale as well as the majority of the yarn left over from the dragon scales blanket I did a year and a half ago)
Attempt four of the oven mitt finally worked (and it was only after I finished it that I realized despite this being my fifth mitt, I've been doing the thumb wrong this entire time but oh well). The multicolored yarn I bought for it didn't turn out how I'd hoped but oh well, still, oven mitt!
While crocheting I watched The Imperial Coroner, a Tang Dynasty(ish) set drama about a woman who wants to be coroner for the investigative branch of the government (led by a prince who was the most well written awkward bean of character I've seen in a while) and how they end up unraveling both current and decades old mysteries together. I tried it because it starred Wang Ziqi and it was very good and nice change from all the modern crime c-dramas I've been watching because despite engaging mysteries that sometimes involved murder or death or whatever, it showed basically *nothing* - no drugs, no rapes, no real violence... even the autopsies were done by her explaining what she'd done while cartoonish sketches show what she'd discovered during her VO. All the main characters (those two, the deputy of the investigative branch, the prince's (female) best friend and his elder brother) were all great and could have made a wonderful polycube but the actual canon pairings are nice too. It available on youtube and viki.
Egg prices have finally started to come down here but are still about 3x more than they were even 2 years ago. However, they'd reached $9.49 a dozen at the regular supermarket and $11 at the fancy one so I will take the current $7.99. (Actually, I won't because the fancyschmancy eggs that I normally wouldn't consider because usually they ran about 2x the price of normal eggs due to being cage-free/whatever are, while more than they used to be, still only $6.50. Which says something about capitalism and corporate greed to me. SIGH)
I haven't started using an egg substitutes for cookie baking but I have begun using a flax seed meal replacement for muffins and quick bread (2 eggs = 2 tbsp flax seed meal + 5 tbsp water - mix and let sit a few minutes for it to thicken; I've never had a problem with it affecting the baked goods rising, but supposedly using a slightly heaping spoons of baking soda or powder or whatever leavening agent the recipe calls for will help with that if it's needed.) Another option is 3 tbsp of unsweetened applesauce per egg, but I've found that can alter the taste a bit more, although it can be barely noticeable in most muffins/breads. There's a few other substitutions, especially ones more for cookies rather than breads, that I might try if egg prices rise again but hopefully they won't.
recthething recs! Tumblr art recs for 911, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and X-Files and an Untamed/MDZS fic rec: 911
- BuckTommy (set of showering doodles, amazing)
Merlin
- Good luck kiss <3 (oh this is nice)
- in my mind, whatever it is they have going on right now, they're probably going to kiss about it later (excellent use of lighting in this and yes, they absolutely will)
Sherlock Holmes
- their asses are NOT making their valentine’s day dinner reservation (tender and sweet Watson and Holmes)
- recent painting practices (a whole bunch of gorgeous Holmes & Watson, and Holmes/Watson, art pieces)
X-Files
- dana scully may be the girl of all time (wonderful Scully doodles)
Weary Wanderer Come Rest Your Bones by NonsensicalRambling (25k, locked to archive)
Summary: The gorgeous young man who flung open the door and gave him a look of surprise that was possibly mixed with interest, before giving him a blinding grin and a cheerful "Hi!" a moment later, is not what Lan Zhan expected. "Are you the owner?"
"That's me! Are you looking for a room?" The man didn't step back from the doorway, but his smile didn’t dim.
"I am from the Lan sect. We were contacted to come take care of a haunting."
The young owner blinked, and his smile dimmed. "No. I didn't contact you. We don't have any problems that require cultivators. Someone is probably trying to pull a prank."
Lan Zhan’s brow furrowed. "We have already been paid. I can -"
"Congrats on the free money! Go away."
The door slammed in Lan Zhan's face. (interesting modern-with-cultivation AU where WWX runs a B&B for resentful/supernatural creatures that someone keeps reporting to the Lan Sect)
- BuckTommy (set of showering doodles, amazing)
Merlin
- Good luck kiss <3 (oh this is nice)
- in my mind, whatever it is they have going on right now, they're probably going to kiss about it later (excellent use of lighting in this and yes, they absolutely will)
Sherlock Holmes
- their asses are NOT making their valentine’s day dinner reservation (tender and sweet Watson and Holmes)
- recent painting practices (a whole bunch of gorgeous Holmes & Watson, and Holmes/Watson, art pieces)
X-Files
- dana scully may be the girl of all time (wonderful Scully doodles)
Weary Wanderer Come Rest Your Bones by NonsensicalRambling (25k, locked to archive)
Summary: The gorgeous young man who flung open the door and gave him a look of surprise that was possibly mixed with interest, before giving him a blinding grin and a cheerful "Hi!" a moment later, is not what Lan Zhan expected. "Are you the owner?"
"That's me! Are you looking for a room?" The man didn't step back from the doorway, but his smile didn’t dim.
"I am from the Lan sect. We were contacted to come take care of a haunting."
The young owner blinked, and his smile dimmed. "No. I didn't contact you. We don't have any problems that require cultivators. Someone is probably trying to pull a prank."
Lan Zhan’s brow furrowed. "We have already been paid. I can -"
"Congrats on the free money! Go away."
The door slammed in Lan Zhan's face. (interesting modern-with-cultivation AU where WWX runs a B&B for resentful/supernatural creatures that someone keeps reporting to the Lan Sect)
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I too love the canon pairings as well as one F/F and four M/M pairings. Yeah... *g*
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You have a Jing Yi icon! (Omg though, did the show have to have a Jing Yi, Jinyu and Jinli?) I'm guessing the f/f was Chu Chu/Leng Yue (although it also could be the Princess/her attendant I forget the name of)? And hrmm, four m/m? Xiao Jingyu/Jing Yi is obvious and Xiao Jingli/Jing Yi as well but for the other two there's a lot of possibilities. There's a couple of different mentor/mentee pairings I could see and also the twins....
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I love both the canon pairings... and even the hint of Jinli's canon pairing later on.
That said, I also ship Chu Chu/Leng Yue, Jing Yi/Jinyu, Jing Yi/Jinli (the ridiculous boyish posturing of trying to appear taller than each other) and Jinyu/Wu Jiang, Jinyu's personal guard.
I've never had an incest ship so I've only written a short gen piece for the twins.
This is all very unusual for me as I usually have one or two ships at most and not ones that overlap in characters. There are 21 stories in English for this canon and 10 of them are mine, mostly short and one of them is a crossover with Miss Truth, another series about an Ancient China female coroner that I love.
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It's like when Chu Chu goes to demonstrate her theory on Jinyu and immediately Wu Jiang slides his blade alongside her neck.
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In Miss Truth, Xiao Song is a great swordsman and martial artist in his own right and yet his right hand man still immediately steps between him and any potential danger.
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Glad you enjoyed The Imperial Coroner; it's a really fun drama. There's supposed to be a sequel being made, but I don't know what its status is. I'll definitely check it out if/when it airs!
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