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Dairy-free muffin recipe (with add-ons)

2026-05-21T19:21:18Z

I use this all the time to make plum & dark chocolate muffins! It's adapted (not very much tbh) from this recipe. I do usually double it for two muffin trays' worth.

Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Serves: 12 muffins

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsweetened dairy-free milk alternative - I've used rice milk, oat milk, soy milk, watered down coconut yoghurt, almond milk...
¼ cup oil - I use rice bran oil
1 egg (if I double the recipe and the eggs are small I'll use 3 instead of 2)
Fruit (optional): about 1 cup of chopped stone fruit or berries
Chocolate (optional): about 1/2-3/4 cup of chocolate chips or bits

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 200C and grease 12 muffin cups or line them with cupcake liners.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl or glass measuring cup, milk first, then add the oil and egg, and whisk to combine.
Pour the liquid mixture into the well of the dry mixture. Gently whisk or stir the ingredients together, just until moistened. Some small lumps are okay; you do not want to overmix.
Add
Divide the batter between your prepared muffin cups. They will be about ¾ full without any bulky add-ins (like fruit or chocolate chips).
Bake the muffins for 20 to 24 minutes, or until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
Let the muffins cool for a few minutes, and then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Store the muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days, or freeze them to enjoy later.

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Dairy-free muffin recipe (with add-ons)

2026-05-05T06:07:42Z

I use this all the time to make plum & dark chocolate muffins! It's adapted (not very much tbh) from this recipe. I do usually double it for two muffin trays' worth.

Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Serves: 12 muffins

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsweetened dairy-free milk alternative - I've used rice milk, oat milk, soy milk, watered down coconut yoghurt, almond milk...
¼ cup oil - I use rice bran oil
1 egg (if I double the recipe and the eggs are small I'll use 3 instead of 2)
Fruit (optional): about 1 cup of chopped stone fruit or berries
Chocolate (optional): about 1/2-3/4 cup of chocolate chips or bits

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 200C and grease 12 muffin cups or line them with cupcake liners.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl or glass measuring cup, milk first, then add the oil and egg, and whisk to combine.
Pour the liquid mixture into the well of the dry mixture. Gently whisk or stir the ingredients together, just until moistened. Some small lumps are okay; you do not want to overmix.
Add
Divide the batter between your prepared muffin cups. They will be about ¾ full without any bulky add-ins (like fruit or chocolate chips).
Bake the muffins for 20 to 24 minutes, or until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
Let the muffins cool for a few minutes, and then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Store the muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days, or freeze them to enjoy later.

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Crispy paprika potato wedges

2026-05-01T19:22:42Z

Basically I was hungry one day and tried to dupe the ones from the frozen section at the supermarket. I'm pretty sure this was ALSO inspired by a Nadia Lim recipe but I'm not 100% sure... It's definitely vibes-based when I make it lol.

Ingredients

Potatoes (however many you have, peel off any green bits/chop off eyes/etc., I usually make these when I have random potatoes hanging around that need using up)
Smoked paprika (about 1-2 tsp per tray of potatoes, or to taste)
Garlic powder (about 1/2-1 tsp per tray of potatoes, or to taste)
Salt and pepper to taste
Cornflour (about 3 Tbsp per tray of potatoes)
Neutral oil (about 3 Tbsp per tray of potatoes)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180-200 C fan bake, depending on how hot your oven runs.
Chop the potatoes into thick chips, then lay out on a baking tray in one layer with no double ups to ensure they crisp up nicely.
Sprinkle over the cornflour, then spices, then oil, and toss with hands or spoons.
Spread the wedges out again into one layer.
Bake for 20 minutes, then remove from the oven and toss before baking for another 10-30 minutes depending on the size of the wedges and heat of your oven. They're done when they're golden and crispy, a few might have a bit of bubbling on the top.

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not now kitten daddy's doing critical damage to his spotify wrapped*

2026-04-30T09:17:57Z

* I do not condone the use of Spotify and own all my media. LMAO

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Maple Mustard Chicken Crunch Salad (affectionately known as The Chicken Nugget Salad)

2026-04-30T09:15:47Z

I did FODMAP a few years ago and this was like the only dinner recipe that I tried during FODMAP that I have made more than once since stopping it (the tahini chocolate cookies were also a hit and are definitely forthcoming on here).

The original recipe is adapted from here and calls for you to make your own FODMAPped chicken tenders. I never did that even while on FODMAP, because gluten- and additive-free chicken tenders/nuggets are easily (if expensively) available here, but you could do it from scratch, it's a good alternative if additive-free products aren't easily available.

Ingredients

450 g chicken tenders/nuggets

Herb roasted potatoes

600 g potatoes
1 tbsp Garlic infused oil (can sub plain)
2 Tbsp dried chopped chives
Salt and pepper to taste
½ tsp Dried oregano (optional or alternative to chives)
½ tsp Dried thyme (optional or alternative to chives)

Salad

2 cups lettuce, shredded (220 g)
1 cucumber, roughly 1 ½ cups/240 g

Dressing

3 tbsp Mayonnaise
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
½ tsp pure maple syrup (to taste)
Black pepper (to taste)

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC bake or 180ºC fan forced.
Prep the potatoes: Scrub the potato skins and slice the potato into small bite-sized pieces. Place in a bowl and drizzle over the garlic infused oil, sprinkle with thyme and oregano, then season with salt and pepper. Gently toss until the potato is evenly coated. Then place in a lined roasting pan.
Pop the potato in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until the potatoes are golden and crispy.
Cook the chicken nuggets or tenders according to packet instructions (I usually use my air fryer) or follow the instructions at the link to make your own.
Prep the salad: While the potato cooks, prep the remaining ingredients. Slice the iceberg lettuce and peel and chop the cucumber. Pop the lettuce and cucumber into a salad bowl.
Make the maple mustard dressing: Mix the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and maple syrup in a small bowl and season with black pepper.
Once the potato is cooked, remove from the oven. Allow to cool for a few minutes.
Assemble the salad: Add the potato and chicken to the salad bowl, toss gently to combine and drizzle in maple mustard dressing. Sprinkle with a little bit of chopped parsley if desired!

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Pizza dough recipe!

2026-04-29T04:14:57Z

I do this in the breadmaker on a 45 minute pizza dough cycle. Often I leave it for 10-20 minutes after it finishes while I prep the other ingredients though and it does it no harm.

This makes six small pizzas for us, regular people would probably prefer to split it into four more regular-sized pizzas.

Add the ingredients in this order to the breadmaker bowl and then run the dough cycle:

1 cup (250 mL) water
1 tsp salt (this is forgiving, I usually just do it by feel)
1 tsp sugar/golden syrup/honey/etc. (again, forgiving, I do it vibes-based)
1/4 cup olive oil
475 g flour (ideally high-grade/strong/bread flour, but plain will do just fine in a pinch)
A good tablespoon or more sprinkling of Italian herbs (rosemary, thyme, oregano, etc.)
1 heaped tsp dry active yeast or a packet of instant yeast

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Thai Basil Chicken Stirfry

2026-04-28T08:12:20Z

Another of Ms. Nagi Maehashi's recipes... banger! I like using this one as a "whatever veggies I have lying around" recipe. Last night I made it with Brussels sprout, capsicum, watercress, mushrooms, and caulilini. Last time I made it in January, I used carrots, sweet corn, broccoli, and capsicum. Both were equally delicious although the sweet corn was particularly tasty.

I must confess I've never tracked down Thai basil and just make this with the regular sweet Italian basil that comes in my vege box sometimes.

There is a recipe video at the link above for her version of this which is smaller at only 2 servings and doesn't include the veges.

Ingredients

Rice

Stirfry

450 g chicken thigh/breast, cut into bite size pieces
Chopped veges to taste, e.g., capsicum, carrot, corn, broccoli
1 green onion, cut into 4 cm lengths (I frequently substitute onion/red onion/leek/whatever allium I have, but that definitely begins to lose the original intention of the dish)
1 cup Thai basil leaves, loosely packed (Holy Basil if you can find it or regular basil if neither are available)
4 garlic cloves, large, finely chopped
1 birds eye or Thai chilli, deseeded and finely chopped (or less to taste)
1 1/2 tbsp oil (peanut, vegetable or canola)

Sauce

3 tsp oyster sauce
1.5 tsp light soy sauce (don't sub dark soy sauce in here, it will be too intense)
1.5 tsp dark soy sauce (or all purpose/light if not available)
1.5 tsp sugar
3 tbsp water

Instructions

Put sauce ingredients in a small bowl and mix to combine.
Heat oil in wok or pan over high heat.
Add garlic and chilli and cook for 10 seconds.
Add the white part of the green onions and chicken and fry for a couple of minutes until not quite cooked.
Add the veges and fry until lightly cooked and chicken is fully cooked.
Add sauce and cook for 1 minute until the water reduces to make a thick glossy sauce.
Toss through green part of green onions and basil leaves.
Stir until just wilted, then serve immediately with steamed jasmine rice.

Notes

This version makes 5-6 servings, while the original on the website makes 2. I often scale up and make tons of this to freeze because it reheats well (depending on your choice of vegetables).
From the website:
"Holy Basil is the type of Thai basil used in the authentic recipe. It has a more aniseedy / peppery flavour than normal sweet basil used in Italian cooking, and is available at some Thai groceries."
"Thai Basil is the more common type of basil that is sold at supermarkets here in Australia (Coles, Woolies, Harris Farms) and used in Thai restaurants. Because my closest Asian store is a trek away, I usually make this with Thai Basil."
"If you can’t find Thai or Holy Basil, this is still totally worth making using normal basil. The sauce has a strong flavour and dominates, the basil is the fragrant accent flavour."

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April reading round-up

2026-04-26T22:16:29Z

This month I read: Bitter - Akwaeke Emezi (YA specfic), Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (classic sci-fi/horror), Coldwire - Chloe Gong (YA sci-fi/thriller), To Ride a Rising Storm - Moniquill Blackgoose (YA alternate-history fantasy), When the Museum is Closed - Emi Yagi (Japanese specfic/litfic in translation), and Playing for Keeps - Alexandria Bellefleur (adult F/F romance).

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Beetroot brownie cake/muffins

2026-04-26T21:36:34Z

I make this so often when I get a lot of beetroots from my vege delivery box. It's liberally adapted from this recipe. I double it for efficiency and because a double recipe fits perfectly in my large baking dish. The original recipe includes a chocolate ganache which I don't usually make.

Notes

Servings: 24
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 35-50 minutes depending on pan size etc.

Ingredients

1.5 cups (230 g) plain flour (can use gluten-free)
1 cup (80 g) cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
a pinch of salt
1 cup (250 mL) rice bran oil (or other neutral oil)
1 cup (200 g) sugar (I prefer brown, YMMV)
5 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract or a smaller amount of vanilla paste
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
400 g beetroot
200 g chocolate chips, buttons, or chopped chocolate (approximately, vary up or down depending on taste; this is quite a lot of chocolate) (here I use the best chocolate in the world, Whittakers 50% dark, but if you're a pleb from overseas... get whatever doesn't use slave labour or palm oil)

Instructions

Prepare the beetroot. I generally chop into 2 cm cubes and then steam until soft. If I have too many beetroots and not enough time I will freeze the cubes and then steam straight from frozen. This can take up to an hour from frozen - I usually leave it going while I do other chores or work.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (fan 160ºC). Prepare your tins - I line a large brownie pan for this recipe, which I doubled from the original, or two 12-hole muffin trays.
In a bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Toss the chocolate chips/chunks through to coat with flour. This helps them not sink to the bottom while cooking, although this recipe can run on the lighter side and suffer from a bit of sinkage.
To a food processor or blender add the olive oil, eggs, vanilla extract, cider vinegar, and the chopped beetroot (make sure the beetroot has cooled a bit and the eggs are added last to avoid cooking the eggs directly in the blender). Blend until smooth and creamy.
Add the blended ingredients to the dry ingredients and give a good stir to just combine. Pour into the prepared cake tin/s and bake for 30-50 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean. (Alternatively, to make cupcakes spoon the batter into the prepared muffin tray and bake for 20-25 minutes.)
The original recipe includes a chocolate ganache, which I don't usually make, but may be of interest if you don't use chocolate bits.
This cake keeps well for several days, covered at room temperature, a bit longer in the fridge, or frozen indefinitely.

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Pad Thai recipe

2026-04-25T20:08:05Z

My 3 weeks for Dreamwidth activity is going to be first checking out my reading page instead of Tumblr and posting a recipe every day!

I made this recipe from her cookbook, Dinner, but it's also on her website, which totally fucking slaps btw. I love the Aussies who Get It. American cookbooks make me gag... sorryyyyyyyyyyy. I made this twice and experimented a little bit with the proportion of sauce to noodles; this is what I settled on for a 4-5 serving meal.

Ingredients

250 g dried rice stick noodles (3-5 mm)

Sauce:

3 tbsp tamarind puree, NOT concentrate (she gives an alternative ketchup sub in the linked recipe if you can't find it)
5 tbsp (packed) brown sugar
3 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp oyster sauce

Stir Fry:

2 – 3 tbsp oil
1 brown/yellow onion, sliced
2 tbsp minced garlic (or 4 cloves, chopped)
300 g chicken breast (or thigh), thinly sliced (I just used chicken mince because that's what I had in the fridge)
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of beansprouts (I didn't have any, rip)
1 cup firm tofu, cut into batons
2 spring onions, sliced into rounds (in place of garlic chives, which weren't easy to get)
1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts

For serving:

Lime (or lemon) wedges (essential)
Ground chilli or cayenne pepper (optional)
More beansprouts

Instructions

Mix sauce in small bowl.
Place noodles in a large bowl, pour over plenty of boiling water. Soak for 5 minutes, then drain in a colander and quickly rinse under cold water. Don’t leave them sitting around for more than 5 – 10 minutes.
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large non stick pan (or well seasoned skillet) over high heat. Add garlic and onion, cook for 30 seconds.
Add chicken and cook for 1 1/2 minutes until mostly cooked through.
Push to one side of the pan, pour egg in on the other side. Scramble using the wooden spoon (add touch of extra oil if pan is too dry), then mix into chicken.
Add bean sprouts, tofu, noodles, then sauce.
Toss gently for about 1 1/2 minutes until sauce is absorbed by the noodles.
If serving immediately: Add garlic chives and half the peanuts. Toss through quickly then remove from heat. If not: serve then sprinkle over the right amount for each serving.
Serve immediately, sprinkled with remaining peanuts and lime wedges on the side, with a sprinkle of chilli and a handful of extra beansprouts on the side if desired (this is the Thai way!). Squeeze over lime juice to taste before eating.

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C.A.S.E. letter!

2026-04-15T04:15:33Z

I'm running an exchange! For info about C.A.S.E., a multi-medium femslash+ exchange run on Sunset, see here.

For my likes, DNWs, and prompts, see below the cut!

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Chicken/tofu saagwala with basic cucumber raita

2026-04-15T03:46:02Z

This is a recipe I make at least once a month, and I generally make a double batch to freeze sauce. If I can find vegan naan, I'll have those, but otherwise basmati rice is my go-to. This is generally faithful to Nadia Lim's original recipe, although I play free and loose with the spices.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Servings 4 (I can stretch to 6 depending on protein and sides).

Ingredients

Saagwala

3-4 tablespoons oil
2 onions, sliced
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1-2 teaspoons ground chilli
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 inches ginger, grated
300 g spinach leaves, chopped (for a double recipe, I generally use a 150 g bag of fresh baby spinach and one 500 g bag of frozen chopped spinach)
1 large green chilli, chopped (I just use whatever I have around, chilli paste or a couple of milder sweet peppers)
400 g crushed canned tomatoes (I often just chop up 3-5 tomatoes if I have them around)
800 g chicken thighs or breast, cut into large chunks (substitute cubed firm tofu)
1 lemon, juiced

Simple raita (Nadia has a recipe for a more complicated one in the notes if you prefer)

One cucumber, grated
Coconut yoghurt, approximately the same amount by volume as the cucumber

To serve

2-4 naan bread or basmati rice, cooked according to packet instructions (I have a pressure cooker)

Instructions

Heat oil in a large fry pan, fry onions until golden, about 5 minutes. Add spices, garlic and ginger and fry a further 2 minutes.
Wilt fresh spinach in the pot, stirring frequently. Defrost frozen spinach in pot if using.
Puree spinach with green chilli, tomatoes, cooked onions and spices.
Season chicken with salt. Heat a little more oil in the same pan and fry chicken pieces until lightly browned. (If I'm feeling lazy I just chuck the chicken in the sauce and let it essentially poach instead.)
Add spinach puree to chicken and simmer on medium heat until chicken is cooked through, about 15-20 minutes.
Season with lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
Serve curry with naan bread and raita.

Notes

More complex raita recipe: mix 3 chopped tomatoes with ½ chopped telegraph cucumber (seeds removed), ½ small finely chopped red onion, a handful of chopped mint leaves, and 1 cup natural unsweetened yoghurt.
This recipe is great for freezing - I will either freeze just the sauce to mix with freshly cooked protein or freeze it in individual serves along with basmati rice.

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Mina Rome's Pumpkin Swirl Brownie (vegan)

2026-04-14T03:45:16Z

I made this on a whim because I had a ton of pumpkins to use up! If you don't want to make the puree from scratch, you can buy it in a can in many places I believe. This recipe is from Mina Rome's Everyday Vegan book and she also has a video about it here (where she outlines how she makes pumpkin puree too). Time stamp for the pumpkin puree is 6:35 and for the brownie recipe 7:26.

I just chop and steam pumpkin and then mash it well by hand because I hate cleaning blenders and beaters!

Prep time: 12 mins
Cook time: 35 mins
Yield: 9 (large) brownies

Ingredients

Brownie mix:

1 cup plus 1 tbsp (125g plus 1 tbsp) plain flour
1/2 cup minus 2 tsp (45g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice (I used 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 tsp ginger and a sprinkle of cardamom)
1 cup minus 1 tbsp (185 g) sugar (I used white)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
70g pumpkin puree
1/2 cup (125 mL) sunflower seed oil (I used rice bran oil)
1/2 cup (125 mL) nondairy milk (I used rice milk)

Pumpkin swirl:

150g pumpkin puree
3 tbsp thick, plain vegan soy yogurt (I used Greek-style coconut yoghurt instead; you could also use regular yoghurt if not vegan, I'm sure)
3 tbsp melted vegan butter or oil
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180C and line a 20 x 20 cm baking pan with baking paper. Make sure you leave paper hanging over the sides of the pan to make it easier to lift out later.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and sugar.
Next, add the vanilla, pumpkin puree, sunflower seed oil, and milk. Thoroughly mix with an electric hand mixer (I just mixed well by hand, again, I hate cleaning beaters and blenders).
Pour the batter into the baking dish, reserving 5 tablespoons of batter in the mixing bowl. Smooth out the top of the batter in the baking dish and set aside.
In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the pumpkin swirl mix.
Spoon the pumpkin mixture over the top of the unbaked brownie batter in small dollops. Next, spoon the brownie batter that was set aside into the spaces between the pumpkin dollops.
Carefully drag a butter knife in a wavelike motion over the top to create a swirl pattern. Be sure not to swirl the mixtures together too much, as you still want to distinguish the separate layers.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes (I cooked it in a more loaf-shaped tin and needed around 50 mins. Let cool on the counter for at least 20 minutes, then transfer to the fridge to cool for an additional 2 hours. Enjoy!
Mina Rome suggests crushing vegan black and white sandwich cookies (such as Oreos) and sprinkling them along the edges of the brownies before baking to add an extra layer of sweetness! I didn't do this because I don't have too much of a sweet tooth.

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XO, Kitty S3 review ⭐⭐

2026-04-10T07:57:21Z

Unfortunately, it was bad. Two stars for still being a bit silly at times and entertaining me a bit.

I was really looking forward to S3 taking us to new levels of K-drama nonsense but unfortunately it failed to deliver on every front. The show suddenly started trying to convince us that the characters were real people with real depth, which utterly flopped because previously character development was essentially just fodder for tropes and nonsense like sharing a bed, almost-kisses, fake dating, roommate shenanigans, laxative shenanigans, etc. There were no fun shenanigans.

Simultaneously, none of the characters managed to get anywhere in terms of development. Kitty exhibited the same traits she always does - putting her foot in her mouth, thinking she knows things that she doesn't, being self-centred, etc.

I was also disappointed of course that Kitty/Yuri wasn't endgame, but especially bc Min Ho and Kitty broke up so early on I thought we were going to have another classic relationship pivot.

ALSO: Everyone therapy spoke. None of the break-ups or make-ups were even interesting or dramatic because everyone was acknowledging each others' feelings and saying the word valid. This was particularly egregious coming from a Buffy rewatch where the emotional drama is so untherapy speak and therefore engaging, but frankly I can't imagine anyone enjoying the therapy speak S3 of XO, Kitty even so.

Marius was genuinely such a racist caricature that I had a hard time believing it was approved.

Ultimately, good on Lara Jean's actress for getting her healthcare & paycheck updated.

Sad! S1 was very fun and S2 still had plenty of shenanigans, but this season definitely flopped.

Also I was sad that Dae got a romance storyline instead of being Dae Korean flag (I'm sorry I cannot source this meme, if you can please let me know so I can credit, but Dae Korean Flag has lived rent free for like a year).

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Gluten free (and incidentally dairy free) moist chocolate cake

2026-04-05T07:26:10Z

I've been visiting my grandmother and she has recently gone gluten-free, so I made her this cake. I made very few adaptations from the original recipe, Easy Gluten Free Chocolate Cake with 11 Ingredients. I did omit the icing because I felt it was deliciously moist anyway! The texture was really good and it was very moist.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

1 ½ cups (320g) granulated sugar
1 ½ cups all purpose gluten-free flour blend (mine contained rice flour, starch from maize/tapioca, and xantham gum - if your mix doesn't contain xantham gum, I would recommend adding some of your own. Don't use a flour blend that contains chickpea or legume flour, the texture will be bad).
½ cup almond flour
¾ cup (65g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup almond milk (260g)
½ cup (110g) light olive oil (or other oil of your choice)
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
¾ cup (150g) boiling water (for activating the cocoa)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Position the rack in center of oven. Grease two 8-inch round cake pans; set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until there are no visible clumps.
Add eggs, almond milk, oil, and vanilla. Beat with a mixer on medium speed for two minutes (I beat vigorously by hand until there were no visible lumps; this step also adds air to the mixture so don't underdo it).
Stir in boiling water (this apparently helps the cocoa bloom to a full chocolate-y taste).
Spoon batter evenly into cake pans. Bake for 35 to 38 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from oven and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove from pan and let cool on a rack.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three days, or in the refrigerator for up to a week.

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hey so band au is done...

2026-03-31T00:51:16Z

WHAT THE FUCK I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS!!!!

I present to you the "what if I was taylor jenkins reid and the characters from willow were lesbian one direction" 315k fic in its entirety!!!

those rumors they have big teeth (315157 words) by falsenine & isabrella
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Willow (TV 2022)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Rock Band, Band Fic, guitarist!kit, drummer!jade, singer!elora, bassist!graydon, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Found Family, Multimedia, the taylor jenkins-reidification of willow, gratuitous descriptions of kit in leather pants, one direction plagiarism, kit and jade are a little toxic yuri. as a treat
Series: Part 1 of somewhere in the crowd there's you

For as long as they’ve shared a dream of making great music, Kit always figured it would just be Jade-and-Kit, best friends for life, a package deal. When their manager Thraxus “Relaxus” Boorman politely suggests (demands) that they add some new talent to their band, suddenly that dream includes Graydon Hastur and Muffin Girl Elora Danan.

After their lesbian cover of “You Belong With Me” goes viral, it feels like the whole world is invested in Kit and Jade’s personal lives, identities, and the definitely-fictional romance between them (and between the rest of the band, too). And despite the near-constant scrutiny and endless fan theorizing, it feels like no one sees what’s really going on with Kit anymore.

Not even Jade.

Or: the band AU that turned into a multimedia behemoth inspired by 2014 band mega-fandoms, Kristen Stewart groupies, the notion of Kit in leather pants, and the question, “How can we make this whole situation even worse for Kit Tanthalos?”

Or: what happened after someone jokingly said “Kit and the Situations would be an iconic band name”.

P.S. bonus fic on Sunset - tanthamore vegas wedding lmao

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Towa's new song 🫠

2026-03-27T22:32:17Z

We have to talk about how this album is going to be so good... Renee songwriting & vocals credit... I love them your honour.

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Roast pumpkin, sage, and maftool soup

2026-03-27T22:26:52Z

I've decided to try getting out a cookbook and trying a few different recipes from a specific cuisine. I get a box of random vegetables delivered every week so it's somewhat dictated by seasonality and also access to specific ingredients, but so far it's been fun. Last week, I had Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan (this recipe: p. 112).
I actually was surprised at how much I liked this! I got a little bit over pumpkin soup a while ago (by a while I think it was actually pre-covid so. QUITE a while ago) and have only made Thai pumpkin soup once or twice since then. And one of those times I put way too much chili for my tastes 😭 Anyway, the maftool in this was a really interesting addition and made it a bit different to other soups.

(Serves 4-6)
Ingredients

1 kg pumpkin peeled and cut into 2 cm chunks
4 Tbsp olive oil
50 g maftool (large couscous)
30 g salted butter
1 onion, finely chopped
2 crushed garlic cloves
1/2 tsp ground ginger
8 sage leaves, 4 finely chopped and 4 whole
750 mL vegetable/chicken stock
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan bake.
Place the pumpkin on a large baking tray and drizzle with 2 Tbsp of olive oil and bake for 25 min or until soft.
Cook the maftool in a pot of boiling water according to packet instructions (toast in a bit of oil and then use the amount of water designated on the packet). Drain and set aside.
Heat the remaining olive oil and the butter in a saucepan and fry the onion for 10 minutes.
Add the garlic, ginger, chopped sage, and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Then add the cooked pumpkin, stock, salt, pepper, and cook for 5 minutes to bring the flavours together.
Take the soup off the heat and roughly blend it with a handheld blender, leaving some chunky bits in for texture.
Make the topping by crispy frying the sage leaves. Stir these through the maftool and season with 1/2 tsp salt.
Serve soup topped with maftool and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil if desired.

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The Completely Arbitrary Sunset Exchange

2026-03-23T23:55:29Z

I'm running an event!!

The Completely Arbitrary Sunset Exchange is a femslash+ exchange that I and my best friend are hosting because we think Sunset is cool! This is a low-pressure, medium-inclusive event with a low barrier to entry.

Sunset is "a website established in 2025 dedicated to hosting F/F, NB/F and NB/NB fanworks. It holds pro-freedom of fiction, queer and trans inclusive, anti-bigotry and generally compassionate ideals. For an invitation, you can comment here, on our Dreamwidth or Tumblr, or sign up on Sunset itself.

All fandoms and all canon or non-canon pairings are permitted. All mediums are permitted - writing (300 word minimum) and art are common ones, but we also encourage vids (30 sec minimum), mixes, icon packs, gifsets, etc. We are not doing medium matching, so by signing up you may receive a gift of any kind.

Schedule:
Nominations: April 6 - 11 2026 (New York time; countdown)
Sign ups: April 14 - 19 2026 (New York time; countdown)
Assignments out by: April 26 2026
Deadline: May 24 2026 (New York time; countdown)
Reveals (works & creators): May 31 2026

Dreamwidth | Tumblr | Sunset collection | Tag set

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Vegan Banana Muffin recipe

2026-03-23T23:07:48Z

Last week I experimented with a new vegan banana muffin recipe from my girl Madeleine Olivia. And you know what, she's never let me down!! They were slightly wet but that was definitely user error from using frozen bananas.

As I am wont to do, I freestyled and replaced the blackberries with chopped dark chocolate and put it into a muffin tin instead of a loaf tin.

Made 12 regular size muffins.

Ingredients

3 medium to large extra ripe bananas (mashed)
75 g rice bran oil
100 g dark brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup oat milk
200 g self raising flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pinch sea salt
100 g dark chocolate (roughly chopped)

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. Fill a muffin tray with muffin liners.
In a large bowl, mix together the banana, brown sugar, oil, vanilla and milk. Stir well until combined.
Pour in the flour, cinnamon and salt. Stir through until mixed. No need to overman here, it’s fine if there are a few lumps.
Finally stir through the chocolate.
Spoon the batter into the muffin tray. Bake in the oven for roughly 20 minutes, or until the tops bounce back when pressed.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tray, and then onto a wire rack to finish cooling.

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Welcome!

2026-03-19T01:28:05Z

i'm izzy, in my 20s, i'm queer (she/her or whatever), avid femslasher and aspiring novelist.
#1 crowning achievement: insanely long band au for deleted disney show.
#2 crowning achievement: liked chappell roan before she was cool <3 (i'm annoying about this fr fr).

please feel free to subscribe/comment on anything on here! i haven't used a livejournal/dreamwidth consistently before but i'm trying to move off tumblr before the inevitable heat death of the webbed site. see my comments on friending memes for more info about what i'm looking for in friends on dw!

i am on AO3 and also using SqWA as a mirror - big supporter of the proliferation of archives. i'm also getting really into sunset, the femslash exclusive archive!

Main Fandoms: Willow (the 2022 TV show), currently rewatching Buffy and loving it (especially Faith my beloved), Deadloch (S2 was so good!!!), We Are Lady Parts, North of North... basically anything with a strong woman-heavy cast and a bit of humour. I love Dan and Phil, they're my dudes, but I'm not especially a shipper. Deeply obsessed with Little Mix, Renee Rapp and Towa Bird at the moment too...
Fannish Interests: I write a lot of femslash! I like reading meta (and being right... of course), I vid a little, I'm really interested in fandom archiving work and getting involved in fandom-first sites like Dreamwidth, Fanlore, and smaller archives. I call myself a fan of fandom itself!

I post about: Things I'm reading/writing/watching. I'd love book/tv recs for sapphic/woman-heavy sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, etc. Maybe my in-progress romance novel & the writing process! Pop music/culture ~~(don't forget I liked Chappell Roan before she was cool).~~

To quote an incredibly dated yet formative show for me, Faking It (2014): the best way to get to know me is to understand the things I hate. These include:

Genre fiction that gives lip service to queer politics but is ultimately politically conservative or regressive,
Everything that's going on with the proliferation of pull-to-publish fanfiction. Respect your roots!
Not knowing the meaning of the word parasocial but still throwing it around,
The general hellscape of late stage capitalism and the panopticon,
Taylor Swift.

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Yuletide 2025 letter

2025-10-10T23:54:30Z

I am isabrella on AO3! You can also view my past exchange letters in the "letter" tag on this blog. Completely open to treats :D I have included more prompts for some canons than others as I've been requesting these for longer and accumulated more; it doesn't reflect my interest in each canon. Also please feel free to write anything you like that fits my DNWs, my prompts are just food for thought!

DNWs

Setting-changes AUs (canon divergence is fine); crossovers unless specifically requested; death of main characters; gore; gender-swapping; non-canonical/unrequested gender identities, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, or neurodivergences; readerfic, first or second person narrative (okay in things like texts, social media, or letters; generally not applicable to book canons but noted in requests where relevant); fic about pregnancy or childbirth (unless they're getting a wanted abortion in which case yeehaw babey); fic about raising children ("kidfic"; a partial exception for North of North is noted); fic exploring mental illness in depth or discussing mental illness explicitly and at length (portraying characters with "symptoms" of mental illness is fine; going on about specific diagnoses is not); fic about body image issues including eating disorders.
Smut-related DNWs:
Non-con (dub-con like sex pollen is fine; I'm also fine with previous sexual assault being touched on); omegaverse; age regression; sex under the age of 15 (15+ is fine); mentions of pregnancy/children during sex; blood/vomit/feces/urine in sex; restraint during sex; degrading language in sex; M/F smut.

Likes

- Tropey fics such as: There Was Only One Bed, Fake Dating/Marriage, time loops, best friends to lovers and conversely enemies to lovers.

- Hurt/comfort (ranging from illness to injury, everything is fine! I have no squicks about blood/vomit/etc. outside of sexual contexts). In fact, feel free to absolutely go hard on making them miserable with broken limbs, the flu, food poisoning, migraines, cramps, concussions… As long as someone is crying or trying VERY BRAVELY not to cry and someone else is trying (especially if they're completely inept) to fix it, I'll be delighted.

- When the author knows a lot about a specific subject and uses it to great effect in the fic (literary analysis, statistical analysis, feminist theory, ornithology, genetic engineering, whatever your special interest is, go wild!).

- Found family, especially in the context of all-women settings (like pageants, girl bands, sports teams, secret mermaid clubs, women in STEM groups, Girl Scouts/Girl Guides) that kind of provide an alternative structure for the close relationships between girls and/or women.

- Humour, especially of the juxtapositional kind (think Gideon the Ninth).

- Exploring the ways that different characters show each other love.

- Characters absolutely not saying what they mean and instead communicating through completely insane metaphors and parallels to avoid talking about their real feelings.

- Themes around fame, feminine rituals, public/private personas, and hiding who you are to project a performance persona (band au my beloved).

- Doing each other's makeup, doing each other's hair, borrowing each other's clothes (being forced to borrow each other's clothes…). It's the feminine rituals of it all (can you tell I imprinted on the Girls Like Girls music video as an impressionable young teen?).

- Exploring characters' cultural/religious/familial history and connections.

- Exploring queer history and activism.

- Epistolary/other non-traditional formats for fic, especially social media-related stuff.

- When sex is funny/authentically awkward/fumbling/a complete comedy of errors but it still turns out hot.

- Any sexual first times (first time with each other, first time with a woman, first time of all time, first time trying something specific, etc.)

- Sex which is really about emotional intimacy.

North of North (TV)

Specific DNWs: Ting as a character in any meaningful way, smut.
I loooooooved this show, it was so funny and delightful and I loved the setting. So excited that someone else nommed it too! Promo post here.
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags.

Siaja

- Any character study of her - learning to be a leader, her inheriting knowledge from her elders, being a great mom, etc.
- Any workplace related situational comedy like in the show!

- I love Siaja growing into herself and I can definitely see her realizing that she's attracted to women. Anyone who makes her realize this is fun. I've focused on this in my prompts a lot to be honest, but I am very happy for you to explore things that do not include this too!

- In the Las Culturistas podcast, Chappell Roan says the online guinea pig community is very lovely (I'm paraphrasing). Siaja posts on the forums looking for advice on looking after Bun's guinea pigs and gets into a friendly banter with the woman on the other end (i.e., Chappell Roan).

- This is like the nichest prompt ever but I know one (1) person out there wants to write it, so I'm giving her an official out on my crossover DNW: Modern Family's Alex Dunphy comes to the polar research station to do research and Siaja and Alex discover the joys of lesbianism together.

- Helen sends Siaja to a larger town to gain some kind of short qualification or to a conference. Maybe she meets a delightful openly gay woman who makes her interested in trying it out. Maybe she has a series of work-related comedic errors just like in the show.

- Bun decides she is queer and Siaja becomes a proud ally parent, learning all about the LGBTQ+ community, and discovers that she might identify with one of those labels (queer, bi, lesbian, ace). Alternatively, she finds herself attracted to another PFLAG mom. Or leave out Siaja's self-discovery and just make it about her being a great parent while still having her own life!

- If you have personal knowledge about the Arctic or about Inuit culture I would love to learn more about it and how it might relate to Siaja!

- Similarly, if you have specific knowledge: Siaja attends a cultural exchange programme with another Indigenous nation.

- Epistolary: Siaja writes letters to Bun or her mom reflecting on various things. Similarly, her journal (an exception to my first-person/second-person DNW).

Little Mix RPF

My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice).

God I guess I got really into Little Mix again. Whatever. I'm pretty easy on this, anything will float my boat really! Feel free to include all four of them equally or similarly Jade + Leigh-Anne + Perrie. Also go ahead and focus on any femslash/poly ship if that's of interest. Also feel free to focus only on Jade or Leigh-Anne.

Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock

- I loooooooooove emotional hurt/comfort, especially about fame, media, performances, public personas, etc.

- They can be gay. Any of them, really, I don't mind, but I like Perrie/Jade as a particular fave.

- Almost kissing, almost touching, almost together on stage, etc.

- Secret Love Song pt II etc etc etc.

- Braiding each other's hair, doing each other's make up, the feminine rituals, you know the drill.

- Jade "Ally" Thirlwall I know what you are and it's bisexual. Anything about her discovering that about herself/the rest of them being like "Ally. Uh huh. Right." amuses me.

- Tropey fic in the vein of There Was Only One Bed/trapped on the tour bus/etc.

- Tropey smut: walking in on someone else getting off, leaking sex tapes, phone sex, etc.

- Angst!

- Going back home (together!) after getting famous and reflecting on how they've changed.

- Behind the scenes of the X Factor days, the rise to fame, etc. or a retrospective perspective on it with a reflective bent.

- Loving Jade’s new album, anything based on music from that! Similarly anything based on Leigh-Anne’s music.
- Post ironic/meta 1D fic tropes: sold to Little Mix, etc.

2020s Pop Music RPF

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags.

Towa Bird and Reneé Rapp

Broadly speaking I'd like this fic to be set in the real world, but I'm not committed to their being singers/celebrities so role change AUs etc. are fine.

- WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR GIRL WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT TOWA. Write about that. RENEE WRITING CREDIT?

- Hurt/comfort, especially around performances <3

- Smut, especially after performances. Come onnnnn Towa at any show is literally the embodiment of lesbian sex.

- One/both of them on SNL. Drama/angst/etc.

- Trying to outcompete each other at singstar/karaoke/whatever.

- Towa fixing her in ear monitor all the time is so sexy to me.

- Generally important pieces of canon that I would love to explore: enemies to lovers, accidentally hard-launching with the Vanity Fair photobooth, them making out on stage etc.

- Okay so now we have the Renee Towa Show in the form of Renee Rapp's album BITE ME, in which I choose to believe every song is about Towa except for the ones that are about Alyssa (the ex that she cheated on with Towa) and Pauline Chalamet (SO fucking funny). Them writing that together is so hot. Songfic. I said it. Especially Shy. Also Renee how many times can you get hair pulling into one album?

- Fic based on: Mad, Your Girl, Shy, Kiss It Kiss It, Good Girl, Drain Me!, Sorry Sorry, This Isn't Me, Sometimes, in fave order.
- Aftermath of the Elle prank phone call.

- "It's funny 'cause it didn't feel like friends on the kitchen floor, no, and I don't take friends to the back of my tour bus" 👀

- That pic of Towa on FaceTime in between Renee's tits.

- Writing songs together and fucking. Performing together and fucking. Phone sex while Renee's on tour. Phone h/c while Renee's on tour. Sex dreams etc.
- Renee is horny because she thinks she's written a really good song but it's actually mid and Towa's like have you ever even touched a guitar and Renee says I'll touch your guitar. Etc.
- Post ironic/meta 1D fic tropes: sold to Towa Bird, who do fink gave you the teef, etc.

Mossa & Pleiti series - Malka Older

My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice).

Specific DNWs: smut; explicit exploration of mental health issues, especially around what was raised with Mossa in book 3; an exception to a DNW: feel free to write first person like the books (either POV) if you want.

Promo: I'm insane about these I would make everyone I know read them if I could. Malka Older I want to crawl inside your brain. These books are an incredible feat of worldbuilding and romance and they're MYSTERY NOVELLAS. Things I love about it: the worldbuilding. It feels so lived in and all the little details like people living on separate day cycles and the railways built around the planet and the kind of historical-but-futuristic vibes! The fascination with Earth ecology/biology, the sci-fi elements mixed with the pseudo Victorian era vibes. I love that academia is so central to Pleiti and so… realistically stupid? I'm not in academia anymore but the absolute nonsense politics of it all and the fact that studying literature is considered life or death is incredibly funny and accurate to me. The politics of resurrecting animals and plants is fascinating to me. I love the pining of it all and the nebulous nature of their relationship and the push and pull of their growing affection etc.

Worldbuilding

- I would be into any kind of in-universe worldbuilding texts for this one, like academic articles or popular historical books or anything else you can think of that plays with format.

- The sociology of how religion and culture has been transmuted into this society is super interesting to me! Pleiti has a qibla globe (side note: would love to know more about how that works on pseudo-Jupiter) and she also says "May his memory be a blessing" to Mossa about her father so I wonder what all that implies about how aspects of various current-day religions have survived/changed on Giant.

- Anything that delves into the science of the resurrections (I have a biology degree specializing in genetics so I do find the Jurassic Park/seed bank/etc. of it all clown but fun).

- I am curious about the kind of social hierarchies that are hinted at but not interrogated at length thus far (Mossa is from Io, which seems to be considered backwards, Pleiti is from a farming area, Pleiti thinks about the class implications of porters, etc.) Pleiti reading one (1) sociological text from the Modern faculty and having her mind exploded is very funny to me. I liked the expansion of her academic world in book 3, would love to see where she takes that in the future. SORRY I also did sociology I'm a girl of many stripes.

Mossa and Pleiti

- Mossa taking Pleiti to visit her honorary family, or Pleiti taking Mossa home to her farming platform.

- Letters between Mossa and Pleiti is very on brand.

- Flashbacks to their time in college - was Mossa always solving mysteries then too? What did Mossa even study? What did they get up to together?

- Hurt/comfort of any kind. Come on you know the second Pleiti was tending to the claw marks on Mossa's back I was going out of my mind.

- Honestly I just love the books themselves so any case-ficcy type stuff would totally go wild for me.

- A character study of Mossa or Pleiti.

- Pleiti's reaction to some piece of amusing Earth culture that she's studying. What does John exploding cows in Nona the Ninth imply about New Zealand ecology? A personal fave would of course be the Girl Guiding handbooks from the early 20th century, because I am a freak! (Many of these can be found on Internet Archive I believe). Pleiti reacts to the Famous Five.

- Pleiti's interest in creating an interdisciplinary working group (I experienced a visceral war flashback to university writing that phrase) for reintroducing flora and fauna to Earth could potentially be an interesting starting point. Alternatively, she seemed like she might be leaning towards joining Mossa in some kind of regular investigative jaunt. What does that mean for her studies, her sense of herself, etc.?

- Mossa and Pleiti attending some kind of festival or celebration such as the Feast-Day of Valdegard.

The Incandescent - Emily Tesh

My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice).

Specific DNWs: smut; an exception to a DNW: feel free to write first or second person if you want.

What a delightful read! I love a good urban fantasy and also Emily Tesh's signature (well, spoilers, I suppose) approach I always enjoy. I wouldn't necessarily recommend on its sapphic merits but the woman who is a love interest is a bit Kylo Ren shan't speak so, then again, maybe I would.

Promo post (by someone else) here.

Aneeta Shah and Nikki Conway

You can of course include just Nikki or Aneeta, but I thought a lot of these prompts suited both!

- Nikki POV of parts of the events in the book: The Phoenix's takeover, the decision to open the portal, even pre-canon events that are touched on like her earlier time at the school and childhood etc. Also Aneeta POV!

- Aneeta and Nikki post-canon, what they decide to do at university.

- Nikki travelling the world (could be epistolary/letters/messages or not!).

- Aneeta and Nikki running some kind of camp/extracurricular/boarding school for the kids who don't get to go to boarding school.

- I would love to see a crossover between this and Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven and/or honestly the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik. I think there's some really interesting overlap in themes around magic-adjacent Britain coming out of recent urban fantasy.

Worldbuilding

- Fascinating world; I'd love to think more about why magical pursuits are not considered very important in higher academia.

- Exploring exactly how Saffy did what she did.

- Crossover ideas as noted above - in particular, a lot of the worldbuilding gave me the vibe of fanfic of the Scholomance series, so would be curious to explore that.

Rolling in the Deep Series - Mira Grant

My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice).

Specific DNWs: smut; an exception to a DNW: feel free to write first or second person if you want.

Ms. Seanan McGuire never misses it has to be said. I have not been able to get my hands on the prequel so I have only read Into The Drowning Deep! I don't have too many thoughts on what specifically I'd like to see here, but I really loved the world where mermaid studies was real and Seanan's writing style is so gripping, so if you can incorporate that (or your own twist on it!) I'm sure I'll love it. Do feel free to include all three characters, any one of these characters you're interested in, and any of the relevant side characters.

Victoria "Tori" Stewart and Olivia Sanderson

You can of course include just Tori or Olivia, but I thought it was likely that they would be paired together.

- Post-canon: what happens?

- What does Tori do with her research post-canon? Does she turn her attention to ecological destruction for real? Maybe she's an eco-terrorist?
- Olivia finding herself! What does she take away from it all?

Jillian Toth

- Love love love an insane academic who gets proven RIGHT.

- Worldbuilding type stuff that she does; research on the mermaids, her own research team, etc.

- Academic articles or interviews featuring her and/or the others.

those rumors they have big teeth

My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice).

~~If you're anyone except jack reading this~~ if you're the other person who offered this for yuletide i NEED to know who you are after reveals please god!!!! otherwise, if you're here and reading this and you haven't, go read band au (what if the characters from willow were lesbian one direction and also childhood friends to lovers)😂

Tanthamore

- dark band au After AU

- pre-canon high school stuff

- hurt/comfort, whatever!

- SNL time loop!!!!!

- one of them did porn and the other finds it
- they get off together reading tanthamore fanfic/kit or jade writes ooc E rated tanthamore/etc.

- aus where they have sex at THEE worst times: after nockmaar, after finding out about micgate, after snl, in high school, at college, etc.
- in universe fics about same

Kitlora

- Chapter 7/8 kitlora AU

- Kitlora au where Elora writes Your Girl by Towa Bird about Kit.

- Elora calls while Kit and Jade are having sex.
- Elora gets off reading tanthamore smut and is like hmm.... is this ethical.... (canon or kitlora au vibes!)

Other

- Any of the in-universe fics from the fic.
- I realize the X Factor/TLT crossover band au is an insane thing to put but just a pure X Factor AU of band au would hit.
- For jack: any of the stupid ideas we've discussed already like Graylora wedding, Graydon committing international lizard smuggling crimes, etc.

- Kit/Chappell pre-canon LMAO

- 2025 Grammys

- Sorsha (the most emotionally fraught relationship in the most emotionally complex person you know) dies.

- Sorsha POV of anything - this most definitely includes things that are only tangentially related to Kit, such as Stacy.

- Elora POV of anything lmao.

- Kitlora friendship, Elora's abortion, Kit at Graylora wedding.

- Jade POV of Elora's wedding planning.

- Also if you'd like to just delve fully into social media/fandom/fanfics feel free to do a full deep dive on some part of fandom with the craziest tweets you can think of!!!

- Scorpia + Jade h/c, Sorsha + Kit h/c, etc.

- Mads dies and Jade doesn't know how to deal with it so she calls Sorsha.

- Madmartigan at SNL (and Jade doesn't know how to deal with it so she calls Sorsha).
- in universe fics of the 1D tropes

- Feel free to write any of your prompts/ideas too ik I'll like them.

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Trick or Treat 2025 letter

2025-09-12T21:00:25Z

Admin comm, AO3 (tagset/sign ups)!
I give lots of specific prompts but of course feel free to do whatever floats your boat, I'm sure I'll love it!

DNWs

Crossovers unless specifically requested; setting-change AUs; death of main characters; gore; gender-swapping; non-canonical/unrequested gender identities, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, or neurodivergences; readerfic, second person narrative (okay in things like texts, social media, or letters); fic about pregnancy or childbirth (unless they're getting a wanted abortion in which case yeehaw babey); fic about body image issues.
Smut-related DNWs: non-con (dub-con like sex pollen is fine; I'm also fine with previous sexual assault being touched on); omegaverse; age regression; sex under the age of 15 (15+ is fine); mentions of pregnancy/children during sex; blood/vomit/feces/urine in sex; restraint during sex; explicit/planned roleplay during sex; degrading language in sex; M/F smut.

Likes

- Hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending.

- Tropes like: there was only one bed, trapped in an elevator, sex pollen, fake dating, etc.

- Exploring characters' cultural/religious/familial history and connections.

- Exploring queer history and activism.

- Epistolary/other non-traditional formats for fic, especially social media-related stuff.

- When sex is funny/authentically awkward/fumbling/a complete comedy of errors but it still turns out hot.

- Going in depth about a specific subject that the author knows a lot about!

- More extensive likes at my Yuletide letter.

Little Mix

Art prompts:

- I love all of their amazing/insane/etc. costumes - from LM5, The Last Tour For Now, anything. I especially loved Jade's stupid pink confection at the Capital Summertime Ball.

- X Factor stuff, the E.T. performance (Jade makes me laugh), etc.

Fic prompts:

- I loooooooooove emotional hurt/comfort, especially about fame, media, performances, public personas, etc.

- They can be gay. Any of them, really, I don't mind, but I nominated Perrie/Jade as a particular fave.

- Almost kissing, almost touching, almost together on stage, etc.

- Secret Love Song pt II etc etc etc.

- Braiding each other's hair, doing each other's make up, the feminine rituals, you know the drill.

- Jade "Ally" Thirlwall I know what you are and it's bisexual. Anything about her discovering that about herself/the rest of them being like "Ally. Uh huh. Right." amuses me.

- Tropey fic in the vein of There Was Only One Bed/trapped on the tour bus/etc.

- Tropey smut: walking in on someone else getting off, leaking sex tapes, phone sex, etc.

- Angst!

- Going back home (together!) after getting famous and reflecting on how they've changed.

- Behind the scenes of the X Factor days, the rise to fame, etc. or a retrospective perspective on it with a reflective bent.

- Loving Jade's new album, anything based on music from that! Similarly, anything based on Leigh-Anne's new music!

North of North

Specific DNWs: sex, Ting as a significant character in any way.

Art prompts:

- Anna Lambe is so pretty!!!

- Any of the gorgeous costumes from the show; I especially loved her date costume (the off-the-shoulder grey top), the "Inuk Bridgerton" dress, and the many beautiful traditional and traditional-adjacent patterns and coats.

- Any striking moment from the show, like her jumping in the air, wrapped in the silver blanket, driving the truck, with Bun, etc.

Fic prompts:

- Any character study of her - learning to be a leader, her inheriting knowledge from her elders, being a great mom, etc.

- I realize this might be a long shot, but if you have personal knowledge about the Arctic or about Inuit culture I would love to learn more about it and how it might relate to Siaja!

- Similarly, if you have specific knowledge: Siaja attends a cultural exchange programme with another Indigenous nation.

Towa Bird/Reneé Rapp

This is my new ongoing obsession. They're so hot. IDGAF do w h a t e v e r I don't understand why everyone isn't literally thinking about them day and night. Unbelievably if you want a brief primer J-14 got you.
I have plans and plots to do a messier one <3 those Vanity Fair photo booth pics and Towa on her knees at every show are NOT escaping me I am a band au girlie to my CORE.

Broadly speaking I'd like this fic to be set in the real world, but I'm not committed to their being singers/celebrities so role change AUs etc. are fine.

Art prompts:

- Couples Halloween costumes (Zolita once did one as Kaylor which had me in space BUT SHE'S DELETED IT! If anyone has this I must know immediately please.)
- Towa on her knees with her guitar for Renee.
- Stills from the Mad video but it's Towa.
- Illustrations of Reneetowa fics: them as lifeguards/at the beach (my own fic lmao), getting fake married (also my own fic lmao), also lowkey obsessed with the absolute insanity (complimentary) of this fic by the wonderful Froskers so please go ahead and draw them in full on cowboy outfits!

Fic prompts:

- Hurt/comfort, especially around performances <3
- Smut, especially after performances. Come onnnnn Towa at any show is literally the embodiment of lesbian sex.

- One/both of them on SNL. Drama/angst/etc.

- Trying to outcompete each other at singstar/karaoke/whatever.

- Towa fixing her in ear monitor all the time is so sexy to me????

- Couples Halloween costumes (Zolita once did one as Kaylor which had me in space BUT SHE'S DELETED IT! If anyone has this I must know immediately please.)

- Generally important pieces of "canon" that I would love to explore: the enemies to lovers of it all, accidentally hard-launching with the Vanity Fair photobooth (do you think someone cried about that...), them making out on stage at All Things Go, Towa on her knees at like every show for Renee………… (exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C (not the knees but like. the scissors c'mon)) etc. etc.
- Okay so now we have the Renee Towa Show in the form of Renee Rapp's album BITE ME, in which I choose to believe every song is about Towa except for the ones that are about Alyssa (the ex that she cheated on with Towa) and Pauline Chalamet (SO fucking funny). IDK write me songfic I don't even care at this point.
- Them writing BITE ME together is so hot. That. All of it. Especially Shy. Also Renee how many times can you get hair pulling into one album?
- That pic of Towa on FaceTime in between Renee's tits.

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Early Bird Gets the Word 2025 exchange letter

2025-05-07T03:25:29Z

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I give lots of specific prompts but of course feel free to do whatever floats your boat, I'm sure I'll love it!

DNWs

Likes

- Hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending.

- Tropes like: there was only one bed, trapped in an elevator, sex pollen, fake dating, etc.

- Exploring characters' cultural/religious/familial history and connections.

- Exploring queer history and activism.

- Epistolary/other non-traditional formats for fic, especially social media-related stuff.

- When sex is funny/authentically awkward/fumbling/a complete comedy of errors but it still turns out hot.

- Going in depth about a specific subject that the author knows a lot about!

- More extensive likes at my Yuletide letter.

Black Mirror (Hotel Reverie)

This was just a fun episode and Issa Rae fucking slayed.

Art prompts:

- I feel like the aesthetic of the classic movie lends itself to certain styles of art, so lean into that.

- Any kind of poster for the movie.

- Any moments between them in the simulation: almost kissing, kissing, dancing together, etc.

Dorothy Chambers/Brandy Friday - fic prompts:

- Anything where they just stay inside forever, playing with the possibilities of it.

- Brandy Friday keeps doing movies with Dorothy Chambers and every time they steal the show and turn it into a sapphic romance.

- Dorothy POV of the episode, deleted scenes, or across different movies with Brandy Friday in them.

H2O: Just Add Water

Specific DNWs: AU - no powers; sex while they're mermaids; whatever the hell was going on with the ambergris in S2 E15.

I am happy for them to have sex from age 16!

Art prompts:

- I feel like mermaids lend themselves to LOTS of cool art styles, so anything stylized or symbolic with them as mermaids. Feel free to include Cleo as well!

- Anything emphasizing their complimentary powers.

- Almost kissing, almost touching.

- Braiding each other's hair, doing each other's make up, the feminine rituals, you know the drill.

Rikki Chadwick/Emma Gilbert - fic prompts:

- Emma cheating on her boyfriend with Rikki because she just can't stay away and they're meant to be together because they have matching powers <3

- Hurt/comfort anything.

- Full moon sex pollen. Obviously. Bonus points if Rikki is using her powers to turn the heat up a little for Emma.

- Rikki saying casually one day, "Oh, you don't use your powers to help you… get off? Let me show you how," and Emma being into it. Except of course ice powers are way less helpful for that, so Rikki ends up doing it for both of them.

- Emma and Rikki having a sleepover and Rikki goading her about being uptight until Emma finally snaps and says, "How's this for uptight?" and kisses her. (Fire and Ice [S2E4] vibes but better because Rikki and Emma are all alone and having the most sexually tense sleepover in the history of homoerotically repressed teen girls).

- Emma and Rikki just seem to turn into chaos demons in S2 by constantly using their powers to create problems. I consider this a form of dating.

- Rikki gets sick and pretends she isn't sick and Emma has to chase her around trying to make her lie down. Also vice versa if they have a biology exam or something.

- Rikki gets a job at the JuiceNet café specifically to annoy Emma.

- Emma and Rikki have a homoerotic camping trip on Mako Island (as teens or adults <3).

- Emma and Rikki fighting with their complementary powers.

- Angst where Emma and Rikki are hooking up but Emma is deeply in her head about it and keeps insisting that they keep it a secret and it's not that serious etc.

We Are Lady Parts

Specific DNWs: smut.

Art prompts:

- I would love to see them with their musical instruments, especially emphasizing how their musical instruments speak to their characters.

- An album cover/art for their album, singles, or future albums.

- Any punchy scenes from the show; their performances, time in the studio, that scene in the field, Malala Made Me Do It, etc.

Amina Hussein/Saira

- Amina's parents kind of adopt Saira. Maybe Amina has some complicated (jealous) feelings about this which lead her to realise that she has feelings for Saira.

- Amina helps Saira make an online dating profile so that Amina has to list all the things she likes about Saira.

- I would love to see music structuring their relationships/friendships - anything where you can weave musical theory into the structure of the fic would be awesome.

- Saira sets out to write a song to tell Amina her feelings because she communicates best through music, but she has no idea how to write a love song and it keeps coming out rage-y.

- Amina going back to her roots teaching underprivileged children guitar/music, except this time she's dragging Saira with her and the kids think they're super cool and also in love.

- Amina has her very uptight version of the "am I gay quiz" Google search, whereby she carefully hunts through sexuality labels until she decides on an extremely specific one that she uses to tell Saira she's into her.

Amina & Ayesha & Bisma & Momtaz & Saira

- Whole band shenanigans would be brilliant - pop up concerts, writing new songs together,

mentoring the younger/up-and-coming bands (and recognizing themselves in them!). Equally, what if Amina's mum or Momtaz's grandma decided they wanted their turn to be rockstars?

- The band exploring what fame means to them.

- I love how being Muslim is deeply embedded in all of their experiences of the band, and fame, and each other, and so on, so anything exploring that is very up my alley if you have the relevant knowledge!

Ayesha

- Any kind of Ayesha character study: I love her being angry and also her complicated relationship with coming out/labelling. - Ayesha exploring her queerness - I am *not* in any way super invested in her labelling herself or having a traditional coming out arc, but maybe finding other people who accept her the way she is, or creating meaningful art about her experience.

- Ayesha accidentally finds herself dating a girl and doesn't know what to do.

North of North

Specific DNWs: Ting as a significant character in any way.

Art prompts:

- Anna Lambe is so pretty!!!

- Any striking moment from the show, like her jumping in the air, wrapped in the silver blanket, driving the truck, with Bun, etc.

Siaja - fic prompts:

- Any character study of her - learning to be a leader, her inheriting knowledge from her elders, being a great mom, etc.

- I realize this might be a long shot, but if you have personal knowledge about the Arctic or about Inuit culture I would love to learn more about it and how it might relate to Siaja!

- Similarly, if you have specific knowledge: Siaja attends a cultural exchange programme with another Indigenous nation.

n00b

Specific DNWs: smut.

Art prompts:

- Moments from the show.

- Nikau and James in their very own My Chemical Romance fantasy.

- Clara and James playing video games together (2005 setting).

- Nikau and/or James and/or LC with pride flags/at shitty 2005/6 Pride Parades.

Clara & James - fic prompts:

Their friendship means SO much to me. I think they would enjoy being bitches together, once Clara realizes he's actually funny. And James would enjoy winding her up and find her dry humor funny.

- Clara and James at the same halls in first year of university.

- James takes Clara shopping in Dunedin for a makeover a la Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Nikau & Lauren Conrad | LC - fic prompts:

I am an LC apologist, I relate to her so much. I think her and Nikau should be besties. I can definitely see her being a lesbian or bisexual.

- Her coming out to Nikau and their bonding over it.

- LC getting out of that town and having the time of her life and emailing/writing letters to Nikau.

- LC getting out of that town and going to university with Nikau (+/- James).

- They (+/- James, Clara, Christian) set up a nascent GSA at their school. Shenanigans ensue.

Nikau/James (n00b) - fic prompts:

Nikau and James is sooo funny to me.

- Anything where they're navigating their early relationship.

- They (+/- LC, Clara, Christian) set up a nascent GSA at their school. Shenanigans ensue.

- Talking about the fanfiction. Writing fanfiction together.

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somewhere in the crowd there's you [fanvid]

2025-04-26T00:51:16Z

somewhere in the crowd there's you [fanvid] by isabrella
Fandom: Hacks (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ava Daniels/Deborah Vance, Ava Daniels & Deborah Vance
Characters: Ava Daniels, Deborah Vance
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Song: Super Trouper (ABBA)
Series: Part 16 of isabrella's vids

Summary: Fanvid of Ava and Deborah to Super Trouper by ABBA (Mamma Mia cast cover).

i won't feel blue, like i always do
because somewhere in the crowd
there's
you

Notes:

Thanks to resurrecho for betaing.

Download on filen.io, password: hacks.

On Vimeo.

On Bluesky.

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