Party time ahead!

[wiseheart]

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.


400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.



Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Really? Is there an actual reason for it, or do Americans just envy you Brits for your accent? Not that I'd be able to make a difference, mind you... I'm happy enough to actually understand the words when it comes to spoken English.
I have no idea whether there is a real reason, but the only one I've heard suggested is that Americans want to identify with the good guys and thus they should sound American... but I'm not sure if I believe it. I find on most things subtitles are such a help - I find it hard to hear a lot of dialogue in things as most actors don't seem to speak clearly - and that's with it being in a language I speak natively! This is one of the reasons why I watch more things on dvd than tv. I remember bemusing people at school by suggesting that for French that instead of having English subtitles they should give us it with French subtitles (as well as dialogue) as I reckoned that it was the way to learn more...

Sinclair is simply wonderful, particularly because he's so very different from those moustache-twirling sci-fi heroes. I never bought the Catherine Sakai romance, though. They two of them had zero chemistry. The red-headed freighter captain from the pilot was a much better match for him.
I quite liked Catherine Sakai, although it annoyed me that suddenly they were going to get married. I liked the way that the relationship up to that point hadn't been a typical tv romance. The woman from the pilot annoyed me because of the remark about frictionless sheets (really, really bad science) and for some reason it appeared to me as the character being stupid rather than the show - I have no idea why.

Lennier was a very loveable character - the way he ended up went directly against what we'd seen of him before, I find.
Yes! I could believe it if there had been anything done to try and make it work with his character, but there wasn't and so it just seemed nonsensical.


And Lyta could have been really interesting, had they developed her the way she would have deserved. She was so new and naive and inexperienced in the pilot, and we never got to see how she actually became the woman she was in the middle and at the end of the series.
That makes sense. I think that is part of why I have problems with her, she has clearly changed so much in between her first two appearances and it never really explained, thus making it less like character development and more like ignoring existing canon to make the character work in the new situation. I guess it is partly because we never see her interacting with anyone she knew well (or more than a passing acquaintance) before she changed, but then there wasn't really anyone around that could. It would have worked with a scene with Talia (but with problems given her alternative personality).
Thinking of how that might work, I think I might actually have to write that Talia lives au... :) Or at least start planning it... It will probably be fun to write, just such a long project to start.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Go for it! I need something else than just Marcus/Neroon smut to read. Not that there would be anything wrong with Marcus/Neroon smut, mind you (even though I actually don't like Marcus), but a girl needs some variety in her fannish life.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Just realised that I started, but didn't finish writing a reply to this - got lost in all the tabs that I had open with so many conversations going on here. :)

This made my curious - so I went and started prodding fanfiction.net, which led to the discovery that it now has rss feeds. So I ended up going through all the categories that I'm interested in and so now I'll know when stories are uploaded, as well as finding loads of stories to read at some point. This is why I didn't end up commenting more here yesterday. This is both very good and bad - good for obvious reasons, but bad because I should be doing more productive stuff instead of reading all the stories that I found. Overall good though, because now means that I won't miss stories for ages due to forgetting to check whether there are new stories there. :)

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that there is so much fic for this pairing, although it is quite cool that it still seems to have people writing fic when most of the rest of the fandom is pretty dead.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's quite a lively party, isn't it? With so many interesting conversations going on in the different threads it's hard to follow.

Marcus/Neroon is a popular pairing in the fandom; there's even a Yahoo group dedicated to the pairing, and I'm a proud member, althoug I never wrote them as anything but respectful adversaries. Or not so respectful ones. *g* I guess part of the appeal is the old cliché of enemies turning into lovers, UST and stuff. And I must admit that Marcus is often portrayed as a whiny wimp and Neroon as a besotted idiot. But I enjoy even those stories. I don't know why. It's like a drug. If you want to read some lovely and/or funny ones, I recommand the stuff of third_charm, here on LJ. She writes mostly short stuff, easy to read.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Such a fun party! I think asking people to say their favourite books was a very good idea - now there are loads of conversations about so many different books. :)

Thanks for the rec. I'll check out her stories.

*sigh* I wish fandom would get the idea that telling stories with good, plausible versions of the characters. There are so many different ways to interpret a character so I wish that people would think rather than just following fandom trends. Not that that makes any particular story bad and certainly there any many stories that use fandom tropes that are good and/or fun.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Some people are just more comfortable with clichés, I guess. It saves them from the necessity of actual thinking, which many find too hard a task to perform.

I do like me a little cliché from time to time. But they get old very quickly, I find.