little things of life and fandom: halfamoon

The halfamoon challenge is running again this year.

For those of you new to DW/LJ, half-a-moon is a fourteen day celebration of female characters - any fandom, any female. I admit to not knowing about the fine print around female-presenting or trans women, but I assume they're encouraged and allowed. (I don't believe Rule 63 is permitted, though.)

I always start with the best of intentions and then get stuck a few days in.

This year, I was hoping to post The Other Side Of Infinity (Maria! Jane! Valkyrie! Hela! Wanda! Nebula! Gamora!) but I'm only at 25K and they haven't even hit the first mission. (I'm dreading it. But also kind of looking forward to it. But mostly dreading it.)

It's just that I'm pretty bad at keeping stories short.

Anyway, if you have fics to post, icons to make, recs for fic | art | vids | other, or anything that's centred around female characters, then get them ready. I'm hoping the increased flow of people to DW, not to mention the slight increase in the number of female options in fandoms, might get us some solid engagement this year.

sourdough kneading

I just spent an hour kneading sourdough to get it to the nice, glutinous stage of things. AN HOUR.

My arms are gonna hurt tonight.

On the other hand, I discovered that if you're kneading bread, listen to something with a beat, and then just mash it leftwards with the right hand and roll it back, then mash it rightwards with the left hand and roll it back. Right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand - anything with a beat will do you, although you might have to go every second beat if it's a fast piece.

Anyway, I have discovered what well-kneaded dough feels like.

Now it's rising in the (turned off) oven, and I think I might try letting it rise for 12 hours. Apparently sourdough does best with a nice long proofing time - 4-12 hours! If you want it really sour, apparently you leave it for 12-24 hours, but I think I might just go moderate sourness for this one. Doesn't need beating down and re-proofing unless you really want to, but I don't think I will.

Now someone invite me to an Australia Day BBQ so I can make more fancy bread things. Please?