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I'm not vegetarian, but I really enjoy a lot of veggie food, so I thought I'd share my four favourite, mega-easy recipes on here.

Jack Monroe's aubergine and kale satay
This doesn't need the lemon juice, plus I like to use fresh chili and a whole tin of coconut milk (leftover coconut milk is an annoying thing to have hanging about) and extra peanut butter to thicken it up. Serve with rice - delicious!

Quorn and mushroom pasta
I borrowed this recipe from the canteen at a place I worked a few jobs back. Cook some pasta. Cook up a ridiculous amount of mushrooms, plus chili if you like it, plus any other veg you want to use up (tonight I threw in some stray kale), plus quorn pieces. Add a tin of tomatoes, season, let it simmer a bit. When serving, smother it in grated cheese.

Gnocchi bake
Cook up onion and aubergine with chili (sensing a theme here?) and a bit of tomato puree. Cook some gnocchi. Mix together in an oven dish and cover with mozzarella. Bake until the mozzarella has melted. If you don't like aubergine, peppers and courgette work well too, plus you could add a tin of tomatoes instead of the puree (I just like it to have a slightly dryer consistency.)

Cheat's Thai curry
This is a good one for using up any random veg you have in the fridge. I like to use some of the massive bag of dried seaweed I have hanging about, plus peppers, broccoli and whatever else. Cook it up with with good Thai curry paste (I use Mae Ploy), throw in a can of coconut milk and let it simmer. If you can get the type of tofu that's already been deep fried and is all fluffy, it's delicious to throw that in too. Serve with rice.

I'd love it if anyone could share a quick, easy veggie recipe that they like to make for dinner!

We are (hopefully) nearing the end of the longest, most bitter cold snap I've known in any December since I moved to the south 17 years ago. It snowed last Sunday and it hasn't risen much above 0 since, so the pavements are just a mass of ice and every time you go out you feel like you're going to fall straight on your face. Along with the four days of train strikes this week (and disruption to the trains because of the snow on non-strike days) the whole week has had a strange, suspended feeling. I'm looking forward to the thaw and not having constant hat hair from my woolly hat.

Musk's actions are making me feel sick and sad about being on twitter, so I'm trying out taking a break for a few days first, to see how it goes. I'm already on discord and I love it, and everything I've heard about Mastodon doesn't really appeal. I was wondering whether any friends here were on cohost and what you make of it? Basically it would be nice to find something a bit similar to DW but which works on mobile and where posting photos isn't an entire frustrating palava. 

I've posted three (short) fics this month and I'm now planning to retreat to my fainting couch until yuletide. 😄 This fic was born from thinking it up while insomniac at 3am and it feels like a bit of an out there thing to post for my first f/f weilan but, well, here it is!

This was inspired by Lynx's brilliant Zhao Yunlan popsicle art: Hot Stuff

Scum Villain friends, if you haven't already, you still have entire hours as I'm writing to sign up for the Scum Villain Solstice Exchange.

It looks super fun and low-stress and I've just signed up!

Now that I have a gabillion icon slots back, I've been making icons to fill them! And I'm whacking some of them up here in case anyone would like to help themselves.

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I've recently started following the incredibly talented weilan fan artist Skeptical_Lynx on twitter, and I'm here to briefly shout about how amazing their fun, sexy, gorgeous art is cos every time they post something I can't stop thinking about it.

The Lord Guardian - look at saucepot ZYL here! The whip, the expression on his face, the way his shirt is riding up; it's all so perfect and fills me with massive Yunlan love (and love for the artist!)

All I want is you in the moment - Shen Wei's faaaaaace here. It's so hot. And his arm braced around the back of Zhao Yunlan's head, and the blush rising in his cheeks? omg.

Professor Shen got a rose from a not-so-secret admirer - the cuteness!! The sweetness! I die. 😍

I posted two new stories this week!


Summary: Lin Nansheng lifts the chemise to find a pair of silky panties, bordered with delicate lace. Blood rushes to his face. He's only seen the like before in dirty pictures pinned up by his fellow trainees in the bunk room at camp. And Chen Moqun has bought them for him.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System is my absolute favourite danmei novel other than Guardian (I posted about it here and here) and, like a lovely early Christmas present, my copy of vol #1 of the English translation arrived through my door yesterday! 

It has gorgeous, cute art and I really love the way the translation has been done - it flows so well and hasn't been overly localised. And if you're a fan of Modao Zushi and/or Tianguan Cifu, those are being published too. (In my head, those titles are always in Chinese, but Scum Villain is just Scum Villain 😂)

It's such an utter joy to be able to actually hold and read a physical translation and, as a bonus, I just spotted that Blackwells and Waterstones are stocking vol 1, so next time I won't have to order from overseas!

I have a bad habit of bookmarking shows I want to try and then losing them, so I'm listing them here as I hopefully can't then lose this post. I would LOVE more recs too!

Signal - a cop from 2015 and one from 1989 work together to solve cold cases and prevent crimes from happening, using some kind of magical walkie-talkie. This sounds like a really great concept, so it's going to be up first.

Sell Your Haunted House - an exorcist estate agent and a con-artist team up? This has been recced to me and sounds like spooky fun; will be watching from behind a cushion.

To Dear Myself - relationship/work drama. I'm not sure this is going to be my particular cup of tea, but I do want to at least finally watch a couple of eps, purely for ZYL.

Mr Heart - a queer high school romance drama about runners. Looks cute!

Squid Game - maybe? The concept doesn't massively appeal, but a soft-hearted colleague recced it to me yesterday, so I guess it can't be as grim and gory as I'd vaguely picked up.

Rainless Love in a Godless Land - I've already watched one ep of this and enjoyed it, but it's only coming out once a week, so I need to remember to keep up with it. It's about the gods of an indigenous Taiwanese people, who are leaving the mortal realm because of environmental pollution, and a young human (?) woman who can see the gods, but so far only when she's drunk. 😄