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[altraviolet]

recipes, Fandom Wank, racism?

So at some point in 2007/2008, I found a thread of like... idk what was going on exactly. I think someone was talking about racism in the context of Fandom Wank, and then other people started butting in posting recipes. I saved the recipes, then at some point got annoyed by all the garbage in between them and copy pasted the whole damn thing, figuring I'd go back later and cut out the irrelevant posts and organize the recipes.

15 years later this lil old RTF has what I assume someone will call a goldmine look into the past.

So here it is. The entire thing. You'll see that at the beginning I separated out the recipes and then stopped bothering. I very honestly didn't look at all the comments so WARNING you might see shit you didn't want to see. But yeah. Also screen reader friends you probably want to skip this cuz there’s a ton of just like, written out html stuff. Okay here you go:

From F_W 1/1/07 http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1041982.html?thread=141665342#t141665342

No Frost Chocolate Chip Cake 1 Pk. sour cream chocolate cake 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips 1/2 cup oil 4 eggs 1 cup sour cream 1 3oz instant chocolate pudding 1/2 cup warm water

Stir cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, and sour cream together. Add oil, chocolate chips, and warm water. Mix well. Bake 45-55 minutes at 350 degrees. Sprinkle with powder sugar. It's delicious!

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1041982.html?thread=141733950#t141733950 Singe's Peach Cobbler

1 cup self-rising flour 1 stick butter or margarine 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk 1 15oz can of yellow cling peaches in syrup

Melt butter in deep-dish skillet or casserole dish. Mix together milk, sugar and flour and pour over the butter. (Do not mix in!) Pour can of peaches, syrup and all, over the batter. (Do not mix in!) Place in oven at 350 degrees and bake until it's bubbly brown. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream.

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"Why the hell is my paycheck two days late?!" soup (digigirl132)

~1 pound of some sort of cut up/ground up meat (hamburger works best, but feel free to use whatever you have on hand) ~1 pound or 1 1/2 pounds veggies of your choice (if you like broth, go with the first. if you like stuff, go with the second) ~1 can diced tomatoes (optional) ~6-9 cups water (depending on how much broth you like) ~1 bayleaf ~2 bullion cubes for every 3 cups of water (you beef for cow meats, and chicken for any other kinds of meats.) ~a dash of garlic ~a dash of salt ~a dash of pepper ~a dash of whatever other seasonings you like

STEP ONE: Fully cook meat in a frying pan. STEP TWO: Add water, veggies, tomatoes, bullion cubes, and bayleaf to either a crockpot on high or a "noodle pot" on 6. (I forget what they're really called, but they're the really big pots that are freaking impossible to lift if they are full of water) STEP THREE: once the water is bubbling a little (but not full out boiling), turn the heat down to low on the crockpot or 1 on the "noodle pot" and add the cooked meat. Add seasonings. STEP FOUR: Let cook for an hour and a half, stirring every ten minutes. STEP FIVE: Eat soup.

This recipie serves 6-8 people. The name tells you how my family discovered this recipie. ^_^

From http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1164745.html?thread=181818057#t181818057 2 boneless chicken breat halves 1 large onion, sliced 3 tablespoons veg. oil 1 can sliced tomatoes 1 teaspoon grated ginger (or 1/2 teaspoon powdered) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or to taste) 3 tablespoons curry powder 1 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 cup yogurt (plain) Cut chicken into small cubes. Heat oil in large skillet and sautÈ onions (long slow cooking at this stage is the secret to a good curry! :) ). Don't brown - just cook for about 10 minutes until nice and soft. Add garlic (1 teaspoon) and ginger and continue cooking for about 2 minutes. Add chili powder and curry power and stir and cook about 1 minute. Add tomatoes (with juice!) and mix well. Add salt. Stir in chicken and cover. Cook over low heat about 30 minutes until chicken is done. Stir in yogurt until smooth. Serve with rice and naan and death pickles! Love, Sera's mom

from same F_W as above:fern_on_fen ([info]fern_on_fen) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,

@ 2008-07-03 15:24:00

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Entry tags: anonymeme, dramatic reading, fandom: doctor who, ianto is crying, lurk moar, oh christ here we go again, omg mock people mock, oppression, outraged mice, please delete me, please mommy make it stop, race wank, racism, raised by hyenas, serious business, someone is wrong on the internet!, still not funny, stop sharing your thoughts, think of the children, this is not funny, this is the wank that never ends, too many fucking tags, unfunny business, wankers who will not shut up, wanking inside the house, what is wrong with you people?, what the shit is this?, whut, writers are often pompous douches, you are not funny, your kink is not okay

Race Wank? In Who Fandom? It's just as likely as you'd think… As Whomageddon rolls on, [info]doctorwho brings us another sterling gem. Or rather, two bright turds of wank, coupled together to form a synergistic pile of perfection.

First, [info]cringer1982 shares that he's written a very pointed letter to the BBC about how they have portrayed Asians in their recent episode Turn Left. He neglects to mention that he's white as the fresh driven snow. Irish, in fact.

BBC officials respond with a letter that has nothing to do with anything.

Some people don't see his point.

[info]myfavouriteplum is just as mad at Turn Left, but being Chinese, with an appropriately Chinese icon, people seem to be taking her protests a little more seriously.

Hilariously, seriously in fact.

It was a bit like if they had "Planet of the Africans" and had people dancing around with spears and singing "Mammy". Do. Not. Want.

Also, the anon meme continues to be offended by everything.

Who wank, I just don't know how to quit you.

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[info]tarash 2008-07-03 08:46 pm UTC (link) Good thing: The guy sends a letter/e-mail of complaint to the people responsible for Doctor Who. While I'm sure the racism debate on LJ and other fannish circles does a lot of good in that it makes people think about character portrayal and all that, those essays and discussions aren't going to change the show. So, good on the guy to complain to the actual people responsible for the things he found offensive.

Bad thing: Well, like the anon meme said "LET'S PLAY FUNNY/NOT FUNNY

FUNNY: FANDOM_WANK NOT FUNNY: RACISM

SEE THE DIFFERENCE?"

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[info]goblin 2008-07-03 08:58 pm UTC (link) I LAUGHED AT THE TAGS. I LAUGHED IN ANTICIPATION OF A TSUNAMI OF "LURK MOAR". THERE IS HUMOUR TO BE HAD, MY FRIEND, JUST NOT WHERE THE OP EXPECTED IT.

AND WHAT'S SO SCANDALOUSLY WANKY ABOUT A WHITE GUY DISAPPROVING OF RACISM, ANYWAY? OOPS, I SHOULD HAVE TOSSED A TOWEL ON THE FLOOR BEFORE I SAID THAT. HOLD ON; I KNOW WHERE THE MOP IS.

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[info]lab 2008-07-03 08:49 pm UTC (link) The next time you think about posting this here - turn right.

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[info]puipui 2008-07-03 09:16 pm UTC (link) Don't mind me, I'm just here to post with the matching icon. YET AGAIN. >:(

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[info]sevendeadlyfun 2008-07-03 08:53 pm UTC (link) Wow. Even I know race wank isn't funny. Next time, bring Twilight wank instead. That's a guaranteed funny.

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[info]aslantabook 2008-07-03 08:53 pm UTC (link) I hear "Who Wank" sung as an existential version of "She Bang".

And every time Roberta signs her posts, I read it as a random interjection of her name.

Matt Daaaaamonnn…

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[info]llama_treats 2008-07-03 09:06 pm UTC (link) I loved Turn Left.

So there.

P.S. I'm white as the fresh driven snow. Well, with a slight tan.

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[info]freewheel 2008-07-03 09:07 pm UTC (link) I don't know about him, but I eat potatoes, drink Guinness and guard my pot of gold all the time. Sounds like a good Friday night to me.

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[info]puipui 2008-07-03 09:15 pm UTC (link) Who wank, I just don't know how to quit you.

But, oh, how we wish you did.

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[info]eldritch 2008-07-03 09:16 pm UTC (link) I'm just ASTOUNDED at how people STILL haven't learned that F_W and racism don't mix.

Do we need helpful diagrams? I think we might.

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[info]ari_o 2008-07-03 09:18 pm UTC (link) There is a time and place. This is neither.

(Reply to this) My mom's chicken curry! [info]seraphtrevs 2008-07-03 09:20 pm UTC (link) 2 boneless chicken breat halves 1 large onion, sliced 3 tablespoons veg. oil 1 can sliced tomatoes 1 teaspoon grated ginger (or 1/2 teaspoon powdered) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or to taste) 3 tablespoons curry powder 1 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 cup yogurt (plain)

Cut chicken into small cubes. Heat oil in large skillet and sautÈ onions (long slow cooking at this stage is the secret to a good curry! :) ). Don't brown - just cook for about 10 minutes until nice and soft. Add garlic and ginger and continue cooking for about 2 minutes. Add chili powder and curry power and stir and cook about 1 minute. Add tomatoes (with juice!) and mix well. Add salt.

Stir in chicken and cover. Cook over low heat about 30 minutes until chicken is done. Stir in yogurt until smooth.

Serve with rice and naan and death pickles!

Love, Sera's mom

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[info]sneer 2008-07-03 09:42 pm UTC (link) Kidnapper's Casserole

2 teaspoons oil 1/2 cup sliced onion 2 to 2 1/2 cups cooked flat noodles 1 cup sliced mushrooms 1/2 shredded cooked ham or ham-in-a-can 2/3 cup cubed cheese (any kind) 1/2 teaspoon each salt, marjoram, and thyme 1/4 teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons cracker crumbs 1 egg, beaten with 2 tablespoons milk 2 to 3 tablespoons grated cheese

Saute onion in oil 3 to 5 minutes. Combine in bowl with noodles, mushrooms, ham, cheese, and seasonings. Sprinkle buttered casserole dish with crumbs; spoon noodle mixture in. Top with egg mixture. Bake in 400 degree oven 20 minutes, sprinkle with grated cheese, bake 10 more minutes.

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[info]seca 2008-07-03 10:05 pm UTC (link) I have nothing to add but boobies.

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[info]panthea 2008-07-03 10:10 pm UTC (link) OH FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST.

Does nobody learn things anymore?

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[info]mad_teacup 2008-07-03 10:23 pm UTC (link) Lolz.

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[info]missdaisy 2008-07-03 10:23 pm UTC (link) It's a competition, right? You're all trying to find The One Funny Race Wank, aren't you? What's the prize? I'll pay you double to cut it the fuck out.

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[info]deliciouschaos 2008-07-03 10:35 pm UTC (link) No.

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[info]deludedvision 2008-07-03 10:41 pm UTC (link) I love that this Saturday Who fandom might succeed where Potter fandom failed: massive breaking of the internet.

It's going to be fun.

(Reply to this) Fried Rice and Peanut Grilled Chicken [info]tehrin 2008-07-03 10:48 pm UTC (link) Fried Rice

4 cups cooled, cooked rice 4 tbsp olive oil 2 large eggs 1 tsp salt pepper 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 chopped green onions

Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in wok or large skillet. Combine eggs, pepper, and salt in a bowl and wisk lightly, then scramble in wok. Put eggs aside in a bowl and clean out wok.

Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil in wok and add rice. Heat and stir rice for a few minutes, then add soy sauce and eggs and stir. Add green onions then remove from eat.

Peanut Grilled Chicken

2 tbsp peanut butter 1 tbsp lime juice 2 tsp soy sauce 1 clove chopped garlic 1/2 to 3/4 curry powder dash of red pepper 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Preheat grill to medium. Combine ingredients (except chicken) in a small bowl. 2.Place chicken on grill and brush half of the mixture on chicken. Cook for 6 minutes, then flip and brush with remaining sauce. Grill for 6 or 7 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink (170 degrees F).

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[illmetkismet]

Sugardaddy/sugarbaby relationship but the one with money is an annoying 23 year old who like, made a successful app in college or something, and the poor one is a 40-something single dad with medical debt who was just 'made redundant' at his soul-killing job. Mmmmm-hmmmm.... Thinking about this.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[beebfreeb]

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[chessb0r3d]

Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

[clumxy]

PINES. PINES. PINES. PINES.

[Image description: art of Mabel and Dipper from Gravity Falls. They're grinning, and they each have one eye glowing yellow. They have their arms around each other, and they make a triangle symbol together with their fingers.

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[beybuniki]

origin - rising

[ninjasmudge]

last night i had a dream that i was playing minecraft and i noticed i had 77 blocks of cobblestone in one slot instead of it being capped at 64 and it was so jarring to me that it literally booted me out of the dream. like sure you can fly now and your childhood home is a pharmacy but 77 pieces of cobblestone? unthinkable. wake the fuck up.

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

[roninkairi]

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