Chocolate Wacky Cake

[gingerbred]

The Forbidden Forest still exerts an irresistible pull, despite a plethora of perfectly terrifying experiences there in the past. Perhaps it's the wizard at her side that makes her feel sure those encounters are unlikely to be repeated, and should any overtly aggressive Acromantulas dare to put in an appearance (to say nothing of sinister centaurs

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[beffeysue]

This Wacky Cake sounds like an interesting project. I'm going to copy it and convert the grams to cups/ounces and send it to my daughter and DIL.

I love the Lego SSHG story that you included in your post. And I think Severus is very gallant to have quickly offered making a cake after telling her that a Black Forest cake would be possible until July. 8^)

[gingerbred]

I really like this cake because you can swap out so many things. A friend of mine who is allergic to milk always uses the red wine she doesn't finish for it. I also have an apple spice variant I need to post eventually (if you leave out the cocoa, you need to increase the flour, but not linearly). I'll try to do the math for American units by then. (We don't cook by volume here though, rather mostly by weight.) Ah! But my scale toggles back and forth between units, so that might be easier.

Severus strikes me as someone inclined to see conversation as questions to be answered (or asked) and often only after the fact realise there may have been an emotional component to it his overly sober response neglected to account for. I like the notion he'd try to make up for it.

[mywitch]

Severus strikes me as someone inclined to see conversation as questions to be answered (or asked)..

That's a very interesting way to think of him! I love it

[gingerbred]

It's been complicated enough, what do the Death Eaters want to hear, the Order, what is each side expecting him to tell other side... Conversation has probably been a massiv PITA for years now, I can't see him making things more complicated yet. And every now and again, that really should bite him in the backside.

[mywitch]

A good bite on the backside never hurt anyo---- oh maybe that's not true. *cues Jaws music*

[orlando_switch]

Yes, I can see how that would have shaped him. However, there are lots of men who have not been spies but still view conversations with women as a request for problem solving instead of a sharing/exchange of emotional content.

[gingerbred]

Oh I'm guilty of that too, and I don't even have the male thing to blame it on. (Background in engineering, and father and brother are both engineers, so... *shrug* It warps a person. *nods* 😉)

But I can't fault people for the go to problem solving mindset. I regularly have to stop to ask people if they're venting, looking for emotional support, suggestions, or just keeping you up to date. Very different reasons for one and the same behaviour.

[orlando_switch]

I won't say warping, merely shaping since it's true for every environment. I studied theology and gay and lesbian studies and women's studies and that is the kind of place where people tend to have conversations in a very empathic way.

I even had to unlearn some of those things when becoming male, since I couldn't spontaniously say anymore: 'I know the feeling' when a collegue was venting about feeling shit while having her period. Well, of course I could, and it still would be true but I don't always want to out myself.

I regularly have to stop to ask people if they're venting, looking for emotional support, suggestions, or just keeping you up to date.
But it's very good to ask them to specify their intention if you are not sure what they want from you. I wish more people would do so.

[gingerbred]

LOL yes, I could see where a man telling a woman he knew just how horrible periods could be would get you a lot of funny looks! That truly would seem to be the ultimate attempt at mansplaining. 😃

You know, it's funny just how often people don't seem to know which of those they were after until you commit to trying to provide one and it's wrong... People. *shrug*

Was theology and gay & lesbian studies a good mix? I dated a theology & philosophy major one year at uni, and the theology types often weren't necessarily the most tolerant people. Then again, if you could leave the catholics behind (we were both (culturally) catholic), the protestants seemed a lot kinder.

[orlando_switch]

That truly would seem to be the ultimate attempt at mansplaining. 😃
Yes, exactly :) Or it would in any way raise more questions than being supportive at that moment, I guess.

People. *shrug*
I think that has a lot to do with the fact we don't learn to properly communicate and express our wishes. Not in relationships but also not in general. We all communicate, but some people are definitely more successful in it than others.

Was theology and gay & lesbian studies a good mix?
I was fortunate enough to start studying at the very early 80ties at a time that the free and revolutionary spirit of the 70ties was still wandering around. This all changed a couple of years later, when both church and politics felt back to conservatism.

the theology types often weren't necessarily the most tolerant people.If I think about German catholicism, I think of regions like Bayern, and tolerance is not the first thing that comes into my mind