In which I am issuing a challenge.

[paper_tzipporah]

Threadjacking: DO IT. No, seriously. I don't actually know how many people are reading this, but YOU ARE ALL AWESOME. Now go talk to each other.

I'll make it easy -- we'll all answer some questions in the comments! Like a friending meme, except there's no particular theme to this. brilligspoons helped me with the questions, so blame her if you don't like them

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[paper_tzipporah]

1. Name: Joni

2. Fandoms, if any: Criminal Minds, X-Men: First Class, Supernatural, White Collar, eighty gazillion others.

3. Your favorite song to play loudly at 3 AM while pretending you're still in college (some of you ARE still in college, actually): Girlfriend, by Avril Lavigne.

4. How do you take your coffee? If you don't drink coffee, what is wrong with you? Fine, how do you take your goddamn tea or whatever? With soy milk, usually. With sweetened condensed milk, when it's available.

5. Are you an asshole? Fuck yes.

6. Why are you blogging and how do you plan on enriching my LiveJournal experience? I just really like being absurd on the internet. And elsewhere. HOW WILL YOU LIVE WITHOUT THESE STUPID QUESTIONS?

7. Be honest: are you secretly emo? Do you listen to old Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith albums? Alone, in the dark? CRYING? No, but I did hear a new Bright Eyes song on the radio the other month and it wasn't emo or whiny or anything! SHOCKINGLY CATCHY, in fact.

8. What is your shiv base material of choice? Some

[fluffygremlin]

Jason Momoa does horrid things to my ovaries.

[kindness_says]

Now to dance to "Girlfriend."

Re: FUCK YOU MY QUESTIONS ARE AWESOME AND TOTALLY RELEVANT

[paper_tzipporah]

Oh, man, now I want Emma Frost to reign as supreme commander, etc. That would be AMAZEBALLS.

Also, are we showing the muffins who's boss by EATING THEM? Because I am okay with that. Also I want a muffin now. DAMN YOU.

Re: FUCK YOU MY QUESTIONS ARE AWESOME AND TOTALLY RELEVANT

[rabid_bookwyrm]

You should do it. I would read that. I would read that so hard.

[paper_tzipporah]

Yes, but what KIND of biscuits? And, more importantly, do you have a recipe to share?

[rabid_bookwyrm]

So, not an endorsement, because I've never tried the recipe. But Betty Crocker rarely guides me astray (even if she didn't actually exist). So here's the Southern Biscuits recipe from the Betty Crocker Cookbook (1973). My favorite biscuits recipe is slightly downthread; I highly recommend it.

Southern Biscuits
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup buttermilk

Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Measure flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and soda into a bowl. Cut in shortening thoroughly, until mixture looks like meal.

Stir in almost all the buttermilk. If dough is not pliable, add just enough milk to make a soft, puffy, easy-to-roll dough. Round up dough on lightly floured cloth-covered board. Knead lightly 20 to 25 times, about 30 seconds. Roll a little less than 1/2 inch thick. Cut with loured biscuit cutter. Place on uncreased baking sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.

I LOVE BRILLIGSPOONS!!!

[fluffygremlin]

1. Name: Fluffy!

2. Fandoms, if any: Err… Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Sirens, Torchwood, X-Men: First Class, Harry Potter, etc, etc, etc.

3. Your favorite song to play loudly at 3 AM while pretending you're still in college (some of you ARE still in college, actually): If I'm awake at 3AM then I'm too busy watching gayporn GIFs on Tumblr to listen to music that doesn't consist of BOWCHICKBOWWOW.

4. How do you take your coffee? If you don't drink coffee, what is wrong with you? Fine, how do you take your goddamn tea or whatever? I’ll take a medium doubledouble, please and thank you!

5. Are you an asshole? Sometimes.

6. Why are you blogging and how do you plan on enriching my LiveJournal experience? I don’t “blog”. To say that I “blog” would be to imply people can get something out of what I post. I bitch and moan and wax poeticallysarcastically about life and sometimes I write a little smut.

7. Be honest: are you secretly emo? Do you listen to old Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith albums? Alone, in the dark? CRYING?

Re: I LOVE BRILLIGSPOONS!!!

[evilsimon]

1. Name: Fluffy!

THERE ARE TWO OF US?!

Re: I LOVE BRILLIGSPOONS!!!

[fluffygremlin]

There were five but I killed the others.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!

Re: I LOVE BRILLIGSPOONS!!!

[evilsimon]

[junkshop_disco]

1. Name: JD

2. Fandoms, if any: Merlin

3. Your favorite song to play loudly at 3 AM while pretending you're still in college (some of you ARE still in college, actually): Lately, Killing In The Name Of, Rage Against The Machine. FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME... even though no-one's actually trying to tell me what to do.

4. How do you take your coffee? If you don't drink coffee, what is wrong with you? Fine, how do you take your goddamn tea or whatever? Tragic story - I went vegan, and since then I am INCAPABLE of making a coffee. Like the soy milk just VOLDEMORTS into bits and it’s gross so I can only have coffee when someone at Stabucks makes it for me :/. In which case I will have a caramel machiato. Otherwise? Tea with two.

5. Are you an asshole? Not usually, but I can Feminist Hulk up when provoked.

6. Why are you blogging and how do you plan on enriching my LiveJournal experience? I work from home so LJ for me is like chatting with people at the water cooler. I will enrich your blogsperience by… over-sharing?

7. Be

[apple_pathways]

FUCK YEAH, Rage Against the Machine! I've been on a huge RATM kick lately. I blast it from the windows of my Ford Focus and pretend like I'm badass when I'm out at the farmer's market...

[paper_tzipporah]

What are you allergic to? My new bandmate is allergic to both wheat AND dairy, so now I'm looking for ways to modify all my recipes to include, like, almond meal and applesauce and stuff, instead of flour and butter.

[imaginarycircus]

LOL Kilgore Trout is an awesome choice. Will you drink martinis?