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resonantI had a thought and I put it on the top of the list so that if anybody comes up with brilliant ideas, I'll have time to put them into action: What Frances (of Hoban & Hoban's Bread and Jam for Frances) would eat for Christmas dinner, if she celebrated Christmas and for whatever totally not topical reason she found herself eating Christmas dinner alone.
One of my fannish friends once told me she was working on the best project ever: re-creating (and eating) the final lunch from Bread and Jam For Frances:
(I remember we talked about how the serving sizes must have been very, very small, or else little badgers must have very, very big appetites.)
I'm going to be alone for Christmas, as I was for Thanksgiving; I just can't feel safe eating an indoor dinner with people who don't live with me. And my experience on Thanksgiving was that I really missed the hospitality of cooking an uncommon meal and eating it with uncommon ceremony.
(Who, being a grade-school-aged badger, probably doesn't make her own lunches, but never mind; in my head I can be both Frances and Frances' mother. And I have a big freezer for storing leftovers.)
Possibly Frances would have one piece each of both ham and turkey, and a teaspoon each of both gravy and cranberry sauce, and both stuffing and mashed potatoes, and a salad the size of a cupped hand, and about two mouthfuls each of two kinds of pie?
Possibly Frances would decide to go directly to the leftover stage and eat a ham and turkey sandwich with carrots and cucumbers and a very small orange and a ring of canned pineapple and a couple of pieces of this really delightful chocolate covered toffee that was an excellent early gift this year?
I welcome badger-inspired menu ideas!
Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.
This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...
As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.
20.runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
21.minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
22.hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
23.slvrbld47 -- "MCU, Tony lives through Endgame: Miraculously. As a Consequence, versions of Tony Stark are flung through the Multiverse, ending up in every Fandom. Including Your Favorites. Tony Stark is the new little black dress. I would love to see Tony Stark a werewolf in TeenWolf..."
24.runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
25.wychwood -- Favourite Due South secondary character?
26.ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
27.reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
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One of my fannish friends once told me she was working on the best project ever: re-creating (and eating) the final lunch from Bread and Jam For Frances:
A thermos filled with cream of tomato soup, and a lobster salad sandwich on thin slices of white bread, and celery, carrot sticks, and black olives, and a little cardboard shaker of salt for the celery, and two plums, and a tiny basket of cherries, and vanilla pudding with chocolate sprinkles, and a spoon to eat it with.
(I remember we talked about how the serving sizes must have been very, very small, or else little badgers must have very, very big appetites.)
I'm going to be alone for Christmas, as I was for Thanksgiving; I just can't feel safe eating an indoor dinner with people who don't live with me. And my experience on Thanksgiving was that I really missed the hospitality of cooking an uncommon meal and eating it with uncommon ceremony.
(Who, being a grade-school-aged badger, probably doesn't make her own lunches, but never mind; in my head I can be both Frances and Frances' mother. And I have a big freezer for storing leftovers.)
Possibly Frances would have one piece each of both ham and turkey, and a teaspoon each of both gravy and cranberry sauce, and both stuffing and mashed potatoes, and a salad the size of a cupped hand, and about two mouthfuls each of two kinds of pie?
Possibly Frances would decide to go directly to the leftover stage and eat a ham and turkey sandwich with carrots and cucumbers and a very small orange and a ring of canned pineapple and a couple of pieces of this really delightful chocolate covered toffee that was an excellent early gift this year?
I welcome badger-inspired menu ideas!
Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.
This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...
As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.
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runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"21.
minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"22.
hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)" 23.
slvrbld47 -- "MCU, Tony lives through Endgame: Miraculously. As a Consequence, versions of Tony Stark are flung through the Multiverse, ending up in every Fandom. Including Your Favorites. Tony Stark is the new little black dress. I would love to see Tony Stark a werewolf in TeenWolf..."24.
runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"25.
wychwood -- Favourite Due South secondary character?26.
ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."27.
reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"28.
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30.
31.
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