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Dutch: Killjoys
2 tumblr graphics for the gameofcards Femme Fatale prompts “One Way or Another” (Blondie) and “Living the Vida Loca” (Ricky Martin)
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For the gameofcards challenge, create icons of characters you would invite to your imaginary party. You may choose a theme.

My theme is costume party. All the characters are canonically wearing costumes (or disguises)



Cesare (The Borgias), Roman god; Leo (Da Vinci's Demons) as Count Riario; Nolan (Revenge) as an admiral; Cara (Legend of the Seeker) as a princess; Parker (Leverage) as an FBI agent

minimum fills - 4 icons
- 2 gifs / banners / sigtags / doodles or sketches
- 1 picspam (minimum 5 pics)
- 1 wallpaper (minimum size 1024 x 768) / other art piece
- 200 words of fiction / meta
- 1 fanvid (minimum duration 15 seconds; not including intro and end credits)


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"I made him cookies. Sand tarts."

source: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=midnight-texas-2017&episode=s01e01


In the first episode of "Midnight, Texas", Manfred gets a plate of welcome to the neighbourhood sand tarts from Fiji. They're also magical cookies, since Fiji is a witch, and if he had any bad intentions toward the town's inhabitants, Manfred would, Fiji tells her friend, "be tossing those cookies".


Source: https://karamelmikaelsons.tumblr.com/post/163407460887/dont-worry-i-made-him-cookies

I'd not heard of sand tarts before and some googling gives some interesting information about the Pennsylvanian Dutch settlers who brought them to America, Amish families, and the Christmas tradition of making them.
Sand tarts are dusted with sugar (I guess giving the "sand" texture), powered sugar, and/or have nuts, pecans or almonds most often, as decorations.

I've wanted to make sand tarts since seeing the episode, being a fan of the show, enjoying occasional new forays into the world of cake/biscuit making, and an eclectic pagan :)
So I looked at several recipes of the many available online and chose this one:
Grandma's Sand Tart Cookies

The problem was that American recipes use cups (why don't you weigh things?! Also why does butter come in sticks?! Why are even your tablespoons bigger than ours?! Why Fahrenheit?!) so I had to do a bit of converting via some websites.
Then I came to make the dough and…I'm not feeding an entire village! So I halved the mixture and I probably should have rolled a bit thinner (I had to increase the cooking time) and still got 40 cookies. For comparison I tend to make about 15-20 biscuits/cookies from a UK recipe.
They are much approved of by the family though so a few more were welcome, and I might make them again :)

I made rounds, stars, a couple of reindeers, and a few Christmas tree shapes.
Here is a photo:



This is also an entry for the gameofcards fandom food challenge.

For the gameofcards icon challenge:

Letter L

Lucrezia Borgia / Leonardo / llama/ Luke Arnold/ Lancelot

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Game of Cards is a multifandom landcomm where you play games, create graphics, write fiction, and more, to earn points for your team. If you're looking for some prompts/excuses to make more fanworks or stock icons/original fic drabbles, and/or want to socalise a bit more, consider signing up and tell them I sent you :)

Title: Trust Issues
Fandom: Black Sails
Wordcount: 691
Prompt: For a gameofcards writing challenge, use an ao3tagoftheday post to inspire a fic. I used liberal use of the word 'fuck'
Pairing/charcters: Max & John Silver
Summary: modern au. A drinking game that has Max tell truths about Silver's activities nearly goes awry but he should trust her more than that.
other tags: The Lord of the Rings References, Male-Female Friendship, how does friendship work, fluff and mild crack and mild angst, Misunderstandings, I will go down with this ship

also at AO3

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For gameofcards, winter/winter holidays stock icons and graphics

Total Icon Count: 20

Teasers:

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5 x tumblr graphic: http://meridianrose.tumblr.com/post/154429802031/5-x-graphics-for-the-winter-gameofcards-challenge

10 icons for the 10in20 winter holidays challenge, prompts: red, green, light textures, snow, fake background, food & drink, scenery, winter clothing, candycane, bokeh

Graphic: game of cards movie alphabet challenge (X, Charles Xavier) - tumblr

Book of Ficlets (Da Vinci's Demons ficlets/drabbles) updated – current count 10 chapters
Latest addition, one fill for the trope bingo prompt "secret twin/doppelganger": Stranger With My Face

Graphics for the gameofcards autumn inspiration challenge.
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