Chemistry fail. >_

One of the ways in which vegan baking replicates the chemical reaction that eggs would bring to the table, is to whisk together a tiny amount of apple cider vinegar with a larger amount of soy milk (or sometimes rice/almond milks), and set it aside to curdle while compiling the dry ingredients and the margarine/sugar/flavor extracts, then combing all three sets of ingredients in a particular way.

After my chocolate cupcakes failed nearly as spectacularly as the vanilla ones, I did a quick check of all the ingredients' exp. dates.

Turns out my apple cider vinegar, which I only have in the house at all for Mark's cupcakes, expired back in December.

::face-palm::

Store bought goods for the party plus already-made Mark-safe treats for my Zodling it is.

Between that epic fail and finding out Fox decided not to renew The Finder, yesterday was NOT a good day. I'm kinda tempted to break out one of the virgin margarita or sangria recipes I have bookmarked, and settle in with the husband-shaped person and some anime tonight.

Oh, butthurt straight male fanboys...

Sigh.

George Takei linked to some awesome fanart parodying the standard Avengers ads with all the men in heroic action poses and Blackwidow in an ass-shot. (I'd already seen it elsewhere, and promptly bookmarked it: http://kevinbolk.deviantart.com/art/Avengers-Booty-Ass-emble-270937785 )

Most of the commenters seem to think it's varying shades of amusing and awesome. But there's a few comments containing massive, massive, MASSIVE butthurt from entitled straight male fanlings who are convinced if the real comics were drawn that way, no one would but them, and the normal way the comics are drawn is because primarily straight males buy them so it's only natural to cater to their gaze, how dare anyone cater to a different gaze?!

I pointed out that maaaaaaybe more women would buy the comics if female characters weren't treated this way. Morons.