Ship Bracket 2020 - Round Two - A Little Nerd Music

Ship Bracket 2020 - Round Two

3/8/2020

21 Comments

by Christina

And the polls are OFFICIALLY OPEN! Notes for this round:

Polls close at 9PM PT on March 12th.
The winner of the wild card has the opportunity to replace the winner with the fewest votes this round as long as they themselves receive more votes. The ships chosen for the wild card were chosen because, despite losing, the received the four highest vote totals last round. There will be another wild card next round.
Please share your recs and reasons for loving your ship in the brackets.
You can view the updated bracket here
Good luck!

21 Comments

Caramel Muffin

3/9/2020 12:52:26 am

More snack ideas, for when we all need that sugar hit. 😃

Lemonade Scones

INGREDIENTS
300g (2 cups) self-raising flour, sifted
55g (1/4 cup) caster sugar
125ml (1/2 cup) thick cream
125ml (1/2 cup) lemonade
40ml (2 tablespoons) milk
Lemon curd, to serve
Whipped cream, to serve

METHOD
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 220C. Lightly grease a baking tray.
Step 2
Place the flour, sugar and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Add the cream and lemonade and mix to form a soft dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured workbench and knead lightly until combined. Press the dough with your hands to a thickness of about 2cm. Use a 6cm round cutter to cut out 8 scones, place on baking tray and brush the tops with some milk. Re-roll scraps to make a few extra scones. Bake for 10-15 minutes until lightly browned. Serve warm with lemon curd and whipped cream.

Now back to voting!😆😍

Marrish5ever

3/9/2020 02:27:12 am

Here’s more sugary goodness!

Big Soft Ginger Biscuits

Ingredients
Serves: 24

2¼ cups (280g) plain flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
170g margarine or butter, softened
1 cup (220g) white sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1/4 cup (90g) molasses or golden syrup
2 tablespoons white sugar (for rolling)

Directions
Preparation:15min › Cook:10min › Ready in:25min

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Sift together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.

2.In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. Shape dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the cookies 5cm apart onto an ungreased baking tray and flatten slightly.

3.Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.

❤️

Emelie

3/9/2020 02:36:50 am

My favourite cupcake recipe!

Gingerbread cupcakes with ginger glaze

Ingredients
Serves: 12

1 1/3 cups plain flour
3 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Salt
Ground cloves
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup treacle or golden syrup
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 egg whites
1/2 cup buttermilk
For the icing
1 piece (5cm) fresh ginger
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 tablespoons chopped crystallised ginger

Directions
Preparation:15min › Cook:20min › Ready in:35min

1.Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a 12-hole tray of 6cm muffin cups with paper liners; put aside. In a bowl combine the flour, ginger, mustard, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and a pinch each of salt and cloves.
2.Beat the brown sugar, treacle and oil with an electric mixer until well combined. Beat in the egg whites, one at a time, until incorporated and light in texture. Alternately fold the flour mixture and the buttermilk into the sugar mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
3.Spoon into the prepared muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool in the tray on a wire rack.
4.For the icing; grate the fresh ginger finely. Squeeze the ginger to extract the juice and measure out 2 teaspoons. Combine the icing sugar and ginger juice in a small bowl. Spread the tops of the cooled cupcakes with the ginger glaze. Sprinkle with the crystallised ginger.

Back to voting!!

Marrish5ever

3/9/2020 02:50:48 am

Are we doing a theme here? Ok, have some more ginger! 😆

Ye Ole Gingerbread Loaf

Ingredients
Serves: 8

185g butter
1 cup (155g) brown sugar
3 tablespoons (90g) golden syrup
1 cup (250ml) milk
2 cups (250g) plain flour
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon allspice
1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions
Preparation:8min › Cook:1hour › Ready in:1hour8min

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2.In a medium sized pot, bring the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk to the boil. Add the sifted flour, ginger and all spice and mix well. Dissolve the baking soda in a little hot water and mix in with the rest of the ingredients. Pour into a non-stick greased loaf tin.
3.Place the tin in the oven and reduce the temperature to 160 degrees C and cook for 1 hour.

I think we’re going into sugar overload here. 🤣😋 🤤

Kate Byrne

3/9/2020 03:04:57 am

MORE GINGER-Y GOODNESS!!!!! 😉

Spiced Ginger Snaps

Ingredients
Serves: 36

1 cup (200g) caster sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
155g butter
2 cups (250g) plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions
Preparation:10min › Cook:6min › Ready in:16min

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2.Cream sugar, egg, salt and butter together. Add flour, bicarb soda and spices. Mix well. Roll teaspoonfuls of dough into balls and roll the balls in extra sugar.
3.Bake in preheated oven for 5 to 6 minutes.

Hellhounds And Banshees

3/9/2020 03:01:39 am

POWER HOUR!!

MORE POWER! MORE SUGAR!

MORE COFFEE!! 😁🤪

Banana Pancakes with Vanilla

Ingredients
Serves: 6

1 cup (130g) plain flour
1 tablespoon (20g) white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
1 cup (250ml) milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoons (40ml) vegetable oil
2 ripe bananas, mashed

Directions
Preparation:5min › Cook:10min › Ready in:15min

1.Combine flour, white sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together egg, milk, vanilla, vegetable oil and bananas.
2.Stir flour mixture into banana mixture; batter will be slightly lumpy.
3.Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on both sides; serve hot.

Marrish5ever

3/10/2020 12:06:24 am

Mod

Is the Wildcard bracket frozen or is it just me?

Thanks for any help ( I probably over voted 😕)

Oh well, time for a break.

I’M THE ALPHA NOW

3/10/2020 12:24:52 am

Sterek may be gone here, but the fandom is still strong.

I was dragged into this fandom by the Ultimate Slash Madness Tourney run by After Elton. That poll came about when Entertainment Weekly wouldn’t accept popular same-sex nominations for their poll, which annoyed Sterek and Destiel shippers.

So, a new poll was born. And all the shippers left tons of links to their favourite fic, art, vids in the comments. That’s how I became a Sterek shipper.

🥰😍❤️❤️

I’m just a fannibal

3/10/2020 04:28:26 am

Hannigram recs:

* Untitled Apocalyptic Cannibal Romance by halfhardtorock

https://archiveofourown.org/works/829913

* come around again (only want to say goodbye) by hito

https://archiveofourown.org/works/942879

* Till the bitter end by voxofthevoid

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1989333

* He Who Pours Out Vengeance by Underground

https://archiveofourown.org/works/871298

* Tėvelis by shiphitsthefan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7098148

* A Great and Gruesome Height by mokuyoubi

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4686710

* 5 Years 7 Months Earlier by TigerPrawn

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7683772

You’re a wizard, Harry!

3/10/2020 06:10:31 am

Which Drarry recs do I choose?! Okay, I’ll give it a go.

** Commencement by Aja

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9651680

** The Corruption Sequence series by Beren

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1798

** Not Entirely Unexpected by emmagrant01

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4244574

** The Bludger and the Boy by SilentAuror

http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=4701&chapter=1&font=&size=

** Starts With a Spin by Maxine

https://archiveofourown.org/works/344335?view_full_work=true

** One Night at the Ministry by Maeglin_Yedi.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1007699

** Unhook the Stars by jad

https://archiveofourown.org/works/590246?view_full_work=true

❤️🧡❤️❤️💚

Rats and Foxes

3/11/2020 03:32:44 am

Mulder/Krycek fic recs -

* Breathe by Orangy & Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/breathe.html

* Cauterized by Orangy & Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/cauterized.html

* For As Long As I Can Remember by Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/foraslongasicanremember.html

And the sequel..

* Never Forget by Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/neverforget.html

* Too Little Too Late by Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/toolittletoolate.html

And the sequels..

* Leave by Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/leave.html

And..

* Falling by Satina

https://www.squidge.org/ratales/falling.html

* Perfect Partners by Megaera

https://www.squidge.org/ratb/fic/megaera_perfect.htm

Kate Byrne

3/12/2020 05:49:15 am

Some refreshments are needed! Coffee related, of course!

CINNAMON LATTE

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Yield: 1 serving

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup milk
3 to 4 tablespoons cinnamon flavored syrup
1 Folgers® Black Silk Coffee K-Cup® pod
OR 1/4 cup strong brewed
Whipped cream
Smucker's® Sundae Syrup™ Caramel Flavored Syrup, for garnish
Ground cinnamon, for garnish

DIRECTIONS

MICROWAVE milk in 1-quart microwave-safe bowl on HIGH 1 to 1 1/2 minutes or until hot but not boiling. Whisk until foamy.
PLACE cinnamon syrup in large mug. Brew coffee on smallest cup setting into the mug.
ADD foamy milk. Top with whipped cream. Drizzle with caramel syrup. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve immediately.

😍🤪

Caramel Muffin

3/12/2020 09:34:11 pm

* rests tired hands *

Wow. That was quiete a round. Congratulations Crisana shippers!
And thank you, fellow Marrish shippers. We tried. I think we do pretty well, considering the size of our fandom.

I think we can safely say that Crisana earned their spot in the next round (especially as the Wildcard bracket had more votes than the rest of the brackets combined!).

We might still continue with recipes, since they seemed popular. And now might be the time to add rec lists, before voting distracts us all again 😆🤣 .

Marrish5ever

3/12/2020 10:21:46 pm

Mod

Since Marrish got more votes than anyone in the other brackets, does that mean we can go in the next Wildcard round?

3/14/2020 02:37:29 am

Spock/Kirk recs

* A Level Course and True by BrighteyedJill

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77051

* All That We Can Be series by dreamlittleyo

https://archiveofourown.org/series/7342

* Yellow by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/341853

* Time 'Verse series by Kagedtiger

https://archiveofourown.org/series/186137

* Tell Me Once, Tell Me Twice by ladyrogueevie (claire_debonair)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1094452/chapters/2202926

Riddle57

3/14/2020 03:33:13 am

Well I have Arthur x Eames recs

** Acclimation series by gryvon

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4437

** Towards Zero by mirabellafic

http://mirabellafic.dreamwidth.org/2387.html

** You Know I Would by staraflur

https://archiveofourown.org/works/105137

** A Fool From Any Direction by syllic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/110724

** je ne veux pas travailler by syllic

https://syllic.livejournal.com/32248.html

** Jamais Vu by thehoyden

https://archiveofourown.org/works/112706

💚💙❤️❤️

Riddle57

3/14/2020 05:11:33 am

And some Clex recs too!

** Misery Loves Company by averaird

https://archiveofourown.org/works/354269

** Not the End of the World by MaiaJ

https://archiveofourown.org/works/354502

** The Oak and the Cypress By Mirtai

https://archiveofourown.org/works/498274?view_full_work=true

** His To Hold series by Mirtai

https://archiveofourown.org/series/25027

** Reciprocation by P.L. Nunn

https://archiveofourown.org/works/355454

** Identical Series by Lanning

https://archiveofourown.org/series/897

** Deep Throat by Te

http://teland.com/deepthroat.html

** Chupa Chup by Te

http://teland.com/chupa.html

** Race With Destiny by VampyrAlex and Chris J. Ueberall

http://www.e-fic.com/duo/racewithdestiny.htm

ALNM Mod Christina link

3/14/2020 08:57:37 am

Hi everyone! Thanks for a fantastic and drama free round! I hope everyone had a ton of fun, and I appreciate all the recs (and recipes!) that I'm adding to the master list.

To level with you all on timing, this is my first day I can go out again post-quarantine. I've been going a little stir crazy. So the next round will be going active at 9PM tonight and with run through 9PM on the 19th. I can pace the schedule out a little because the work trips I was planning around have, of course, been cancelled.

I will be posting a living rec master list this evening as well, along with a living master list of all your great recipes, with other ideas if you're spending a lot of time at home like me. I may be out of quarantine, but California is still largely closed for business and I'm working from home. I hope you all are safe and I hope this ship bracket can provide some much needed entertainment.

For now, I leave you with the ships who qualified for the next and final Wild Card:
- Marrish
- Schmico
- Stucky
- Crisana meanwhile has replaced Ineffable Husbands in the bracket, which means the Good Omens ship gets moved to the fourth and final slot in the Wild Card

Marrish5ever

3/14/2020 06:04:59 pm

Glad to hear your quarantine is ending! And thanks for keeping us all entertained. I guess we should continue with recipes/ rec lists to show our appreciation 😉😍.

And Marrish has another chance!! 🥰🥳

Seya all in the next round!

3/14/2020 06:50:40 pm

I’d like to add some recs for Aziraphale/ Crowley (Good Omens).

* if you wanna be alone, come with me by mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19230694

* At Least Eleven Second First Times by enjambament

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19156498

* Sobriety Test by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21394216

* The Best Of Both Worlds by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22798468

JUST READ EVERYTHING BY THIS AUTHOR! SHE GETS THE CHARACTER’S VOICES PERFECT!

* And the Antichrist Makes Three by AstroGirl

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20859263

Johnlock recs

3/14/2020 08:41:14 pm

JOHNLOCK RECS

* Needs series by beren

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4262

* Thought Experiments by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/149347

* Thermodynamics series by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/series/5969

* A Little Competition by entanglednow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/149197

* Available Evidence by lamardeuse

https://archiveofourown.org/works/131996

* The Whore of Babylon Was a Perfectly Nice Girl by out_there

https://archiveofourown.org/works/133861

* Proposition series by VelvetMace

https://archiveofourown.org/series/12766

😄

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