Seriously an awesome article about autistics who have some speech (hi!) preferring AAC over verbal speech. The author makes a lot of very good, very articulate points which are quite similar to my own (not exactly in some places, but very on the nose in others).
so here y’go! Some of these are from folk tales, some are a mishmash of stories that I’d heard growing up so I combined ‘em and laid names on ‘em, some are a hybrid of folk tales and the creations of rural pulp writer Manly Wade Wellman, who wrote horror yarns from the twenties through the eighties, some are native myths from the region that still hold sway with the locals. This is the kind of stuff I’ve got in my backyard out here in Kentucky.
If you’re inclined, you can download these as a free printable PDF, and cut your own cards, either to keep flat or stand up. Here’s where you get ‘it (bottom of the post):
Make sure you line the tin really well, they can be a bugger to get out of the tin intact cause of how spongy they are. Also make sure your butter and eggs (I am assuming you are using those as they are the staple ingredient of a sponge cake) are at room temperature and not still chilled from the fridge. Cold eggs will curdle during the mixing. That’s actually just a generally good rule for all baking.
Also once it’s in the oven, unless it fucking goes on fire or something, don’t open the oven again until the time is up or it’ll deflate like a sad melty balloon.
Also leave it to cool in the tin for 5-10 mins before you try to get it out. My mother always tries too quickly (cause obviously the tin keeps cooking it) and it’s always a train wreck of broken cake and soggy regret.
Well, that cake looks and smells pretty good coming out of the oven. Promising start, at least.
I went ahead and just baked it in a small foil pan saved from I don’t remember what, because it looked like a pretty good size and shape.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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