Wiki Wednesday #352 - FerretFather's Marina

 Drag queen pronouns can get confusing because the only rule is to listen to the queen and use whatever the queen says. Marina's wiki page switches between she and he. I think hers is the typical in drag she, out of drag he and that's why the pronouns switch.

Wiki Wednesday #352 - FerretFather's Marina

Marina is a selkie who came to live on land and fall in love with a man. The man broke Marina's heart. When Marina performs, she loses herself in her persona and gets some pretty nasty fights started.

Who Is Marina?

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Sometimes, I love cooking. Like, love love it. I'm pretty good at following recipes, but what I really love is experimenting with recipes.

My grandma figured out the best ever vegan pecan pie recipe. My gifts this Christmas will be baked goods and my mom had the idea of making mini pecan pies. I loved that idea! So I needed to figure out the crusts.

I'm too lazy to cut butter into flour and I'm too prideful to cut up a premade crust. I had a moon cake recipe and moon cake presses. But... No lye water and no golden syrup. So with just oil, flour, and light corn syrup, I threw together a dough.

It was not a moon cake dough and I struggled. It did not want to be flattened as thin as it should have been flattened. But here's the crazy thing! There were cracks and there was filling visible, but the things didn't leak at all in the oven. They kept their shape! I haven't tried them the day after when they're supposed to be better, but yay! 

I made two fillings. One was following a recipe with a few ingredients removed - I just used peanut butter and powdered sugar. Then I went crazy because why not and just kept adding things to some pumpkin puree to try and make it work. With some crunchy peanut butter thrown in (and way too much powdered sugar and corn starch), it worked! And it tastes great!

The things were pretty and couldn't brown due to using almond milk for the egg wash and the lack of lye water. 

The crazy thing is that really, the peanut butter cakes ended up just like those peanut shaped cookies with peanut butter in it center. I loved those things!

I definitely want to try getting golden syrup and lye water so that I can make real moon cakes. We even have Lima beans on the counter to make some bean paste to go in them!

I didn't do anything dangerous while cooking other than microwaving some peanut butter. I had my mom do everything in regards to the oven. 

Sadly, though, I was doing great on my diet before I messed up and decided that I would explode if I didn't cook something right away! 

But I am super happy. Even if I never make real moon cakes, finding a pie dough makes me really happy. My go to crust was a specific Chinese egg tart recipe that I modified for my laziness. I think that this simplified crust with only ingredients you can get from Walmart will work perfectly for our silly little mini pies.

I wish I could just twitch my nose and have the right ingredients! I would be baking until the cows came home. I have that problem. I have covered every flat surface with cookies in the past. Everyone got cookies.

If only delicious things didn't cost calories! Then I could just never stop baking ever.

How Is Marina's bank?

So... Marina is a nine pitch CV-VV! She was created by running UST renders through RVC. There is a prefix map! But this bank does not have aliases that would allow it to be used as multipitch. Thankfully, I have SetParam!

She has a very nice voice that reminds me of retro UTAUs like Kotodama.

Where can I download Marina?

You can find her on her wiki page. She is cool!