I wanted to show everybody this because I’m just so proud of it! They’ll be another proper Denizen this month, though, don’t worry.
Here on the island, one of the churches has a twice yearly rummage sale where you donate what you can per bag you take, and we all bring old stuff to fin...
2025-01-26 19:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone!
Welp, if you follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon or X, you probably already know all this, but if you missed it...my work, of all and any kinds, has been severely curtailed by my child acquiring a movie-monster version of the flu that’s been going on for almost two weeks now...
2025-01-14 19:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It is the hush at the close of the year.
It always feels hushed to me, even if it's full of noise. The Northern Hemisphere in me, I suppose. There is always some flavor of excess dark, some flavor of excess cold, some sense of putting things away for the long white road of January. Even tho...
2025-01-01 00:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I have to admit, I'm pretty fucking chuffed about this one. And PROUD OF MYSELF.
Bastian found the original recipe on Alexa, presumably while attempting to get her to forget all music that isn't Star Wars music. I took one look at the architecture on that dough, KNEW there was laminat...
2024-12-17 16:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This piece is cross-posted from my Substack. That's where I talk about horrible political shit. My rule is that if anyone directly asks for a paywalled post over there to be available here, I'll provide...
2024-11-26 16:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I mean, everyone's gonna give you some elaborate deconstructed haut Thanksgiving 12-hour layered mess of a basic casserole this week. I thought I'd go for something fun and quick that doesn't take hours and hours of unappreciated labor.
Yeah, it's rice krispy treats, but bish, do ...
2024-11-26 16:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the light turns green you go
When the light turns red you stop
But oh, what do you do when the light turns blue
With orange and lavender spots?
--Shel Silverstein
HEY EVERYONE I AM SUPER NOT OKAY!
None of us are! So grea...
2024-11-15 18:14:50 +0000 UTC View PostFifteen years ago, I wrote a book, mostly, but not entirely, for children, called 2024-11-08 17:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I know it's my job to be one of the people who Says Something About It.
I know it's my job to be one of the people who says something comforting, or at least insightful, or at a minimum cathartic. I'll try soon. I promise.
But I just don't have anything right now. I can't even look at...
2024-11-06 15:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe outstanding rewards for October are coming, I promise, I just am having a lot of physcial issues right now and also I can't think about anything but the election tomorrow so here is my brain at the moment...it's all I got.
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It’s almost over. One way or ...
2024-11-04 20:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This is actually one of my new favorite objects in this house. But I thought you extra-special folk would enjoy the slightly-unethical yet very nearly old-school editor/author adventuring that one once read about in Smort Peepull Magazines.
Well. The PG-13 version of said adventures, anyway...
2024-10-29 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I am still recovering from left-hand (of darkness) carpal tunnel surgery, with stitches scheduled out on Friday. But work and Halloween wait on no primate, so I'm going to try to get all the October rewards up before pain takes over. Thank you all for your patience and support while I i...
2024-10-29 17:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostNote: cross-posted from my Substack, where it was under a paywall. If anyone asks directly for a cross-post I will always do so, so that folks on both sites feel like they're getting their money's worth, even though the Substack's content is considerably less cozy. Don't worry, the essay and ...
2024-10-21 16:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Cross-posted from Substack--if any patron asks directly for a cross-post, I will always post these here as well. Don't worry! Other rewards are unaffected by cross-posts, I'm just having my left hand surgeried upon for carpal tunnel so it'll be a few days before I can get back on...
2024-10-21 16:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In my usual bleary, resentful early-morning delerium, I followed a link in the comments discussing an article about something beyond completely unrelated (oh, concerned piece about long-term effects of America's increasing marijuana use, who knew you came bearing such gifts!) and pitched headfirs...
2024-10-04 19:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, in fairness this one is really an idea more than a recipe. I used standard recipes for all the components, but I'm reasonably mostly sure the concept itself is my own invention. At least the portmanteau is!
And it's fabulous.
I made a batch of onigiri (rice balls s...
2024-09-27 18:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, obviously it came out yesterday, but YESTERDAY, Bastian was creating and distributing a wide variety of colorful fluids every ten minutes all over everything, and thus.....
2024-09-25 15:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's Space Oddity month, so I wanted to give all of you something special ahead of the book launch--you are all the spaceship that takes me to the stars. (Another excerpt will still go up for those at that tier. This is just a gift for the whole fam)
So.
Here is the Great Ackno...
2024-09-18 18:42:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, that hurt.
It says something about just how much pain I have been in for the last seven years or so, how high my baseline of “normal” became, that my yet-to-be-fixed left hand hurts more than the repaired right hand that got cut open palm to wrist and has been healing with zero pa...
2024-09-03 16:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is sort of a denizen of the month post, but accessible to everyone because I’m about to get CUT ON!
My dumb wrist is definitely the MVP this month. I have carpal tunnel to an extent that made my doctor’s eyes get REAL BIG when she saw the ultrasound. She kept looking at me like I s...
2024-08-26 16:52:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello my wonderful Mad Fiction Laboratory/Cozy Cult family!
This is your semi-regular post reminding you that, as part of your Patreon support, you get access to our dedicated Discord, which has become a truly special place where we filter in all the good stuff from the internet and...
2024-07-31 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post(Cross-posted from Substack. This was a paywalled post there, and as usual, if any Patreon member actively asks to see it here, I will cross-post it for you beautiful folk. T...
2024-07-31 15:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post
You know how cakes in cafes just taste different? More moist, more dense, more perfect than you really ever get at home?
Well, this summer my niece is working in a cafe/bakery where she makes them, so she's been coming home and whipping up the same cakes she makes there, and I have the reci...
2024-07-17 17:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post
On the night Ray Bradbury died, I was performing at a large event in New York as part of Book Expo America (may she rest in peace). We’d all heard sometime not long before the authors went on stage, but no one had really had a chance to process or discuss it. The Emcee, Lev Grossman, introduced...
2024-07-09 18:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I covered this a few months ago when Patreon changed everything all around for whimsy, as they are wont to do, but I wanted to make sure the new new folk are aware:
If you clicked the free tier button thinking that was sort of…the whole of it…as Patreon led you to bel...
2024-06-29 00:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't have a cute story about why this is a meaningful dish. Wish I did, though maybe you're glad given how looooong pre-recipe chit-chat is getting on foodie sites, even after we explicitly told all of them we hated it like a hundred thousand times a year for ten years.
I had ground lamb...
2024-05-31 22:49:44 +0000 UTC View Post
When I had the original idea to do this, several deadlines ago, I figured I'd post it as a Denizen of the Month.
But honestly I'm just so pleased with it I'm making it an open post so everyone can see what, specifically, is wrong with me that I would, while literally and actually losing ha...
2024-05-15 20:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ramps! They are amazing!
If you don't know what they are, it's more or less like onion and garlic got together and had a crazy leafy baby. And they grow wild all over my yard and the forest behind it. As soon as spring starts, they come shooting up out of the ground before anything else, b...
2024-05-01 00:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you, especially if you're a member of our Discord server, may be aware that one of our own passed away a few weeks ago. John Peacock, who I've known for over a decade, who until recently, single-handedly moderated ...
2024-04-29 17:47:13 +0000 UTC View Post