As many of you may know, I started a Substack awhile back, essentially for the angry political writing I've heretofore done on Twitter, because who knows how much longer Twitter will be around. It's settled into basically an essay when I get mad at the world and have enough mental space to put it...
2023-06-15 16:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Something a little different this month: please do not eat these!
Although they do look delicious.
Got a whole bunch of broken crayons lying around? If you have or live near a kid or are a visual artist of some kind, I know you do.
They can have a new life! Bastian asked i...
2023-05-25 18:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We have just barely held on to the patron-count to keep Audiography going for another month (though possibly not next month, we lost many at the end of April) and th eRebirth playlist was SO GOOD, I'm very excited for May!
I thought we'd go a little abstract this month--the theme...
2023-05-04 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Problem of Problems: What Is a Story?
I’m almost five years into this gig, and I have to say, parenting is a beautiful, precious, golden jewel of magic and love and time…wrapped in almost infinite layers of total fucking bullshit. But one of the wild things about it...
2023-05-04 16:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly, I apologize for how long this took to pull together--my brother got married in California and then we were doing the family visit tour the last two weeks and I have been STRUGGLING to manage everything and not literally physically lose my child in the madness.
Also, I can barely mo...
2023-04-26 18:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I wanted cumin lamb noodles from Xi'an Famous Foods in NYC but I DON'T LIVE IN NYC DO I and also on an island you kind of have what you can make after a certain hour.
And I did not have lamb.
Or noodles.
So I wondered what would happen if I just did the whole recipe but wi...
2023-04-05 21:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the options for this month's fully-canonical postcard from a Valenteverse character!
What's our poison?
2023-03-29 14:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Yaaaay! We have crossed the patron-count goal to bring back some old rewards! RETURN OF AUDIOGRAPHY!
For those who haven't experienced this part of the Laboratory, here on Audiography I post a theme every month and you post up to three of your favorite songs that fit the theme, however you ...
2023-03-16 16:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a civilization in possession of a good fortune, must replace all organic workers with AI as soon as possible, which will definitely never ever cause any problems whatsoever.
Perhaps there isn’t any point in writing this at all, now that the rob...
2023-03-01 18:57:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I MEANT to show you such a nice photo of this AMAZEBALLS goop all pretty on prosciutto and toast but that up there is all that's left 24 hours after making it. It's THAT good.
And it's dead easy to make, even for quick jam, which is itself an entire category of dead easy to make goop. ...
2023-02-15 17:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostGood afternoon, cozy folk.
So here in this, the Year of Our Last Fuck Given (and Last Pipe Burst!)2023, I want to get a little more organized with Patreon and my schedule so that I can feel less like I live in a constant tsunami of failing. Thus! Some changes! All beneficial and aiming towa...
2023-02-07 17:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello, wonderful people!
This is your monthly community discussion post, wherein you can leave comments about life, the universe, and everything, and discuss each and every one of those all together.
But it is also the monthly "come to the Discord" post where I give out a fresh ...
2023-02-07 15:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought we’d get back to basics in this, the Year of Our Cruel ChthonicTrickster Overlord Twenty and Twenty-Three and talk about one of those bedrock skills that get overlooked because, when you do it right, it doesn’t seem such a hard feat of genius and blends right into the infinite tapes...
2023-01-31 17:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! (And an extra hello to many new people!)
Here is the awkward embarrassing evergreen-ly weird and cringey post where I tell the internet what I had published last year that's eligible for various awards this year.
If you nominate for these things, please consider givin...
2023-01-26 15:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Now, I am aware strawberries are not exactly in season here in the northern hemisphere, but in the southern hemisphere they're AMAZING this year. Bastian practically lived on them while we were visiting Oz-family. If you're on the equator's hat, save this for summer or use frozen strawberries to ...
2023-01-23 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This is cross-posted from the paid tier of my new Substack. I am now aware Substack has issues, but not yet able to untangle that from the issues Patreon has when I'm wholly unwilling to leave Patreon despite its problems. So I've cross-posted this here for tho...
2023-01-03 02:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello beautiful, wondrous new people just come in from the cold and around the internet.
This is technically your monthly community discussion post, to fill your Boxing Day with a safe place to talk about anything.
But these days, we mostly do that on the Cozy Cult Discord. 2022-12-26 14:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
LOOK, in our house we have to have cake in the morning now because MISTER MAURICE SENDAK put that thought in the head of my son with his STUPID BRILLIANT BOOK In the Night Kitchen.
This one is another recipe from the Worldcon COOKATHON that JUST KEEPS ON GIVING.
But this? Thi...
2022-12-22 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPosted & cross-posted publicly, maybe be distributed freely anywhere with credit.
I’m just so angry.
It’s been boiling and bubbling (and toiling and troubling) for awhile now. Not just since a spoilt, sadistic emerald heir stole—and yes, I am usi...
2022-12-22 10:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Lucky us, we get another original cocktail with original art from Kris McDermott, inspired by a story from the Valenteverse!
Kris is the creator of MANY AMAZING THINGS BECAUSE OF HOW SHE IS AMAZING, but you may remember her from all the 2022-12-18 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Those of you who have been subscribed for the better part of this year, or are active on the Discord, or have seen me at any public event in the last 12 months are probably aware that I'm working on a Super Sekrit Project I am Not Allowed to Name Under Penalty of Death-by-Lawyer.
No, I'm no...
2022-12-17 05:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, see, we were going to do this whole thing with Deathless this year to mark the...11th anniversary as we couldn't swing it in time for the 10th and thought it was funny in our own weird way to have an 11th anniversary anything.
But then Russia became a thing no one felt great abo...
2022-11-30 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
SO.
Bastian's school is called Peaks Island Elementary School, which is abbreviated PIES, and everyone calls it that. They have a big fundraiser around Thanksgiving called PIES FOR PIES. Parents make a bunch of pies and people all around can buy them and claim them and pick them up Thanksgi...
2022-11-30 16:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your post to get to know each other and discuss whatever's on your mind this month!
No subjects barred, just be nice. BE COZY.
And remember, you can always come dish with the kids on our beautifully-moderated Discord server any time.
The hits from the epic Worldcon Haus of Friendship pre-game just keep coming! (Ie, the week before Worldcon when my lil nerd coven gathered to cook a stupid amount of food and cackle at the moon)
Now, I love garlic. Do you love garlic? Sure, everyone does. Except people who are highly aller...
2022-11-02 17:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that I’ve put you all through months of me rambling about Farscape and 90s television and my celebrity crushes, I thought I’d get back to what’s written on the frosted glass door of this place in noir detective font: HEY GANG LET’S WRITE STUFF GOODER.
And after five years with s...
2022-10-11 17:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I say anything more, I want to assure you I asked his permission to share his story with all of you and he gave it. We all about consent in this house.
Today, Bastian, for no reason I can comprehend, decided to be an entire adult. Four years of trying to work while parenting and not ...
2022-10-07 23:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
What happens when four Golden-Girls-But-Young(ish)-And-Vibrant friends who haven't seen each other all together since the pandemic started use Worldcon as an excuse to take an extra week off to live in a house where people are ALWAYS POLITE and also ALWAYS REAL because IT WAS NEVER A CONTRADICTIO...
2022-09-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been asked so many times to post my con schedules here on Patreon…but ADHD is just a festive gift basket of trash and I can never hold it in my head long enough to execute that ye olde executive function.
BUT NOT TODAY, BRAIN CHEMISTRY SATAN!
Here’s where you can find me th...
2022-08-31 16:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The second installment in our surprise bonus series in which the wonderful and absurdly talented Kris McDermott (who designed everything in the merch shop!) designs a cocktail recipe based on something from ...
2022-08-31 16:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post