Yorkshire Puddings, Tainted by These Lowly American Hands
Makes about 6
2 large eggs
1 cup (230 grams) whole milk
1 cup (125 grams) cake flour (us American kittens can replace 1 tbsp of all-purpose flour with cornstarch)
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp white pep...
2017-06-06 17:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Cats and Characters: Toby Explains It All
Greetings and salutations from the Mad Fiction Laboratory. Here in Maine, we are knee deep in that time of year when the heavens scoff and say: April showers bring May flowers? What? No, dude, half the time it’s still sn...
2017-06-06 16:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostMy cat died this morning. The experiment will be slightly late. Please try to understand. I'm sorry. I'm just not in one piece yet.
2017-06-01 22:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostThose of you at the Google Hangout level, see you there in 10 minutes!
Everyone: See you in the Crystal Kingdom (i.e. Twitter) in an hour (ish)!
2017-05-31 00:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. I am Cat. I have returned from a small hell of deadline, jetlag, and incredibly sick Maine Coon.
Directly upon returning from France, we discovered my cat October on the verge of organ failure due to starving and dehydrating herself because of anxiety and depression, which in...
2017-05-29 13:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. Heath here.
As your humble PatreonGoblin, Official Laboratory Photographer and Sometime Preparer of Catfood-slurry I have just jumped on here on behalf of Catherynne to let you know what's up.
When last you all heard from her, the Laboratory's Director-In-Chief, P...
2017-05-25 16:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
I realize May has been a wonky month--I'm basically trapped underneath a building-sized deadline and trying to dig my way out STILL. I'm also in Paris as the guest of a literary festival, so time is not on my side. However! When I get back, I will Belong to You.
I'll be live-...
2017-05-15 01:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Image: 'Tulip's Tight Five' (courtesy of PatreonGoblin Heath)
Greetings from the Mad Fiction Laboratory! Here in Maine, home of the Flannel Golems, May is upon us, bringing the most afeared-of-commitment dusting of green, my birthday, Eurovision, and this one tree with y...
2017-05-01 20:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, mad fictioneers!
Due to the crushing gravitational weight of an unmet deadline, I've been a bit slow to get to some of the rewards this month. I'm sorry! When you expect the sentient denouement goo to bubble quickly and it decides it would much rather have a good long think about the na...
2017-04-30 19:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody!
I've had a big deadline this month and between that, taxes, traveling already for The Glass Town Game even though it's not out till September, and everything el...
2017-04-18 16:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A post catching you all up on Laboratory plans for the rest of the month is incoming, but in the meantime, I wanted to let you all know that after extensive simulations conducted by the Denizens that resulted in almost no workplace accidents* we have added a new goal here in the Laboratory!
If we ...
2017-04-13 13:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Penang Alla Vodka
Here is the first Mad Fiction Laboratory Employee Lunch Definitely-Not-Last-Week’s-Lab Rats Delicacy!
I have every reason to believe this might be the only dish I have actually invented. It all happened because I am an Italian-American woman ...
2017-04-01 03:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings from the Mad Fiction Laboratory! Here in Maine, Eternal Home of Ancient Horrors, it’s still trying to decide whether this whole “spring” idea is really worth committing to since that we’re just going to have to put all the snow back in eight months anyway, and besides, flo...
2017-04-01 03:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Friendly PatreonGoblin Heath with an Update for you all.
First up, here are the collected tweets of 'Stung: the Ultimate Buzzkill" for those of you who requested!
As the Laboratory clock ticks toward midnight, and the Thing That Lives In the Wastepaper Basket Except For When You look In Ther...
2017-03-31 20:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostJust finished test-kitchening this month's recipe for you guys and I will be starting the live-tweet of Stung in 15 minutes!
I'll use the hashtag #stunging and I'll Storify it all afterward for those of you who can't follow along.
Stung is also on Netflix if you want to watch with me!<...
2017-03-28 00:58:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Ladies and Gentlemen and Mutated Wasps and Magical Ponies, I have journeyed to the Mart of Walls and returned with, not one, but two, victims for the sacrificial altar of snark!
As they had no "bin" per se, I let my Twitter followers choose a row and slot position on the rack and pulled My Lit...
2017-03-25 21:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostOk, as no one objected, this month's Field Work Google Hangout for my Mad Post Doc Student patrons and above will commence at 1:30 pm EST tomorrow!
I'll post the link here once the Hangout is up and running. Let me know if you're definitely going to make it so I can invite you directly. ...
2017-03-25 21:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone for being patient with a slight delay in rewards--to make it up, here is another little tidbit from my Sekrit Project which is so Sekrit I can't actually tell you what it's about, except that it's called Space Opera and it'll be out next May. All my Totally Voluntary Test...
2017-03-19 18:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
So I'm going to have to push the Wal-Mart trip and the other March rewards until the middle of the week--just a few days, I promise!--because I have to turn in a book on Monday and if I do not I will be in trouble, so I have to bunker down and make those space-flamingoes dance.
... 2017-03-19 18:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostBy ONE VOTE, you have decreed far and wide that I shall go hence unto Wal-Mart, stick my hand in thebargain DVD bin, shut my eyes, and live-tweet whatever I pull out!
I AM EXCITED. THE POSSIBILITIES.
But I am also island-bound, because the blizzard has shut down ferry service and you c...
2017-03-14 20:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostWow, you guys had so many suggestions as to what I might soundly mock upon the Twitters that there wasn't enough room for all of them on Patreon's poll-generator! Thank you so much for all that sweet, sweet participation. The Lab cannot do its gravitationally groovy thing without volunteers!
We reached a huge goal! I am so grateful, you guys, I can't begin to express it. Thank you so much for helping out the Lab so that we can keep on being a Lab. I wish I could hug you all.
I would LOVE to tell you a funny fictional story about my anthropomorphized boiler getting super excited about ...
2017-03-04 18:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, gorgeous space patrons! Thank you so much for your support over the last two days, it has been truly crazy and amazing. The Lab is covered in cupcake wrappers and champagne corks and a mutant cupcake-champagne golem is crouching in the corner guzzling yet more champagne, which is weird, and t...
2017-03-01 19:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostOkay! So here's the new stretch goal *gestures awkwardly at side-column*
If we somehow manage to hit this crazy goal, every month, I will live-tweet a movie, 2-3 episodes of a TV show, or two hours of a video game chosen by my patrons!
We'll have suggestions and then a poll every month...
2017-02-28 00:54:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my god, I can't believe it! We hit our second stretch goal just a few hours after the first! The Puppy in the White Lab Coat is breaking out the Valuable Belongings-to-Confetti Converter, the Cat of Mainly Dark Matter is firing up the Quantum Cake Locator, and the Dr. Scorch, the Boiler of Doom, ...
2017-02-27 22:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my god! We've blown past out first stretch goal so quickly all the Lab Denizens got whiplash!
So here's the reward!
When trying to caption the Patreon video for my hearing-impaired fans, we discovered that you REALLY don't want to use YouTube's native auto-captions. Because the YT r...
2017-02-27 18:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! *taps mic*
It's an unseasonably sunny morning in the Lab. The animals are restless, the beakers are bubbling, and the air is crisp and insolent.
This Patreon is go!
I'm new to everything here and I can't wait to get started. Thank you to everyone who helped make ...
2017-02-27 14:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Now comes the time when I explain why there is a political poem about a wombat just below this post.
Yesterday, while discussing politics on Twitter, as seemingly everyone does all the time at the moment, I ended up in a pretty heated conversation with someone from Texas named Cra...
2017-02-27 01:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Wombat Persisted
With credit also to Ursula Vernon, Eric Mills, and a somewhat unwitting and unwilling assist from a rather cross fellow in Texas named Craig
Forward on the wombat marched
Never shrinking, never blinking...
2017-02-27 01:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post