We were all just children when this essay began, weren’t we? So long ago. A more innocent tim...
2022-08-29 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your space to talk about life, the universe, and everything--whatever you want to chat about, gossip about, get off your chest, ask for advice about, or just squee about a TV show you like.
Don't forget you can hang out with all of us over on the newly and very well moderated Discor...
2022-08-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been meaning to make fresh seasonal strawberry jam again basically since the year before I had Bastian. I used to make it with my...er...first ex-grandmother-in-law (look, I'm a mysterious dangerously sexy young divorcee, don't judge) every year, and it was so infinitely better than storeb...
2022-08-27 15:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone.
I know I did not get last month’s essay done in time! I feel terrible about it! It is literally 1000 words from being done!
But Bastian is incredibly sick, and his daycare shut down due to Covid exposure which may or may not be what he has—he’s negative on tests bu...
2022-08-02 21:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post"He's TOUCHING me!"
"Am not! She's LOOKING at me!"
"They're breathing loudly, ON PURPOSE!"
"So help me, I will turn this car around!"
"Punchbuggy!"
"Alaska!"
"Corn! Not corn!"
August, y'all. Last month before school starts, stagnant heat, sun s...
2022-08-01 01:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
So we’ve been reading In the Night Kitchen a lot lately. And in that book, bafflingly, the message that there are magical bakers who really need to get a cake made every night so we can “have cake every morning” is just…SUPER emphasized.
And naturally, the three-year-old di...
2022-07-31 21:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We will be having TWO recipes this month, because I've been quietly falling apart under pressure and I want to reward everyone who's stayed, and also because IT'S TOO HOT FOR THE WHOLE-
ASS CAKE I'M GONNA POST LATER TODAY so I wanted you guys to have a recipe you might actually make in the nex...
I’ve been trying to sit down and write whimsical science fictional things for all of you. To wax enthusiastic about…anything. I really have. But the whimsy, the enthusiasm, they are not coming easily at the moment. I know so many of you (I hope all of you) feel the same way.
I sit and I...
2022-06-28 19:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I created a Discord server for members of this Patreon a year ago, I didn’t truly know what to expect. Mostly, I thought no one would care too much.
Instead, the Cozy Cult server has become an extraordinarily lovely, inclusive, and to my mind, precious space, a clearing in the wood t...
2022-06-09 21:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostBe sure to have tissues handy and something snuggly (alive or inanimate, your choice)
To be fair, I will only provide the link to the playlist here - you can share it if you choose! But initial access will only be through this site, for all patrons.
For the first playlist of our Second Year of Audiography. . .I bring you a city built of your musical selections!
To be fair, I will only provide the link to the playlist here - you can share it if you choose! But initial access will only be through this site, for all patrons.
Hello, best beloveds!
An on time Audiography! The beginning of summer (sort of)! Last year we did Songs of Summers Past and this year. . .this year is different.
So roll the windows or top down, crank the music, slide on your coolest pair of sunglasses, and floor it - we are dri...
2022-06-02 01:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be releasing this formally later this week, but as you are all my best beloveds, and definitely deserve treats, you get it first!
This is the official audio version of my Hugo-nominated novelette 2022-05-30 23:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Sesame-Crusted Salmon Over Nutty Wild Rice and Seaweed Salad
This is the first recipe I’ve reverse engineered from a restaurant.
In this case, The Cockeyed Gull on Peaks Island WHERE I LIVE BECAUSE I AM A SILLY BISCUIT.
Is it exactly the same? No. Is it ...
2022-05-30 23:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello, best beloveds and greetings from the trenches of Sekrit Things. I do wish I could tell you - I know you would be overcome with excitement, but alas, not yet.
The Sekrits are the reason this month's Audiography is late. Spring is in full bloom here and as delightful as it is to see th...
2022-05-19 01:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, whose early chapters many of you read right here over the last two years, is out in the world today!
I do hope you’ll give it a chance and read or listen (audiobook narrated by Heath, it’s a family affair!) soon. I’m terrible proud of it—Osmo i...
2022-04-26 15:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
So....I love chimichurri sauce a lot. Like A LOT a lot. And I've never really been able to get it right at home, even though I try all over again every couple of years.
And I got it in my head to do so again last week. SURELY THIS TIME TRIUMPH IS MY BESTIE.
Welllll...I seem to h...
2022-04-21 19:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostOne of things we always planned to do with Bastian was take him on lots of adventures, especially with all of the conventions I get to attend. And then (say it with me, everyone), COVID. Lockdown hit when he was around 18 months old and we haven't taken him anywhere. However, if there is on...
2022-04-07 02:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs I went back over the playlist before publishing, I realized I accidentally named it Autobiography, Vol. 12: Years. Make of that what you will, my darlings.
So for your listening pleasure, herewith our last playlist of the First Year of Audiography, the Reboot: Now With Less Piracy!
I Love Hanging With You, Man: My Buddy Farscape and Me
So here we are, you and me.
I’LL PAINT YOU A PICTURE.
It’s 1...
2022-04-01 01:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I was delighted to see love for Bunny from White Lines on a Green Field, which is definitely one of my favorite of my own stories!
Thanks fo...
2022-04-01 00:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Superhero Waffles
I am so FUCKING proud of myself right now, you guys.
I feel SMUG. I feel BRILLIANT. I feel vindicated. I feel like a goddamned GENIUS.
You see, like most Smol People, my Smol Person of three and a half years is a fairly picky eater. An...
2022-03-31 23:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostBeloved patrons, Denizens of the Lands of Cat, we have done music for a year! A fantastic, frightening, wonderful, wrenching, ridiculous, radiant, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, yawping Year.
And so in honor of that, as the March winds scourge the land, this month's theme shall be: YE...
2022-03-11 19:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostMonth Eleven of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!
Beloveds - we have been at this for almost a YEAR. How time does fly when you set it to a soundtrack.
Winter is loosening its icy grasp (finally). While we wait for spring, lay back, put some earphones in or headphone...
2022-03-01 06:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What is that? Other than fun to say?
It’s a Persian frittata, basically.
Sassy Egg Puck.
Spicy Grass Circle.
This is what I make at home, tweaked from several recipes. It’s SO good for you, packed with leafy greens but also FLAVEUR. It’s especially great if you have ...
2022-02-28 22:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
You ...
2022-02-28 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We have inched back up over the patron-count to unlock character postcards again, so here we are!
This month you lovely folk chose Cascavel from Comfort Me With Apples, who was a VERY delicate customer to handle without spoilers! I hope you enjoy him, I certainly do.
2022-02-27 22:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post'Tis February, when all* the world sings of love. Chocolates and roses and mass produced stuffed animals abound. . .but what about the deeply weird side of love? The type of love that is immortalized in songs like "Where the Wild Roses Grow", "Fairytale of New York", and Lovely Assistant's person...
2022-02-10 06:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostMonth Ten of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!
In retrospect, I hope making the theme of 2022's FIRST Audiography "It's Cold Outside" isn't going to be a OMEN or anything. I suppose I could have picked Lollipops and Candied Sunshine, but we all know that's not really ME. A...
2022-02-02 06:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post