Hello my loves!
In further adventures in making this tier worthwhile for you wonderful folks when the Livestream poll doesn't get enough questions for a stream...
I am letting you choose the characters for the new monthly reward!
Leave a comment telling me which of my characters...
2021-06-07 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Four years ago in March, I started this little Patreon.
In the time since, you and your amazing, astonishing support have made it possible for me to live between novels, to not have my house fall down around my ears, to have any kind of peace of mind, and to have an actual human child, a wh...
2021-05-31 22:52:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are with another wildly successful second month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time Less Piracy!
The Future Is Here playlist is live (along with my selections!) and ready for you to sink your ears into. Can't wait--see you next month for a new theme and NEW MUSIC!
This month, you chose November, from Palimpsest! The OG Fairyland superfan. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into the Great City and how life moves there now.
All my love to each and every one of you--the biggest Quarto there ever was.
2021-05-31 17:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-L in a postcard. I will try! But if a plot emergen...
2021-05-25 22:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Bucatini with Mussels, Spring Peas, and Three Peppercorn Miso Broth
This was so fabulous it wouldn’t even talk to me in the halls at school.
I didn’t even really mean to make a good dinner that night, I just wanted to use up the mussels I bought for myself FORLORN...
2021-05-19 20:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, kittens! What am I reviewing this month? (Last month was a DOOZY!)
For clarification: the "haven't watched yet" tag means someone from the Mad Post-Doc tier requested this and I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but will do if it's chosen.
Here is your monthly place to chat and get to know each other! Feel free to talk about anything, but be kind, this is a safe place.
How are you all feeling?
2021-05-13 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month was so amazing, you guys! We created a huge playlist of joy that I'm still discovering new music from. This worked better than I ever imagined.
So here we go with the second theme!
May's Audiography Redux theme is: The Future Is Here
A little more eso...
2021-05-08 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's ready! All your songs and four of mine (I get an extra because I make the rules) all together in a beautiful WILDLY diverse playlist available right now for you to listen to and feel a little happy.
The only way to do this so that everyone can have access and I'm not pirating music (a ...
2021-04-30 23:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Ted Lasso has virtually everything going against it. Especially in terms of getting specifically me, Cat Valente, to give it a chance.
But I really, really, really want you to give it a chance if you haven’t. So I’m gonna try to do this without major spoilers beyond the premise...
2021-04-27 19:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans with Pork Belly and Toasted Walnut Dust
Sichuan peppercorns, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: you taste like flowers and citrus only both are on fire and kind of mad at me. You are pretty and goldenish red! Also you come in giant bulk...
2021-04-27 14:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostEnough of you seemed interested in a dedicated Discord server for the community, so now, LIKE MAGIC, it exists!
There's not much there now--we need you guys for that. But I'll be logged in for the rest of the day to welcome folks, chat, and take suggestions. Come hang out! I have no idea wh...
2021-04-22 17:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat shall I review this month, darlings?
2021-04-21 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-L in a postcard. I will try! But if a plot emergen...
2021-04-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your monthly place to chat and get to know each other! Feel free to talk about anything, but be kind, this is a safe place.
How are you all feeling?
2021-04-16 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're starting a new monthly feature here at the Mad Fiction Laboratory!
Wha? Why? did we meet a new goal?
Nope.
Is it my birthday?
Maybe? Statistically, it's probably one of your birthdays. Three more weeks til mine though.
No, I just really wanted to. I've wanted t...
2021-04-13 15:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
So this is a thing people have been doing and I wondered if you guys would be interested in doing it too.
Would you want a dedicated Laboratory Discord channel or Slack? Would you use it? We did try with Patreon's Throne app but it was quite off-putting with how mu...
2021-04-07 14:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Writing is hard.
This is not going to be me bitching about my job for 3000 words. I am well aware that all things considered, in the history of the world and the socio-economic map of this culture, my job is a beautiful glittering jeweled ice cream cone on top of a lovely lush green hill. 2021-04-06 18:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Now, you don't get pretty cursive from a washed up rockstar. You get purple eyeliner on the back of a stolen Save the Date card.
There are some little clues to Space Oddity in this one--special privilege of being patrons! Dess will see you all soon...and I'll be posting a real exce...
2021-03-30 18:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It really is ever so much easier to review something when I hated it. Or when I just love it so much. I just open up the Ol' Scrivener and gush.
But with Wandavision...there is just SO much to love.
And SO much to absolutely not love.
And what is not lovable ...
2021-03-29 22:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Fuck food.
Seriously.
It's been too long, with too little respite, and I live on a damn island where I can't get things delivered easily, so I'm so sick of cooking and coming up with things to cook that don't bore me to tears I feel like fire-bombing my kitchen most nights.
DOIN...
2021-03-26 19:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, dear hearts. What shall I review this month?
2021-03-26 15:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-L in a postcard. I will try! But if a plot emergen...
2021-03-22 22:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your monthly place to chat and get to know each other! Feel free to talk about anything, but be kind, this is a safe place.
How are you all feeling?
2021-03-18 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our monthly character postcard comes to us this time from Fairyland--with guest lettering by my massively talented friend Kris McDermott (Wyverary claws are not so excellent at holding pens).
2021-02-28 15:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my god, you guys chose Tenet! What a CRAZY UNFORSEEABLE YET TRÈS FORTUNATE turn of events because I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS EARSPLATTING MONOCHROME GLUMBEAST.
But first, I’m gonna need you to watch a YouTube video.
In the constant quest to find food my toddler is willing to eat, I am not ashamed to resort to food coloring.
But! The color scheme is not the only thing that makes these Unicorn Pancakes! I stole this recipe RIGHT OFF A CHILD, i.e my friend’s daughter, and they’re totally delicious, ba...
2021-02-26 23:52:08 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, dearhearts. What shall I review this month?
2021-02-19 22:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post