Hello, my loves. Everybody holding up ok during these interesting times?
It's been too long but the livestream is back! I’ll be doing it tomorrow night, September 15, at 7:00pm EST.
I will be bringing a big fat glass of wine as my co-host and I can't wait to see your questions. Remember that you can ask an...
2020-09-15 04:25:57 +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?
2020-09-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, kittens. We are on month six of time ditching that whole Ligotti pastische flat circle gig and becoming a polka-dotted balloon filled with doom wasps and existential anxiety tossed from fool to fool on a beach of nightmare timelines.
Also, fall is here! Pumpkins! Apples! Foggy mornings! Crunchy leaves! The de...
2020-09-09 23:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
You all picked an easy one for me this month. So I want you to sit down.
Brace yourself. Get some fortifying snacks, fluids, and smelling salts within easy reach. Hold onto something.
I have virtually nothing negative to say about the What We Do in the Shadows series.
I’ll wait for you to recover....
2020-08-31 20:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of what I’m going to say in this recipe is pretty basic.
Making your own pizza is awesome.
You do not have to make your own dough or sauce if you don’t want to, it’s okay, nobody is judging you, we are all very busy people.
It’s all about the cheese and the toppings anyway.
Cast...
2020-08-28 20:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! I hope this Thursday is treating you as well as a Thursday in 2020, the Nurse Ratched of years, can be expected to treat anyone.
Two notes of interest to some or all of you before I disappear into the last chapters of this bloody stubborn book!
One, the annoying PBS/NPR pledge-drive style barfynes...
2020-08-20 16:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello, my darlings.
It's been a hell of a month for me here at the old Laboratory. I'm finally within a chapter or two of finishing the book that's been hanging over my head since before I had Sebastian, so my mind has been in another world for weeks. But back here in this one, my grandfather is entering the last phases...
2020-08-20 00:24:43 +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?
2020-08-07 23:45:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Time is a lie.
Summertime doubly so.
There is no such thing as people, or movement, or reality. Nothing matters anymore, but not in a cool way. Life is Wednesday divided by ennui minus December to the power of vodka over wise old owls in academic robes. I don’t know anymore. Taylor Swift put out a really arty, g...
2020-07-31 22:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Amazing Disappearing Cheddar-Apple Scones
I make these whenever I throw a party. Remember parties? No, me neither. But they are spoken of in deep legend and tome, and one day, when need is great, they may return.
Scones might not seem like party finger-food, but these are usually utte...
2020-07-29 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This Fuckin’ Guy: Let’s Talk About Hamilton
The standard disclaimer applies twice as hard for this one:
You guys chose this. I told you my opinion on Hamilton is not one of an adoring, anime-eyed fangirl belting out songs out of her range with her eyes rapturously clo...
2020-07-27 22:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostOk, forcibly indoors kittens, what shall I review for your pleasure this month?
Remember I will be telling you the general mood of the review in parentheses so there are no surprises.
2020-07-18 19:22:33 +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?
2020-07-10 15:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post
WHAT IS TIME WHAT IS PLANET NOTHING IS REAL EVERYTHING IS COVERED IN WASPS AND DISAPPOINTMENT
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So that’s basically where I’m at.
It would seem that you can have a global pandemic, you can have a righteous explosion of anger against systemic racism and murder, but as far as 2020’s con...
2020-07-05 20:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m going to say something very brave. It’s just…it’s time. Past time. I don’t care if I get “canceled” by this overly-sensitive PC culture, it’s worth it to stand up for the truth.
Cake is awesome.
It’s just the perfect thing. When you want to treat yourself or celebrate or mark an occa...
2020-06-30 19:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I would like to say for the record that in my experience Sweden is a very nice place full of nice people and pale food and winning Eurovision songs whose hicks are really some of the least likely of any country’s hicks to murder you and all your friends in some kind of mutant orgy of meat and flowers whose purpose and inten...
2020-06-23 23:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostAnother month, another piece of media to review for your comedic pleasure! Once again I'm tagging these with whether the review will be positive or negative so you can gauge your interest fully loaded with KNOWLEDGE
What will it be, my darlings?
2020-06-17 17:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostA brief housekeeping note:
As some of you know, Patreon is about to start charging US Sales Tax on some kinds of content, in some locations, starting 7/1.
Does this suck? Yes. Can we not? No.
However, because of the specific kinds of content I offer here, this should not affect most of you. Almost everything...
2020-06-11 17:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm hitting the home stretch on this book FINALLY so I hope you're enjoying it! I did also write two short stories this month, but one is under an NDA and the other hasn't been accepted yet, so let's return to Littlebridge and Osmo!
I hope you are all staying safe and looking after each other. All my love goes out to yo...
2020-06-10 17:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems impossible that it is the end of May. That the sudden green on the trees outside my window is real and not just a new, edgier kind of snow. That the only reason the humans where I live are not quite as confined to our homes on account of an invisible death borne by hugging and singing is that our aristocracy has told...
2020-05-31 19:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been about a week since we finished the not-an-audiobook-definitely-a-play reading series of The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, and I've been thinking about how to continue with the second book.
I said I would do a reading ever...
2020-05-26 17:46:28 +0000 UTC View Post
There's A Word for What We're Gonna Have, And That Word Is Blood
Hi everyone! Welcome to the newest feature of the Mad Fiction Laboratory, in which I review a piece of media every month, chosen by you! FIRST TIME'S A CHARM...
So. Let's be clear. You chose to hear me ...
2020-05-24 23:51:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Faster Than Takeout, Better Than It Has Any Right to Be: Beef Penang Curry
Unlike most of America, I have had no access to takeout anything except some seriously dubious pizza since the start of the epidemic. I live on a Lonely Island in a Lonely Sea, and nobody delivers to this Stephen Kin...
2020-05-19 19:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't come up with a clever name for the new review feature yet, but one will come to me, I'm sure.
Nevertheless, the time has come to choose a subject for me to TELL YOU ALL MY THOUGHTS UPON!
I haven't had a chance to consume any of the Mad Post Doc Student ($20) requests yet as Childe and Booke have ke...
2020-05-14 15:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The Actual Best Homemade Cheeseburger and Special Sauce
*Just like last month, I'm posting a bonus recipe for all patrons at all levels BECAUSE WE ARE ALL STUCK AT HOME HAVING TO COOK FOR OURSELVES and it's BEEN A MILLION YEARS NOW and we're out of ideas mostly. The main Experiment...
2020-05-07 17:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
In what was really the most wonderful birthday present, we reached a new funding goal! I can't begin to tell you what this means to our household and our anxious artist hearts--thank you so much, and thank you for sticking with me in such a horrid time for us all. I will try to be worth it!
To tha...
2020-05-06 18:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostI just want to thank everyone so much for sticking with this Patreon and being such an amazing community right now. I love you all so much and I am so grateful for your presence in my life and your support. Quite literally, I could not manage without you.
We are actually nearing the next stretch goal for the ...
2020-05-01 02:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hullo, you beautiful powerful narwhals.
What time of year is it? What time of day is it? What’s happening outside?
WHO KNOWS WHO CARES TIME IS A FLAT TIRE EXISTENCE IS MEANINGLESS SPRING IS A LIE.
I went into the city for supplies this week. I got a coffee at a coffee bar in the grocery store. Not...
2020-04-30 21:40:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Brownies are just this whole thing. Storebought, from a package, from scratch…it’s an endless quest for perfection, and nothing is ever quite there.
UNTIL NOW.
My friend Cylia made these and then I altered them because THAT’S HOW I DO PRAY I DO NOT ALTER THE RECIPE FURTHER (but also because as or...
2020-04-25 17:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostHullo, all!
Here is your space for chatting with each other, checking in, ranting about whatever, bragging about the little accomplishments and big ones, staking claims on the best dinosaur, anything you like to feel a little more connected.
How is everyone holding up?
2020-04-14 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
