Livestream Tomorrow Night!
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. 2020-09-15 04:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Open Discussion Post
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?
2020-09-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shark That Never Bit Me: The Authority in Fiction and the Fiction in Authority
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 ...
2020-09-09 23:21:21 +0000 UTC View PostMandatory Mad Fiction Frog Dissection: What We Do In the Pandemic: The Two What We Do in the Shadowses
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...
2020-08-31 20:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Cast Iron Pepperoni-Bacon Pizza with Three Sooper Sekrit Twists
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...
2020-08-28 20:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostHousekeeping--Annual Patrons and Live Event Tonight
Hello, 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 b...
2020-08-20 16:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostLife Updates and Mad Fiction Mandatory Media Dissection Poll
Hello, 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 ha...
2020-08-20 00:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostOpen Discussion Post!
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?
2020-08-07 23:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostPortrait of the Artist As a Young Pig: The Muppets, Childhood Trauma, and More Fun Things to Do On a Sunday
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 ...
2020-07-31 22:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: The Amazing Disappearing Cheddar Apple Scones
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...
2020-07-29 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMandatory Mad Frog Dissection Presents: Oh Boy. Here We Go. Hamilton.
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 ...
2020-07-27 22:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostMad Fiction Dissection Poll
Ok, 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 PostOpen Discussion Post!
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?
2020-07-10 15:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain, We Have a Problem: SFF’s Terrible No-Good Very Bad Week
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 ...
2020-07-05 20:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK Presents: Summer Strawberry Pistachio Cake with Fresh Basil Whipped Cream
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 t...
2020-06-30 19:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostMad Fiction Lab Mandatory Frog Dissection: Midsommaaaar (The A is for Art)
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 o...
2020-06-23 23:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostMad Fiction Dissection Table: What's On the Slab?
Another 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 loa...
2020-06-17 17:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostFun with Sales Tax: Ask Me How
A 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 no...
2020-06-11 17:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostJune Excerpt: Moar Quidnunx!
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...
2020-06-10 17:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Story of Us, or, Read a Fucking Book Once In Awhile, Why Don’t You?: Empathy, Crisis, and the Function of Art Right Now
It 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...
2020-05-31 19:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostOrphan's Tales Live Rides Again: A Poll
It has been about a week since we finished the not-an-audiobook-definitely-a-play reading series of The Orphan's Tales: I...
2020-05-26 17:46:28 +0000 UTC View PostMad Fiction Lab Mandatory Frog Dissection: A Survey of Children’s Edutainment
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 piec...
2020-05-24 23:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Better Than Takeout Beef Penang Curry
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...
2020-05-19 19:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis Month's Review!
I 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 THO...
2020-05-14 15:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS A QUARANTINE BONUS RECIPE: The Actual Best Cheeseburger and Special Sauce
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 A...
2020-05-07 17:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostNew Goal Reached! That Means New Rewards!
Hello, 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 heart...
2020-05-06 18:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostThank You, and New Goals
I 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...
2020-05-01 02:47:56 +0000 UTC View PostPlotting for Clowns: A Class Distilled Into an Essay for Your Nerves
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 MEANIN...
2020-04-30 21:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Oh No I Made the Perfect Brownie and I Wept for There Were No More Worlds to Conquer
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...
2020-04-25 17:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostApril Community Discussion Post
Hullo, 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, ...
2020-04-14 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post