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May Recipe: Yorkshire Puddings, Albeit Tainted by American Hands

 

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 kitte...

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May Experiment: Cats and Characterization--Toby Explains It All

 

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 heave...

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Rest In Peace October

My 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.

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T-10 minutes to Google Hangout! T-1 Hour to MY LITTLE PONY

Those 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)!

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May Rewardsapalooza All Up In Yr Face!

Hello 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 ...

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Hangouts and Handfeeding and Deadlines, Oh My.

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 l...

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May Rewards Update

Hello 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 fest...

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Experiment #2: Why Did the Chicken Make Out with the Road? Navigating the Hot/Funny Danger Zone

 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, bringin...

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Doing the Laboratory Scramble!

Greetings, 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 deno...

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April Is the Quickest Month

Hi everybody! 

I've had a big deadline this month and between that, taxes, traveling already for 2017-04-18 16:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post

The Good Kind of Lottery (No rocks)

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 ...

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Experiment #1 Laboratory Chow: Penang Alla Vodka

 

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 migh...

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Experiment #1: Let’s Get It Started In Here (and the Bass Keep Running)

 

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 sin...

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Storified Live Tweeting Of "Stung" and Other Things

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...

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GIANT MUTANT WASP LIVE-TWEET EXTRAVAGANZA TONIGHT

Just 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 thos...

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CHOOSE THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTOR!

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"...

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Google Hangout Q&A Sunday at 1:30 pm EST--and Other Scheduling Things

Ok, 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 ...

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Another Little Bit of Stardust from Space Opera

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, e...

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Very, Very Slight Postponement of March Rewards + Bonus Excerpt for All

Hey 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...

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Live-Tweet Poll Winner and Laboratory Schedule

By 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 POSSIBI...

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Final Ballot for Live-Tweetapalooza!

Wow, 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,...

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Goal Achieved! Now Comes the Time When We Vote for What Thing I'll Live-Tweet This Month!

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 LOV...

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Super Sekrit Space Squirrels Work in Progress Excerpt: Totally Voluntary Test Subjects Reward #1

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 c...

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New Stretch Goal!

Okay! 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 ...

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GOOOOOOAL!

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 o...

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My Bra Story Go On Show One

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 fa...

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Good Morning, Patreon!

Hello, 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!

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The Curious Case of a Wombat on the Internet

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 ...

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The Wombat Persisted

 

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 View Post