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Notes from the Substack Paywall: Not So Fast, Smart People, I Am Not Done Yelling

As many of you may know, I started a Substack awhile back, essentially for the angry political writing I've heretofore done on Twitter, because who knows how much longer Twitter will be around. It'...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Rainbow Glitter Star Crayons

Something a little different this month: please do not eat these!

Although they do look delicious.

Got a whole bunch of broken crayons lying around? If you have or live near a kid or ar...

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May Audiography Playlist: The Color Pink


We have just barely held on to the patron-count to keep Audiography going for another month (though possibly not next month, we lost many at the end of April) and th eRebirth playlist wa...

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The Trials and Tribulations of Fix-It Felix: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Storytelling

The Problem of Problems: What Is a Story?

I’m almost five years into this gig, and I have to say, parenting is a beautiful, precious, golden jewel of magic and love and tim...

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Audiography Playlist Volume 15 Is Live!

Firstly, I apologize for how long this took to pull together--my brother got married in California and then we were doing the family visit tour the last two weeks and I have been STRUGGLING to mana...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Xi'an-Inspired Cumin Chicken Thighs, Mushrooms, and Greens

Well, I wanted cumin lamb noodles from Xi'an Famous Foods in NYC but I DON'T LIVE IN NYC DO I and also on an island you kind of have what you can make after a certain hour.

And I did not have...

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Character Postcard Poll!

Here are the options for this month's fully-canonical postcard from a Valenteverse character!

What's our poison?

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AUDIOGRAPHY IS BACK, KIDS!

Yaaaay! We have crossed the patron-count goal to bring back some old rewards! RETURN OF AUDIOGRAPHY!

For those who haven't experienced this part of the Laboratory, here on Audiography I post ...

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The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a civilization in possession of a good fortune, must replace all organic workers with AI as soon as possible, which will definitely never ever cause any...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Smoky Whiskey-Shallot Jam

I MEANT to show you such a nice photo of this AMAZEBALLS goop all pretty on prosciutto and toast but that up there is all that's left 24 hours after making it. It's THAT good.

And it's dead e...

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Early Year Admin Post!

Good afternoon, cozy folk.

So here in this, the Year of Our Last Fuck Given (and Last Pipe Burst!)2023, I want to get a little more organized with Patreon and my schedule so that I can feel l...

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Monthly Community Discussion Post

Hello, wonderful people!

This is your monthly community discussion post, wherein you can leave comments about life, the universe, and everything, and discuss each and every one of those all t...

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Wherefore Art Thou Norman Greenblatt-Vorkosigan? How to Name People, Places, and Things in Science Fiction and Fantasy

I thought we’d get back to basics in this, the Year of Our Cruel ChthonicTrickster Overlord Twenty and Twenty-Three and talk about one of those bedrock skills that get overlooked because, when yo...

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Awkward Annual Award Eligibility Post (for Your Nerves?)

Hello, everyone! (And an extra hello to many new people!)

Here is the awkward embarrassing evergreen-ly weird and cringey post where I tell the internet what I had published last year that's ...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Strawberry Stew

Now, I am aware strawberries are not exactly in season here in the northern hemisphere, but in the southern hemisphere they're AMAZING this year. Bastian practically lived on them while we were vis...

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The Limits of Compassion: So You've Opened Your Heart to Radical Empathy and Recognized the Deep, Sacred Humanity in Every Living Being You Connect With Online...But What About THAT Fucking Guy?

Note: This is cross-posted from the paid tier of my new Substack. I am now aware Substack has issues, but not yet able to untangle that from the issues Patreon has whe...

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Discussion Post for New Patrons!

Hello beautiful, wondrous new people just come in from the cold and around the internet.

This is technically your monthly community discussion post, to fill your Boxing Day with a sa...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: HEAVENLY SUMMER GRAPEFRUIT YOGURT MORNING CAKE

LOOK, in our house we have to have cake in the morning now because MISTER MAURICE SENDAK put that thought in the head of my son with his STUPID BRILLIANT BOOK In the Night Kitchen.

T...

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Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

Posted & cross-posted publicly, maybe be distributed freely anywhere with credit.


I’m just so angry.

It’s been boiling and bubbling (and toiling and...

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Valenteverse Cocktail! Xmas Edition (It Has Carrots, It's HEALTHY!)

Lucky us, we get another original cocktail with original art from Kris McDermott, inspired by a story from the Valenteverse!

Kris is the creator of MANY AMAZING THINGS BECAUSE OF HOW SHE IS A...

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LITERARY CHORE CHARTS MF'R, DO YOU SPEAK THEM? Writing Preparation, ADHD, and Becoming a More Effective Mess

Those of you who have been subscribed for the better part of this year, or are active on the Discord, or have seen me at any public event in the last 12 months are probably aware that I'm working o...

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Excerpt: Not an Excerpt, a Whole-Ass New Deathless Story

Well, see, we were going to do this whole thing with Deathless this year to mark the...11th anniversary as we couldn't swing it in time for the 10th and thought it was funny in our own weird way to...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Little and Big Caramel-Apple Pies with Pistachio Streusel

SO.

Bastian's school is called Peaks Island Elementary School, which is abbreviated PIES, and everyone calls it that. They have a big fundraiser around Thanksgiving called PIES FOR PIES. Pare...

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Community Discussion Post

Here is your post to get to know each other and discuss whatever's on your mind this month!

No subjects barred, just be nice. BE COZY.

And remember, you can always come dish with the ki...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Caramelized Garlic and Goat Cheese Tart

The hits from the epic Worldcon Haus of Friendship pre-game just keep coming! (Ie, the week before Worldcon when my lil nerd coven gathered to cook a stupid amount of food and cackle at the moon) View Post

The One True Secret to Successful Writing

Now that I’ve put you all through months of me rambling about Farscape and 90s television and my celebrity crushes, I thought I’d get back to what’s written on the frosted glass door of this ...

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Extra Special Bonus Treat: Bastian's First Short Story

Before I say anything more, I want to assure you I asked his permission to share his story with all of you and he gave it. We all about consent in this house.

Today, Bastian, for no reason I ...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: The Strata In the Middle of the Night (Savory Bread Pudding)

What happens when four Golden-Girls-But-Young(ish)-And-Vibrant friends who haven't seen each other all together since the pandemic started use Worldcon as an excuse to take an extra week off to liv...

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Worldcon Schedule

I have been asked so many times to post my con schedules here on Patreon…but ADHD is just a festive gift basket of trash and I can never hold it in my head long enough to execute that ye olde exe...

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Valenteverse Cocktail Hour!

The second installment in our surprise bonus series in which the wonderful and absurdly talented Kris McDermott (who designed 2022-08-31 16:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post