Part 3: Each Man Gets The Chance to Be His Own Kind of Hero: What Happened to Farscape and How It Made Me the Writer I Am
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Monthly Discussion Post!
Here is your space to talk about life, the universe, and everything--whatever you want to chat about, gossip about, get off your chest, ask for advice about, or just squee about a TV show you like....
2022-08-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Strawberry-Balsamic Black Pepper Jam
I have been meaning to make fresh seasonal strawberry jam again basically since the year before I had Bastian. I used to make it with my...er...first ex-grandmother-in-law (look, I'm a mysterious d...
2022-08-27 15:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostNote Regarding the Late July Essay
Hey everyone.
I know I did not get last month’s essay done in time! I feel terrible about it! It is literally 1000 words from being done!
But Bastian is incredibly sick, and his dayca...
2022-08-02 21:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography, Volume Sixteen: That One Summer Road Trip When We Were Little
"He's TOUCHING me!"
"Am not! She's LOOKING at me!"
"They're breathing loudly, ON PURPOSE!"
"So help me, I will turn this car around!"
"Punchbuggy!"
"Alaska!"
"Co...
2022-08-01 01:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: TAX SHELTER CAKE! (Chocolate-Espresso Poundcake)
So we’ve been reading In the Night Kitchen a lot lately. And in that book, bafflingly, the message that there are magical bakers who really need to get a cake made every night so we can ...
2022-07-31 21:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Summer Cocktail Recipe!
We will be having TWO recipes this month, because I've been quietly falling apart under pressure and I want to reward everyone who's stayed, and also because IT'S TOO HOT FOR THE WHOLE-
ASS CAKE...
Mama, Why Are You So Sad? Explaining the Roe Decision to a Toddler...and Myself
I’ve been trying to sit down and write whimsical science fictional things for all of you. To wax enthusiastic about…anything. I really have. But the whimsy, the enthusiasm, they are not coming ...
2022-06-28 19:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostNew Code of Cozy Conduct for the Discord Server
This is the new Code of Conduct for the Discord Server--please read it and if you have any feedback or comments or even adjustments you want to suggest, do so in the comments here or 2022-06-09 21:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Concerning Recent Events on the Discord Server
When I created a Discord server for members of this Patreon a year ago, I didn’t truly know what to expect. Mostly, I thought no one would care too much.
Instead, the Cozy Cult server has b...
2022-06-09 21:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography, Vol. 14: Regrets
Be sure to have tissues handy and something snuggly (alive or inanimate, your choice)
To be fair, I will only provide the link to the playlist here - you can share it if you choose! But initi...
2022-06-02 01:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography, Vol. 13: City Mouse
For the first playlist of our Second Year of Audiography. . .I bring you a city built of your musical selections!
To be fair, I will only provide the link to the playlist here - you can share...
2022-06-02 01:46:28 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume Fifteen: Dystopia Drive Time Radio
Hello, best beloveds!
An on time Audiography! The beginning of summer (sort of)! Last year we did Songs of Summers Past and this year. . .this year is different.
So roll the windo...
2022-06-02 01:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostVery Secret Exclusive Pre-Release: Audiobook of L'Esprit de L'Escalier
I'll be releasing this formally later this week, but as you are all my best beloveds, and definitely deserve treats, you get it first!
This is the official audio version of my Hugo-nominated ...
2022-05-30 23:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostSesame-Crusted Salmon Over Nutty Wild Rice and Seaweed Salad
Sesame-Crusted Salmon Over Nutty Wild Rice and Seaweed Salad
This is the first recipe I’ve reverse engineered from a restaurant.
In this case, The Cockeyed Gull...
2022-05-30 23:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume Fourteen: Je regrette toute , je ne regrette rien
Hello, best beloveds and greetings from the trenches of Sekrit Things. I do wish I could tell you - I know you would be overcome with excitement, but alas, not yet.
The Sekrits are the reason...
2022-05-19 01:12:08 +0000 UTC View PostBook Birthday!
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, whose early chapters many of you read right here over the last two years, is out in the world today!
I do hope you’ll give it a chance and read or lis...
2022-04-26 15:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Theseus' Chimichurri
So....I love chimichurri sauce a lot. Like A LOT a lot. And I've never really been able to get it right at home, even though I try all over again every couple of years.
And I got it in ...
2022-04-21 19:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume Thirteen: We Built This City
One of things we always planned to do with Bastian was take him on lots of adventures, especially with all of the conventions I get to attend. And then (say it with me, everyone), COVID. Lockdown h...
2022-04-07 02:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography, Volume 12: Years
As I went back over the playlist before publishing, I realized I accidentally named it Autobiography, Vol. 12: Years. Make of that what you will, my darlings.
So for your listening pleasure, ...
2022-04-01 02:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostLeviathans for Dummies: The Big Blue Farscape Essay That Never Ends Part 2 (of 3 and That's It, I Swear)
I Love Hanging With You, Man: My Buddy Farscape
Character Postcard: Bunny from White Lines on a Green Field
I was delighted to see love for Bunny from White Lines ...
2022-04-01 00:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Superhero Waffles!
Superhero Waffles
I am so FUCKING proud of myself right now, you guys.
I feel SMUG. I feel BRILLIANT. I feel vindicated. I feel like a goddamned GENIUS.
...
2022-03-31 23:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostAUDIOGRAPHY VOLUME TWELVE!!!!
Beloved patrons, Denizens of the Lands of Cat, we have done music for a year! A fantastic, frightening, wonderful, wrenching, ridiculous, radiant, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, yawping Year....
2022-03-11 19:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume 11: Love. It's Weird
Month Eleven of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!
Beloveds - we have been at this for almost a YEAR. How time does fly when you set it to a soundtrack.
Winter is loose...
2022-03-01 06:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Kuku Sabzi (Persian Vegetable Frittata)
What is that? Other than fun to say?
It’s a Persian frittata, basically.
Sassy Egg Puck.
Spicy Grass Circle.
This is what I make at home, tweaked from several recipes. Itâ...
2022-02-28 22:35:22 +0000 UTC View PostMORE LIGHT! Farscape and Me and You and Everything That’s Ever Mattered In Art and Space and Time and Art That Is In Space At a Time
Character Postcard: Comfort Me With Cascavel
We have inched back up over the patron-count to unlock character postcards again, so here we are!
This month you lovely folk chose Cascavel from Comfort Me With Apples, who was...
2022-02-27 22:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume 11: Love is Weird
'Tis February, when all* the world sings of love. Chocolates and roses and mass produced stuffed animals abound. . .but what about the deeply weird side of love? The type of love that is immortaliz...
2022-02-10 06:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Volume 10: It's Cold Outside
Month Ten of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!
In retrospect, I hope making the theme of 2022's FIRST Audiography "It's Cold Outside" isn't going to be a OMEN or anything. I...
2022-02-02 06:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post