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Denizen of the Month/Update: THIS SPIKY OMICRON BOI RIGHT HERE

This month's Denizen is FUCKING COVID-19 I SWEAR TO GOD I WANT TO PUNCH ITS STUPID FACE.

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Audiography Volume 10: Darlings, It's Cold Outside

Apologies for the lateness of the post. Life is beautiful, life is stupid, life is late. Deadlines are kicking me from one side to another, but the end is in sight.

Living on an island has it...

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Special Bonus Excerpt: Space Oddity

This one's for everyone!

I had the notion that this concept would be a chapter long before I even sold a sequel, and I'm PRETTY pleased with how it came out, and I was telling folks on the Di...

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Quick Housekeeping: Discord and Schedule

Hey everyone, me here.

As you probably noticed, my life went in the bin last month, and also this month, so I have been bad with updates and am still working on this month's rewards BUT they ...

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Good Morning January: Annual Awards Eligibility Post

Since I don't really have a proper blog anymore and my website is undergoing some updates, I decided I would put this bad boi here. This is like a blog, after all. As close as I think inte...

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Audiography Volume Nine: Young Punkery

Here we are, rolling into the ninth month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!

My aunt passed on Christmas Eve. I have mixed feelings as you do when someone you love so deep...

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Open Discussion

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?

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State of the Cat Update

Hello all,

Lovely Assistant here again with more not so lovely news. 

Cat's aunt is in really bad shape and she is trying to make funeral arrangements while comforting her cousins....

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Audiography Volume Nine: Young Punkery

My aunt is dying. I don't really know how to process this. I don't know how to handle a world that doesn't have her in it.

I write about music a lot because I lean on music a lot. That's what...

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State of the Cat

Hello, all. 

Lovely Assistant here with some not so lovely news. First, Cat/husband/child are all physically fine - y'all don't need to worry about that.

However, Cat's Aunt Cyndi ...

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Character Postcard: Fairyland's Moon

She was so surprised you wanted to hear from her and she said. . .well, I'll let her tell you.

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Audiography Volume Eight: Dancing About Architecture

Here we are, rolling into the eighth month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!

It's the last day of November but also the start of the holiday season! Still, it's a bit mel...

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Character Postcard Poll

Who would you like to hear from this month?

Source material is in the parentheses, and remember, these options are chosen by the Mad Post Doc and up tiers each month.

Here are the choic...

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ALL CAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Apple Pie for Your Cinnamon Roll Cravings

You may be asking yourselves, best beloveds, how apple pie can sate your cinnamon roll cravings. Have a seat at my kitchen table, let the smell of pie crust oozing syrupy apples waft over you as I ...

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Acknowledgments: A Thanksgiving Essay

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. 

And today I did one of the last things you do when making a manuscript into a book: the acknowledgments.

As some of you know, my acknowledgments can some...

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Audiography Volume Eight: Architecture About Dancing

I feel like I definitely first encountered this quote (probably) by Martin Mull in a rom-com, but the saying goes:

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Well,...

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Open Discussion

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?

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October Orecchiette: Pasta with Caramelized Apples, Onions, Sausage, Goat Cheese, and Crisped Mushrooms Topped with Shredded Georgian-Spiced Brussels Sprouts

Ugh this shit is REAL, I am telling you. It is SO GOOD.

The problem is I don’t actually like apples all that much? But I really like apple picking? And toddlers fucking LOVE apple picking? ...

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Mandatory Media Dissection Poll

What shall I review this month?

Since I was flat on my back for a good part of September and October (THANKS, MIDDLE-AGED BODY!!), I have more than usual to choose from in the "read, watched,...

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Character Postcard: Öö

Delightful Assistant is so happy, because she's been wanting an Öö postcard since I started this reward. Öö is happy, because making humans happy is a Good But Not Always Easy Thing, mostly bec...

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Character Postcard: Prester John

So this was technically last month's postcard, but I got distracted by digging up short stories. In any case, it seems some of you miss this guy as much as I do. Now, there may or may not be some n...

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Audiography Volume Seven: Spooky Songs

Here we are, rolling into the seventh month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!

It's the last day of the spooooookiest month, so why not celebrate with all the spooky, cree...

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Fine, I Guess I’m Gonna Say Something About Dave Chappelle Now. Goddammit.

I wasn’t going to say anything.

I really wasn’t.

I have a crushing deadline, and a toddler, and just a whole lot of things going on. And after the last special, frankly, I just didn...

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CharacterPostcard Poll

Who would you like to hear from this month?

Source material is in the parentheses, and remember, these options are chosen by the Mad Post Doc and up tiers each month.

Here are the choic...

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Open Discussion

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?

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Audiography Volume Seven: Spooky Songs

Our seventh audiography theme is...Spooky Songs!

It's October and Christmas trees have been in Costco since August! Someone has to rally around the banner of Halloween and I know I can count ...

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Audiography Playlist Volume Six: Guilty Pleasures

Here we are, rolling into the sixth month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time with Less Piracy!

The Guilty Pleasures playlist is live (along with my selections!) and ready for you to put int...

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All Bad Things: How to Amuse Yourself with Star Trek When You Have Already Seen Every Star Trek So Many Times It Even Weirds Out Other Trekkies

Note: This got very long. As in, I managed to cover one episode and my history with Trek and it's already 2500 words. So to save my still destroyed back (I was in traction this week! That was w...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Peach and Honey-Brandy Cheese Pastry Pocketsquares with Fresh Thyme

Peach and Honey-Brandy Cheese Pastry Pocketsquares with Fresh Thyme

These are so easy yet so impressive-looking I can’t even express to you the size of the BIG BAMBOOZLE he...

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Bonus Reward: The Seething Sea Sufficeth Us

In tracking down all the stories whose characters were requested for this month's postcard, I discovered that the organization that commissioned one of the stories seems to only host the stories un...

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