Catherynne M. Valente

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

Part One 

Part Two 

We were all just children when this essay beg...

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.

Don't forget you can hang out with all of u...

ALLCAPS 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 dangerously sexy young divorcee, don't judge) every...

Note 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 daycare shut down due to Covid exposure which may or ma...

Audiography, 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!"

"Corn! Not corn!"

August, y'all. Las...

ALLCAPS 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 “have cake every morning” is just…SUPER emph...

Bonus 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 I'M GONNA POST LATER TODAY so I wanted you guys t...

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 easily at the moment. I know so many of you (I hop...

New 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 become an extraordinarily lovely, inclusive, and to...

Audiography, 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 initial access will only be through this site, for all ...

Audiography, 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 it if you choose! But initial access will only be...

Audiography 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 windows or top down, crank the music, slide on your coo...

Very 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 novelette 2022-05-30 23:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Sesame-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 on Peaks Island WHERE I LIVE BECAUSE I AM A SILLY...

Audiography 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 this month's Audiography is late. Spring is in fu...

Book 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 listen (audiobook narrated by Heath, it’s a family ...

ALLCAPS 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 my head to do so again last week. SURELY THIS TIME...

Audiography 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 hit when he was around 18 months old and we haven't...

Audiography, 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, herewith our last playlist of the First Year of Au...

Leviathans for Dummies: The Big Blue Farscape Essay That Never Ends Part 2 (of 3 and That's It, I Swear)

Part One 

I Love Hanging With You, Man: My Buddy Farscape and Me

So here we are, you and me...

Character Postcard: Bunny from White Lines on a Green Field

I was delighted to see love for Bunny from White Lines on a Green Field, which is definitely one...

ALLCAPS 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.

You see, like most Smol People, my Smol Person of ...

AUDIOGRAPHY 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.

And so in honor of that, as the March winds...

Audiography 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 loosening its icy grasp (finally). While we wait for sp...

ALLCAPS 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. It’s SO good for you, packed with leafy greens but ...

MORE 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

Remember when I told you all about Ted Lasso, back when everyone wasn’t watching Ted Lasso, and said very emphatically that everyone needed to be watchi...

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 a VERY delicate customer to handle without spoile...

Audiography 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 immortalized in songs like "Where the Wild Roses Grow", "Fai...

Audiography 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 suppose I could have picked Lollipops and Candied...