Character Postcard
Hello my loves!
In further adventures in making this tier worthwhile for you wonderful folks when the Livestream poll doesn't get enough questions for a stream...
I am letting you choose the characters for the new monthly reward!
Catherynne M. Valente posts
Four Year Anniversary Gift: The Collected Poems of Catherynne M. Valente (That's Me!)
Four years ago in March, I started this little Patreon.
In the time since, you and your amazing, astonishing support have made it possible for me to live between novels, to not have my house fall down around my ears, to have any kind of peac...
2021-05-31 22:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Playlist Volume Two: The Future Is Here
Here we are with another wildly successful second month of the Audiography Reboot: This Time Less Piracy!
The Future Is Here playlist is live (along with my selections!) and ready for you to sink your ears into. Can't wait--see you next mont...
2021-05-31 18:37:09 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Postcard: November
This month, you chose November, from Palimpsest! The OG Fairyland superfan. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into the Great City and how life moves there now.
All my love to each and every one of you--the biggest Quarto there ever was. 2021-05-31 17:34:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Postcard Poll
And here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-...
2021-05-25 22:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Bucatini with Mussels, Spring Peas, and Three Peppercorn Miso Broth
Bucatini with Mussels, Spring Peas, and Three Peppercorn Miso Broth
This was so fabulous it wouldn’t even talk to me in the halls at school.
I didn’t even really mean to make a good dinner that night, I just wanted...
2021-05-19 20:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostMad Mandatory Media Dissection Poll
All right, kittens! What am I reviewing this month? (Last month was a DOOZY!)
For clarification: the "haven't watched yet" tag means someone from the Mad Post-Doc tier requested this and I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but will d...
2021-05-19 19:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostOpen 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?
2021-05-13 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAudiography Theme Announcement: Volume Two
Last month was so amazing, you guys! We created a huge playlist of joy that I'm still discovering new music from. This worked better than I ever imagined.
So here we go with the second theme!
May's Audiography Redux theme is: T...
2021-05-08 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe New Audiography Makes Its Debut! Volume One: Happiness
It's ready! All your songs and four of mine (I get an extra because I make the rules) all together in a beautiful WILDLY diverse playlist available right now for you to listen to and feel a little happy.
The only way to do this so that every...
2021-04-30 23:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard
Ted Lasso has virtually everything going against it. Especially in terms of getting specifically me, Cat Valente, to give it a chance.
But I really, really, really want you to give it a chance if you haven’t. So I’m gonna try to...
2021-04-27 19:43:56 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK Presents: Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans with Pork Belly and Toasted Walnut Dust
Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans with Pork Belly and Toasted Walnut Dust
Sichuan peppercorns, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: you taste like flowers and citrus only both are on fire and kind of mad at me. You are pre...
2021-04-27 14:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostMad Laboratory Discord is Live!
Enough of you seemed interested in a dedicated Discord server for the community, so now, LIKE MAGIC, it exists!
There's not much there now--we need you guys for that. But I'll be logged in for the rest of the day to welcome folks, chat, and ...
2021-04-22 17:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostMandatory Mad Media Dissection Poll
What shall I review this month, darlings?
2021-04-21 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostPostcard Poll
And here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-...
2021-04-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOpen 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?
2021-04-16 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostOMG NEW REWARD PATREON HAPPY FUN TIME THING
We're starting a new monthly feature here at the Mad Fiction Laboratory!
Wha? Why? did we meet a new goal?
Nope.
Is it my birthday?
Maybe? Statistically, it's probably one of your birthdays. Three more weeks til mine though...
2021-04-13 15:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostDiscord/Slack Possibilities
Hey everyone!
So this is a thing people have been doing and I wondered if you guys would be interested in doing it too.
Would you want a dedicated Laboratory Discord channel or Slack? Would you use it? We did try with Patreon's T...
2021-04-07 14:38:42 +0000 UTC View PostI'm Not Okay; You're Not Okay: Dealing with 2020's Endless Denouement
Writing is hard.
This is not going to be me bitching about my job for 3000 words. I am well aware that all things considered, in the history of the world and the socio-economic map of this culture, my job is a beautiful glittering jeweled ic...
2021-04-06 18:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostMonthly Postcard: Decibel Jones
Now, you don't get pretty cursive from a washed up rockstar. You get purple eyeliner on the back of a stolen Save the Date card.
There are some little clues to Space Oddity in this one--special privilege of being patrons! Dess will ...
2021-03-30 18:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt Was Misogyny All Along! A Series of Yes But Also No Reactions to Marvel's Wandavision
It really is ever so much easier to review something when I hated it. Or when I just love it so much. I just open up the Ol' Scrivener and gush.
But with Wandavision...there is just SO much to love.
And SO much to a...
2021-03-29 22:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostStrega Nona's Any Night Umami-Tsunami Pasta
Fuck food.
Seriously.
It's been too long, with too little respite, and I live on a damn island where I can't get things delivered easily, so I'm so sick of cooking and coming up with things to cook that don't bore me to tears I feel li...
2021-03-26 19:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostMandatory Mad Fiction Media Dissection Poll!
All right, dear hearts. What shall I review this month?
2021-03-26 15:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostPostcard Poll
And here are the choices suggested so far. Now, I want to say that any details in these will be classified as loose canons--if I were to go back and write a new Fairyland novel one day I will not hold myself precisely to what is said by A-Through-...
2021-03-22 22:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostOpen 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?
2021-03-18 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Postcard: A-Through-L!
Our monthly character postcard comes to us this time from Fairyland--with guest lettering by my massively talented friend Kris McDermott (Wyverary claws are not so excellent at holding pens).
2021-02-28 15:15:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhat’s The Matter, Don’t You Like Our Smart People Music? or I Don’t Know What Will Save Modern Cinema But It 100% Isn’t Tenet
Oh my god, you guys chose Tenet! What a CRAZY UNFORSEEABLE YET TRÈS FORTUNATE turn of events because I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS EARSPLATTING MONOCHROME GLUMBEAST.
But first, I’m gonna need you to watch a YouTube video.
<... 2021-02-28 01:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostALLCAPS COOKBOOK PRESENTS: Unicorn Pancakes!
In the constant quest to find food my toddler is willing to eat, I am not ashamed to resort to food coloring.
But! The color scheme is not the only thing that makes these Unicorn Pancakes! I stole this recipe RIGHT OFF A CHILD, i.e my friend...
2021-02-26 23:52:08 +0000 UTC View PostMandatory Mad Fiction Media Dissection Poll!
All right, dearhearts. What shall I review this month?
2021-02-19 22:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post