#maddiem4

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THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!! I completely forgot to follow up on this post, ironically enough because I've been super focused on this endeavor haha! I’ll update you guys with how it went!

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Oh Him? He's Armless (EMiTB)

The last 5% of the publishing work of this chapter has been 95% of the time and effort. I'm so glad to be freaking done. I love this chapter, but I am so over the editing process. Genuinely, I need to be less precious about these initial online rolling release works. The only useful editing they could possibly have (beyond basic proofreading) is after the entire book is done.

So visualize with me. It's a weekday morning after the breakfast rush, a lull between the bag-eyed morning frenzy and the time-constrained lunch crowd. Here, in the nice part of town, on a corner bordered by a soap boutique and an Italian-Indian fusion restaurant, sits an independent coffee shop with pristine vinyl-printed window decals and a chalk signboard advertising today's specials. Visitors are embraced immediately in a warm blanket of roasted coffee and pastry smells. The hazy sunlight washes in from the windows, and in one of those beams, a young-looking woman ponders and calculates while waiting to hear her name called...

@jennihurtz @wanderwytch @rust-official @mr-orion @that-house

[maddiem4]

I was feeling inspired, and started a (brief) series in the same universe as Elizabeth Maroney is Totally Boned. I don't have any plans for the stories to explicitly connect, but you never know. Lore is certainly canon in both directions though.

Two travelers, one of them pregnant, make their way across the American Midwest. It's not a safe place to be around people after dark. And when you're trying to avoid people, you might be surprised how hard it can be, even in the lonely patches of the earth…

I really hope that you enjoy Brood as much as I've been enjoying writing it. This is the first I've felt capable to write, or do anything much of use, since catching COVID-19 this year. It's nice to be back in the saddle - any saddle, at this point, but I have to admit I missed writing terribly. If I keep it up, I might even get back to writing well! Hehehe. But yeah if you like my usual writing you'll like Brood. Thanks.

@jennihurtz @wanderwytch @k-simplex @mr-orion @that-house

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I've been going through some life stuff lately, but I've managed to make some progress on the writing and organization front. For one big thing, I made a lot of my writing available on my own website, and now I'm going to link to that rather than directly embed text as Tumblr posts. It has every finished chapter of Elizabeth Maroney is Totally Boned, and I'm going to add hosting for Reposado at some point soon (which will make Chapter 25 much easier to structure - if you know, you know) - the main barrier for the latter is that it's in a separate Obsidian vault, so I basically need to get a computer set up with both and do a massive file copy.

The other thing is that I have a mailing list of sorts now! Tumblr usernames to tag when I make release posts. I'll be testing that today. Thanks for the patience and support!

@jennihurtz @wanderwytch @k-simplex @mr-orion @that-house

[maddiem4]

Twitch truly is a special and particular form of interacting with the public, isn't it? If you're seeing this post, I'm about to go live! I'm pretty excited for today's stream. I have a proof of concept PPA, this next stream is going to be all about making it ready for public consumption.

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Do you want to listen to an old communist hag ad-lib a manifesto to a random Twitch follower? Did you miss the golden age of interoperable chat apps? WELL BOY HOWDY DO I GOT NEARLY AN HOUR OF CONTENT FOR YOU!

This was the big insane edit job that taught me a lesson in "holy fuck it's not sustainable to manually caption a 40 minute video." A very important category of lesson. It's not a large category, but I have suffered greatly in learning it. I will probably upload all of my VODs at some point with minor editing, but that's a giant project, and will not involve caption work. Just mild security censorship as necessary and some timestamps. I won't upload shorts while doing that, because again, this way lies insanity.

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I can't believe I built the aesthetic of a whole day around this goofy fangirl bit and it blew up in my face so hard. Truly dunked on by the gods.

I stream every weekday except Thursday, 10AM-2PM Pacific, and if you're seeing this fresh, I'm about to go live RITE HERE, RITE NOW!

[maddiem4]

That's all I got in me tonight, but a second chapter of Brood is out! It's a special treat for everyone demented enough to enjoy prose like:

He snickered. "Happy to oblige, miss." He grabbed the rope and pulled down, and the deer lifted up and over the spiderwebbed glass. Delia fell into his arms, and he barely caught her, but by god he caught her. She looked up at him again, and they kissed in the moonlight - the reckless kind of kissing, both of them drenched in deer blood after tens of minutes tying knots around the corpse.

Before you ask, yes yes, of course I'm building up to a sex scene. You think I'd set up the romantic intimacy between a human man and a spider girl without some sort of highly explicit and shamelessly graphic payoff? For shame! Know me better! Mama Maddie would never leave you hanging like that. I'm just trying to find a deft way to weave it into the American Gothic Horror of the overarching narrative in a way that doesn't feel contrived. Rome wasn't architected in a day, people!

@jennihurtz @wanderwytch @k-simplex @mr-orion @that-house