December 2025/January 2026 Tea of the Month Selections

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This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series TotMC (Standard) Chosen Teas

  There’s a thing that happens with chronic illness and chronic stress and, as it turns out, recovery from life-threatening events. I call it the “I feel better” experience. Where I really don’t yet, but I feel enough better as compared to the worst of whatever it was that I Continue Reading →

Long Distance Stabbing (Green Kukicha, Roasted Kukicha, Golden Yunnan)

  A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a Discord server revolving around the fan-fiction of a particular AO3 author helped me greatly in the immediate aftermath of what happened with THFKAMT. Unfortunately, for me at least, that server went the way of many places on the Continue Reading →

May/June 2025 Tea of the Month Club Selections

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series TotMC (Standard) Chosen Teas

    The teas for May and June were sent together due to the health disaster mentioned in the recent update posts. They also happened to be blended on the same day. The tea chosen for May was “We’re All Mad Here” – a blend of Darjeeling (Second Flush), Freeze-Dried Continue Reading →

Chriska Foxcove

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Gnomevember

  Chriska Foxcove is a leksi hailing from the Fractal of the StorySoul – those gnomes brought to spawning by the lives and times of places where words are kept and loved. The first-room-to-the-left in a welcoming house where mind and body are fed, the lost are cherished, and the Continue Reading →

I Want to Believe (8-412)(The Smoking Gun, Hawthorn Berries, Cardamom)

The origin story for I Want to Believe – an organic blend of The Smoking Gun, Hawthorn Berries, and Cardamom. Continue Reading →