I guess I'm back on Substack

pivoting is okay

I made it back from San Francisco after a truly harrowing return (many delays, missed connections, and general travel shit). I’ll write more about my trip another time. Here, I’d like to figure out some things after moving to another platform didn’t work.

I switched to Buttondown to get away from this platform for many reasons. However, I’ve had one person pay for a subscription and there’s no way I can eat the $79/month that Buttondown costs.

Perhaps I moved too quickly—I tend to do this, as a sagittarius stellium and all. My impulses generally win out.

Buttondown seems great and other people I respect and trust are on it. However, I’ve had some issues with the first email I sent out being marked as “suspicious,” which, of course doesn’t help my readership.

I guess I’m back here now.

Eventually, I will be turning on paid subscriptions again (since I turned them off, it’s been a whole thing that I now need Substack to help with, so we’ll see how long that takes).

When paid subs are available again, I hope you’ll consider paying for one which is only $5/month or $35/year. I would love to get to 200 by September 1st. I love writing this newsletter, but it takes a lot of time and labor. I spend hours on it. My dream is to be paid for my writing.

In the meantime, please fill out the following poll questions (h/t to

Raechel Anne Jolie

for some of the phrasing, who you should definitely check out, if you haven’t!):

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