I downloaded the Substack app a while ago to keep all the newsletters I read in one place, but mostly because I was simply getting too many emails. I’m an Inbox (0) kinda gal so it seemed like a good idea. Or it did until I realised I’d unwittingly joined yet another social media site because I suppose having accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Bluesky, Discord, Tumblr and Threads just wasn’t quite doing it? (Oh, and BeReal. Christ.) If anything I need to be deleting accounts and yet! Here I am! Because the thing is they’re really not quite doing it since Twitter collapsed into a soggy pile of racism and bots, and if you’re here I hardly need to tell you that. Threads somehow manages to be both dry as fuck but also really annoying. I like Bluesky but it’s missing a good chunk of my pals (both online and irl ones) and people whose takes I always like reading (this is mostly just Bolu Babalola tbh).
Something about seeing all the newsletters lined up together woke up the 2011 Blogspot girlie in me. (She’s wearing a dress with squirrels on it and a necklace that’s just a huge button on a chain, in case you were wondering.) Turns out I’ve missed writing silly pop culture-adjacent posts that are longer than a sentence and maybe a very sporadic newsletter is just the thing? Then I thought of a name I liked for it and there was no going back. I ended up writing a lot of this post in my head while not going to sleep the other night, with my boyfriend soundly conked out beside me. And I have the cheek to wonder how he manages to fall completely asleep thirty seconds after putting his phone down while I’m lying awake for ages. The call is coming from inside the house, dumbass.
All this is to say, HIYA. I’m not 100% sure what this is going to be yet, I might cheat occasionally and post old stuff I’ve written elsewhere, or just bang on about what I’m watching or reading. I’m sure my little dopamine-seeking, notification-wanting lab rat brain will come up with something. Low pressure, low urgency is the vibe. I went to the trouble of making a lil logo and everything so I guess we’ll find out.
If you think you’ll enjoy this, tell your friends! And if you already don’t like it, then tell your enemies.
Excellent! Can't wait and love the name.