Xennial: I use it like the "It's fine" dog! Not playful.
Playful is: 😜

He's such a freaking cartoon villain! 😅

I have that one! It's a great instructional text!

And let us know how it goes. I never considered setting an account up over there, but maybe since I'm pushing myself to expect more from my art and myself this year, I should.

It IS exhausting. It doesn't help we can't trust soc med platforms anymore. I think Patreon is worth you refreshing your involvement since you have an established audience. I have a few people I pay to sub to on Patreon, and I love it whenever I have an update from them in my inbox.

Yeah, I MIGHT send a newsletter once a month, but honestly I can only commit to quarterly right now, and that's a lot of money to only be used 4x and year!

Yeah, this is why I was thinking doing it from my website/WP would be best. But I'm still considering it if access/discoverability is easier for building an audience.

Every time someone I’m semi-familiar with or friendly with posts, “Hey, I started a substack!” I just… 😩

They’re appealing to me bc they say they’re meant for artists: pencilbooth.com haven’t deep dived on them yet

I’ve got a WP website now, and can do the blog posts to subscribers thing, but I’d love something w super easy templates. I’ve seen folks use Beehiiv, Ghost, and Pencil Booth is another one I want to check out.

I was going to use squarespace when my site was still hosted there, but the newsletter required addtl fee and I had to use/share my mailing address to access full newsletter options, and I was not about to do that. I even looked into renting a PO Box as a work around.

The way I flinched reading this! 🫣

@brianlarossa.com @jimhoover017.bsky.social Thoughts?

They have sooo many pretty things there! I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.