Merry Christmas to all my free and paid subscribers!
Open me for a little gift...
First of all, please meet my new kitten Twilight. The current pet situation in my household is now one dog (Zelda) one cat (Salem) one kitten (Twilight) one betta fish (Gyarados) and six chickens (Hen, Sinead, Princess, Clementine, Nightwish, and Platinum). I’m resting a bit for the holiday/winter season (though I have a free GUEST POST on solo polyamory scheduled for this Friday coming from my friends at ENM Living!) but I wanted to reach out to my followers with a special offer because I’m just so grateful:
Become an annual paid subscriber for $50 rather than $80 until the end of the month! You can join a Discord, comment on my posts, message me directly and I’ll answer, see all my hidden posts about polyamory and sex, and support someone who is currently in the midst of some fantastic financial struggles (from a lower-middle-class rather than poverty-level perspective, I will add!) and has a dream goal of quitting my job and doing this full time.
I plan on doing quite a few more paid subscriber posts next year, so now’s a good time to GET IN ON IT.
However, I note that recently I’ve had some people renew their subscriptions at the $80 a year price. If you’re like “Omg, that’s not fair!” I totally get it. Like how cell phone companies only offer good deals to new customers and say “fuck you” to existing customers.
So I want to offer something unique if you are ALREADY a paid subscriber and recently renewed: I’ll send you a holiday card! Personalized! I can send it to your address or, if you’re not comfortable with that, a digital-only version to your email. I am genuinely grateful for you, and to be honest, some of these Substack notifications have been the difference between putting all my food on a credit card versus being able to actually pay out of my bank account outright.
Not only is that 38% off the annual subscription now, but an annual subscription already saves you 48% off from a monthly subscription.
Anyway, I hope everyone is having a joyous holiday season, no matter what you celebrate or why. If you’re having a miserable one, feel lonely, feel depressed — reach out to someone, and if you don’t have anyone to reach out to, reach out to me.
Also wanted to point out that Rob, Brandon, and I recently had the privilege of speaking to Darryl Bullock, an LGBTQ+ and music historian who had a radio show called World’s Worst Records. It’s a two-part episode, and part one just dropped here:
We get into what’s behind the world’s worst Christmas music, what “counts” as a bad Christmas song, and how these songs come about in the first place. (psst: did you know a lot of the worst Christmas songs come from Christian labels?)
Anyway, thank you so much!