Early Year Admin Post! (Patreon)

Good afternoon, cozy folk.

So here in this, the Year of Our Last Fuck Given (and Last Pipe Burst!)2023, I want to get a little more organized with Patreon and my schedule so that I can feel less like I live in a constant tsunami of failing. Thus! Some changes! All beneficial and aiming toward getting you more of what you're here for.

The big one is that, as of right now, until/if we reach the patron count for the extra rewards (playlists, character postcards, media reviews) to return, starting tomorrow, rewards will go up on Wednesdays every week. It is highly likely (though not set in stone, ADHD is super fun like that and hates the word always) that the essay will be the last Wednesday of every month, just because it takes a lot of time. When/if those other rewards return, I'm hoping I can do two posts of a Wednesday to keep that the Cozy Cult's Holy Day, because if not our holyness, who the fuck has much use for Wednesdays? HUMP DAY, AM I RIGHT FELLOW BOOMERS?

Anyway, Wednesday, indeed, will be Cozy Day round these parts, full of Patreon content. 

As far as future rewards, we're in a bit of an odd space with the Mad Post Doc Student Tier (and up). Originally, the reward was asking the questions for a monthly Youtube/Insta Reel Q&A, but people weren't really asking anything after awhile, which made Q&As PRETTY AWKWARD. Then it was choosing the subject of the media review--which we aren't doing at the moment until/if the patron threshold is crossed again.

So...I want to ask you astonishingly kind and fantastic, dare I say, morally beyond reproach people what you would like to see for that reward tier. I want to give you cool stuff! We could go back to Q&As, or I could write you a haiku every month or a selection of Bastian's best quotes that month or sunset pics over the bay (I don't know, they've just been SO spectacular lately) or anything you all would value, really. Let me know in the comments!

Lastly, some of you know I have a Substack now as well. Now, I'm still not super active there (and I'm aware there's some issues with the site management/power users, but...there is with Patreon too) yet, but I want to assure you all Patreon is my main hub and where I most reliably and frequently am. I'll basically be using Substack for political commentary--a thing I've posted here before, but which isn't really as positive and cozy and safe good times as this space has grown to be. This is for art and feelings, for the moment, the other is for politics and being fucking mad all the time. 

There is a loose unstructured paid tier there, and I'll be asking them what they want to see in it, as I didn't really expect anyone to pay over there. I've been really torn about cross-posting, since I certainly don't, and have no intention to, cross post Patreon things to Substack, but have the other way round. For now, I think that I will mostly not be crossing the streams. If there's a big fat essay on the paid tier, I'll crosspost it, because no one should miss a big piece if they are doing something so extraordinarily amazing and good-hearted as to send me money every month. But shorter posts will stay with their communities. I have not, as of yet, seen a lot of overlap between the two groups and I suspect the audience is fairly differentiated. I'm still really wobbly on this, though, and could be talked into changing my mind pretty easily.

I think that's everything, please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions heading into this new year, tell me in the comments!