July 9 Update (Patreon)
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Early post because I want to burrow into work. Starting with continued memes, this time a little comic. ^-^
TLS 0.68.2 is finally out. Lots of people playing it according to Steam analytics, but everything's quiet on my end. Work on 0.69.x content continues, and I realize that there are probably going to be jokes about it being the 69th update. This will be a big one, and I haven't fully decided how to execute some aspects, so I cannot predict how long it will take to finish.
Meanwhile, everyone should click this interview with me to give the site metrics:
I'm bad with promotion, and think it's probably futile, but I do what I can when I have the opportunity. Will this matter? Probably not. But it's a small site that might notice a bump, so go give them views and click that random little heart thing so they're incentivized to pay attention to me in the future.
Podcasts don't fit into my schedule very well, but I listen to a few. Recently I have been listening to Publishing Rodeo, which is probably too niche for most people reading this unless you're really interested in the publishing industry. The reason that I bring it up is that it's been a sobering experience to learn how many apparently successful authors are relying on spouses or living the publishing equivalent of paycheck-to-paycheck.
I generally feel like I'm a small and basically insignificant fish in all the fields I participate in. It's important to remind myself how extraordinarily fortunate I am to be making a comfortable living in fields where that is far from the norm. I seek to prepare and diversify to ward against future problems (platforms and publishers are not your friend), but this is out of an excess of caution, not trying to make ends meet.
If you're with me so far, please look forward to having me around for a long time to come. ^-^