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Writing any kind of story is a scary proposition, especially if it deals with personal stuff. And writing about trans people during a bogus moral panic is especially daunting -- it's easy to either pull your punches, or feel as though the burden of good trans representation weighs on your shoulders.
The good news is that we are living during a time of extreme riches when it comes to trans stories, and a ton of wonderful authors are writing trans tales that defy categorization and bust through boundaries. So please write the story that speaks to you, the story that only you can tell about your own obsessions and dreams. It can be scary or funny or comforting or escapist, or all of the above — don't worry that what you write will be singled out as the One True Trans Story, or seen as a representation of all trans people. Just write your story.
Writing Trans Stories For Fun (and Liberation) --- My latest newsletter!
#writing#trans#transgender#nonbinary#non binary#writing advice#writers of tumblr#writers life#creative writing#books#newsletters#quotes#lgbtqia#trans rights readathon#trans day of visibility
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From The Atlantic: Substack Has a Nazi Problem
[that link is to an archived version, so no paywall]
Bottom Line: the CEOs/leaders of Substack aren't just being laissez-faire about the fascists and open white supremacists on the platform, they actively boost them by having them on the company podcast, featuring them, mentioning them, and boosting them. Because the newsletters bring in LOADS of money and they love money. Even newsletters that repeatedly violate the basic, useless guidelines of Substack, they do not get punished.
This isn't a huge surprise for anyone who has been following the major issues with Substack that have come up in the past few years. There was the whole scandal where the public discovered that Substack had been paying people secretly to be on the service while advertising that anyone can make it on their own here! Plus, they were paying bigots directly to put their newsletters on the srvice.
Good breakdowns of that from Annalee Newitz and Grace Lavery.
Then there was the disasterous interview one of the CEOs (Chris Best) did with Nilay Patel of The Verge when Substack's Twitter clone launched. Nilay -- who is, if you hadn't guessed, of Indian descent -- asked him pointed questions about content moderation and... well...
[Nilay] I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and says “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America,” you’re going to censor that. That’s just flatly against your terms of service.
[Best] So, we do have a terms of service that have narrowly prescribed things that are not allowed.
That one I’m pretty sure is just flatly against your terms of service. You would not allow that one. That’s why I picked it.
So there are extreme cases, and I’m not going to get into the–
Wait. Hold on. In America in 2023, that is not so extreme, right? “We should not allow as many brown people in the country.” Not so extreme. Do you allow that on Substack? Would you allow that on Substack Notes?
I think the way that we think about this is we want to put the writers and the readers in charge–
No, I really want you to answer that question. Is that allowed on Substack Notes? “We should not allow brown people in the country.”
I’m not going to get into gotcha content moderation.
This is not a gotcha... I’m a brown person. Do you think people on Substack should say I should get kicked out of the country?
I’m not going to engage in content moderation, “Would you or won’t you this or that?”
That one is black and white, and I just want to be clear: I’ve talked to a lot of social network CEOs, and they would have no hesitation telling me that that was against their moderation rules.
Yeah. We’re not going to get into specific “would you or won’t you” content moderation questions.
Why?
I don’t think it’s a useful way to talk about this stuff.
Best wasn't willing to get into these "gotchas" around their new social network, which is a pretty clear indication that they won't get into it around content moderation on the original platform. (Their statement after the fact did nothing to make things better.)
It's also really clear from the Atlantic article that the Substack CEOs/Owners are, at best, more interested in making money than in keeping white supremacists and Nazis (literal ones) off their platform. At worst, the Substack CEOs/Owners are supremacist/Nazi sympathizers. Either way:
Substack Directly Supports the Alt-Right, Nazis, and White Supremacists
Openly, brazenly, and without remorse.
#tw: nazis#nazis#fascisim#tw: fascists#tw: white supremacists#white supremacists#Substack#newsletters
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Heyo, saw your recent post suggesting reading the Positive News and I was wondering if you happen to know any other sites similar to it, or solarpunk adjacent, sites that offer newsletters?
Yes! Good news network, Solarpunk Magazine, Sam Bentley, outrage and optimism, etc. Comment if you know others, people!
#solarpunk#hopepunk#environmentalism#cottagepunk#social justice#community#optimism#bright future#climate justice#tidalpunk#ask#newsletters#good news stories
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New newsletter out now 💐
#consists mainly of me complaining about men to be honest im really in my man hating era right now. and rightfully so tbh#also!!! on medium getting smth sent to your inbox is a separate button in case u didnt know + were confused why it didnt pop up in ur email#hollyws#newsletters
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Hey Atty, I've seen a few creators starting to use Substack for their stories. I was wondering if you'd heard anything/have any opinions on it since i usually find your take on this sort of stuff interesting
I actually wrote a huge, long, rambling review --
-- VERY POSITIVE REVIEW UNTIL--
via SUBSTACK SUPPORT
...what. I'm sorry. What?
"Note: Substack charges a one-time $50 USD fee to use a custom domain for your publication."
Without exception: If you are creating content, you need to own your domain.
The gears behind-the-scenes will almost certainly belong to someone else, but you need to own the address.
To market it, be it on one social app or many, in print or in t-shirts or in skywriting, you need to say "Find my stuff at My Website Dot Whatever. Sign up!"
This domain needs to belong to you and cannot be tied to a service you cannot get away from.
What if you decide Substack sucks?
What if they say "hey we are doubling our rates"?
What if they go out of business?
What if you want to branch out into other things beyond newsletters?
To be fair. You are not being locked into Substack's system.
You can pay them $50 USD, then walk away in 3 years and point your domain somewhere else, the cost being this one-time fee.
But I want to talk about something.
When you get a domain, from Google Domains or any other the other billion companies that sell them, the registrar says "okay where does this thing point to?" -- as in -- Substack is not doing the work. The registrar is. That's part of the roughly $12/year fee you pay them for.
I have never seen a company charge you to point a domain to their service before. I am suspicious.
Notice how Tumblr is not charging to use a custom domain?
At this point, I am admittedly guessing, but the only reason I can think of a charge is to make authors second-guess if they leave the platform.
Evil Supply Co. closed in the summer of 2019, I am writing this in February 2023, I still get traffic on the old domain. It diminishes month-by-month and yet it is still a valuable "I am rebranding!" tool.
I plan on keeping the domain forever. It costs me very little per year because no one has charged me to point it at the address of the new project. I can change gears once a week and point it somewhere else without fee.
I have never seen a site charge to have a domain pointed at them.
Prior to writing this answer, I had never looked into Substack's business model.
Having found this point, I would never recommend them to anyone for any reason, even if their newsletter is going to be free forever.
In contempt and anger at this bullshit, I offer a non-affiliate link to MailChimp's blog on launching a paid newsletter.
I'm not so much saying "you should use MailChimp" as "there are other solutions that won't charge you."
I have used MC in the past to great enjoyment and success.
I've used other services too. They won't charge you for pointing a domain to them.
Because this is Tumblr which is owned by Automattic which owns WordPress and because I am super fucking mad at this Substack bullshit I will close with saying WordPress.com also has the ability to launch a newsletter and they won't charge you for a domain to be pointed at it.
I hope this is helpful.
It has been an illuminating experience to research for you.
#substack#newsletters#marketing#digital marketing#newsletter marketing#small business marketing#small business
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excerpt from today’s newsletter, thinking about those that seem “grown up” and feeling very much on the outskirts
schuylerpeck / instagram: hiitssky
#poetry#poems#spilled ink#quotes#newsletters#substack#poets on tumblr#writers on tumblr#adulthood#schuyler peck
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by Lisa Norman
Statements I’ve heard recently:
"I keep getting errors from my friend's Yahoo email. Tell her to fix it!" (hint: Yahoo was refusing the person’s email because they didn’t have it set up right…the problem was not on the receiving end, but on the sending end)
"Why is MailChimp telling me to do something? What do I DOOOO?" (MailChimp was spitting out alphabet soup… read on to translate)
"MailerLite just changed everything!" (Yep. MailerLite had to release a new version in order to cope.)
As the resident geek to a herd of authors, I've heard a ton of this over the last month, combined with a lot of existential dread.
#email for authors#marketing for authors#why your newsletter goes to spam#newsletters#DKIM for newsletters#author website#you have to set your website up right#yes you! you have to
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Any Tree, Flowering
Hey do you like small musings, reading recommendations and interesting links? Also pictures of plants (or birds)? I have a monthly newsletter and it's chill as hell. First Mondays of the month starting in February, big blogpost energy.
https://buttondown.email/bzedan
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Really loving letters from Watson and the public domain bookclub so if anyone knows any serialized novel newsletter starting in 2024 please sent them my way.
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stuff i read in the last few months
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The February 2006 Toontown Member Mailer featured a ValenToons themed crossword puzzle.
Below the Read More is the solution.
#archive#events#valentoons#valentines#toonblr#toontown#tt#tto#toontown online#toontag#member mailers#newsletters#crossword#puzzles#happy valentoons from toontownlibrary!
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My latest newsletter is about the #DoctorWho spinoffs that I really want to see happen. What's YOUR favorite idea for a TV show set in the #Whoniverse?
#doctor who#torchwood#the sarah jane adventures#clyde langer#class#unit#paternoster gang#television#newsletters#whoniverse
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hi! i love the newsletter, and i wanted to ask, is there any free online publication of economics and business news? i'm currently subscribed to knowable magazine for my science news and would love a source like that for business if you know any
So I generally just subscribe to different media houses’ newsletters. Like Financial Times, Bloomberg - and I listen to their podcasts in the morning / catch their live news on YouTube.
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Newsletter poll
Newsletters are something I've struggled with for a while-- my old website made it really difficult to collect email signups. I've been noticing and contemplating other alternatives lately, and I'd love your feedback on what kind YOU like to get, or would be most likely to actually read!
If you have any other thoughts, drop a comment! I like knowing the "why" behind the answers :3
I personally feel inundated by emails, but I am way more likely to open and read the occasional email newsletter from an artist I like, versus the thrice daily ads from retailers.
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new newsletter 🎧
#estimated reading time says 24 minutes..... sorry angels i got a bit excited. but i hope u have fun reading this !!! <3#also yayyy first post on medium bc fuck substacks nazi ass leadership#hollyws#newsletters
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one thing i don't get are companies that send a marketing email almost EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. like even from the marketing perspective. do you guys really think that someone is going to care when you spam people's inboxes at this speed??? There might have been one discount in the middle of everything else that i might have used but GUESS WHAT??? by now i learned to delete your emails almost automatically so i will never know. god the concept of newsletter is not bad per se but it as mutated to the point where it's useless to both sides. i am so tired
#newsletters#train of thought#i am looking at you Notino#what do you think you are gonna achieve when you send me an email every day#do you think i will not hate you for that
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