This is where I'm putting my photos.

We are in a time of social media change. Twitter is a hellscape that I actively need to stop using. Bluesky is promising, but likely will fall to the same ailments that have made Twitter so toxic (namely, complete lack of moderation); Cohost is extremely fun, but an absolutely terrible choice of social media for a person who depends on virality to continue getting work and living; instagram has sucked for half a decade and I will legitimately crawl into a hole and die before I'll sign up for Threads.

Oh, also, my career has genuinely imploded in the wake of ad-money evaporating and freelance budgets disappearing, and I am desperately searching for a job as a janitor (or whatever) just so I can afford to move out of rural Idaho. Which means that money would be nice.

I still have my Patreon, obviously, and I still have subscribers, which I deeply appreciate. I've been doing daily photos for a while and trying to upload all the full-resolution stuff here at the end of the month, but I realized this is getting stupid. I upload the image to Twitter. Then to Cohost. Then to Bluesky. Then to Instagram. It is more work than ever and I don't see any benefit to it; it has become a slog. Why shouldn't I just put them here and make people come visit one site, and also try to benefit slightly from it?

After all, I want to be more active here; after Patreon stopped letting me pause subscriptions, I've been racking my brain for a way to post here that let people to feel like they were actually getting something worth their money. I've been struggling to write short-form stuff (not much good has happened in my life to feed off of), which used to be a big part of the subscription here. But I'm still doing photos, after all, and I still write about why I took them.

So I'm just going to post those daily photos here in full quality every day, and I'll try to write something here about why I took the shot, or titled it how I did, or just what is on my mind (kind of like I was already doing for free on Cohost...) Nothing intense, but something that keeps me coming back on here as often as possible so that I can at least start advertising it (have I mentioned I am incredibly broke) and not feeling guilty about being inactive. I'll likely still post the same photo on Bluesky every day, as well, but the way they crush uploads and limit story length means there's still some added value here.

I have already removed the higher "writing" tier of subscription, and I will drop the minimum contribution to $4 (I don't know if that will automatically charge you less when I change it, but if it doesn't, please please feel free to edit your pledges lower). Ideally, I would like to upload 25-30 photos a month here. I don't know if I will always hit that, but I imagine it will ebb and flow. The pictures will definitely never stop, though.

Thanks again for your patience and support while I figure this out. Let me know if you have suggestions about this plan. I will be making another post in a moment that has a link to about 60 full-res images for June/July for subscribers.

Thank you again,

Victoria