Here we are again.
Let’s have a moment of silence for the hour that never was: 2-3AM on March 14th, 2021. I feel like I would have really liked that hour. That hour is when I would have finally turned everything around, once and for all.
But, hey, it’s not all lost: even without the benefit of Power Hour 2021, we all still managed to survive the Ides of March! I, for one, escaped nearly unscathed, with just a small piece of street grit lodged in my eye for eight hours. Now I’m back, older, wiser, seeing-er, etc., and ready to solve your problems.
Speaking of: what’s your problem? Gimme a holler here.
Dear Sofia,
How can I tell if I suffer from impostor syndrome or if I simply have no talent whatsoever?
Yours truly,
~A talentless impostor~
Dear Sofia,
Currently unsure what I wanna do with my life. How’d you decide?
Dear Sofia,
I miss traveling, seeing new places, meeting people. How do I stay sane?
Dear Sofia,
How do I get out of bed and become vertical and productive?
Notes/links:
Eight cartoonist friends and I started another newsletter, if you can believe it. This one is called Toonstack, and it brings you gag cartoons and behind the scenes stuff every week from a group of world-class cartoonists (and also me). Give it a gander! This week is, appropriately, Ides of March themed. Stuff like:
Jason, whose weasel cartoon at the top made you laugh and laugh—remember?— has a book out called Everything is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words & Pictures, which I love and which you’ll love: here’s an excerpt in The New Yorker, for proof. And he has an Instagram and even a Twitter. He’s a modern boy! Nae; a modern man! Verily, forsooth; ‘tis a moderne manne.
Maybe you’ve heard that this platform, Substack, has been under fire this week for its business model, which includes supporting and profiting off transphobic writers. A clip from the linked piece, by Jude Ellison S. Doyle:
Self-publishing platforms can’t control who signs up. Substack isn’t a self-publishing platform, though. It curates its writers. It pays them, sometimes massively, and it makes choices as to who gets paid well and who doesn’t. We’ve seen instances of tech companies allowing hate group leaders to acquire huge followings through negligence, from white supremacist YouTube stars to a President who has to be banned from Twitter for trying to start a civil war, but those were cases where the platforms failed to keep bigots out. Substack is actively bringing the bigots in. Then it’s giving them paychecks.
I’m looking into migrating to an alternative platform, and I’ll keep you posted. Sigh.