Here’s the skinny: social media is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Someday someone might make a site that’s worth joining again, but you probably won’t find me there on account of I’m no longer in my early 20s and completely lack the spirit to join another social media platform. I retreat with coziness and splendor to the land of email: a beautiful world of bits and bytes that’s old enough to have birthed me.
I am currently making this newsletter because Cohost is going offline, but to be perfectly honest I’ve found myself tiring of social media for a while. It’s nominally the “top of the funnel” for indie games, to borrow a marketing term, but in reality I’ve found much better luck just emailing YouTubers game keys and letting them do what they will. I’ll miss Cohost, just as I missed Twitter, just as I missed old Mastodon servers, just as I missed the halcyon days of the Spore creature browser. Remember Galactic Adventures? God that ruled.
Anyways, it's still useful and necessary to give people an easy way to keep abreast of the stuff I'm working on, and there's no sturdier way to do that than by just making a newsletter. I'm working on a website, too, but the newsletter comes first.
As thanks for joining this newsletter, check out this exclusive animation I’ve been working on for FISH FEAR ME:
The Cohost shutdown hit me at an odd time, so this newsletter may metamorphose into something else in the near future. Thank you for joining me here in your inbox. I will talk to you again soon.
-- Heather
P.S. I currently plan on putting this newsletter out weekly. That’s not set in stone — this is intended to replace my social media habits, which means there’s a nonzero chance I lose my mind and start going twice weekly or something — but weekly feels like a good mark to aim for.
P.P.S. Question of the week: How often do you like your newsletters to update? Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, whenever-there’s-something-to-talk-about-ly? If the spirit moves you, reply to this email and let me know!
Want to respond to the discussion questions? Email me at heatherflowersbusiness@gmail.com!