Desperate Times…

Goddamn.

I really didn’t expect things to get this bad this quickly.

Look, I have a bunch of posts lined up, but, real talk, I’m a Latine man living in America in 2025.

The plan was to start posting consistently again, build a new audience here, and add some kind of donation option to this site. But now, not even a month later, with America crumbling, it feels like the patient approach isn’t viable anymore. I don’t want to ride the algorithm and build up an audience again when everything is so insecure.

So what does this mean for the site? A few things:

1. I am still going to post writing tools. Posting the first one felt like the best thing I’d ever done here, by far, so I’m going to keep doing it. I wish I could do more for people–like figuring out a good, new angle for posts that people really love or maybe clawing back the fun energy I used to have–but that’ll have to wait until I can feel comfortable existing again. Regardless though, new tools will come out once a month or so, until I’ve disseminated everything I have. After that, I’ll casually tweak those tools on here as I tweak them in private.
2. I’m dialing my posting schedule back to “whenever I can.” This isn’t another, “Shit got real, so later–dunno when I’ll be back.” This is just, “I need more time between posts now that the world is the way it is.”
3. On top of that, when I do post, it’s probably just going to be real talk. As mentioned earlier, I’ve fallen away from the fun style I used to have on this site because of the surgery and other bad, personal bullshit happening in my life. Mix that with the news being a non-stop cycle of awful things happening and I just can’t pretend to be jovial, talking about video games.
4. Also, with that said, I have officially decided the monetization angle for this site: nothing. I just don’t want to chase the algorithm and I don’t want to be an influencer. And not wanting to be an influencer means that I also absolutely don’t want to ebeg for donations. I never wanted to, so I won’t.
   It also just feels like the worst time to start asking for donations; everyone–even the people who thought they’d be fine under the new regime–are about to get hit really hard by a tanking economy, so I’d rather everybody save their $5 a month for, like, bread.
5. Finally, of course, I’ll drop updates whenever my work gets picked up. I’m a bit more confident about it this time, but it still might be months before any of that news comes down the pipeline.

With that said, please stay safe. And if you’re outside of America, please remember that not all of us are monsters.

~L. Santiago