Francesca's Thoughts

Hello!

I’ve had a little refresh of this space, and my stories blog, to reduce visual clutter and – hopefully – make the spaces easier to navigate. I think in times like these the world needs fewer links to click, you know? Decision fatigue is real and if I keep watching seven-minute YouTube videos with three ad breaks, I might crack and unplug the wifi router.

Ironically I am here with a link for you to click (if you want to! No pressure! It’s not going to change your life either way!). I thought I put together a guide to the No. 1 Readers’ Club on Patreon long ago and wanted to update it… only to find that if I did publish such a thing, it has long since been lost. So I made a new one. It’s split into billing/logistics and membership perks. If you read to the bottom of this post, by the way, you can find a link to a free month of membership. JUST SAYING. I’ve added the link to the menu of this site because to be honest, this blog, my newsletter and Patreon are the only spaces I like to update. I don’t loathe Instagram in the same way I came to loathe Twitter at the end, but I’m not sure it’s where I want to spend all my energy. Does Instagram refill my proverbial cup with joy and love? Not really, and I’m quite good at only following accounts I want to see. Same with Tumblr. You definitely curate the online experience you want to have, but in the face of the algorithm and/or those popular pages where people’s boneheaded stupidity will find you no matter how careful you are, I think I’d rather focus on writing long form content. It’s what I prefer to read.

Speaking of reading, I have a fun book on the go that I can’t return to until I have done laundry, and one of the things I need to launder is the trousers I am currently wearing, which means I am procrastinating just sitting down to write this. Oops?

Look after yourselves,
Francesca

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