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Antonia Malchik's avatar

Serious respect for your exploration of how these endeavors of joy and sharing can start getting pulled by our natural responses to attention. This sounds like a lot of fun! And reminds me of reading something by I *think* Roxanne Gay years ago (I could be totally wrong about that) after her work started to be very widely known, that she no longer found joy in writing. That made me really sad. (It also made me rethink my approach to writing because even then, well over 15 years ago, it paid dismally, and the low pay didn’t justify the loss of joy to me.)

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Jenn's avatar

It’s a super cool idea. But I think I get what you’re saying about your relationship with it after it got big. I’ve got a couple of projects I wish would get bigger than they are, but I don’t want them to stop being what they are, and I think sometimes that’s what happens when things get known and popular. (I’m actually pondering a post about this for when I get back from vacation this week.

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