Wholesome Rage Update: The Backmatter Pages

This will be one of the rare times I link to my Patreon. I feel like advertising it too frequently is 'tacky'. As a reminder, $2 a month will get you all articles a week in advance, as soon as they're written.

However, I'd like to advertise an update I just made for a $5 reward tier.

So I've been thinking about how to actually meaningfully reward Patrons above the $2 tier, and the truth is it's been really difficult to work those in with the schedule I've already got. These articles take a lot of work and time to do, and whatever time I spend in the week not writing them, I'm either researching as many topics as I can, or recuperating.

But I realize that I also keep a very professional face, as much as possible, in the articles themselves. I don't just get to talk about why I love talking about what I've talked about, or all the research that didn't make it into the article this week. All the stuff I've cut.

So from now on, $5 Patrons will have a weekly followup post on Fridays detailing all the research I've done, what sources I recommend, what subjects I'm looking into, and why I find it so interesting. A full behind the curtain look at why I love doing what I do so much.

An unrefined, unmasked full dive into my geeky passion. These will be far closer to author tracts than Wholesome Rage already is, which at least has the pretense of being journalistic.

Welcome to the beginning of the Backmatter pages.

It turns out I've been keeping a diary of everything I study and research and do in a week, for my own benefit, and a staggering amount of it is stuff I absolutely would love to talk about, but can't justify formally putting the time aside to it. But I absolutely can justify setting some time aside to just stream of thought geek out about this stuff, Warren Ellis style. Backmatter pages will be locked behind a paywall because, unfortunately, this has become my full time occupation.