I'VE MOVED TO PATREON

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Almost nine months, in fact.

A lot has changed since I was writing more regularly on Substack. I had a whole ass baby. The podcast has continued to grow more quickly than I ever imagined since I started speaking into the microphone in 2021, and over the last year, I built MOODS.

Somewhere along the way, probably when I was balancing three episodes a week and a screaming newborn 🥲, I realized I was trying to maintain too many different platforms at once. Something had to give.

How it feels to keep feeding platforms that hide your work from the people who followed you while demanding fresh little sacrifices for the algorithmic gods.

For the past few years, most of my work has been happening on Patreon anyway.

That’s where the full Back From The Borderline archive lives, and where my paid community already spends time consuming my content and interacting with one another.

Until recently, Patreon was mostly a paid membership platform. Useful, for sure, but limited. However, I’m excited to announce that this has changed in a major way.

Patreon now lets creators publish newsletters and shorter feed posts, which means I can finally keep my writing, podcast, and community all in one place instead of scattering everything across multiple platforms on the internet, which feels like the smartest and easiest-to-maintain move.

So that’s what I’m doing.

Why this feels right

I can’t be the only one feeling how bizarre social media is these days. To put it bluntly, it’s a total dumpster fire.

You follow people you care about and somehow never end up seeing their posts. You watch as your feed fills up with “recommendations,” irrelevant or creepily accurate ads, bots, and increasingly strange AI-generated slopification.

The whole thing feels uncanny valley as hell and I’m not into it. And it’s become really hard to motivate myself to post anything, even on Instagram, previously my favorite platform as a reformed ex-Tumblr girl.

I’ve always wanted a place where I could write, share ideas, and actually reach the people who asked to hear from me. Patreon feels like the best home for that right now.

What you’ll get as a free member

You can join my Patreon for free.

Free members receive:

The Weekly Newsletter: A weekly note with reflections on the current moon phase, what I’m reading, things I’m thinking about, questions to carry into your own life, and of course, the occasional meme.

Quips: Shorter posts throughout the week. Think quotes, memes, links, recommendations, and the kinds of thoughts that are too small to become a full essay or podcast episode.

Post alerts: You’ll also get notified when I publish new Patreon posts, including previews of paid episodes and bonus content.

If you want the full archive

I also offer paid memberships for listeners who want the complete ad-free archive, bonus episodes, private podcast feeds, my weekly archetypal tarot and astrology forecast, and discounted access to MOODS.

But if you just want the weekly newsletters and Quips, joining for free is enough.

A quick thank you

This Substack introduced me to a lot of thoughtful people, and I’m genuinely grateful for that.

If you subscribed because you enjoyed my writing, I’d love to keep sharing it with you.

You’ll just find me over on Patreon now.

Click here to join me on Patreon for free.

It’s very straightforward. Simply go to my Patreon page and click Join for free.

If you need a more detailed walkthrough, Patreon has a help article here.

If you’re reading this when it first goes out, I’ll be posting the first new weekly newsletter in the next couple of days, and new issues will go out on Wednesdays after that.

If you’re finding this later, come over anyway. There may already be a little stack of newsletters waiting for you.

I hope to see you there.

—Mollie