Damnkeeping! + Subscriber Exclusive!
announcing the return of Significant Otters, and other significant things...
Welp, Otters, the start of university’s been kicking my ass. My schedule has not been this jam-packed in some time. Also, I’m 19 now. Ridiculousness.
I took the month off from the newsletter because moving and school starting and mental health and stuff. It’s been wild but I think I feel like writing again? Which is great, because I love writing, y’all. I love it so much. I’m doing a ton of it for school this semester but connecting with you all through the writing I do here has been the source of so much joy. And I hope reading it has brought you joy! If not, then I’m sorry. You can always unsubscribe, no worries about it, I’ll only be a little bit sad.
Speaking of newsletter joy! We are so close to 100 subscribers here at Things You Otter Know Incorporated! I’m not gonna tell you the actual number, you’re just going to have to guess. You may be thinking, “when tf are you gonna hit 100 like girl you started this project eight and a half months ago” and to that I say you can help me speed up the process by telling your friends about the newsletter and forcing them to subscribe!
ICYMI!
I would really love it if you directed all the emos in your life to the post that went up earlier this week, embedded below. I’ve gotten some very nice DMs over the last few days about it. Thank you for those. Although one person told me it made them cry? Which, no, don’t cry!!!!
Here’s what’s hitting your inbox in the weeks ahead…
Significant Otters, everyone’s favourite monthly interview column, is BACK! It should be coming Monday morning, if not then Tuesday, depends how long it takes me to put it together. (There’s quite a process to these posts, believe it or not. That’s part of the reason why you haven’t seen them the last two months.)
You may have noticed that there was no Otterbiography at the end of the month. Totally my bad. So instead you’ll be getting two Otterbiographies on two consecutive weeks - September 26 (about August) and October 3 (about September), tentatively.
Yes, that is the plural spelling of the term “Otterbiography”, and yes, I just made it up. What’ll it be next? Encyclotterpedia?
Also, barring any ridiculousness, you’ll get another edition of Significant Otters on Monday, October 10.
After that? I have no idea. But that’s what I’ve got so far.
and now for the subscriber exclusive!!!
See, it wasn’t clickbait!
SO. Twitter doesn’t know this yet - I’m telling them tomorrow morning - but our guest for this month on Significant Otters is…
June Lin!!!
Her chapbook how to construct a breakup poem came out a few weeks ago through fifth wheel press and I can’t wait for you to read our conversation together. (Or at least once I finish transcribing it. I haven’t started yet.)
That is all! Have a rad weekend! Don’t lose your bus pass that costs $150 to replace like I did last night! See you next week!