there’s a kind of touchiness that seems to be endemic among substackers, the people who make this platform a load-bearing part of their writerly identity… oh no, the new yorker did a gentle little cartoon about substack, see how the establishment mock us from their ivory towers, but one day they’ll learn the power of blogging… couldn’t be me! i am not a part of substack, i am not engaged in any grand project of substack, i could write my shit here or on livejournal or in the new york times or on little scraps of paper and throw them into the wind and it would not make the slightest difference