Bear-y Grateful for Your Support

In true Radiohead Style please give what you think this blog is worth. By becoming a paid subscriber. Nothing extra. I will just think you’re class.

My blog is currently free, with the exception of a few longer posts, and I plan to keep it that way. I really enjoy doing it, and I’d like to maintain the pace of two blogs a week.

Actually, I love writing it. Since you’re here reading this, I may as well be honest—one day I might have to stop and focus on my ‘proper’ job. When I write, I have to go to a place in my mind that isn’t particularly sensible. While I’m in this state, it affects my life in complex ways, but it also helps me imagine things to write about more vividly. Unfortunately, I might have to actively change how I think and behave soon in order to stay in my conventional job. I worry that if this happens, I won’t be able to write in the same way, and my blog will suffer as a result.

To put it another way, we all wear different hats in our lives. The hat we wear at work. The hat we wear at poker night with the lads. The hat we wear on Christmas Day when we are in a movie and our extended family live on the outskirts of Boston in a massive house, and everyone is a lawyer or accountant and has it together way more than you.

When I write this blog, I feel the hat I wear fits very comfortably on my head. It doesn’t even feel like I’m wearing a hat. It feels like me. I don’t want to put on another hat again. I am not that young, and finding this hat that fits so comfortably has come late in the day. I write with a sense of freedom and anxiety at the same time because I don’t want it to be taken away from me. Like they said in Step Brothers: I don’t want to give up my dinosaur.

It would be amazing to get funding to continue doing it. If you can spare a few quid, please consider supporting me. I’ve set it at £4 per month or £30 per year. Every little helps, and your support would show me that I should keep going. Otherwise, I may have to stop and give up on my dream—and I really don’t want to do that.

I don’t have the time to research what I write; everything is written off the top of my head. Can you tell? So please consider giving a few quid to help fund this blog. Just imagine if I could go full-time and actually do research and drafts before publishing. Imagine that. Please help make this dream a reality.

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