Parting the Sea Between Stereogum and Me
Remember that missive I sent out a little while ago talking about how I was making some significant (or at least semi-significant) life changes? I’m currently in the process of seeing those things being borne out. Thursday the 3rd was my first therapy session. I have a (new, since the old one got canceled) appointment with a college admissions counselor for this coming Friday (since, and this may shock you, I never finished school). I’ve lost a significant amount of weight since learning that I’m diabetic and making some changes to what I put into my body. And sometime within the next few months I’m foreseeing a change in my work situation as well.
But you came here for the weekly essay. And there is one! A 10-year-anniversary piece, in fact, on Touche Amore’s Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me. But you’ll have to go give clicks to Stereogum if you want to read that. And you should. (Everybody say congratulations.) And if you actually came here from said Stereogum piece, why not consider contributing to my Patreon?
In the meantime, though, because my life is going through this period of upheaval, I just wanted to reassure y’all that you will still be getting You Don’t Need Maps content. I’ve been trying to get at least a little bit ahead of the curve in planning my output, because my schedule can get kind of annoying and crazy and it’s difficult to scrape out time to do some crazy huge, super-relevant thinkpiece every single week. I want to make sure I’m not burning myself out, but I still want to consistently provide for you guys.
To that end, here is the upcoming schedule I have for slated YDNM posts:
-June 14th: A Patreon-exclusive (sorry!) piece about the legacy of 2010s pop-punk
-June 21st: A Patreon-exclusive (sorry again!) piece about underrated 90s emo gems
-June 28th: Everything We Love Is Gay (just a little Pride Month thing I’ve got cookin’ up for ya)
-July 5th: A new VHS Poisoning piece, an introduction to horror comics (I realize that it’ll only be the second installment of VHS Poisoning and I’m already expanding its parameters beyond movies, but with me and my wack-ass attention span did you ever assume any different?)
I’m pretty excited for all this stuff to drop, and I hope you are too, but I’m also excited to see how many of y’all are ready to go along with me on this journey of self-improvement, or something, that I’ve managed to put myself on the route on. I’m nervous but certainly excited. And with that said, I love you all, and I appreciate everyone sticking around much more than I can articulate in words. Have a good Pride Month, everybody. Stay safe.
-xoxo, Ellie