Hellooo language and culture nerds!
I've created a newsletter! To get right into it, this newsletter focuses on - surprise surprise - language and culture, as well as a smattering of other topics in the realms of humanities and anthropology.
My goal for this newsletter isn't so much for it to be a magazine-esque piece of writing, but rather, a bimonthly collection of people going, "Hey, look at this cool thing!" It's going to share interesting linguistics facts, cultural highlights, and celebrations of people's achievements (shout out to anyone who passed the recent JLPT exams!). Think of it like a little club where people show up just to do show-and-tell and infodump about whatever they find interesting within the realm of the theme.
I decided to create this newsletter in light of the recent Discord exodus. I'm going to be leaving behind a really comfortable, friendly language learning community; it's the only thing I'm going to miss from the platform, even if I never got close with any specific person there.
However! A weird coincidence occurred.
Not even a full week ago, I had a conversation with a couple people in that server talking about alternatives to social media, and personal newsletters came up. After digging around MelonLand, I realized there are a solid handful of people with those! So, as soon as I heard the news about Discord being smelly, that conversation immediately popped back into my head, and I thought I'd give this a shot, to see if I could carry that lovely community with me elsewhere. And, expand upon it too! I know there are lots of nerdy cool people here on the indie web. I'd be stoked to hang out with y'all in this way
While I do have a background in creative writing, this is my first time running a newsletter, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me have 'em! (And, in future, if anyone has any feedback, I'd love to hear it!)
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