david wolfpaw • 21 Sep 2026 • Reading time: 5 minswell, it’s been a while. Every week that I went without making a vlog or newsletter, the more guilty that I felt.
I know that breaks are good and helpful and healthy. I know that none of this matters, and if my absence in these few ways was even noted, it was negated by the other ways that I am reachable.
The lack of ambition has carried over to all other parts of my life. I’m not feeling creative. Or at least not enough to sit down and actually create. Sitting down instead makes my back ache, makes my mind wander, and makes me avoid any forward momentum that I know would ultimately improve myself. As I’m writing this, I’ve got a timer set to try to keep myself on task, and I can’t stop yawning and wanting to take a nap. I woke up an hour ago.
I’m hopeful that I’m just in the lower end of the energy and motivation cycle, and now I’m starting to climb back up. I know that it’s not like I’ve done nothing at all in the past month, even if it feels like it. Even putting together this short vlog required so much more effort than it should have, but at least it exists.
So, I’m back, and I presume I’ll be staying back for a bit. I need some push for growth, and I need a bit more meaning for it. I still want to do all of the things, and my brain still tells me that it’s doable somehow.
I’ve just gotta clear up my mind. That’s doable, right?
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Anarchist calisthenics – mandy brown, A Working Library
Keep reminding yourself that all authority must either be granted the right to rule, or it takes it by force. You don’t by default owe fealty.
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor – Amy Brown, Oakland Review of Books
When people online make up their minds about you, it’s rather hard to get them to change it.
Yes, it’s really gotten to the point where Google isn’t even providing nothing, but it’s actively taking enough that publishers are starting to feel it in the bottom line now.
Use your celebrity status to get more people to try something fun and independently created that they’d otherwise never see!
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Always been here, often invisibly so.
Anyone marginalized will innately feel this.
I couldn’t agree more with this. I miss the good spoopy stories!
Speaking of furries, ending the video recs with a cute and short little funny animation.
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Duh, us queers have always been in music. But even so, I was surprised by some of the stories unearthed here.
A good two-parter reminding us that for all of human history, we’ve been intertwined with the rest of the natural world.
A new release as of the day of publishing, and what I listened to while writing this newsletter!
If you made it this far, why not share this newsletter with a friend? Or share with me some of the things that you found that you liked this week. Either way, I’m thrilled!