Welcome to WormBeauty
a place where we find all creatures beautiful, no matter how small and wriggly.
Hi, and welcome to my new writing venture! If you’re receiving this email, it’s because you once signed up for a Substack I created long ago & never did anything with. This is a new endeavor, involving me writing a lot about one cool thing I like about nature each week, along with rants sometimes. If that sounds interesting to you, I appreciate the subscription!
Paid subscriptions are enabled, & if you’d like to throw $5/month my way so I can stay out of student loan forbearance, that would be swell! But you don’t have to. But you can. If you want. (There’s also an option to pay more, if you like to, I am not gonna stop you!)
My goal is to send at least 3 posts per month, and the occasional paid-subscriber-only post, but I’m not making any hard promises on that front while I figure out how much time this’ll take me on a weekly basis.
If you know me from my general online presence, you may be aware that animal/nature facts are a special interest of mine. This is my goal: to take all the fascinating shit I spend a lot of time researching & reading about & condense it into shareable content. Essentially, if you ever wanted to buy me a coffee and hear all about my favorite butterflies that have developed a second false vagina along with a second stomach (complete with TEETH) inside that false vagina so that they can consume the sperm of male butterflies they think are genetically inferior for protein, this is basically that experience in a newsletter form.
Last thing: why am I calling this WormBeauty? Well, to fully answer that question, we would have to travel back in time to my literal child self (okay I was 19 but that’s basically a child) and ask her why she named her first precocious blog “Bookwormbeauty,” and then we’d have to travel to about seven years after that to find out who sent me the strange PR email pitch with the subject line “Interested in Worm Beauty?” But the basic premise is that I find lots of things in the natural world to be cool, inspirational, & beautiful — for example, worms! And I think that we can learn a lot from paying attention to them. So, I’m finding the beauty in worms, & also in the subject lines of what I’m pretty sure was a bot email pitch. That’s the insider scoop!
Please share with your pals if you think they’d be interested too. The more people subscribe, the more guilt I will feel, which will drive me to actually produce on a semi-regular basis (yes I have ADHD and yes I need to find a better coping mechanism for completing shit other than “guilt” but it’s a work in progress!).
Looking forward to talking about worms and slugs and cane toads and wombat small intestines with y’all!