I'm shining like a new dime

[sovay]

If you are making the sweet astringent Scoville-heavy barbecue sauce that has come to be known in your household as "helljam," and if you have no cider vinegar but only white vinegar because you keep meaning to use it to clean your kettle, but you also have in the refrigerator a small bottle of tamarind pulp that was never used for its intended recipe either, you may discover that tamarind pulp adds such an excellent dimension to barbecue sauce that you plan to incorporate it from now on, even when you have the full amount of ketchup required.

In other news, tonight we broiled steak tips with helljam and cheese grits on the side and I have tabled my plan to make rice pudding for dessert, because I might explode.

Regarding my cautious optimism of earlier today, spatch just told me that Patreon is reaching out to patrons who canceled in the last few days. "Creators should not be penalized for our bad call. Your connection means everything to us, and we're working to restore what we damaged." It's good business, of course, but I hope there's heart in it, too. It is certainly more than I expected and I am glad to see it.

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[sovay]

Reaching out to the patrons who canceled, many of whom (it’s my impression) were $1 patrons, reads to me almost like a willingness to apologize to people they hurt, as opposed to only people whose outrage was especially hurting them. I don’t know, am I making any sense?

You are making sense, and it's one of the reasons I wasn't expecting this move at all. I assumed it would be my job to make up my lost business and broken trust: to apologize for wrongs I'd had no control over and hope for the best. The fact that Patreon isn't hanging all its creators out to dry like that is much more than I have come to expect from any company, which may be a sign of the low bars we live with nowadays, but is nonetheless nice to see.

Like, I still have them filed under a Do Not Trust tab in my brain, i.e. I’ll be looking into other options down the line and keeping a sharp eye out for any new fuckery, but they’re not under the We Hates It Precious tab. You know?

Yes. I no longer feel like my only ethical option is to close up shop in January. I'm willing to wait and see what happens next.

(Still want to do extra reviews this month, though, just in case and because I said I would.)