Why you should unsubscribe from my Substack

Totally sincere, no-bullshit list

Hi everyone, I think we’re all subscribed to too many newsletters, following too many creators, taking in too much information, and spending too little time with ourselves. For the last week or so, it seems like every day this Substack of mine is getting around a hundred subscribers a day. I’m not boasting. I honestly don’t get it myself. I think most of you are subscribing because of my notes which are pretty good, I must admit. But really, for the most part, I don’t get it. I don’t think of myself as a super interesting person, rather a very strange person, always have. In anycase, I’m going to help you out and give you an easy reason to unsubscribe. Or 20:

1. I have no idea what I’m doing here

2. Most of the things I’ll put out via Beautiful Losers will be unclassifiable

3. I’m not interested in helping you be a better whatever (fill in the blank, writer, reader, poet)

4. Indeed, I have no vested interest in your self-improvement

5. I don’t mean the above in a jerky slashy bitchy way…I just don’t care for writing advice at the moment, and I’m feeling drained by advice in general. I also think there’s something to be said for meeting people where they’re at and just sharing art without the need to optimize or refine or whatever

6. Everything I’ve said above might be contradicted by my next post (which doesn’t exist in any tangible form yet and not sure when it will)

7. I’m not an expert in anything

8. I barely have a Bachelor’s degree

9. I dropped out of my MFA because it fucking sucked

10. My opinions often change

11. I believe in God as a personal figure not a vague concept to be wished at

12. I often like the idea of doing things more than actually making time to do them

13. Most internet-era arguments bore me to death and I think there is concentrated effort in the very real legions of hell that are our governments and other powers that be to try to distract us from things that truly matter

14. At the same time I believe with all my heart in the innate goodness of the universe

15. I look down on journalism

16. I look down on the idea of looking down on anything

17. I aspire for greatness

18. I think true greatness has nothing to do with material success and because of this I think I’ll never achieve tangible material success because I believe in manifestations and yet I also believe in manifold reality

19. I’m interested in way too many things to ever feel like I can nail down some semblance of a niche to focus on and write about.

20. I’m a mom and I love being a mother and I love my child. My identity doesn’t revolve around motherhood, though. Or womanhood, for that matter. Or the fact that my skin has more melanin.

Having said that, I’m so happy you’re here and if you do stick around, I feel you’d like being here and reading the kind of stuff I write and decide to share whenever & however I do.

All good things,

Shannan