Did You Miss Something in Your Sunday Routine?

Maybe that’s because it’s over at Patreon!

Read below for what you missed this week — 

And for the 70% of you who’ve already moved over to Patreon: THANK YOU. If you don’t want to receive emails like this because you’re already getting all the good stuff in your inbox: here’s how you disable notifications.

For the rest of you — this is a soft reminder to come on over. I’ve written about why I’m making the move here; my friend Lyz has described the feeling as a “controlled burn,” where you momentarily feel like everything’s in flames, and it is!, but then you get to grow on fertile ground.

ALL THE GOOD STUFF ON CULTURE STUDY THIS WEEK:

- The Fifth Annual Culture Study Soup Extravaganza, with a solid 300 new soups to add to your repertoire

- An interview with education historian Jarvis Givans about a very different sort of “American Grammar”

- The podcast episode I’ve been waiting all year to record: thee Audie Cornish on Love is Blind (but you don’t have to watch to love this ep, I promise)

- And then, today, “The Broken Logic of ‘The Best Place to Retire,’” with a particularly excellent Links & Recs, and an opportunity to think about

So if you miss the comments section on one of the good places on the internet, if you want more soup in your life, if you want to hear the easter egg at the end of the Audie Cornish episode, if you want to articulate what you think makes a place a good place to retire, here are the various ways you can come over:

*If you’re a paid subscriber, search your email from Friday for “redeem your free month,” then click that link to come over (if you’re a paid subscriber, it will also port over all of your remaining Substack subscription). If you can’t find the link, submit a support request here and they’ll get it sorted within the next day or so (if they don’t, email me at annehelenpetersen @ gmail and I’ll escalate)

*If you’ve been meaning to become a paid subscriber — or a combo tier subscriber — you’ve got the easiest path ever.

*If you’re a comp subscriber and want your comp to transfer over to Patreon: email me at annehelenpetersen @ gmail

*If you’re a free subscriber and just want to join as a free subscriber without any comp business: click here and then select ‘Join for Free’ (see below)

And again, the people-pleaser in me feels like absolute garbage for asking people to do anything, anything at all, to access my writing and this community. So thank you, thank you, for doing this work along with me. I’ll see you in the comments.