Hurra!

Exactly 15 years ago (almost to the hour) our little website blinked online, as a quiet corner of the internet where we could offload the ideas that needed a home.

And the ideas, then as now, tend to arrive on their own schedule: a 3 a.m. jolt of nameless dread, a frantic scribble on the back of whatever happens to be on the nightstand, and then (mercifully) a chuckle in the dark before smilingly fainting back to sleep.

A Long Form of Patience

People sometimes ask how two people built a readership in the millions out of stories this absurd, horny and occasionally (fine, regularly) cringeworthy. We wish we had something better to say but it’s mainly just patience. Not the passive kind of sitting around waiting to be discovered. The unglamorous, slightly stubborn seriousness of treating the artist’s life like a 9-to-5. Showing up. Every single day. Doing the work badly until it eventually gets good.

 

These dumb little stories are the whole thing for us, they’re everything. And the fact that there are real human beings out there who decide, of their own free will, that the stories are worth a few seconds of their attention is, with no exaggeration, the best thing that has ever happened to us.

None of it works without someone on the other end actually reading. So yes, here we go again, thank you to everyone on Patreon who keeps showing up too, who has our back even in the weeks when we are, let’s be honest, a little mediocre. You are the best.

Here’s to fifteen more. Prost 🍻

PS: We promise to work on our jumping photos.