Dear Teeming Brain friends:
After 16 years of maintaining this site, I’m officially shutting things down. This is not a hiatus like the ones in the past. This is a definitive ending.
Not to worry, though. As I said here several months ago, the end of TTB means the start of something else. The next evolutionary incarnation, as it were, of the impulse that originally led me to found this blog in 2006 will be a Substack titled Living into the Dark. It will launch next Wednesday, September 14, and it will be a place for me to share a more focused stream of writing with a consistent publication schedule.
If you already have an email subscription to TTB, you’ll automatically be added to the email list at LITD. Or you can sign up now:
It has been a great run here at this blog. I’ll post a final farewell next week.
It’s been a brilliant run, Matt. I’m looking forward to what’s next for you.
Thank you so much, Ryan, and not just for the nice words but for your contributions to this blog. Your “Real Succubus Tales: Sleep Paralysis and the Genesis of Erotic Horror” remains one of the biggest traffic draws to this site. Would you believe it has received nearly 70,000 views? As always, I appreciate your work.
wow! That’s amazing. I’d consider writing a book on the topic but I would probably lose my in-laws in the process.
Your site, for me, allowed me to express myself in a way that I didn’t dare in other venues. There’s a cultivation of freedom and intellectual honesty here that you built — and I know you’ll keep up that forum as you build a new community on Substack.
In the days since I announced the site’s closure, others have told me the same thing about TTB’s sense of intellectually expansive invitingness. I honestly wasn’t aware that this is how people have felt about it. I couldn’t have planned, and couldn’t have hoped for, a more welcome outcome, since the sense or attitude in question is one that I feel within myself, as my basic internal set point. So, I appreciate your articulating that, Ryan, and I’m glad this venue provided that sense of freedom.