Moving On From Substack

That's right - I'm outta here.

As of this past December, I’ve written on Substack for just over two years.

91 posts later, I’ve decided it’s time to move on.

Yes, I’m leaving Substack. For good.

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For a long time, I begrudgingly worked against their policy of platforming literal nazis—trying to provide content that definitively wasn’t that. In early 2024, that was easy to justify.

In the climate we live in, however, it’s harder to rationalize it.

Regardless of your political affiliation, you can’t deny what’s going on around the country is massively fucked up and not normal. I genuinely don’t care what you think about immigrants (illegal or non)—I personally believe the studies that immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates than native populations—but we’ve got legitimate American citizens being killed in the streets, being detained, getting beat up and dropped back off far from home, and all sorts of horrific shit.

EVEN IF you ascribe to the belief that protestors are obstructing legitimate federal operations, you can’t possibly tell me with a straight face that the punishment for that is getting fucking shot in the head.

That’s crazy talk. That’s straight-up police state shit.

And by not nipping this in the bud with all the people out there peddling rage and hatred and anti-woke or whatever, Substack is complicit in its amplification.

Enough is enough. I tried to make content that went against all this—trying to drown out the anger and violence with fantasy elf games. In reality, I simply forced readers to engage with a platform that was making money off of both of us.

It wasn’t all bad, of course. I met a lot of great folks and a lot of really inspirational creators—some of which I interviewed, others I collaborated with, and most I casually competed with. But I can do that elsewhere—literally anywhere else.

So, I’m moving off the platform, effective immediately, to focus on my own thing: natewhittington.com. It’s free of charge. Go buy a game from your favorite creator or something instead.

I’ll be leaving the old blog up for the time being, if only for me to decide what to do with my old articles. But know I won’t be sending any more updates its way.

For those who have financially supported the blog and would like to continue to do so, you can toss a few bucks my way as a single donation or on a monthly basis by clicking “Buy me a coffee” on the bottom right of my site (note: if you’re on mobile, you’ll need to turn your phone sideways to see the button—working on fixing that!).

Where to find Inheritor updates

If you want to keep up to date with Inheritor—my epic dark fantasy RPG—check out the playtest documentation over at grinningrat.itch.io/inheritor.