don't need it

there's something I need to address:

I'm sensing judgement about COOL THING 3 from a certain contingent of the blogging community and I am not here for it.

it's almost like there's a certain sect out there that believes the stretch goal was just a giant ruse engineered because I didn't have a cool thing for the week of JAN. 15th-21st so I was stalling with the hopes of coming up with something before the stretch goal was met. that is obviously NOT the case, especially as evidenced by my participation as a member of the stretch goal. if that was my dark intention, wouldn't I have just let the stretch goal fail to buy myself more time? unbelievable.

feeling very confused about all of this. I can't believe my loyal readers would assume I would manipulate their emotions. no, I would be honest if I didn't have something cool to share. just like I was honest and accountable when I missed ONE DAY of posting to the blog back in december.

I 100% believe in 3 things: hard work, taking personal responsibility for both mistakes and jobs done well, and equality.

-frank