Stitch’s Media Mix is ten years old!

Gross! I hate it!

I’d waffled about posting anything for this since I’ve basically stopped updating the site across the past few years. But actually… my site is still here, and I guess that counts for something.

I originally put this site together because I wanted to write for Book Riot and, at the time, they wanted more presence than social media for their authors. I feel like, somewhere in the depths of my inbox, is a very polite rejection that explicitly says they wanted writers with a website and that Tumblr didn’t count. Hilariously, even after all of that effort, I never wound up writing for them. I kind of… forgot that I had ever wanted to write for them in the process of building my own site and trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to say.

In the past decade, I have said a lot. I have done a lot. I may not have written for Book Riot, but I’ve written for a lot of different publications until burning out and (basically) staying that way after my dad died in late 2022. I’ve been in fandom studies publications, on podcasts that I was not running, and have spoken to several of my favorite celebrities. (And maybe a few of yours!) In the past decade, I built decent relationships with so many brilliant people and learned as much as I tried to teach.

Did you know that there were people who were in middle or high school when they started reading my posts on Tumblr and who now are in college or working in publishing or communications where they try to make a difference? I feel so old when someone messages me and is like “I used to read your site when I was in high school” and now they’re like in their late 20s.