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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

Oh! This is delightfully nerdy. For what it’s worth, it did cross my mind to ask you about the name, but I forgot. I like it.

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Lily's avatar

"delightfully nerdy" is prob the closest thing I've got to my brand :D

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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

loll it is beyond brand, it is a mode of being🐛

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Justin's avatar

I guess rusty nickels was taken 😅

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Lily's avatar

lmao! when I publish enough essays I'm gonna make a category for logs called "rusty nickels", you're a genius Justin

https://rustynickels.substack.com/ - Not found ;)

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Justin's avatar

Spending too much time w KZ

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Lily's avatar

I don’t think it’s possible to spend too much time w KZ!

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Justin's avatar

Hmm cannot @ tag him on mobile. https://krkn.substack.com

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Lily's avatar

Comment tags seem to not work randomly. I'm on PC rn and tagging has never worked for me in comments.

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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

✨ pretty pennies✨

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Justin's avatar

ok, you take the 🍰! in my mind, pretty pennies is what we are doing inside Michael Sklar's Personal Cartography, up to nickels and dimes

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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

Okay I have a thought on that but I’m not gonna take over this Substack comment section lol

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Rose's avatar

Oh my goodness, the name fits you so well! I love the backstory. Now forgive me, but i have to run into that rabbit hole head first and look up everything about printing presses :))

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Lily's avatar

Printing press stories are so interesting :D great rabbit hole to fall into <3

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Now you can tell everyone: "here's my two cents"...

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Lily's avatar

Keep the puns coming :D

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Karena's avatar

As someone who loves puns, this blows my mind! What a great unique and flexible substack name!

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Lily's avatar

Yay another pun enjoyer! Glad you found it as charming as I did. Such great luck for me to land it.

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Vipul Devluk's avatar

I was curious about the name!

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Lily's avatar

Hope the name origins is satisfying! Would be very funny if people thought it was lame still after all this effort

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Stephen Olson's avatar

The name has made me think that your articles are like finding unexpected wealth in a common place or in plain sight. Didn't know it had even deeper significance!

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Lily's avatar

Ooh you had an interpretation that was pretty dead on! Very cool.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…the origin story we had all been waiting for…from under the cushions and into our consciousness…i think wompwomp.substack.com might still be avail too btw…

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Lily's avatar

Cushions & Consciousness sounds like a good one too!

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Zeyad Mahran's avatar

cool pun – this reminds me of how marques brownlee of MKBHD kept audience intrigued about the 'k' for years before spoiling it out

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Zeyad Mahran's avatar

turns it's just his middle name loll! marques keith brownlee

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Lily's avatar

Ooh, what does the K stand for? I watched him casually.

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