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# A Small Update About Fess Up
- URL: https://fessup.mymidnight.blog/a-small-update-about-fess-up/
- Published: 2026-05-08T11:18:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T16:11:19.000Z
- Description: Paid subscriptions enabled. All posts still free. Please read.
- Author: Jerry Fess
- Tags: Fess up, subscription, free, blog, paid, Newsletter, #Migrated-1791389245739, #Import 2026-10-07 11:10

When I started ***Fess Up***, I honestly didn’t know if anyone would read it.

A lot of these posts came from late nights, overthinking, chronic pain, loneliness, questions I couldn’t stop circling, and moments where I just needed somewhere honest to put things. I wasn’t trying to build a brand so much as trying to build a space where people could feel a little less alone in their own heads.

Somehow, people connected with it.

That still surprises me.

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So first, **thank you**. Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or just recently subscribed, whether you read every post or only occasionally stop by, thank you for spending your time here. That matters more than people realize.

Today I enabled paid subscriptions for ***Fess Up***.

I want to be very clear about what that means:

Right now, **nothing is changing.**

I’m not putting posts behind a paywall. I’m not splitting the community into “free” and “paid” readers. Everything will continue to remain free to read.

This is simply a way for people who find value in the writing to help support it financially if they want to.

Think of it less like buying access and more like helping keep the lights on or as a virtual tip jar.

Writing takes time, energy, emotional honesty, and consistency. Some days it also takes fighting through pain, exhaustion, or the part of my brain that says nobody cares anyway. Support helps make it easier to keep showing up and doing this.

But whether you’re a free subscriber or a paid one, I’m grateful you’re here either way.

Truly.

Fess Up exists because people connected with honesty, vulnerability, humor, awkwardness, contradictions, and the messy parts we usually hide from each other. That part won’t change.

Thank you for reading.  
Thank you for staying.  
Thank you for making this feel less like shouting into the void.

*— Jerry*

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