I just wanna post something new! So here's a few bullet points on whats been up with me!

• I am back at Somerville Media Center, making some shows again and doing fun stuff with da youths! I taught some kids how to fly a DJI Mini 3 drone the other day, and it was exciting for all of us to see the possibilities for new cinematography and techniques!
• I have been hitting the gym 6x a week, doing a decent split of weightlifting first, some cardio after and steamroom/sauna after.
  • The sauna has become "Therapy Time" for my DID system, because we are usually sitting there with nothing to distract us, so its either meditation or talking about who is doing what, internally, that is blocking me (Nic) from functioning in the world. I've been making great progress clearing out dissociation this way, healing alters/parts!
• Been using my under-desk treadmill a lot more!
• My lilac bush in front of my house is finally starting to bloom, and its my favorite time of year for the garden out front! All the beautiful flowers begin to show, and even though it doesn't last as long as I would love, the lilacs in particular gather all the neighbors around, and its a wonderful way to meet people!
  • This is why I named my political party project the Lilac Party. Its just a nice bush in front of my house, that's it. And everyone can come up to it, enjoy the flowers, even take one home! Provided there's enough for everyone, and no one damages the bush or surrounding plants, I have never had a problem with it. I feel like its just a nice thing, and its the way things should be!
• I have been at 30mg Adderall for about 2 months now, and its been weird? I feel like I am more aware of everything around me. It feels like my floors are going to cave in anytime I walk over them. I feel slight shifts in elevation in any building I enter. I hear my ears ringing more often, which I attribute to a heightened awareness, since I swear this was just something that's been around awhile lol. I feel pains in my body, on the lower right side of my belly and the right of my belly button, and I want to look up details online, but I know my hypochondria will overload me, so I keep away. As I've healed from my dissociation, I can stop panicking about "What if" scenarios about tumors or cancer, and be realistic: my tummy hurts cuz I eat poorly. So I've been working on that.
• My diet is now mostly chicken thighs, brown rice (sometimes congee with chicken broth & veggies), broccoli and green smoothies. Here is my typical green smoothie recipe:
  • 1 handful tri-greens mix from Costco
  • 1 handful kale
  • 1 scoop 50-in-1 vegetable powder
  • 1 scoop protein powder
  • 1 scoop (tiny) creatine
  • Occasionally a handful-worth of frozen fruit
  • 4 cups Bigelow lemon ginger tea.
    • Mix together for a minute or so and drink slowly. Don't chug it. Chew the green smoothie to mix it with some saliva, and take your time drinking it.

As you can see, its pretty imprecise, but I make it the same way every day. This is the gist of it lol.

• A good friend of mine had bloodwork done, and his doctors discovered a tumor growing on his liver. It was caught early enough, and his boyfriend and I hung out with him at MGH. He was under for about 3.5 hours, where 6 incisions were made into his abdominal wall (which was apparently so muscular and thick they had to use more anestehesia!), and the tumor was successfully removed! So I am very thankful for the surgeons and doctors who saved my friends life, particularly at MGH who preformed the surgery!
  • The tumor analysis showed it was Stage 1 cancer, and it looks very unlikely it spread beyond that point. He's been recovering, and is just getting back to the gym today after a month or so of bedrest!
• My fathers prostate cancer is also showing very good signs of healing! His PSA dropped from a high of 9.4 (bad for him) to 0.4 (REALLY good!), and now 3 months later he is at 0.06 PSA. "Undetectable" is 0.03, and if he can sustain that level (which is likely), its seen as a very good sign that his treatments are working!
  • He's been going to the gym with me in the mornings, and its been wonderful to train him and have a good partner with me for my workouts! And he's been putting on a little bit of muscle, himself! So all in all, very good UwU!
• My Bluesky started up, and quickly swallowed up my life lmao! I have been reticent to speculate, but after I posted this sites URL in my bio on there, I saw "queries" in my bunny.net log go from 1k a week to 20k a week, many of which came from a diverse set of countries! So to anyone who came to this site within the past month, thank you all for visiting! I will have more stuff up as I go, and I appreciate your interest!
  • I will add: I am doing my best not to like and repost literally everything I come across haha! This is why I got rid of Twitter all those years ago. I do not feel that same addictive pull, however, and I think keeping my account to my own personal and professional stuff wouldn't be a bad thing going forward UwU! So I will likely be deleting all my likes and reposts, because I am ashamed at how spammy I might be for my followers! I'M SOWWY!!!!

Despite everything, life is good UwU! Hope you are all doing well!

Turns out its not smart to build in production! Who would have guessed!

Truthfully, I had money near the end of the month and just wanted to get the ball rolling. I knew no one would see this site at the start, so I figured I could update to my hearts content and fix things as I went. But now I am realizing how dumb that was, and how shortsighted lol. I am usually a lot better about planning, but I was eager and it got the best of me.

Working to make the site more like how I'd want it. Namely:

• Posts like this one should have a url like "nicweyand.com/posts/{slug}/" where {slug} is the title.
• A table of contents for longer pieces.
• Various theme issues I didn't fix beforehand.
• A working podcasts page with players + an RSS feed.
  • And a public RSS for all posts!
• A better gallery page (the current one is just a page with nothing showing up lol)
• Some functionality stuff like better accessibility features (namely keyboard navigation and visual description tags for all images)
• A proper site map & robots.txt.
• Wacky cool stuff I am experimenting with UwU!

So if there aren't updates regularly... that is why. I am sorry, I should have continued to work in Ghost Local instead of trying to work in production. I am still very happy the site is live and frankly I have no regrets so far, despite my silliness UwU!

If you want details on what is offered to members, click here or scroll to the bottom. This is a post about a dumb stigma lol.

So here's the thing: people have faves elsewhere, besides my faves. There are, shockingly, people who like to use Facebook even though its a cess pit. There are, for whatever reason, people who claim they are not nazis using Twitter in 2025 AD, mostly because they've had the account forever and don't want to migrate elsewhere. Along those lines most people I know split their payment options to creators 4 ways: Patreon, Kofi, buying merch and maaaaaaaaybe the donate button to PayPal or GoFundMe. So the strategy here is just having a way for people to support me on every platform.

There seems to be a stigma against having multiple accounts, like its dirty or disloyal. Some people like to pretend there's rules against having multiple accounts, or that "double dipping" is unethical, or "against terms of service". Its not. And if it is: so what?

I do not respect most companies these days, and I don't particularly care to follow a companies rules if it is inherently restrictive, like a "do not compete" clause in a contract. My bet is that any restrictions in place (if any) will be made illegal, similar to "do not compete" clauses being abolished, because... obviously.

The companies in question do not respect in the first place. This notion that it is "unloyal" or "rude" is silly.

Now that we got that out of the way: All exclusive content will be present across both Patreon, Ko-Fi, this Ghost blog and any other services I use for support. Generally, most things will not be paywalled, but I will have a sprinkling of exclusives as a thank you to supporters.

The price for entry will remain $7, I believe that is high enough to offset future costs of inflation etc., while being low enough that is is (relatively) affordable. I know this is asking a lot, and I intend to earn your $7 each month you give me.

TLDR: All paywalled content is equal, there are no platform exclusive things. Some people prefer Patreon, others like KoFi. Everyone gets supporter-only stuff, starting at $7/mo, regardless of platform.

Patreon link: https://patreon.com/NicWeyand

Ko-Fi link: https://ko-fi.com/nicweyand

The art is by BigGoodWolf on FurAffinity! You can see more like it on my personal FA page, but I will use my commissions as background images from time to time UwU!

I will be writing here a lot more often, including a better "About Me" page lol.

This is Nic Weyand, a brand new site by Nic Weyand that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!