A lot of you who come here are visiting by way of the unofficial Rory McCann fansite I’ve been running since 2019. Honestly, I don’t know why you keep visiting there, because I have been TERRIBLE about keeping up with that thing. But thank you! It’s probably the most successful website I’ve ever run. Ironically I probably have Mr. McCann to thank for being so private, because people get so desperate to learn more about him that Google ends up funneling them to me. I mean, I don’t know much more about Rory than most of you do, but I’ve put information about him together in such a way that I guess it makes it easier for fans to learn about him. Which is what I wanted, so that’s cool.
Given the direction of my life in the past four years — and some of you have been along for that ride — recently, I’ve been reconsidering what I have said all along in running that site, that I would not use it to make money. I have not completely made up my mind one way or the other. If I did monetize it, it wouldn’t be to charge for access. You would still be able to see everything I put there, for free. I would instead use Amazon affiliate links to connect you with his work. But that still stinks on some level, for me personally, so I’m not sure I’ll do it. What I might do instead is compromise by making some kind of links thing here that you can look at instead. Then I’m monetizing MY site and not “his.” (It’s not really his. His name’s not even on the domain.) I think that would probably be an acceptable compromise.
But we’ll see. You never know.
What I DO need to get done and have been saying I needed to do it for years — I need to finish reorganizing the site. I have made good inroads but it is not where it needs to be. The fucking filmography isn’t even up to date! He’s done lots of stuff since his turn as the Birdmaster. None of it’s there. BAD FAN, Dana. BAD.
I make no promises as to how soon I’ll get it done. Just know that I’m aware of the problem. It is not lack of desire to fix it, it’s I’ve been pretty fucked in the head for four years and after a certain point, I get avoidant and don’t even want to look at my fucking laptop anymore in a given day. I am not proud of this. It’s just where I am. But I think I am sort of starting to come out of it a little bit. So maybe I’ll make real progress now.
I really need to fix the header photos, too. I am debating whether to use the screenshots after all or whether to do fan art and bang it up there. I had this vague idea about that… we’ll see. It might be cool. You never know.
As opinionated as I get about some things, I can sure be fucking wishy-washy…