I feel like geek businesses need fewer geeks and more nerds, else at some point “let’s put on a show!” explodes in everyone’s face. This is not, as anyone who knew me during my years in a particular fandom know, a new take from me, although I probably never put it in just those terms.

But the company is now in dire financial straits. Its credit-card processor is withholding customer billings, Loot Crate hasn’t shipped goods tied to $20 million in sales, and the company owes more than $30 million in trade debt, Kaufman said. It’s also behind on more than $5.87 million in sales taxes.

Write House never has been conceived as a business, but its hosting was to be funded by patrons, and that carries with it a certain degree of responsive attention to detail that’s very much at issue in interrogating my psychic wherewithal right now.

I’m only a few months departed from a micro-nonprofit whose bookkeeping I managed for five years, and through which I had to be responsive to and responsible for other people, and, really, shouldn’t I just be doing for myself right now?