Welcome to Unsupervised

It ain't much, but it's honest work.

I’m Anna Fusco. Some people call me Lordcowboy. I live in an intentional community on California’s central coast with nine people and three dogs. I love drawing and writing. I also love wearing hats and being alone.

I create things and share them with heavy regularity on Instagram @lordcowboy and in my online shop where you can buy prints, posters, t-shirts, and postcards.

These love letters make frequent stops at topics like relationships, personal histories, creativity, self-actualization, and acceptance.

Join me as I publicly learn to love myself while transforming three decades of internalized misogyny, daddy issues, and self-abandonment. More fun than it sounds. Real Modern Cowboy™, romance themes abound. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

I care about the writing. Getting caught up in meeting a monthly quota enhances the likelihood of my publishing nonsense, turning my letters into fast food that infiltrate your inbox every week. I write at my own pace, I make no promises, and my letters are good because of it.

While contributions from my paid subscribers make up a huge portion of my income — money that would be difficult not to have — the reason some letters live behind a paywall is because I don’t want every Dick and Harry reading about when my heart is at its most troubled. The paywall is one way I maintain a sense of privacy, even if I’m kidding myself. Some readers circumvent this by paying for a month, reading everything, and then dipping out. In surfing we call this “snaking” somebody.

Ultimately, the love that I bring to my writing doesn’t depend on whether I get paid for it or not. What changes for me when money is involved is the pressure I feel to be enough, and that pressure doesn’t feel good. The subscription tiers below are my way of making these letters accessible as possible within this framework.

Chris La Tray once said, “I believe the people who value my writing also understand the concept that paying for something you value and can afford is a kind of mutual aid. The rewards come from the universe, not from anything additional you’ll get here.”

I hope my work resonates, inspires, and makes you feel less alone. Most of all, I hope what I write reminds you to take the pressure off wherever you can and let yourself be you.

photo by Joy Newell

Offerings:

Unsupervised is a newsletter subscription in the form of love letters that appear in your inbox one, two, or five times a month.

5% of all profits are donated to Laru Beya Collective.

$5/month: Substack’s bare minimum for a monthly subscription.

$36/annually: $3 a month, which is what I wish the monthly subscription was.

$100/annually:

• A yearly gift of one print or poster valued at $60 or less from www.lordcowboy.com (USA only).

• $25 credit to one-on-one meetings with me (current cost of offering: $165).

  *please note: if you originally signed up as a founding member at $75/year, you will remain at that rate annually.

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Whatever you’re here for, thank you.

P.O. Box 803 Cayucos, CA 93430