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To celebrate 10k followers, it's time for some introductions. 🖖 Bonjour! My name is Pierre (but you can call me Spaceshipper, which was just the name of my mini-media dedicated to sci-fi). I'm a French writer, I'm 44, and I have two sons and two cats - and a multitude of social network accounts...

I wrote millions of words for a decade about sci-fi before starting The Spaceshipper, six years ago next month on Twitter. To tell the truth, I had created this account only to stop annoying the followers of my personal account with my geeky diatribes (I'm probably autistic, like my son). 😆

To my surprise, my approach to sci-fi creation appealed to a lot of people. Note: 10k followers in 17 months isn't as good as the start of this account on Twitter 1.0, except that there were already 300+ million people on Twitter, and only 100,000 when I got here! Very promising for the future. 👌

And no, this account is not dedicated solely to spaceships. It's just the main angle, probably the most seductive one too. But I'm more interested in the process of creation, design, and inspiration. And my second angle is enthusiasm. The Internet is already too immersed in negativity and hate. 🤷‍♂️

One of the big advantages of having a mildly popular account is being able to recommend stuff I like (don't be surprised if I don't talk about what I don't like - I just don't). A lot of people have seen The Expanse, For All Mankind, or Scavengers Reign thanks to my account, and that's really cool.

Initially, I planned to open an account dedicated to LucasArts (I was writing a book), but the success of The Spaceshipper soon took up more and more of my time. I still opened LucasArtsMemory a few months later. (It started out as LucasfilmGames, but I passed the handle on to Lucasfilm.)

That's why I opened a Patreon, for people who wanted to support my frenetic activity. I warmly thank my 293 subscribers, as well as the hundred or so former subscribers, without whom I wouldn't have the time to do all this. Because the life of a freelance writer is complicated by nature.

As time went on, I became increasingly frustrated with the short format of social networking, so I went back to my roots and interviewed dozens of people to write behind-the-scenes articles about sci-fi on my Patreon. That's my balance, between short and long format. www.patreon.com/posts/spaces...

Aside from that, I'm on Internet for 30 years, and I'm still amazed by this incredible tool that allows me to communicate with people all over the world (even if the greedy people have got hold of it). And to virtually meet most of the people I admire. Except Spielberg. Steven, please contact me.

I've been feeding my Patreon for three years now, and it's starting to become a big archive on sci-fi creation, a preservation of the past. To tell the truth, at first I was hoping to make all this content free, and that it would be funded by patrons who also support my accounts.

But unfortunately I soon realized that only putting some of my work behind a paywall would convince people to contribute financially. That wasn't my intention, but I'm making do with the tools at my disposal. Here's the current list:

This doesn't stop me from giving away articles to free members for certain events, and also dividing my articles into threads. 🤟 bsky.app/profile/thes...

Congrats on 10K and thank you for sharing your story!y fam is also neurodivergent and has 2 cats 😸 and we love a cool spaceship or two, or three...thousand 😸