If your campaign sends me a spam text message asking for a vote, you are now disqualified from getting mine 🌚 anyone else sick of spam calls and texts?
Brennan Flentge
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Following the questions. https://substack.com/@brennanflentge
New Logbook Entry: I regret to inform you the old captain had push notifications. captainofthisship.substack.com/p/ninety-nin... #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #addiction #substack #deconstruction #reconstruction #gaming #WOS #WhiteoutSurvival
Ninety-Nine Adults and One Sick Captain // Captain of This Ship ⚓
I got sober, then became responsible for 99 adults in a phone game. The bottle was gone, but the old captain found a new helm.
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New post: Some truths don’t arrive as a name signed like lightning in the sky. They wait below deck. captainofthisship.substack.com/p/ballast-of... #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #addiction #substack #deconstruction #reconstruction
Ballast of the Damned | Captain of This Ship
The program helped save my life. The God part still stuck in my throat. So I stopped throwing the weight at the room and put it where it belonged.
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New post: resentment kept the spotlight off me until there was nobody left to blame but me. captainofthisship.substack.com/p/i-needed-a... #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #addiction #substack #deconstruction #reconstruction
I Needed a Villain | Captain of This Ship
I had a whole system for avoiding responsibility: make a speech, build a villain, pour a drink, and call the wreckage fate.
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Good Friday looks different this year. I used to know exactly what this day meant. Now it feels more like grief than certainty. brennanflentge.substack.com/p/i-envy-peo... #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #deconstruction #reconstruction #exvangelical
I Envy People Who Can Believe | Part I: The Door 🚪
I needed belief to hold. It didn’t. This is about grief, recovery, and envying people who seem steadied by something I can’t reach.
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A different kind of origin story: addiction, denial, surrender, and the long process of becoming honest. MUTINY is the first post. captainofthisship.substack.com/p/mutiny #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #addiction #substack #deconstruction #reconstruction
MUTINY: A One-Time Origin Story // Captain of This Ship ⚓
A storm-driven allegory of alcoholism, denial, withdrawal, mutiny, and surrender - one captain’s reckoning with self-destruction, truth, and the fight to survive.
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500 days sober. Still figuring out who's been running this ship. First post is up. It's called MUTINY. captainofthisship.substack.com/p/mutiny #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #SignalBoost #recovery #alcohol #addiciton #substack #deconstruction #reconstruction
MUTINY: A One-Time Origin Story // Captain of This Ship ⚓
A storm-driven allegory of alcoholism, denial, withdrawal, mutiny, and surrender - one captain’s reckoning with self-destruction, truth, and the fight to survive.
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Almost 500 days without 🍺 and the fog still hasn't lifted. Turns out that's not actually the problem. New piece on what the rebuild actually looks like. (Not the montage.) open.substack.com/pub/brennanf... #writingcommunity #WriteSky #sobriety #deconstruction #SignalBoost
Fog With Windows In It ☁️ | Brennan Flentge
The fog doesn't lift. Turns out that's not actually the problem. (500 days of field research.)
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Wrote a post about how authenticity online became a content format. Then caught myself messing with the SEO title settings. Anyway. First Substack post.
The Internet Turned Honesty Into a Content Format (And Killed It)
On optimizing everything, performing, and why I'm here anyway.
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