We don't believe there is such a thing as belated or long-winded. Tl;dr? That sounds like a "you" problem. In this house, we call that "in-depth". And it's not like movies or video games come with expiration dates. What do you mean, late to the party? The party doesn't begin until we arrive!
This is Staircase Spirit, which is named after the French idiom "L'esprit de l'escalier" - the perfect comeback that comes way too late, when you're already all the way to the bottom of the staircase. In our case, it's the thought that comes at the bottom of a staircase of an entirely different building, ten years later. So this website is a collection of well-percolated articles about anything we want - often video games, shows, movies, but also coding, playing cards, and, inexplicably, that one time that we ranked fruit by how much it wants to be eaten.
We (Rosy and Denise) started Staircase Spirit in 2017 coming from our respective backgrounds in fansite-making. We still do fansites, but we found a recurring stumbling block: often the drive to make a fansite would not last beyond the effort needed to make a whole site project with an entire layout and organizational scheme. We'd get so sidetracked with the site-making that by when it's finally time to write for the website, it turns out, the drive is gone. Plus, not every subject is suited to being a fansite. Sometimes for example we want to write our opinions about a game that we kinda liked and kinda hated. It wouldn't seem fair to make a whole glowing layout with the big exciting banner featuring all of the characters... to then have pages that say, man, this fucking sucked. And sometimes we just want to rank fruit by how much it wants to be eaten, not make a whole massive project out of it. Also, we found with our progressing age and regressing time availability that it's not that good of an idea to have a million micro-sites each with unique code to maintain.
So, we built Staircase Spirit (and its underlying system, Stairwell) as a unified fansite frame that we can easily fill with whatever we want, so that our focus can stay solidly on the writing, without getting lost in all those aforementioned technicalities. Then, if we end up writing a lot about a certain subject, nobody says we can't fork those pages into a different site project. Or keep them here. Or, as we've been doing, even advertise pages that we've made for our other fansite projects on Staircase Spirit. Anything goes, as long as it gets us writing.
And writing it got us. Truth to be told, we weren't expecting this to be as successful as it has been. But Staircase Spirit unlocked the full extent of our verbosity. We expected to maybe make one or two pages a year, and for a good while instead we published more than one a month. Turns out that we were mostly held back by those technicalities again. And even though we originally intended to write both collaboratively and separately, now we write almost exclusively collaboratively. In fact, we find it easier to write collaboratively rather than apart, because if one of us gets stuck, the other gets unstuck. It also spares Rosy the feeling of disliking her own writing, because she can't dislike her writing when it's also Denise's writing. We did the right thing to marry each other. :)
Said that, both with our fansites and everything we make for Staircase Spirit, we are our own first audience. Our metric for success is our ability to reread our pages later and giggle, and maybe share with some friends. But anyone is welcome to look around and maybe giggle too.