places to go
sites i love
things to read and do
- read the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula LeGuin
- thoughts on thinking in HTML
- learn how to play slitherlink
- identify your local occlupanids
- play with blocks (of a sort) with tilepainter
- make peace with salad theory
- appreciate the nominative determinism of Oddo-Harkins rule
- play the barnacle goose experiment
rabbitholes
people:
- Kusumoto Ine - Japan's first female doctor; i need a movie about her and her father
- Hildegard of Bingen - medieval female polymath who transmuted her chronic pain into religious authority
- Glenn Gould - very talented and very strange pianist
- the Public Universal Friend - super interesting genderless/genderqueer Quaker preacher
creatures:
- american pocket shark - certified cutie
- scaly-foot gastropod - metal snail!
- Dictyostelium discoideum - slime mold gateway drug
- Cylistella daphneae - tiny beetle-mimicking jumping spider, discovered 2025
plants:
- Bizzarria - freaky 17th century hybrid citrus; see also
- Welwitschia - fabulous gnetophyte, lives for centuries, exactly two leaves
places:
- Karahan Tepe - potentially the oldest known human village
- Gobero - 10k-year-old uniquely heartbreaking burial site
comfort youtube
history and science:
- miniminuteman - archaeologist, storyteller, irl Milo Thatch
- lindsay nikole - taking me through the geologic periods with immaculate vibes
- gutsick gibbon - early hominins and pseudoscience debunking
- useful charts - i fuckin love a good timeline
- ancient americas - the americas when they were ancient
- angela collier - astronomy and physics
media recaps:
- mike's mic - the LOST series is a masterpiece, but the Pretty Little Liars series is what i come back to when i'm sad
- fiona sangster - i've listened to her talk about Stardew Valley for literal hours, i love her so much
- cari can read - her 'forgot the plot' series is my insomnia cure
- lauren daisy - gossip girl scholar extraordinaire
- fig tree - loving retellings of ancient literature
hobbies:
- bernadette banner - historical sewing and elegant witchery
- engineering knits - fascinated by her fascination with flax
- the stitchery - more sewing, lots of documented experimenting which i love
- cracking the cryptic - my sudoku-solving British internet uncles, who got me through the pandemic
- atomic shrimp - a kindly British dude documents his many and highly varied hobbies
- dollightful - doll customizations! super cute
- biblaridion - conlangs and worldbuilding
games and gaming:
- summoning salt - speedrun historian
- pete complete - ruthlessly efficient and lovely to listen to
- andrew bluett - love the final fantasy retrospectives despite having never played an ff game
unsortably cool:
- dove makes - cultural geography via the hunger games
- tor's cabinet of curiosities - strange stories from a man and his durian
- strange aeons - internet raconteur and historian
- nahre sol - pianist and genre deconstructor