A fifth-anniversary renovation to the gallery! (The date was coincidental, i swear.) Ten new works added throughout, including Baltic myths, scientists, decrepit aviators, and pre-Raphaelites.
Bonus fun fact: don’t quote me on this, but i’m preeeettttty sure the gold framing around the paintings is the oldest asset still in use on the site. The only older thing that hasn’t been ship-of-Theseused away is the background for the coat of arms page.
IN THE GARDEN: Some new links for your perusal. IN LOOKING AT THE BIG SKY: Everyone’s (least) favourite billionaire gets the alternate-history treatment, spinning out from a brief mention on the 2025!Earth map.
Currently doing the walk of shame to the "automatic renewal" option which was for some reason active on my real-name domain but not my fake-internet-brand one 🤡️🤡️🤡️ (the clown is me)
Went kinda crazy style on the updates and i only have two redirect-pages set up but uhhh, two new posts on The Garden, five new words in /words, and some updates to /loanwords
Dankjewel for the compliments! I’ll confess my only exposure to the Xanth saga is seeing it mentioned in TV Tropes articles — i just chose the name “Xanthe” because (long story) my previous online handle started with an "X", i needed something that matched, and i had already considered it and discarded it for my real name (i ended up matching my birth name’s initials instead).
Black text on a white background is far more austere than i’d normally tolerate, but it’s a boring page for boring people, so i thought it’d fit.
Six new sites, bringing us up to 114(!) in total! Included are guides on writing English well, Apollo archives, transhumanist rabbit holes, and Russian cyberpunks.
This is either the best idea i’ve ever had or the dumbest.