i am a consumer.
i play games and listen to music and read books and consume a lot of stuff!
here is a collection of some of my favorites. just so i can keep track of them for myself.
quick jump: people · interact · read · listen
people: friends!
i have friends on the internet. they're cool.
- atawan does cool toki pona stuff and also makes games and music!
- q1 makes games and music
- fern makes games, music, and 3d stuff (so cool)
- raacz does toki pona!
- ampersandia makes games, conlangs/worlds, and cool art
- equa does cool techy art stuff and toki pona
- sonja is the creator of toki pona!
- asnev does techy stuff and 8bit music
- citrons, lemons, and made johnvertisment
- lilith codes things way too complex for me to understand
- taforage is a good fun friend :)
- mathmaster13 does toki pona and random coding
- neptune writes things!
- ilo kali does toki pona and loves lua and ocaml
- amby does toki pona and codes things
- 4nf writes and makes conlangs
- eikobear makes games!
- bucketfish. that's right! someone else has the same name as i do and we're good friends. they code stuff
interact: apps
as a maybe power mac user, there are some apps that i love and i cannot live without. unfortunately most of these are mac-only. sorry about that. :(
- arc by the browser company. it's like genuinely the best browser ever. i don't know how i can ever go back to anything else now! this is so good.
- maccy, a clipboard manager for mac. i think it's the best clipboard manager i've ever seen. enough said.
- textreme 2 by ash k. extremely fun text editor that i use sometimes to write tedious essays!
- raycast is a mac spotlight replacement of sorts, i can't live without it ❤️
interact: games
yeaaaa games make up about a lot of my existence. they're so good! they're like the ideal way to spend time or bond with people or have interaction. 10/10 would recommend.
- spiritfarer by thunder lotus games. this was my favorite game that i played in 2021. really deserving! i love all the characters and it's such a sweet story too.
- minecraft by mojang, my comfort game, the game that's allowed me to get into so many things - like, 80% of everyone i know plays minecraft and it's just the Best for bonding online. looking at ma pona :)
- hollow knight by team cherry, with its amazing art and music and lore and the LORE is so good! all the characters are so cute and it's so , like there are so many things to know. it's So Good.
- butterfly soup by brianna lei!!!! a group of lgbt+ teens (,, okay 3/4) navigate school and it's honestly one of the best visual novels i've ever played. when you're done, check out butterfly soup 2. changed my life.
- a new life by angela he, another visual novel but this is GOD TIER. every single scene is wallpaper-worthy. the art and music are AMAZING and it's just so soft!
- celeste by maddy makes games. what more to be said? perfect game.
- hades by supergiantgames. greek-myth-themed roguelite that i'm soo bad at, but it's so fun it's so fun!
- whales and broken hearts by q1. it's a twine game, but it's got to be my favorite! super cute. for real.
- lonely people potion shop by kultisti. i played through this entire game without stopping and it is truly underrated. what a great experience for real!
interact: cool online stuff
i've come across some very cool and fun online things. hope you enjoy too.
- this website will self destruct, a really cute little website.
- wobble town, a cute pet? sim? i don't know. it's really cute. if you like anything on the web at all you should check it out.
- pilgrim, a navigator. i wish i found this earlier, it would've been super useful for looking through rings and stuff!
- literature clock, which is a neat little clcok!
read: books
these are just some of the books that sit on the 'favorites' section of my bookshelf, and i love them to bits.
- autoboyography by christina lauren. a gay kid grrowing up in a highly religious neighbourhood with loving parents and then he falls in love with the son of the bishop. it's that kind of book you devour within a day and leave reeling for weeks.
- word by word by kory stamper. kory stamper is a lexicographer and this book is about how they make dictionaries but it's soooo fun to read? i learnt so much and like. lexicography sounds PAINFUL and FUN.
- the hunger games by suzanne collins. if you haven't read this what are you doing? the hunger games is like, my top book of all times. i've read it at least 20 times and counting.
read: short stories
short stories can be really, really impactful. there are some really good ones i've come across.
listen: pop(?) music
the world of music is wild. i listen mostly to indie pop/alternative, generic pop, kpop, ??? a lot of songs!! and here are the tops of my listening charts. these are also my top artists. in no particular order:
- astronomy by conan gray, it's so Emotion and hit me completely out of the blue
- strawberries and cigarettes by troye sivan, the song for the gay movie 'love, simon', which is also one of my favorite books, and troye sivan is just !!!
- butterfly by loona, a kpop song about believing in yourself and it's amazing
- clover by fromis_9, another kpop song about happiness and growing up and dreams and the unknown future and letting go of the past and it's just so mmMMM
- through and through by khai dreams, atwood remix is one of those songs where if it comes up in shuffle i'll rewind it and play it twice. indie lofi-hiphop ? song about hanging on and being brave, i think.
- demons on the side of my bed by teflon sega. indie pop/alternative and it's really chill and the chorus is just! so good! i loved it on first listen. about demons and love, i guess :)
- first love / late spring by mitski. indie alternative or something. so soft. i listen to this when i'm yearning.
listen: instrumental music
there are some instrumental/lofi artists that i absolutely adore, too.
listen: podcasts
i frequently like to listen to podcasts on my walks or when i'm drawing. here are some of my favorites!
- join the party, a dnd podcast by multitude productions. still catching up on it, but it's so good! it's so fun! its editing is absolutely phenomenal too.
- lingthusiasm, a podcast about linguistics. really informative.
- and basically anything by multitude productions, a podcast collective. they are so good at what they do!