• @eatthepen is a writer I found through cohost with her work The First Step. Incredible writing and there's a lot of it to check out.
• @SpectreWrites is another writer on cohost I found through If Anything Could Ever Be This Good Again which is just the tip of an iceberg of short fiction I could be recommending.
• @apothecaric has also done writing on cohost, and I regret not finding it sooner. catching strays is my recommendation to start here.
• Goblin Punch is gonna be my curveball pitch to you. This blog is a mix of bold and insane worldbuilding decisions and a lot of musings on different aspects of how to improve your tabletop experience. I am particularly entranced by the worldbuilding, which makes extreme decisions with extreme confidence and is a good reminder that fantasy doesn't need to be as constrained as a lot of fantasy writing defaults to. He even has some good discussions in the comments which serves as a good "do you want more on the subject?" A starting recommendation I'll throw out there is Some Words on Dwarven Gender.
• @uel is one of the Microfiction Twitter greats and one of my major inspirations to start writing. I'm not sure if he has a place where all of his writings are easily found but I can throw two of the ones your way. North of Reality is a great collection of short fiction that does a lot of exploration of incredibly strange what-ifs or rebuilds a known concept as if it functioned differently through its notional influences. Compound Eye Comparative Tarot discusses both individual Tarot cards and the ideas behind the entire practice, though much of it needs a paid subscription to be seen. My personal favorite of his work is his Expanded Tarot Arcana illustrated by Lays Farra, which I still rotate in my brain fairly often.
• @xenofem is yet another writer I found through Cohost (they must be some kind of invasive species with the numbers present here). She doesn't seem to have a good index post up yet so just search the "#xenofem writes" tag and her profile links, and here's my personal favorite story for you to get start.
• The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Wonderful novels about gay drama going on within the decline of a space empire kept afloat by necromancy. I love the characters, they're so messed up and need space to breathe that this horrific setting won't give them.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. I lucked the fuck out with stumbling on a fantastic LitRPG series for my first glance into the genre. The strength of these books is how they keep iterating on good ideas and keep building on the drama. Surviving a murderous reality tv show enacted by final form space capitalism is a strong start, but it keeps building and building as the stakes become more complex and receive even more outside interference.
• Basically anything by V.E. Schwab. Her books are great but I've been particularly entranced by the A Darker Shade of Magic series and The invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
• N. K. Jemisin is a fantastic fantasy author and I've thoroughly enjoyed The Broken Earth series and The City We Became.
• Jim Butcher of The Dresden Files fame is in the progress of making an airship fantasy series called The Cinder Spires that I've been entranced with.
• R. F. Kuang also writes incredible books. The Poppy War series is great and I particularly recommend *
  Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution*.
• The Fetch Phillips series by Luke Arnold is a great blend of fantasy and pulp noir, focused on a burnt out and broken detective trying to navigate a world that is still looking for the way forward after its magic was lost. There's a special charm to the fact that Luke Arnold does the audiobook performance for his own writing, and does it really well.
• The City of Names is another remnant of Microfiction Twitter, found here on the site or found on their dedicated blog for somewhat longer form fiction. While inactive at this point this is still one of my personal influences for writing and worldbuilding. The tone of a place that is magical, mysterious, ominous and comfortable all at once is something special.
• @direlog is striking and surreal in their writing, whether it's shortform work continuing their legacy of being one of the posters of all time or their longer fiction that begins to feel like being dragged into someone else's fever dream.

• Homestuck. Everyone has seen the cultural crater that this made but this is still one of the most personally-impactful works I have ever encountered and I must encourage everyone else to look at the crater even as the fires have died down. As of writing the official site is still has the marks of Viz Media's terrible preservation efforts so I fully encourage using the Unofficial Homestuck Collection instead, which functions as an offline web browser specifically for the purpose of presenting the experience as close to the original as possible (and more, since there is modding support for things like slur-censoring and other stuff).
• Homestuck: Beyond Canon is in a thriving age now. One of the continuations of Homestuck that is taking advantage of Andrew Hussie's new approach to licensing out the Homestick IP, it's survived its past harassment campaigns and hiatus to keep driving forward. "How good is it?" you ask, well I'm back on that Vriska brainrot. That's your answer.
• Vast Error is one of the titans of Homestuck fanworks made by Deconreconstruction who do what they're named after by rebuilding a lot of the ideas of Homestuck to create a story that is almost entirely standalone. I do encourage fully exploring the immense ocean of Homestuck fanworks in general but this is one of my personal must-reads.
• Flying Saucer Video by @littlegoodfrog looks to be a story about messy romance, nostalgia and the ways that change is inevitable. I'm eager to see where this is going and how it will hurt me.
• So for the sake of expediency I will say that it is hard to go wrong with browsing the list of comics published by Hiveworks, and their NSFW branch Slipshine. The rest of the comics section will be recommendations from these two.
• Sleepless Domain is an incredible magical girl comic with a vibrant style and a great mix of drama and trauma.
• The Rock Cocks (NSFW Warning) is a wonderful sex-positive comic about the journey of a very explicit rock band trying to navigate the music industry and make a name of themselves in defiance of the puritanical cultural pressure that tries to stop them.
• Mare Internum (The About page has content warnings that you should definitely read before starting) is a beautiful sci-fi comic that explores a lot of stuff about finding a way to keep going forward no matter how much mental health tries to stop you.
• Awaken draws inspiration from a lot of action and supernatural narratives to make a fun adventure that I've been keen on keeping up with.
• Cassiopeia Quinn is a fun light-hearted sci-fi comic with a strong cast and great action.
• Harpy Gee is a delightful fantasy comic targeted toward younger audiences.
• Raruurien is a slice-of-life of a single mother trying to raise her children while hiding the extent of her magic from her community. The art style here stands out in particular for its indonesian influences and Anna Maulina's non-comic art is just as incredible.
• Phantomarine is about a journey across a haunted sea so a recently-deceased princess can reclaim her soul. The art style is a vibrant treat and the cast is incredible.
• Nix of Nothing by @MLeeLunsford is a supernatural queer story about traveling to find peace and overcome the burdens of family legacy.

Podcasts & Audio Dramas

• The wider works from Night Vale Presents are worth exploration, but a couple stand out as my favorites. Alice Isn't Dead is a great supernatural road trip to find a lost love. Within The Wires is great anthology series exploring personal relationships in an alternate political landscape, but season 2 in particular approaches an ephemeral platonic ideal of writing personal drama.
• Fool & Scholar Productions is another standout studio for me, blending great stories with fucking incredible sound production. The White Vault, Vast Horizon, Don't Mind and Liberty are all worth your time to try.
• SCP: Find Us Alive by Hodgepodge Audio tells a supernatural office drama. An entire facility meant to monitor and contain a spacetime anomaly vanishes into another dimension, everyone trapped inside and most of them there to do normal work that has nothing to do with understanding or wrangling the supernatural. I love it and the producers of it are also making Hymns for the Road, which in its early stages is promising enough to keep my attention.
• [Homestuck Made This World](https://rangedtouch.com/homestuck-made-this-world/_ by @rangedtouch is a good companion piece to Homestuck if you want to do a readalong. Provides a lot of context about both the the media it draws from and the cultural frenzy that happened around it during its original airing.
• Shelved By Genre is the other @rangedtouch show I'm slowly working through. Also meant to be a readalong format and does a lot of what HMTW does only for different works that catch their interest.
• Calazcon is a great example of an unusual actual play TTRPG podcast, focusing on multiple different groups of players struggling to get by as different squads in a three-way sci-fi war where one of the factions is basically a nomadic Gundam convention. The variety and contrasts make it really interesting and I did have a longer post in my drafts about this that I'm not gonna be able to finish.
• The Cryptonaturalist is one of the survivors of Weird Twitter/Microfiction Twitter and also the name of his audio drama that joyfully meanders and encourages you to stop and smell the bizarre cryptid flowers growing beneath your floorboards.

• @moonlitdecadence does a lot of character-focused art, mostly NSFW and often emphasizing trans body positivity.
• @transyashiro, another NSFW artist who evokes "hell yeah gimme more of that trans body positivity" in his work
• @koh draws incredible fanart and original work.
• Nina, her illustrations are gorgeous.
• Ashley Loob, they're making really evocative queer art and showing off a full spectrum of gay gremlin energy with their characters.
• SpicyMancer. Their art is very heavily NSFW and sex-positive, exploring horniness through a large cast of characters that range from super sentai to full fantasy monsterfucker.
• cherryandsisters, an excellent artist who renders people beautifully in illustrations that take a sharp twist when she's instead drawing comics about heavy topics.
• @MLeeLunsford and their NSFW side collection @PulpPunk. I know I already recommended their comic but their general art is also a joy to see.
• @aurahack, it's been fun to watch her artstyle evolve and refine into its current state, and I've been especially captivated by her vision of cyberpunk aesthetics.

• Celeste. It's a great platformer and incredible story of growth and self-acceptance by @MaddyMakesGames with a wonderful soundtrack from @kuraine that has stuck with me for the elegance of its execution.
• Iconoclasts. Made by @konjak, this is a great action platformer with some of my favorite character writing.
• SNAKE FARM and any future games @hthrflwrs makes. At the time of this post FISH FEAR ME and The Last Days of Friendship Valley are the two upcoming games they have announced, and with their unusual brand of indie game design I'm intent on seeing more.
• ADACA is an FPS that draws from both STALKER and Half-Life 2 to create one of my favorite indie shooters, and you should keep an eye on what is coming next (which currently is Project Silverfish).
• Horizon's Gate is a fantastic indie tactics game from Rad Codex, who has been iterating on this genre heavily.
• Final Profit: A Shop RPG by @ManaBrent is an incredible game that takes a much better crack at the elusive ideal of the RPG-where-you-run-a-fantasy-store than other games have by going straight to the core of the idea with the gameplay fully focused on immersing you in capitalism and confronting (or embracing, depending on your choices) the evils it entails. It's a great game and goddammit he won't stop updating it. Those patch notes are overstuffed with an absurd list of improvements that most developers wouldn't prioritize.
• Disco Elysium. A true psychologically-focused CRPG where you wake up with amnesia and begin peeling back the layers of horror in finding out that you're a loser cop, stuck trying to put yourself back together all while trying to solve a murder case. It's one of those games where the gameplay is the writing and the writing is unmatched.
• Ultrakill. An action FPS that folds the advancements of the genre spawned from Devil May Cry back into the fundamentals of Quake to create a truly incredible shooter about tearing apart Hell for no better reason than that you need the blood of its residents.
• Arknights. This one comes with a massive caveat of this being a gacha game, with all the dark patterns and microtransactions that entails. I have to mention it because the worldbuilding is incredible and more often than not works well with the gameplay the occupies a strange middle point between tactics RPG and tower defense. If you want to experience any of the stories without exposing yourself to the game and its monetization there is the Arknights Story Reader and likely similar websites that will extract the visual novel part of the game for you to enjoy separately.
• The Beginner's Guide. A short narrative experience by the mind behind The Stanley Parable, this is an excellent exploration of the nature of the parasocial relationships between artists and fans of their works.
• ASTLIBRA Revision. A truly bizarre and beautiful action RPG that is somehow much more than the sum of its parts, which is impressive given how incredibly jank it appears at first glance.
• Outer Wilds. A space exploration game about finality that is probably going to be the best thing at what it does for an very long time.
• Ikenfell. Made by Happy Ray Games (@ChevyRay one of the prominent among them), this is a really cool turn-based RPG that ends up telling a fantastic story about a group of kids at a magic school trying to fight their way to the other side of inevitable change.
• Void Stranger. I'm not gonna speak too much on this since I still haven't finished it but it's a great incredible puzzle game with wonderful stylistic choices that better posters on this site have already gushed about.
• Hollow Knight. A metroidvania game that has stuck with me, it's so beautiful and so much fun to go through. It's fucked up that Cohost lived and died in the time that we're waiting for the sequel, Silksong.
• Snowbound Blood. This is part of the greater narrative of Vast Error, talked about in the comics section of this post. I'm admittedly not that deep into the visual novel genre but this story is an incredible experience that can be experienced standalone without being fully familiar with Vast Error.
• *Cyberpunk 2077*. I've found myself growing more distant from the triple/quadruple-A realm of games over time, seeing more value in experiences designed by someone fully able to act on their inspiration instead of games that can often feel dampened or watered down by both internal conflicts of vision and gestures at the general state of the industry right now. Cyberpunk 2077 has somehow stuck with me despite that. The world is full of depth and life, and the high points of the story manage to easily eclipse the low points for me.

• a_lilian has made several great video essays on their personal experiences with being trans & neurodivergent and sharing the lessons they've learned in adapting their life to who they are, which have resonated with me immensely despite being trans & neurodivergent in different ways.
• Steve Mould has cool-teacher energy and leverages it hard with his channel focusing on random science curiosities, fully enabled by the power of his 3D printer to make demonstration models of so many different aspects of physics.
• Pinsplash. I respect this guy's incredible hyperfixation with the Half-Life games and the few moments the focus shifts to other esoteric things about other games.
• A Fox In Space Incredible fan animations that pursue the idea of "what if a Star Fox TV show had been made and aired alongside the original game's release?" and executing the feel of that era of animated television incredibly well in both the style and the writing.
• Noah Caldwell-Gervais. Don't be intimidated by the lengths of his videos, these should be chewed on in small chunks to absorb all he has to say about his fascination with videogames and the wider inspirations and factors that made them. His videos focused entirely on road trips across the US and musing on its history are also well worthwhile, with his Lincoln Highway video as my standout favorite.
• Errant Signal by @Campster, his focus on old and/or niche games is fascinating, giving perspective on where games as a wider medium came from and showing the more interesting ways that they can go.
• DeadlyComics makes absolutely adorable animations that often hit in a much more profound way than I expected. My personal favorite is Milk Dust.
• Philosophy Tube does great explorations of philosophy, engaging them with modern realities and having fun while doing it. It was a hell of an experience to be watching her channel as she came out as trans (maybe I was dense but I didn't see it coming) and it's great to see her strive to be so open and bold about who she is.
• BobbyBroccoli has furthered the format of video-essays-made-in-google-maps that Jon Bois made huge, but taking a focus on major scandals in different fields of science and presenting them in a way that's easy to digest the context of. One of the few channels where I've watched and enjoyed with family who would otherwise not be sharing in my interests. The man who tried to fake an element deserves special mention for the main setpiece of a graph that helps visualize the differences between all the elements and their known isotopes.
• ceicocat uploads rarely, but those videos hit hard and often uncomfortably (in a good way).
• DrumRollTony Reacts. I largely consider the realm of reaction videos to be creatively vacuous, but as someone who still struggles to grasp the technical side of music this channel has been a pleasant surprise to me. The depth he'll go in talking about what does or doesn't make a piece of music work has given me a better vocabulary for understanding music and what I like so much about it.
• hazel explores a lot of the strange and obscure of anime and otaku culture, and the energy she manages to pull of with this videos is something I have trouble describing but it's a "it's okay to be weird" kind of confidence at its core that I deeply appreciate.
• Innuendo Studios oscillates between direct politics and talking about art, and I am particularly appreciative of his series The Alt-Right Playbook for exposing and analyzing the rhetoric of right-wing politics in a way that makes it easier to identify and trains you to question both how an argument is being made and why it's being made that way.
• Timber. I have a fascination with the deeper technical aspects of videogame speedrunning and exploit hunting, and Timber is a good glimpse into just how insane the people who break Legend of Zelda games continue to be as he pursues a complete obliteration of any limitations in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It's part of a personal suspicion I have that an important part of what understanding what video games are capable being of is to observe what they can do beyond their intended limits.

• Curtis Schweitzer. Likely gonna be recognized for his work on the soundtracks for games such as Starbound and Halo Infinite, he is easily one of my favorite composers. Did you know that bandcamp link has a bunch of his own albums not associated with other IP? They're great, one of them I'll definitely push forward to consider is Celestial.
• Lena Raine, here on Cohost as @kuraine. Tons of great videogame composition, and the Celeste OST is still one of my favorites.
• Aiobahn makes a lot of my favorite music and ends up working with a wide variety of vocalists to make musical that feels like it ranges from the magical to the comforting. My favorite tracks come from the all connected EP.
• Solar Fields makes incredible atmospheric music, slow and pondering and lighthearted. Probably most easily recognized for his work in the soundtrack for Mirror's Edge but I gotta recommend his album GREEN and my favorite track in there, Insum (Remix).