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Received — 1 October 2026 ⏭

Search for the answers

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By: creatrixtiara
30 September 2026 at 19:45
Database thrillers are a subgenre of knowledge games/thinky games/metroidbranias where the primary mechanic involves searching through databases and other sources for information to solve a mystery. Tumblr user velteris has complied an extensive list of database thrillers and similar games, including The Roottrees Are Dead, Type Help (recently remastered as The Incident at Galley House), and Her Story. (note: the first link is originally in Korean but translated by the website itself into English using AI)
Received — 19 September 2026 ⏭

1893 in the Margins

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By: Wobbuffet
18 September 2026 at 17:05
Pamela Toler (History in the Margins, 9/5/26), "The Great Panic of 1893": "occasionally an event, or person, or book, or idea ... shows up in footnotes or casual asides ... if it's interesting or important enough, I share it ... Lately, the Great Panic of 1893 has become insistent." Neil Flanagan (The Birth of a Capital, 9/4/26), "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?": "what draws us to an event, story, or image depends less on the context of the events than the context we inhabit." Photos / maps / VR of the fair. Foods, sweet treats, and "orange cider" of the fair. Pall Mall Magazine and RIBA Journal on the fair. And other magazines that began in 1893 feature Ida Tarbell on "Pasteur at Home," famous prints, rules for psychic / occult investigators, articles on orchidology and astronomy, "Last Week's Paris" followup on anarchists, and the first story of Sexton Blake.
Received — 13 September 2026 ⏭

Syntax with consequences.

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By: ChurchHatesTucker
13 September 2026 at 19:30
Thomas Finch has a passion for languages and storytelling. He combines both in the web series A Murder of Mistakes, a whodunit whodidit where the characters (all played by Finch) are as concerned with British grammar as with murder. Watch a brief trailer, or dive right into When to use 'and I' vs 'and me' | Episode 1 (YT ~5 min.)

The fortieth and final episode was released today. There is a playlist, but it has some of the episodes out of order. This isn't a problem for the grammar lessons, but may be confusing for the story. Each episode is roughly five minutes long. Finch's YouTube channel English Enjoyed has many other videos about the language. Most are short (many are also on Instagram,) but there's also a narration of Dickens' Great Expectations in three parts.
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