timberfins

timber's table of contents

i don't have enough stuff to justify this yet, but i'm like. long-term planning

ayup i'm timber (ze/hir). relevant to this site, i write a bit here and there about random things that catch my fancy. my primary interests are tabletop games, linguistics, and fandom, and any intersection of such things. you can also find me on tumblr, if you need.

my work

my other site for work more professional than this. primarily music, audio, and voice work.

links

xkcd (Randall Munroe)
"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." a bona fide classic of nerd shit. perhaps very obvious for a links page, but idk. i like it.

web design

Web design in 4 minutes (by Jeremy Thomas)
an excellent css guide
Javascript in 14 minutes (also by Jeremy Thomas)
i assume i'll like this one too

good reads!

[Chess] That time a chessplayer was accused of cheating using blueberry yogurt (u/deleted, r/HobbyDrama)
extremely good writeup of the absolute shitshow that was the 1978 chess world championship
My son's tattoo hurt me deeply (Tess Morgan, The Guardian)
one of two "op-eds of all time", as i call them.
How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise (Sandy Hingston, Philadelphia)
the other op-ed.
Cheater, Cheater: a DNF socmed fanfic AU (mangobaII, transcribed by φ)
literally the most unhinged crackfic i have ever read. i quote this near daily. do yourself a favour, you don't have to care or have ever cared about DSMP. both mangobaII and φ have done the lord's work and i salute them.
An Examination of Leitmotifs and Their Use to Shape Narrative in UNDERTALE (Jason M Yu)
an excellent two-part essay on how leitmotif works in undertale's music. it didn't cause me to go to music school, but i did read it right before i decided to go to music school
down the rabbit hole: the world of estranged parents’ forums (issendai)
an in-depth analysis of abusive and entitled mindsets through the lens of estranged parents

writing resources

OneLook Thesaurus
saved my life, makes it really easy to find synonyms or words you only vaguely remember
springhole.net
came for the excellent writing advice, stayed for the writeups on conspiracy theories and cult mindsets. lots of good random generators, too.
Fantasy Name Generators
speaking of random generators: if you don't already know this one, you are one of today's lucky ten thousand. so many name generators for things i didn't realise needed names or could be named. also several non-fantasy and non-name generators which feels a tad off-brand, but i'm not complaining. thank you, emily, i salute you.

art that makes me go nuts

We Walked The Earth (Uffe Isolotto)
i'm not explaining this or anything else, it just makes me feel shit. yk how art is
all of Bo Bartlett's work
god i wanna be rich enough to have one of these. that's when i'll know i've won capitalism