Substacks recommended by Vanechka

Recommended by Vanechka

You who yearns to explore the wide and wild world, welcome to my silent fables. Here, you'll find stories that brings forth joy to the soul, stories that'll make you sad, laugh, maybe cuss me out a little. Subscribe if this interests you.

Necessary Monsters

By Robert Walrod

Uncovering Pokémon's mythic roots.

Notes On...

By Christopher Booth

Consideration of a life spent in overseas journalism, loving relationships and occasionally in psychiatric care.

Requests of Literary Exile

By Hyun Woo Kim

On writing literature in a non-native language

Babel Babble

By Oleg

Babel Babble is a publication dedicated to armchair linguistics, language acquisition, and overall language nerdery.

It’s Just Jeanne

By Jeanne S

I make up stories that make my life seem more interesting. Or are they real? Doesn't matter, I'm just Jeanne. Oh yeah, I do art too.

Alias April

By Chen Rafaeli

"Flights" is already taken -but I traveled a lot, and I continue to, including falling down the rabbit holes. Thoughts and rants about being on the go and staying put, whatever it means. PS scratch it I have no idea. Not yet.

Tap Water Sommelier

By Konstantin Asimonov

A personal blog where I sometimes discuss obscure fiction and sometimes post my own fiction for you to discuss.

DECENTRALIZED FICTION

By ARX-Han

The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and cryptographically distributed.

Apocrypha

By M. E. Rothwell

Writings of uncertain authenticity.

oldoldoldoldnew

By Philip Traylen

Extrications and ecstasies.

Mr. Traylen acts in the best traditions of chaos orderers, wonderfully so, or rather, gives you a chance to order it yourself. A feast for your pathalogical curiosity, braingasm magnifique.

- Vanechka

From The Future

By Edward Rooster

Imagining the Future through the Past, by writing Lyrical Historical Essays and Science Fiction Novels

Cosmographia

By M. E. Rothwell

Creating a map of the world and our place in it.

I won't keep you

By Trilety Wade

a newsletter that is (usually) no more than 500 words

Indulging a Second Look

By Dane Benko

Experimental videos, short stories, and essays that tinker with those eldritch phantasms haunting the blind spots of your perception.

Fictitious

By Oleg

A weekly newsletter dedicated to fiction of all shapes, creativity, language learning, linguistics, rhetoric and much more

Soaring Twenties

By Thomas J Bevan

A triweekly newsletter and monthly magazine run by a collective of creatives, collaborating to make the internet human again.

The best place on the internet. Period. Quality in the STSC is often so dense that it can cause you the same vertigo you get when being suddenly exposed to extremely fresh air.

- Vanechka

The Wednesday Audio

By Craig Burgess

A satirical and often maniacal look at internet hustle culture through the dark eyes of Wednesday evenings. If you’re looking for self-improvement, this isn’t it.

Craig is making the best podcast on the internet. Truly a crispy piece of craftsmanship. Listen to every episode and you won’t be the same anymore.

- Vanechka

Secretorum

By Roger’s Bacon

happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal

Immanent Dissolution

By Udith Dematagoda

Essays on Literature, Philosophy, and Contemporary Culture

The Commonplace

By Thomas J Bevan

Fiction and essays on the extraordinary nature of ordinary life.