Welcome, Living Thing, to Thorin N. Tatge's Splendiferous Life-Giving Website!

This website is old, but so are trees. Sometimes a cobbled thing is what you crave.

Places to go, people to meet:

Some friends of mine...

The Foxloft
Foxfeather Zenkova and her husband Roman Zenka (Mbala) run a hobby farm and animal rescue in Southern Minnesota. Their ambition is to found a conservancy and animal hospital. Fox, a master of many crafts, sells numerous types of animal-based art, the proceeds of many of which these days go toward protecting endangered vultures.
Horse, Horse, Another Horse, and the Zebra
Mbala has distanced himself from his trasditional seven-panel pages, but allow me to present his new, highly acclaimed* webcomic: Horse, Horse, Another Horse, and the Zebra! Loosely inspired by Charlie Mackey's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, and partly co-authored by yours truly, it can be found on Webtoons.com.

* I may be the only reader, but I've never heard anyone speak poorly of it.

Charlie Vermin: Eccentric Game Imaginator
A friend of mine working on more advanced stuff nowadays, but here are one beautiful beastie's early contributions to the strange world of RPG Maker games that aren't really RPGs.

Charlie Vermin Presents...
And here's a blog of cool stuff Charlie likes! You can reach his other blogs, including his highly creative Doom mods, from here.
Thinking with Nate: Becoming an Intelligence Researcher
An ambitious friend of mine in the process of becoming an expert on intelligence... even though that isn't really a thing that exists! From Google to grad school and beyond.
Laramie Sasseville: Dreamspell
A friend whose site includes beautiful fantasy-themed art in various media as well as filk songs, unique vanity bookmarks, and the Discordian Coloring Book. She's also available for hire as a graphic designer.

Rich Brown: Some So-Called Music
Rich Brown is a space exploration enthusiast and a filk music devotee. This page features, among other things, the lyrics to his witty and well-structured parody songs about science, science fiction, horror, and social issues.

Wellness Weaving
The multipurpose website of the multifaceted Sarah McMahill, a musicmaking friend of mine. She offers myofascial masssage, wellness workshops, enneagram readings, proofreading, vocal lessons, and more!
And then there's me.
Facebook
When I was in college, it was the hot new thing. Now it's just for middle-aged people and older! Unfortunately, that describes me somehow.
DeviantArt
I'm not really a visual artist, but I've smudged and dabbled a few things. I've put many of them here!
Livejournal
It hasn't been updated since 2017, but my old LiveJournal still exists for curious souls.
Daily Wordle Poems
For nine months, I was the Wordle Poet! @dailywordlepoem on X, I crafted a poem each day from my Wordle guesses, using a single starting word for each dectet of puzzles. (But I didn't actually do it every day - I missed a lot of periods and eventually tired of the creative endeavor.)
Fabulous Clem



Clicking on me is a PG-13 act!





Hey! Check out the interactive novel I wrote: What Is Best? I'm selling it on CreateSpace! What Is Best?

Is it Storytime? If so, this oddball collection of fiction may hit the spot!

Stories
On the other hand, sometimes it's poetry that best amuses both hemispheres of our brains.
Poetry

Filk is the music of science fiction fandom.  I have written many things under the auspice of being filk songs. Some are parodies and some are original tunes! Here they are for my reference and yours.

Filking
Perhaps it's speedily written, creative short plays that intrigue you! Check out my scripts for Carleton College's former cold-reading theater group, Chelsea 11:17! Chelsea
I remain a low-key aficionado of the semianl unscripted game show Survivor, but at one point, I was a full-blown fan. I even created content for a little while! Here are my articles on Season 5, Survivor: Thailand, which I wrote for the defunct fansite survivorfire.com. Survivor: Thailand
Are you, by any chance, a fan of the classic action/puzzle game Lode Runner? You are? Then my levels, designed for Sierra's brilliant remake of the game, will rock your world! Lode Runner
Are you an artiste? Then your senses will perhaps be offended by my portfolio of Crayola Marker Art!
Marker Art
Do you believe in the healing power of the mandala? If so, you give it more credence than I do! Nevertheless, here are a couple I made.
Interested in a stranger's opinions on webcomics? Here's a list of the ones I read--with ratings, because I like numbers!
If you've spent as much time MUCKing about as I have, you may relate to this homage to text-based roleplaying!
Though it be somewhat dated, the socially conscious may wish to take a look at Light Rail, Heavy Concerns: a college web project about the development of Minneapolis's Hiawatha Line. Hiawatha Line
Games are an important part of my life. How about yours? If you're interested in checking out my various inventions and variants, this is the place to look.
Games and variants
Even if you have the bad habit of screwing your head on upside-down in the morning, you can still ensure some legibility through the judicious use of ambigrams.
Ambigrams
The time has come!  Make your choice!!!!!
A random quoll



Last sort of updated: 10/10/24
E-mail me: thorin.tatge@pobox.com