Interesting people

This is a list of interesting people. If you're looking for more people's stuff to go check out, you could do much worse than these folks.

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My Partner

• Skullstho - My partner's social media information. They do art, vtubing (as a lich, no less), and more! The Twitch streams are actually super chill and fun, you should try and catch one.

Short(?) story writers

There's an entire cottage industry of people with fairly bare-bones websites who put up a bunch of their writing on them (no, I'm not one of them, there is none of my writing here, stop looking, please stop looking, I'M HIDEOUS DON'T LOOK AT ME). A lot of them are quite good.

• Alexander Wales - There's a mix of short and (very) long stories here, but they tend to explore interesting concepts. Some fanfic, but very much in the "what if X, then things rapidly go off the rails" vein.
• Hannah "Alicorn" Blume - I've mostly only read the short stories, but Goldmage stuck out to me as a work that starts with an interesting premise and then explores the consequences in-depth in a very human way.
• Greg Egan - An Australian sci-fi writer with short stories available online and a number of novels available for purchase. I have not read that many of the short stories; they can be very conceptually dense/complex, but there's definitely some interesting stuff in there.
• qntm - More interesting conceptual exploration (you may be noticing a pattern), but qntm has more of a humorous bent and stronger characterization that helps dilute and offset the cognitive load from that.
• Sprague Grundy> - Shorter stuff that by and large covers a single idea with a lot of story around it; these stories are probably the easiest to digest of the ones I've linked here. Also has a full-on web serial running.

Miscellaneous

People who don't really fit into a category above

• Ralph the triangle - If you're looking for much harder math than I offer with a side of snark, this would be a good place to check out.
• Project Nayuki - A very smart software developer from Canada (I will not pretend to understand everything she's doing)...who also made a "headless" IRC client (the actual meat of the client being run on a remote server while the user simply taps into it from a webpage) and called it MamIRC, has a Patchouli Knowledge sticker on her laptop, takes her work and herself seriously, and very much does not take crap or people requesting free time/stuff very kindly. I haven't actually checked out too much of her stuff; I'm not quite in her target audience, but anyone who is will I think find her site to be a place worth visiting.
• Megaman Omega - Omega posts Touhou gameplay videos, but is notable in my opinion for playing a lot of Danmakufu scripts and offering genuinely insightful thoughts and opinions; I got him to beta test one of my scripts (Eternity EX) and he was an immense help. He also has gameplay videos of some of my stuff, not that I'm biased or anything.