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

This website is old, but so are trees. It is being recovered/updated with painful slowness. 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!
A few interesting chunks of Worldwide Web...
Yucata.de: Friendly turn-based gaming!
I've been playing here since 2014
MN-StF
The Minnesota Science Fiction Society, an institution that I grew up with! Puts on Minicon, a speculative fiction convention, every Easter weekend.
Temple of No
Well, actually, yes!
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 old unpublishable fiction may hit the spot.

Stories
I had a fan fiction period! Here are links to what I've had the audacity to do with the creations of others.
Mae Borowski in front of an eclipse!
On the other hand, sometimes it's poetry that best amuses both hemispheres of our brains.
Poetry
Here, for my own reference and yours, are dozens of filk songs! Behold the silly, motley music of science fiction and fantasy fandom. Filking
Perhaps it's swiftly 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 seminal 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
If you ask me my favorite video game, I may hem and haw, but the words Lode Runner will probably issue from my mouth! This 1983 classic has been revived many times for the modern world! Check out my amazing levels for it! 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? You do? Well, 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, or used to read, or still read - with 20-word synopses!
If you've spent as much time MUCKing about as I have, you may relate to this homage to text-based roleplaying!
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


E-mail me: thorin.tatge@pobox.com


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