Library
It is right to believe. It is good that you seek...What you read are symbols, and fragments of symbols. It is like this. The truth that men once saw was a window of many colours. Now the window is shattered and lies in glittering shards across the floor. But the fragments you pick up cannot be the whole. And the winds of chaos begin to blow through the open space.
Welcome to the archive. Here you will find booklists, playlists and galleries which support the rest of the site.
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The Reading List
Version 2 - April 2023
Do you like folklore? Want to learn about the history of magic? Enjoy 1970s pastoral weird counterculture or creepy children's television?
Are you absolutely horrified by the immensity of the ocean and want to prod that feeling with a stick until it starts creeping up on you as you walk down the street unexpectedly, the knowledge that the sea is just there, fathomlessly deep and impossibly cold, and more mysterious to us than the moon?
You'll fit right in! ~200 recommendations for music, movies, and books
Never not be sure what to do on ritual night when you're too sleepy again! Reading texts with a spiritual mood is a kind of meditative act to keep the invisible world in mind.
Last updated: November 2021
Commonplace Book
The Commonplace Book is a collection of thoughts for contemplation and ritual drawn from my Reading. You should compile your own, with the parts of Landweird that you find.
Last updated: 30th December 2023
Radio Astercote
Are you sitting uncomfortably? Radio Astercote goes out on that hidden frequency, between the tick and the tock - where it's always nearly teatime, and all you have is your transistor and the dark.
Thought for the Day
Broadcasting straight from Fen House, as and when there is something to say.
Last updated: August 2023
Radio Astercote Presents
Long-lost mix-tapes rediscovered in a box at the back of the station
Last updated: May 2024
Station Playlist
A collection of acid folk, pastoral prog, hauntology, ambient and strangeness
Last updated: March 2024
Radio Times
Pre-dating the design of the Radio Astercote episode page, this webtoy pulls you into the world of programs I would like to be broadcasting - it is different on each visit. Don't attempt the crossword.
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The Radio Times toy is reliant on other people's code, including:
Last updated: August 2023
Fenvibes
I tag my collection whenever a song has a fenvibe - a more reliable technique than making playlists, which are broken whenever folder structures break. I can additionally export tagged songs to a webpage, as a spare backup and for the perusal of strangers.
Last Updated: March 2024
Astercote Broadcasting Network
Selected programming for slow days. Serials, childrens stories, advertisements, documentaries, all evoking a certain mood. Quiet, ephemeral.
Last Updated: November 1973
Station Management
Notes on how to maintain a .mp3 collection for the longterm
Last Updated: September 2023
Look
Book of Symbols
None of these are quite yet The Symbol, but I paint to get what I'm hearing down visually, and here's a little collection of them. None of them are the one, but you'll get the idea.
Last updated: October 2022
Picturebook
Gallery of pictures I've collected to illustrate ideas, Domains, spirits and more.
Last updated: September 2023
My Art
Little watercolors to capture ideas and images
Last updated: September 2023
Listen
Sounds of the Fen
Some of my favourite albums: pastoral, proggy, folky, pagan and hauntological.
Not mobile friendly yet!
Last updated: December 2021
What I'm Listening To
Album reviews, as and when I please
Last updated: March 2023
Music
My playlists are currently, imperfectly, hosted on youtube
Handbooks
The Handbook
Written post-2018, my wordpress is designated as a kind of "guidebook" to the parts of the mythos that have been solid and functioning for +1 year. I suppose it's a kind of book: god profiles, domain descriptions, and a formal, educational style. And yeah, I do keep thinking "maybe i should redo all this as a neocity", like a fool.
The Old Site
2017-2018, this was the first space I started roughing out my ideas. A lot of people seem really fond of it, so I've decided to leave it untouched (more or less) as an archive; and tbh, I find a lot of my own writing on that site is a lot more vivid and compelling than things I've written since. I guess it's landweirdier: there's more gaps.
Tarot Spreads
Key to the King's Hall: Beowulf-flavoured layout for looking at stability and hidden dangers in the dark