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Recommended by Wake Lloire

A place where imagination wanders and where we follow the pencil line wherever it leads, in celebration of creativity, in reverence for nature, and in search of wonder.

Emily’s newsletter is a beautiful and bright speck of light. Like a firefly in the dark, she brings magic to the every day.

- Wake Lloire

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

Older and Wider: Heather Lee

By Older and wider

The SneakyArt Post

By Nishant Jain

Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.

Things That Don't Suck

By Andrea Gibson + Megan Falley

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

Em's Emerald Lens

By emcee

My personal online diary where I write about my place in the world and my late night thoughts - Em

SmallStack

By Robin Taylor

A collection of the finest newsletters with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, with special love given to the under 500 subscriber stacks out there.

Letters from a Muslim Woman

By Noha Beshir

Dispatches from one woman's life as a Western Muslim told through the lens of mental health, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

The Art and Anxiety of Overthinking

By Chase Roper

A newsletter where I mostly narrate myself writing about what I'm writing about.

Chase and his writing make my brain feel seen. I read both of his newsletters because they speak to me in different ways. If you are anxious, or want to fall in love (or are already in love with) They Might Be Giants…you’ve found your place with Chase. (That wasn’t supposed to rhyme, but if it rhymes it’s true)

- Wake Lloire

Steinbergdrawscartoons

By Avi Steinberg

Cartoons, thoughts, more cartoons, worries, and more!

The Autistic Muse

By Dylan Delgado

The melting pot of everything that goes through the brain of Dylan, an autistic individual.

The Rosefinch Post

By Audra Rosefinch

Documenting the dream of running a 100 year old café and curios shop by the sea, fuelled by a devotion to tea and sympathy and bread and roses. Written by Audra Williams, human foxhole radio and noted online emoter.

Creative Letters

By Robin Cangie (she/her)

A daily note of encouragement for creative people doing hard things

The Pipe & The Line

By Ale

Hands-on guides, tools, and experiments to sharpen your Data & AI Engineering skills from someone who learned it all in the wild.

The AutSide

By Jaime Hoerricks

Essays from an autistic transfemme educator navigating care, justice, and neurodivergence in a world not built for us. These monologues are offerings—gestalts that long for dialogue, held in AuDHD time.

That Trans Friend You Didn't Know You Needed

By Robin Taylor (he/him)

*Everybody needs a trans friend.

Amanda Thru the Looking Glass

By Amanda Earl

21st c. life thru a queer & quirky kaleidoscope and economic strife

Hello - Marble

By Marble

Diary entries, rambling, embarrassment....

death + stuff

By SB Rawz

brief notes on finding more in mortality

ADAM GNADE'S NEWSLETTER

By Adam Gnade's Newsletter.

Author of the novels After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different (2022), The Internet Newspaper (2023), I Wish to Say Lovely Things (2024), & Your Friends Will Carry You Home (2025). Work released by Three One G, Bread & Roses Press, & the Numero Group.