ritchie's portal

Welcome

The best way to contact me

If you want to talk to me, I prefer DM on Fediverse. If you're a friend, hit me up on Discord or Second Life as usual!

Places where I hang out (public)

Places where I post art

All of my work is intended for an 18+ audience.

A little encouragement

Latest update

APRIL 20 2026. hi. still cleaning up stuff, also posted my first ramble, which is about AI-generated writing

JULY 29 2025. added more stuff to recommendations section

MAR 18 2025. messed with virtually every section, tweaked styles, removed blog, reenabled right-click on college essays page, added the following pages: tools, archive

Previous updates

go to the archive

Latest rambling

APRIL 20 2026.

  1. Thoughts on AI-generated text
  2. Annotated ChatGPT tells

Someday List

more rambling (how to identify ai-generated mesh and textures in SL, smth about why i like looking at chutes and tubes), tutorials (how to make a simple booklet in LibreOffice), 88x31 icon for myself ghfjkghfkjg

Under construction sign with a cardinal on a nest

about me

ritchie (he/him) · trans · sag sun/cancer moon & asc · 30+

Some interests:

  • Art: I draw digitally and post some of it on my social media. Check the tools page. I also know how to crochet but that's more of a personal handicraft to me.
  • Writing: I have a long-term spec-fic project which I will self-publish someday. It's very embarrassing and I talk to myself a lot in it. I have also written three short stories published in various college and university lit mags (not available online, sorry). There is some short smutty stuff up on Toyhou.se.
  • Publishing: I have experience with organizing small anthologies, as an executive editor, for a queer nonprofit and laying them out for print. The process is stressful but I enjoy it.
  • Education focus: English, Sociology and Library Technology
  • Video games: Select factory automation and/or management games (Satisfactory, Whiskerwood, Timberborn etc), Vintage Story, BotW/TotK, Tower Unite, cute co-ops
  • Anime
  • Second Life

recommendations

Things to read

sorry this section is so long but i know if i put it on its own page nobody will ever see it lol

Current events

Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List by Yael Writes
We Don't Do That Here by Aja Hammerly
Messaging Guides by ASO Communications

Deep dives

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge by Tyler Vigen
How Do I Know If I'm Trans? by Natalie Reed
Preface and Conclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance (PDF) by Walter Pater
The hardest working font in Manhattan by Marcin Wichary
RSS is (not) dead (yet) by A. Service and A. McNamee
Century-Scale Storage by Maxwell Neely-Cohen
The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint (PDF) by Edward Tufte (OCR copy, but easier to read than the other version floating around)

References and documentation

Tufte CSS by Dave Liepmann
Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities by W3C
Delightful Humane Design by teaserbot labs
Second Life School: Beginners Guide by sofa

Things to watch

Kellys Apollo, Kelly's Apollo
Perspective and Place in Virtual Spaces (filmed in Second Life), a short video essay that I feel really encapsulates what sets Second Life apart from other virtual spaces
Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu, 30-min. docu about NYT's move from hot lead to digital press
Gate City Foundation Drainage, full bubble
post 10 clears blocked culverts for fun and more
Bob and Brad, the two most famous physical therapists on the Internet (RIP Bob)

Links to pages of links

Links | Don't Like; Don't Read, a bunch of fandom resources and links to various tools
switching.software, ethical alternatives to well-known software
netizen.com, new retro web revival collective