Category Archives: 2025: Lucky Sevens

Retrospectives from 2025, over seven years of Somnolescent history!

lucky sevens: escape to pinède

Posted on January 7, 2026 by fiveducks

What a year, eh? I’m going to fall back on my favourite strategy of ignoring real life for a while and talk about my current fixation. On Christmas, Cammy put out marfGH: Volume 1 (yes, I’m plugging here, too!). Just … Continue reading →

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Lucky Sevens: またあした！

Posted on January 4, 2026 by ciel

Oh… 2025!! Yeah, 2025, right?! What do you mean there’s more after this?! It was certainly a strange year for me. Marks when I turned 20 years old (Oh God, I’m gonna be 21 in 3 weeks and 1 day?!) … Continue reading →

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Lucky Sevens: How Did People Get to somnolescent.net in 2025?

Posted on January 1, 2026 by mariteaux

Happy new year to all the faithful Letters readers out there! As dcb said in his closing out the year post, groups like ours don’t usually stick around this long, but as we go into eight years of humbly posting obscure shit for your edification, the lights are on bright as ever here.

I thought I’d start up a new year’s tradition this year (which, turns out, I did back in 2021 but I guess gave up on) by giving you a peek behind the curtain. While somnolescent.net doesn’t track you (not just for privacy reasons, more because we like lightweight pages and clean HTML), I do have a lot of data courtesy of Google and Bing about where our pages get linked out online and what search terms bring people to what pages. While “Five Neat Things From the Somnolescent Archives” and follow-up were meant to bring you what I think are some interesting draws to the site network, this one’s gonna be all about what actually draws people in.

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Lucky Sevens: Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Posted on December 31, 2025 by caby

Once again, as quickly as it arrived, another year heads off into the great unknown… 2025 was an interesting one, to say the least. With my birthday on the 29th, I have now passed the halfway point of my 20s, … Continue reading →

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Lucky Sevens: Closing Out 1998+7

Posted on December 29, 2025 by dotcomboom

If there’s anything 2025 has made clear for me, it’s how extremely fortunate I am to have the friends that I do. And seven years running! Do you know how insane that is? Doom (2016) was two years old in … Continue reading →

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Lucky Sevens: Five More Neat Things From the Somnolescent Archives

Posted on December 2, 2025 by bulb

Never ask me to estimate things. I don’t know how much that would cost, I can’t wager how heavy it is, and I certainly can’t imagine distances. I don’t know why, but my sense of scale is the wonkiest thing on the planet.

Somnolescent is no different! One of our recent new casual friends who’s been sitting in on mine and Savannah’s streams remarked that somnolescent.net is like a gigantic maze, and I really hadn’t thought about it because I’ve been working on it for seven years now and have zero perspective on it. Even though it’s as organized as it can possibly be, there’s still so much to see that I can’t imagine how it looks to anyone who isn’t me. Must be intimidating.

I did a roundup of neat things I found on archives back in May 2023, when I really started to push on turning it into a Web museum of restored, vintage sites and pure Somnolescent history, but one post of five things (technically ten things) only scratches the surface, and I’ve added a lot to it since then. Given it’s warm, fuzzy, rememberberries season, I bring to you another batch of neat shit we all worked on that you should go and check out.

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