Letters From Somnolescent uses WordPress’ tagging system to further categorize posts by topic. This is a list of all the tags we’re using around here and what they mean.

  • 00s — The 2000s. The Somnolians' childhoods and all that came from it.
  • 10s — The 2010s. Media from Somnolescent's teenager years.
  • 70s — The 1970s. Caby's favorite decade.
  • 80s — The 1980s. A time of great cocaine usage, neon, decadence, and a growing discontent among the so-called "alternative" crowd that might've influenced the succeeding decade.
  • 90s — The 1990s. Cammy's favorite decade, depending on the day.
  • animals — Posts involving pets and animals (but not animal people).
  • anime — A style of animation from the east, and the bane of mariteaux's existence.
  • AOL PhotoCam — A vintage digicam from circa 1998. Cammy's a fairweather fan of it, though it took a hell of a long time to get a working one.
  • aphrodisiac — Cammy's experimental industrial computer rock project from high school and maybe beyond.
  • art — Drawings, visual art, crafts, and anything with a flare towards the handcrafted.
  • Art Fight! — An art trading game held every July. Nearly every current and former Somnolian has taken part.
  • AutoSite — dotcomboom's AutoSite, a static site generator and management engine.
  • books — The written word on paper, combined by glue and staple binding.
  • Calelira — Calelira, mariteaux's defunct fantasy world of plant magic and havoc set during the Age of Sail. Succeeded by Pinède.
  • CCSO — An 80s-era database lookup protocol intended for college campuses and businesses to keep contact information in. Less than ten CCSO servers survive today, and Somnolescent has one established on a custom Python-based server daemon.
  • DreamHost — Posts about our web hosting provider, DreamHost.
  • food — Man, I'm hungry.
  • games — Interactive media the Somnolians have had run-ins with.
  • Gopher — A low-overhead Internet document transfer protocol developed in the early 90s.
  • Guitar Hero — mariteaux's childhood twitchy score attack rhythm game.
  • hardware — Computer equipment that the Somnolians happen to be playing with.
  • Internet — What you're reading this on. Posts more technical than Web design and posts about the greater Internet outside the Web.
  • Macintosh — A brand of personal computers from Apple, first introduced in 1984. Several Somnolians are fans of older Macs.
  • Minecraft — A blockbusting block-building sandbox game created by Notch in 2009. The Somnolians come back to bask in its angular glow every few years.
  • Misery Inspires — Silversun Pickups fansite created and run by mariteaux.
  • MoriHime — Connor's virtual j-rock band, half-weeb, half nu-metal, half dance, half Fall Out Boy, all awesome.
  • MP3.com — An impressively forward-thinking indie music sharing site from the late 90s and early 2000s that's captured the Somnolians' imaginations for years now.
  • mtlx — A relatively unknown group from the very early 2000s with a single EP out on MP3.com before that shut down.
  • music — Music, Somnolian-created or otherwise.
  • Neocities — The Somnolians' former (and yet also current) Web host, created by Kyle Drake and his little sailor hat in 2013.
  • Neopets — The group's favorite blunt force coconut simulator.
  • Nucleus — Our former CMS that used to power Letters From Somnolescent. Phased out due to lack of updates and configuration issues.
  • Pennyverse — The group's first shared world, about an isolated coastal village of odd animal people, their trauma, and their folklore.
  • photography — Taking photos and trying out cameras of various unique stripes.
  • Pinede — The group's current fantasy animal people world, built as a replacement for Calelira back in 2020.
  • Pituophis — A Python-based gopher server and parser developed by dotcomboom.
  • plushies — Stuffed animals, as the Somnolians are known to obsess over from time to time.
  • programming — Writing code, as the Somnolians do for fun or to make projects happen.
  • Quake — Legendary 1996 FPS. mariteaux makes levels for it sometimes.
  • retrocomputing — Vintage computing of all stripes, and perhaps a bit of early Web and Internet in there too.
  • Somnolescent — The cult we call home.
  • Stardew Valley — Indie farming simulator that the group is so into, they occasionally even make mods for it.
  • Tesserae — mariteaux's now-defunct Web design help site.
  • traffic reports — Looking at various statistics for Somnolescent's site network and who visits.
  • travel — The Somnolians out in the big ol' world exploring!
  • w2krepo — dcb's online repository for old, hard-to-find software and patches for Windows 2000, Palm, Pocket PC, and suchlike.
  • Wales — A small country of three million or so attached to England at the east, and Caby's home and Cammy's occasional vacation spot.
  • web design — Development of sites and strong opinions about such.
  • Wisp — Savannah's eventual webcomic about Canadian paranormal investigators who just so also happen to be paranormal. Witches, soppy vampires, big dogie werewolves, ghosts who haunt apartments, you know the deal.
  • WordPress — Posts about WordPress, the current CMS powering Letters From Somnolescent.
  • writing — Musings about words and technique in the written sense.
  • Wyn's World — Caby's OC world of awkward teenage psychological horror set in early 90s Wales.