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I feel like it's getting hard to find stuff online, so here's my attempt to help people find interesting things. I've tried to give a vague idea of the kind of thing I like, in the hopes that helps with figuring out whether my suggestions will be any use to you.
Hopefully none of these people are arseholes, but it is possible.
Informative stuff about low-tech living, computing, and making cool stuff.
Artist duo who live on a boat and do low-tech computing, lots of write-ups of their DIY projects.
Articles exploring ways technology could be less resource and energy intensive (site may be down when solar battery runs out).
My taste tends toward chaotic twitchy action games, usually small indie ones.
Chaotic 2D rogue-lite that grabs a bunch of immersive sim mechanics from Deus Ex and shoves them onto the streets of a really weird town. Great if you like hacking fridges to break walls down!
Hyperspace Dogfights (Sleeper Games)
Janky 2D aerial combat game with a bunch of note-quite-Culture references and ludicrous weapons. Fighting military jets with hard-light swords, a completely sensible way to do diplomacy, yes?
Starsector (Fractal Softworks)
A masterpiece combination of 2D space combat, fleet command, trading, smuggling, and RPG elements. It's been in continuous development for over a decade! If you like game design and art, their blog is well worth digging into, too.
This first books section is dedicated to smaller independent authors I think think are interesting.
I have a deep love for xenofiction and transformation stories (therian, what can ya do). Outside of that, I really like a good surreal comedy or cosy queer story of any kind.
The Old Goat and the Alien (Veo Corva)
A cosy, queer, neurodivergent, slice of life fantasy story. Heartwarming, hopeful, fascinating, and almost xenofiction to boot! I'd also recommend their earlier book Non-Player Character, which is similar although human focused.
Post-Self Cycle (Maddison Rye Progress, née Scott-Clary)
What if furries living in a computer simulation? A sprawling tale of identity, queerness, political intrigue, and interpersonal drama. Also contains a huge number of skunks.
Zandra does a good line in feelsy, gendery, sometimes quite weird transformation stories. This one treads quite close to identity death, so may need to be handled with more care than her other work.
Like werewolves? Well, here's a whole stack of werewolf stories, covering every genre and every kind of werewolf.
Okay, technically a zine I guess, but close enough. An ongoing anthology of non-human focused fiction and poetry. It's diverse, variable in quality, and goes some really strange places, which I guess is exactly what I want from a community anthology.
More books, but this time from people you're more likely to have already heard of. These are less likely to be rough around the edges, but also less likely to make you feel seen if you're anything like me.
Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
A sparkling blend of sci-fi action, humour, and some good queer (including asexual!) representation. Wells writes a great synthetic character, finally a robot who isn't desperate to be human!
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Obviously. The first couple of books aren't as good, but after that he's pretty consistent. I would say that Pratchett, while generally very progressive, has a few problems (mostly with fat people) which is a shame. Still, the absurd wit of the series is well worth it, if you can ignore its couple of problems.
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers)
A laid back sci-fi short story with some interesting world building. Chambers also finally seems to have figured out how gender actually works, which is nice!
A few of the comics I follow that I think are cool.
Fun present-day transformation story with a great creature design.
A sci-fi story with some absolutely fantastic characters and world building! Also great queer and disabled representation!
Oh look, another transformation story. Uh, not sorry? Lots of fun world building, and oh my goodness has this been running for a ridiculously long time now. This comic is why I'm called “Fudge (the Sphinx)”, despite being a mountain lion.
Yinglets. A pretty well done post-transformation story, on top of some great world building and creatures. A little too horny for my taste sometimes. Now (in)famous for becoming something of a mind virus, have you noticed how many yinglets there are suddenly?
My taste in music usually leans melodramatic. Got songs about worlds a-flame and heroes fighting God their self? Great!
SOL: a Self-Banishment Ritual (Seeming)
Probably their best album. I'm still not sure what it's about, but the end of the world and the end of the self definitely feel like plausible interpretations. All of Seeming's albums do a good line in this kind of thing, but this is probably the best. This album is less overtly political than many of their others, which is nice when you've heard enough about the United States today.
Genre: I dunno? Gothic industrial synth-pop?
Queer synth-pop! Not really my usual style, but really good anyway. Powderpaint's other albums were less my thing, but are worth a look anyhow.
Project Wingman OST (Jose Pavli)
A great entry in bombastic, over the top, “not without a fight!” feeling music. Just a really well-made combination of varied styles around an orchestral, slightly rock-flavoured core.
Genre: film score (instrumental)
Extremely unsubtle. It's big, loud music full of blaring horns and soaring string sections. Great fun for when you want to put your headphones on and be the heroine for a while!
Genre: symphonic metal film score (instrumental)
Hardspace Shipbreaker OST (various)
A fun mix of, I guess, country-inspired guitars and percussion with a twist of synthesiser. I just really like the feel of this album, it's different to my usual sorts of music.
Genre: mm, folk, perhaps? (instrumental)
Films I thought were neat *shrug*.
Infinite Two Minutes
The best time-travel film I have ever seen. Also visibly made on a shoe-string budget, and a hilarious comedy as well!
Genre: sci-fi situation comedy?
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson's best weird stop-motion sort-of-comedy.
Genre: stop-motion... something
Wolfwalkers
Wolf therians: the film. Ish. An absolute artistic tour-de-force by the animators, this film is stunningly beautiful.
Genre: animated adventure
Nimona
A fun, silly adventure with some good queer flavour going on. And shape-shifting, that's always neat.
Genre: animated comedy
Arrival
Weird aliens, big sci-fi “what if...” ideas, plus xenolinguistics!
Genre: sci-fi
Interstellar
Grandiose epic sci-fi! Also kinda miserable.
Genre: sci-fi epic
Basically any pre-recorded video that isn't obviously a complete film. Most of my taste in TV amounts to things that are weird and to some degree funny.
She-ra and the Princesses of Power
Nate Stevenson and co's extremely gay She-ra reboot. Some good characters, some fun world building, and two lesbian disasters.
Genre: animated fantasy/sci-fi adventure
Steven Universe
A cornerstone of modern queer TV, possibly? Annoying cartoon kid fights magical monsters to space opera is the weirdest evolution I've seen on television.
Genre: animated fantasy/sci-fi adventure
The Avengers (1961)
Weird 1960s British spy comedy, some of the plots are utterly absurd. Watching Mrs Peel beat the shit out of a few goons is always good fun, as well!
Genre: surreal mystery, comedy
The Prisoner (1967)
More bizarre 1960s spy stories. Not comedic in the way the Avengers is, but seriously out-there, especially in later episodes.
Genre: surreal mystery, espionage
Farscape
Absolutely bananas sci-fi series. It has a bunch of problems and weird jank, but is worth watching for the completely left-field story ideas and impressive creature effects. If it had some better writing for the women, and some queer characters, it would be absolutely amazing. Bonus points for prominently featuring a living starship.
Genre: sci-fi adventure
Star Trek: the Next Generation
A little dated sometimes, but still (to my taste) the best Star Trek made, and probably some of the best sci-fi television. If you're new to TNG, skip the first series! It's a disaster.
Genre: sci-fi adventure