Next time somebody tells you that there's only tech content on Gemini, you can link them to this list to show them that this isn't true! Geminispace is bursting with excellent, really well written long form content on more things than you can shake a stick at.
There are no two posts from the same author linked below, and I've tried to avoid featuring any one Gemini host too heavily as well, just to make it clear that this content isn't coming a minority of small corners, it's everywhere. This isn't a list of my personal favourite things in Geminispace, and it isn't a list of my presonal favourite authors, either. It's not even the case that I think everything linked to from here is the best work of the person who wrote it, although all of it is, in my opinion, really good work. Instead, I've tried to assemble as broad a range of content as I possibly can, to reveal just how untrue it is that Geminauts do nothing but talk tech. You'll find creative content, personal content, instructional content, political content, all sorts. Frivolous content, serious content, poignant content, the works.
If I've linked to something of yours below and you wish I hadn't, shoot me an email and I'll take it down.
Thank you to everybody writing in Geminispace for making it what it is! ❤️
Here's an incredible 100 installment urban fantasy circular narrative masterpiece
Here's an expression of thanks to Brian Eno for his ambient music
Here's an account of a hiking trip
Here's somebody describing their first psychedelic mushroom trip
Here's somebody recalling their final conversation with their dying grandmother
Here's some advice on weighing your food
Here's somebody embracing degrowth
Here's a schoolgirl fawning over her internet boyfiend
Here's a detailed discussion of an old US Civil Defence radiation dosimeter
Here's an inexplicably compelling account of waiting to pickup Chinese takeaway
Here's a eulogy for UK motorspot legend Stirling Moss
Here's a discussion of chads appropriating Stoic philosophy
Here's a brief overview of sprouting microgreens
Here's a topological proof of the infinitude of primes
Here's a trans-woman talking about her cloth and thread boobs
Here's a report of an urban mountain bike ride
Here's a delightfully whimsical choose-your-own-adventure story
Here's a series of passionate arguments against the metric system
Here's someone's account of them getting into birdwatching
Here's a criticism of UK student assessment reforms
Here's somebody sharing their complicated experiences with grief
Here's somebody pitching a "mundane" version of Star Trek
Here's a guide to DIY perfect book binding
Here's how someone got better at art
Here's that time someone helped a sad drunkard
Here's someone using etched copper plates to make colour prints
Here's a review of a really bad gay vampire movie
Here's someone describing their first time running a table top role-playing game
Here's a defence of taking TV slow, rather than binging whole shows
Here's someone sharing their life long love of bicycles
Here's someone silkscreen printing tshirts
Here's someone sharing their history of cross-dressing
Here's someone talking about their decades long history of running
Here's a Brexit prepper's guide to off-grid DIY coffee bean roasting
Here's some consideration of which questions to ask about art
Here's an introduction to mushroom cultivation
Here's a reflection on the nature of maps and mapping