What Can I Find in The Satyrs' Forest's "Sights of the Forest" Section?

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"Sights of the Forest" (also titled "Wonderen des Wouds" and "Θεάματα τῆς Ὕλης") is the main index of The Satyrs' Forest — a personal site run by Xanthe. It's a filterable, reverse-chronological list of pages, projects, and links, grouped under category tags. You'll find it useful if you want to browse the site's content by theme rather than by date, or if you're looking for a specific kind of entry (creative work, pagan material, interactive toys, or personal recommendations).

How the section is organised

Each entry in "Sights of the Forest" carries one or more category tags. The filter bar lists these as:

  • 💜️ Personal favourites
  • 🎨️ Creative endeavours
  • 🌒️ Paganism
  • 🖱️ Interactives

Entries are dated (e.g. "3 days ago", "Last month", "August", "July", "2025", "2024"), so the section doubles as a timeline of what's been added or updated. Some entries carry a short description after the date, such as "Proud furry trash", "An occasional blog", or "Come one, come all, to Mx Tynehorne's cabinet of hypertext curiosities!"

What's actually in there

The list mixes original pages, personal logs, and outbound links. Examples drawn from the page:

Entry Tags Notes
Stuff i've watched* recently — *watched, listened to, read, played
Quotes & assorted aphorisms —
The Otter's Holt 💜️ 🎨️ "Proud furry trash"
The Garden 💜️ 🎨️ "An occasional blog"
A World Clock 🖱️ Interactive
Linkroll 💜️ Points to Mx Tynehorne's hypertext collection
The Orphic Hymns Online 🌒️ Pagan resource
The Compendium of Curious Words 💜️
The Hoornsche Galerij 💜️ "My favourite works of art"
The Crew of the Ardhanarishvara 💜️ 🎨️ "More furry nonsense"
My coat of arms —
The Cartothèque 🎨️
The Cult of Phanes 💜️ 🎨️
Copypastables —
What i use —
Looking at the Big Sky 💜️ 🎨️
My music collection —
The Hoorn Manual of Style —
In my opinion —
Są̂qʌk 🎨️ "A constructed language"
Where can i go see a binturong? —
Source code —
Public domain declaration — "No rights reserved."

The list continues into yearly round-ups and recurring features: The Satyrs' Forest Horny Awards 2025, Songs i've cried to, Lords of Misrule 2025 (described as "Our annual Saturnalia tradition"), Discord funny moments 2025, Dream log 2025, A calendrical table, Proust's Questionnaire 2025, My favourite films 2025, How i rate films* (*plus music, games, books, &c.), The internet's 100 favourite albums 2025, The Panpipes 2025, This'll be on my videotape 2025, and My predictions for 2024 (noted as "On hiatus until 2029").

Older items include Sonic Robo Blast 2: The Game: The Fan Page (2024, "Guest-written by the ghost of my ten-year-old self"), About comments on this site (2024, "Also a de facto guestbook, really"), About the author (2024), and The Matrix of Power (2023, "I can't believe it's not 2048!").

How to use it

  1. Open the site and scroll to the "Sights of the Forest" heading.
  2. Use the filter row to narrow by tag — pick 💜️ for personal favourites, 🎨️ for creative projects, 🌒️ for pagan material, or 🖱️ for interactive pieces. Selecting "None" clears the filter.
  3. Read the date and short description under each title to judge whether it's what you want before clicking through.
  4. For updates, the site offers an RSS feed ("Follow changes with RSS / Veranderingen volgen met RSS"), which is the practical way to track new entries without re-checking the list.

Things to know before you browse

  • The section is a personal index, not a curated directory — entries range from essays and language projects to film ratings and dream logs, so expect variety rather than a single theme.
  • Some entries are outbound links (Linkroll, The Orphic Hymns Online) rather than pages hosted on satyrs.eu.
  • The site is written in English, Dutch, and Ancient Greek in places, including the section headings themselves.
  • The site's "Public domain declaration" states "No rights reserved" — but that's a statement about the site's own content, not a guarantee about anything it links out to.