Oak Reef Zone
Hello, I am Caoimhe Oakreef. I’m an Irish trans woman who likes to be making silly things.
Gallery
Here is a gallery of things that I’ve made, including games, mods and art. It is also available as Gaeilge.
Pod Person
I have two ongoing podcasts: The the Ring Podcast with my friend Ruby about the The Ring series and Journey of the Monkey King with my friend M.J. about the Ming novel Journey to the West.
Collect my pages
A page about Snolf the Golfball
A page about Transy, “the first computer to look and act like a twelve-year-old schoolgirl”.
A page about my cat, Easóg
A memorial for Cohost, a website that was actually fun.
My IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comic reading order.
Contact
Feel free to email me at caoimhe@oakreef.ie. I also have accounts on the Fediverse, Tumblr and Bluesky, though the latter two are inactive.
I have a Throne gifts page too if you feel like buying me something.
Link to me
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Web Rings
Other cool people
Public whiteboard
Button Bin
The Bog 
Welcome to my “web log”, or “bog” for short, where I write my silly little posts. There is an Atom feed to follow it. It includes my Fediverse posts but there is a page without those too if you want.
- 🐘 Surprisingly difficult CSS problem: Drawing a line through the top and bottom of a Roman numeral to join up the serifs as is often done decoratively.
- ♻️ I am actually weird about certain oddly specific mtg things, too. (To be clear, you shouldn’t play mtg.) Like thoughtseize. Flavorwise, it’s reaching into your enemy’s mind, pulling open their brain with your fingers, and plucking out a single thought of resistance. Which sounds hot. But it’s really in the context of the gameplay that it shines for me.
- 🐘 I feel like with HTTP responses the scenarios of “the URI you are trying to access is not a valid or defined endpoint” and “the URI is valid but the specific thing you are requesting doesn’t exist” should not both be 404 errors. Those should be two different things.
- 🐘 some good posts from Nicky Flowers from last year:
- 🐘 Kasane Tayto
- ♻️ I'm picking up food for someone
- 🐘 they are failing to consider Nectar Radiance
- 🍲 Delicious in Revelation
- ✍🏻 Nine types of quests
- 🐘 Every local event organised by anyone older than me is only announced on Facebook. Any local event organised by anyone younger than me is only announced on Instagram. We need to bring back newsletters.
- 🪸 Issue #84 of IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog is out and features Sage from Sonic Frontiers in the comic for the first time. I have been looking forward to getting to see her interact with more of the cast and in particular Belle.
- 🐘 Cute little archive of Sonic the Hedgehog fandom websites from the ’90s and early 2000s
- ♻️ Exterlien
- 🐘 If you like gatcha games do you know what else has thousands of characters and millions of devoted fans? The beautiful Han writing system.
- 🔞 E.M.C.S.H.: AI Girlfriend
- 📖 What I’m reading vol. XII
- 🔞 E.M.C.S.H.: Arillia
- 🐘 I think we need to ban authors from calling any group the Resistance for at least a decade or two.
- 🐘 The third mission of Robot Alchemic Drive starts with a news broadcast about Tokyo being under attack. You see some in-engine footage of this in a map with Tokyo Tower. When you start the level it’s actually in a completely different map that features the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. The map with Tokyo Tower is never used for gameplay.
- 🐘 This is an unavoidable requirement of robotics engineering.
FWD:RE:views
Reviews mostly pulled from my Letterboxd, Serializd, Backloggd and Bookwyrm accounts.
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🎥 Friday the
13th Part VI: Jason Lives ★★☆☆☆ - 🎭 Milo Edwards: How Revolting! Sorry to Offend ★★★★☆
- 🎥 I shortened Yu-Gi-Oh!: Pyramid of Light down to about ten minutes ★☆☆☆☆
- Sandboxels ★★★★☆
- 📺 The Boys S1 ★★★★☆
- 📺 Dungeon Meshi S1 ★★★★☆
- 🎥 Labyrinth ★★☆☆☆
- 🎥 Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa ★★★★☆
- Remote Control Dandy ★★★★☆
- 📕 The Grapples of Wrath ★★★★☆
- 🎥 Iron Lung ★★★☆☆
- Iron Lung ★★★★★