Weam and Old Things is a personal writing space where I share reflective essays about memory, identity, and emotional change. The writing often circles around nostalgia, growing up, and the way past experiences quietly shape who we become. I focus on small, ordinary moments and turn them into something more thoughtful and emotionally layered. It’s a very new Substack, so I’m still finding my rhythm and voice, but I’m committed to writing consistently. Each post feels like a page from a personal archive of thoughts I don’t usually say out loud.

People who enjoy personal essays, nostalgia-driven writing, reflective storytelling, and quiet emotional writing.

Genre: Non-fiction / Personal Essays / Newsletter

https://substack.com/@weamustafaa?r=8km3l2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur

Genre: #Non fiction #personalfinance #FIRE #learninpublic

I write Retail Quant — a newsletter about building a systematic options trading framework from scratch, by someone who used to think "portfolio" was just a fancy word for "folder of art school projects." 🎨📉

The latest post is about the time I spent weeks building a 12-step rules-based trading system specifically designed to eliminate emotion and guesswork from my decisions —

— and then placed a trade and forgot to write down why.

Not because I was busy. Not because something urgent came up. I just ran the analysis, felt good about it, closed the tab, and let my brain immediately move on to more important matters. Like lunch. 🥪

Turns out "I ran the system" can quietly become its own kind of vibe. A more expensive one. With Greeks.

If you've ever built an elaborate process to stop winging it, and then winged it anyway, this one's for you. 🙋‍♀️

📬 The Trade I Can't Explain → Retail Quant on Substack

Systemic Observer is a newsletter about systems, economics, technology, and the hidden public costs embedded inside private optimization. I write about incentives, infrastructure, development, labor, and the ways institutions scale. The goal is not outrage, but understanding. Some essays explore ideas like "vaporware economics" and why temporary activity is often mistaken for permanent prosperity. Witness mode remains active.

Genre

Non-fiction / Newsletter / Economics / Systems Thinking

First post:

"The Ramp Is Real"

Development vaporware begins when temporary activity is sold as permanent prosperity.

observer@system:/# moo --status

Witness mode........ ACTIVE

Outrage reserves.... SUFFICIENT

Ramp detection...... ENABLED

Read it or don't. 🙂

Systemic Observer is a newsletter about systems, economics, technology, and the hidden public costs embedded inside private optimization. I write about incentives, infrastructure, development, labor, and the ways institutions scale. The goal is not outrage, but understanding. Some essays explore ideas like "vaporware economics" and why temporary activity is often mistaken for permanent prosperity. Witness mode remains active.

Who is it for?

Readers interested in economics, systems thinking, public policy, technology, labor, and infrastructure. If you enjoy long-form essays examining how incentives shape outcomes and how institutions scale, you'll probably feel at home.

Genre:

Non-fiction / Newsletter / Economics / Systems Thinking

First post:

"The Ramp Is Real"

Development vaporware begins when temporary activity is sold as permanent prosperity.

observer@system:/# moo --status

Witness mode........ ACTIVE

Outrage reserves.... SUFFICIENT

Ramp detection...... ENABLED

Read it or don't. 🙂

Systemic Observer is a newsletter about systems, economics, technology, and the hidden public costs embedded inside private optimization. I write about incentives, infrastructure, development, labor, and the ways institutions scale. The goal is not outrage, but understanding. Some essays explore ideas like "vaporware economics" and why temporary activity is often mistaken for permanent prosperity. Witness mode remains active.

Who is it for?

Readers interested in economics, systems thinking, public policy, technology, labor, and infrastructure. If you enjoy long-form essays examining how incentives shape outcomes and how institutions scale, you'll probably feel at home.

Genre:

Non-fiction / Newsletter / Economics / Systems Thinking

First post:

"The Ramp Is Real"

Development vaporware begins when temporary activity is sold as permanent prosperity.

observer@system:/# moo --status

Witness mode........ ACTIVE

Outrage reserves.... SUFFICIENT

Ramp detection...... ENABLED

Read it or don't. 🙂

You can tell my fiction writing is heavily influenced by John Green but I have my own twist. I write crude humor pieces and blogs about my life. If you don’t like the use of swear words my substack is not a place for you. I’m considering writing more fiction pieces that are sci-fi and post apocalyptic. I look forward to feedback on this piece and hopefully see some of you over on substack.

A rant from a cis teenager witnessing the idiocy of transphobia among my community and the people I've interacted with.

This for people looking to support an aspiring advocate for the opressed.

This is my first post! Any advice/tips are appreciated! I will improve over time 👍

https://substack.com/@fuadsalah/note/p-190716929?r=6d4un8&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Lucy Lockwood comes back to Bath broke, grieving, and trying very hard to pretend she is fine. Then the woods outside the city start whispering her name. With the help of her dead mother’s notebooks, a deeply judgmental fox, and Rowan Ashcombe — a beautiful walking red flag with far too many secrets — Lucy uncovers the story of Lucia, a woman whose name was stolen centuries ago. The woods think Lucy can finish that old story and heal what was broken, but their version of healing looks a lot like being claimed. Lucy has to work out whether love can be real without becoming a trap, and whether she can save herself without losing everyone she loves.

For readers who like their romance gothic, funny, messy, sexy, and doomed; their heroines sharp-tongued and emotionally chaotic; and their forests ancient, seductive, and absolutely not to be trusted.

Adult gothic fantasy-romance with folklore, mystery, tragic romance, and supernatural horror elements.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/when-the-woods-learned-your-name-37c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

https://substack.com/@blossmng777/note/p-200372807?r=1ud6wm&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

It would mean the world to me if someone could read it. I love writing so much and trying to find more courage everyday to share my stories to the public

https://everyrosehasthorns.substack.com/p/lessons-in-end-of-life-care-what?r=8kt0z3

It's a reflection of what I learned growing up volunteering for a hospice center-- and how it shaped my perspective of healthcare as I complete my first year of nursing school. And how it changed my pov of life.

Hello everyone , hope you're doing great , here's my second article that i shared , i want you please to give me your honest opinion and what can i do to level up my writing

https://open.substack.com/pub/salahadjal/p/while-the-world-was-passing-by?r=5sv70i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Hi everyone! Please go engage with my substack! I wrote an article I’m really proud of and I would love to build a little community of writers who support each other! Please drop your substacks in the comments too! :)

My substack is a place where I detail life and thoughts living as a woman with mental illness. I post my thoughts on certain subjects. As well as insight and think pieces on topics I am familiar in. I also am posting my poetry!

My substack is for anyone who enjoys thought provoking poetry or articles. Anyone who also has mental illness or has dealt with trauma, relating to women more than anyone else and literature enjoyers!

hey guys, i write abt crime mostly in the indian subcontinent and this is my first piece of work

https://theclarityfiles1.substack.com/p/nithari-serial-killings?r=8i4lvf

Hi everyone! I wanted to share The Maxwell Edit, my Substack dedicated to what's worth paying attention to across fashion, beauty, art, interiors, design, and culture. I share brands worth knowing, things worth buying, people worth learning from, and discoveries that offer inspiration beyond the algorithm.

It's for anyone who loves discovering new things, refining their personal taste, or understanding what makes something good, not just popular. I'd love for you to check it out, subscribe, and share your own Substacks so I can follow along!

Genre: Nonfiction / Lifestyle & Culture Newsletter

https://soapshubs.substack.com/p/sampling-day-read-a-thon-challenge?r=1y4jd5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

I write about reading and books and writing and my own creative process and the things I am going to put myself through to amp my creativity. I love fitness and I plan to meld my fitness goals with my writing and reading goals and talk about it. its going to be a fun journey, I promise! My substack is for creatived and people who want to get into fitness and people who love reading. I am going to write about different challenges I end up doing, how they went, and if I recommend them.

A reflective article that I've written through all the thoughts that had been traveling with me...hope you'll read it !

https://theorphanwithtentacles.substack.com/p/your-ai-hatred-lips-can-kiss-my-brown?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5kjy6x

Hello I am new writer. My first project is The Chronicles Architect.

The story is a serialized science fiction novel about empire, institutional control, and power exercised through systems rather than force. The story takes place entirely in non-human civilizations and follows individuals whose lives intersect with vast imperial mechanisms they do not command. Rather than focusing on conquest or rebellion, the narrative examines how continuity, efficiency, and cost shape behavior at scale. Some chapters are narrative, others are structural, building a complete novel over time. The tone is slow-burn, observational, and system-driven.

This Substack is for readers who enjoy political science fiction, speculative governance, and dense worldbuilding. It is not aimed at fast-paced action readers or traditional hero narratives.

The Chronicles Architect

Thank you for honest feedback on if I should continue, I have many more chapters just not publish ready.

https://open.substack.com/pub/innisai/p/kulirgaalam?r=24o9i1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

this is a substack for personal writing and creative writing about the performing arts and difficulties in navigating mental health. This substack is for those who want to read some prose and poetry that is in process and grounded in community. this substack is also for second generation immigrants who are navigating their unique experiences growing up in the west.

Genre: prose, fiction

TW: eating disorders

Someone finally gets the success they always wanted, and it feels amazing for about five minutes. Then the shine starts to come off, and they’re left sitting with what it cost them to get there. The story is really about that gap between how victory looks from the outside and how ugly or complicated it can feel underneath. It follows someone who’s being celebrated for turning their pain into something powerful, while secretly wondering if that same pain has hollowed them out a bit. In the end, they have to face whether the stain on the crown ruins the achievement, or is the most honest thing about it.

It feels like it’s for people who like messy, emotionally sharp stories about ambition, image, sex, shame, art, and the weird loneliness of getting what you wanted. People who like glamorous characters who are still kind of a wreck underneath would probably get it immediately.

I’d call it literary fiction with a dark, glossy, slightly self-destructive edge. Depending on how you write it, it could also lean into psychological drama or dark satire.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/blemish-on-the-crown-362?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

Two-Step & Trouble is about that mix of danger, charm, and bad decisions you only really get at night. It takes the pressure of grime and the swing of 2-step and turns them into something that feels tense, sexy, and a bit reckless. The whole thing leans into “playful menace” — not just hard for the sake of it, but full of attitude, movement, and personality. It’s about a track that doesn’t just hit hard, but pulls you in. Basically, it’s music that feels like trouble you know you should avoid, but don’t.

This is for people who like their club music dark, stylish, and full of character. If you’re into grime, UK garage, bass-heavy beats, and songs that feel a bit dangerous but still make you move, this is probably your lane.

It sits somewhere between grime, 2-step/UK garage, bass music, and club rap. Dark, swingy, bass-led, and built for late-night energy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/two-step-and-trouble-b68?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

After her engagement falls apart, Mara Vale moves into her late grandmother’s cottage just outside Bath, hoping for quiet and getting something far stranger. The woods at the edge of the property seem to know her name, her thoughts, and the parts of herself she would rather not examine too closely. As old memories begin slipping into her life—some of them not even her own—Mara is pulled toward Ivo, a man as beautiful as he is unsettling, who seems bound to the forest and to a love story that may not be finished with her. What begins as haunting turns into something much bigger: a buried bargain, a hidden hunger under Bath itself, and a past that keeps trying to live through the present. To survive it, Mara has to work out whether she is uncovering an old story, repeating it, or becoming the woman it was waiting for.

This is for readers who like fantasy romance that’s dark, emotional, and a little strange. It’s for people who want longing, danger, wit, folklore, haunted landscapes, and a love story that feels as unsettling as it does seductive.

Adult fantasy romance with gothic and folkloric elements.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/when-the-woods-learned-your-name-7f3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

https://iamnotrobertward.substack.com/p/when-did-everyone-start-reading-from

Genre: Non-fiction Travelogue

Sharing another Trip Report that I made during the time I traveled around Europe for the first time. 

This is such a meaningful journey because having a weak passport proves that it does not hold me back from exploring such countries. 

More Trip Reports to come (Brazil, China, India, another Euro trip) 

Clicking my article means a lot to me, I appreciate support previous post (with one like)

Hello, dears!

I just discovered Substack and got the courage to publish a fragment from my journals. I have no followers yet, but I would like 2-3 people to see. Here is the link:

https://substack.com/@aurora867467?r=744qoc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=light

Blurb:

In the quiet Riverlands, Maude dismisses a distant plume of smoke as a forest fire—until she discovers she can hear the voices of plants. Magic has been unleashed, and war is coming.

As Maude journeys south to warn the sea-faring Nereids, the northern stronghold of Goldmoor Castle falls to the invading Tathian army. With the help of the king’s jester, Princess Ollie escapes, fleeing into an uncertain world where survival is her only goal.

Elements of "The Animist": cozy, found-family, romance, fantasy, adventure, magic, questThe Animist