Here's what's making us happy this week.

This week, Lit Hub ate buffet style. We followed individual whims, and satisfied diverse appetites. Literally? We gamed, we read, and we giggled.

Emily Temple’s nice thing of the week was music. Says our managing editor: “After years of being out of the musical loop (read: listening to old Pavement records) because I didn’t like anything new, I have recently discovered that my college music aesthetic is back in a big way? Suddenly I have all this new stuff, that sounds like old stuff, on repeat: Geese, Wet Leg, Hayley Williams’s Ego Death At a Bachelorette Party.”

Extra points go to Ms. Williams for debuting the singles from Ego Death on Nashville public radio. It would seem that in one way, the kids are alright.

Oliver Scialdone has been grabbing joy from this game. “Bloodletter” is all about playing your cards right. Available on Steam and Discord, this series of trials sets a single player down in a bathhouse against a backdrop of odd, medieval figures and bids them heal the sick.

Be warned, worker bees: the artwork in this one is stunning, and the task is hypnotic. You will get distracted if you click through the link.

Drew Broussard is enjoying a new Strong Bad email, which is “just as glorious as any of the OG [Homestar Runner] toons.”  The latest dispatch from your favorite animated Flash hero is hilarious and strange, and sent our podcasts editor “back to the back catalogue for a long afternoon of laffs.” Pour one out for the previous internet.

After elegizing the late Tom Stoppard for this week’s Lit Hub podcast—along with my brilliant peers Calvin Kasulke, Olivia Rutigliano, and Drew Broussard—I (Brittany Allen) have been revisiting the late dramatist’s lesser-known works. I’m reading Travesties and The Real Inspector Hound. Stoppard’s dizzying provocations and fleet-footed language are big treats for the intellect. I roundly recommend diving into his weird ones.

And Jonny Diamond‘s happiness this week came care of people. Specifically, “an ER nurse named Chris who was very sweet to my coughy/wheezy two-year-old (at midnight) and another ER nurse, named Rosa, who brought me coffee at 2am.” Everyone is tired but alright in the Diamond house. But consider this an evergreen reminder to thank the healthcare workers who ease your difficult moments.

Wishing you a respite full of good web and good health. May you wander a little out of your wheelhouse this weekend, and make it back home safe and sound.