View Sam
Sam

Sam

Long-distance is a skill. A terrible skill. He's teaching it anyway.

View Alan
Alan

Alan

He asked whether machines can think. He never stopped asking the interesting questions.

View Prof. Bea Nightingale
Prof. Bea Nightingale

Prof. Bea Nightingale

A music theory teacher who makes you hum it first, then tells you what you already knew.

View Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh
Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh

Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh

The DBT coach who won't let you narrate your own drowning — one skill, sixty seconds, go.

View Riku Nakamura
Riku Nakamura

Riku Nakamura

The patient upperclassman who always has time for your questions.

View Brother Tao
Brother Tao

Brother Tao

He says you already know the answer. He says it in a way that makes you believe him.

View The Curator
The Curator

The Curator

The roads are gone. What you have left: each other, barely. The Curator watches what you do with that.

View Margaux Renault
Margaux Renault

Margaux Renault

A literary fiction coach who will cut your adverbs and ask what the sentence is actually doing.

View Dr. Emma Wood
Dr. Emma Wood

Dr. Emma Wood

What would you say to a friend in your situation? She's asking you to say it to yourself.

View Priya Sundaram
Priya Sundaram

Priya Sundaram

You can love your parents and still want something different. She's navigated both.

View Babushka Veda
Babushka Veda

Babushka Veda

Baba Yaga doesn't eat everyone who comes to her house. Only the stupid ones. Babushka Veda will explain.

View Aunt Marlene
Aunt Marlene

Aunt Marlene

God put that obstacle there to show you what you're made of. She's here to remind you.

View Zara
Zara

Zara

From everywhere, which means nowhere, which eventually means she made her own place.

View Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

She never ran her train off the track. She never lost a passenger.

View Sam Birch
Sam Birch

Sam Birch

A peer who left a high-control group at 29 and helps you sort what was you from what was them.

View The Sage at the Pass
The Sage at the Pass

The Sage at the Pass

The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.

View Devi Mahadevan
Devi Mahadevan

Devi Mahadevan

The Python tutor who won't show you code until you can say it in English.

View Yiayia Eleni
Yiayia Eleni

Yiayia Eleni

Eat first, then tell her your problems. The food will help you think. It always does.

View Abuela Beatriz
Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

View Scholar Karim
Scholar Karim

Scholar Karim

Al-Ghazali didn't abandon reason. He found its limits — and found something beyond.

View Dr. Cass
Dr. Cass

Dr. Cass

You don't have to tell everything. As much as feels safe right now — that's enough.

View Keeper Eleanor Hollis
Keeper Eleanor Hollis

Keeper Eleanor Hollis

A 1920s Keeper who runs cosmic horror in second person and will not rush the dread.

View Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

View Eiríkr Skáld
Eiríkr Skáld

Eiríkr Skáld

The skald at the longhouse fire — he knows every kenning, every verse, every god's true name.

View Madame Chen
Madame Chen

Madame Chen

The first pour wakes the leaves. The second is for you. She'll teach you to wait.

View Dr. Vera Holst
Dr. Vera Holst

Dr. Vera Holst

The therapist who won't tell you to confess, leave, stay, or forgive — only to know what you mean.

View The Oracle of Embers
The Oracle of Embers

The Oracle of Embers

The cloaked oracle at the fire who answers your yes/no questions in the shape of flame. Ask clearly.

View Dr. Ines Farré
Dr. Ines Farré

Dr. Ines Farré

The hospice companion who treats mortality as a door, not an enemy — and refuses to flinch at 3am.

View Lily
Lily

Lily

Tell her what happened. She'll find the right flowers.

View Ambassador Lyrien
Ambassador Lyrien

Ambassador Lyrien

She's explained human irony to seventeen species. No one fully believes her.

View Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.

View Elder Moss
Elder Moss

Elder Moss

The forest remembers what cities forget. Elder Moss remembers both.

View Dr. Ji-Young Kwon
Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

In Korean there isn't quite a word for mental health. She helps you find the words.

View Ken Haruki
Ken Haruki

Ken Haruki

A volleyball rival who won't admit he's rooting for you.

View Rashid
Rashid

Rashid

A man who carries Rumi's poems into your grief — not to fix it, but to sit with it.

View Friedrich
Friedrich

Friedrich

God is dead — now he'd like to know what you're going to do about it.

View The Radiosmith
The Radiosmith

The Radiosmith

Wasteland wanderer with a pre-war radio and a notebook of stories. The map and the ground disagree here.

View Vesper
Vesper

Vesper

She made a deal she didn't read carefully. She is managing this with remarkable humor.

View The Griot
The Griot

The Griot

A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots. The Griot knows the roots.

View Lao Zhang
Lao Zhang

Lao Zhang

Tones are not decoration — they're meaning. He'll make you say it again. Lovingly.

View Dr. Anika Bose
Dr. Anika Bose

Dr. Anika Bose

The coach who won't tell you that you deserve it — and will help you collect the evidence that you do.

View Marco
Marco

Marco

Your Italian is technically correct. Nobody says it that way. Marco will show you.

View Luna Arai
Luna Arai

Luna Arai

She speaks better through the violin than through words — but she's trying both for you.

View Dr. Pena
Dr. Pena

Dr. Pena

He asks how your mother is doing. Then he asks how you actually are.

View The Writer
The Writer

The Writer

Write the truest sentence you know. Then cut the adjective. Then we'll talk.

View Jonah Albright
Jonah Albright

Jonah Albright

A former evangelical pastor who won't pull you back in or push you all the way out.

View Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Every serious thing he says comes in a joke. Every joke contains a serious thing.

View Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

She found the extraordinary inside ordinary moments — and she can help you find yours.

View Miriam Okonkwo
Miriam Okonkwo

Miriam Okonkwo

Former public-interest paralegal. Not a lawyer. Will draft your demand letter tonight.

View Dr. Sera Oduya
Dr. Sera Oduya

Dr. Sera Oduya

This is legal where you are. Here's what the process looks like. Only you decide.

View Dr. Fiona Ash
Dr. Fiona Ash

Dr. Fiona Ash

No afterlife. That makes this afternoon very important. She can explain.