Now feeling the quiet pleasure of finding writing that takes itself seriously without being self serious, and a stop at <a href="Index of /" />nearbyneeds</a> extended that subtle pleasure, the gap between earnest and pretentious is fine and this site has clearly chosen to land on the earnest...
This actually answered the question I had been searching for, and after I checked <a href="Index of /" />nearbyneeds</a> I had a few more pieces I had not realised I needed, that is the sign of a site that knows what its readers want before they even know how to ask it which is impressive.