Links

Head out into the world wide web, and have fun looking through my HIGH QUALITY HAND-CURATED links. Rather than just paste links in a list, I like to talk about why I wanted to share them.

Some links may be 18+ and NSFW, and I'll attempt to label them as such. Linking does not imply complete endorsement of the site or person running the site. At the very least, I try to make sure there's no fucked up stuff like anti-vax shit or hate speech.

This space used to be on my site but I think this wiki format is more suited for me hoarding links.

• Local Artist Shops: User-submitted map of artists with shops irl and online.
• StarSubculture: A directory of personal sites for artists, musicians, and other creative types.
• IndieArt.support: A user-submitted and vetted artist directory for primarily musicians, but also writers, visual artists, and spoken word artists.
• Superlove: A repository “for fanfiction, original fiction, multimedia fanworks, and anything i allow”“. A fork of OTW-AO3.
• SquidgeWorld Archive: A fan-run, noncommercial archive for fandom works, like fanfiction, fanart, fandom meta, fan videos, and podfic. A fork of OTW-AO3.
• Cartoonist Coop: A collective of cartoonists. The site lists comics, their social media promotes members' projects, and they have a discord server.
• AANI: Artist Alley Network, a discord server with lots of information about art as a business.
• Newgrounds: A gallery for art, music, games, and animation. One of the few remaining art galleries that allow explicit NSFW.
• LoSpec: Pixel art palettes, from real hardware and new user-submitted ideas. Has galleries, resources, and more.
• WEB/COMIC/RING: A handy curated list of current & upcoming indie webcomics! No sex or gore.
• Aradia Collective: Aradia serves to promote, collect and archive magical girl comics of all kinds! Includes a webring.
• Queer Comics Database: Our mission is to facilitate access to comics that contain queer representation.

• WiKirby: An independent wiki for the Kirby games. Cute design.
• Animal Crossing Wiki: An independent wiki for Animal Crossing. German language, cute design.

• Adult Artist Webring: A directory of visual artists creating sexually-focused art.
• Ink Shrines: A curated webring dedicated to sharing the digital homes of cartoonists and their comics.
• Knifebeetle: A curated webring for longform, narrative-driven webcomics.

• DoDIY: Resources, organizers, and events for DIY/punk stuff.

• AWS how-to: How to make a personal site for 50 cents a month on AWS.
• Static Host EU: Modern static site hosting with European servers and absolutely no personal data collection!

• tei's fic archive: A Hugo¹⁾ template catered for sorting writing by fandom, tags, and ships.
• Masterlist Template : A simple coding template for you to share a masterlist of your fanfiction, with filtering for subject or fandom.

I don't know how to explain or use SSGs. But they're like… code that help you make a site by converting their language (that can utilize stuff like repeating headers, footers, markdown) into plain HTML. Then you upload that to your host. SSGs are not intuitive if you're less computer-savvy, because these never have a graphical interface with buttons that tell you what they do. You're gonna be typing a bunch of shit into the terminal and not knowing what that shit means. I keep looking for “easy SSGs” but they're all too complex and mucho texto for my caveman ass.

Anyways. Here's some SSGs I want to try using.

• Phantomake : a small and simple SSG.
• kiki: Dependency-free SSG with wiki mode
• Phraxos: Wiki SSG with backlinks, orphan pages, and a page that lists all pages on your site.

Another evil way to make a blog. I think GENERALLY a CMS helps you manage your posts, and provides an interface (usually??) for inputting the title, tags, and writing so you don't have to manually organize a bunch of markdown files.

• Bludit: Flat-file CMS

• Reusable HTML with PHP: A beginner's guide to PHP starting with reusable layouts.
• baccyflap PHP webring
• baccyflap php guestbook + kawaiified fork by pixelshannon

• Terminal UI: If you want to look like hackerman in thigh highs and cat ears. Threatens genAI use though.
• Smoll CSSS: Simple CSS snippets to help center stuff and make things responsive.

• Mac Themes Garden: An archive of classic Mac themes with color palettes and downloads.

• Neocities Guestbook Tutorial: A comment box using Google sheets.
• Chyrp Lite: Self-hosted blogging engine with tumblr-like features (tags, read more). Compare to Ghost.
• Letterbird: Contact form to embed in your site so you don't expose your email address, or get spammed.
• img src generator: Generate the HTML code for images in a folder.
• play & pause gif animations: CSS-only solution for pausing animated gifs. Doesn't seem to work with images that are also links.
• webringu: petrapixel's .js webring that's more updated than onionring.
• Flatpress: retro blogging engine in PHP with themes and plugins. Look at this cute windows theme :)

• Resources for Adult Creators: Links to sites that allow Adult Content.
• Animal Photo Art References: Rotatable 3D animal skulls.
• Make Seamless Texture: Upload an image and make a seamless tiling image out of it. Good for repeating backgrounds.
• TPL to ABR: Script that converts Photoshop Tool Presets to ABR, so you can use those brushes in Clip Studio and Procreate.
• SALVAGED dot NU: Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's.
• OpenTabletDriver: Open source tablet driver that should work with older “obsolete” drawing tablets.

• Auto AO3 App: Tool for finding AO3 events, and looking through prompts.
• fan @ resources: List of fannish resources for site building by aroceu.

• Moby Gratis: Free music by that bald dude Moby for you to use. Funny limitation on right-wing and meat-eating content.

• End of 10: Since Windows 10 is no longer supported, this site should help you upgrade to Linux.
• Tech Independence: Step by step tutorial for tech independence - “not depending on any particular company or software” - for sites, email, storage….
  • an excerpt that struck me about web design: “It’s important to know how to make a simple website by hand, and not let people sell you on complex solutions that are the equivalent of saying you need a jumbo jet when you really need a bicycle. For real tech independence, start by typing your HTML files yourself. Only later, after you have many many pages, consider a more complicated solution.”

• Tumgag: View Tumblr posts without logging in.

• Ellipsus: Writing software, apparently good for converting fics to AO3 lol.

• solaria: art, OCs, resources for other site owners with art and ocs…
• Reimena Yee: Art portfolio + more. Has a great post about A Personal Website VS a Portfolio, good food for thought for people who work in the arts with an online presence.