Creative

Anything that helps you with art, be it visual, writing, music, whatever!

Guides and References

• Vishopper Cut-Out People meant to be for purchaing stock images, but its in-depth search function makes it useful for finding refrence images for drawing!
• Human Anatomy for Artists a site with a ton of pose refrences. Note that most models are nude or almost nude.
• How to Draw Arms [Tumblr Post] that one Tumblr post by mcapriglioneart that shows you how to proportion limbs using triangles. This version includes a reblog showing how to also determine limb length.
• Humanæ a project to photograph and document various skintones. While the site currently only shows some of the images taken, it's still a helpful refrence.
• Let's Make a Zine! a guide on how to make a zine by metaparadox. Takes the form of a downloadable PDF. Has a name your own price cost model.
• Proper Manuscript Format for Fiction Writers two guides on two styles of manuscript formating for those of you trying to publish to the big companies out there. These were assigned reading in my Publishing and Editing class, for whatever that's worth.

Programs

This includes proper downloadable programs, webapps, and browser-based tools that are kinda sorta program-like.

• Photopea a free photoshop-like program that works in your browser.
• Polotno Studio lets you make various graphics in your browser.
• Glaze free downloadable (Windows/Mac) program to help prevent your art from being scrapped for AI generators without your consent. It does this by adding a layer (a "glaze", if you will) over the art that, when said art is added to a AI dataset, causes it to "poison" said set and make it spew out nonsense. Note that this effect, while meant to be unnoticeable to humans, can be seen on art with mostly flat colors. The program can also be pretty demanding on your computer. A browser version does exist and is linked on the site, but in my experince it's had such high traffic that it struggles a lot as well.
• Krita a free and open source downloadable (Linux/Windows/Mac) art program. It's what I use and reccomend B)
• Fire Alpaca another free downloadable (Windows/Mac) art program. I used to use it, and it was pretty nice.
• SketchBook yet another free downloadable (Android/iOS) art program. I don't use it for serious drawing anymore, but it was servicable when I did use it for that. Note that some features are behind a prenium version, which costs $3 USD (paid once, not subscription, thankfuly). You can also purchase it for Windows/Mac for $25.
• LibreSprite is a free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites (description from site). Krita can also animate sprites, but if you specialize in sprite work then it may be something to take a look at!
• Twinery free program that lets you create interactive/"choose your own adventure" stories. It can be run in your browser, or it can be installed for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
• Scribus a free and open source downloaable (Linux/Windows/Mac) publising program.
• Scribus Zine Templates collection of zine templates for Scribus, with a "name your own price" pircing model.
• LibreOffice a free and open source downloadable (Linux/Windows/Mac) office suite, including a writing program!
• EtherPad a browser-based writing program with a focus on real-time collaboration. Thus, your formatting abilities tend to be very limited. It works on having people host instances, like Mastodon, so they have a list of public instances avalible.
• Joplin a free and open source downloadable (Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iOS) note-taking program. Has a syncronization fearure; I actually use this to write my fanfics and such because of this!
• Magnet Poetry make magnet poetry in your browser!

Tools

• Tools for Creating Ideas for when you're hoplessly stuck on something.
• Paletton helps you make nice looking color pallates. You can even see examples of it used on webpages and generic art graphics! You can then export the pallate in a number of table styles.
• Handwriting to Font a tool that lets you create your own font from your handwriting! Site is also host to many free-to-use fonts.
• Remove Background what it says on the tin. Browser-based tool to remove backgrounds from images.

Site Creation

How to make funny webbed site.

Guides

• Interneting is Hard a comprhensive yet simple introduction to HTML/CSS.
• PetraPixel CodingThis links to the "how to make a website" guide in particular, as there's no "home page" for the code guides specifically, but this site has a plethora of guides on getting started with making a website, plus tutorials on how to use things like Git and 11ty.
• Sadness's Webmaster Guides no longer mintained, but still has a lot of useful information on HTML/CSS.
• Learn to Code HTML & CSS yet another guide to HTML/CSS, this one divided into 12 lessons.
• Make Your Own Website Almost From Scratch a pre-made site geared primarialy twoards artists looking to make a gallery/portfolio, plus some tutorials on how to edit said site. Not the best for learning to code, but it is an easy starting place for those who need it.
• W3 Schools guides for how to do certain things in HTML, CSS, Java Script, and more!
• MDN Docs, Mozilla's guides to CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The most information dense of all resources here, making it helpful for anyone regardless of skill level. But that also means that very complicated topics are mixed in with very simple ones.
• Ground Floor a guide on how to make a web page look pleasing while using minimal to no CSS.
• HTML Head, a guide on what all you can stick into the <head> element.
• An Introduction to Static Site Generators put in VERY simple terms, Static Site Generator (SSG) is a program that lets you make templates for all pages on your site to then follow. This allows you to, say, edit your navigation bar in just one file and have it automatically update across all pages on your site. This guide goes over the basics that all SSG programs share in more detail.
• Zine Machine guide on how to make a webpage into a printable 8 page zine, using CSS.
• Web Design in 4 Minutes a crash course on the basics of web design. It goes over very little in terms of code and instead focuses on the choices you should be thinking about when deciding what your site should look like.
• Visual Design Rules You can Safely Follow Every Time no code, just design elements you should be thinking about.
• A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography similar to the above, but it focuses in on typography (or, as far as most hobbiest webdevs care, fonts).
• MelonLand a collection of resources for personal web development. Has a forum, but do know the forum closes on Monday and that there are multiple eye-straining and quickly moving elements on the various MelonLand sites.
• 32Bit Cafe a community of website hobbists who provide a list of publicly avalible guides and resources.

Accessibility

• WAVE standing for "Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools" is a site that lets you test and make sure that your website is acessible to those with various disabilities.
• Color Contrast Accessibility Validator lets you check the contrast of text color to background color in a variety of contexts. You can also check the color contrast of your site, much like with the tool above.
• Color Contrast Tool another color contrast checker. Much simpler to use, but gives less info as well.
• Color Safe a tool to help you make accessible palettes. You pick wht you want your primary color to be, and it automatically finds a bunch of other colors that will have good contrast with it. Note that the color picker does not work on mobile, so you will have to already have the hex code for your base color.
• Prefers Reduced Motiona lesser-known (among hobbists) media query that will allow you to change how an animation behaves should someone have this option on. My suggestion is to use this to turn animations off completely for users with this setting. Note: this applies to CSS animations.

Tools and Generators

• VSCodium did you know that Virtual Studio Code is an open source prorgam? Anyways, here's a version that doesn't have Microsoft's fingers all over it. Downloadable for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
• Notepad++ downlowdable (Windows) text editor program also focused on being good for coding.
• Codepen a site that lets you test out HTML and CSS codes and shows you how they'll look in real time.
• Fido tool to find broken links on your site.
• Color Picker from Image a tool that lets you color pick from an image. It then gives you the HEX and RBG codes for said color. Used this to get many of the colors found on this site!
• Meta Tags generates meta tags to go into the <head> section. This lets you do fun things like customize link previews to your site and stuff.
• Clippy a tool that generates CSS code to "draw" a shape for your shapely needs.
• Magicpattern tool that generates CSS pattrents for your various pattren useages.
• Layoutit a tool to help plan the basic layout of a website using the grid system; it even generates the code for said base layout! Warning that the code generated does not use some semantic elements such as <footer> and <header>; you will have to edit these into the code yourself.
• Flexbox Labs identical to the above, but it uses the flexbox system instead of the grid system. Same warning as above applies.
• Petra's Layout Generator generates a basic site layout for you to use, has a ton of options.
• Write On's Layout Generator also generates a basic site layout. Diffrent options, diffrent code style. More options are always better! :3

Blogs and RSS

• Zonelets a base for coding your own blog. Includes the HTML, a few CSS files to choose from, and the Javascript used to make it work. The tutorial is written with Neocities in mind but this should also work for other webhosts.
• HTML Journal guide for making a one-page blog which you can then quickly generate an RSS feed for.

Templates, Frameworks, and Similar

Sometimes the lines blur between them, but in short templates are pre-made pages with HTML and CSS that just need you to write up some text or upload some images for and frameworks are just CSS files that still require you to code a HTML file yourself. Both sometimes also use the word "theme" to describe themselves lol, because life can't be simple. Please be sure to follow any rules/conditions these users have with using their themes and frameworks!

• Sakura a minimal, classless CSS framework / theme (description from site). Has multiple color pallet options and is very simple to use; it's literally just a CSS file.
• BRUT a brutalist style CSS framework. Note that the creator warns that they made it mainly for their own use and that they didn't follow best design practices as a result.
• Skeleton an incredibly minimilistic CSS framework with a focus on creating responsive/mobile friendly pages.
• cs16.css CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI (description from site).
• Strawberry Starter a blog template for 11ty in particular; it also includes files needed for 11ty shenanigans to work.
• Rarebit, a site template/tool box made for webcomic hosting.
• REPTH Themes
• Templaterr intentionally uses bad colors and Comic Sans so you're forced to customize it a little bit yourself. Also has auto-updating navbar codes.
• Almost Sweet's Themes
• Eggramen's CSS Test Pages
• Cepheus' Themes
• KaleChips'Layouts site also has many other code snippets.
• Owl's Templates
• Celine's Lucky Theme just the one theme, but it's a very nice one!
• Wikitable Theme another single theme, this one mimics wiki pages!

Code Snippets

• You Don't Need Javascript a large collection of code snippets that aim to recreate functions people usually use JavaScript for with just HTML/CSS.
• Smoll CSS minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components (description from site).
• Kale's Code Snippets
• Write-On's Tools
• Hillhouse's Code Snippets
• Virtual Observer's Comment Widgetadds comments/guest books to your site using google sheets. Note: because this connects your site to an outside source, most free* Neocities accounts can't use it. This is for security reasons.
• *While an exact cut-off date hasn't been officially stated, it seems that sites made before July 2023 are able to use these sorts of widgets regardless of if they're free or supporter. This rule was added retroactively due to people abusing the system :( and it would suck to have a feature you were using to suddenly be put behind a paywall. So, it only applies to newer sites.
• Frills also made a moderation mod/update for this widget, which is worth checking out!
• PetraPixel's Widget Workarounds As mentioned before, free Neocities sites can't use some widgets, as they connect to an outside source. However, free accounts can still use iframes, which Petra shows how to do for a few of the more popular widgets that don't work on free accounts. So, while not always ideal, these can work in a pinch.
• Web Neko put a little cat on your site that will chase the mouse pointer around!
• Adopt a Chao add a little Chao to your site.
• Gify Pet a virtual pet you can customize and put on your site.
• Collectibles.js hide little goodies around your site using some javascript :3

Graphics

• Cinni's Web Goodies free to use graphics.
• The 88 x 31 GIF Collection many GIFs you can use on your site. Warnning: Many of them do flash quickly!
• Web Badges World a large collection of various web badges. Warning: many of them do flash quickly, though animated ones can be filtered out.
• The Blinkie Hoard a collection of "blinkies", narrow GIFs used to deccorate pages. Warrning: many of then do flash!
• Dokode's Graphics collection of free to use graphics.
• Transparent Textures a collection of transparent textures. Lets you preview the textures as backgrounds and lets you test them with any color.
• Websets By LynnVarious graphics, also has a 88x31 button maker. Contains flashing elements.
• Tabler Icons open source icons with a very clean/minimalistic look.
• Feather Icons more open source icons with a clean/minimalistic look.
• Unicode Icons a list of all the unicode icons, plus the code needed to ensure they work in HTML and CSS.
• Public Domain Vectors vectors in the public domain. Pretty simple. Qualiy of the vectors isn't gurenteed, however.
• Pblic Domain Image Archive an archive of images in the public domain. Honestly, everything in here is great. Just really old and thus fits a very particular aestetic. Still, I reccomend just looking through it for fun. Or maybe I'm weird, idk, you tell me.

More Resources

• Sadgrl's Webmastery a collection of various resources such as HTML/CSS tips, some more templates, a layout builder, free to use images, free to use fonts, and much more!
• Sadgrl's Website Ideas another one of Sadness's resources, this time being a list of things you can add to your website if you run out of ideas.
• Slash Pages a list of page ideas for your website.
• HTML Cheat Sheet list of commonly used HTML elements. They also have CSS and Javascript sheets.

Alterhumanity

"Alterhumans are individuals who have identities beyond what is traditionally considered human. An alterhuman can identify as non-human, or they can identify as being human in ways alternate to what is societally common" - Otherkin Wiki. This is a list of resources regarding alterhuman identities and our history!

• Three Dragons and a Dog large collection of writings and various resourses about alterhumanity, plus a few fun things like single player TTRPGs.
• The Chimera​s Library more writings and resources about alterhumanity, plus some fun stuff.

• Orion Scribner even MORE writings and resources about alterhumanity.
• From Fiction site with various resources about being fictionkin in particular.
• The Alterhuman Archives an achive of various alterhuman resources.
• Otherkin Wiki my personally prefered wiki of information on otherkin.

Activism

Primarily a collection of educational resources on the topics of race, queerness, economics, etc.

Action

• The Project Gutenberg eBook of Simple Sabotage Field Manual small acts of resistence add up over time! :3
• EFF's Attending Protest Guide the general EFF site is also listed in Digital Smarts, but this particular page is worth repeating here for being a helpful guide on staying safe during protests. Note that, as an EFF gudie, it focuses mostly on technology and identification rather than direct physical harm.
• Punkwasp's Free Palestine Resource List web page that includes ways to help Palestine that require money, ways to help that don't require money, and some resources for learning more about what's happening in Palestine and about Palestinian culture.

Website List

• The Anarchist Library an archive of anti-state and anti-capitalism texts.
• Fight Fascism short list of resources; fairly self explanitory.
• Black Socialists Resource Guide another collection of anti-state and anti-capitalism texts. They also have a Glossary of Terms.
• Immigrant Defense Project engages in targeted litigation, primarily before the federal courts, in support of challenges to deportations and other adverse immigration consequences based on criminal convictions and arrests. By supporting litigants before the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of Appeals, we seek to create good law through the judiciary to help immigrants remain in the United States with their communities and families. (Description from Site). I'd also like to point our their Know Your Rights with Ice page and their ICE Raids Toolkit page.
• Betraying Whiteness a guided online learning path toward understanding & undermining the constructs of race (description from site).
• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies short article on being a better ally to black people, particularly in the USA.
• White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement [PDF] how to engage in the necessary dialogue and self-reflection that can lead to structural change (description from site/document).
• Effective Strategies for Confronting Racism in Conversation [Google Doc]
• Black & Pink is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing (decription from site).
• Making Queer History a website and podcast that connects queer history with the present day
• Country Queers an ongoing multimedia oral history project documenting the diverse experiences of rural, small town, and country LGBTQIA2S+ folks across intersecting layers of identity such as race, class, age, ability, gender identity, and religion (description from site).
• ACT UP Oral History Project The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (description from site).
• University of Victoria's Transgender Archives a public online archive of trans history hosted by the University of Victoria.
• Digital Transgener Archives another public archive of trans history.
• Queer Liberation Library QLL is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community (description from site). Features a handy button that will take you to The Weather Channel site if you need to quickly leave the page for any reason.
• Queer Zine Archive Project a project aiming to archive as many zines discussing queer topics as possible and encourage further creation of more queer zines. It also has a second site that seems to use a slightly diffrent catalouge system.
• Trans Reads texts by, for, or about people who transverse or transcend western gender norms (description from site). Note that it also hosts transphobic texts so that people can have a refrence to recognize when a seemingly progressive text is actually transpobic.
• InterACT's Brochures and InterACT's FAQ page educational resources on intersex people.
• Leather Archives and Museum has an online archive on the history of leather in the queer community. Fair warning, as this is an archive on leather, do expect some 18+ content to be found in the archives.

Other Resources

• Pronoun Dressing Room a site where you can test out how diffrent pronouns are used and test out if they fit you.

Education

Free and cheap education resources. Covers book smarts (maths, histories, sciences, etc.), street smarts (emotional intelligence, cooking, how to adult, etc.), and digital smarts (basic digital literacy, various alternatives, how to code, etc.).

Book Smarts

• LibreTexts college-level textbooks provided for free. Seems to have some good stuff, though I find thier website hard to nvigate.
• OpenStax free and open-source college textbooks (and some highschool-level ones) provided for free. I've had instructors assign us books from their list, so I can strongly reccomend it.
• Open Textbook Library another collection of textbooks with open licences.
• Project Gutenberg is a collection of books that have entered the public domain, free to be download and read by anyone.
• JSTOR academic articals with prices ranging from cheap (in comparison to the normal cost of such articals) to free.
• Zinn Education Project The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country... this website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level (description addapted from website).
• Desmos Scientific Calculator free and robust calculator in your browser.

Street Smarts

• Recipe Search lets you search the internet for any recipe. It will then pull the basic information you actually need (ingredients, directions, ect.) from the site for you so that you don't need to wade through tons of ads or unneeded stories.
• My Fridge Food helps you find recipies based on what ingredients you say you have.
• You Feel Like Shit
this is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It's designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn't require much judgment (description from site).
• ADHD Analog Brain this tool is designed to overcome your executive dysfunction by asking you questions and leading you to a helpful answer. Yes, it's for ADHD! Yes, it's for Autism! Yes, it's for TBI! Yes, it's for ANYONE who would like help with executive function! (description from site)

Digital Smarts

• Unplatform a guide to leaving modren social media in favor of the indie web.
• How to Leave Social Media same as above but with less info. Still nice to have multiple resource though :3
• Furward Momentum series on the Dhole Moments/Soatok blog meant to provide resources and guidence to get into the tech industry with little to no prior knowlegde.
• Let's Learn Together: Linux Intro covers the very basics of using Linux.
• Distro Chooser helps you choose a Linux distribution based on things like what you'll use it for and technical skills.
• Marginalia Search an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed (description from site)

Fun Stuff

Things that are just plain fun!

TTRPGs

• Monster Care Squad single and multiplayer, free.
• Her Odyssey single player, name your own price.
• DELVE: A Solo Map Drawing Game costs $7 USD. Single player.
• Offworlders multiplayer, free.
• Grove System a tool for making your own TTRPG, name your own price.
• 5e Tools a suite of tools for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters (description from site).

Desktop/Browser Games

• Luanti (formally Minetest) an open source voxel game engine made with modding in mind. Downloadable (Windows/Mac/Linux/Android) and free. You can play the base game, play one of the many games built with it, or heavily modify the base game to suit your needs. I highly suggest looking at Exile and Asuna in particular.
• My itch.io favorites just a collection of games I found and enjoyed.
• Dwarf Fortress the (in)famous fortress simulator. The original is free, and a version with better graphics is $30 USD.
• Metazooa think woordle but with animals; every time you guess an animal, you're given the closest taxonomic rank. Also has a plant edition.
• Deck of Cards a virtual standard deck of playing cards in your browser.

Comics

• Knife Beetle webring for narritive-driven webcomics.
• Comic Furry free webcomic host.
• Alice and the Nightmare follows the story of Alice Heart as she attends the prestigious Phantasmagoria University, where Wonderlandians like her train to enter and collect the dreams of sleeping humans (description from site)
• Daughter of the Lillies Thistle is chased out of every town with torches and pitchforks when the locals see her face, and is eagerly sought after by a great and terrible figure who defines most of her dark thoughts towards herself. Out of a desperate need to make a quick buck so she can move on to a new quiet place to live, she joins up with a small band of Mercenaries, but quickly finds herself unwittingly swept up in and caught off guard by their bonds of loyalty. Will these unruly, uncultured, rough-around-the-edge fighters be the ones to help Thistle realize her sense of self-worth in time to stop the shadows of her past from overwhelming and consuming the world? (description adapted from site)

More Fun Stuff!

• Text Faces emoticons that you can copy paste anywhere! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
• Emoji Combos similar to the above! I find it helpful for finding odd characters that you can copy/paste anywhere.
• Neon Flames fun and relaxing site where you can draw you own galaxies. Works well on mobile, too!
• Frog of the Month see who the frog of the month is!
• No Clip a site that lets you zoom around the map of many diffrent games! Including Pikmin hehehe...
• Incorrect Quote Generator does as it says on the tin. Generate totally real quotes for your favorite characters or OCs to say.
• Know Your Meme learn where and how various memes and jokes came to be.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day where NASA posts an astronomy picture each day. It's still goin', but has very early web fel to it still.
• Secret Drawing Box a way to receive anonymous doodles from others. Doodles are made using thier limited tool, but it is still fun enough!
• Convert Text to Ascii Art what it says on the tin.
• Radio Garden a site that lets you listen to radio stations from around the globe.
• Random.org good site for generating random numbers and pulling other randomized info.
• Flower Meanings learn (some) of the meanings of many flowers.
• The Story of Boatmurdered the story of a Dwarf Fortress file that was passed around many users. It went as well as you'd expect.
• Marriage Certificate Generator a silly little tool to create a "marriage certificate" for your favorite character. Or favorite whatever. Nothing to take seriously.

Personal Sites

Personal sites of others that I found to be really cool! Also has my internet friends and neighbors. Do note that I can't gurentee that every site here will have the same age rating as mine, so tread carefuly if that is a concern!
Sites marked with an astrisk (*) to their right have flashing elements to them! Sites marked with a carrot (^) to their right have flashing elements that can be disabled!

Friends and Internet Neighbors

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Uncatigorized

Stuff I couldn't fit anywhere else with confidence.

True Treasures of Our Time [YouTube Playlist] playlist I made of random meme stuff that makes me smile. I've been maintaining this since like...2016? 2017? So there's also plenty of old memes to reflect on as well.

Post Images image file host for your image file hosting needs.

Others' Collections

Collctions much like this one but maintained by other people! Wow! If a site doesn't have a description here then it means the site is incredibly similar to this page.
Please note that I haven't reviewed every single item in their lists!

• Jasminnie's Resources, warning: has flashing elements!
• Sad Grl's Webring Directory a list of webrings.
• Obspogon's Mega Collection
• Psshaw's Links
• The Ichigo Directory is intended to be a non-comprehensive guide on cute websites with a focus on pixel art, web materials, and more (desciption from the site).
• Space Bar's Bulletin Board warning: has flashing elements!
• Pomelo's Intresting Sites
• The Lilac Lynx's Index and The Lilac Lynx's Links
• Tiny Tools free (and usually open source) programs for creative endevors. Disclaimer: after digging through it more I found both AI tools whose datasets are made of stolen content + flawed internet privacy advice. There's still too much to review every entry, but as far as I can tell it has more good than bad resources. Still, keep this in mind while exploring it.
• Xaselgio's Links

Archives

Collections that had to be preserved and accessed on the Wayback Machine

• Yesterlinks Directory
• Vincent's Dungeon