Links
Welcome to my new links page! I realized that my old Links page was pretty empty compared to my web dev commonplace, so I decided to merge them! Items with ⭐ [start emote] means I strongly recommend them (those outside the recs section, y'know) while those with 🔖 [bookmark emote] are tools I really want to check out.
Table of Contents: Recs / Creators / Small Web / Web Weaving / My Links
Recs
Video
- The Role of the Woman in Umineko by Bess.
- The Most Realistic Anime in History - on what makes shounen sports anime so compelling (~20 min)
- Ace Attorney Retrospective by Nezumi VA.
- Danganronpa Retrospective by Nezumi VA.
- Pokearth by EnlargedKai.
Games
- Lookouts by Paranoid and co. - A western visual novel based featuring transmasc outlaws with a hopeful outlook.
- Citizen Sleeper by Jump Over the Age - an even more shamelessly anti-capitalist TTRPG-inspired game than Disco Elysium.
Comics/Webtoons
Creators
Video
- CrystAAHHL - Videogame streamer, dancer, and cosplayer. Unhinged about Miles Edgeworth and cat lover.
- Spilled Ink - art channel of two professional digital artists exploring physical art mediums.
- ZeldaZW - cozy digital artist who streams while drawing.
- nochitamama - Japanese crocheter who streams while working.
- youohei - Japanese felt crafter who encourages English speakers to interact. Sings and plays the guitar super well.
- Bess - Video essays creator. Several on Higurashi When they Cry and Umineko When they Cry.
- Nezumi VA - Video essays creator and streamer of various forms of entertainment.
- VoidLego - Streamer with a focus on text-based videogames and visual novels. Really enjoyed his Umineko, Higurashi, and Disco Elysium: The Final Cut let's plays.
- Luvstar Kei IRL - Digital artist and webmaster with a cyberpunk aesthetic. Videos are intended to be listened on the background. Side channel.
- CallMeKevin - Chaotic gamer with a healthy dose of ADHD.
- EnlargedKai - 3D Pokemon animations!
- lucahjin - Videogame streamer and VTuber of the old school variety.
- shar - Digital artist, webmaster, musician and overall creative person exuding wholesome vibes!
- The August Hail - Visual novel reviews and suggestions. Leans towards het romance, mystery, and horror title accessible to Western audiences.
- YewfNet - Videogame streamer and yapper about old tech of the cozy variety.
- Linfamy - Japenese-American that covers Japanese history and folktales. heavy focus on the female experience and the business of pleasure.
Comics
- Mr. Circus Papa - horror comic artist. Their artstyle may be cute but their stories portray heavy topics without pulling any punches.
Videogames
- GBPatch - visual novel game dev studio of the cozy and queer variety. "Inclusive" in the widest sense of the word.
- Nomnomnami - all in one video game designer, webmaster, and artist of their OC universe. Genres range from horror to romance to adventure. Mostly visual novels and RPGs.
Small Web
Personal Websites
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Community
- Guide for fannish community organizers to set up an IRC server. Complemented by Setting up an IRC server by Neatnik.
- Arrow's Guide to Running Fandom Events
web Rings
- Aromatic (web dev & scent)
- A11y Webring(Digital Accessibility)
- Xenics of the Net (LBGT+ web ring)
- Neko-Tag ("map based webring")
Ex-Cohost Webring (former cohost users) (read-only)- Mental Heal Circle (mental health)
- Pokering (adopting Pokemon of choice)
- ShouJousei Cafe (female-oriented media)
- Cat-folk webring
- Flowering (flowers)
- Null Web Ring (anything)
- Meta Ring (nerding about personal websites!)
- Fandom Ring(fandom people)
- Ficring (fiction writers)
- No AI Webring
- Retronaut Webring
- Nyan Webring (nyan cat fans?)
- Gitgudring (git deployed sites)
- Webmaster Webring(personal sites)
- Transring (trans/GNC webmasters)
- Code Collective (web dev resources webring)
- Pillowfort webring (Pillowfort users)
- Ficring (personal fic archives)
- ADHMe (webmasters who ID with ADHD)
- OC Webring (sites that showcase OCs)
cliques
- Patrons (mythology)
- MusiClique (music fans)
listings
- Purrfect (cats & kittens fanlisting)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena fanlisting
- Willard H. Wright & Ushiromiya Lion (from Umineko When They Cry) fanlisting
- KawoShin fanlisting
- Mahou Shoujo (genre) fanlisting
- Small World: a listing of visual artists.
- Responsive Web Directory: listing of personal websites with a focus on accessibility. this site is listed there!
- Fan archives Directory
- PersonalSit.es: a listing of personal websites.
Other
- ⭐ #SmallWeb and #IndieWeb Mastodon RSS feeds: lots of cool projects, blog posts, and websites to check out! Feed origin is from my Mastodon instance which may affect results.
- ⭐ RSS Bridge: get RSS feeds from different sites.
Web Weaving
(Text-heavy) Articles and Write-Ups Guides
- An Article about Interacting with Other Websites in the Indie Web
- How to Bot-Proof Your Website by rmf: an article about preventing bots from stealing your work; strong wording. Please check the codes offered there before adding to your site.
- The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2026): guide is mostly SFW in an NSFW site.
- Kagi brings its ‘small web’ of a human-only internet to mobile devices: article about Kagi browser from Techcrunch.
- Building your first smolweb page: a short guide to create simple and accessible webpages.
- ⭐ How Online Privacy Has Been Championed by Dreamwidth
- 🔖 General Ludd’s Guide to Draining the Bot Slop From Your Device > OS: Linking directly to the OS section because I want to add Linux Mint to a spare laptop lying around but it also has sections for search engines and web browsers.
- 🔖 SVG Icons by Coyote. So far there's site icons (Dreamwidth, Squidge World Archive, AO3, Pillowfort, and Storygraph) and gender pairings (including nb).
Builders, Generators, and Interactive Tools
- Website Button Maker!
- 🔖 Eleventy for neocities users: a Github tutorial on how to create static websites using Markdown. Need to check this out!
- OptiPNG: png optimizer
- ⭐ Blinkie Cafe: blinkie generator (photosentivity warning!)
- 🔖 Mellon's Gallery Maker: a free static gallery generator from your desktop folder. Downloadable from itch.io itch.io. Haven't tested it myself but images are responsive.
- TumblBee a Tumblr back-up an export tool.
- Posty: a Mastodon archive generator.
- 🔖 Userbox generators: Enhanced Userbox Maker, THE SUPER SIMPLE USERBOX MAKER by Richard Ye.
Templates and Snippets
- ⭐ Free, responsive layouts by Kaleships.net
- ⭐ Code Snippets by Kalechips
- Listfauxgraphy: Summer Dream's version (OG), Kalechips' version.
- Website templates by BeepBird.net
- 🔖 Fic archive templates by aroceu: Fic masterlist, AO3 stylesheet
- ⭐ How to style a status.cafe account: guide, Basic layout.
- Github repo with several Classless CSS frameworks
- ⭐ Link hub template by Ade Mir.
- Eleventy for Neocities Users by nycki93
- eleventy-image-gallery by nycki93
- CSS Tricks: Responsive Data Tables: has some code to make tables fit small screens.
- Pillowfort Post Template: is a "code snippet for simulating a fake Pillowfort post and comment section, intended for use with fictional works. It is designed to be mobile responsive and adapt to browser-level dark mode settings." Created by Coyote.
Resources and Tutorials
- Light/Dark Mode CSS code by Ananja Neoji
- HTML to Markdown converter
- ⭐ W3 code checkers and validators: Main page, Markup Validator, CSS Validator, Feed Validator, Link Checker.
- fannish website-making resources by aroceu.
- ⭐ Markdown to HTML: my go to converter for web weaving between the markdown version of my sites and the HTML version.
- ⭐ Markdown to Rich Text: go to converter when crossposting blog posts between my blog and Pillowfort.
- CSV to HTML: Saved my life from fixing Notion's shitty HTML export file. I got a nice and naked table that I can easily add my styling to.
- CSV to Markdown: same as above, nice and clean table. Result can be dumped into minimalist blog platforms like bearblog.dev.
- EXIF Cleaner: removes metadata from a range of file types. Haven't tried it out but I want to use it for photos.
Add-ons/Widgets
- Real-time chat web app
- FC2: counter, clap, blog.
- Zonelets~ blog making platform.
- Status Cafe
- Tamagotchi-inspired virtual pet.
- Komments: komments widget thing to add comment feature to a website. Need to test it.
Web Hosting
Web Sites
- IndieWeb.org
- Front-end professional certification
- Online Spyware Watchdog: has some articles reviewing software for spyware.
- Website Carbon Calculator: need to look further into it. love to find stuff related to green web design.
- The Salad Magazine: a zine about anything that matches the theme's issue!
- ⭐ 32-bit Cafe: a community of website hobbysts and pros!
- ⭐ Dreamwidth: open source, social, multimedia, long-form content... it's the social media of my DREAMS! (looks like a mesh between Wordpress and Tumblr)
- Marginalia: an open-source search engine for non-commercial sites.
- Starlight Network's No AI List: list of software that does not have AI-powered features.
- Good Web Graveyard: list of websites that wanted to created a better internet. Created by Coyote.
- Space's Abode is a website that can be subcribed to with an ATmosphere account. Whaaaa???
- Where To Find DOT Me is a service to list websites you use and with what frequency. An example from the creator, Kit/
- PostyBirb: multimedia crossposting desktop application. Popular with furry artists from what I've seen.
- 🔖 Neocities Neighborhoods: an attempt at exploring neocities sites by topic??? Site looks like something out of the nineties which I frigging love. I want explore this site and maybe join a neighborhood. What a cool concept!
Graphic Resources
- Pixels & favicons, more favicons
- Dividers
- Custom cursors
- Transparent textures generator
- Identity buttons
- Neocapy - Capybaras Emoji Set
- Capyblobs - Capybaras Blob Emoji Set: vol. 1, vol. 2
- AnubIcons - a A Pixel Art Icon Set: pixel art icons of social media, desktop, and mobile applications. Might use them to link socials on various web dev projects.
- ⭐ Some buttons by Debtdeath.
- ⭐ Plasticdino: buttons and blinkieds (photosensitivity warning!)
- ⭐ Pixel Safari: buttons (photosensitivity warning!)
- Cataminated: handmade badges, buttons, and icons.
My Links
Elsewhere
Other sites
- ArimaMary After Dark (18+)
- Fic archive
- Microblog
- Blog
- After Dark Blog (18+)
Around the site
- LBGT+ Manga Recs
- Prompts
- Inazuma Eleven Icons
- Microblog Threads