DIGITAL FLESH & BLOOD !! 
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link to me
No hotlinking please. If you link to me or put my button on your site, I'd love it if you let me know via email, my guestbook, or on my neocities profile! I'll add you to my link wall too. ^_^
My Friends
Not a lot of my friends have their own sites yet. If we're mutuals or friends elsewhere and you have a site, let me know! I'll link you here too.
- viamutationis: art and commissions!
- Martin Clinch: art and commissions!
Webmastery Resources
General
- GIMP: Free and open-source image editor program. Alternative to Photoshop. I use it to make all my graphics and digital art.
- PhoenixCode: Free and open-source text editor that shows a live preview of your code, spots errors, and lets you add custom extensions. I use this to build my sites, and it's my favourite editors for HTML and CSS. Stop building your sites in the Neocities text editor!
- Photopea: Free browser-based image editor, very similar to Photoshop.
- git.gay: Git hosting for queers. Open source, no ads, etc.
- Tor Project: Tor browser for maintaining anonymity, blocking trackers, etc. Remember to stay safe online.
Graphics
- 88x31 Web Button Maker: What it says on the tin.
- Broider: Make pixel art border images. Includes a lot of examples too!
- Custom Border and Panels: Free download of lots of different pixel text box/border images.
- Dither It!: Reduces the colours and file size of your images and gives them a neat retro look.
- OpenGameArt: Creative Commons or public domain assets. Intended for video game devs, but some could certainly be used on a website too.
- Paper Tiles: Tileable background images for a less boring web — hand-made from public-domain wallpaper patterns.
- Scrap Album: Images, graphics, ephemera, and illustrations from the Victorian era.
- Shadows from the Walls of Death: (Mostly) tileable wallpaper samples from the Victorian era, all featuring arsenic.
Code, Snippets, Themes, and Layouts
- 7.css: A CSS library for recreating Windows 7 interfaces.
- 98.css: A CSS library for recreating Windows 98 interfaces.
- Bechnokid's FreezeframeJS tutorial: Add a toggle for gif animations (for accessibility). I plan to add this to my site eventually...
- Code Beautify: Paste in your messy code and fix it.
- CSS Gradient: Self explanatory.
- EGGRAMEN: Layouts and CSS.
- Itinerae: Layouts. I got the base for my site's theme from here!
- NES.css: A CSS library that recreates a retro gaming aesthetic.
- numbpilled: Lots of cool dark and cyberpunk themes and widgets, some free and some for a few dollars. I used one of their templates for my OC Val's page.
- randoma11y: Website colour scheme generator.
- sadgrl: Layout builder, tutorials, and other webmastery resources.
- SCM Music Player: Seamless audio/music player widget for your site.
- system.css: A CSS library for building interfaces that resemble Apple's System OS from 1984-1991.
- teppy's layouts: Layouts and graphics.
Widgets and Addons
- FC2 Counter: Displays the total number of visitors to your site, and how many are online.
- imood: Embed a little widget that tells people how you're feeling. I use this!
- piclog: A little widget to share tiny jpeg pictures. I use this!
- Poll Code: Create a free poll for your site.
- RSS 2 HTML: Free code to embed an RSS feed in your site. I use this!
- WebAmp: Embed a WinAmp-style mp3 player in your site.
web curations (links to other links!)
Is this page not enough for you? Still hungry for more delicious links? Check out these sites!
- THREADLURKER: A catalogue of obscure sites... digital culture archives & museums, personal web communities & resources, webring hubs & directories, imageboards, textboards & forums, social networks, communities, retroweb, dark web.
- Wayward Webring: A collection of link collections! I'm a member of this webring.
indie web neighbours
A collection of my mutuals and other websites (mostly personal sites) that I enjoyed. Want your button or link here? Send me an email or comment on my guestbook and we can exchange buttons ^_^
- Cameron's World: A web-collage love letter to archived GeoCities pages.
Misc
Communities
- iNaturalist: Record and identify plants and animals you see! Learn about your local environment.
- spacehey: The spiritual successor to myspace.
- Infiltration: A site and forum about going places you're not supposed to go.
- HORG: Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group. More interesting than it sounds, I promise.
History
- The Cutter's Guide: 200 years of catalogues, in PDF form.
- Medieval & Renaissance Material Culture: Directory of information about material culture from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including clothing.
- Museo: Search engine for images from a number of museums' art collections.
Learn
- Game Detectives Academy: Free and interactive way to learn the basics of ciphers, computing, cryptology, and steganography. Intended to teach people how to solve ARGs.
- A Guide to Web Curation: How to make a good outlinks page.
Readings and Politics
- Manifesto for a New Web: Commitments and goals for a better internet and a better world.
- A Handmade Web (J. R. Carpenter): Slowness, smallness, and handmade web presence as resistance.
- The Website Obesity Crisis: Transcript of a talk about website bloat in text-based pages.
- Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters: The importance of outlinks for creating a connected web. See also this page.
- The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con: Newsletter essay by Baldur Bjarnason.
- Trans Reads: Free texts by and for trans and GNC people. Books, essays, zines, chapters, articles...
- Marxists International Archive: Library of digital Marxist texts. Over 180,000 documents by almost 1000 authors, in 83 different languages.
- Decolonise Palestine Reading List and Palestine 101
Trans
- r/transdiy: Questions and resources related to Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), for trans and GNC individuals. Does not allow information about testosterone HRT.
- HRT Cafe: Resource and tutorials for transfem HRT. Link may be down.
- DIYHRT.market and their onion site (linked on their bsky profile).
- HRT Cat: Another resource for DIY HRT. Link may be down.
- Transfeminine Science: resource for original informational content about transfeminine hormone therapy.
Everything Else
- One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age: Olia Lialina digs through the Geocities archive.