Art, Writing, & Creative Projects
Pixel Joint - Art sharing site for pixel artists
Nirakul Archives - Point-and-click exploratory site
STAY AWAY FROM DANIEL CREECH - Interactive episodic murder mystery
frenrey - 18+
Worldbuilding & Speculative Biology
Art Reference
Biology
iNaturalist - Community for amateur naturalists
Wildflower Search - Search for wildflowers by location, color, shape and time
The Gymnosperm Database - Information on conifers and their allies
A Chaos of Delight - Soil mesofauna
Tasmanian Myxomycetes - Slime moulds in northern Tasmania
Reading Material
Bees, butterflies, and bacteria: biotechnology and the politics of nonhuman friendship
Sticky lives: slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden
Untangling Race From Hair
How a female-only line of salamanders ‘steals’ genes from unsuspecting males
Games
Archival
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Has articles about a lot of obscure games
The Cutting Room Floor - Wiki dedicated unused and cut content in video games
Hidden Palace - Video game development preservation wiki
The VG Resource - Archive of game sprites, textures, models, and sounds
The Fighters Generation - All about fighting games; archives for art & characters
Zophar's Domain - Emulation, hacks, music, cheats, and other utilities
KH Insider - Soundtrack downloads
VG Music - MIDI archive
/petz_links - My personal list of Petz related sites
Emulation & Abandonware
Flashpoint - Flash game preservation project
Vimm's Lair - Trustable .rom archive for lots of games
RomHacking.net - Romhacks, translations, and other utilities
old-games.com - Info & downloads for lots of obscure 90s era games
Old Games Download - Abandonware games for download
Dolphin - Gamecube emulator
ePSXe - Playstation emulator
PCSX2 - Playstation 2 emulator
Mesen - NES, SNES, GB/GBC, PC Engine emulator
VisualBoyAdvance - GBA emulator
DeSmuME - Nintendo DS emulator
Reading Material
Fact, fiction, and fear in Ghosts and Weird
Last Armageddon (Hardcore Gaming 101)
Resources
The Internet Archive - The Internet's Largest Archival Site
restorativland - Geocities archival project
404 Page Found - Old Website Archive
Paul's Online Math Notes
How to solve a Rubik's Cube
Web Dev
W3 Schools - Tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript and more
CSS Tricks - CSS, Javascript and other tutorials and tips
MDN Web Docs - Mozilla's web development resource
98.css - CSS to imitate old UIs
You Don't Need Javascript - Lots of pure CSS workarounds
GLightbox - The lightbox I use for all my art galleries
Graphics
GifCities - The Internet Archive's GeoCities animated GIF search engine
eLouai - Lots of dollmakers
Tools
Software
Mozilla Firefox - Web browser. Better than Chromium
Clip Studio Paint - Fantastic art program, often on sale
Aseprite - Sprite and pixel art program, reasonably priced
Blender - Free, open source 3D modeler. Tons of capabilities
Blockbench - Free Minecraft-focused 3D model editor
Web Utilities
Photopea - Browser based photoshop replacement, free
EZ Gif - Online gif making and editing tool
PJ Image Inspector v2.0 - Pixel art image inspector
Dither Me This - Web utility for dithering images
waifux2 - Enlarge images while removing artifacts
TinyPNG - WebP, PNG and JPEG compression
Birme - Bulk image resizing and cropping in-browser. Super useful for making thumbnails.
Desmos - Robust online graphic calculator
Other
ImageMagick - Command line bulk image conversion/editing
OxiPNG - Command line bulk PNG compression
FFmpeg - Convert audio and video
youtube-dl - Command line bulk video download (pairs well w/ ffmpeg)
Toys
JSPaint - Old MS Paint in brower
AI Dungeon - AI generated text adventures
MeowSynth - Meow-based synthesizer
Beep Box - Online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music
Miscellaneous
Neocities
Elsewhere
Reading Material
The Hidden Histories of To-Go Container Art
My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers