This is a collection of sites, software, and other points of Internet interest that I dig.
My Trinkets, Toys, etc. section now has its own page.
denotes a favorite link.
Numerical
A to E
- 10015 all the online tools ever
- 750 Words for jotting down whatever's on your mind.
- Affinity Suite Photo, Graphic, and Page suite.
- archive.today Webpage capture.
- A Writer's Path is a blog full of great writing advice
- The Bad Space is a moderation tool to aid Mastodon admins in reducing harm from... gross stuff.
- Black Centered Picrew is a avatar-maker that actually has the result look like me!
- Black Girl Nerds "The intersection of geek culture and Black feminism."
- Black Nerd Problems sees media and culture through a Black lens.
- Blavity I get most of my news from here!
- Chani Nicholas Where I get my daily horoscope.
- Chipmusic dot org A Forum for Chipmusic enthusiasts and artists.
- ClassicPress returns WordPress to its pre-Gutenberg-block era.
- Creative Uncut I still use this to look at video game art.
- Daily Science Fiction has a huge archive of short sci-fi stories.
- Diversify Streaming A Twitch team dedicated to spotlighting PoC creators.
- Dreamwidth A fork of classic Livejournal.
F to J
- Fem the Future "creates opportunities for young women and girls in music, arts, and education."
- Fffuel lots of free SVG generators!
- Final Fantasy VIII is the Best ok but it is tho
- The Font Library is a good alternative to Google Fonts, where you can browse and use fonts for your projects.
- GameFAQs continues to be there for me when I'm stumped on something.
- Geeks of Color houses diverse voices on geek culture and trends.
- Get Your Words Out where you can pledge goals for your writings, and have community support.
- I am Black Sci-Fi lets you know everything new in the Black sci-fi community.
- IKEA Hackers showcases user submitted customizations of IKEA furnitire.
- Improbable Island is a long-running browser RPG where weird silly shit occurs.
- Inkscape for creating vector images.
- Internet Archive A Library of online media catalogued.
- itch.io has indie games for a variety of platforms.
- Just Add Color "analyzes the intersection between representation and pop culture."
K to O
- Krita A solid program for digital painting.
- The Lemons Yup, that Beyonce's "Lemonade" fanfic.
- Macross Mecha Manual A fansite for the mechas from the Macross franchise.
- Meteor Speedruns "[works] for diversity, equity, and inclusion in speedrunning."
- Moogseum the crowning achievement of the Bob Moog Foundation.
- National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo, occurs yearly for the month of April.
- Nebula hosts content of video essays, news, and various topics.
- Nerds of Color where fans give cultural analysis of geek and nerdy fandoms.
- Ooh.Directory for when I just want to browse and explore.
- Overclocked Remix is the biggest online community for video game remixes!
P to T
- Pronoun Dressing Room Input and try out different pronouns!
- Pronoun Game Select a pronoun to view examples of its use.
- Rainwave Radio plays tracks from video games, chiptune artists, VG covers and remixes.
- Rogule: "A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away!"
- Sadgrl.Online has a lot about The Internet and its tech.
- Scans Daily because it's never just you.
- Silk you can visit for a calming, chill experience.
- Sistah Scifi is your portal to the newest afrofuturist media.
- Stop Killing Games is petitioning for video games to not turn into paperweights once support ends.
- The Spriters Resource A giant archive of VG sprites.
- The Storygraph GoodReads alternative (and Black-owned!)
- This Museum is Not Obsolete "Obsolete and experimental technology" is their focus.
- Tildes A slower-paced forum.
- Tile-able Website Backgrounds
- Twine "An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories."
U to Z
- Unicorns-R-Us is always in my backpocket for... reasons.
- Video Game History Foundation's mission is to preserve and remember video game history.
- Video Game Music Database has just about every soundtrack, composer, and video game tune under the sun. Also flags bootlegs and album variants.
- Video Game Sprites.net Extensive sprites of our spritey darlings (Earthbound, FFT, Mario, Final Fantasy, Mana series).
- Yesterweb While the community portion is on indefinite hiatus, there is still a lot to read about the "core web" and a manifestro to do better.