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.