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Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you'd like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

WEB CENTRIC

CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)

Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)

Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)

Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)

Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)

Generator Land (Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)

GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)

Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)

Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)

ASCII Art Archive (Database of ASCII Art, also known as text art)

Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection (Another, arguably larger, ASCII Art database)

MelonLand (A web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizins share, here at the dawn of the digital age. See their thoughts and the WEB REVIVAL they're starting.)

Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)

Districts at Neocities (Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)

Neocities Banners (Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)

Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)

88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I've seen for 88x31 buttons)

90's Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)

The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )

KNOWLEDGE BASES

Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)

Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)

Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from '96 to '06.)

The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)

Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)

CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing "consumer aesthetics" from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)

The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)

The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)

National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)

Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)

Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)

New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)

Official articles from NASA (PubSpace is NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)

Universal Hint System (Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)

Smithsonian Open Access (Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)

Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)

QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)

P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)

Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)

Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)

GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)

Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it's still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)

Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE'S MORE!!!)

The Simple Site (More links to so much more cool stuff!)

ART TOOLS

Untitled - Paint (An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)

KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art (Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)

SAI - Bootlegged (A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)

Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can't be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)

Photopea (Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)

blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don't know it's completely free to play with)

Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)

OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you're not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])

MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY

BandLab (Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)

JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)

Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)

Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)

WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)

Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)

Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)

Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)

FUN STUFF

FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues...not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer "wizzes"! No longer active but still useful.)

Windows 98 icon Viewer (Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They're all here!)

GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])

Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)

Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you're looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)

Interesting DOS Programs (A host of DOS programming, guides and links.)

Internet Archive: MS-DOS Games (8,000 games right in your web browser! Your browser can play DOOM!)

Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)

cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you're in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)

0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)

WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)

Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)

NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])

Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)

Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)

ASCII Art Generator (Make ASCII Art from any image.)

Petit Tube (Random Youtube videos with less than 10 views)

Noclip Website (Noclip around various video game maps in your browser!)

Monster Mash (Create and animate some monsters in browser! You can also download their files.)

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Supergirl #1 preview!!!

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Jackie Sabbagh, “Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”

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Sharing again in light of the new HHS report advocating for conversion therapy.

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the fact of a garden

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Image description: A poorly-rendered rendition of the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda in the American Museum of Natural History. And look, Mr. Roosevelt was progressive as far as the environment, but like pretty much anyone famous in America's history, he was a racist Ding-Dong.

So that sucks. Maybe let's not name a rotunda after him or something?

But, oh, yeah.

I was telling y'all how museums are good?

Um.

So, look.

This museum has just super fossil mounts of an Allosaurus threatening a Barosaurus and its baby (Baby not pictured), and the Barosaurus is rearing up on its hind legs and it is super super tall. I got to see it once when my friend was living in New York. I must've stared at it for 3 hours, when my friends went and did things that were less obsessive. THEN I turned around and stared at the Allosaurus for another 3 hours. The fossils are mounted on stone platforms, which are themselves settled on black stages. It's such a pretty exhibit.

I drew two spectators standing under the vaulted ceiling, gazing adoringly up at the two titans. Beneath the Barosaurus is Bob, a monster under the bed. He's a weird mix of Totoro, a big bear, and John Candy. He has brown fur with a sort of ocelot-esque coloration, but with a wide-toothy mouth, and antelope horns.

The human is a white trans woman, her brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, her head bent back to smile at the Allosaurus, who, if living, would most likely snack on her without a second thought.

She has blue denim overalls on, the legs rolled up to midcalf. She is wearing a beige, long sleeved shirt with pink stripes, and an army green backpack, with a she/her pronoun pin.

She has on headphones, and is DEFINTELY listening to the album Scoundrel Days, because the song "The Weight of the Wind" is entirely necessary for this diorama.

Then the message, Good museums invoke a sense of wonder. They teach us to think critically, and learn from the past. This is why fascists fear them.

Rebel.

Visit a museum.

Then I say I love you!

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it was not on wheat...

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In the first years of this young century, long before I had come out as trans to anyone, I had a sad comic starring my self-insert and my long-suffering roommate. It always had weird stuff.

This is one I never finished.

Until now! Image description: Panel 1: We have our beleaguered everyman, Mark W sitting on a couch, reading a book (Pattern Recognition, but there's no real way to tell in the comic). He is a fit white guy, short, dark brown hair and goatee. He is wearing a Dream Theater t-shirt and jeans. Above him stands our protagonist, Atticus Flint. He is a thin white guy, chin-length light brown hair. He is wearing overalls and a Mazinger Z t-shirt. He is holding a demolished bit of cardboard packaging, and a bracelet of some sort. He says "Hey! My Battle of the Planets wristband came! I finally get to finish my 'Mark" cosplay!"

Panel 2: We see Atticus affixing the wristband to his right wrist. He continues, "Just strap it on and say the magic word!"

Panel 3: Atticus holds his fist in front of his face, and utters the immortal command: "Transmute!" The wrist band flares with light and the Gatchaman symbol appears on the wristband!

Panel 4: We see a member of G-Force in silhouette, their winged cape extended in a nebula of blues and purples! GATCHAMAN appears over their head in VERY poorly rendered Japanese, with Jun the Swan running underneath.

Panel 5: Atticus stands proudly in a Princess costume, hands extended happily! The outfit is a pink minidress, white thigh-high boots, a white cape and opera gloves, and a helmet vaguely reminiscent of a swan's head! "TA-DA!", he says!

Panel 6: Atticus's smile is replaced by bemusement. He lowers his arms, saying, "Or... huh."

Panel 7: Atticus looks down on his very Princess-looking form, holding one arm up to sweep the cape away. "I must've accidentally ordered the wrong one!" he says. Poor Mark W is seen leaving the room in disgust, which is his go-to move. "Yeah," he says, word balloon dripping in sarcasm, "Accidentally" (that bit is in italics, the international currency of cynicism) "Whatever helps you sleep at night, Princess." he finishes, holding up a hand, the very one so often requested that we talk to.

You can see how this is all very funny.

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Your blog is titled "Purportedly Ostensible" but i don't think that combination of words actually means anything?

Supposedly? :P

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As a trans woman who feels SO comfortable in the category "woman", I am SO grateful for people who take the time to explain how it feels to not fit neatly into the much vaunted "binary". I am especially grateful when it is done with such a sweet and lovely comic such as this.

I hope this makes sense.

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I keep forget to add image text, because I am a privileged so-and-so! So here is image text: The header text reads: Trans Problems #113: Sneeze Dysphoria

First panel: A white, brown-haired woman -hair in a braid- sits at a table. There are small paint bottles of green and yellow at her right elbow, as well as an old glass jar full of water, and and a crumpled paper towel with paint stains. She is holding a paint brush in her right hand, and an unpainted Griffin BattleMech miniature in her left. A blue and yellow velociraptor snoozes on the table, as is their wont.

PANEL THE SECOND! We see our heroine scrunching up her face, clearly undergoing something unpleasant! A weak "ah-" escapes her lips. The velociraptor's eyes pop open, an obscure 7th sense alerting them to approaching danger!

3rd panel: The woman's face scrunches up even further, and her mouth opens wide. She is either having a small aneurism, or this is a lead up to a terrible sneezing (as foreshadowed in the header text). A louder "AH-" sounds through the small panel! The velociraptor looks up, frozen in place!

4th panel: A horrific "CHOO!" sounds in this panel, and for the duration of this barbaric yawp, the representation of the young woman changes to that of a huge, bald, bearded man. The velociraptor is blown off the table.

5th panel: The woman appears as her self again, her magenta hoodie blown off one shoulder. She stared in wide. blue-eyed shock at the havoc she has rendered.

6th Panel: Essentially the same scene as the 5th, but the velociraptor has righted themselves, glaring at their friend. "Bless. You." they say, but you can kinda see from their expression, they probably don't mean it as much as they probably could.

And that's the end.

Hilarious, right?

I KNOW!

Okay, I love you! Sleep well!

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what if it GETS her though 😥

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Blake Brockington’s death was overshadowed three years ago by Transgender Day of Visibility and a string of white transgender suicides (namely that of Leelah Alcorn). Let’s not forget Blake and how amazing he was at just 18 years old. He was closely involved in the trans community and was the first openly trans homecoming king in North Carolina. This year, let’s celebrate the many Black trans folks who are forgotten after TDOR while recognizing those who are still alive and fighting for all of us (like Ashlee Marie Preston, Laverne Cox, and Janet Mock)!

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I've been rather sick of late, so I couldn't give this the attention it deserves. BUT I DID MAKE IT! Please know I love you and am proud of you on this Day of Transgender Visibility, even if it only feels safe to be visible to yourself.

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Every trans woman is forced to become an expert on recognizing and dismantling fascist propaganda just to fucking survive

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EEEEEEEEE!

CRUMBLE is out February 25th!

(I'll keep baking until then.)

Written by me, drawn by the lovely @andyharvest, and published by Little Brown Young Readers.

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White MAGA is massively unqualified.