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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

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THIS close to snapping and posting my fic in chapters

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🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 Pride march was held in Kyiv, Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of full-scale invasion. It's dangerous for big crowds to gather for a long period of time due to potential russian airstrikes, so the event was smaller and shorter than usual, but still important and powerful.

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Who would be interested in listening to me yap about truthlesssage songs and animatics i will never make to them

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In order to not bully you all forever you can have this earlier than all my other socials!!!!!

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Writing Motivation

The 15 Minute Rule

Set a timer for 15 minutes (or however long you want) and then write. Do not stop. Don't edit or delete anything. Don't hesitate. These 15 minutes are just for you and your writing. Afterwards, you can leave the work as it is, delete it, or edit it. You can either move forward with it or move on from it. But for these 15 minutes, get it all out of your system.

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Blasts you all with true old man yaoi

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Im begging Devsisters to capitalize on Sage. Its genuinely the best costume they've ever created. I'm pretty sure not a single other costume has developed a whole fucking fanbase like this. PLEASE Devsisters i will spend money if you make a player avatar with him

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"Believe him"

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Sage teasing Recluse provocatively, not expecting a response only for Recluse to just reply with, “Okay.” before dragging them both to their bedroom.

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one of my favorite things in the shadowvanilla community is people posting “shadowvanilla gender bend!” and u can barely tell the difference between their male and female versions.

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It is such a simple choice. Such a clear case of good versus evil. The underdog versus the bully.

And yet the support for Ukraine is miniscule. People would rather support the dictator, the genocidal psychopaths in the russian military. When we have proof they don't even want their own dead back. They torture and murder civilians. Target civilian infrastructure and buildings. Hospitals. Schools. Buildings that beg not to be flattened by russian bombs because they hold children. Children.

It is such a fucking clearcut choice!!!

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(c) @ art.malon

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russian attack on Ukraine. 24th-25th June 2025.

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Sage is almost as insane as Shadow Milk, BUT that insanity doesn't manifest as him killing cookies or anything, he's just weirdly fucked up about the most specific things

He'd learn restoration magic just to gnaw at himself and then heal. And not even in a self-harm way. He thinks blueberry milk/yoghurt is a great flavor actually and he's super lucky to have a portable lunch

He'd stay awake for days on end, but not because he's punishing himself or is trying to find a way to get revenge on the Witches or anything. He's just REALLY invested in the effects lack of sleep has on cookies and he's pretty sure he just found a new spell to combat fatigue. He then gets so tired he forgets the spell completely and passes out somewhere in the corner of his room. Recluse has to drag him to bed and then scold him

I hc Sage as a complete and utter loser. Which is very funny because the mortal cookies think of him as this saintly god. He's not, but he's pretty good at pretending he is. Until there's a very hot blonde man in the neighborhood. Lord help him then

The way he speaks is very old-timey by cookies standards. It's not because he's so old, he's actually had plenty of time to acclimate to the changes in language. He just thinks speaking like that makes him sound REALLY cool. But then whenever he's speaking to Recluse - a cookie that shares his lexicon, he sometimes switches to the most bastardized versions of modern slang possible just to mess with him

Hes SUCH a crazy loser i need him DEAD /aff