ImminentStarTribute

DNI unprompted. Stop sending me asks for money I don't have it, I'll reblog your donation posts though, crucially not from asks, I don't have enough reach to be relevant anyway. used to be DevotedlyHopefulWolf, accidentally sent screenshot with tumblr name to person from real life. going to restructure my tags to merge undertale my beloved and deltarune my beloved into utdr

[cryptidize]

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.)

[romesketches]

Seafarers

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[batcrooks]

a bunch of pokemon requests i took! i loved how random the selection ended up. every pokemon is somebody's favorite

[randomalistic]

Go

[bebsi-cola]

if you're serious about unlearning ableism (and other bigotries like fatphobia or classism) then you've got to decouple any morality from health. i mean by removing the idea of "good health" and "bad health". people can be unhealthy without that health being "bad". and people can be healthy without that health being "good". in a moral sense. because even if that might not be the primary intention of the wording, it is the implicit message that permeates down into a huge swath of judgements we make about other people

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[prower-labs]

[beezii]

mina eating a single popcorn

[fuckblast]

Where's that post that's like "are you asking me if a syndicated show from the 2000s had canonical incest" I'm trying to find it but the content matter is a bit of a search engine shifter, and more importantly, now that search is all AI, how will I ever find a post again. Tumblr search? Please

[prokopetz]

I find that my irritation at people being obtuse about what media they're talking about is directly proportionate to how popular that media is. Talking about a popular TV show or AAA game, but referring to it only by an indecipherable initialism and exclusively calling all of the characters fandom-assigned nicknames which appear nowhere in the text? Go directly to hell. Doing exactly the same thing, but it's a hyper-niche visual novel about gay robots that has exactly six reviews on Steam, four of which are the lead developer's Bluesky mutuals? Well, at least you're having fun!

[prokopetz]

It's a bit concerning the number of people in the notes who apparently don't know of any niche visual novels about gay robots. Go play Spare Parts. Go play Open Sorcery. Hell, go play HARDCODED if you're not a coward. This stuff is out there!

[datafags]

what does it say about me that i knew all three of these?

[prokopetz]

[prokopetz]

"Online fandoms used to be kinder" buddy, when I was a teenager people used to build entire websites as "hate shrines" to specific characters they disliked, then get together and form webrings entirely devoted to hating that character. A puzzling number concerned the girlfriends of random X-Men.

[mulattafury]

a long-overdue commission for tumblr friend cmshaw!

i made it nukestuck roxy just cause

commission info!

[prokopetz]

“Hard” sci-fi settings often speculate about what a confederation of star systems would look like in the absence of faster-than-light (FTL) travel; that is, settings in which the only way to travel or communicate between star systems is the long way, obeying the universal speed limit of one light-year per year.

Usually, this sort of thing focuses on what the politics and commerce would look like, but I have another topic in mind: fandom.

Imagine that you’ve just downloaded a copy of a cartoon series produced in a star system thirty light-years away. That means it’s taken at least thirty years for it to reach you (assuming minimal switching delay in whatever system is used to transmit popular media from star system to star system).

Of course, you don’t need to worry about spoilers or anything, because any commentary or reviews would have been subject to the same delay.

But what about when the fanart starts arriving?

(Let us presume for the sake of argument that there exists at least one popular fandom portal that’s designed to run as an asynchronous network across nodes in different star systems, such that it’s able to tolerate latencies of years or decades when posting new content. This is not unprecedented; the old Usenet protocols were designed to manage group discussions where individual users might only be able to connect to the network once a week, or even once a month, and a similar approach could be adapted here.)

The show was produced in a system thirty light-years away, which means that any fanart produced in its native system has also been subject to the same thirty light-years worth of latency by the time you see it. That’s not all, though: if you find an artist whose work you really love, and you want to like or comment on her stuff to let her know, your response will be subject to the same latency - a sixty-year round trip.

So: do you click that like button, knowing that there’s a very good chance the artist will have died of old age by the time the little red heart hits her inbox?

[macavitykitsune]

And now I am envisioning a fanartist’s funeral, when her device starts to go off, because all the likes from somewhere dozens of light-years away are starting to pour in. And I am having feels. Great. Thanks.

[prokopetz]

Totally. Imagine being virtually unknown on your own world, but having a massive, culturally influential fandom that you’ll never know about because it’s on a planet light-years away, and the fan feedback doesn’t begin to arrive within your lifetime!

[kreftropod]

Superquick thing. Based on THIS post.

[prokopetz]

The best thing about this post is that if you aren’t Undertale trash (and therefore totally miss the intended reference), it totally reads like it’s supposed to be a Bansky-esque faux deep criticism of mass-market capitalism. I mean, taken at face value, it’s a leering skeleton promising to raise a corporate logo as his own child - that ain’t subtle!

[prokopetz]

“Okay, so is this supposed to be a human AU version of Undyne from Undertale, or…? Oh, no, she has both eyes - must be a human AU version of Meenah from Homestuck.”

[prokopetz]

Well, she does have a six-letter name.

(Actually, a lot of the major monster characters follow the six-letter rule, now that I think of it. Undyne, Alphys, Toriel, Asgore…)

[prokopetz]

Some franchises are downright insidious in terms of how far their fanart will mutate. Like, I’m looking at a piece that’s just a bunch of anthro characters swanning around in Victorian dress, nothing obviously tying it to any particular source - and then I get to thinking, you know, it’s kind of odd that the bear is wearing a bowler when everybody else is in top hats, I wonder if there’s a specific reason for oh god dammit this is Five Nights at Freddy’s fanart, isn’t it?

[dimetrodone]

Blatent ~weird kink art~ isnt shocking to me anymore, but shit that feels fetishy but cant tell if it is or not like Constable-frozen or ASMR videos are weird and uncomfortable for me

[samael]

Several people call it the uncanny valley of kinks and I gotta agree. You’re not sure what someone was going for and it might be entirely tame but its done with such indulgence that you can never be sure and in that moment of doubt springs the sensation of off-ness.

[prokopetz]

My favourites are the ones where it looks like perfectly ordinary fanart, but one particular part of the figure has been rendered with substantially more care and attention than the rest of the piece. Bonus points if it’s something innocuous like the hands.