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[trappedinacomputer]

Water: "when I was making a character, since I'm gender fluid, I was deciding whether to make a man or a woman and who I would Yuri or Yaoi with..AND THEN IT TURNED OUT I BECAME PART OF THE ONLY STRAIGHT SHIP ON THE SERVER, SO-"

[feefal]

Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~

[feefal]

And her sister, the moon! Always going through some sort of phase🌙

[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.)

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[cartoonrival]

YOU ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE MADE TO SPEND AN ETERNITY TOGETHER. IT IS THE UNIVERSE'S CRUEL JOKE.

[cartoonrival]

this is already ending up on blogs with tag systems that involve fonts, which is fine, but let none of us forget that this was said by HER

about THEM

[gremnda]

yay toxic yuri ^-^!! can i get a wahoo

[gremnda]

yay toxic yuri ^-^!! can i get a wahoo

[gremnda]

i am so eepy sleepy please have this tiny art dump and ignore the designs are different in each frame

[rozadoesart]

Don't you want to become a cult leader?

[maggotfeed]

watermunch im so sorry but if your expecting monogamy from badboyhalo of all people that is not going to happen

[octagon-08]

[backfromtwitterforw]

I've always felt like character!Bad's love language has been gifts and acts of service. He loves feeling helpful. He'll be here for you, be it just to listen when you feel sad or to make you the best armor you've ever seen.

And yes, people might not show gratitude for his time and generosity, but he doesn't care, because that's his way of showing his friendship and he enjoys it!

So saying no to tr!aimsey, tr!ros and tr!tina (three people he cares about so deeply) was really painful for him. You can clearly see how he tries everything not to say no. He tried finding excuses, saying how tr!ros plotted to kill him, maybe hoping she'd say sorry or at least explain herself. Even if he knew tr!ros would have made a fake apology in order to get a reward out of it, I'm sure it would've been enough for tr!bad to make a new armor right away.

Then he wanted to set a very expensive price, so tr!aimsey would've been the one to say no in the end.

Even when tr!water showed him how he was providing the tools to hurt himself, he felt difficult to plainly say "no".

He loves being the one to provide and it hurts him to feel useless. I'd even argue that ofc he was mad at tr!water for walking around without armor, but also a bit because she asked tr!aimsey to help her with that and not him. (But that's my take, I can be very wrong here) It's not jealousy per say, but if his friends find help elsewhere, will they stay his friend?

In his low self-esteem vision of himself, his generosity is definitely something he thinks add value to his personality (cf that time on qsmp talking with q!tina where q!bad said people only put up with him, paraphrased). More often than not, people took advantages of that, but oh well! Does it matter the reasons why they hang out with him as log as he's not alone?

[monrehc]

Despair.

[exbotmallow]

tr!bad feels SOO safe with tr!water. he reads tr!bad like a children's book. he doesn't question tr!bad's intentions, and has a much more similar mindset to him than any of the others surrounding his domain.

in fact.... tr!bad feels SO safe with tr!water....

that he accidentally just told him that tr!ros asked to be killed.

[tr!bbh centric, long(ish) post]

tr!bad has never sounded this frantic before. not even when tr!zam and tr!sneeg popped his one-shot protection yesterday. he is tripping over all his words, and fumbling every bit of information where he even sounded confident in things he was unsure about. tr!bad tried to jump through hoops and say he fumbled his words and was getting mixed up, but the whole reason he even felt safe with tr!water in the first place is that she understood him. and boy, does she understand that he is a liar, and a bad one, too.

tr!water has, generously, offered to play tr!bad's game of pretending she believes him. but regardless of their little game, tr!bad said what he said, and tr!water knows what she heard. this is good for tr!bad, who i assume trusts her to not tell anyone since its clear he didnt want to share with anyone.

this begs the question- is the deal broken? tr!ros told tr!bad not to tell anyone anything as a part of the deal, and tr!bad let it spill as easy as telling an old friend you found a quarter on the sidewalk. however, he tried to back track, and even if he said it, he said he misspoke. but then again... tr!water believes him 0%. so what now?

if the integrity of the deal is that tr!bad can slip around accidentally saying it by implying whatever he said was a mistake, then perhaps nothing. its over and done because he never said anything he meant and hasmt said otherwise. but...

if the integrity of the deal lies in the fact that tr!water clearly doesnt believe that tr!bad lied about what he said, then perhaps we will see the consequences of breaking one of his deals for the first time. hes so strict about it- clearly he knows what happens, right? he is so strict about not breaking his deals, it was believed that he physically couldnt. but now? whatever's holding him back from breaking his deals seems like it could be closer to fear.

regardless of whether tr!bad will see the consequences of his actions, someone knows now. someone knows that tr!ros asked to be killed. even if tr!bad is lying to himself and everyone else. and it must feel so freeing, even if frankly, frightening with impending doom about the consequences, to finally have someone know that tr!bad didnt just kill tr!ros for nothing.

she asked. he didnt want to.

but what is death if not merciful to those he cares about? especially when he already knows he is in sight.

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

I just realized there has been accidental foreshadowing of Bad killing Ros since she came back from The Null. Bad talked with Foolish about their concerns with Ros, Aimsey and Pangi and they both agreed if they don't improve they may have to try killing them to fix them. They agreed that killing would be the last resort but they couldn't rule it out. Bad and Foolish both did try various methods to try and bring Ros's memories back and cure her timesickness but none of it worked. Killing Ros was always the last resort to try and help her. Bad even told Joe Broski Prime that Ros was never the same after The Null and part of why he killed her was that he hoped this would finally fix her timesickness. Bad didn't plan to kill Ros but when she came to him fully set on dying he already knew this may have been the outcome from the start. He did his best to help her in his own ways and even at the end he still tried to ask her if this is what she really wanted. Ros knew what she was doing when she asked Bad of all people to kill her. She knew he was one of the only people who would be willing to kill her and she was right. Bad didn't want to and tried to avoid it but he has been willing to for awhile.

Do you think Ros reminded him of when he slowly died from radiation poisoning from a nuclear explosion? The way he got more and more lost and forgetful? The way he tried to hide that anything was wrong? The way he would deny anyone who wanted to help him? The way he died alone in a field with no one around? I think I really do understand why he was willing to kill her even if he didn't want to.

[gremnda]

This means war.

Heyaa i'm Finally done with this comic lMAO- i got the original idea that for a split second, tr!Bad sees tr!Lukey as Dapper and tr!Sneeg as the code monster before flying away and pulling stasis from the lovely Mae on twitter. Here's their post! This scene was absolutely insane and i think you can very well see the grip it had on me kjkskks

A huuge thank you to my brother @icarusthecryptid for helping me out with the perspective on this one!! He's an amazing artist, everyone follow him please <3

[comradeboyhalo]

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