useful websites i forget about when i actually need them
Good News Network - exactly what it says, good news only from all around the world
you feel like shit - the website asks you questions that guide you through the process of figuring out why you might be feeling unwell right now
information & research & books
Z-Library and Library Genesis - a place to find & download books, scientific articles, etc. very useful especially for academic purposes
Archive - the Internet Library to know and love. Also, Internet Wayback Machine - lets you access ‘screenshots’ of websites etc that no longer exist (or shows you what they used to look like)
Asexual Research - a user-created and updated Zotero repository of academic asexual research
Recommend Me a Book - lets you read a page from a book with the cover, title, and author hidden. You can reveal the book information with a click
Whichbook - helps you find a book to read based on several categories: mood & emotion (comes with sliders), books from… (world map; click on the map, select a continent and a country, and browse), and character & plot (sections: race, age, sexuality, gender, plot)
writing & writing prompts
Calmly Writer Online and ZenPen - online minimalistic writing software, both come with such handy options as dark mode and manually saving your progress. Calmly comes with several preferences you can adjust, ZenPen lets you set up a target word count.
Tip of My Tongue - helps you find the word you’re thinking of so you can carry on (sections: partial word - starts with…, contains…, ends with…; letters - unscramble, must have, can’t have; word meaning - word 1, word 2, word 3; and refine search - min. length, max. length, sounds like…)
Prompt generator - generates multiple writing prompts for you, you can refresh each section separately or everything at once (sections: genre, setting, relationship, period/time, profession, book/movie/show au, theme, fantasy/sci-fi, prompt idea, dialogue idea)
OTP Fluff Generator - generates one fluffy ship-oriented prompt at a time
Fic Prompt Generator - SFW and NSFW version (sfw sections: setting, genre, trope, prompts; the nsfw one has a bonus kink section)
Fanfiction Bingo - generates a bingo card with tropes for you to write. “clean” (sfw), “dirty” (nsfw), and “mixed” options available to choose from at the bottom of the page (the default is “mixed” so if you want sfw tropes, change it right away)
A Prompt of Our Own beta - ao3 tags generator that looks like an actual ao3 fic page. generates 3 ao3 tags/tropes and a title. available options: exclude nsfw, include nsfw, only nsfw. in this version you can input the fandom and the “/” (romantic) ship characters. if you want more tags, i recommend using together with:
ao3 tag prompt generator - type in the number of tags you want to generate and click “???”. currently the generator doesn’t exclude nsfw or potentially-triggering topics
show all tumblr tags - type in a tumblr blog handle and it’ll show you a list of all the tags that have been used (takes a while to load the tags up)
GeneratorMix - a website full of different random generators
Online OCR - extracts text from an image or a pdf file
TuneFind - gives you a list of songs/music used in TV shows (per episode), movies, and games
midomi - find the song stuck in your head by humming or singing it
waifu2x - lets you upscale images/artwork 1.6x or 2x with minimal quality reduction (works best on lineart)
WindowSwap - “open a window somewhere in the world”. people all around the world record/take photos of the view outside their windows and share them on this website. to enjoy for free just close the pop-out that informs you of unlimited access option. chill to look at