#the vampire codes

[dervampireprince]

throwing my 2 cents in to say i love the moodboard idea and i’m looking forward to seeing more of them!!

throws two more at you

[dervampireprince]

i would love the moodboard idea for ur ocs fashion sense ^_^

waa well now arden and ambrose's are done

[dervampireprince]

I'd be super happy about outfit moodboards of your ocs if you feel like making them! I really love your characters and I want the way they exist in my head to be accurate to how you see them :}

okidoki person who asking about what arden would wear, he now has a moodboard section on his page on my website within the oc wiki part of the website, and i'll work on getting everyone else a moodboard up too aaaand also making pages for everyone else because not everyone has pages yet (so far just ambrose, arden, barnaby, hawthorn, johann, mathias, oscar, rudolf, satin, solas, valentine)

[dervampireprince]

Coding & Coworking: Web Communities, How to Find and Join Them

I'm so happy you guys liked the last one of these! They won't overtake the usual ASMR audio roleplays, but I'd like to try and do at least one of these a month. Indie web and personal websites, I just get so excited about them and love sharing more about them with people. There will be videos that are more coding based, but I really wanted to make one explaining web communities in case anyone was tempted to join any. And this I made this video I've made my own pixel club that's open to join and the process of making it will be in the next one of these videos. ...I forgot to make a list of all the websites I visited as I was recording and had to go back and find them all... I really hope someone likes these videos and finds them fun or educational because I sure spent 12+ just editing the websites credits onto the screen, but having visible credit for what website we're on is important to me, I hope it makes people able to visit these websites more easily. Also I've found so many more cliques and webrings since filming this so if you didn't see any you'd want to join, maybe check on my resources page and see if there is now because I update it constantly. As always let me know if you have any questions about indie web stuff or ideas for future coding and coworking videos.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Intro

0:08:37 Linking and commenting

0:30:12 Webrings

0:52:46 Cliques

1:00:06 Fanlistings

1:09:02 Misc communities

1:18:03 Pixel clubs

1:19:06 Adoptables

1:24:36 Pixel clubs (cont)

1:43:44 Drawing art for pixel clubs

2:44:42 Coding my toybox page

3:10:09 Collecting pixel club adoptables

The list of websites visited is in the pinned Youtube comment, I can't list them here as it's too many links for Tumblr to allow in one post.

[dervampireprince]

so i've been coding a website

home of: the dervampireprince fanart museum, prince's art gallery, a masterlist of resources for making websites and list of web communities, and more!

[18+, minors dni (this blog is 18+ and the art gallery and art museum pages on my site have some 18+ only artworks)]

littlevampire . neocities . org (clickable link in pinned post labelled 'website')

if you don't follow me on twitch or aren't in my discord, you might not know i've been coding my own website via neocities since june 2024. it's been a big labour of love, the only coding i'd done before is a little html to customize old tumblr themes, so i've learnt a lot and i've been having so much fun. i do link to it on my carrds but not everyone will know that the icon of a little cat with a wrench and paintbrush is the neocities logo, or even what neocities is.

neocities is a free website builder, but not like squarespace or wix that let you build a website from a template with things you can drag in, it's all done with html and css code (and you can throw in javascript if you wanna try hurting your brain /hj). i love the passion people have for coding websites, for making their own websites again in defiance of social medias becoming less customisable and websites looking boring and the same as each other. people's neocities sites are so fun to look through, looking at how they express themselves, their art galleries, shrines to their pets or favourite characters or shows or toys or places they've been.

why have i been making a website this way?

well i used to love customising my tumblr theme back when clicking on someone's username here took you to their tumblr website, their username . tumblr . com link that you could edit and customise with html code. now clicking a username takes you to their mobile page view, a lot of users don't even know you can have a website with tumblr, the feature to have a site became turned off by default, and i've heard from some users that they might have to pay to unlock that feature.

i've always loved the look of old geocities and angelfire websites, personalised sites, and i've grown tired of every social media trying to look the same as each other, remove features that let users customise their profiles and pages more. and then i found out about neocities.

are you interested in making a site too?

neocities is free, though you can pay to support them. there is no ads, no popups, they have no ai tool scraping their sites, no tos that will change to suddenly stop allow 18+ art. unlike other website hosters, neocities does have a sort of social media side where you do have a profile and people can follow you and leave comments on your site and like your updates, but you can ignore this if you want, or use it to get to know other webmasters.

to quote neocities "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."

i'd so encourage anyone interested to try making a website with neocities. w3schools is an excellent place to start learning coding, and there are free website templates you can copy and paste and use (my site is built off two different free codes, one from fujoshi . nekoweb . org and the other from sadgrl's free layout builder tool).

your site can be for anything:

a more fun and interactive online business card (rather than using carrd.co or linktree)

a gallery of your art/photos/cosplays/etc

a blog

webshrines to your a character, film, song, game, toy, hobby, your pet - anything can be a shrine!

a catalogue/database/log of every film you've watched, every place you've visited, birds you've seen, plushies you own, every blinkie gif you have saved, your ocs and stories, etc

hosting a webcomic

a fanwiki/fansite that doesn't have endless ads like fandom . com does (i found a cool neocities fansite for rhythm game series pop'n music and it's so thorough, it even lists all the sprites and official art for every character)

i follow a website that just reviews every video game based on whether or not it has a frog in it, if the frog is playable, if you can be friends with it. ( frogreview . neocities . org )

the only html i knew how to write before starting is how to paragraph and bold text. and now i have a whole site! and i'm still working on new stuff for it all the time.

i just finished making a page on my website called 'explore the web'. this page lists everything you might need to know when wanting to make or decorate your website. it lists:

other neocities sites i think are cool and i'm inspired by, check them out for more ideas of what your site could look like and contain!

website building resources

coding help and tutorials

free website html code layouts you can use if you don't want too start coding from scratch

places to find graphics and decorative images for your site (transparent background pngs, pixels, favicons, stamps, blinkies, buttons, userboxes, etc)

image generators for different types of buttons and gifs (88x31 buttons, tiny identity buttons, heart locket open gifs, headpat gifs)

widgets and games and interactive elements you can add to your site (music players, interactive pets like gifypet and tamanotchi, hit counters, games like pacman and crosswords, guestbooks and chatboxes, etc)

web manifestos, guides, introductions and explanations of webmastering and neocities (some posts made by other tumblr users here are what made me finally want to make my own site and discover how too)

art tools, resources and free drawing programs

web communities! webrings, cliques, fanlistings, pixel clubs (pixel art trades) and more!

other fun sites that didn't fit in the other categories like free sheet music sites, archives, egotistical.goat (see a tumblr users audio posts/reblogs as a music playlist), soul void (a wonderful free to play video game i adore), an online omnichord you can play, and more.

i really hope the 'explore the web' page is helpful, it took three days to track down every link and find resources to add.

and if you want to check out my site there's more than just these pages. like i said in the beginning, i recently finished making:

the dervampireprince fanart museum

every piece of fanart i've received (unless the sender asked me to keep it private) has been added to this museum and where possible links back to the original artists post of that art (a lot the art was sent to me via discord so i can't link to the original post). every piece of fanart sent to me now will be added on their unless you specifically say you don't want it going on there. there's also links to my fanworks guide on there and how to send me fanart.

other pages on my site

about me (including favourite media, quizzes, comfort characters, kins, and more)

art gallery (art i've made, sorted by month)

graphics (so far it's just stamps i've made but plan to remake this section of my site)

media log (haven't started the 2025 one yet, but a log of all films, tv, writing, music, theatre, fandoms, characters and ships i got into in 2024)

silly web pets

shrines

site map

update log

my shrines so far:

i have ones for lucifer from supernatural, sam winchester from supernatural, charuca minifigures (arcade prizes i wanted as a kid that i'm trying to finish collecting as an adult), my waifuroulette discord tcg collection. my masterlist of every lgbt+ marvel character is a wip. i love making each shrine look different and suit the character/fandom/thing the shrine is about. and then there's also:

the european musical section

i ramble about them a lot and it's no surprise there's multiple shrines for them. i fell in love with german musical theatre in 2020 and that expanded in being interested in all non-english language musical theatre and trying to spread the word of it and how they deserve to be as known as english-language musicals. one musical in particular, elisabeth das musical, is my biggest special interest so expect a very detailed shrine about that one day.

so far this part of the site includes

'enter the theatre' an interactive web theatre where you choose a ticket and that musical will play on the stage (click a ticket and the embedded youtube video for that musical will appear on the stage and play. i dealt with javascript for the first time to bring the vision i had for this page alive, it might be slow but i hope enjoyable)

elisabeth das musical webshrine [not made yet]

tanz der vampire webshrine [not made yet, might abandon the idea]

my favourite european musicals [not made yet]

a masterlist of european musicals [a wip, only two musicals listed so far, i am listing every musical and every production they've had, this was a word document i kept for a long time that i always wanted to share somehow and this page is how i'll do it. there's no other list for european musicals out there so i guess it's up to me as always /lh]

the future for my site

i will update my art gallery, the fanart museum, my media log and other collections as often as i can. there's so many more pages i want to add including:

profiles for my ocs

finish my european musical masterlist

finish my 'every marvel lgbt+ character' masterlist (i have no love for marvel or disney's lgbt+ representation nor are all of these characters good representation and a lot are very minor characters, but for some reason i have gotten hyperfixated on this topic a few times so here comes a masterlist)

make shrines for loki (marvel), ares (hades), my sylvanian families collection, vocaloid (and/or vocaloid medleys), my plushie collection, pullip dolls

make a 'page not found' page

and i have one big plan to essentially make a site within a site, and make a website for my monster boy band ocs. but make it as if it was a real band, an unfiction project (think like how welcome home's website portrays welcome home as if it was a real show). this site would have pages for the band members, their albums, merch and maybe a pretend shop, and a fake forum where you could see other characters in the story talking and click on their profiles to find out more about them. and then once that's all done i want to start posting audios about the characters and then people can go to the website to find out more about them. that's my big plan anyway. i hope that sounds interesting.

i also want to make an effort to try and join some website communities. be brave and apply for some webrings and fanlistings, and make some pixel art and join some of the amazing pixel clubs out there.

but yeah, that's my site, that's neocities. i hope that was interesting. i hope it encourages people to make their own site, or at least look at other's small websites and explore this part of the internet. and if you go and check out mine feel free to drop a message in the guestbook on the homepage, or follow me on neocities if you have/make an account.

[dervampireprince]

Love your website! I’m sure it’s far better on a computer! i saw the disclaimer at the top that it’s not designed for mobile so I’m not upset by anything being weird(like text in the wrong places). It’s still really pretty to look at, I love the night sky sort of background! /pos

Also, question, do you have a 🐼/panda anon yet? It doesn’t appear to be taken, and I’ve been sending asks more frequently than I thought I would.

oh thank you! but ooh boy yeah on mobile a lot of my text boxes are entirely in the wrong place, or what's in the box gets cut off, and they get all put out of order, and idk how to code for mobile devices, but also i hate mobile and part of what i love about the web 1.0 revival movement is the love for coding and computers and it would be very unenjoyable for me and feel antithetical to the point of me having a website if i tried to also code it for mobile.

my homepage on pc:

my homepage on a mobile phone:

if it's not on the anon signature list in my pinned post then it's not taken

ps also satin's page is done and live now

[dervampireprince]

my olrox webshrine is finished!

was the whole reason for making this that i wanted to apply to yume-ring (a webring for self-shippers) and it requires that you have a shrine to a character you love... yes BUT i had so much fun with this. i always sketch out my page layouts before trying to make them, and i was worried about if it would be possible as i still consider myself a newbie compared to others at html and css coding (i coded a little html on old tumblr themes, but have only consistently been coding in html and css to build my website for about 7 months). the only thing that got me stumped for a little was how to get the boxes to appear over the frames, because if they were underneath the scroll bars wouldn't work, but i figured it out (with the help of w3schools) and it looks exactly how i wanted it to!

it's just a simple page, but it's what i had envisioned for it. i hope it suits olrox. and while i don't expect anyone to care about my rambles describing olrox or why i like him, maybe it can be resourceful for anyone trying to find reference of him to draw as one of the boxes contains all his official art (character sheets, concept art, posters and a lot of screenshots). also some silly stamps and other graphics i made, feel free to use them to decorate your own sites and pages, crediting me for making them isn't necessary but it is appreciated.

you can take a look at the webshrine here.

... i spent too long erasing the background from that heart frame in the middle.

[18+, minors dni. areas of my website do have 18+ art so my website is 18+ only.] [my website is hand-coded using html and css code (and the occasional javascript). i proudly consider myself part of the web 1.0 revival movement which aims to get people making unique websites again to express themselves, encourages web literacy, media preservation, and is against things like constant advertisements, pop-ups, pay-walls that stop you being able to read articles, and more. if you're interesting in making your own website without limitations, coding can seem scary, but i have a page on my website called 'explore the web' that links to many resources. i learnt from neocities own tutorial, looking at other's codes, just trying to code and see what happens, and when in doubt checking web3schools. for more information on web 1.0 revival you can check out 32bit.cafe, they have lots of helpful information and resources about how to make a website, how to get ideas, how to stay safe online and more.]

[dervampireprince]

I made a Strawpage!

Ever wanted to send me art but are nervous? This way you can send little drawings anonymously (but also I hope you don't feel super nervous about ever sending me art, you can always check and refer back to my fanworks guide if you're unsure about anything). Or you can sign your name if you want, doesn't have to be anonymous.

All drawings send here will go on the fanworks museum and I might also have a separate page just for the Strawpage drawings if I get a few of them. (As in, if someone does a drawing of Ambrose on Strawpage I'll put it on the Ambrose page and on the Strawpage page).