Please contact me if any of the links stopped working, or if you know of any mirrors of these websites available in other languages. I'd like for this information to be available to the widest audience possible.
Friends
Prismarcobaleno [IT]. Cool kitty. We are good friend, internet neighbours, beta testers for each other's websites, etc. Has a collection of fun projects.
Nicky Masso [EN] - Tinkerer and thingamagick maker.
Resources
Wikipedia [340+ languages] - the free encyclopedia.
Motherfucking Website [EN] - An obvious inspiration for this site's style and philosophy.
Astronomy Picture of the Day [20+ languages, see list of mirrors] - New astronomy pictures every day since 1995. The Internet is a chaotic and everchanging place, so it makes me happy to see a website like this survive for 30 years without major changes.
What Dan Read [EN] - A man has kept a list of all books he's read from 1962 up until his death in 2025. His family has digitized that list and put it up online (also available as a searchable PDF). It's an impressive legacy that inspired me to start my own book log.
Lali Lopez and the Cosmic Fault [EN] - A colorful and chaotic comic that amazes, overwhelms your senses and also teaches you about Mixtec language and culture.
But I'm A Cat Person [EN] - A finished long-form comic I can best describe as "what if Pokemon were real, Jewish and ethically a dubious idea?"
Leif and Thorn [EN] - A long-form comic about an unlikely intercultural romance in a fantasy world. Same author as BICP. Uploads daily (!). Has been uploading daily since 2015 (!!!). Has expansive and very detailed worldbuilding, with entire side chapters dedicated to exposition. Both comics are available to buy on the author's Gumroad, in digital as well as physical form.
acdoyle.ru [RU] - a complete bibliography of every Arthur Conan Doyle book published in modern Russia, the USSR, and even the Russian Empire. Very impressive and incredibly useful resource. Also has information, for example, on various Russian Conan Doyle-related radio dramas (I had no idea there were so many!).
221b.ru [RU] - Lovingly crafted Russian-language website about the Soviet Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson movies. Has behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, articles, and much more. Despite being almost 20 years old, has an active forum.
merrisonholmes.com [EN] - Website about the BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes audio dramas, maintained by Bert Coules, the main writer of the series. Has interviews, full credits, behind-the-scenes tidbits and more.
Holmestice [EN] - A twice-annual gift exchange event for Sherlock Holmes fans, in which I've participated several times.
The Victorian Web[EN, FR, ES] - Not strictly a Sherlock Holmes website, but a great collection of all things Victorian.
A Livejournal collection [EN] of various information about the Victorian era, compiled for Sherlock Holmes fans for the purpose of writing period-accurate fanfiction.
Letters from Watson [EN] A Sherlock Holmes book club, inspired by Dracula Daily, in which you receive weekly e-mails from your good friend Watson. Run by Helen Greetham aka Jabbage, who has also made an amazing Sherlock Holmes point-and-click adventure game and introduced me to the Victorian Web and the Basil Rathbone websites listed above.