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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.
Webrings I'm part of
- The Fanfiction Webring [EN] - independent websites where you can read fanfiction. There's a fandom index on the site if you're looking for something specific.
- The Focus First webring* (pending acception) [EN]- sites without annoying distractions.
Cool resources
- Wikipedia [340+ languages] - the free encyclopedia.
- The Internet Archive [EN] - Has just about everything.
- Project Gutenberg [EN] - Public domain books.
- 1 Happy Birthday [EN] - Happy Birthday songs for pretty much any name in the world, custom made by real humans.
- Based Cooking [EN] - Ad-free and bloat-free recipes.
- DIY Book Scanner [EN, ES] - Tutorials, tips and examples on building your own book scanner.
- Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy [RU] - Huge, ancient (started in 1996) and very valuable website about Soviet and post-USSR science fiction and fantasy writers. I usually go there to look at Kir Bulychyov book illustrations, but there's tons of other great stuff. Technically there's an English version of the site, but it's horribly outdated compared to the Russian pages, so I don't recommend going there. Better open up the original version and use a translator (or learn some Russian - what better cause to learn a new language than the prospects of great literature!)
- Cosmic Voyage [EN plus a few more languages] - A collection of science fiction stories from different authors across the Web, taking place in the same universe.
Music and radio
- The International Music Score Library Project aka the Petrucci library [20+ languages] - Public domain music scores.
- Radio Garden [EN] - Listen to radio stations from all over the world.
- Старое радио [RU] - Collection of Russian radio productions.
- You are in Kilometer 44 - on Youtube and Telegram [RU] - Small Russian-language fiction podcast: news reports from a post-apocalyptic town. Borrows heavily from Night Vale, but with its own post-Soviet twist on it and a unique cosy vibe. Last episode released so far is from October 2024.
- stixoi.info [EL] - Enormous collection of Greek poems and song lyrics.
- The Mountain Goats Wiki [EN] - Song lyrics and tabs for the amazing band that is The Mountain Goats.
- My Analog Journal on Youtube [EN] - Vinyl mixes of rare and unique music from all over the world. A really great way to expand your musical horizons. Some of my favourite mixes: synth-pop from Cymru, pop-rock and funk from Yugoslavia, a wide selection from Turkiye, the channel creator's home. The channel often gets hit with copyright notices, so grab the videos while they're still there.
- Ffarout on Youtube [CY] - Welsh music videos.
- Peđa Radović on Youtube [EN] - Records from Yugoslavia.
Visual arts
- Line of Action [EN, ZH, ZH-Hant, NL, ES, FR] - Large collection of reference photos for drawing practice. You can just scroll through the gallery, or enable the on-site timer and practice quick sketching.
- AdorkaStock [EN] - Another excellent gallery of reference photos. Her older content is on her DeviantArt, also worth checking out.
- JookpubStock on Tumblr and DeviantArt [EN] - Yet more reference photos. It appears they have a custom website at jookpubstock.com, but as of September 2025, I was not able to access it. I usually go to the Tumblr page.
- Honest Erotica [EN] - Over 50000 works of erotic art from across countries and centuries.
- List of art reference resources that are free of generative AI by doodlemancy on Dreamwidth [EN] - A list of links much like this one, for all your slop-free reference needs.
- Pete Beard on Youtube [EN, Youtube auto-dub available for more recent videos] - Biographies and showcases of late 19th and early 20th century illustrators. Mr Beard goes out of his way with research of these often very obscure artists, and narrates in a very pleasant soothing voice.
- milksockets on Tumblr [EN] - A wonderfully curated and constantly updating personal collection of scans from various magazines of the past. The author also has a website with other cool creative projects and stuff for sale. (Both links have some NSFW content).
Tools
- Photopea [40+ languages]- Don't pay Adobe to use Photoshop, use this instead.
- doodad.dev - Tools for making cool pictures.
Inspiration
- 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.
- Wild Bread [EN] - A photography journal of bread found discarded in public. Also hosted on Neocities.
- 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.
- One Bar on (Archive of our Own) [EN] - A Groundhog Day the Musical multimedia fanfic that combines text, comic panels and interactive elements. I love seeing people use CSS on AO3, and this fic in particular is a good reminder for me of how powerful even simple web coding can be.
- Closed Loop System (on Archive of our Own) [EN] - Another AO3 web coding marvel - Murderbot Diaries fanfic which is also a game of Minesweeper you can actually play. I haven't actually read this one in full yet cause I'm planning to read the source material first, but I'm told you can totally read and enjoy this fic without reading the Murderbot Diaries.
Webcomics
- 17776: What football will look like in the future [EN, RU] - The best football article you'll ever read. Best viewed on desktop. Available in Russian thanks to Alisa Aprelskaya and Katabasia.
- 20020: The Future of College Football [EN, RU] - The sequel to the best football article you'll ever read. Available in Russian thanks to Alisa Aprelskaya and Katabasia.
- Topaz [EN] - A comic about a magical girl... woman? Man? Also available on ComicFury and as pay-what-you-want PDFs on itch.io.
- 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.
- Thistlecliffe [EN] - A story about a mysterious small town.
- Soil that Binds Us [EN] - A long-form comic about ghosts, teenagers with powers escaping forced institutionalisation, and the end of the world. Partially available in Russian.
- 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.
- Runaway to the Stars [EN] - A hard sci-fi story with incredibly detailed and thought-out worldbuilding. The author, Jay Eaton, also has a Neocities site with additional info about the comic's universe, like species sheets and extra comics.
- Foxes in Love on Tumblr, Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter [EN] - Cute comic strip about the daily lives of two foxes. You can also support the artist on Patreon and buy physical collections of the strips.
Games
History of games
- Historical Games [EN] - Board and street games from across history.
- Early Collaborative Games of Fantasy and Imagination [EN] - Mostly 19th century French games with a focus on collaborative storytelling.
Video games
- Flashpoint [20+ languages] - Flash games and animations, preserved by enthusiasts and available to play via their custom launcher. You can download your favourite games individually, or get the entire collection (~2.5 TBs as of September 2025, which... doesn't seem like that much considering what a cultural legacy this is).
Some of my favourite Flash games that have been preserved on Flashpoint (I've given links to where you can play these games in your browser thanks to built-in Flash emulators):
- Vertigo Gravity Llama - A platformer game about a llama who has to save the world after a golden meteor turned all the other llamas to gold. Has a hundred handmade, hand painted levels, many fun and challenging mechanics, and a catchy soundtrack. Has a sequel, Llamas in Distress, though I haven't played it yet.
- Shift and its sequels - an incredible series of puzzle platformer games done entirely in black and white. Escape each level by "shifting" between the black and white spaces the level is made of. The first four Shift games are also available on Steam.
- Primary - a platformer a bit similar in concept to Shift. In a world that's been devoid by color, you play as a character that can change colors with the touch of a button, each color granting you a unique set of superpowers.
More free games you can play in your browser
- List animals until failure [EN] - What it says on the tin. A very simple concept but surprisingly addictive. Note: the default timer has a somewhat scary animation for the last 10 seconds, you can disable it in settings.
- First Person Tetris [EN] - Maybe don't play this if you have motion sickness.
- Candy Box! [EN, plus FAQs and glossaries available in 20+ additional languages] - A classic idle web game from 2013. Collect candies, exchange them for various goods and options, embark on noble quests and slay monsters. The game uses only text and ASCII art visuals.
- Cookie Clicker Classic [EN, modern version supports 15 additional languages] - Another classic idle game from 2013, directly inspired by Candy Box! Make cookies, purchase more means of production to make cookies faster, eventually cause the apocalypse to make cookies even faster. The modern version has 13 years worth of new features and releases on multiple platforms (including a Steam release with music by C418 of Minecraft fame), but I'm linking the Classic version here as a little portal of nostalgia.
- Nested [EN] - Another project by Orteil, creator of Cookie Clicker. Explore the universe and everything in it.
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection [EN] - A collection of 40 puzzle games originally coded in 2004. You can play them in your browser, you can download them onto your Windows or Linux or Mac PC, there are Android and iOS versions. They're so tiny you could in theory fit multiple games on a single floppy disk. There are no ads or bloatware or tracking or the need for Internet connection. There's versions of popular games like Sudoku and Fifteen and Mastermind, and also more obscure puzzle games you've probably never heard of before. Its Minesweeper version will never softlock you. They're perfect.
Tabletop and roleplaying games
- Lichess [30+ languages] - A free and open source platform for playing chess online. I like that their FAQ section features the question "how do I stop playing chess so much?"
- Everyone is John [EN] - Multiple players fight for control over a single character named John. Each player roleplays as one of the many voices in John's head, and dice rolls and players' decisions determine what John does next.
Sherlock Holmes
- The Arthur Conan Doyle encyclopedia [EN] - great source of information about Sir Arthur's life, family, work and more. I mostly go there to look at illustrations from first editions of Sherlock Holmes stories, but there's a lot of interesting stuff, for example a collection of Conan Doyle's doodles, drawings and paintings.
- 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.
- Basil Rathbone: Master of Stage and Screen [EN] - Fan site about the actor Basil Rathbone from the 1930s and 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies.
- Holmestice [EN] - A twice-annual gift exchange event for Sherlock Holmes fans, in which I've participated several times.
- A Livejournal collection [EN] of various information about the Victorian era, compiled for Sherlock Holmes fans for the purpose of writing period-accurate fanfiction.
- Sherlock Shrine [EN] by fellow Neocities dweller and fantastic artist Leo. Features, among other things, this incredible Holmes and Watson dollmaker.
- 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.
- The Victorian Web [EN, FR, ES] - Not strictly a Sherlock Holmes website, but a great collection of all things Victorian.
- Ye Jacobites by Name [EN] - Again not a Holmes site, but adjacent as it's about British 19th century literature. A fansite about Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped novel and other literature about the political movement of Jacobitism. A fellow Neocities dweller.