So I was trying to think of some other pages to list on the left to make some more tetris blocks and all, and it occurred to me "Hey! I should make a list of links to sites I like! That's an essential feature of any personal website!"

Then I realized I really... couldn't think of any. Almost everything nowadays is on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr... on a social media site, basically. Which isn't what these kind of lists of links were for. It was sort of a sobering reminder of just how much is corraled into those few spaces.

But! Not EVERYthing is on one of those sites! Personal websites still exist, you just have to work a little harder to find them. It's worth the effort to seek them out though! There's really nothing like browsing through someone's personal website. It's such a different experience than someone's blog or twitter or what have you. I like thinking of it like a little treasure hunt, especially when it comes to fanart sites. If you don't know how to start, How to Surf the Web has a lot of great resources for finding and exploring personal sites!
(By the way, if you want to make your own website, you can set up a free one at Neocities.org! No ads either! Making sites is fun, everyone should do it.)

• Zi's Ukagaka Hub
  • In case you haven't noticed I LOVE GHOSTS AND UKAGAKA STUFF and Zi has figured out SO MUCH COOL STUFF and made so many cool feature and games and neat things, so if you're into ghosts at all you should definitely check it out!
• Azura Levidre's Website
  • Another site about ghosts! Levi's figured out a lot of stuff about ghosts and has tutorials about how to code certain things up for them that are really cool!
• Cameron's World
  • A nostalgic, melancholy recreation of the aesthetic and feel of the old 90s internet. Complete with embedded music! Beautiful in its own gaudy way.
• Jazaaboo
  • LOOK AT MY FRIEND'S SITE AND HER PRETTY ART
• Legends of Localization
  • Absolutely fascinating, detailed breakdowns of the translations for a lot of different games and the whole process of localization. There are so many cool things on this site, it's hard to even name them all! The EarthBound section is super cool in particular.
• The Gallery of Regrettable Food
  • Terrible recipes from the 60s and 70s. I'm glad this site is still up after all these years.
• *GIFYPET*
  • Build your own little virtual pet for your website! Don't have a website? MAKE ONE SO YOU CAN PUT ONE OF THESE ON IT
• Nature of Nature's Art - Secretary
  • A site with several very long, very detailed comics about certain concepts, often focused on animals or nature in some way as you can probably guess. Secretary is the primary one I go back and reread every now and then, it's very haunting.
• Anansi's Goatman Story
  • I've read a lot of dumb creepypasta but I've always really liked this one.
• vgperson's 2ch translations
  • A lot of cool little translated stories from 2ch in here. The Saga of Denko is particularly good, and the Kisaragi Station one is very creepy.
• SAD SACK (18+)
  • An incredibly long graphic novel a friend of mine wrote/did the prelims for, it's a disturbing psychological study of five incredibly messed up people, but it is also EXTREMELY VIOLENT AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT and NOT for the faint of heart.
• The F Plus (18+)
  • A podcast that reads terrible things on the internet that I listen to all the time. I'm actually even a guest reader in some episodes!
• The Ur-Quan Masters
  • A free port of the old DOS game Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters! A game I love to death. Fun trivia: some of my art is on the installation screens!
• Conjure Oils
  • I always liked the perfumes I got from here, and the sellers were very nice when one of my orders was really late... I'm not sure if they're still selling, but it wouldn't hurt to ask if something there really appeals to you, haha.
• irgendetwas seltsames - something weird
  • A German/English site all about ukagaka, with some really great in-depth info on its origins and where all the terms came from! Has a great database of currently existing ghosts, and some in German too!
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Episode Guide
  • A really pretty list of episodes for MLPFiM along with filters and links and information and everything. :O It looks so nice.
• Yabiko
  • A little known fact is that I was SUPER into the Petz games as a kid (Oddballz too), and this site has a lot of cool under-the-hood info and resources about Petz 4 and 5!
• [BAD_DEATH]
  • A neat site with a ton of really impressive hex edited petz for Petz 4, along with textures and clothes and all kinds of things!
• RX Queen V7
  • Some really cool and creative layouts here for all sorts of little mini-shrines and pages! A lot of fun to browse through.
• Key's Clubhouse - Teeny Towers
  • There's lots of fun blinky things and stamps and decorations for your page here, but the Teeny Towers ideas is very cute! I might make some rooms for it if I get the inspiration someday.
• Ted's Caving Page
  • A classic, infamous creepy story that is still one of the gold standards for internet spooks, if you ask me. Simple but very effective. A lot of modern creepypasta wishes it could have this kind of staying power.
• spooky scary skeleghosts
  • A charming collection of random spooky things. I like the personal touch, haha.
• The Property of Hate
  • A webcomic I like set in a weird fantasy world with a strange true nature! A lot of fun characters and visuals, haha.
• Miss Moss
  • Lots of fun little things here, including a Teeny Tower and a fun monster maker! And some in-depth breakdowns of some analog horror series. Makes me smile.
• draco's super swag website thingy
  • A lot of fun little adoptables, some games, and a great resource page with a ton of links for html and css effects! Everything helpfully credited too for maximum link surfing, haha.
• polygondwanaland
  • Another cool petsite with fun hexed breeds and toys, including some fixes for some of the original breeds about mutations and coloring and behaviors! Lots of neat stuff here.
• The Geocities Gallery
  • A very cool kind of living museum that made a gallery of old Geocities sites that tried to repair their links and connections, so you can browse through them like it's 1999!
• Emotion
  • Do you miss the old fan shrines for various characters and media that typified the old internet? They're still out there! Emotion is a great directory for a whole bunch of very pretty and well-made shrines from all sorts of games and anime. Lots of fun things to find here!
• Amassment
  • If you're still thirsting for more fun fan-shrines, Amassment has another big directory of them! There's nothing like browsing through a good fan shrine when you're down. Beautiful layouts on a lot of these!
• Birds and Stars
  • A very cute site with a lot of positive vibes! Includes pages for when you need to calm down when you're freaking out and one with stuff to cheer you up if you're sad. There's a lot of stuff here! Including a whole host of links to sites with a similar cute pixel aesthetic if you're into that, haha.
• Margo's Beadie Critter Collection
  • Did you ever make little bead geckos back in elementary school? I did! This site offers lots of cool patterns for making all kinds of little bead critters. It's adorable!
• Jazz Pizzazz
  • A site dedicated to the iconic paper cup design. You'll know it when you see it!
• Ian's Shoelace Site
  • Want to zazz up your shoelace ties? This site has you covered! All the shoelace information you could ever want, haha.
• othatsraspberry
  • Tons of great little Metal Gear and Silent Hill related little comics. :D

• Full House Reviewed
  • A blog with increasingly angry reviews of each episode of Full House. I've never even seen Full House and I keep coming back and rereading the reviews when I'm bored.
• Shadyside Snark
  • A blog reviewing a lot of the RL Stine Fear Street books for teens back in the 90s.
• Blogger Beware
  • A summary of every Goosebumps book, including the twist! I reread this site constantly, I had way too many Goosebumps books as a kid, haha.
• Slacktivist's analysis of the Left Behind books
  • A very thorough breakdown of the various philosophical and theological problems with the Left Behind series of books. Really thought provoking I think!
• Hardcore Gaming 101
  • I miss when this site had a more simple black background/white text set-up with easy links but that's not very suited to the modern internet I suppose, haha. Anyway, this has very in-depth reviews of some pretty obscure games, including their development history or cultural impact. Interesting stuff!

• Sketch Daily Reference Site
  • Randomly generate images of all sorts of things for sketch exercises or reference purposes! You can set how long the image displays, what the models are wearing, how many there are... very flexible and good for sketch exercises!
• SenshiStock Sketch
  • Another site like the above! This one has a bit less specificity in the models, but is great for just jumping in there for some quick figure studies.
• HD Index Painting in Photoshop
  • A really fascinating tutorial on how to get a certain pixel art look on images using Photoshop. It's a really cool way to get pixelization in real-time while you're working on something.
• Writing Realistic Injuries
  • Mostly a resource for any fic you may be writing where people get thumped around, haha.
• Comparing Heights
  • A quick tool that lets you put in two different heights and it'll automatically adjust two models so you can see them side by side. Helps to visualize what a height difference may actually look like.
• Paintberri
  • An art site along the old Japanese oekaki boards where it's easy to add comments or art to existing works. Good for visual roleplaying?
• BrashMonkey's Spriter
  • Spriter's a program that can animate pixel art smoothly through bones and pieces and things like that. It used to be free but I'm not sure if it is still... it was very cool when I messed with it though.
• Birdfont
  • A program that'll let you edit and make your own fonts. Handy for art purposes!
• Food Timeline
  • A site listing the timeline of when each type of food was created! So if you want to make sure a food would exist in the time period you're writing in, you could check it here.
• Reference Angle
  • Great resource for finding a specific angle on a human face for an art project.
• Animal Photo Art References Search
  • Another great resource for looking up various animal skulls to find pics of that animal at that angle!
• waifu2x
  • A quick app/site that'll take an image and blow it up to 2x or 3x its size with minimal distortion. Super handy for me since I draw things so tiny constantly.
• Paletton
  • A cool site that'll help you come up with color schemes for you to use, or help you figure out what's off in whatever color scheme you're currently playing with.
• Work tracker
  • Little app that keeps track of the time you're working in a program, and turns off when you're not. A good way to see just how long you've been working on something.
• ComicControl
  • A simple way to host a webcomic on a site without using Wordpress. I'd use this for Handplates but eh it seemed like a lot of work, but I want to hang onto it since I might use it someday.
• picoCAD
  • A free tool that lets you build tiny low-res 3D objects!
• Bodies in Motion
  • Another reference site, this time focusing on movement.
• Line of Action
  • Another reference site! With specific sections for hands and animals and such.
• Face Lighting
  • A 3d Model of a head you can change the light source on to keep track of where light would fall on what part!
• domino
  • A neat tool where you can make a bunch of visual cards of various ideas to sort of map out a project you're working on, like a fic or a program or something.
• Open source/experimental/tiny tools roundup
  • A huge list of various little programs for games or projects!
• The wonderful world of tools
  • Another huge resource for a bunch of little tools for games and such!
• Smear FX
  • A neat program for adding smear effects to pixel art, it does cost money though.
• Tiny Tools Directory
  • A very fancy directory for a bunch of little software tools for all kinds of things! Clearly tagged so you can find exactly what you need for your website, game, or interactive project!
• Kidpix
  • Opensource version of Kidpix you can play with right in your browser!
• Gifcam
  • Super easy and fast way to make gifs of something on your screen. Can set the framerate and size of the gifs no sweat!
• Ezgif
  • Been using this lately to edit gifs or stitch some together from screencaps, pretty quick and convenient.
• RV's free Javascript/DHTML effects
  • A lot of fun scripts for adding little flairs to your website! Including the classic cursor trails, raining snowflakes, bubbles, animated text, and all sorts of little fun touches.
• Using CSS to create a CRT
  • Use CSS to give your website a cool old CRT feel! For nostalgic TV purposes or if you want to get that old computer terminal look, haha.
• Ninique's Dollmaker Script
  • Make your own mini-dollmaker!
• Windows 98 Icon Viewer
  • Need Windows 98 icons for whatever reason? This site has you covered!
• Word to HTML
  • If you're working on your own site but don't know much about html or how to format it, this site can help! Just format things as you like in one box and it'll spit out the appropriate html code in the second, ready for copypasting into your site.
• youtube-dl
  • If you're willing to learn some command line stuff, this is a really handy tool for backing up any youtube video you want to grab before it gets deleted! Works with a lot of other video sites too.
• Lightshot
  • Simple and easy program that'll let you take a screencap of your desktop and save it somewhere! Really handy if you want to show someone something real quick.
• oh-hi.info
  • A collection of photos of people's outfits as they go about their day to day life. Handy for looking up clothing or outfit ideas!

• OverClocked Remix
  • A whole bunch of videogame remixes spanning years and years! If you like a game there's a really good chance there's a remix for it on here, haha. They also have several albums for free!
• Dwelling of Duels
  • Another videogame remixing site, this one focusing on live instruments and monthly challenges based on a theme!
• vgperson's Vocaloid highlights
  • I love Vocaloid music but there's just so much released all the time, I can't keep up! But vgperson curates a whole bunch of personal picks each month, which can be a great way to find new songs easily.
• Webamp
  • A site preserving the lost art of Winamp skins. I still use Winamp! I refuse to adapt.
• Every Noise at Once
  • A really cool map of lots of different genres of music that gets increasingly granular as you go down, complete with examples of each style. Great for finding new music in the specific genre that you like! Or exploring new ones that you might not know much about.
• Identify Songs Online
  • A simple site where you can upload a track and have it try and track down the artist and title. I've used this for a few mislabeled tracks on my computer and finally was able to find the correct metadata for them!
• Get Started | Learning Music
  • A fun little walkthrough site about how to make a song that lets you play around with the tools at the end.
• The Wub Machine
  • Goofy thing where you can upload a song and it'll turn it into a dubstep song.
• Emma's Homepage!
  • Lots of great music albums, soundtracks, and tools for all kinds of things here! And really fun layouts too, haha. Has a really neat php thing for generating pictures galleries on the fly.
• Sampulator
  • Play with a fun sample board!
• Patatap
  • Bang out some tunes with your keyboard!

• Hacker Typer
  • Goofy site to pretend you're in The Matrix, I'm sticking it here because I always keep losing it.
• Bad Time Simulator
  • If you want to do Sans's battle from Undertale without actually doing it for real in the game itself, haha.
• Planetarium
  • A cute little game where you can explore randomized little planets.
• Talk to Transformer
  • You can input a few sentences of text and the AI will generate more paragraphs for you and it's endlessly hilarious, I had way too much fun with this one night.
• Chibify
  • A site where you can make little chibis and order them as 3d printed statues. Fun just for messing with too!
• Petpet
  • Input a picture, get a petting gif for that picture!
• WindowSwap
  • A really cool thing where you can click randomly through different people's windows all over the world. A glimpse into other people's lives!
• GifCities
  • A search engine for GIFs from the now lost Geocities. Add that perfect retro flare to your vintage personal site!
• Retro Wave generator
  • A generator for those 80s meme text images you see around sometimes, haha.
• Sparkly Trees
  • I got a little sparkly tree from here and it brings me much joy.
• Dragon Quest: The Ultimate Game Experience
  • Go on a thrilling adventure!
• WINDOWS93
  • A silly and yet very graphically impressive collection of tiny minigames and odd little jokes, all set up like a Windows 95 desktop.
• Jurassic Systems
  • Ah ah ah!
• NekoFont
  • Do you want a font made out of cats? Who doesn't!
• Infinite Fusion Calculator
  • Fuse Pokemon for fun and profit!
• WebGL Fluid Simulation
  • Colors...
• Cat Therapy
  • Cat pictures every four seconds! Also has a goofy little cat clicker game.