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Poems

Should these be in the bard's library? Eh, probably. But she doesn't quite appreciate the magic found in them. Poetry is a particular area of inspiration for me. They are very similar to spells, imo.

This is my collection of poems I really like, for one reason or another. All the descriptions are just my interpretations as an interpretation is the only way to describe a poem without reading it outright.

Essays & Articles

So these should probably also be in the bard's library, but I prefer them being in the lair so here they shall be. I wrote briefly about my love of nonfiction in the grimoire, and it seemed like a shame not to share.

I read all kind of essays, articles, and memoirs. Some are silly, some are angry, some are poetic, most are about life in some way. They feature all kinds of topics, some of which might require niche knowledge.

Video essays are not included in this section, though they can be found in the next one.

More essays on next page...

Nerd Shit Videos

I'm one of those nerdy people who watches educational videos on youtube. I don't know man; learning is fun. Many of the videos I watch are on culture, society, and history.

(I also watch videos about math, physics, science, etc., but I probably won't include any of those unless someone asks.)

This section will probably be fairly difficult for me to keep up to date, but I will certainly try.

Playlists

I love a good youtube playlist, especially the themed ones. This is my primary way of finding new music as I'm taking my own advice and not letting bots tell me what to listen to. Finding youtube playlists made by real people are a great way to do that.

Generally speaking, I go for playlists that are all in one video. I check for things like AI playlists, so don't worry about that. My music tastes are very strange and varied, so sorry about that.

Am I exposing myself? Why do I feel like I'm exposing myself?

Also some tips if you wanna find human playlists yourself: One, make sure it's listing the name AND artist of each song. If it's not, it's probably "AI". Two, if the poster claims to be making the music (or even if they aren't), check their channel. It takes time to make music, so if they're posting entire playists every few days? Probably "AI". Three, check the comments. Sometimes you simply have to crowdsource some braincells and if a bunch of people are agreeing that it's "AI", it probably is.

Webbed Sites

Most of these are not indie web sites. Those can be found in the "Mages of Inspiration" section in the lair's main page. Press "Return" and scroll to the bottom for that.

As it is, this section is for any site I found cool, useful, or funny.

17776 is multimedia story about sentient space probes and immortality and future football. I love it. It makes something is my little history nerd heart full.

This is a story that understands humans and how they actually work. This is a story that understands why outer space is a lie.

Low Tech Magazine is a magazine site run entirely off of renewable energy. As such, it occasionally goes down due to long periods of cloudy weather. I honestly think that's neat and would do it myself if I had the space or money.

They write articles about history, science, and culture. Usually, the articles are discussing how we can reorient our lives to be more sustainable and comfortable using methods from our past.

Philsophy Experiments is exactly what it says on the tin. It's a website full of interesting quizzes and such that test theories of human behavior. It also has explanations for the results you get.

Personally, I find things like this fascinating and spent quite a bit of time looking through the site.

Webbed sites continued on next page...

The Bone Folder is a site on neocities that I could not find a button for, thus it goes into the spellbook. I personally feel it deserves a spotight anyway.

I find the writing there very insightful and honestly some of it changed my brain chemically. I think differently now.

Postcrossing is a website for sending and receiving postcards from strangers. I haven't signed up yet, but I want to desperately.

The Library of Babel is an infinite library that techncally contains every written work of humankind: past, present, or future. Most of it is just gibberish though.

This is just a fascinating concept to me. You can search sequences of words and it'll take you to that page of that book, so I've often had the thought of writing a story that links to various quotes and phrases in the library as relevant. It'd be a fun project, I think.

Squid WTF is a music downloader. I'm not really fond of streaming and thus all the music I listen to on my phone as MP3s. I would buy cds and such, but I am poor lmao.

doom.haus is a website that decays. More than the site itself, the thing I find interesting is the reason behind it.

Linklings.club is a directory of folks on the indie web categorized by their interests. It's made to help you find and make friends, though I'm not sure how well it accomplishes that goal. But it is a great way to find new websites that align with your interests. You can submit your own website to be added to the list as well. I haven't done mine yet, but I'm hoping to soon.

The Useless Web is a website that takes you to useless websites. Frankly, I think the name is a bit of a misnomer because I did actually find a few of the websites useful, but I'm a nerd so what do I know.

If you'd like to support local bookstores, try Bookshop.org. It lets you order books online without giving money to big companies like Amazon. They sell physical books and ebooks, so you have no excuse not to go to them. (Also, for clarity's sake, I am NOT an affiliate or being paid to link them. I just think it's neat.)

Graphics

Various resources I use for collecting graphics.

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Images

Various resources I use for collecting images.

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Coding Resources

Various resources I use to learn coding.

32-bit Cafe's resource list is kind of THE list to go to when you're looking for something. It is collaborative and MASSIVE, so it is always being added to.

My beloved MDN has documentation for HTML and CSS. I use this all the time to figure out how to us new properties, elements, whatever. You can search for specific things, or trawl through the big list in the sidebar until you fnd omething that sounds about right. (Which I do A LOT admittedly.)

I no longer host my site on Neocities, but I used this guide to set up Git so I could edit my site from VSCodium. And actually, I used it when I moved my site to NearlyFreeSpeech as well, I just had to do a lot of fiddling to get it to work.

Various Other Useful Bullshit

The HTML entity encoder/decoder that I use to make updating my rss feed less painful. And the time converter I use to date the entries in my feed.

A typing site that gives you random quotes to type. I use this to test my keyoard when I do repairs or when I'm changing up the audio cues I have set up for it. (My keyboard makes very satisfying typewriter noises to inspire me to write more, but I actually have a lot of different sounds I can use.)

A fashion guide that tells you what all the different shapes and silohuettes of various garments are called. I'm really into fashion, but not super literate with the terminology so this helps a lot when I'm looking for something specific.

A text generator that have weird and funky fonts for aesthetic purposes. I use it when writing certain characters that have an otherworldly presence. This site also has a bunch of different kinds of text generators so check that out if you're interested.

Rubber Duck Debugging is a site where you can ramble at a rubber duck to get your thoughts in order. The duck even spins.

Made by Me

Various things I've made myself. Hoping to make more templates.

Coming Soon...

Credits

The code is from LEVIATHREN