Bookmark Shelf

Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. A site without links is like a spider without silk, or a hollowed-out husk, much like any flies that meet said spider. I’m always tinkering here, whether I'm adding new links or replacing dead ones with archive.org URLs. Many of my lovely webbed sites are old, and at times downright decrepit. Yet their information remains valuable, even after their time has passed. For best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber with a blanket and a warm drink.

I find these links through hours of link-hopping, crawling, scuttling, and being a bit of a Fraidycat. Who needs an account to follow people when there's this and RSS? I give further credit to this site's directory section, the relics I dredge up from them and to Lutzbug for taking some off my paws for the sake of curation. There's a lot we have in common, but we've gone out of our way to keep our findings seperate; that way you have a more stirring experience. Perhaps open their page in a new tab, for when you're done here?

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  Articles


Mortality

After a young gargoyle pored through deviantART profiles of the recently deceased, a fixation with death on the internet came to be. Rest in peace, and rest online.

Name Description
Dead Internet Souls "The internet today is filled with dead souls."
Death and the Internet "A number of issues relating to the ‘digital afterlife’ are only now coming to light."
Deaths of Me "We die in pieces, in pauses, in all the things we give away just to keep existing."
How Websites Die "Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other."
Linkrot, or Website Existentialism "A broken link can be a loss but it can also be an opportunity."
Mausoleums of The Web "For most of us though, our posthumous digital footprint will be far less intentional."
on writing to exist, and website graveyards "I believe websites will be future archaeological artefacts."



Webmastery

My favourite writings on the world-wide-web. If you prefer to linger rather than post, these might be for you.

Name Description
A Guide to Web Curation "How to actually do it."
Design Tenets of my Website "When successful, the website shall transmit a feeling of "unknowable depths" to visitors."
The Slow Web "Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about knowledge."
This Page is Designed to Last "It's a small simple step for a complex sociotechnical system."
Words "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words."

  Fun Stuff


Cats

If the look of my gargoyle-self didn't give this away, I adore cats. Most of this is just funny cat pictures, but I'd love to find some more like Dibella's down below.

Name Description
Cats in Sinks Randomly generated photos of cats nesting in sinks.
Cats on Routers A compilation of cats sitting on routers.
DAFTPATIENCE's Vintage cat sewing pattern A tumblr user remakes a midcentury sewing pattern. This is the result.
Dibella Loves Cats An archive of 1990's cat graphics. Not mobile-friendly.
Infinite-Cat Cats watching cats watching cats watching...



Spooky

All creepy and cobwebbed, as is the crevices of my brain. Powder still made the cut, both for stickman murder and letting me make a giant tree so I can set it alight and watch the embers fly about the screen.

Name Description
Monster Breeder Breed monsters.
Monster Match Match monsters to kill them.
Numbskull You're helping a skull get back to its body.
Powder Chemical reactions.
TombZone Custom-made ASCII tombstones.

  Further Reading


ASCII

Now if my ASCII page didn't give it away, I love ASCII art.

Name Description
ASCII Art Archive An archive of ASCII art.
ASCII Art Dictionary Another archive of ASCII art.
ASCII Cats A small site of ASCII cats.
ASCII Painter Another in-browser ASCII maker...this time, with colour.
ASCII Periodic Table A periodic table done entirely in ASCII.
ASCII Porn An archive of pornographic ASCII art.
FUNGI A website full of ASCII mushrooms and other whimsical creatures.
IDB ASCII An archive of ASCII art.
Unicorn and Butterfly A webcomic made entirely out of ASCII.



Horror and Spooky Kitsch

Of the midcentury variety.

Name Description
Classic Horror The archives of a horror movie review blog.
Raumhaufen (Monster in My Pocket section) A website dedicated to collecting toys and figures.
Scooby Museum (New!) A museum of Scooby Doo merchandise.
The Dracula Society A website dedicated to all things Dracula.
The Gallery of Monster Toys A website dedicated to midcentury monster toys.



Linguistics

Websites about words.

Name Description
Etymonline An archive of etymology since 2000.
Onelook Thesaurus An expansive thesaurus.
The Phontistery A glossary of obscure words; going strong since 1996.
Rare Phrases A list of comically rare phrases.
Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List A large list of constructed languages



Medievalism

Growing up loving dragons and folkloric beasts inetivably led to the rest of this.

Name Description
Abandoned Communities A website dedicated to abandoned living spaces in Britain.
Capital Punishment UK A resource about Britain's history with the death penalty.
Carneycastle.com Lego recreations of real medieval castles.
Gode Cookery A network of sites about historical cooking methods.
Heraldry of the World A wiki about Heraldry.
Medieval Cookery A database of Medieval and Tudor recipes.
Medieval Music and Arts Foundation A website dedicated to medieval music and art.
Medieval Recipes A website of Medieval recipes.
The Medieval Bestiary A website that serves as a medieval bestiary.
The Medieval Pottery Research Group A website dedicated to medieval pottery vessels.



Tolkien

I have all his books in hardback!

Name Description
Ardalambion A website dedicated to Tolkien's constructed languages.
Eldamo A fanmade lexicon for Tolkien's Elvish language.
Tolkien Gateway The biggest encyclopedia for all things Tolkien.



Video Games

Text-adventures, roleplaying games, first-person shooters...and Petz.

Name Description
Anna's Archive (New!) An archive of scanned books. I use it to look at Grimtooth's Traps.
Blood Wiki A wiki for the Blood games.
Diablo Wiki A wiki for the first two Diablo games.
iFiction (New!) An archive of interactive fiction games.
Interactive Fiction Wiki (New!) A wiki for the Interactive Fiction Genre.
Petz Site Directory v2 A big directory for Petz fansites.
Petz Wiki An encyclopedia for the Petz series.
Solution Archive (New!) An archive of solutions for interactive fiction games.

  Website Directories

Name Description
Accessible Net Directory A directory for accessible sites.
Gossip's Web An especially humble directory.
LOW TECH WEBRING A directory for more primitive sites.
Marginalia.nu A search engine for the niche and hidden.
Marginalia Similar Website Finder A search engine that finds similar sites.
Radio-browser A directory for radio stations.
Responsive Web Directory A directory for responsive sites.
Search My Site A directory for non-commercial sites.
The Geocities Gallery A visual gallery of Geocities sites.
Wilby A search-engine for the oldest sites online.