Pearlnight's Lair

  Bookmark Shelf

Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. Out of all the pages on this site, this one recieves the most of my attention. I'm always doing something 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. But their information is valuable, and they motivate me to stay curious and keep learning. For the best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber. Oh, and add a blanket and a hot drink while you're there.

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  Articles

Name Description
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden "It’s an ethos that is both classically old and newly imagined."
Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities A group discussion about website accessibility.
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web "The web is open by design and built to empower people."
A Guide to Web Curation "How to actually do it."
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide "Here are some common alt-text-fails I come across."
Autistic as Fxxk's Manifesto The autistic internet-user manifesto.
A website is like a puppy "It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility."
Blogging anonymously "Blogging anonymously is an experience of self-discovery."
BUTCH: Not like the other girls Some cool photos of butches.
Can Your Website Fit on a Floppy Disk? "In my view, nothing inspires creativity like limitations."
Click here to read this article "The solution is of course good links."
Creating a Digital Shoebox "In a way, it’s a little like the extras menu on an old DVD."
Death to Bullshit "People's capacity for bullshit is rapidly diminishing."
Design Tenets of my Website "When successful, the website shall transmit a feeling of "unknowable depths" to visitors."
Discord is not an "everything app" "I don't think that anything important should be stored in Discord."
Don’t Make Art for Likes: Social Media Pros and Cons "We can be in control. We can make our own rules."
Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters "Is your website a dead end?"
evy's ever-changing manifesto "An evolving document that helps guide me towards living the life I want to live."
Five Geek Social Fallacies "In any event, here are five geek social fallacies I’ve identified."
Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem "Have you ever clicked something by accident? Most of us have."
How to draw ideas "In a creative process drawing can play four different roles."
How to Respond to Criticism This one's a treat, read it blind.
How Websites Die "Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other."
I am adamantly opposed to urgency "How does urgency take over so quickly?"
If you feel okay, feel okay "If you wanna dance, dance."
Inacessible (Accessible Version) "It doesn't have to be this way. We can do better."
In praise of creating crap "How professional you are doesn’t matter."
Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? "The Web Revival is about reclaiming the technology in our lives and asking what we really want from the tools we use, and the digital experiences we share."
It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about human connection "The lurch back towards that early web is a deep hunger for the personal web."
It’s Not Your Writing That Sucks, It’s Your Mood "I used to think that, inevitably, there will always be days where writing is simply impossible."
Linkrot, or Website Existentialism "A broken link can be a loss but it can also be an opportunity."
Making ASCII art accessible "Happy ASCII arting!"
Making Your Writing World Safe "Whether they realize it or not, far too many writers are cruel to themselves when they write."
Mental Health Tips feat.Anxiety Wolf "Fear is a friend."
Mindful coding "Have you tried incorporating mindfulness into your coding routine?"
My blog is a digital garden, not a blog "Chronologically sorted pages of posts aren't how people actually use the internet."
Nitpicking and the fannish tithe "I wonder if the phenomenon is connected to the completist ethic."
Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire "The vampire is the queerest of monsters."
Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens "How do you manage information flows?"
On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege "I promise mobile-friendly web design isn't as scary as you think it is."
on writing to exist, and website graveyards "I believe websites will be future archaeological artefacts."
Please, enough with the dead butterflies! "If you hadn’t previously noted the difference between a living and a dead butterfly, I’m afraid you will now begin to see dead butterflies EVERYWHERE, as I do."
Rediscovering the Small Web "The small web still exists and has a lot to offer."
Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home Page "And in some ways these ancient powers of the internet are wiser than their progeny."
Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet "Well, no, actually, the web is still pretty awesome."
Technoelitism and the IndieWeb movement "I believe that we should have better on-ramps to letting people control their own digital presence."
The Access Manifesto A snippet from the 2002 book, Building Accessible Websites.
The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design "No list such as this can be complete, but even the original list from 1985, has been well received as a useful guide to students and designers."
The Great Offline "True disconnection, like true wilderness, is an empty goal."
The Inaccessible Web Revival "But just like in real life, you have a duty to those around you."
The Indie Web Manifesto "Education, information, culture and debate can only come from users, independent webmasters, academic or associative organizations."
The Internet that took over The Internet "At this point in time, most people don't seem to relate to their online content."
The LO-FI Manifesto "Lo-fi production technologies are stable and free."
The Only Way to Beat Algorithms is to Retrain Your Audience "The problem is that everyone is stuck on social media."
The silent body horror of vampirism — an outline "Stasis and transition are at odds with each other."
The Slow Web "Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about knowledge."
The small web is beautiful "Either way, I believe the “small web” is a compelling term and a compelling aesthetic."
The Trees That Miss The Mammoths "Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts."
The Web is Yours "If you were ever looking for permission to make your own website, this is it."
The Website Obesity Crisis "Keeping the Web simple keeps it awesome."
This Page is Designed to Last "It's a small simple step for a complex sociotechnical system."
Underrated reasons to be thankful The first issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful.
Underrated reasons to be thankful 2 The second issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful.
Underrated reasons to be thankful 3 The third issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful.
Underrated reasons to be thankful 4 The fourth issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful.
Ways to say No Annie's ways to say "No".
WebAIM’s Article Page A very extensive list of accessibility articles.
We Are the Curators of the Web "And in some ways these ancient powers of the internet are wiser than their progeny."
We Need To Rewild The Internet "The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture."
What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About As it says on the tin.
Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again "There’s a better Internet out there. We just need to build it. Again."
Why time seems to pass faster as we age "It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster."
Words "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words."
100 things you can do on your personal website One hundred suggestions for your personal website.
100 (more) things you can do on your personal website Another one hundred suggestions for your personal website.

  Fun and Games

Name Description
Absurd Trolley Problems Solve trolley problems.
After Dark Screensavers in CSS CSS emulations of old computer screensavers.
Almost Pong Pong with a twist.
Another Sad Trombone Womp-Womp-Womp!
Art Ideas Generator Generate art ideas.
ASCII Flow "Draw" ASCII-art in your browser.
ASCII Painter Another in-browser ASCII maker...this time, with colour.
Bacon Ipsum Lorem Ipsum, but meatier.
Bellwoods Fly about as a kite.
Breathe Breathe nice and slowly.
Bubbles Blow bubbles.
Bullsquid Bullsquid.
Cats in Sinks Randomly generated photos of cats nesting in sinks.
Cats on Routers A compilation of cats sitting on routers.
Cheeses of the World Map An interactive map of cheeses.
Chill Something very cool.
Cold Void.com A spider web.
COVID Standard Time How long it's been since that fateful March.
CSS Plasma Background Generator Blobs of plasma.
Days Since Incident You're looking at when the last natural disasters happened.
DitherPaint MacPaint in your browser.
Dragon Drop Terrorise a village with some janky dragons.
Earth Reviews Feedback for planet earth
Empty Vessel (Eyestrain/Photosensitive warning) A colourful lady.
Fish Feed some virtual fish.
FakeWord.org "Fake words that sound real."
Flow Field 2 Some swimming dots.
Fluid Some fluid.
Fungal.page Fungus.
Garden.surf Draw crayon pictures.
Gentle Brain A squishy brain.
Goldfishies Feed some virtual fish. The unofficial sequel to "Fish".
Guess my RGB Guess what RGB the background is.
Guess The Pixel Flag Guess the flags of countries by looking at their pixel versions.
Gravity Points Create points of gravity.
Hex Clock A website that slowly changes colour by the hours.
Infinite-Cat Cats watching cats watching cats watching...
Internet Artifacts "You may touch the artifacts."
Jelly Rip apart some jelly.
JS.Paint MS Paint in your browser.
Literature Clock Gives you book quotes depending on what time it is.
Magic Crystal Ball A virtual crystal ball.
Memento Mori Remembering death in your own browser.
Monster Breeder Breed monsters.
Monster Match Match monsters to kill them.
MyPhysicsLab Various physics simulations.
Neonflames Paint your very own nebula.
Numbskull You're helping a skull get back to its body.
Nothing: Simply Do Nothing Simply Do Nothing.
Orb Farm A virtual aquatic ecosystem.
Orb Simulator Ponder the orb.
Pepys Diary Daily pages of Samuel Pepys diary.
Periodicity A vortex of colours.
PetPet Generator Generate funny pet-pet memes.
Pixel Dust Mess with some pixelly dust.
Pixels Fighting An absolute bloodbath.
Pixel Sea A virtual printer that dispenses pixels.
Playhtml Experiment 01 Change the colour of the page.
Powder Chemical reactions.
Progress Where you stand in the grand scheme of things.
Rainbow Mazes Rainbow-coloured mazes drawing themselves into existence.
Random Kitten Generator Randomly generated photos of kittens.
Reaction-Diffusion Explorer Tool Some blobby things.
Reaction-Diffusion Some more blobby things.
Rotating Sandwiches Rotating Sandwiches.
Sandboxels Chemical reactions.
Sandlife Colourful glowing sand.
Sandspiel Club Chemical reactions.
SandVox Simulator A virtual sandbox.
SCREAM INTO THE VOID You're being counselled by the abyss itself.
Squishy Earth A squishy earth.
SuperTunnel Simulator Bore huge tunnels through the earth.
Tabby Cat Pets for your tabs.
Tangled Sine Some tangled colours.
The End of the Internet "You have finally reached the end of the internet!"
This chair does not exist Weird chairs.
ThisIsSand Sand art.
TombZone Custom-made ASCII tombstones.
Soft Draw A patch of virtual velvet.
Universe Forecast The fate of the universe.
Water3D A virtual vessel of water.
Weather Report An accurate weather checker with fun ASCII pictures.
WebGL Fluid Simulation Colourful fluids.
Wheel A colour wheel.
Your World of Text A virtual whiteboard for people to post anonymously.


  Itch.io Games

Name Description
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf Get killed by a werewolf, no matter what you do.
Be Happy, Love Your Rock A virtual pet rock.
Bird Feeder Feed birds.
Bonsai Builder Grow a virtual bonsai tree.
Brew Become a witches' brew, or just leave if you want.
Bully Bones Stop a bulldog from eating bones.
Castle in the Mist Generate 3D models of castles.
Crazy Cauldron Brew potions for your customers without letting your cauldron explode.
Dragon Creator Create your own 3D model dragon.
Drytown Escape a town of vampires by using your own blood.
Egg Baby Care for a baby monster.
Electric Zine Maker Make digital zines.
Erratic Bloody Care for a tiny vampire. Don't let him eat the elderly.
Ghostfriend Care for tiny ghosts.
Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2020 You're experiencing Haunted PS1's first set of spooky demo discs.
Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021 You're experiencing Haunted PS1's second set of spooky demo discs.
How To Raise A Dragon Raise a dragon.
Hypochondriac Vampire Help a vampire get around his family's castle.
KittyToy Care for stray cats.
Melt Make blobs kiss.
My Garbage Cat Wakes Me Up at 3am Every Day You are the garbage cat. Do your worst.
My Lovely Wife vs 100 Draculas Dismember hordes of Draculas and eat their limbs.
Night Mirror You're a buck hunter, and you've been having dreams again.
One Page Dungeon Generate dungeon maps.
Party Cemetery Attend a monster party.
PETSCII Fireplace A virtual fireplace.
Prince of Darkness Jr Push boxes and stay out of the light.
Procgen Mansion Generate 3D models of mansions.
Spectare You're in a gothic castle jumping all over the place.
Transylmania Deluxe The flash classic, back on Itch.
We are all but Bones and Dust You're a skeleton who wants to see the living world again.
What Happens Now Simulate being one of the recently deceased.
Willo Evict those pesky skeletons from your cemetery.
You Died On A Tuesday A game about bereavement.

  Radio Stations

Name Description
Ambient Sleeping Pill An ambient radio station.
Ancient FM A historical radio station.
Animal Crossing hourly Plays tracks from the original Animal Crossing based on the hour they'd appear in-game.
DarkZone A dark ambient radio station.
Deep Space One A space-themed ambient radio station.
My Noise Mix and match ambient sounds.
Poolsuite A funk radio station.
Radio Garden Listen to radio stations around the world.
Rainy Mood Listen to rain sounds.
Tree.fm Listen to recordings of forests.
Vintage Obscura An obscure music radio station.
World's Radio Listen to radio stations around the world.

  Tools and Downloadables

Name Description
Accessible Color Palette generator Gives you accessible colour combinations for your website.
Adventure Game Studio A program for creating point-and-click adventure games.
Alternative To Find alternatives to well-known apps.
Animal Photo Art References Search A website that gives you 3D models of animal skulls to rotate.
Archive.org The biggest archive online.
Bear Blog A minimalist blogging platform.
Beepbox An in-browser music maker.
Betty's Graphics Neocities' largest collection of retro site graphics.
Bitsy A tiny game engine.
Blinkies.cafe A blinkie-maker.
Border Image Generator Mozilla's CSS border-image generator.
Capstasher One of the largest collections of 88x31 buttons.
CursorMania Archive Every Cursormania cursor ever.
Codepen.io A website that lets you test out HTML.
Dafont A website of downloadable fonts.
DAFTPATIENCE's Vintage cat sewing pattern A tumblr user remakes a midcentury sewing pattern. This is the result.
Dead Link Checker A website that checks your pages for dead links.
Ditherlicious Lets you dither images.
Dither Me This Lets you dither images.
Dos Haven A website for contemporary DOS games.
Dracula Theme A vampiric theme for all sorts of platforms.
Dreamwidth A livejournal-esque site that lets you journal in peace.
Eggramen's CSS Templates A selection of handmade CSS templates for your sites.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository A catalog of animal photos for artistic reference.
EzGif My go-to gif maker.
Fit on a Floppy Can your website fit on a floppy disk?
Fraidycat Follow websites without having accounts on them.
Gifcities An archive of gifs from the Geocities era.
Global Wetlands An interactive map of wetlands.
Have I been Pnwed Lets you see if your email's been in a data breach.
Hekate's Background Archive A neatly-curated archive of tile-backgrounds for your website.
Hekate's Background Generator Lets you generate tile backgrounds.
Hekate's 88x31 Button Maker Lets you make 88x31 buttons.
Hellnet.work/8831/ One of the largest collections of Geocities-era 88x31 buttons.
Historic Borders An interactive map of historical borders.
HTML named Colors A catalog of the colours in HTML.
inaturalist.org A website for naturalists to share their observations.
Indie Wiki Buddy A website for navigating the disaster that is modern wiki sites.
Internet Time Shows timezones around the world.
John Doe's Page A website based off one HTML sheet.
Just Delete Me Shows you what services you can delete your account off.
Libre Office An open-source office suite for all your writing needs.
Light Pollution Map An interactive map of light pollution.
Limegreen's Wikitable A free-to-use recreation of a wiki page.
Lorem Ipsum A website for the famous dummy text, Lorem Ipsum.
Maze Generator using Unicode "Why? Beats me, but it's still fun."
Moon Phases Lets you track the lunar phases.
Music Map Lets you find new musical artists.
MyFridgeFood What you can make with the food in your fridge.
Native-Land.ca A map of indigenous cultures from around the world.
Neocities.org A spiritual sucessor to the original Geocities.
NES.css CSS to make your site look like an NES game.
oh no im having a bad thought A quick assistant for your bad thought.
ORBIS: Stanford University An interactive map that explores the trading world of Ancient Rome.
Photopea An in-browser photoshop replica.
Picular Get hex codes for whatever you look up.
Pinnacle Points An interactive map of the world's tallest mountains.
Pinball Map A map of the world's pinball machines.
Piskel An in-browser pixel painter.
Pixel Art to CSS Pixel art that you can convert to CSS.
PlaceKitten Gives you kitten photos as placeholder images.
Project Gutenberg The internet's biggest provider of free, public domain e-books.
Rarebit A website for the titular javascript webcomic template.
Real-Time HTML Editor Lets you test out HTML.
Sadgrl's Background Archive An archive of tile-backgrounds.
Smithsonian Open Access The Smithsonian's archive of free-to-use things.
Stretchtext A page for a javascript-fuelled "Stretchy" text.
Texture Town A website of textures for your website. Very flashy.
The Gay Pornographer's Computer Cleaned A tumblr user thrifted an old PC. It was full of gay porn reviews.
The original files of some Windows wallpapers The original Windows desktop wallpapers.
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2) An archive of DOS-era fonts
Time Unwarp Timers for helping you pace yourself.
WAVE Web Accessibility Tool Scans your website for accessibility problems.
Web Badges World An archive of almost 4000 web badges.
Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia's very own image repository.
Wildlife Trusts Webcams Wildlife webcams.
Wormhole A website for temporary filesharing.
W3Schools A website with a wealth of coding tutorials.
Xhalr A website that helps you do breathing exercises
XP.css CSS to make your site look like Windows XP.
yip.pe An in-browser pixel painter.
You Feel Like Shit An interactive guide for self care.
Zen Garden Websites A website for small website templates.
Zonelets A javascript blogging tool for your own website.
7.css CSS to make your site look like Windows 7.
98.css CSS to make your site look like Windows 98.
22,000 Animated Gifs A tumblr user excavated a secondhand CD. This is what they found.

  Websites for reading

Name Description
Abandoned Communities A website dedicated to abandoned living spaces in Britain.
Adel Faure A website full of fonts, games, music, tools and art.
American Forests A website dedicated to North America's forests.
Anna's Archive (New!) An archive of scanned books. I use it to look at Grimtooth's Traps.
Anti-Colonial Research Library A library of anti-colonialism texts.
Antique Pattern Library An archive of scanned textiles.
Ardalambion A website dedicated to Tolkien's constructed languages.
Arquives One of Canada's biggest LGBTQ+ archives.
Artvee An archive of fine art.
Ascalaphid Ascalaphid, an artist that draws insectoid creatures.
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 Periodic Table A periodic table done entirely in ASCII.
ASCII Porn An archive of pornographic ASCII art.
Atlas Obscura A selection of unusual locations on Earth.
Autistic As Fxxk A website for autistic people worldwide. Also featured me, thanks Rachel!
Bad Game Hall of Fame A blog about critically-panned video games.
Bandcamp A website full of underground artists, bands, and music genres.
Below the Surface A gallery of archeological findings from Amsterdam.
Biodiversity Heritage Library A Smithsonian-backed archive of biology texts.
Bill Wurtz The personal website of Bill Wurtz, music man and of "The History of Japan" fame.
Birdfood UK | Webcams Webcams for watching birds.
Bite-sized Accessibility Tiny guides on how to make your website accessible.
Blood Wiki A wiki for the Blood games.
Bogleech Bogleech, an artist that draws all things vile and grotesque.
Bosworth Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary A dictionary for all things Anglo-Saxon.
Brock Hofer Brock Hofer, an artist that draws visceral technicoloured monsters.
Buster Wilde A 25 year-old webcomic about the misadventures of a gay werewolf.
Busy Beaver Button Museum An archive of pin buttons.
Byte Cellar A blog on retro computing.
Cameron's World A gif-laden tribute to the 90s' web.
Can I Play That? A guide for disabled gamers and their loved ones.
Canvas Cycle Mesmerising pixel art landscapes.
Capital Punishment UK A resource about Britain's history with the death penalty.
Carneycastle.com Lego recreations of real medieval castles.
Catland (New!) A gallery of Louis Wain's art.
Cheese.com The cheese site.
Chris Shier A website full of psychedelic computer-generated art.
Classic Horor The archives of a horor movie review blog.
ClickHole A comedic news site.
Comic Devices A gallery of comic-making techniques.
Common Errors in English Usage A dictionary of what people wrong about English.
Deceptive Patterns A website about sleazy corporate tricks.
Diablo Wiki A wiki for the first two Diablo games.
Dibella Loves Cats An archive of 1990's cat graphics. Not mobile-friendly.
Digitization Wiki A digital archive of various plants and animals.
Digital Transgender Archive An archive of Transgender history.
Dinosaur Dracula A blog about 1980s nostalgia.
Downloads - Furry Times Furry News' collection of vintage furry magazines.
Dracula Daily Get emailed chapters of Dracula as its story unfolds.
The Dungeon in Deep Space A blog about Dungeon Synth.
D.W. Miller Paleo Art Bellingham The website of Paleo Artist D.W. Miller.
Eldamo A fanmade lexicon for Tolkien's Elvish language.
Embroidery Troubleshooting Page A page that forgot to close its header tags.
Emotional Codes A site with tips for decoding your feelings.
Encyclopaedia Metallum An archive of metal artists since 2002.
Etymonline An archive of etymology since 2000.
Eva Funderburgh Sculpture The website of Sculptor Eva Funderburgh.
Every Noise at Once An archive of every known music genre.
Foodtimeline.org A detailed timeline of culinary history.
Fractal Garden A gallery of fractal patterns.
From Old Books An archive of pictures from old books.
FUNGI A website full of ASCII mushrooms and other whimsical creatures.
Gay on the Range An archive of midcentury gay male book covers.
GLBT Historical Society An archive of LGBTQIA+ information.
Gode Cookery A network of sites about historical cooking methods.
Halcyon Maps A catalog of maps.
Heraldry of the World A wiki about Heraldry.
IDB ASCII An archive of ASCII art.
iFiction (New!) An archive of interactive fiction games.
Images | ESA/Hubble Hubble's archive of outer-space images.
Interactive AIDS Quilt A digital AIDS quilt.
Interactive Fiction Wiki (New!) A wiki for the Interactive Fiction Genre.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Fordham University's archive of historical texts.
Intersex Variations Glossary A glossary for all things Intersex.
Isopod Site A website about Isopods.
Lars Krutak A blog on tattoo anthropology.
Legends of Localization A blog on video-game translations.
Lesbian Herstory Archive An archive of lesbian-centric information.
Leslie Feinberg The website of a butch heroine, may she rest soundly.
LILEKS A compilation of vintage Americana.
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE A solar-powered e-magazine.
Macrostrat A geologic map database.
Medieval Cookery A database of Medieval and Tudor recipes.
Medieval Geomancy Princeton University's website about medieval era-geomancy.
Medieval Music and Arts Foundation A website dedicated to medieval music and art.
Medieval Recipes A website of Medieval recipes.
MelonLand Wiki An encyclopedia for the indie web.
Messybeast A personal website and compilation of animal-themed articles.
Mushroom Color Atlas An catalog for the colours of Mushroom dye.
Mushroom Expert A long-running encyclopedia for mushrooms.
Nice Cup of Tea and Sit Down A website that reviews british biscuit brands.
Nicky Bay's Macro Photography The website of Nicky Bay, a singaporean insect photographer.
Obsolete Media A website dedicated to obsolete media formats.
Onelook Thesaurus An expansive thesaurus.
Online Harassment Field Manual A website dedicated to helping victims of online harassment.
On This Day A website that tells you what happened on this day.
Outlaws and Highwaymen A website dedicated to Highwaymen.
Pantheon.org A website about mythical gods around the world.
PCGamingWiki A wiki for PC gamers.
Petz Wiki An encyclopedia for the Petz series.
Popcorn Song A website dedicated to the famous 1969 instrumental song, Popcorn.
Popular History Books A website that reviews british history books.
Public Neurodiversity Support Center An archive of essays for autistic people, especially those with trauma.
Project Gutenberg The internet's biggest provider of free, public domain e-books.
Queering the Map A map of anonymously-submitted queer experiences from around the world.
QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive An archive of queer zines
Rare Phrases A list of comically rare phrases.
Raumhaufen (Monster in My Pocket section) A website dedicated to collecting toys and figures.
Recipes.kyleking.me Kyleking's recipes.
REPAD: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database A catalog of recently extinct species.
Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List A large list of constructed languages
RinkWorks A compilation of nerdy hjinks.
Scooby Museum (New!) A museum of Scooby Doo merchandise.
SerpaDesign A website of SerpaDesign, an enthusiast of aquariums, terrariums and vivariums.
Solution Archive (New!) An archive of solutions for interactive fiction games.
Somnolescent A website run by an artsy group of furries.
Spam.budwin.net A website that reviews all kinds of spam.
Spork.org A fansite for sporks.
Steve's Old Computer Museum A website dedicated to old computers.
Strange Sisters An archive of midcentury lesbian book covers.
StrategyWiki A wiki that helps you beat video games.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read A website that shows you what online services do with your data
Terrarium Tribe A website about terrariums.
The Cutting Room Floor An encyclopedia for unused video game content.
The Dracula Society A website dedicated to all things Dracula.
The Eclectic Library A library of unusual books.
The Gallery of Monster Toys A website dedicated to midcentury monster toys.
The Gender Dysphoria Bible An encyclopedia for gender dysphoria.
The History of the Web A timeline of the internet's history.
The Latin Library A website about the latin language.
The Lava Lounge A pixel clique for Lava Lamps.
The Literary Bisexual A website that discusses Bisexuality in literature.
The Medieval Bestiary A website that serves as a medieval bestiary.
The Medieval Pottery Research Group A website dedicated to medieval pottery vessels.
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things A website that reviews strange objects.
The Peculiar Manicule A catalog of 1960s' and 1970s' graphic design.
The Phontistery A glossary of obscure words; going strong since 1996.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey An archive of London's central criminal court records.
The Public Domain Review A blog dedicated to public domain culture.
The Virus Encyclopedia An encyclopedia for the all types of malware.
The World's Writing Systems A timeline of human writing systems.
Tolkien Gateway The biggest encyclopedia for all things Tolkien.
Toy Animal Wiki An encyclopedia for toy animals.
Trans Reads An archive of texts created by transgender people.
TYCollector A website dedicated to TY's Beanie Babies.
UKMoths A website dedicated to to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland.
Unconsenting Media A database of sexual assault in TV and movies.
Unicorn and Butterfly A webcomic made entirely out of ASCII.
Vampire Club A website dedicated to Vampires.
Victorian Web A website about the Victorian Era.
Virtue Ventures A website I’m featuring for its elaborate medieval clothing section.
Vixen Controlled Archive An archive of the anthro art website, VCL.
Wayne's Word (New!) The expansive writings of an ex-university professor.
Web Design Museum A museum for website design.
WikiBound An encyclopedia for the EarthBound trilogy.
Wild Bread A showcase of this elusive species.
Windows 98 Icon Viewer An archive of Windows 98 desktop icons.
Words From Old Books A dictionary of slang from old books.
Yerf Historical Archive An archive of Yerf, one of the oldest furry galleries on the web.
Yokai.com An encyclopedia for Japanese folklore.
Zine Wiki An encyclopedia for Zines.
Zine World The archives of a Zine review site.

  Website Directories

Name Description
Accessible Net Directory A directory for accessible sites.
Archive Stumbler A StumbleUpon-esque tool for Archive.org listings.
Blogroll.org A search engine for blogs.
BUKMARK.CLUB A directory that wants sites with link pages.
Curlie A treasure trove of niche old sites.
Darktheme Club A directory for sites with dark themes.
Gossip's Web An especially humble directory.
href.cool A small, cryptic directory.
Indiblog.page Press a button for a random blog.
Indiseek.xyz Curlie, but with a star rating system.
I.webthings Directory A modest selection of sites.
Links That Burn A budding directory that wants your links.
List-Me.Com A small directory that wants your links.
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.
Mataroa Collection A directory of personal blogs.
MelonLand Surf Club A gallery-style directory by MelonKing.
NekoWeb A cat-themed Neocities clone.
Nightfall City A small directory with cosy ASCII style.
No CSS Club A small directory for sites without CSS.
No JS Club A small directory for sites without Javascript.
Olda Vista A search-engine for sites on old webhosts.
Oldest Search A search-engine for the oldest sites online.
"Ooh!" Directory A directory with a good tag system.
Petz Site Directory v2 A big directory for Petz fansites.
Pointless Sites For especially pointless sites.
Radio-browser A directory for radio stations.
Responsive Web Directory A directory for responsive sites.
Satyr's Linkroll A brightly-coloured collection of links.
Search My Site A directory for non-commercial sites.
Smooth Sailing Listings A nautical-themed directory.
The Geocities Gallery A visual gallery of Geocities sites.
Text-only Websites A small directory for text-only sites.
The dailywebthing archives Joe Jenett's archive of web findings.
The Forest A directory with a forest motif.
VHSearch! An unofficial search engine for Neocities.
Websites From Hell A visual gallery of horrible, horrible sites.
Wilby A search-engine for the oldest sites online.
Yoohoo Another unofficial search engine for Neocities.
1MB Club A directory of sites under 1MB.
404 Page Found A visual gallery of Web 1.0 websites.
512KB Club A directory of sites under 512KB.

  Wikipedia Curio Shelf

Here lies my cabinet of wikipedia curiosities. Don't mind the cobwebs, this one gets updated enough. I do have to warn you, my hyperlink curios can be bizarre, morbid, and at times, downright disgusting. Eating while you inspect these crevices is not only unwise, but liable to make you explode. Jokes aside, I've got some extra things to tell you, just before you start:

  •  Pages with photos of disease or medical gore are marked with this "⚕" symbol; the Rod of Asclepius.
  •  Pages with photos of human or animal corpses are marked with this "🕱" symbol.
  •  Pages with sexual or pornographic content are marked with this "⚤" symbol.

A

Name Corny Blurb
Absurdism What if life was perhaps, just a little bit, silly?
Allerton Oak The oldest oak in Northwest England.
Alitta virens Looks like a centipede, actually a worm.
Alpenglow That reddish glow the sun casts onto peaks and horizons.
Alvinella pompejana The deep-sea hydrothermal vent worm.
A Modest Proposal Poor? Sell your children as delicacies for the nobility.
🕱 Amorphous globosus Nature's very own bouncy ball.
Amorphophallus titanum Stupendous but stinky.
Aniridia When you don't have irises.
Animal pound Where everyone who hotlinks from this website will go.
Anomalocaris "Abnormal shrimp" indeed.
Anomalous experiences When you hallucinate, even although there's nothing wrong with you.
Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Now I love hardback books, but this is just too far...
Anticipatory grief The grief before the grief.
Aplysia vaccaria The biggest (and blobbiest) of the sea slugs.
Apophenia When your brain makes nonsensical connections.
Architecture terrible A style of architecture designed to torment people.
Argonaut The octopus with a shell.
Armillaria ostoyae This fungus can get humongous.
Asterism That star-shaped gleam on precious gemstones.
Attitude (Heraldry) The pose a heraldric figure is drawn in.
Avebury The largest stone circle in the world.
Aventurescence The glittery look in artificial gemstones.
Azoth The stuff.


B

Name Corny Blurb
Baskerville Effect When heart-attacks allegedly happen more often on unlucky days.
Beast of Gévaudan A beast, none the least.
Bedale Leech House A lounge for leeches.
Belgica antarctica The largest terrestrial animal in antarctica.
Bioindicator Living litmus paper.
Biscione One of the coolest heraldric motifs I know.
Black swallower The handbag of the sea.
Blood as food Vampires love this page.
Blue hour Those times in the day when everything goes blue.
Bog butter Butter of the bogs.
Bonnacon Dare to brave its bowel movements?
Book curse Best used on comically embarrassing personal diaries.
Bouba/Kiki Effect "I don't know...it just looks like a billybob."
Boustrophedon The real name for backwards text.
Bridge chapel All your sins can be water under the bridge.
Brimham Rocks Some big funky rocks.
British Rail sandwich The British version of those airplane food jokes.
⚤ Breast-shaped hill Where I post from.
Busby's_stoop_chair A haunted chair said to curse anyone who sits on it…to death.
Buttered cat paradox A slippery one.
Byne's Disease The bane of natural history archivists everywhere.


C

Name Corny Blurb
Cabinet of curiosities Museums before museums.
Cadaver Synod The time the corpse of a pope was exumed and put on trial.
Cairn Stones for the departed.
Caprellidae Skele-shrimps.
⚤ Catullus 16 A lavicious latin poem.
Carcinisation Fuck it, crab.
Carnyx TEEEET!
Casu Martzu A perfectly normal cheese.
Cat fugue A fugue allegedly composed by a cat.
Cat gap Cats doing what they do best...in the fossil record.
Causey Arch The oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world.
Cave Pearl Pearls outside of clams.
⚤ Cerne Abbas Giant A very endowed hill figure.
Chalice Well The ancient english well with red water and alleged healing qualities.
Chained Oak You can’t escape now, you devil.
Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag A chapel carved into a cliff-face.
Chimera (Genetics) A "breed one, get one free" sort of deal.
Chlorine Trifluoride Local chemical too angry to die.
Chrysolina cerealis One of the most beautiful beetles.
Clachan Bridge Wanna cross the Atlantic Ocean in a matter of minutes? Now you can.
Clock of the Long Now Ten O'clock just got a new meaning.
Codex Seraphinianus What if encyclopedias did magic mushrooms?
Coffin birth Death does funny things to the pregnant.
Coffin Stone Here lies this...ummm...
Colleoni This heraldry has balls.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously Grammatically correct but completely nonsensical.
Cooksonia The first vascular plant.
Corpse road Roads for transporting the dead.
Cosmic Calendar Normal calendars are so last 100 million years ago.
Costasiella kuroshimae The japanese sea-slugs that photosynthesise.
Crappit Heid Scotland's fetish for stuffed flesh rears its head again.
Crisp Sandwich One of the few british meals that isn't a complete culinary atrocity.
Crooked Forest "Okay, one more drink and we can all go ho-".
Cross Bones A medieval-era graveyard for the outcasts of society.
Custom of the sea When seamen have to eat seamen.


D

Name Corny Blurb
Dancing mania A time so disease-ridden that dancing itself joined the roster.
Dead leaf mantis The mantids that look like dead leaves.
Death and the Maiden (motif) The motif of a young woman being pinched by a skeleton.
Death and the Mother Yoink, my baby now.
Deathbed Phenomena The things people see while they're dying.
⚤ Death during consensual sex What if you wanted to come, but it was actually time to go?
Deep Blue (Chess computer) The chess-playing computer.
Defenestrations of Prague When people get thrown out, literally.
Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion Imagine a trifle, but it's bridges.
Devil's Footprints That time the Devil landed in Devon.
Digital Dark Age A lot of the time, the internet isn't forever.
⚕ Diprosopus Let's face the facts, these guys have two.
Divination Bones Bones to tell the future with.
Dolmen Megaliths for the dearly missed.
Dord A word that's not supposed to be a word.
Dowsing Apparently you can find things in the ground with funky sticks.
Dragon of Wantley The first recorded case of Achilles' Arse.
Dule tree British hanging trees.


E

Name Corny Blurb
Eaves-drip burial Better than burying a dog alive?...
Edward Legge When promotion is posthumous.
Elephant of Henry III The first elephant in England since 43 AD.
Ellen Blight The “Lion Queen” is dethroned in a most hairy way.
Endoceras The genus of Ordovician sea-wizards.
Epomis The beetles that eat frogs.
Erdstall Unknown tunnels with an unknown purpose.
Eternal flame Fires that don't stop burning.
Eulagisca gigantea A rather scary scale worm.
Extinction Event When it's die-time.
Extinct Language Yes, even these die too.
Extremes on Earth Sunglasses, skateboard and cap not required.
Extremophile Something about crushing pressure and oppressive darkness.


F

Name Corny Blurb
⚤ Fascinus Cock worship, literally.
Fatal insomnia The diabolical offspring of prions and sleep deprivation.
Fatberg The accumulations of filth in victorian-era sewers.
Fish Ladder No legs? No problem!
Flies' Graveyard British self-deprecation strikes again.
Folly Buildings designed for show, and not much else.
Fool's mate Chess' very own practical joke.
Form constant Some of the shapes you can see when you're under the influence.
Foxfire One of nature's many bioluminescent mushrooms.
Frog battery Real life frankenstein-antics.
Frog Coffin Because cats aren't the only creatures to have fancy burials.
Franz Schmidt German executioner decides to take up writing.
Fucking_Grove,_Bristol One of the many unfortunate names a place can have.


G

Name Corny Blurb
Garden Hermit A friend to go with your flowers.
Gastrolith Stones made inside stomachs.
Gelert Too good of a boy for this cruel world.
Geomancy Telling the future with the soil.
Giraffe weevil Traded the typical weevil snoot for a comically long neck.
Glass frog Don't drop it.
Glass Octopus I'd say "don't drop it" but it lives in the bathypelagic zone.
Glyphoglossus molossus The inflatable frog.
Gongoozler A person that likes to stare at canals.
Götz von Berlichingen One of the most metal guys I know.
Gowk Stane Scottish standing stones.
Ghoti Fun fact, this means "fish".
Graveyard poets Gothic revival before gothic revival.
Gravity Hill Think you can escape the whacky world of optical illusions by going outside? Think again.
Great Famine of 1315 The first domino of the medieval decline conga-line.
Great Stink The time victorian London reaped what it sowed...through its nostrils.
Greeble (psychology) People can recognise faces, and these things.
Guerrilla gardening When rebellion takes seed.
Gynandromorphism Beasties with both.


H

Name Corny Blurb
Hadean Zircon Rocks from the birth of this earth.
Hagfish Get slimed.
Hairy frog That's not even the weirdest part about this thing.
Halifax Gibbet The guillotine before the guillotine.
Hallucigenia Spines or spindly legs? You decide, because science is stumped.
Hannah Twynnoy Another big cat mishap, starring one silly barmaid.
Hand of Glory You've got to hand it to them.
Hawker's Hut The world's smallest home office.
Heslington Brain The oldest preserved human brain in Eurasia.
Hericium erinaceus A very pettable mushroom.
Hellmouth A stylish entrance to hell.
He never married “This man was a raging homosexual”.
Herepath Old English military roads.
Highgate Vampire Vampire hysteria: 1970’s England edition.
History of lions in Europe This page isn’t lion.
Hobby tunneling Dungeon Keeper in real life.
Horse Burial In case human burials don't tickle your funny bone.
Human Placentophagy Is it or is it not cannibalism?
Hundatorra A bronze-age era village.
Hydnellum_peckii The fungus that bleeds.
Hydra Effect When some things just can't die.
Hydrus (legendary creature) It's incredible to be inedible.


I

Name Corny Blurb
Inbreeding Depression The Habsburgs could have done with this page.
Irreversible binomial Why it's Fish-and-Chips, and not Chips-and-Fish.
Irony Punctuation Turns out we've been trying to show tone in text for a while.
Island gigantism Small islands can have big effects.


J

Name Corny Blurb
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher A special way to word a sentence.
Jeremy (Snail) A special snail.
John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland A special english nobleman.
Joke chess problem A special kind of nerd humour.


K

Name Corny Blurb
Kallima inachus The mascot for camouflage.
Kasparov versus the World One chess champion vs 50,000 people.
Kindlifresserbrunnen That one Swiss fountain sculpture of a man eating live babies.
Kiwa (crustacean) A hairy crab.


L

Name Corny Blurb
Land Bridge Letting us see the world since forever.
Latin obscenity The Greco-Roman grocery list of vulgarities.
🕱 Lazarus sign That spooky jolt that corpses like to do.
Lazarus taxon Not dead, just hiding.
Leo Belgicus Map of western europe, but make it a lion.
Leucochloridium paradoxum The flatworm that makes snails kill themselves.
Lewis chessmen Sometimes, chess gets gallic.
Ley Line A proposed (and pseudohistorical) explanation for the alignment of particular landmarks.
⚤ LGBT Slang From argot to all over the world.
Link rot Is it on your website?
List of ancient oceans Where the seas used to be.
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior In nature, nothing's unnatural.
🕱 List of bog bodies Welcome to the wet world of these soggy mummies.
List of botched executions Even more horrifying than normal executions.
List of cakes I know, not very weird...But those culinary pages are rabbit holes!
List of colors (alphabetical) Ever wanted to know what that exact hue was? Now you know.
List of common false etymologies of English words All the times you've fooled yourself.
List of common misconceptions All the silly things that people believe.
List of endangered plants It's not just animals we keep messing with.
List of English-language expressions related to death I think we have a bit of an obsession.
List of examples of convergent evolution All the times nature said "Let's do that again!".
List of extant pinfolds in Cheshire A comically specific page that I had to feature.
List of fallacies For your next flamewar or an upcoming dinner-table fiasco.
List of garden types All the ways you can do a garden.
List of hors d'oeuvre All the starters before your main meal.
List of human disease case fatality rates Now you can finally know how boned you are.
List of hybrid creatures in folklore All of man's mixed-up monsters.
List of largest known nebulae Even crazier spacedust!
List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom All the places you cannot have beans on toast.
List of non-water floods Who says floods have to be natural disasters?
List of paleocontinents Feel like shit, just want them back.
List of unusual deaths The deaths of all time.
List of reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom Now serving Beans-on-Ghost.
List of Revived Languages Lazarus languages.
List of Sandwiches The sandwich showcase, some sensible...some silly.
⚤ List of sexually active popes The page that makes catholics cry.
List of shortest-reigning monarchs The elusive speed-run category that you never knew about.
List of surviving ancient ships Boats that beat the odds.
List of vampiric creatures in folklore It's the mash! It's the Monster Mash!
List of works based on dreams When dreams do come true.
Lithops The plants that look like stones.
Little Chapel A tiny chapel made out of china, pebbles and shells.
Lloyds Bank coprolite It somehow came out of a person.
London tornado of 1091 Plagues, famines…tornado. Oh, Medieval London…
Long Barrow Some funky neolithic tubes.
Longest word in English You know you want to try and say them.
Long Parliament This complete and utter political disaster.
Lord Uxbridge's leg A famous dismembered leg.
Love Dart Sorry Cupid, nature did it first.
Lud's Church The church that is actually a chasm.
Lullington Church One of England's smallest churches.
Lunar Effect A belief that the moon can make people do stuff.
Lychgate Those gateway arches for churchyards.


M

Name Corny Blurb
Macropinna The genus of transparent-headed fish.
Macquarium Mac Aquatics.
Máel Brigte of Moray Bit a guy post-mortem and made him die.
Maggot farming No creature is safe from our clutches.
⚕ Maggot therapy Gross but good for you.
Major Oak A major oak.
Man-eater These guys want man-meat.
Mantis shrimp The shrimp with the piston punch.
Marzipan Pig Pig without the pork in it.
Mass psychogenic illness When the crowd goes wild.
Medieval hunting Hunting, medieval style.
Medieval Warm Period That warm time in the medieval era.
Metaspriggina The first fish.
Micropsia A condition that makes things look tiny.
Milbenkäse The slightly less wriggly version of Casu Martzu.
Mimic poison frog The dart frog that's not so deadly.
Minerva's Shrine, Chester One of the last Roman shrines in England.
Milesian tale Horny Greco-Roman tales lost to time.
Moonbow Rainbows made by moonlight instead of sunlight.
Moon dog The moon has friends.
Moon illusion The moon’s tendency to fool us.
Mortality salience The awareness of one’s inevitable death.
Moss Lawn The best lawns.
Motyxia The genus of glowing milipedes.
Mow Cop Castle The castle that straddles two county borders.
Mummy brown The colour you get from desecrating the dead.
Murder stone Stones that mark where murders happened.
Mutillidae The family of fuzzy wasps.
Mutiny on the Bounty A Royal Navy fiasco that spiralled so out of control that a whole new island got settled.
Myrmecoleon The medieval bestiary's very own antlion, which makes pretty pearls instead of eating ants.
Myxozoa The littlest guys.


N

Name Corny Blurb
Nábrók These really get under my skin.
NightMare (scareware) One of the first pieces of malware specifically designed to scare you.
Nocebo When good placebos go bad.


O

Name Corny Blurb
Oarfish These guys supposedly started off the whole "sea serpent" thing.
Official Table of Drops A guide for hanging.
Oliver Cromwell's head A famous mummified head.
Onfim A posthumous doodling icon.
Opabinia Middle Cambrian animal that murders things with its trunk.
Ortolan bunting A cute bird subjected to the most ungodly form of predation.


P

Name Corny Blurb
Paedophryne amauensis The world's smallest frog.
Pareidolia When your brain sees human faces in random things.
Pantheon A heraldric cervine-vulpine beasty.
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass A device based off the idea that snails have telepathic powers.
Pesse canoe The oldest surviving boat.
⚤ Phallic Architecture Penises for the public.
Phantom island Invisible islands.
Phantom settlement Invisible towns.
Pheidole The ants with unusually large heads.
Physalaemus nattereri The frog with eyes on its behind.
Pitchcapping A hot, sticky way to go.
Placozoa The simplest animals on earth.
Plant Blindness When we forget about our floral friends.
Plant Cognition Plants can think!
Ploughman's Lunch Ye olde meal.
Population bottleneck The morbid crossroad a population enters when it gets too low.
Prisoner's cinema Those colours you can see when it's dark.
Prosopometamorphopsia A condition that messes up how your brain sees human faces.
Pseudobiceros hancockanus A flatworm with a a funny name.
Pseudis paradoxa The frog that shrinks.
Publius Afranius Potitus "I'll die for you"? Then perish.
Pygmalion Effect When emotions define success.


Q

Name Corny Blurb
Queen Alexandra's birdwing The world's largest butterfly.
Queen Elizabeth Oak A thick tree.
Quintus Fulvius Lippinus The original snail-farmer; we can probably thank him for escargot.


R

Name Corny Blurb
Reschensee A church in a lake.
⚕ Rachischisis An incompatible-with-life condition that leaves the spine wide open.
Rafflesia The giant flower that smells like a rotting corpse.
Recursive islands and lakes I heard you liked islands, so I put an island inside your island.
Restormel Castle A perfectly circular norman castle.
Risk of astronomical suffering Somehow even scarier than all the other apocalypses.
Robert Liston The fastest surgeon in the west.
Roland the Farter Nobody’s above a good fart joke.
Roopkund A lake full of skeletons.
Rosetta Project The long-awaited sequel.


S

Name Corny Blurb
Sacred Grove Some very special bits of earth.
Saint Guinefort France's very own Gelert.
Šakotis The cake that's a tree.
Saltmen Some mummies of the salt-mining variety.
Sapphirina The parasitic copepods that glow.
Scaly-foot gastropod Snails with scales.
Scotoplanes You've seen the Sea-cucumber, you've seen the Sea-bunny, now meet the Sea-pig.
Scunthorpe problem God help you if you're from Bitchfield, Penistone, Shitterton, Twatt, or-
Selenus chess set The daintiest chess set.
Separatio Leprosorum The ceremony thrown for lepers.
Servilia's Pearl The most valuable gem of all time.
⚤ Sheela na gig An especially lascivious grotesque.
Shitterton Why english place names get teased so much.
Shooter's sandwich A very meaty sandwich.
Short Parliament A chapter in the bloody mess called the English Civil War.
Silbury Hill A nice chalk mound.
Simnia Spelta A sea snail that changes colour depending on what it's eating.
Sino-Roman Relations One of the wildest crossovers in the ancient world.
Skerne Bridge The oldest railway bridge that's still being used.
Smallest House in Great Britain A home so humble you can barely get in it.
Snickelways of York Tiny medieval alleys that are supposed to be haunted by Barghests.
Snipe Eel These squiggly line looking things.
Spectral bat The largest carnivorous bat.
Speyer wine bottle Potion of Instant Death Disease.
Stargazy Pie Forever gazing up to whatever cruel god let this happen to them.
Staunton chess set Playing chess? Choose these.
St. Martin's Church (Split) A church built inside the ancient remains of Diocletian's walls.
Stoned Ape Theory Not mush-room in the realm of science for this theory...
Submerged Forest Trees that have stood against the tides of time.
Sunken lane Roads with ridges.
Swansea Devil A giggly devil statue that got the last laugh.
Sweating sickness The mysterious terror that plagued Tudor England.
Sword-billed hummingbird The hummingbird with a beak longer than its entire body.


T

Name Corny Blurb
⚕ Tache noir de la sclerotique Corneal Clouding's freakier cousin.
Tempest prognosticator The weather forecast, starring several frightened leeches.
Tetrarchy That time the Roman Empire got split up...before it actually fell.
⚕ Teratoma A tumour with tu-much.
Terminal Lucidity When the dying get one last electrical zap of life.
Testicles as food There's balls in your mouth, and then there's this.
Toad's Mouth A big rock that looks like a toad.
Thanatosensitivity When technology has to acknowledge death.
The Broomway Appearances decieve...
The Dead Lovers A double painting of a couple, one side alive, the other side as a lovely pair of festering corpse people.
The Great Bovine Pestilence That time medieval England saw a ton of its cattle drop dead.
The Great Thunderstorm STRIKE!
The Hum That mysterious rumble you sometimes hear.
The King of the Cats His moggy majesty.
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh A ballad about a princess that gets turned into a dragon.
Theloderma corticale Goblins, come get your mascot.
⚤ The Miracle of 1511 The time Brussels was seized by the urge to make pornographic snowmen.
The Mug House One of the only known pubs to have been built on consecrated ground.
The Shambles A whole walkable street of medieval buildings.
The Triumph of Death It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more?
Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene All the real ones we've lost.
Timeline of natural history Show this to small children when they ask where babies come from.
Timeline of prehistory From stone age to tome age.
Third man factor When you’re experiencing unholy amounts of trauma and you swear there’s someone with you.
Timeline of the far future Existential dread machine or soothing blanket for your brain? You decide!
Thomas Macarte A one-armed lion tamer that died in the ring.
Tiktaalik "This is the guy that tipped over the string of dominos that would lead to us doing taxes" - Lutz.
Tor_(rock_formation) A big rock formation.
Turritopsis dohrnii The immortal jellyfish.
Triprion spatulatus I know there's some shovelheads in this world but this is getting a bit silly now.
Trout tickling Coochie coochie coo.
Turra Coo Protest cow.


U

Name Corny Blurb
Unchambered Long Barrow Some funky neolithic tubes...minus the stone chambers.
Unst Bus Shelter An entirely-furnished bus shelter.
Urine deflector Now you know what those weird lumps are.


V

Name Corny Blurb
Vanitas A motif about the transience of life and the dominance of death.
Vedius Pollio The evillest Equestrian.
Venous hum The sound blood makes.
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time The origin of the Monty Python foot.
Venus figurine The Upper Paleolithic obsession with big women.
Venus flytrap sea anemone The underwater fly-trap.
Venus girdle Not a girdle, nowhere near ancient Rome and actually...a jellyfish.
Volcanic winter of 536 “Was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year.”


W, Z and Numerical

Name Corny Blurb
Wardian Case The prototype of the terrarium.
Weaver ant The ants that build giant leaf nests.
Weasel Word Some people say this is a way to weasel around your words...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A paper on what it means to be something else.
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate York's shortest (and weirdest) street.
Who put Bella down the Wych Elm? That time a skeleton was found in a tree.
Will O' the wisp English ghost lights.
Wild Animal Suffering A long discussed dilemma.
Wild man Some cultures have this thing for fuzzy guys.
Wistman's Wood One of britain's last ancient temperate rainforests.
Witch Bottle Which is for witches.
Witches' Well, Edinburgh A monument dedicated to those sorry souls that met the stake.
Wolffia arrhiza The world's smallest vascular plant.
Wolf of Ansbach The time a man-eating wolf was dressed up like a person and gibbed.
Worm Charming The unexpected sequel to snake charming.
Worship of heavenly bodies The many ways you can love the stars.
Zombie taxon Not to be confused with the Lazarus taxon.