Aconite Dreams

Vampire Links

Here dwell the links in their boundless perversions. Please kindly take one and leave the rest for the others, thank you.

I've gathered these through many cosy nights surfing the web after the day's end. They're chosen for legibility, educational factor, or plain memorability. For Archives, which entails sites preserved on the Wayback Machine, these need to be in a decently preserved state. Images can be mildly broken, but the webpage must remain comprehensible if it is to be featured here. Besides being illegible, poorly preserved or otherwise too small to offer much insight, there are several other traits that can cause exclusion. These go as such:

• It is a Wikipedia page, or is heavily reliant on Wikipedia. Over twenty years, the website has seen a downward trajectory into bias and frivolity, far from the neutral party it promised to be at its conception. As this happens, it is cheered by an illuminated manuscript of deranged shut-ins* while Google lines its pockets behind their backs* and local libraries languish from disuse. How it maintains such dominance over the flow of information is genuinely impressive. In response, I link to primary sources directly on this page.
• It is located on a mainstream website. This also excludes articles from mainstream publications, which tend to source from academic papers anyways and create an ouroboros of redudundancy.

With all this out of the way, I won't quote Dracula a second time. Have fun!

Footnotes

* Your mileage may vary depending on how much you’ve seen, but if you feel similarly and have a masochistic streak, do read their attempts at humour on the “Unusual Wikipedia pages” article.

* Billions’ worth, no less. The same applies to Mozilla. If the discrepancy between “we hate The Man” and quietly eating from his hand irritates you as much as it does me, try Waterfox or LibreWolf instead.

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