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Web Design

Tutorials

• Palemomos: "Add a gallery with HUNDREDS of images easily to your website with Vue.js"
• EDRi: "Ethical Web Development"
• Nenrikido: "Deploying Your Site to Neocities"
• Dannarchy: "Native Neocities Hit-Counter"
• JJJ: "Inline Documentation"
• Understanding Relative vs. Absolute Paths
• "Choosing Type" Articles hosted by Google
• "Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS": Article + Generator
• "Smoother & Sharper Shadows": Article + Generator
• Flexbox Froggy: Learn flexboxes with a cute browser game
• Grid Garden: Learn CSS Grid with a cute browser game Login required
• Some people discussing whether you should host your files (fonts, images, scripts) locally or use a CDN

Resources & Tools

• Aspect Ratio Calculator
• Toptal's resources for web designers
  • HTML Symbols/Entities Reference
  • Subtle Background Patterns
  • CSS Sprites Generator
• LazySizes: High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images, iframes and more
• Masonry: A JS library that makes masonry style grid layouts
• TEXTANIM: Generate animated text/word art
• Lorem Ipsum Generator: Placeholder text
• Cat Ipsum Generator: CUTER placeholder text
• Transfonter: @font-face generator
• RV's free Javascript/DHTML effects
• WAVE®: Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
• Font CDNs (Content Delivery Networks)
  • Bunny.NET
  • CDN|Fonts
• Font Downloads
  • Font Collector
  • Dafont
• Malihu: Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin
• Bennett Feely: CSS Clip Path Generator
• CSSBattle: Competetive CSS writing game
• HTML and CSS coding standards from WordPress.ORG
• Lovesick: Old Web Graphics
• Cinni: Ichigo Directory

Webhosts

• Leprd: Free web hosting for hobbyists
• Neocities.org: Free web hosting with social media flavour
• NearlyFreeSpeech.NET: Pay-as-you-go web hosting (I use this!)
• Teacake.org: Web hosting for small, personal and hobby-focused sites

Writing

• Writing-World.com: Varied and grounded advice for writers at every experience level
  • My favourite article: "Making Your Writing World Safe" by Jane Anne Staw
• Zenwriter: No-distractions writing application
• StimuWrite: Software that rewards your writing with emojis Developed by a man who claims to be a woman
• Scrivener: Writing project planning software
• Related Words: Find words related to other words
• The Editor's Blog: Writing advice from a professional editor
• Magic Baby Names: Input a name and find more names that are similar or related
• Behind the Name: The etymology and history of first names
  • See also: Behind the Surname
• Misc. Name Lists: Disgaea DS + Noun Names (from grownups) + Noun Names (from Tumblr users)
• National Novel Writing Month, AKA NaNoWriMo
• Cruinne: World Building Checklist
• The Write Practice: Story Arcs
• Derek Sivers: "Write Plain Text Files"
• Ursula K. Le Guin: "A Few Words to a Young Writer"

Libraries

• Z-Library: E-books and articles. My favourite online library! ♥ Watch out for fake domains.
  
• Library Genesis: Books, scientific articles, magazines
• Project Gutenberg: The original, and oldest, eBook project on the Internet
  • Volunteer your support via Distributed Proofreadeers
• Archive.org: So much more than a digital library
• MangaDex: Unofficial manga publications (AKA scanlations)
• Bato.to: Best manga library for reading on a smartphone

Documentary Streams

• Thought Maybe: My favourite documentary project ♥
  • Categories that interest me most:
    Women, Children, Identity, Internet
• Real Horror
• Defunctland
• Watch Documentaries
• Documentary Heaven
• SFlix.to: TV and movie streaming in general. I've just linked directly to the documentary tag
• Coming someday: lists of documentarians to keep an eye on and films that made me think

Video Games

• ZLOEmu: Play Origin store games for free (e.g. Sims 4)
• 3DS Hacks: 3DS/2DS homebrew guide. Beginner friendly!
• 3DS .CIA Directory: 3DS ROMs on the Internet Archive
• /r/Roms Megathread: Comprehensive ROM database
• melonDS: Nintendo DS emulator for PC
• Wii Guide: Nintendo Wii homebrew guide. Beginner friendly!
• Nintendo Switch Homebrew Guide: ... well, it's friendly
• Ryujinx: Nintendo Switch emulator for PC
• NSW2U: Nintendo Switch ROMs
• Ziperto: "A Digital Park for Gamers." ROMs, basically
• vgperson: Free RPGMaker games translated from Japanese to English. My favourites are ENDROLL and Your Turn to Die.
• My Abandonware: Download games from 1978 to 2012
• Fit""Girl"" Repacks: Video games, compressed Created by a man who claims to be a woman
• Vimm's Lair: Classic console gaming preservation. ROMs, emulators, game guides & more
• English Otome Games: News about English releases of "reverse harem" visual novels
• Mikutap: Super cute browser-based rhythm game Flashing lights

Music Downloads

• Miku Database: Vocaloid albums
• SoulSeek: Just try searching your favourite band/album
• Sitting on Clouds: Anime and video game soundtracks
• KHInsider: Video game soundtracks
• Hikari no Akari: Anime, utaite, seiyuu, and more
• JPOP80ss3: 1980's Japanese pop albums
• JPop Singles: Contemporary Japanese pop
• Mainstream Music Madness: American pop music
• HIPHOPDE: American and South African hip-hop
• The Midi Shrine: Video game and anime .midi files
• MusicBee: My preferred music player and manager
• Mp3tag: Edit metadata of audio files
• MediaHuman Youtube to MP3: Rip audio from YouTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp

Torrenting & Internet Piracy

• Mullvad: My preferred VPN
• qBittorrent: My preferred P2P client
• FastForward: Browser extension that bypasses "your link will be ready in 3 seconds!" type pages
• Steal This Film: Documentary about Internet piracy I haven't watched this yet, but I appreciate their sentiment
• Nyaa.si: Anime, subbed and dubbed
• Torrent Galaxy: Mostly TV and movies, but other stuff too
• IGGGames: Video games
• 1337x.to: Everything!
• Pixiv Plus: Get Pixiv Premium for free
  • See also: Powerful Pixiv Downloader: Chromium extension for bulk Pixiv downloads
• Awesome Piracy Archive: Curated links and info Last updated in 2023
• TypeRip: The Adobe Fonts ripper
• GenP: Adobe Creative Cloud

Software

• WordWeb: Offline dictionary
• LibreOffice: My preferred office suite
• Bulk Rename Utility: Rename multiple files at once
• Launchy: Quickly open programs, folders, files, etc. with keystrokes
• Imgbrd-Grabber: Batch download entire tags from popular imageboards (Zerochan, Danbooru, etc.)
• WFDownloader: Another bulk image downloader. Works with Xitter, Tumblr, Insta, and other western SNS
• Hydrus Network: Create a locally hosted booru for all those images you downloaded
• Ninite: Install and update multiple programs at once
• Revo Uninstaller: Uninstall multiple programs at once. Also available on Android
• Glary Utilities: All-in-one utility for cleaning PC. Includes batch uninstall
• Winaero Tweaker: Customise your Windows® experience (free)
• Stardock: Windows® customisation software (paid)
• Caesium Image Compressor: Offline bulk image compression
• XnConvert: Edit multiple photos at once: compress, filter, resize, change file type, etc.

Online Privacy

• Ghostery: Blocks trackers and adverts
• Adaway: Block adverts on your Android phone
• piped.video: YouTube alternative (Github)
• Nitter.net: Twitter/X alternative
• Imginn.com: Instagram alternative
• Brave: Chromium-based internet browser. Not as "private" as you'd think, but great for adblock
• Librewolf: Firefox-based internet browser

Japanese

• Tofugu: Japanese learning resources
• Jisho: Kanji search engine— search by radical!!!
• RomajiDesu: Dictionary and translator
• DeepL: AI translator for many languages, not just JA
• Learn Japanese with Picture Books
• The Language Realm: Japanese Slang Dictionary Adult language
• The JADED Network: Japanese-to-English Sound Effects Dictionary
• Self-Taught Japanese: 育児語 (baby talk) vocabulary
• Nippon.com: "On the Finer Points of Baby Talk in Japan"
• 【闇のゲーム】: Seiyuu act dramatic while playing card games

Real Life Things

• Dr. Kristen Neff: Self-Compassion research
• MinutePhysics: "Is Anything on the Internet Real?"
• Mary Hendricks-Gendlin, Ph.D.: "Focusing As A Force For Peace: The Revolutionary Pause"
• ThereminTrees: "respecting beliefs | why we should do no such thing"
• Custodians Online: "In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub"
• PJ Eby's Dirtsimple: "How To End Your Sentence"
  • Article based on Byron Katie's The Work: A method for squashing self-defeating thoughts with the truth
• Win Wenger, Ph.D., on breathing:
  • "How to Feel Better Instantly"
  • "Breathing as a Way of Life"
  • See also: Kelly McGonigal's "Politics of Breathing"
• Grateful Living: Nonprofit dedicated to gratitude and joy
• Greater Good in Action: "Science-based practices for a meaningful life." For all ages and experience levels
• Roots of Action: Research-based resources on fostering positive youth development

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

• Key Facts + Key Assumptions & Intentions of NVC
• Four Components of NVC
• Feelings and Needs List
• Another list of Universal Human Needs
• "NVC Training CD: Sessions 1-9" with Marshall Rosenberg
• Nonviolentcommunication.com: Official publishing website
• The Center for Nonviolent Communication: Official non-profit website
• NVC Academy: In-depth learning resources, free and paid
• Street Giraffes: Blog that links to many other blogs
• Self-Empathy Exercise: Replace rumination with gratitude
• Kid's Feelings & Needs Posters: Cute posters I have on my wall!

Women with Opinions

• Shere Hite: The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality
  • See the documentary: The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
• Laura Mulvey: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (It's "the male gaze" essay...)
• Lionel Shriver: "The War Against Words"
• Jessica Jernigan: "The Book That Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser"
• Valerie Solanas: "The SCUM Manifesto"
• Selected essays and articles from Toni Morrisson
• Anonymous: Ses purs ongles, 2016-2018
• J.K. Rowling: Author and humanitarian

Human Rights Organisations

Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights.

• United Women for Women's Rights: A coalition that aims to unite women's rights organizations around the world
• ICONS: The Independent Council on Women’s Sport
• Women's Liberation Front, AKA WoLF
• Collective Shout: Campaigns against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls
• MOSAC: Support for mothers of sexually abused children
• Quit Clicking Kids: An advocacy and education site to combat the monetization of children on social media

Gender Criticism

Essays and Articles

• The Elephant In The Room by Sue Donym

  Allow me a tortured metaphor. Say that the entire LGBT community has gathered in a hall somewhere. They've all gathered for a nice vegan dinner, and the tables are laid out. Unfortunately for this...

• Gender dysphoria is not one thing by J. Michael Bailey, Ph.D and Ray Blanchard, Ph.D

  One problem with the current mainstream narrative regarding gender dysphoria is that it makes no distinctions among apparently very different kinds of persons. For example, Bruce Jenner appeared to be a very masculine man...

• Something you should realize about autogynephiles: They can't stop. by Lara Adams-Miller

  AGP functions more like an addiction than an orientation or identity. "Letting out the woman within" is both a high and a release. Time passes, and, without a fresh fix, they become hostile & self-destructive....

• AGP Males and Domestic Abuse, Part IV: Sissyfication and Submissive 'Women' by Dr. Em

  As Catharine MacKinnon has argued 'Fantasy expresses ideology, [it] is not exempt from it'. AGP sissyfication fantasy tells us what they think of women: that women exist to be dominated, used, abused, forced, and...

• Under Transgender Theory, Women and Girls are Passive Objects Enabling Male Escapism by Diana Shaw

  Under transgender theory, 'woman' exists as a passive state men can enter at will to feel a sense of freedom and fun...

• Trans Widows Voices

  Trans Widows Voices is a website that works to support the former partners of males who have socially and medically transitioned, and to amplify the voices of women, those who are most forgotten in the narratives of...

• J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues by J.K. Rowling

  This isn't an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it's time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to...

• The Gender Vibe Shift and Its Discontents by Valerie Stivers

  While not all insights gained from the experience of being trans and back again are reliable— especially when staged for an online public— their voices are worth hearing for what they reveal about...

• The Girls and The Grasses by Lierre Keith

  Captured in a test tube, blood may look like a static liquid, but it's alive, as animate and intelligent as the rest of you...

E-Books

• Trans, When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce

  In just ten years, laws, company policies, school and university curricula, sport, medical protocols, and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex. People are being shamed and silenced for attempting to understand...

• Detransition by Max Robinson

  Many feminists are concerned about the way transgender ideology naturalizes patriarchal views of sex stereotypes, and encourages transition as a way of attempting to escape misogyny. In this brave and thoughtful book, Max Robinson goes beyond the 'before' and 'after' of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her to...

• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

  Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap— a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of...

• Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin

  Presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society.

• Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock

  Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex.

• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

  Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gender dysphoria," transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?

• The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond

  "The Transsexual Empire" challenges the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease and sex conversion hormones and surgery as the cure. It exposed the antifeminist stereotyping that requires candidates for transsexual surgery to...

Documentaries and Videos

• No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care (2023) by L.E. Dawes

  Also known as "Affirmation Generation: Lies of Transgender Medicine." Six young people discuss the "gender affirming" medical care they received for gender dysphoria and how they subsequently realised this was the wrong treatment.

• Behind The Looking Glass (2024) by Lime Soda Films

  Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to 'transition'. While we hear a great deal of "stunning and brave" stories of men, there is a deadly silence when it comes to the stories of the wives or partners.

• Dysphoric (2021) by Vaishnavi Sundar

  Misogyny is rampant in this culture, and corporations capitalise on making women hate their bodies. Indeed all aspects of womanhood are commodified, hypersexualised, and squeezed into gender stereotypes. Being female...

• Growing Up Trans (2015) by Karen O'Connor & Miri Navasky

  Growing Up Trans explores how queer theory, now in the mainstream, has come to children— some younger than six years old. For just a generation ago, it was considered only adults who...

• DETRANS (2023) by PragerU

  What happens when a child is told she is born in the wrong body and undergoes life-altering surgery only to experience regret? A growing number of young Americans are being manipulated by social media and pushed by medical professionals to...

• Trans Men Are Dying Young (2024) by Runawaysiren940

  Generally speaking, Runawaysiren940's channel is an amazing source of information. She made many mid-length videos (like 10 to 30 minutes) about various feminist truths and concerns. I also recommend:

  • Autogynephilia
  • Turning Tides: Lesbians Don't Want Men In Lesbian Spaces
  • Why The Trans Community Hates Detransitioners
  • The Trans Rights Movement is Anti-Gay
  • Out of Empathy