The coolest corners of the cyber-graveyard!
Cool Websites
germicelli - my girlfriend's website ♥
Everyone Website - a website ANYONE with a Melonland forum account can edit!
Gothic Time Machine - A page dedicated to 90s era goth-related links and webpages. Fascinating to click around.
Kreepy Key's Halloween Horrotorium - Cool Halloween themed page with music, recipes, movie watchlists, etc.
EMGE's FinFin Homepage - The best resource for information on the game FinFin on TEO the Magic Planet. Avaliable in English and German, and a really delightful example of handcrafted web design.
Corruptedunicorn's Unicorn Shrine - A cute and very detailed shrine dedicated to unicorns and unicorn media.
Solflo's Lesbian Vampire Reviews - Part of a larger site but this particular page is most relevant to my interests. Movie reviews, reccomendations, and more. Worth reading, and the rest of the website is worth exploring as well!
Simon's Quest Dissected - Here's a page dedicated to translation and untangling the script of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. The game is infamously cryptic and poorly translated, so it's interesting to read a more faithful translation.
Vampire Club - A page dedicated to vampires and vampire media.
Vampire Cats Club - Similarly named, but much older. Lots of cute kitties!
Blue Moon Falls - A website with resources and information about
the GameBoy Pokemon games with lots of useful tools like a GSC save converter, trading tool for emulation, shiny hunting guides, stat tracker, etc. Seriously impressive stuff!
Gameboy Castlevania Fan Page - What it says on the tin. An older site full of information about Castlevania: The Adventure and Belmont's Revenge!
Pokegods - An older website that chronicles old Pokemon rumours and
stories about "Pokegods" in Gen I. I actually have very strong memories of browsing this site when I was about 10.
Wrongwarp - A site with lots of excellent Pokemon creepypastas!
Tools and Resources
SAve MY nEOCiTy!- a dedicated tool for downloading and backing up your website.
Scrobble.Observer - A cool last.fm widget to put on your website.
Marginalia - A search engine designed to find more obscure websites and to refine searches by popularity, relevance, personal or academic sites, time period, etc.
Pocket Platformer - A simple tool to make 2D platformers which can be played in the browser- and download and host yourself as HTML files!
Horror GIF Necronomicon - Where I've gotten a lot of my cool GIFs.
DSVEdit - A useful, easy to understand modding tool for Castlevania games.
Youtube RSS Finder - A Firefox add-on that will easily retrieve the RSS feed for a Youtube channel. Convenient!
Flashpoint Archive - Play all those old Flash games you remember.
Ruffle Flash Emulator - Another resource to play Flash files.
Games and Neat Stuff
Black Room - A surreal game played in the browser, centered around an imsomniac protagonist who gradually becomes a creature of the night.
WOLF - A page that lets you play WOLF, a wolf-simulator DOS game, in your browser!
Yurivania Series - A cute little trilogy of webgame metroidvanias that focus on a lesbian monster polycule.
Cat Companion - An interactive and customizable desktop pet.
Last Seen Online - A spooky puzzle game about exploring an old computer.
Warriors Untold Tales - The classic Warrior Cats fangame. Nostalgic and very fun.
Fin Fin on QEMU - a fan project that allows you to easily emulate the 90s virtual creature simulator Fin Fin on TEO the Magic Planet. (I have linked to the blog's main tag instead of one specific post, so you can see the latest updates to the project)
Orb Farm - A life sim where you can create and observe a virtual ecosystem.
Bad Time Simulator - Play the infamously hard Sans Undertale fight in your browser.
please tell me you love me - A short game about an MMO shutting down.
Winterbells - A cute little browser game, where you play as a rabbit.
Jonathan or Charlotte? No Problem Either Way! - An archive of an old promotional flash game for Castlevania Portrait of Ruin. An interesting little bit of history!
-Crystal Pix- - A similar archived promotional flash game, for Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow. This one is a memory game.
-Bat Attack- - The second Dawn of Sorrow promotional game, this one centers on killing as many monsters as you can to accumilate points within the time limit.
Articles, Stories, and Other Readings
Dracula Daily - A newsletter that delivers sections of Dracula chronologically in real time.
Re:Dracula - An audio adaptation of Dracula that updates chronologically in real time.
Under the Ash Tree - A cute little webcomic about two deer with tangled antlers.
YOUR ASSHOLE DAD'S CASTLE IS BACK AGAIN - A fanfiction centered around a trans reading of Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
An Unauthorised Fan Treatise - A twisty murder mystery formatted like a fandom blog. It's a fun read!
Project Tara - A rehost of the infamous fanfiction My Immortal and related works, including a recreation of how it would have looked on Fanfiction.net when it was first published!
Videos & Youtube Channels
Voyageurs Wolf Project - High quality trail cam footage of wolves and other wildlife!
Why Did We Like Elfen Lied? by hazel - One of my favorite video essays of all time, I watch it every few months. It's partially a review of Elfen Lied, an anime once popular in the 2000s,
but it's also a reflection of the authenticity of youth fan culture and liking media that "isn't made for you".
悪魔城ドラキュラall☆starで鯨 by 浦島次郎 - An incredibly animated Castlevania AMV!
Li Speaks - These videos are funny, nostalgic, and informative, and Li Speaks is one of my favorite youtube creators. Her videos have a focus on online content, virtual worlds,
browser games, and more.
The VERY Strange History of Unicorns by Kaz Rowe - an interesting and insightful video on the history of unicorn folklore and myths.
who wrote Caramelldansen? by jan Misali - One of my favorite videos, following the strange story of the Caramella Girls.
AbsolBlogsPokemon - Pokemon related videos including gameplay, shiny hunts and more, with a very casual, documentary style.
Poképark 2005 - Japan's Lost Pokémon Theme Park by Jonii - A video explaining the history of Pokepark, which I fondly remember reading about on Bulbapedia and wishing I had been able to go somehow.
How I Solved Pokemon's Biggest Mystery by BlueBoyPhin - A video about the historical and cultural inspirations behind the Ruins of Alph and the Johto region as a whole.
Other
Mynoise Church Soundscape - Ever want to feel like you're in a creepy church? With this soundscape you can! I've linked my own personal settings but you can edit and save your own as a url. Neat! The site has other soundscapes but I like this one the most.
Wiby Surprise - Clicking on it will redirect you to a random Web1.0 website.
Album Of The Day - A website that suggests you an album based on ones submitted by users.
ACME Heartmaker - Easily create a valentines heart candy! How lovely.
Click to Help Palestine - A website that lets you click a button once daily to make a small free donation.
gazafunds.com - A website that spotlights fundraisers from Palestinians in need escaping from the current situation.
noclip - A website that loads up and lets you explore maps of various popular video games without any restrictions- right in the browser!
Panther - A website that infinitely suggests bands to you. Just type in your favorite and click through.
This Website Will Self Destruct - A website that shuts down and wipes its database if it's not sent an anonymous message every 24 hours by someone out in the internet.
As of December '23, it's finally happened, but I'll leave the link here as a memorial.