Useful Sites/Tools
The Internet Archive
The chad. The GOAT. The best. The Internet Archive! MASSIVE site full of books you can check out like a library, videos, movies, archived web pages, ROMs, anything you could think of and more! Dig around a little and you might find something really interesting.
Firefox Lifesavers
First of all, DOWNLOAD FIREFOX (or any non-Chromium browser)! Second of all, rentry with a ton of great tips and extensions for Firefox to help protect you and clean up your browsing process.
Photopea
Legally distinct recreation of Photoshop, in your browser, for FREE!!! Somewhat limited in places but has everything you'd realistically need and accepts a wide variety of file types. (Note: it has recently integrated AI image generation/replacement, like how Photoshop has, but like in Photoshop this feature is optional.)
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Site for Google searches that removes all Google-related AI generated or regulated content from results. There's also a browser extension I personally use that does the same job automatically.
postimage
Really nice image hosting site with functionally no image limit. I switched to this after the discord link expiration fiasco happened.
TinEye
Reverse image search alternative to Google. Great at picking out specific images and has a mostly different dataset to Google. Google tends to be better at finding similar images, or the searched image at other angles, but TinEye is generally the way to go and what I use to find things; plus, it has leftover data from sites that don't exist anymore that you can then use in tandem with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
JS Paint
Faithful recreation of Windows 98 MSPaint, right in your browser! Has a few extra features and other fun stuff.
"Hou tu pranowns Inglish"
One Mark Rosenfelder's extensive, constructive guide on how to pronounce English words, because English sucks ass.
Colors Palette Generator
Upload an image, get a palette generated from it.
Onelook Thesaurus
Good thesaurus tool for finding words that are just on the tip of your tongue. Type in a descriptor and it might just have what you're thinking of.
MyNoise
Tons of adjustable and free noisemakers. Background noise, white noise, soundscapes, etc!
dCode
Website with a bunch of cipher/code machines/calculators and other puzzle stuff.
Comics Devices Library
Collection of accessible and succinct explanations of different comic devices, like different ways to use speech bubbles and panels, with visual examples.
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Tiny Tools Directory
Organized, filterable list of useful tools for making digital projects. Some of the things I have here are on there.
Plushify
Website where you can upload 3D models and it will create a pattern for making a plush out of it!
Fiction Reading Material
BACK
A humorous webcomic by KC Green and Anthony Clark about a strange cowgirl who wakes up in the wilderness. One of my personal favorites and the source of my "Queenie" moniker. Completed work.
Rain
Webcomic by Jocelyn Samara about a teen trans girl going to her new religious, conservative private school as a woman for the first time. PG-13. Don't let the artstyle push you away; it's a legitimately touching and emotional piece of storytelling. Completed work.
Girl Genius
Girl Genius, an EXTREMELY long steampunk-setting webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio. Follows a young woman who just can't get her inventions to work, but soon discovers something shocking about her past. 16+ due to a lot of fanservice and violence. It's also excruciatingly heterosexual at times but the love triangle is actually interesting and not the main focus of the story. It began in 2002 and has stayed consistently good. Ongoing work.
17776
17776 (and its sequel 20020) is a hyperfic by Jon Bois about what football will look like in the year 17776. Sci-fi and written by a true sports nerd, but you can enjoy it even if you don't know anything about football (like myself). PG-13 for language. Completed work (until 20021...)
Worm
A web serial by Wildbow about a highschool girl who gets bug controlling superpowers. Please mind the content warnings listed on the site; just about everything is sensitive and morally gray and bad about the setting and there's some outdated language because it's from the early 2010s (and the characters are bad people). This story is 16+ and not for the faint of heart. Completed work.
Awful Hospital
A hyperfic by Bogleech about a mother who finds herself trapped in an otherworldly hospital and her mission to rescue her sick son. LOTS of 4th wall fuckery. PG-13 for all the unsettling imagery; as you might guess there's a whole helping of medical horror and grossness, so be warned. Ongoing work.
Handplates
An Undertale AU fancomic by ZarlaS focused on Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster. Some of you Undertale Tumblr OGs will probably recognize this one. It continued to run from then (2015) all the way to July 2023. PG-13 for medical horror and depictions of abuse/violence. Completed work.
