"You're Going to Like this! "

• Marginalia Search - Independent search engine that only gives you non-commercial sites
• Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet"
• MelonKing.net - Extremely cool Web Revival site. Explore around! Learn something new! I bought a plot of digital land here.
• Public Domain Image Archive - Hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
• EZGif - Online GIF maker and image editor
• PDF24 - Easy online PDF editor tool
• Wayback Machine - My go-to for saving websites. You can also use Ghost Archive for the same purpose since the WayBack Machine servers are often overloaded.
• FlashPoint Archive - Archive of preserved flash games and animations
• Swivel - Converts flash animations to other video file formats
• Pi-hole® - Network-wide Ad Blocking tutorial
• Discord Chat Exporter - Archives your Discord DMs or server channels in HTML form
• MessyBeast Cats - Cat genetics information library
• yt-dlp - Downloads Youtube videos or audio from YouTube videos. This is what I use.
• cobalt.tools - Similarly, this also downloads stuff from webpages
• WinRAR - That thirty day free trial never fuckin ends LMAOOOOOO
• Hoopla Digital - Access tons of ebooks online for free by putting your library card here! All of Silver Sprocket’s books are available here.
• Kanopy - Similarly, you can access lots of educational videos here through your local library card
• Library Genesis (LibGen) - used this instead of paying for textbooks. Note that the library constantly changes urls so refer to this site for where it's currently at'.
• 3DS Hacks Guide - The written guide for hacking the 3DS
• hShop - Modded 3DS QR codes for every game ever
• CloudConvert - I use this to convert files all the damn time
• Bulk split image online - A tool I used when I had to cut several pics in half for my art book scans.
• NewPipe - The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
• Tachiyomi - Read manga and webtoons easily on your Android device for free!
  • Tachiyomi is no longer supported, unfortunately, but there is a new one, known as Mihon.
  • For iOS users, you can use Paperback and Tachimanga.
  • I recommend these following extensions:
    • MangaDex
    • MangaKakalot
    • Dynasty
• FREE MEDIA HECK YEAHHHH
• BlockTheSpot - Spotify desktop without ads
• FileFound! - Chelsea Saunders’ very cool obsolete data storage collection
• Scarecrow Video - Non-profit physical media library. They do DVD mail rentals. Look at their catalog, it’s insane!
• HTML for People - HTML tutorial site. Despite having been a literal graduated Compsci Major, everything has simply vaporized from my brain. This tutorial helped me make this website you are seeing right now. Woohoo!
• Catbox - Simple file uploading/sharing, up to 200 MB.
  • For temporary file sharing, use Litterbox for up to 1 GB.
• File Garden - Another free file-hosting website.
• Bunkr - Another free file-hosting website, up to 2GB.
• TeraBox - 1024 GB Cloud Storage
• Transfem DIY HRT Guide and Transmasc DIY HRT Guide zines
• Shinigami Eyes - Browser addon that highlights transphobic and trans-friendly social network pages and users with different colors
• Fast and easy square image cropper for Art Fight or profile icons
• The College Cheapskate - Resources for college students in NYC
• Know Your Media - A guide to the most common types of digital storage media found in archives.
• Guide to digitizing analog media - from XFR Collective
• Guide to preserving digital-born media - from XFR Collective
• ToadStool Records resources - Indie musician resources. This is like the sacred tombs for music makers.
• 12ft - Remove popups, banners, and ads from any website. If an article you want to read is behind a paywall, this might help.
• Bypass Paywalls Clean - if the previous bullet doesn't work, try this
• DVDVob2Mpg - What I use to rip DVDs into VOB files
• Aspect Ratio Cheat Sheet - Common capture and finishing aspect ratios, and their pixel resolutions
• The Cable Bible - A Guide to Cables and Connectors Used for Audiovisual Tech
• FileFormat.Info - The Digital Rosetta Stone
• CSS Cheat Sheet - Online Interactive CSS Cheat Sheet
• Internet Phone Book - "We are creating a physical directory for exploring the vast poetic web. It features the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators."
• ShortBox Comics Fair - Digital comics fair throughout October
• The Webcomic Travelogue - Webcomic database
• Palestine Film Index - Spreadsheet of Palestinian films
• Let's Get Creative - A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.
• Clean Air Club - Ensuring cleaner air for Chicago artists and touring musicians. Lots of clean air resources.
• Persian Cat Rescues in the US - from The Persian Rescue Network on Facebook.

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And here's some rather niche stuff:

• How Anime is Made - Written by Jarrett Martin
• anti-gatekeeping sound design
• White Squirrel - "Tailored fulfillment services for designers, authors, creators and product artists!" This is for if you do a kickstarter and ya need people to help ship out stuff to tons of backers.
• Warrior Cats MAP Archives
• ClanGen - Warrior Cats clan generator game
• List of official Cartoon Pitch Bibles
• Master List of Voice Acting Resources
• Learn about space! - Here is the free astronomy textbook I used when I took an astronomy. I referenced it for Cosmicals.
• Collection of those 3D rotating food gifs
• Free 3D animated gifs
• Collection of 88x31 gifs that you can use on your own site. More here!
• The Cartoon Network stairwell - flythrough 3D tour
• Blue Ridge Oil Paint - independent oil paint manufacturer

Note: None of the businesses I list on my site are any sort of moral endorsements.