Resources

As a self titled knowledge and data hoarder and someone very into the creatives, I like to collect the things I find on the interwebs, and I also like to share those findings. Most of these are what I personally use, though I've added a few extra ones too.

Legend

The flag next to the links indicates what languages they are in.
A book next to a link indicates it focuses on literature and academic papers.
A camera next to a link indicates it focuses on visual arts.
A musical note next to a link indicates it focuses on sound production or music.
A controller next to a link indicates it focuses on games, both video games and boardgames.
A coin next to a link indicates it must be paid for; there is no free option.
A star next to a link indicates its one of my favorites!

♦♦♦ Internet Musts ♦♦♦

Mozilla Firefox
The only major browser to not run on Chromium anymore. If you are worried about leaving behind your old bookmarks, you can import them from other browsers really easily.

uBlock Origin
THE adblocker. Don't forget to update and check your filters.

FastForward
This extension allows you to bypass most link-shorteners, saving you from having to deal with adfly or other such nuisances. It is the successor to Universal Bypass, so if you have that, switch to this.

Privacy Badger
Identifies trackers based on their behaviour and blocks them.

ClearURLs
Removes the bit of URLs used to track your data.

12ft Ladder
Bypass any paywalls by pasting 12ft.io/ in front of a URL.

♦♦♦ Applications and Tools ♦♦♦

Online Convert
My personal favorite conversion site. Maximum filesize is 100MB for free users.

LibreOffice
If you can't afford Microsoft Office, this is the place to go. Completely free and open-source Office suite.

Desmos
An abundance of maths tools.

Tip of My Tongue
For when you know the word, but just don't know it.

Hemingway Editor
If you for some reason want to write like Hemingway, this app checks your grammar and guides you to that goal.

Drawio
Great for making flowcharts and other such things. Has an app version on Github.

Vectorizer
Turns raster images into vectors.

Procgen Arcana
Procedurally generated maps, cities, towns, mansions and dungeons!

Get Textbooks
Find books you want to buy for cheap! Or, use it like me, and search for ISBN numbers.

Free Online Text Editing Tool
Simple text editing tools.

♦♦♦ Archives, Wikis and Databases ♦♦♦

Lolita History
A giant gallery/archive of scans and pictures of fashion magazines that are out of print, most low-quality but still interesting.

Internet Archive
THE archive. The Wayback Machine is the scene-stealer but the other collections are just as impressive.

Erowid
Records of any psychoactive ingredients, be they legal or not, their effects, and even has an experience vault where people share their trips.

de la Mancha plugins
An archive of old windows VSTs made by de la Mancha.

JewishGen
Archive of Jewish Genealogical Records. Requires registration.

CIA Reading Room
The CIA is required by the law to release certain documents after a specified amount of time; you can browse released documents on this site.

FBI Records: The Vault
Same as before, just for the FBI.

The Lost Media Wiki
A Wiki dedicated to archiving lost media, be it fully lost, partially lost/found or fully found.

The Cutting Room Floor
Wiki dedicated to documenting unreleased or unused parts of video games.

PsychonautWiki
Wiki focusing on altered states of consciousness, mostly achieved through drugs, but also meditation, dream exploration, sensory deprivation and more.

Official Ikea Catalogue
Archive of all IKEA catalogues from 1950 onwards.

Anna's Archive
Wanna find a book but don't want to go through Libgen.li, Libgen.rs, Z-Library, the Internet Archive and more to find it? This site can help with that.

RePEc EconPapers
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a giant database of, well... research papers in economics. Have fun browsing!

Mindat
Not only does this database include information on minerals, it even sports information on mines all across the world.

Asian Film Archive
Are you interested in films? Then this is the place for you. Archiving Asian films! Yipee!

♦♦♦ Artistic Resources ♦♦♦

Does not include music related resources. Those can be found in »Music, DAWs, VSTs.

Visual Art - 2D

Aseprite

One of my absolute favorite and most used apps ever! Seriously, if you are in any way interested in pixel art, go buy Aseprite.

Clip Studio Paint

Was once one of my most beloved apps ever. I still love it dearly but CSP 2.0's subscription based model irks me greatly so beware of that.

Affinity

Affinity Designer is my personal choice for a vector art program. I find it much more intuitive than Adobe Illustrator.

OpenToonz

A free and open-source animation program used by Studio Ghibli at one point.

Visual Art - 3D

Blender

One of the most comprehensive and feature filled programs on the planet, which can handle 3D modelling, sculpting, animating, 2D animating and more, and all for free.

Anatomy For Sculptors - Ecorche Reference Tool

An in-browser 3D body viewer, akin to Body Visualizer, though more high quality. Only gripe I have with it is the nauseatingly high mouse scroll sensitivty.

Writing

Since worldbuilding is as much a hobby as it is a part of writing, I included it in »Fun instead.

Reference For Writers

Though no longer updated, this tumblr blog provides plenty of valuable resources for writers.

Stimuwrite 2

Helps those with neurodivergencies write by responding to writing with visual and auditory stimuli. If you need more language settings, there's themes you can get on itch.io but those have to be downloaded separately.

Writing-World

While this site focuses more on the publishing side of writing, there's also stuff focusing on writing as well.

Game Design

Ren'Py

Ren'Py Documentation

Lemma Soft's Ren'Py Forums

A free Visual Novel game engine. Recommend checking out the Cookbook.

Godot Engine

Godot Engine Documentation

A free game engine which can handle both 2D and 3D graphics. Currently my nemesis (affectionate).

♦♦♦ Books and Education ♦♦♦

PDF Drive
Used to be my personal favorite website to get books from. No download lock, though the selection of books is not updated and can be questionable at times.
This is an archive of pdfdrive.com; that site is still up as of 29/07/2023, but you can't download from it anymore. pdfdrive.to is also smaller and shoddier. Would not recommend signing up to it. You can still find many books and manuals for devices here though.

Ocean of PDF
Similar to the pdfdrive. No idea about its contents because I haven't used it that much.

Project Gutenberg
A collection of over 70,000 eBooks, for free! Mostly focused on public domain titles.

Magytar Elektronikus Könyvtár
Website for the Hungarian Electronic Library.

SparkNotes
Simplified concepts and subjects commonly found in school curriculums.

Music Theory Academy
Explanations on different aspects of Music Theory.

Free Language Stuff!
Basic English language and linguistics stuff.

Language Stuff
A collection of thousands of books to learn languages from. And old link to decrepit google folder that once contained these books can be found in the Archived section.

Sci-Hub
For finding research papers no longer locked behind paywalls.

Library Genesis
Link might be broken or have changed; collection of millions of pirated books. If you don't want to shill out 400 dollars for your college books, this is the place to go.

ZLibrary
Same as before. Millions and millions of pirated books.

Holybooks
As the title suggests. Holy books for all!

Sefaria
An open-source collection of Jewish texts, with a large portion dating back to thousands of years ago.

Early Christian Writings
A huge collection of texts from the beginning of Christianity. Has a forum.

Early Jewish Writings
Sister site of the above, for Jewish texts.

♦♦♦ Downloads ♦♦♦

Freesound
A database where you can upload and download sound files!

DaFont
A database where you can upload and download fonts.

Audioz Download
Twin site of AudioSEX, focused on cracking DAWs, VSTs and other music related software. Should be completely safe.

1337x
One of the best torrent sites that I know of. Still be careful though.

rutracker
My favorite torrent site. Requires registration. The site is entirely Russian.

cs.rin.ru
Torrent site focused on video games.

oldversion
oldsoftware
Sites dedicated to archiving and downloading older versions and older software.

oldgamesdownload
romspure
Similar to the above, but focused on video games.

Spotify Downloader
Site to download Spotify songs with. Includes metadata.

♦♦♦ Forums and Communities ♦♦♦

Anime Addicts
Hungarian community dedicated to anime. Requires registration.

Everskies
An avatar-based online community with a forum, an app and some games, kind of akin to something like GaiaOnline.

RPG Maker Forums
Do you have an interest in developing a game in RPG Maker? This is your place then.

OpenGameArt
Free game graphics, sounds and songs.

The VG Resource
Sprites, models, textures, sounds and more ripped from video games.

AudioSEX
Surprisingly not a porn site. Instead a forum mainly based around music production.

Leatherworker
Also surprisingly not a porn site. A site for leather enthusiasts of the artisan variety.

GameBoomers Community
GameBoomers is a site dedicated to adventure games, specifically reviews of it, but there is also a fairly active community forum surrounding it.

Hong Kong Movie Database Forums
A slightly less active community focused on movies from Hong Kong, including actor identification.

Early Writings Forums
Forum to discuss the contents of Early Christian/Jewish Writings.

Writing Forums
As the title says, a forum for writers.

♦♦♦ Fun ♦♦♦

TextSynth
AI text completion, text to image mode and translation. Very Fun.

InspiroBot
Generate inspirational quotes! Can get extremely absurd.

OE-Cake
A 2D fluid and physics sandbox/art program.

Umineko screenshot generator
Create a screenshot with the OG Umineko sprites up to Episode 6. Double-click on generate to actually generate the image.

Custom Board Game & Cards Maker
You can make and buy your own board game designs! Hell yeah. Requires you to buy it, obviously.

♦♦ Worldbuilding ♦♦

r/worldbuilding
r/mapmaking
r/conlangs
r/writing
r/fantasywriters
Some reddit pages based around worldbuilding and/or writing.

Random Worldbuilding Generation Chart
Roll some dice and generate a world.

Springhole
A bunch of writing, roleplaying and worldbuilding advice, as well as a bunch of generators to play with!

Roll For Fantasy
Similar to Springhole, with more focus on DIY, puzzles and creators.

Fantasy Guide to Architecture
Tumblr post explaining some architectural styles from around the world.

♦♦ Web Revival And 2000s-Core ♦♦

Picasion
Create animated GIFs, glittertext and resize images!

BLOGGIF
Even more GIF options! Text effects, 3D Image Cube GIFs, resizing GIFs, more glitter GIFs...

sadgrl.online
A neocities website by Sadness, with resources regarding webrevival and other such topics. Currently on hiatus.

GifCities
An archive of old GIFs with some dating back to 20 years ago.

♦♦ Pixel Dolls and Dress Up Games ♦♦

r/PixelDolls
Dollz Mania
Some communities dedicated to pixel dolls.

eLouai
Check the Candybar doll makers out!

No Title
A dollmaker site made in about 2009.

Style Dollz
Some dollmakers and graphics around!

Dollz
A neocities page with dollmakers.

Dolls.com.br
A brazilian dollmaker site

Blossom.nu's Dollmakers
The only link you should follow from the links section is the Dress Up Games one. The rest don't work anymore or redirect you to a scam.

Chibi Pixel Doll Dress-Up
Has a forum and wiki, though as of June 5th 2023, the last post was 2 months ago. Requires registration.

:: m o o n p i x e l :: d o l l z ::
A site from 2001. Last updated 2006, I believe? Has dolls, doll makers, graphics and more.

IK Pixels
The pixel art and doll site of Imaginary Karin.

♦♦♦ Music, DAWs, VSTs ♦♦♦

KVR Free VST Plugin Mega List
Gigantic list of free VSTs!

freevstplugins
plugins4free
Downloads for VSTs and other music related stuff.

KX77FREE
bserrano
Daniel Pompougnac
Acousmodules
bigcatinstruments
Don't Crack
plugINDEX
VSTs, all of them ancient, most of them discontinued, a lot of them very French.

Rekkerd
Despite having deals on site and looking vaguely commercial, this is actually a blog with some downloads.

KVR Developer Challenge 2006
KVR Developer Challenge 2007
KVR Developer Challenge 2009
KVR Developer Challenge 2012
KVR Developer Challenge 2014
KVR Developer Challenge 2016
KVR Developer Challenge 2018
KVR Developer Challenge 2021
KVR Developer Challenge 2023
A challenge dedicated to developing a VST or audio program! You can download some of them! Yay! Yipee!
Part of KVR but I wanted to highlight this.

JummBox 2.5
In-browser music program.

♦♦♦ RPG Maker Stuff ♦♦♦

For the RPG Maker Forum check »Forums.

Free Alternatives to Visustella Plugins
Don't have the money to buy Visustella's RMMZ plugins? Check this out.

RM03 Maniacs Patch
Want to make RPG Maker 2003 more powerful? Download this patch! Note: Patch 211010 tends to get flagged as a virus, so if you're scared of downloading it, download patch 210809.

RMMV/RMMZ Script Call Documentation
A collection of script calls for RPG Maker MV and MZ. Has links towards the VX Ace version as well.

SRDude HUD Maker
SRDude HUD Maker Pro
Want to make custom HUDs for your RPG Maker game? Check this out! Available for free and as a pro version too.

VisuStellaMZ Plugins
Yanfly Engine Plugins (MV)
MogHunter XP/VX/VX Ace/MV/MZ Plugins
Ocram's MV/MZ Plugins
Galv's VX Ace/MV/MZ Plugins
SRDude's MV/MZ Plugins
Caethyril's MZ Plugins
Hakuen Studio MV/MZ Plugins
Gabe's MV/MZ Plugins
Casper Gaming MZ Plugins
DK Plugins
WinterDreams Game Creator MZ Plugins
TWings' MV/MZ Plugins
Raizen MZ Plugins
DMWorkshop MZ Plugins
Theoallen VX Ace/MV/MZ Plugins
Woodpenguin's MV/MZ Plugins (Japanese only)
Torigoya's MV/MZ Plugins (Japanese with English plugin commands)
KekeeLabo's MV/MZ Plugins (Japanese only)
New RPG Project MV/MZ Plugins (Japanese only)
A bunch of RPG Maker Plugins. in this case means some are to be paid for, not all of them are necessarily paywalled though.

♦♦♦ Other ♦♦♦

Humble Bundle
Often sells bundles of programs that would individually cost hundreds to thousands for just below 30$. Worth it, in my opinion.

VST Torrent
UNSAFE FOR PROGRAMS. Only sharing it for its large collection of Kontakt7 instruments. Don't run any program downloaded from this site, and only use it if you know what you are doing.

DEDA
Prevents tracking done by most commercial color laser printers, for maximum privacy.

♦♦♦ Other Collections ♦♦♦

r/worldbuilding Resources Masterlist
A bunch of resources from the web curated by the r/worldbuilding discord server. Obviously, the theme is that of worldbuilding.

The Fuck You Buffet
A collection of family recipes shared by abuse victims and estranged family members.

Eat My Ass Capitalism
A collection of pirated movies and stuff.

Academia and Public Links
A collection of leftist theory and literature, with a focus on anti-racism.

Smithsonian Institution
An educational facility, research center and museum. Has a lot of free educational material.

Pixabay
Pexels
Unsplash
Shutterstock
Free Images
Stocksnap
Incompetech
A bunch of royalty free image and music websites.

♦♦♦ Archived ♦♦♦

These are links that once worked but do not anymore. There might be versions of these resources still up somewhere on the internet but I've no access to them, so I simply keep these links to acknowledge their existence.

Black History Month Library
This was a collection of PDFs shared around with the intent to educate others on Black History.

The Library
This was a google folder filled with pirated content.

Language Stuff
This was a collection of over 1300 books to learn languages from. Now it's on MEGA.

Mineralogy Database
Still up and working but was last updated in 2012. Sad.