Links

Webcomics

  • Homestuck. Although honestly Problem Sleuth is better.
  • What Happens Next
  • XKCD. A classic.
  • Order of the Stick. DnD-themed.
  • 17776
  • Drop Out. Furries and suicide.
  • Rotten. Comic about the psychic damage that seeing gore on the internet does. About as nsfw/gory as you would expect.
  • Oglaf. Very NSFW.
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Another classic.
  • Dinosaur Comics
  • 14 Nights by K. Stipetic. NSFW.
  • Scandinavia and the World. I think I read too much of this as a kid and haven't read any of it since (and don't necessarily endorse all of the political opinions therein), but it was a pretty formative influence on me.
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    Interactive fiction

  • Interactive Fiction Database. The repository of pretty much all IF. Wonderful place. Below are some of my favorite works, several of which are hosted on IFDB:
  • Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
  • Horse Master, by Tom McHenry
  • Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry This one is an ABSOLUTE CLASSIC. One of the best IF works of all time.
  • The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt My personal favorite :3
  • Corru.observer This is IF, I think? I have not actually played it?
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    Book recommendations

  • The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
  • The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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    Comic and graphic novel recommendations

    I am going to sort this into more buckets later!!!

  • Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  • These Cats Today! by Kim Deitch
  • Bone by Jeff Smith
  • Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
  • The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
  • Clan Apis by Jay Hosler
  • Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley
  • The Color Of Earth (and its two sequels) by Kim Dong Hwa
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • Any of the Scrooge McDuck comics done by Carl Barks OR Don Rosa
  • The Nice House on the Lake by Alvaro Martinez and James Tynion IV
  • Nancy by Olivia Jaimes
  • Epileptic by David B
  • Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
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    Other fiction and collections of such which can be found online

  • Stories by Greg Egan
  • Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • Buddhism for Vampires
  • "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim
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    Essays etc.

  • Kids Can't Use Computers by Marc Scott.

    (I am one of these kids, unfortunately)

  • Diamonds Suck by Josh Kaufman. Moissanite is better. Don't waste money on diamonds.
  • On the Bonkers Color Palette of Garfield Comics by David Malki.
  • Drinking Distilled Water by Nayuki, who also has a lot of other excellent work
  • The no-nonsense guide for people who think they might have an eating disorder
  • How Kidnap Insurance Works. Scroll down for the transcript and some other links on the subject.
  • 100 things you can do on your personal website
  • How Google is killing independent sites like ours. On product reviews and why Google causes problems.
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    Maps

  • Radical Cartography
  • Old Maps Online
  • Nuke Map. Allows you to select an area and simulate what would happen to it if it got nuked.
  • Maps on the Web. Mostly political data visualization. Lots of funny stuff.
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  • https://vurren.neocities.org/
  • https://ita.toys/
  • https://localghost.dev/
  • https://felix.plesoianu.ro/
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    For things that I think are absolute garbage and which I hate-watch/hate-read/etc. anyways.

  • 9 Chickweed Lane and all other comics by the same author, including Pibgorn.
  • Mary Worth. Honestly, sometimes it's good. The other 90% of the time it is a painful read.
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