important info i want to have readily available in one place
separated by reason for being saved. i'm a man of many talents (all of varying skill), and make heavy use of tutorials when i find myself hitting a roadblock. i also watch a lot of video essays and have a few i'm especially fond of in both topic and informational quality.
practical tutorials i found very helpful (usually sewing related)
- how to identify quality in clothing by bernadette banner
- the ultimate guide to hand sewn buttonholes by morgan donner
- how to finally mend all your holey and torn clothes by morgan donner
- hand sewing | basic stitches and techniques by nutty crafter
actual educational tools my turbonerd of a brother has shown/sent me
- media bias visualizer
- desmos graphing calculator (has a super lightweight mobile app as well. HIGHLY recommend it i love desmos)
- easybib (for essay citations)
- ptable (periodic table visual that shows a ton of info on each element in the table, EXTREMELY useful)
my art tutorials playlist + some helpful resources i have saved
- the playlist
- limited palette site #1 (colorhunt)
- limited palette site #2 (coolors)
- limited palette site #3 (color-hex)
- haveibeentrained.com (to see if your art has been used in AI training datasets)
- POSEMANIACS (pose references for practice)
- human head guidelines 3d model
- human skull for artists 3d model
- line of action (DOES have artistic nudity, but there is an option to not see it if that type of thing makes you uncomfortable. sort of a timed practice site for students)
coding help
- how to make a neocities from scratch by CINNIMANI
- neocities html tutorial 1 by andrue
- w3schools.com (offers tutorials in a TON of coding languages and has interactive examples for html and css)
sites i use to get assets
- glitter graphics (this is an OLD old site so there are some things on there that aged like ancient milk, but there's still some solid finds on there)
- the 88x31 gif collection (like buttons? here's a massive repository for your viewing pleasure)
- gifcities (a huge archives of gifs from old geocities sites mined after the service shut down)
- 88x31 tumblr tag (i use tumblr for assets a LOT)
- web graphics tumblr tag
- old web tumblr tag
- deviantart blinkie tag
video essays i thought were good
- did "emo culture" promote depression? by ana isabel
- fandom policing, purity culture and the death of media literacy by E
- slenderverse: a documentary film series by alex hera
- the tragic early days of my chemical romance by graymads
- goth is white: pallor, prejudice and purity by shonalika
- the trans essence of steven universe | infodump by angel manson
- an artist's horrifying reaction to 9/11 by shawn grenier | the canvas
style related stuff
- breakdown of thrifted items by maked-artyshenanigans
- full goth diy playlist by rattus rattus
- super mega emo hell pinterest board (good as a callback to study sometimes)
- goth pinterest board (sort of a variety pack)
- vampirecore pinterest board (like a vibes thing. may be of some use to my fellow v:tm nerds)
cool music playlists youtube recommends me sometimes
- #1 (liquid DnB/jungle mix)
- #2 (playstation jungle mix 01)
- #3 (nostalgic futurism frutiger aero/y2k/nostalgiacore)
- #4 (a 2000s it girl playlist from your pink ds)
my favorite shitposts
- the hardest one two combo in history by 3LIXAR
- the perfect sandwich (2016) by beyondEMH
- grunkle stunkle wins the funkle bunkle by zakuya
- seer's ultimatum by monckat
- birthday. by ortsmort
- never gonna mike you mike // the magnus archives by star
- wow its the empire state building by brombo
- tisming out by buzzly
- sweet bro and hella jeff- the complete first season by seinfeldspitstain
- adventures of medic and soldier by andobiki
- 17th century nudes by BBC three
