Zones
A hub for links to sites I admire, whether currently or previously. If you think my site is neat enough to link, feel free to use either of these buttons:
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Cities
Other Zonelets blogs or Neocities sites that don't have buttons.
The coziest blog this side of the Zonelets-sphere.
Reading this blog gives a permanent +100% buff to RPG understanding, among other things.
A rare Neocities site tagged "books" with its best pages being book-related.
Media criticism and fiction from the edges of the heckzone.
"Handmade website" in the most literal way possible.
where to go when abrupt woken up from the dream?
A garden of thoughts about games and artmaking.
Miscellaneous thoughts on and short stories inspired by games.
Reflections on art and theory by the creator of Zonelets.
Osmosis
Blogs and publications of folks who write interesting things.
tumblr of a retired games journalist with some of the most sincere work in the space.
A hibernating site of nerd culture criticism.
I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS. I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
The tribulations of navigating fandom while black.
Reviews, rants, and raves about fantasy books.
"Where is all the good writing [and videos] about games?" Here, every Sunday.
Miscellaneous
A so-called "research assistant" that can scan through whatever webpage or socmed post or journal article you're browsing and save a complete snapshot or downloadable PDF in its cloud-based file browser. Quite possibly the program that is carrying me through grad school.
JW's hub for childhood nostalgia #1: a massive archival of webgames and animations, expanding out from Adobe Flash to numerous plugins and frameworks.
JW's hub for childhood nostalgia #2: A platform devoted to the now defunct Flipnote Studio for the DSi/3DS using the original Flipnote Hatena architecture, including an archive of millions of flipnotes from the original service.
An alternative to engagement-metric driven SMS that ballooned in size when the bird app exodus began. Lots of cool folks around, but you'll have a hard time hearing about mainstream happenings, for better or worse.