Intertextuality
While it would be fitting for the serpent's den to be an inescapable trap, the content here can be exhausted, and eventually it will be time for your journey to move on. Though we do hope you return!
As motivated by this blogpost, we'll collect together links for anyone interested in further exploring the web. This page represents proximity, above all else. Either creators in the neocities grind with us, or our friends. But everything we link here is cool, or we wouldn't link it.
Selected neocities sites
Picker-Aparter: a few excellent pieces of fiction, thoughtful "rants", and several evocative fragments. A treasure trove of delightful work that feels like a glimpse into a mind. Our favorite kind of neocities page.
WMB Saltworks: mainly a list of outgoing links. See their listing in the friends index further down.
Circle-Snake Café: many essays, fiction, and poetry (Promise we aren't biased from the name).
Sporktown: stories and fragments from a fellow writer
suspiciouslyBee: personal page of a cute streamer
♡ Kawaii Nightmare ♡: a perfectly named website; the landing page is a chaos of links and images. Worth a crawl if you don't mind the aesthetic — anime and music blogging, and other curios.
Cordillera's Content: interesting thoughts and good source of curated links.
Uranian Coffee: electronic music and poetic writings. (their new album Grot Geluid (excursionPoint_006) is a banger.
coffebug: delightful music and cute art. I recommend the album MIDIfreak
localghost: helpful posts about site design and other technical matters
Stuff My Friends Wrote
Most of these people don't have sites of their own.
emstar/MMKII (SufficientVelocity, ArchiveOfOurOwn, FimFic) - fellow writer
- Lost on the Road of Life (SufficientVelocity, ArchiveOfOurOwn): a Naruto fic where Kakashi goes missing nin after the nine tails attack. Cowritten with Paperclipped. One of our favorites.
Note: ArchiveOfOurOwn version does not contain chapters after Chapter 35, part 1, nor an extremely well-written fanmade novella/omake. - Princess Diaries (Fimfic): Dresdon-inspired MLP fanfic.
- Your Move! (ArchiveOfOurOwn): Yu-Gi-Oh!/Code Geass crossover written for the first RatFicFest. (I read it without YGO familiarity).
Spectre/"Speck" (Fimfic) - our oldest online friend, as well as our most dedicated and consistent beta reader.
- Somnambulent (Fimfic): Luna-centric MLPfic.
- Twisted Metal Soap (itch.io): a Twisted Metal-inspired demo in a pretty rough state.
SableGM/Winged_One/melmonella (Substack, RoyalRoad, SufficientVelocity) - brainstorming partner and someone for whom I edit
- Blog Map: their blog is a trove of good gamemastering and RPG design advice. A few standout sequences:
- Reductionist Magic: a technical and insightful analysis of magic system mechanics, broadly applicable to fantasy worldbuilding
- This V-Tuber Does Not Exist (ibid.) - a thoroughly entertaining shadowrun campaign retrospective.
- Reach Heaven Via Fen Shui Engineeering, Drug Trade, & Tax Evasion (RoyalRoad, SufficientVelocity) - rational cultivation fic
- The Summoned Hero is a Historical Materialist!? (ArchiveOfOurOwn, RoyalRoad, SufficientVelocity) - a serious and thoughtful (and consistently funny) take on political revolution in a fantasy world.
Morgan "Nighzmarquls" Heacock (SpaceBattles, SufficientVelocity) - a fellow writer and inspiration
- Too many stories to list, see his SpaceBattles (most are not mirrored on SufficientVelocity).
- DeviantArt: He's a skilled artist with a decades of experiences, so his dA is not exhaustive. Though our site contains a page for browsing Onward to Providence's illustrations specifically.
- Shining Wyrm (SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): a delightful dragon fic with remarkable attention to the details of feudalism, less slice of life than the whole pie.
- Onward to Providence (RoyalRoad, SufficientVelocity SpaceBattles): one of the greatest pieces of xenofiction I've read. The Reef is a universe without gravity, and a menagerie brimming with truly alien species.
- Deep Rise (SpaceBattles): largely lost media, one of the many things gone with the MSPA forums. It was one of the first xenofics I read, and a great one. The illustrations, fortunately, remain and several chapters have survived.
- Hope & Silence in the Hive (SpaceBattles): a fun WH40k fic, though I've only partially read it.
- Kobalae (SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): rest in peace cute kobold quest.
zoru (ArchiveOfOurOwn) - a close friend and fellow writer
- Little Leavanny in the Big City (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles, ThousandRoads): pokemon xenofiction is oddly rare — this is one of the standout examples.
- Xenofiction, Thoughts, Approaches, Styles, Worldbuilding, Etc: a collection of short essays on xenofiction.
- Tearing the Aeons (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): Worm/MtG cross. Rough, though I enjoyed it.
Z. Albert Bell (Site) - correspondent and fellow writer
- Octo: an excellent piece of xenofiction, and thrilling story in its own right.
callmesalticidae (SaltWorks, DriveThruRPG, ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles) - a brainstormer and prolific writer.
- Too stories to list (just look at that Ao3!), but I've only read a few
- There is Nothing to Fear (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SpaceBattles): extensive, rich and well-thought-out AU where Tom Riddle is sorted into Gryffindor.
- Species Shock: Agloanikoi: an excellent exercise in xenofiction, I'd rank it among the best in terms of worldbuilding. Sadly, this series is unlikely to get further installments.
- Do check out their DriveThruRPG - I find their thoughts on worldbuilding insightful enough I've bought their books, and some of them (such as Species Shock) are pay what you want.
Rhythm - one of my first associates in the old webfiction community.
Ian "Megajoule" Everett - another early friend in the webfiction community
- Inheritors (Wordpress, RoyalRoad): an exception piece of superhero fiction
Redcoat_Officer (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles) a fellow writer, and an appreciator of nonhuman fiction
- Too many fics to list, though I've unfortunately only read one.
- Nightcrawler (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles) - a case53 fic with a nicely creative power.
BeaconHill (ArchiveOfOurOwn, SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles) one of my favorite writers.
- Too many fics to list. In fact, if we linked only things we read and enjoyed by them, the list would still be too long — suffice it to say all of it is good.
- Shedding Lionskin (ArchiveOfOurOwn): a Slytherin!Harry fic with one of the more intriguing and creative premises we've seen. Scratches many of our itches.
- Nemesis (SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): a truly delightful Wormfic. It's quite popular, and for a reason.
- I Am Skitter (SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): excellent Wormfic. Taylor deceives Emma into thinking Emma is secretly Skitter, in a weird fake Fight Club type situation.
- Morning Worm (One-Shots) (SufficientVelocity, SpaceBattles): a collection of one shots. I have not read them all, but I can already tell there's plenty of bangers.
Akninirith (Site) - a loyal reader, one of my first.
- The Simulacrum of Dread - I encountered this from writers in the old webfiction community making fun of the writing. I checked it out, and found it genuinely good.
Aabcehmu (SufficientVelocity) - a fellow worldbuilder and writer
- Ten of Swords - a contemplative story about a swordsman who has refined their ability to cut to metaphysical heights.
- Transportation Problems - a convincingly posthuman short story, grappling with depths of time and space beyond human understanding.
Brayton "theredsheep" Cole - a writer I introduced to the webfiction community
elke (Bandcamp, Fedi) - a fediverse mutual and fellow musician
- Disjointed and Incoherrent: an excellent album of dark, downtempo electronic. I've described this as "Massive subterranean beats. Dark ambient infused with persistent drumming, crawling forth with with no melodic release. Pleasingly wretched vibes."
SkyeWint (Bandcamp, NewGrounds) - fellow musician
- The Brain Cycle: A wonderful and chill electronic album. I've described this as "Engaging, pleasant electronic music. Seamless background listening while rewarding active attention. Eagerly awaiting the next release from them."
bedlam (Tumblr) - friend and fellow shitposter
Solonarv (itch.io) - friend and fellow {worldbuilder, aspiring gamedev}
- Tilt to Live Clone (itch.io): a rough demo of "An arcade game heavily inspired by mobile classic Tilt to Live."