Stuff around the internet

Worldbuilding and writing

Writing

Sejda - free online PDF editing tool. Would have saved me if I knew about this one sooner...
Connected papers - makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced
Writer Beware - Site for advice and scam-avoidance aimed at writers
Turn your text into pitman shorthand text
Collection of different writing and worldbuilding tools
Reverse dictionary - type in the definition and get the word

Build a world

Collection of resources and articles for world-building
More general worldbuilding resources with a breakdown of the six major worldbuilding topics
Article about some key components of civilisation
The Zaharam-Chapelle-Parunas Ethnographical Questionnaire
Article on gender and sex in fantasy races
Article on creating a religion or belief system
Article on magic in fantasy and sci-fi
World anvil - a site where you can make and store entire worlds. Useful, but you need an account

Build character(s)

Behind the names - Etymology of names
Meaning and distribution search engine for forenames
Heroforge - make a figure for your tabletop character
'Does my character work okay' checklist
List of european medieval jobs for your characters

Research and logistics

Medieval urbanism for fantasy writing
Guide to heraldry
World map with mythological creatures
Two different flag making sites
Travel time calculator in the roman empire

Generators

City generator
Fantasy demographics generator
Town and NPC generators
Rune generator
Fantasy name generator
Fantasy map generator
A palette maker and generator, and a second one as well
Tavern generator
Acronym generator
Planet generator - but it runs on flash
Mansion generator

History

General

Timeline of inventions
Look up historical events by date
Invention of words first used in print sorted by time
The food timeline
A world atlas site

Ancient history

Neanderthal fibrework found in France
On learning ancient sankrit online
Article on the main 6 ancient civilizations

The classics

Encyclopedia of the hellenic world
Digital atlas of the roman empire
The myth encyclopedia
Reference website for ancient and medieval history

The middle ages

The prose Edda
Viking Answer Lady - Viking history and mythology
The riddle ages - riddle collections from the early english medieval period
Names in the european middle ages and have some more
The medieval bestiary
Guide to sewing a medieval bliaut dress
History of carts and carriages
Download link for a translated book on medieval german laws
Material culture of the european middle ages and reinassance
Dictionary of medieval names from european sources
Reconstruyendo Sevilla sobre 1300 a través de sus gastos
Currency converter - England 1270 to 2017
Gode Cookery - medieval recipes
List of ranks and titles in eurpean antiquity and middle ages
Map of english mythology and folklore
Medieval England: Magic as an industry
Article on the cagots in medieval France
Articles on the middle ages - go with adblocker

Heraldry

Book on samurai heraldry
Zimbabwe and Rhodesian heraldry
Scandinavian heraldry

On the more recent side of things

Research on the 16th century novel 'Journey to the west'
Learn to approximate middle english
A 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan
Turtle island decolonized - map of indigenous names in North America
Free articles on israeli archaeology
21 superheroes of Kenya
History of costumes book from ca.1861-1880
Not up to dick - Some victorian slang
The humanitarian laws of war

Resource collections

Libraries

The anti-colonial research library
Anna's Archive - open library
Library of free-to-read-online books, mostly non-fiction
Project Gutenberg - Library of books in the public domain
The vatican library
The bodelian library

Academia and other collections

Download a guide to free academic resources
Collection of translated documents fron antiquity to modern day
Art history resource collection
International database of architecture
The museum of Berlin
Medieval sourcebook
Internet archive of books on architecture
Native languages of the americas website and resource masterlist
The wood database
List of resources for classical studies

Practical knowledge

The family handyman - learn to diy
Library for rebuilding a civilization
Learn ancient languages online
Multi-language sign language dictionary

Fun

Anti-capitalism

Marginalia - search the small internet, personal website, and non-commodified sources. This is how I found a lot of these links
Filter out fake amazon reviews
Free online alternative to photoshop
12 foot ladder
Just beam it - peer to peer file sharing site, with no limits. Drop your file, send the link, and keep your PC open on the page while the other person downloads it
Map of the urban harvest
Dumpster map - with reviews

Cow tools

Country-centered map projections
Family tree maker
Checklist maker - Very bare-bones but it's free and requires no account-making
Currency calculator
Babylonian cuneiforme translator
Stellarium - see the night sky online in real time
Crafty amigo - Design a DIY project
SameEnergy - for finding similar pictures. Pinterest but better credited

Info and fun facts

Ian's shoelace site - lace your shoes not only for the aesthetic but also to suit your feet dimensions
The deep sea - scrollable infographic
3D Mosaic model of mars
If the moon were only 1 pixel
What the earth skies look like under foreign suns, and also plants
Every country's most famous mythical creature
Article on the 'Sans forgetica' font
Guide to Martin Scorsese's greatest mafia movie: Goncharov (1973) Invented in 2022

Games and time-killers

Cloudhiker - click and discover a random website on the internet. This is also how I discovered some sites on here
Window swap - open a window somewhere in the world
Virtual vacation - experience the world from your home
Geoscents - find capitals on a map as accurately as possible
Free online sudoku game
Daydoku - daily polinomial-based puzzle
Sudokuland - sudoku with pixel landscapes instead of numbers
Make your own historical tale on the bayeux tapestry
Instructables - DIY fun projects
Instructional and educational VHS tapes - the archive.org collection you can watch for free. Some of these tapes are a doozy
Squishy earth - use the moon to kick it across the screen
Rotating sandwiches - that's it

Audio

Bongo cat
Listen to radio stations from all around the world
Listen to music from different countries and eras in the past
Purrli - Online cat purr maker
KFPA radio - US-based community led radio station with free online program
Online spectogram
Every noise at once - map of every musical genre
Tree FM - listen to forests around the world
Online piano

Science

Eleanor Lutz's scientific infographics
The inner workings of a mechanical watch. Check out also the ones on naval architecture and bicycles.
Several sites about gemstones
Mechanics and hazards of tunneling
DNA explained for programmers - article: DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (or, If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail)
The tree of life - zoom endlessly through the evolutionary tree

Flora and fauna

Guide on foraging in northern forests
Plantas silvestres comestibles y ornamentales
The earth Story website
Online book - How animals communicate
MP3 - mating song of the Kakapo bird
Crab database
Find cities with a similar climate
Weeds of Melbourne
Plants poisonous to pets

Environmentalism

Article on plant based 'Vegan spider silk' as a single plastics alternative
Namibia is turning sewage into drinkable water - article
Algae chandelier purifies air
Article about portugese pig-farming that relies on trees
The school book of forestry - from 1922
Visible temperature change around the globe - bar graphs that can be specified as by continent, country and region
Hundred rabbits - research and testing of low-tech solutions on a sailboat

Guides and DIY

Downloadable collection of documents on homesteading and rebuilding civilization
Zero waste home - book available online
Container gardening guide
Low tech lab - homesteading, agriculture, sustainable technology althought the article titles are in french, most are also available in other languages
Urbanism and agriculture resource center for practical knowledge
Encyclopedia of practical knowledge and low-technology solutions
Encyclopedia on sustainable practices and technology
How to build a low-tech internet and some regional networks in Spain, Austria, and Germany
Guide to jam microphones from recording you
Guide on re-using solar panel fragments to make a high-powered solar panel

ICT and the internet

CSS transitions
Background blender for CSS
Cheat sheets - for CSS, HTML, and javascript
Codepen - testing grounds for HTML CSS and JS
PHP by example - some basics of PHP
UIverse - open source UI elements
Accessiblenet - resources for coding accessibility features
Tiny tools directory - open-source, experimental, and tiny tools
Portable freeware
Forum for pi-hole

Other

Quick guide to intercultural management
The jewish calendar in Canada
The devotionalistic gods in hinduism
List of chocolate companies that are free from slave-labour
Cultural atlas of Australia's migrant population
Wikirug - encyclopedia of persian and oriental carpets
A critical look at anarcho-punk - collection of essays and interviews
NZ on screen - repository of new zealand and māori filmmaking and content

Queer and here

Map of gender diverse cultures
Oh joy sex toy - Inclusive sex ed, comics, and sex toy reviews
Queering the map - Queer experiences lived and pinned onto a world map - you can add your own
Glossary of polari
Making queer history - articles and podcasts on queer history around the world - you can search specific country tags
Queer Zine Archive Project

Visual art

Drawing and references

Art tutorials on deviantart
On building a palette
Body visualizer in 3D
Character posing tool
Free pose gallery
Light reference tool for a male, toned, head
Reference angle website for a human head - angle the model, set the age, gender, and emotion,and you will get a series of reference photos
Reference angle website for animals - similar as above but for animals
Free, stereotype-free stock photos of black and brown people
Adorkastock - Online pose sketching app with timer
Dye easter eggs with natural ingredients

Textures and pixel art

Free texture stock photos
Free pattern collection
Build your own free textures by combining colour and pattern
Collection of seamless textures
Make pixel icons online, or pixel art in general

Fibre arts

Sewing

Sites that can generate sewing patterns for your own measurements
Google drive on the basics of sewing
Archive of historical commercial sewing patterns
Encyclopedia of needlework
Guide for drafting a pants sewing pattern
Sewing a medieval hood
Sewing harem pants and pantaloons
Sewing pattern for a plague doctor mask, and tutorial
Sewing a denim whale

Fabrics and fashion

Online book - Edwardian manual of needlework and cutting out
Online book of hat fashion history from 1952
Claire's Historical Fashion Reference & Resources
The antique pattern library

Spinning and weaving

Site on hand-spinning
Site on tablet weaving
Weaving on a backstrap loom
The ancient art of tablet weaving - the basics