Crafts

• Nunodoll - website with a bunch of free patterns and instructions for cloth dolls and stuffed animals
• Choly Knight - lots of stuffed animal patterns (both free and paid), with very detailed instructions
• Embroidery Stitch Picture Dictionary - database of embroidery stiches with pictures and written instructions.
• [VIDEO] How to sew a pillow cover (without a zipper) - what it says on the tin, clear and easy to follow tutorial

Website Making

• CSS Grid Generator - drag and drop grid layout creator
• Cursors4u - add a custom cursor to your site
• Netfriend - cool things to add to your website (including the code I used for my gallery)
• Scripted Resources - bunch of awesome code snippets
• [VIDEO] Origamid - tutorial for the typewriter js animation I used on my index pg
• Solaria- lots of useful CSS/JS guides
• Betty's graphics - old web graphics, pixels, backgrounds etc
• Jay's Rsrcs - favicons, frames, pngs, dividers etc
• candyshoppe - same as above
• CSS box-shadow examples - 95 css box-shadow samples that you can copy with a click

Japanese Learning

• Yomitan - pop-up dictionary browser extension
• Kitsunekko - directory of japanese subtitles
• Ixrec's Guide to Japanese (Media Recommendations) - media recs for Japanese immersion, ranging from very easy to very difficult
• Natively - directory of books/manga/anime/TV shows/movies graded by language proficiency level
• [VIDEO] Cure Dolly's Japanese from Scratch series - her grammar explanations are what got me back into learning Japanese. I recommend turning on the subtitles as her speech-synth voice may be a bit hard to understand. RIP Dolly-sensei you are missed
• Game Gengo ゲーム言語 - youtube channel dedicated to teaching Japanese through videogames. I recommend checking out the playlists for the game reviews and Vocab Series

Games

• Committee of Zero - the must-have patches (and guides) if you want to play the Sci;Adv VNs
• laingame.net - play the PSX Serial Experiments Lain game in your browser
• readtsukihi.me[+18] - read Tsukihime, one of my favorite VNs ever
• play.meltyblood.club - hop on Melty Blood!
• Asenheim Project[+18] - play old VNs for free in your browser
• Bad Time Simulator - play the sans fight from UNDERTALE's genocide route in your browser
• Inspiral Web - draw with a spirograph in your browser
• Triple S Games - channel that teaches card/board games rules in simple and concise videos
• How to Play Scoundrel - a "solo roguelike" that you can play with a standard deck of playing cards

Articles and Videos I Like

• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis - or, why you link to other websites
• Production Committees – Understanding the Anime Business Model - on the history of production committees and the anime industry
• Weeb-onomics: What is "Success" For Anime? - on anime profits and the myth of "the Manabi line"
• The History of Mushi Pro - series of articles on Tezuka's animation studio, Mushi Pro
• I Walked 600 Miles Across Japan for Pizza Toast - article on a man visiting several old kissaten, the community around them, and delicious pizza toast
• [VIDEO] The Life of an Old School Japanese Cafe Owner - short doc about the owner of a nearly 50-year-old kissaten
• [VIDEO] Lichens Are Wild! - very informative 40-minute long video about lichens
• [VIDEO] The Art and Beauty of Emily Dickinson's Poetry - wonderful hour-long lecture on Emily Dickinson
• [VIDEO] ENGLISH SUB 【A STRANGE HOUSE～Mysterious Story of Real Estate】 - a man's friend wants to buy a house, but is intrigued by the floor plan, which shows a room with no doors or windows on the first floor...
• 🥀로젠 메이든🥀 스이긴토 만들기 #1 & 🥀로젠 메이든 스이긴토의 탄생🥀 (스이긴토 만들기#2) - two-part video on the making of a Suigintou bjd ♡

Random Cool Stuff

• Arimia - guide on making visual novels. It's full of resources!
• OneLook Thesaurus' Reverse Dictionary - for when you can't remember the specific word you need but can describe it
• Dynasty Scans - scanlated yuri manga and doujinshi
• lamento.nekoweb - Lamento: Beyond the Void fansite with lots of cool graphics
• slybluehologhost - DMMD and sweet pool assets
• Marginalia - cool little search engine design to find small, obscure websites
• Tsundoku Diving - awesome website full of translations and reviews, mostly of obscure japanese media
• Kowabana - site full of translated japanese horror stories, urban legends and creepypastas
• Project Gutenberg - public domain books to download for free (or read in-browser)
• The Toy Box Philosopher - doll review blog that I've been following since middle school
• [PT-BR🇧🇷] Dona Vovó - blog adorável com reviews e informações sobre bonecas antigas e novas