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Motley collection of links to stuff I find inspiring or useful, across a range of interests.

Art & Artists

Nonexhaustive collection of art & artists I think are neat. There are way too many to list everything here; mostly focusing on those with useful resources, galleries or who are not as active on Socials.

  • Android Arts/Arne Niklas Jansen - Came across his site when I was first starting to seriously practice art in secondary school. Core inspiration.
  • Lil Tachyon/Logan Stahl - Great SFF illustrator. Inspired to put this website together in large part due to really enjoying the simplicity of his setup.
  • James Gurney - Gouache master. His youtube channel is great too.
  • Teikoku Shoonen - JP illustrator of fantastical cityscapes.
  • Ryoko Kui's Artblog - Mangaka behind Dungeon Meshi.
  • Valkyria Chronicles 1 Art Archive: Scanned artbook of one of my favourite games and a massive influence on my art and design tastes.
  • Settei Dreams: Insanely useful collection of anime & video game setting art.
  • Gallery of Propaganda Art: Very extensive collection of propaganda artwork.
  • Fandom Stuff

    Links to (mostly anime related) fandom sites; scanlators, archivists, etc.

  • Luna's Fandom Archive: Great collection of archived Gundam interview translations & fandom essays.
  • Tsuki no Mayu: Turn A Gundam fansite by one of the preeminent Tomino Understanders.
  • Kishi's Doujinshi Corner: Gundam scanlations & doujinshi history.
  • GunbusterNovels: Novel translations.
  • Mad Angler Press: Showa anime settei/fanzines/doujin archival & preservation.
  • Halcyon Realms: Really extensive collection of artbook reviews.
  • Tabletop Things

    Lancer RPG

  • Lancer Resource Hub: Great collection of LancerRPG resources by Valkyrion on Pilot.Net.
  • Szkin's Stolen Crown Resources: Collection of free to use assets (maps, NPC art, tokens, etc), made by yours truly, for the adventure Sleeping Above a Stolen Crown by Laurie O'Connel.
  • R-Talsorian Cyberpunk

  • Dataterm: By Cédric Duchaineau, for Cyberpunk 2020 & Red. Really interesting immersive web 'storefront' with some fun homebrew material for both games.
  • Data Fortress 2020: Ancient 2020 fansite. Some of the content is a bit dubious but it's an impressive collection of homebrew material.

    Worldbuilding Resources

  • Geoff Eddy's Climate Cookbook: i hate sea currents i hate sea currents i hate sea currents
  • The Language Construction Kit: Most approachable resource on conlanging out there. The book is good too.
  • Introduction to Conlangs (Wikibooks)>: Another useful resource for language sickos.
  • Atomic Rockets: Ancient, invaluable resource for hard sci-fi worldbuilding. Many hours lost here.
  • PlanetMaker: Free tool for making realistic planet images using public domain textures.
  • Orbital Transfer Calculator: orbital mechanics are for NERDS.
  • Reference & Cool Stuff

  • Space Settlement: Prehistoric NASA website on space settlement. Some interesting articles and links.
  • Hokkaido Digital Museum: Online, english-language collections for a bunch of museums across Hokkaido, Japan.
  • AKARENGA: Website for the Former Hokkaido Government Office in Sapporo, now a museum.
  • The Old Robots Website: A website of old robots. Lots of pictures of scrunkly old robot toys.
  • Breakin' Ice.mp4
  • The Spriter's Resource/VG Resource: TSR/VGR is a treasure. Wonderful archival resource for game art across the years. Massive source of inspiration when I was young and big into pixel art.
  • FlightGear.ch: Collection of flight gear from different countries & eras.
  • Tank Encylopaedia's Archives: Archive site for the Tank Encylopaedia; lots and lots of photographs + illustrated camouflage schemes for various armoured vehicles.
  • WappenWiki: Gallery of Coats of Arms from across Europe.