Another website for tracking your Final Fantasy XIV collections.

A barebones PHP/JSON script for a self-hosted fanfic archive.

Sleepless Domain is a comic about an isolated city in the middle of a dangerous world filled with monsters. During the day, the city is perfectly safe. At night, however, the populace locks themselves inside as the city streets fill with monsters. The only ones who can combat these creatures are very special girls with the power to transform into Magical Girls!

The dawn of the 20th century! The City of Gallery is a place of science, diversity, and wealth… but it's also held in the clutches of a corrupt ruling class that’s squeezing it for all it's worth. Enter: LAVENDER JACK — a devilish vigilante whose fighting prowess and advanced technology make him a nightmare for Gallery’s elites. But they’re not about to loosen their grip on the city without a fight. They’ve got some devils of their own, you see...

What happens when your entire life is ruled by a prophecy – your future foretold by people you’ve never met, who died long before you were born. Such is the story of two young sea creatures. One believed to be a guiding light for his people, a Beacon who will lead them to a bright, prosperous future. The other is a teenage prince for who’s destiny is to KILL the Beacon so that HIS own people might thrive. When both reject the course set for them, it leads to a raucous adventure as big and unpredictable as the ocean itself – and a romance that nobody could have predicted.

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

Free ebooks: epubs, Kindle ebooks, and PDFs. No registration or payment required. Download over 2,500 free ebooks from the Global Grey library.

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A regularly updated list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.

BookWyrm is ad-free, anti-corporate, and federated. You can seamlessly follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances, and on services like Mastodon.

Online tools for making the internet fast, accessible, expressive, and green.

miniPaint is free online image editor using HTML5. Edit, adjust your images, add effects online in your browser, without installing anything...

An ascii art chat room,
info about ascii art, among other things, can be
found on this site.

A large collection of flowers, hearts, hugs, Valentines, and other romantic ASCII art pictures.

A large collection of ASCII art drawings and other related ASCII art pictures.

It's often pointed out that many of the devices in 19th- and 20th-century science fiction are now a reality. We have instant telecommunication devices; we have digital newspapers; we have flying machines; we have automatons that build things for us; we have self-driving quadricycles; we have superfood that survives wild climatic variation and is stuffed with nutrients. We even have ways of obliquely planting ideas directly in people's minds, through propaganda in the press and psychological manipulations in advertising.

If we have all these things, why doesn't the world feel like what we imagine science fiction worlds to feel like? There are many reasons for this, but I'm just going to focus on one aspect here: naming.

Quickly create, copy, and paste unique Unicode text calendars that work everywhere online.

This map generator creates volcanic island style maps.

This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city.

Create a globe using your own images or generate one from scratch!

Superpowers creation guide. Helpful tips, information, and ideas on creating superpowers for your heroes.

While I was constructing a magic system based on necromancy, it occurred to me (in hindsight) that there are three things a writer should know before attempting this at home:

Expand what you already have before you add something new.

If I were to ask you about Superman’s magic, you’d probably talk about his ability to fly, his super strength, the lasers he can shoot from his eyes. You may go from there to his invincibility and perhaps some of his lesser (and more inconsistent) powers. But if we stick with those four, we’ve got a pretty strong setup for what Superman is capable of doing.

However, is this what makes Superman interesting?

I’d put forth that it is not. There are lots of people with magic powers who can fly and who are invincible. There are a lot of strong, fast, or smart people. What makes Superman interesting, then? Two things: his code of ethics and his weakness to kryptonite.

Sanderson’s First Law of Magics: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic.

Since the WordPress archives are far from the easiest thing to navigate and it can be difficult to find what you are looking for even though it is, I am putting together a couple of ‘index’ posts linking to things I’ve written on this site on a given topic.

Future timeline, a timeline of future events, based on current trends, long-term environmental changes, advances in technology such as Moore's Law, the latest medical advances, and the evolving geopolitical landscape.

The following list of questions is meant to aid authors of fantasy fiction who are seeking to create believable imaginary settings for their stories. While many of these questions may be helpful or crucial to certain stories, they will not all apply to every story. It is not necessary for an author to answer all, or even any, of the questions in order to start writing, (or to finish writing, either). The idea is simply to provoke people into thinking about the ways their settings and backgrounds hang together … or don't. If it's useful, use it. If not, don't.

A suite of calculators and guides to aid in the creation of life-supporting planetary systems

Some links that are useful for the creation of new worlds or for information on real ones.

This encyclopaedia provides latest detections and data announced by professional astronomers about exoplanetary systems. It is about objets lighter than 60 Jupiter masses, which are orbiting stars/brown dwarf or are free floating. It provides also a database about planets in binary systems, and a database about circumstellar disks.

Generate Analemma for any planet

Create an idea for your next fanfic.