interesting websites
musicmap: a map of music genres
radiooooo: music across the world throughout the past 100+ years
internet sacred text archive: collection of religious, esoteric, paranormal, and philosophical texts. they also have some Gothic fiction and historical works on sexuality & LGBT issues.
metropolitan museum of art publications: 600+ books on art, fashion, etc.
Rimbaud archive: collection of works by and about the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Darger archive: manuscripts of famous outsider artist Charles Darger, who was known for his massive opus 'In the Realms of the Unreal.' ***the scans are not in good quality and the website is known to crash, but it's still amazing to be able to access his rarely-seen work***
behind the name: name etymology resource and one of the few name websites that isn't oriented toward parents and is factually based!
forebears.io: stats on every recorded name
marginalia search engine: search engine designed to seek out old websites that newer algorithms ignore. incidentally, it's how i found neocities!
orthic shorthand manual: form of shorthand writing from the late 1800s (and my party trick).
neat public domain stuff
The Man Who Was Thursday: one of my favorite books, now in the public domain! it's about anarchism, God, and the beauty and perils of urban life at the turn of the last century.
The King in Yellow: ah, the book that terrified me when I was 10. a classic of cosmic horror and the source for my blog name, you can't go wrong with reading it.
Whose Body?: the first book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, full of adventure, wisecracking, and moral conundrums.
neocities sites i like
