Table of Contents
- Index.............................................................................1
- Poems...........................................................................2
- Essays & Articles........................................................3
- Videos...........................................................................4
- Webbed Sites...............................................................5
- Graphic Resources......................................................7
- Image Resources........................................................8
- Coding Resources.......................................................9
- Made by Me...............................................................10
- Credits..........................................................................11
Spellbook
I collect things I like.
I imagine this will turn out something like a link collection, but no promises.
The glass cat in the corner is my familiar. His name is Leonard. Leonard will guide you back here.

See also: Library
Poems
Should these be in the bard's library? Eh, probably. But she doesn't quite appreciate the magic found in them. Poetry is a particular area of inspiration for me. They are very similar to spells, imo.
This is my collection of poems I really like, for one reason or another. All the descriptions are just my interpretations as an interpretation is the only way to describe a poem without reading it outright.
- And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes by Hanif Abdurraqib - a poem about the modern disconnect between the world and ourselves.
- The Summer A Tribe Called Quest Broke Up by Hanif Abdurraqib - a poem about black boys and loss, both within and without.
- If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn't Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib - a poem about dying and fulfillment.
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas - a classic poem about life, death, and grief.
- Immortality by Clare Harner - a poem about death being an extant form of life.
Essays & Articles
So these should probably also be in the bard's library, but I prefer them being in the lair so here they shall be. I wrote briefly about my love of nonfiction in the grimoire, and it seemed like a shame not to share.
I read all kind of essays, articles, and memoirs. Some are silly, some are angry, some are poetic, most are about life in some way. They feature all kinds of topics, some of which might require niche knowledge.
Video essays are not included in this section, though they can be found in the next one.
- On Self-Publishing by Emily Nick Howard - an essay about the relationship between a writer and their work and why publishing it might not matter at all.
- four seeds in a row by Maya.land - a very short entry about quanity vs quality.
- Learn in Public by swyx - an essay about why you should learn where people can see; the reason I made the grimoire.
- The Weight of Narrative by varve - a short essay on why its important to read and write with a critical mind.
- Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space by Sam Kriss - an essay about why outer space is a lie and a delusion.
- The Cavalry Isn't Coming by Luxagraf - an essay on saving yourself and building communities.
- How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor by cupidsbow - an essay about how fanfiction keeps women "in their place".
- The Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method by Elizabeth Sandifer - an essay about how rhetoric can be used to make you believe absurdities (and how believing absurdities translates into committing atrocities).
- How I Peaked (in Minecraft) by suboptimalism - an amusing and absurd saga of a terrible Minecraft Towny server.
- An explanation of 'the goomba fallacy' as used by young people in 2025 by Heddwen Newton - a short article that is exactly what it says on the tin.
Videos
I'm one of those nerdy people who watches educational videos on youtube. I don't know man; learning is fun. Many of the videos I watch are on culture, society, and history.
(I also watch videos about math, physics, science, etc., but I probably won't include any of those unless someone asks.)
This section will probably be fairly difficult for me to keep up to date, but I will certainly try.
- The Many Myths of Meritocracy by Zoe Bee - a video essay about why a culture of competition harms us.
- An Exhaustive Defense of Fanfiction by Sarah Z - a video essay about why "this photograph is a shit painting" logic is not a valid criticism of fanfiction.
- Alive Internet Theory by struthless - a video about why the internet feels dead and how we can revive it.
- the percieved dangers of fictional stories by bazazilio - a video essay about who we're really protecting from "problematic" stories
- How The Barter Myth Harms Us by Andrewism - a video essay on how barter was actually used and who benefits from the myth.
- Why doesn't 2025 feel like 'the future'? by struthless - a video on diving into what we thought the future would look like in the past and why it doesn't.
- It's Time To Abolish Debt by Andrewism - a video essay about debt, why we have it, and if we need it.
Webbed Sites
Most of these are not indie web sites. Those can be found in the "Mages of Inspiration" section in the lair's main page. Press "Return" and scroll to the bottom for that.
As it is, this section is for any site I found cool, useful, or funny.
17776 is multimedia story about sentient space probes and immortality and future football. I love it. It makes something is my little history nerd heart full.
This is a story that understands humans and how they actually work. This is a story that understands why outer space is a lie.
Low Tech Magazine is a magazine site run entirely off of renewable energy. As such, it occasionally goes down due to long periods of cloudy weather. I honestly think that's neat and would do it myself if I had the space or money.
They write articles about history, science, and culture. Usually, the articles are discussing how we can reorient our lives to be more sustainable and comfortable using methods from our past.
Philsophy Experiments is exactly what it says on the tin. It's a website full of interesting quizzes and such that test theories of human behavior. It also has explanations for the results you get.
Personally, I find things like this fascinating and spent quite a bit of time looking through the site.
Webbed sites continued on next page...
The Bone Folder is a site on neocities that I could not find a button for, thus it goes into the spellbook. I personally feel it deserves a spotight anyway.
I find the writing there very insightful and honestly some of it changed my brain chemically. I think differently now.
Postcrossing is a website for sending and receiving postcards from strangers. I haven't signed up yet, but I want to desperately.
The Library of Babel is an infinite library that techncally contains every written work of humankind: past, present, or future. Most of it is just gibberish though.
This is just a fascinating concept to me. You can search sequences of words and it'll take you to that page of that book, so I've often had the thought of writing a story that links to various quotes and phrases in the library as relevant. It'd be a fun project, I think.
Squid WTF is a music downloader. I'm not really fond of streaming and thus all the music I listen to on my phone as MP3s. I would buy cds and such, but I am poor lmao.
Graphics
Various resources I use for collecting graphics.
Coming Soon...
Images
Various resources I use for collecting images.
Coming Soon...
Coding Resources
Various resources I use to learn coding.
Coming Soon...
Made by Me
Various things I've made myself. Hoping to make more templates.
Coming Soon...
Credits
The code is from LEVIATHREN
