Website Stuff:
W3Schools Tryit or Liveweave, edit and test your code live
Graphics:
Pixel Safari
blinkies.cafe
Web Badges World, 80x15/antipixel buttons
Pokencyclopedia, pokemon sprites
22,000 gifs ripped from a cd by some tumblr user
Archives:
Internet Archive (obligatory)
linguistics and language books
i limited this list to archives that have online resources.
Australia:
Bosnia & Herzegovina:
Canada:
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
Germany:
Netherlands:
Norway:
Skeivt Arkiv at the University of Bergen
UK:
Other Stories LGBT History Project
LGBTQ Collections at the Glasgow Women’s Library
LGBTQIA+ Archives at the Bishopsgate Institute
The LGBTQ Histories Collection at the British Library
Queer Heritage South/Queer in Brighton
LGBTQ+ Collections at the National Museums, Liverpool
United States:
The Digital Public Library of America (not specifically an LGBT archive but has some content)
The National AIDS Memorial (Interactive AIDS Memorial Quilt)
OutLoud Collection at StoryCorps
The LGBT History Project at Dickinson College
The Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library
LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
The Saint Louis LGBT History Project
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archive
Obtaining Media 100% Legally:
r/freemediaheckyeah wiki, very in-depth list of guides and resources for piracy
Emulation Wiki lists and compares emulators for basically every game system
QBittorrent, use this client instead of bittorrent
Soulseek, peer-to-peer file sharing network, mostly for music
VirusTotal tests files for viruses
Browser Extensions:
to start off, you should get Firefox
UBlock Origin blocks ads, trackers, etc. if you’re only gonna get one extension, get this one
Indie Wiki Buddy removes ads from Fandom wikis and redirects you to independently run ones (can also use BreezeWiki and a redirector)
Dark Reader gives every website a dark mode
Shinigami Eyes highlights pro-trans websites/users in green and transphobic ones in red
Save Webp allows you to download a webp image as a png or jpeg
Deadname Remover replaces your deadname with your preferred one
TamperMonkey + Dashboard Unfucker makes tumblr look like tumblr again (aka not like shit, as it does currently)
Life Stuff:
GoodRx finds your prescription at the lowest possible price
Missing Money locates money in your name stuck in unclaimed property programs (it sounds shady but i promise its legit)
Other:
PBS/Nature documentary about the felidae family
historical fashion resources and references
Photopea, in-browser free alternative to adobe photoshop
Radio Garden, essentially google earth, but for radio stations
Glaze, a tool to mask your art from ai
TransLibrary Carrd, links to trans & gnc related content, mostly historical stuff
Plushify, turn a 3D model into a plush pattern
Piskel, pixel art creator/editor