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Special interest links!

Here, you will find a myriad of links to websites related to my dearest special interests, ranging from biology-focused sites (especially those concerning entomology, foxes and other wild canines and natural history), sites relevant to Pet-Monster media such as Digimon and Pokémon (with much emphasis on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon for the latter), lost media, vintage internet, some wiki sites and some other miscellaneous items of special interest, too. There's much to forage from here!

Disclaimer: Of the wiki sites listed below, none of them are hosted on Fandom, so no need to worry about having obnoxious pop-ups and noisy ads jumpscare you! We all hate Fandom in this forest!!

Name Description
Amateur Entomologists' Society The website of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, a UK-based organisation focused on educating about entomology and related topics, such as the ecology of insects. It's a splendid website with many resources about many entomological topics, such as insect anatomy and taxonomy. The Entomologists' Glossary is a particularly useful resource!
Ann Brokelman Photography A blog of some wonderful wildlife photography by Ann Brokelman. Of particular interest are many lovely photos of foxes! :3
AntWiki A very expansive wiki site dedicated to information about the biology, evolution, taxonomy, distribution and ecology of ant species across the world!
A.N. Lucas's Web Lounge A very cosy little site that encapsulates the feel of personal websites in the 1990s and 2000s, ran by A.N. Lucas. Her site contains her own artwork, links to places of interest and some pages containing some excellent collections of old 88x31 buttons and GIFs (containing those made by A.N Lucas herself as well as a collection of others). Very worth exploring!
Arachne.org.au A website detailing families and species of spider endemic to Australia, encompassing those within both the Araneomorph and Mygalomorph suborders.
Asilidae A website dedicated to flies of the family Asilidae, known by the name of Robber Flies for their predatory habits, typically involving capturing other flying insects in mid-flight. It contains a lot of information about the morphology, taxonomy, distribution and other aspects pertaining to the many genera within this family of Dipterans!
AVID (Audiovisual Identity Databse) A huge wiki site dedicated to documenting on-screen logos, television channel idents and other forms of audiovisual media. Since I was a larval bugfox, I have had a fascination with on-screen production logos and outros in media such as television shows, so this is a site very worth perusing if you likewise have an interest in them!
Black Foxes UK A Great resource for information on the red fox Vulpes vulpes and aspects of their biology, with some particular emphasis on fur colour morphs of the species that occur naturally as mutations in wild populations or those that have been bred in captivity.
Bogleech The website of artist, TTRPG designer, biologist and writer Jonathan Wojcik. His site is full of many articles written about topics including entomology, parasitology, reviews of creature designs in popular media and a plethora of others. The website is also home to his monster-collecting TTRPG Mortasheen and webcomic Awful Hospital. I've been a fan of Bogleech for many years, and his site has often been a source of comfort for me.
British Bugs A website dedicated to documenting and providing online identification guides for the various species of true bugs (order Hemiptera) found across Britain.
British Myriapod and Isopod Group The website of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group, an organisation dedicated to spreading awareness about Isopod and Myriapod (the athropod subphylum containing both millipedes and centipedes) species found across Britain and their conservation. It contains a wealth of information on the biology and taxonomy of such species, as well as identification guides and information on their distribution across Britain.
BumpWorthy A vast archive dedicated to preserving many (and I do mean many) bumpers and station IDs for the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network. Lots of intriguing and obscure pieces of Adult Swim history here.
Chilobase An online database that serves to catalogue all described species of centipede globally, as well as informaton about the biology and anatomy of arthropods in the Chilopoda subphylum.
Coleoptera.org.uk A wonderful website containing information about beetle species found across Britain, as well as Ireland and the surrounding smaller islands. There is a lot of documentation of the Coleopteran families found in the aforementioned regions, as well as many images, identification tools, links to resources about beetles and a feature to submit recordings of beetle sightings! Coleoptera is one of my very favourite insect orders (and a number of genera of individuals species are even some of my kintypes as a bugkin!), so this is a site that makes me a happy bugfox! ^w^
Computers in Crisis An intriguing miniature virtual museum created by Perry Chen, this contains some discussion about the phenomenon (and the retrospectively often greatly misinformed and needlessly panicked perceptions in the media of the time) of the Millennium Bug Problem, or Y2K, in the latter years of the 1990s. Worth a look if you (like me) have a fascination with the Y2K Bug!
Coyote Watch Canada The website of Coyote Watch Canada, a non-profit organisation that aims to educate the public on the ecology and biology of the coyote (Canis latrans) in North America, as well as promote co-existence the welfare and co-existence with the species around urban environments.
Digi-Battle A website dedicated to the original Digimon Trading Card Game, documenting all of the cards in each set and providing some high-quality scans of the cards themselves. Even though I never played the Digimon TCG myself, I find this site to be a great resource for viewing the often fantastic card artworks (with cards such as Downgrade and Even Steven being a couple of my personal favourites!).
Digimon Library An archive of the various Digimon books that were published exclusively in Japan. As a bugfox who is a massive fan of the early Digimon media, this is a very pleasing site to peruse!
Digimon World Evolution Tool Designed for the original Digimon World game by SydMontague, this excellent tool allows one to check the current evolution trajectory of your current partner Digimon. A highly useful accompaniment for the game!
Egg Baby A simple and incredibly charming in-browser game created by Splendidland (see artist links section below) in which the player cares for a small creature that initially hatches from an egg, with the form of said creature changing in accordance with how they are interacted with and treated by the player. Very much reminiscent of virtual pet toys like Tamagotchi and Digimon, this is one of my favourite games and is a wonderful love letter to virtual pet franchises as well as being so very endearing in its own right.
Fennec and Arctic Foxes A very informative website written by Emily Smith, detailing and comparing the biology of fennec foxes (Vulpes zerda) and arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus). It is very well researched and thorough on discussing and comparing the biology of the two fox species, with emphasis on facets such as the morphological and physipological adaptations that they have each evolved to adapt to each of their respective endemic environments.
Fossil Huntress A lovely blog about natural history, evolutionary biology and paleontology written by Heidi Henderson, with particular emphasis on species both extant and extinct that are or were endemic to Canada. The blog has a vast archive of entries and is very worth reading!
Foxpedia A blog about the True Foxes, with entries containing information such as the physiology, ecology and ranges of members of the canids comprising the genus Vulpes.
Browsing note: This blog contains entries written in both English and Spanish.
Games That Weren't An archive dedicated to documenting the histories of a number of video game titles that were cancelled in development, or otherwise never released to the public.
Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles A website ran in association with the University of Nebraska State Museum, this website presents a lot of information about beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (comprised of a number of beetle families such as Scarabaeidae and Lucanidae). It focuses on providing information about the identification and taxonomy of such beetles found across North, Central and South America, in addition to the Caribbean.
Grindosaur Video game guide wiki for many of the Digimon RPG video games, as well as a number of other titles; it's especially a great source for information on the original Digimon World, one of my dearest pieces of comfort media to this day.
HARMONY ZONE (CW: Potential eyestrain due to very bright and saturated colours on most pages) The website of Stephen Gillmurphy, better known as thecatamites. He is the creator of many wonderful surreal games, with the RPG Maker game Space Funeral (!) arguably being one his most well known (and one of my favourite video games!).
HopperWiki A splendid Wiki dedicated to the insect order Orthoptera, a project ran by the Global Locust Initiative at Arizona State University. It has a wealth of pages about the evolution, ecology, taxonomy and identification of families and species within the order, in addition to information on the management and research relating to Orthopteran species classified as agricultural pests. Orthoptera happens to be one of my very favourite Exopterygote insect orders, so this Wiki makes me a very pleased bugfox!
Humulos Home of the Digitama Hatchery, this is a great resource for information on the Digimon virtual pet toys, specifically concerning the evolution trajcetories for the variable species spanning the different versions and models, presented in a very cohesive (and in my own view, very pleasing too) series of phylogenetic-style trees for the Digimon in each version.
IUCN SCN Canid Specialist Group The website of the Canid Specialist Group, which serves the purpose of providing information and data on the biology and conservation of wild canine species.
Keeping Insects A great website with a wealth of information related to the care and husbandry of various insects and other terrestrial arthropods in captivity, with a particular emphasis on information pertaining to the care of a plethora of mantis and Phasmid species.
Lost Media Wiki (CW: Discussion of a fair amount of triggering or mature subject matter; the Wiki does a good job of highlighting articles with potential warnings and disclaimers, however.) An incredibly expansive wiki site to document and discuss pretty much every type of media that is (or was previously) lost and no longer available. The entry on the (unproduced and unofficial) movie A Day with Spongebob Squarepants is a personal recommendation; it's quite a ride.
MetalKid (Digimon World 2 guide) A guide for Digimon World 2, containing info on the Digimon species found in the game, such as the locations they are found in as well as crucial information on their compatible evolution trajectories.
Monster Pulse by Magnolia Porter (CW: Depictions of mild body horror) An absolutely fantastic (complete!) comic by Magnolia Porter. Monster Pulse tells a coming-of-age story about a group of young human friends with body parts that have turned into powerful monster companions, their creation linked to a mysterious government organisation known as SHELL. I wanted to link this here as not only is it a wonderful love letter to pet-monster media such as Digimon that resonates with me a lot, but it's also an astonishingly well-written story with a degree of emotional maturity and sincerity that I have seldom seen elsewhere. Monster Pulse is one of my favourite pieces of fiction of all time, and was even one of the main inspiriations that led to me making my own webcomics!
Museum of Obsolete Media A virtual museum curated by Jason Curtis, containing a wealth of images and information about old and often delightfully odd video, audio and data storage media from days gone by. Very cool if you're like me and hyperfixate on old media storage formats (and lament the fact that as a small larvalkit your parents wouldn't buy you the GBA Video cartridges of Pokémon or Shrek)!
Mushroom Color Atlas A great little site that contains a vast catalog of natural dye colours derived from mushrooms, as well as the corresponding fungi species used to produce said pigments and dyes.
Nicky Bay's Macro Photography The website of photographer Nicky Bay, who specialises in the macro photography of insects and other terrestrial arthropods around Singapore and across the world. His work is absolutely phenomenal and an absolute joy to view; it gives me much pleasant species euphoria, even.
Open Tree of Life An online collaborative project documenting the phylogenetic tree of life for described living organisms. As someone who adores evolutionary biology and natural history immensely, browsing this and looking at the branching nodes and phylogenetic clades makes me a happy stimming bugfox!!
Orb.farm A fun little online simulation toy or game, in which you can create an adorable virtual closed ecosystem in a glass orb! You can play around with adding fauna, flora, microbes and even substrates and other organic matter and minerals to nourish the range of different organisms available. It's absolutely worth your time if you love biology (and like me, have a big fasciantion with manufactured closed ecosystems such as jarrariums). I am genuinely so impressed and enchanted by the level of detail and depth this cute little game entails!
Orthoptera Species File A large taxonomic database of for insects in the order Orthoptera, containing data on described species both extant and extinct.
Palaeos A beautiful website detailing the cosmological, abiotic and biological evolutionary history of the universe, the formation of planet Earth and the life inhabiting our world. It is a vast and very well written website that is a wonderful place to be deeply immersed in!
PMD Sprite Repository A vast archive of sprites and character portraits from the GBA and DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games. It also contains fan-made sprites and character portraits in the style of the aforementioned games, for all Pokémon species from Generation 5 onwards!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Code Generators-Syphist's Website A website with a directory for multiple Wonder Mail and SOS Mail generators for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, developed by Syphist (hosted on her website linked here). The Wonder Mail generator is especially useful if you need to obtain a specific item in either of these games and don't want to grind for potentially hours attempting to find them!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Textbox Generator A fun little in-browser tool created by Ignisiumz, which allows one to create custom character textboxes in the style of those from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games!
RayWiki An expansive wiki site concerning the Rayman video game franchise, with many articles pertaining to just about every aspect of the franchise involving the limbless, vaguely-humanoid protagonist with a fleshy proboscis. I played many of his games as a larval bugfox and am a longtime fan! ...Even if I could never reach the end of the absurdly difficult first game, albeit...
Read Nekojiru (CW: Discussion and or depictions of suicide, death, violence, abuse, gore and drug and alcohol use) A website containing an ongoing English fan translation project of the comics by the mangaka Chiyomi Hashiguchi, who was better known by her pen name, Nekojiru. Very few official English translations of any material from Nekojiru Udon were ever produced (one of the very few available being in the alternative manga anthology Comics Underground Japan, published in 1996), so this is a great place to find some English-translated versions of the comics.
ribo.zone A phenomenal site ran by a molecular biologist named Loren, with a great plethora to see. They have many pages about biology (especially around microbiology and biochemistry), entomology and insects, the history of science, media recommendations and Loren's own artwork in the form of clay critters and sketches. The presentation of the site has a lovely mixed media aesthetic, too. This site makes me a very happy bugfox and can't recommend exploring it enough!
Roeselien Raimond Photography Some genuinely lovely photography by Roeselien Raimond, of particular interest to myself as red foxes are a very common subject in her work. There are some genuinely wonderful photos of red foxes that present them with the integrity they are very much deserving of (and bring me much euphoria to look at!). There are also galleries of other wild subjects, such as macrophotography of insects and arachnids, which I also thoroughly enjoy and recommend viewing!
Sawflies.org.uk A site dedicated to information, resources and documentation concerning sawfly species found around Britain, including a list of all known species known to be distributed within the region.
Solifugae A website dedicated to educating about the biology and taxonomy of arachnids forming the order Solifugae, often known by common names such as camel spiders or wind scorpions (though these fascinating arachnids are in fact neither spiders or scorpions!). Given how sadly misunderstood and at times outright demonised Solifugids are, this website has a lot of great information and citations about these lovely arachnids.
Songs of Insects A lovely website dedicated to the many insect musicians of our world, and their delightful stridulated songs. This website contains a wealth of information and media related to the songs and sounds made by Orthopteran species (in addition to the songs made by cicadas, too!), including information on identifying species by their songs, the physiological adaptations that allow certain insects to stridulate and many audio recordings of their highly varied songs. As a bugfox who loves the sounds of insects stridulating, this makes me very happy!
Springtails A lovely little site written and managed by Philippe Garcelon, dedicated to basal hexapod animals of the class Collembola, known by the common name of Springtails. It has a plethora of articles about the general biology, taxonomy and evolutionary history of springtails, as well as many excellent photohgraphs produced by Garcelon of these lovely little arthropods!
Browsing note: The website contains a feature to toggle the language of the page, with options for English and French.
Summitpedia A wiki site dedicated to the games developed by the independent video game studio, Summitsphere. I'm adding it here as I've grown rather fond of Antonblast!
The Bunnyrom Site A grand little site dedicated to detailing the gameplay of the widespread "Bunnyrom" software (known officially as Jia Yuan) found in many cheap virtual pet units, as well as documenting the various shells and formats of said virtual pet toys.
The Cephalopod Page A lovely website ran by marine biologist Dr. James B. Woods, dedicated to our endearing marine mollusc friends, the cephalopods. It has plenty of information about the biology of cephalopods generally, in addition to a number of pages about specific species. It also has an excellent list of other resources about cephalopods!
The Comic Adventures of Left and Right by Brian Lee An old webcomic by Brian Lee, about a pair of broadly mammalian critters, eponymously named Left and Right, often joined by a cast of others such as the perennially malcontent Owldog. I'm linking this here as it was one of the very first webcomics I ever read, and I think it had an irreversible influence on my sense of humour. A personal highlight is the strip titled Burgerking.

See also, another excellent comic by Brian Lee: Buntain Simpson
The Cutting Room Floor A wiki dedicated to documenting unused content hidden within the files of video games. Unused and cut content from video games has been a special interest of mine since I was larval bugfox, so it's very worth a look if you are intrigued by this sort of thing too! A couple of personal recommendations are their articles on Digimon World and Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
The Deep Sea A wonderful interactive site made by Neal Agarwhal, it delightfully demonstrates the sheer vastness and depth of the ocean, from the surface of the Epipelagic Zone, all the way down to the mysterious inky depths of the Bathypelagic Zone and beyond. It is also a lovely illustration of the biodiversity of animal life in the ocean. As a bugfox with a lifelong special interest in marine biology (and indeed the deep sea), this makes me very happy!
The Dragonfly Woman A blog written by Chris Goforth, an entomologist who specialises in the study of aquatic insects, such as dragonflies, damselflies and aquatic members of the order Hemiptera. Her blog is a joy to read, as well as having some lovely photographs of insects. She has even written some excellent practical guides, such as one on how to create a hand-made kicknet and another on preserving insect specimens in hand sanitiser gel (the latter of which I have found most helpful for preserving some of my own specimens!).
The Horseshoe Crab A lovely educational website dedicated to information about our very old Chelicerate friends, the Horseshoe Crabs. It contains information about their biology, evolution and natural history, as well as even a section for artwork and writings celebrating these wonderful ancient arthropods! I spend a lot of time thinking about Horseshoe Crabs and their evolutionary history (not to mention contemplating how long they have lived and survived in this world), so this site makes me a happy bugfox.
The Natural History Collections of the University of Edinburgh A website dedicated to the Natural History Collections that have been curated at the University of Edinburgh, containing many preserved zoological specimens.
Toy Animal Wiki A lovely little wiki site with many images of toys such as small figurines modeled from just about every phylum, class, order and even basal taxon you can think of from the kingdom Animalia (not to mention even some inclusion of toys based on Bacteria and Fungi)!
Trilobites.info A site with an immense expanse of information on the fascinating and endearing ancient trilobites!
Unseen64 A website dedicated to documenting cut content from beta builds of video games, as well as games that were cancelled in development or never released to the public.
Virtual Pet An old blog dedicated to discussion of virtual pets, namely toys such as Tamagotchi and Digimon, as well as the media related to and developed in relation to them. A very neat little blog for a lifelong special interest topic of mine!
Wayne's Word A textbook on many topics related to biology and natural history, in the form of a website! It is all written by a former university educator who taught subjects pertaining to the life sciences for 40 years. There is a lot to see on this lovely site, with a personal highlight being a great directory of pages about the major orders of insects and arachnids!
Web Design Museum A great online museum, dedicated to archived screenshots and footage of old websites, software and applications from the 1990s to the mid-2000s. As a bugfox with a fascination and nostalgia for the old web, I find it very pleasing to browse.
Wikifang A very extensive wiki site documenting Keitai Denjū Telefang and other related pet-monster games and media released in Japan in the early 2000s (such as Network Adventure Bugsite), run by a very dedicated group of fans. An absolute treasure trove if you're a critter like me who has had a lifelong fascination with other critters and games about them!
Wikimon A wiki for Digimon that's been run by members of the fandom for around 20 years as of writing! It covers a wide range of topics related to various Digimon media, from the original virtual pet toys from the 90s to the video games and animated adaptations! It's very fun to just browse and look at entries on individual species of Digimon.
Wildlife Online A website written and ran by biologist Marc Baldwin, Wildlife Online is an excellent resource for information on the biology and ecology of (predominantly) vertebrate animals found across Britain. The website has much to see and is very well written and researched, with a personal highlight being the pages dedicated to the behaviour, life cycle and general biology of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes).
World Strepsiptera Database A database dedicated to documenting described species of insects within the order Strepsiptera, ectoparasitic insects that are otherwise known by the common name of twisted wing parasites. They are one of my very favourite insect orders, as the species comprising it exhibit such fascinating (and rather elusive) lifestyles (not to mention they are closely related to the order Coleoptera, with which they together form the superorder Coleopterida!).
Wygol Village A wonderful website containing much wonderful art, essays and shrines by a werewolf named Shinoa. I am linking this page here specifically as it has an excellent shrine, titled The Wolf Den, about being wolfkin, which I found to be incredibly meaningful and moving to read in a way that speaks to me deeply (as someone who is a foxkin).
Yokai.com A vast illustrated database comprised of entries about yōkai, a myriad of fascinating and peculiar monsters, spirits and ghosts described in Japanese folklore. Yōkai are a special interest I have had since I was a teenage bugfox!


A selection of splendid art beings!

Name Description
Alan Resnick A splendid human of many talents, with his work spanning film-making as well as visual art and comics. The creator of the ARG story AlanTutorial, which to this day I feel is a genuinely astonishing, unsettling and powerful story. He also directed and starred in the short film Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick for Adult Swim!
Anatola Howard (CW: Some depictions of nudity and suggestive themes.) Incredibly beautiful paintings, illustrations, comics and animation work by Anatola Howard. I find the range of his work and its common themes very resonant.
Ascalaphid A plethora of bugs (including some anthropmorphic bugs, ones that are done exceptionally well I hasten to add!!) and monsters etched masterfully with ink and washes. I've followed Ascalaphid for a while, they're a really cool person and I adore their art.
Ball and Cone The Tumblr account of Ken Johnson, an artist who draws and paints many charmingly surreal pieces and comics about an anthropmorphic ball and cone duo who wander around many realms, perennially outsiders looking into situations and places they seemingly are alien to. Lovely art that I can't get enough of!!
Bensect A site with some lovely artwork of bugs, including depictions of anthro insects, wonderfully rendered with some great colour palettes! Also has a page with plenty of links to papers and articles about various endearingly odd and fascinating organisms.
Caby A lovely site full of lots of wonderful critter art, comics and guinea pigs! Her work and indeed site has a wonderfully cosy feel to it.
Catland (Louis Wain archive) A website containing a huge archive of artwork by Louis Wain, a British illustrator from the late Victorian era who was notable for his work (primarily greeting cards) focused on house cats as a key subject, in variable degrees of being anthropomorphised. I think about his art on perennial basis, I absolutely adore it.
Catriona Secker Some absolutely phenomenal paintings by Catriona Secker, an Australian artist who paints many peculiar and incredibly endearing beings, inspired heavily by biology textbooks and the evolution of life of our world in general.
EndlessCrust Many wonderfully vibrant and heavily textured pieces. Lots of cool critters, psychedelic shapes and matter in various states! Also links to some other similarly great artists!
Eva Funderburgh Many wonderful ceramic critter sculptures made by Eva Funderburgh, with much emphasis on toothy or horned quadruped beings.
Felix Colgrave (CW: Some depictions of gore and death.)The portfolio site of the animator Felix Colgrave, who has created some of the most endearingly phantasmic animated short films and artwork I have ever seen; I do not say this with any degree of hyperbole at all. His entire filmography contains depictions of such indescribably powerful worlds and atmospheres, often simultaneously incredibly beautiful, unsettling and whimsical. I highly recommend his short film THROAT NOTES. In my opinon, it is simply unparalleled.
GOOPBUG (CW: Occasional mild depictions of gore) Lots of really lovely stylised art of bugs and other critters by Lucas Aguiar. His art is very pleasing, with neon palettes and a playful use of lineweights!
Higuchi Yuko Absolutely phenomenal work by Japanese painter Higuchi Yuko, who produces a range of amazingly rendered critters and environments that I find so very comforting.
Browsing note: This website is in primarily written in Japanese.
Joe MacGown Professional entomologist and scientific illustrator, who as well as producing some beautiful and fascinating scientific drawings of insects (with a lot of emphasis on beetles!!), he also produces some really grand and masterfully etched art of more psychedelic critters too.
Joe Whitt Wonderful brush and ink art and comics by cartoonist Joe Whitt. I highly recommend his Biz Bun comics as showcased on his site. It's a lovely series of self-contained short comics about a group of anthro critter people seemingly living together in a house, with healthy alternating dollops of absurdist humour and (often also rather absurdism-tinged) wholesomeness.
Jim Woodring The legend himself.
Korsse (CW: Body horror, gore) Some lovely and wide-ranging art, both traditional and digital, with lots of very cute anthro critters! (Do heed the above content warning if you are sensitive to or potentially triggered by depictions of gore or bodily harm/injury, though.)
Lauren Pettapiece The website of illustrator Lauren Pettapiece, an artist who draws many endearing critters (both extant and imagined) that are endearingly rendered in pencil and (often) watercolour. Her work is rather comforting to me; I'm incredibly fond of her raccoon drawings!
Lucie Ebrey Lots of pleasing art and comics of critters by cartoonist Lucie Ebrey! Her work has a very cosy and warm feel to it, and her autobiographical diary webcomic Muggy Ebes is a very fun and often poignant read.
Petday Lovable and very quaint art, often depicting a lot of characters/species from pet monster media such as Pokemon, Digimon and Tamagotchi, as well as other critter-focused 90s/00s video games (the best kind, I hasten to add!).
Richard Scarry An official website dedicated to the work of illustrator Richard Scarry, author of the Busytown picture books. His work is genuinely delightful and it makes me feel warm inside whenever I see it.
Roseberry Comix Amazing comics and art, depicting a variety of subjects. Lots of prehistoric fauna, animism, also foxes! In particular I highly recommend their zine comic Broomistega and Thrinaxodon, a harrowingly beautiful short comic that can very easily bring me to tears when I reflect upon it.
Sarah Schmidt (CW: Gore, depictions of alcohol/drug use)Illustrator and animator of many thoughtful and/or sad critters, Sarah Schmidt has produced some wonderful animation work. This includes a music video for the emo band La Dispute, as well as animation for Adult Swim, including a short film titled Gassy's Gas & Stuff in 2023.
Snewdraws The website of Snew, an artist who makes a lot of lovely and comforting artwork of various critters, rendered with very endearing colour palettes. Very worth a look if you enjoy art of cute critters!
Splendidland The website containing the work of artist, game designer and lover of bugs Samanthuel Louise Gillson! Her monster designs are some of the best I have ever seen as a lover of critters (something I do not at all say lightly), and her work has such a lovable and vibrant sense of intrigue and charm to it. She's also the creator of the indie RPGs Franken, Megaman Sprite Game and a currently in-development game titled Amazing Treasure Valley!
Sunflower Cat Haunting and at times imbued with traces of underlying unease, this monochrome art with extremely elaborate and immersive rendering is a sight to behold.
50 Watts Not a specific artist, 50 Watts is an art blog and small publisher showcasing and detailing the works of various obscure, delightfully weird and often vintage book and editorial illustrators and artists. It has a sizeable archive and there's plenty of great critter art to see here (including a fair amount of art depicting yokai and other peculiar beings!).


Resources, of various categories!

Here you will find resources covering a variable range of topics, namely biology and naturalism (including arthropod ID tools), art tools, website coding, mental health resources and some other miscellaneous items I have found helpful in some manner.

Autism, neurodivergence and mental health-related resources

Name Description
Autistic as Fxxk Run by an autistic individual named Rachel, this as an excellent resource about surviving as an autistic person in a neurotypical world. The Autistic as Fxxk manifesto is especially something I highly recommend reading; as an autistic being who has bore the brunt of ableism for many years (which we as autistic and neurodivergent people are sadly subjected to), I find it to be so very positively affirming.
Xhalr A guided breathing exercise, a simple and customisable tool you could use if you are anxious or panicked and need to focus on grounding.
You Feel like Shit An informal interactive website that is designed to help users practice self-care.

Biology and naturalism-related resources

Biodiversity Heritage Library A library containing a plethora of scientific literature pertaining to biodiversity, all free to access!
BugGuide A site dedicated to providing guides on the identification of pretty much any animal resembling an arthropod in North America.
iNaturalist A communal website and application that allows amateur naturalists across the world to share images of species of animals, plants and others encountered in the wild. It is a great tool for logging and discuss data such as the identification of the species (or broader taxa) of animals and plants, as well as their range, distribution and other findings. It's a wonderful demonstration of collaborative citizen science and I myself am a regular user of this site.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History-Insect ID Tools A directory of various online resources for identifying insects found across Britain, spanning a plethora of orders, suborders and families.

Digital drawing and image tools

Dither Me This A great and versatile online tool for adding dither filters to images!
DitherPaint A simple browser-based drawing tool, somewhat akin to the old-school MacPaint program. It contains a variety of different tiled and dithered textures you can draw with.
Ezgif A very easy to use and versatile tool for making and editing animated GIFs. With this website you can also crop, resize and add filters to GIFs, in addition to a myriad of other helpful adjustments and tools.
JS Paint It's the Windows XP version of Microsoft Paint! In your browser!! Now you too can relive drawing Digimon fanart and your edgy OCs like it's late 2008!!!
Photopea A free to use browser-based image editor tool that is more or less a carbon copy of Adobe Photoshop (we all hate Adobe and their shitty unethical practices in this forest!).
Piskel A great tool for creating pixel art and animations, especially sprites. It is available to use in-browser and also has free downloadable offline desktop versions of the program, too.
Wigglypaint A fun and simple little drawing tool that can be used to create animated GIF-format digital art with wobbling lines and strokes!

LGBT and queer identity-related resources

AVEN AVEN, or The Asexual Visibility & Education Network, is an online community and large archive of resources and information on asexuality; the Bugfox running this Digital Forest is indeed aro-ace themself!
Nonbinary Wiki A self-hosted wiki site dedicated to information about non-binary gender identities, notable non-binary people and a number of resources for NB people.
Trans Reads A huge collection of texts written by and for transgender people and anybody else who transcends cultural norms around gender.

Media preservation and archival sites

Eclectic Library A virtual library, containing a vast directory of links to books spanning a number of topics and genres, historical writings and archived print media such as newspapers and magazines. It also contains a directory of other virtual libraries!
Internet Archive A vast digital library of all kinds of media, ranging from books, software, movies, games, music and a plethora of other types. It is also home of the WayBack Machine, a search engine that allows one to find and view old archived copies of webpages! The Internet Archive is a truly invaluable resource for media preservation, something I've become increasingly passionate about over the years.
Project Gutenberg A library of over 70,000 eBooks, all free to download, scanned and uploaded by many volunteers.

Online directories

Curlie A very large directory containing many websites, categorised accordingly by subject matter.
Links That Burn A promising-looking and currently developing directory of links to niche websites over a range of categories, with the goal of circumventing the insidious influence of AI ruining search engines and the internet in general (something that is extremely important, especially at this present time).
Old'a Vista A directory specialising in cataloguing many websites from the old internet.
ooh.directory A splendid directory containing a myriad of links to blogs, all categorised by subject matter. It's quite a treasure trove and I highly recommend exploring it!

Website design, including coding resources and free HTML templates

Kalechips An excellent website with much to see, with their Layout Thrift Store page being an especially great resource if you are searching for free to use HTML layout templates.
petrapixel Layout Generator An intuitive and easy to use HTML layout generator. It is in fact the very tool I had used to create the layout this very website uses!
Rarebit An excellent free tool that provides a HTML-based (in addition to some JavaScript too) framework for creating your own self-hosted webcomic site. This is the very framework my webcomic God Animal uses!
Sadgrl Excellent resource for guides, tutorials, free assets for website building and other general tools and devices for browsing online.
W3Schools One of the (in my opinion) best places online for learning the basics of coding websites with HTML. It has many step-by-step guides on the basics of coding your own website, so I very highly recommended if you want to make your own website.

Miscellaneous tools and resources

Mazeguy A fantastic repository of cute pixel emoticons, among other items of interest.
Online Microsoft Sam Text-to-Speech Generator An online tool that allows you to generate audio files read in a text-to-speech voice, with a varied range from Microsoft Sam to BonziBUDDY (minus the spyware and the ominously disingenuous CG-animated purple gorilla, thankfully)!
Unconsenting Media A very useful database that documents specific instances of SA in media ranging from TV shows, movies, literature, video games and others. It briefly details the manner and extent to which it is depicted, so that you can make an informed decision about possible triggers when considering whether to consume a particular piece of media.
VHSearch An excellent tool for searching websites across Neocities!
&udm=14 Sick of every search engine being clogged with LLM/AI bullshit and relentless advertisements, providing results that are anything other than what you even searched for? This allows one to search Google, adding the parameter of "&udm=14" to the URL, eliminating the insidious AI Overviews from the search!

Other places where you can find my bugfox pawprints and moulted exoskeletons online...

Name
Letterboxd account Where I log movies I have watched and make silly bugfox noises about them!
Sheezy.art account My Sheezy.art account, where I post a lot of my work! I'm often fairly active here.
TOYHOU.SE account I haven't used it much at all for a while, but I intend to get back into using it to upload art of my OCs and update their bios when I can.
Tumblr blog My Tumblr, I also often post my work here too!