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the bulk of my posting is news articles, think pieces, and essays on current events. i've also discovered, to my horror, that many people do not have a system in place to check the news and/or happenings on the world outside social media or specific people passing on the links. please don't do that.

get an rss reader and populate it

my reader is fraidycat and it works for me. i've made folders within it to have all the sources reasonably organized and viewable. please see my short selection of sources below.

activism and justice

• YES Magazine
• ProPublica
• The 19th
• Truthout
• The Marshall Project

the world news

• Unrigged
• Sky News
• Capital B News
• TRT World
• APTN News

LGBTQ+

• them.
• Erasing 76 Crimes
• News Is Out
• Archer Magazine
• Alturi

• shrines: decorate some of your pages to be about your favourite media
• toybox: want to display pics, gifs, and widgets on your site but don't know where to put them? just make a new page dedicated to the random crap. no need to organize it.
• comments: you don't need wordpress or the like for them! i have disqus but you can shop around to see what you want.
• show off the stuff you have
• guestbook: like in old times. ise use 123guestbook but that's shutting down so you may have to look around. tip: a guestbook can literally just be a page dedicated to a comments widget.
• webgardens/greenhouse: this thing. create a 250x250 size bit of your website and let everyone embed it on theirs as an iframe
• EDIT: oh yeah, secrets and easter eggs! this share, with a related but different idea reminded me of those
• these ideas
• EDIT 2: a now page: mine is just a link to my media thread, my backloggd playing, and a bunch of widgets to pull in data from last.fm and goodreads so that I don't have to remember to update the page, but you might be fine with that.
• EDIT 2: credits! list what you used to make your website, from resources to tools. maybe also thank anyone who helped you.
• EDIT 3: links to other websites. this is kind of important do that people who find your website can find more. your friends, sites that look cool or have cool stuff, YouTube channels that you like, etc.
• EDIT 4: these 100 things, suggested by @noahtheduke

and of course, explore around neocities and nekoweb and see what else you can do!

• shrines: decorate some of your pages to be about your favourite media
• toybox: want to display pics, gifs, and widgets on your site but don't know where to put them? just make a new page dedicated to the random crap. no need to organize it.
• comments: you don't need wordpress or the like for them! i have disqus but you can shop around to see what you want.
• show off the stuff you have
• guestbook: like in old times. ise use 123guestbook but that's shutting down so you may have to look around. tip: a guestbook can literally just be a page dedicated to a comments widget.
• webgardens/greenhouse: this thing. create a 250x250 size bit of your website and let everyone embed it on theirs as an iframe
• EDIT: oh yeah, secrets and easter eggs! this share, with a related but different idea reminded me of those
• these ideas
• EDIT 2: a now page: mine is just a link to my media thread, my backloggd playing, and a bunch of widgets to pull in data from last.fm and goodreads so that I don't have to remember to update the page, but you might be fine with that.
• EDIT 2: credits! list what you used to make your website, from resources to tools. maybe also thank anyone who helped you.
• EDIT 3: links to other websites. this is kind of important do that people who find your website can find more. your friends, sites that look cool or have cool stuff, YouTube channels that you like, etc.
• EDIT 4: these 100 things, suggested by @noahtheduke

and of course, explore around neocities and nekoweb and see what else you can do!

this one really likes searching through the yuri and lesbian tags on itch.io (with 18+ filter on) and just looking through all the really pretty creative games. so many pretty art styles and cute little stories about yuri.

devs thats' work this one recommends:

angela he
merilynn f. paisley
milk+visual
milkky
4noki
Nomnomnami
ebi-hime
Studio Elan
TeamANPIM

specific games this one recommends:

Mythi's Lost Girl (little slow, very pretty)

Fruitbat Factory's Seabed (only played part of this a while back, kinda slow, good though)

throwpup's Throwup Club (haven't finished every part out yet, really good though)

Lily Valeen's Bossgame (brilliant)

npckc's A Year Of Springs (reccommended by a helpful commenter)

ponett's Super Lesbian Animal RPG (brilliant)

Brianna Lei's Butterfly Soup 1 and Butterfly Soup 2 (brilliant)

pillowfight's Heaven Will Be Mine and We Know The Devil (both extremely brilliant)

Addaline's Blade Sight (in development, haven't played much of it, very pretty)

Yangyang Mobile's Perfect Gold (have only played a little bit of this before, pretty though)

Foxpancake's Elated Sorrow and It's A Promise (both very pretty)

lot's of other cool yuri games on itch.io not on this list! always fun looking for more cute yuri games! tagging this a lot, since cohost is shutting down soon want to help more yuri nerds find fun stuff for afterwards!