Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://cy83rpr1mm13.neocities.org/
Cy83r (also known as Phie) runs this eclectic personal webzone featuring media reviews, CSS snippets, web shrines, and musings on books and film with a particular fondness for Joan Crawford. The site has a distinct nerdy, queer, feminist personality and serves as a deliberate escape from corporate social media, with sections covering tech pages, a manifesto, and a guestbook.
https://letterboxez.neocities.org/
Finn's creative Neocities hub blends poetry, games, music, media reviews, and flag designs into a wonderfully eclectic personal archive with a distinct voice and playful aesthetic. The site features a blinkie collection, an RSS feed, quirky testimonials from friends, and ongoing updates that reflect a genuine commitment to building something lasting on the web.
https://nathanupchurch.com/
Nathan Upchurch's personal site and blog covers a wide range of topics including incense, free and open source software, design, vegan cooking, and music. The site features galleries, a guestbook, a blogroll, and participates in both the Fediring and Geekring web communities, giving it a warm, old-web personality.
https://quinnbozon.nekoweb.org/
Quinn Bozon's personal nekoweb site is a minimal, desktop-optimized page that serves as a gateway to their blog, which they describe as a labor of love still in progress. The site has a charming, self-aware tone with a Duskull ghost sprite as the navigation element, giving it a quirky old-web personality.
https://fray.com/
Fray.com is one of the web's earliest and most celebrated venues for personal storytelling, where real people share true first-person narratives in a richly designed format. A landmark of early web culture, it pioneered the art of combining visual design with long-form personal essays and reader-contributed stories.
https://verbina29.neocities.org/
Verbina29's Neocities site is dedicated to their original characters and worldbuilding projects, featuring multiple richly described fantasy universes including a Death Note-inspired mind-reader thriller, a dark magical girl setting, and a Wild West dragon-herding world. The site includes an art gallery, OC profiles, and a to-do list hinting at ongoing expansion of these creative worlds.
https://www.fauxtrots.com/rss
Emily Fauxtrots writes personal essays and long-form reflections on life, mental health, unemployment, and media she loves, blending candid vulnerability with thoughtful analysis. Posts range from year-in-review introspection to deep dives on fiction like 'The Sisters of Dorley' and tech experiments with Meshtastic and LoRa radio.
https://internetross.space/
Ross's personal site blends technical writing about software development projects with poetry, speculative nonfiction, and literary musings in a distinctive stream-of-consciousness format. The mix of Django rewrite postmortems, Le Guin references, and original verse makes it a genuinely eclectic corner of the web that resists easy categorization but leans heavily toward writing as its unifying thread.
https://eunice.town/
Eunice's whimsical personal corner of the web, styled as a 'town' she rules as Duchess, featuring personal essays on topics like reading, identity, and the art of making websites. The Terry Pratchett meta description and thoughtful essay titles hint at a literary, introspective sensibility that sets this site apart from typical personal pages.
https://nondev.fuckup.club/
A minimalist personal journal by a developer known as nondev, featuring numbered log entries with cryptic titles like PROTOCOL, DELETIAN, and EXTENDIS alongside notes, links, and ASCII bits. The site has a distinctive lo-fi terminal aesthetic with webrings, a feed system, and a deliberately sparse old-web sensibility.