Subcultures
332 sites
https://bloggingbrits.co.uk/
Blogging Brits is an anonymous British blogger's musings on what it means to be British, covering topics like Brexit, national identity, pubs, and the quirks of British culture. The site also reflects on the nature of blogging itself, exploring why people feel compelled to share their thoughts publicly in a digital age.
https://soapbubbleseal.net/
Elly, aka soapbubbleseal, is a married adult living in Japan who documents her eclectic passions including lolita fashion, 2000s electronics, Japanese collector dolls, model kits, and fiber crafts. The site is a lovingly maintained personal corner of the web with dedicated pages for lolita wardrobes and coordinates, Pokemon, Sylvanian Families, a minidisc gallery, and even an archival section for Angelic Pretty store flyers.
https://tilde.town/~monstrologer
A member page on tilde.town, the collaborative Unix community known for its old-web revival culture, belonging to a user called monstrologer who has titled their space 'the grimoire.' The sparse, evocative presentation and tilde.town affiliation place it squarely in the indie web/tilde subculture community.
https://tilde.town/~peter
Peter's tilde.town member page from 2014, featuring a handful of early posts about shipping code quickly, a MS Paint competition entry from a university LAN party, and a photo taken in Copenhagen. Sparse but charming, it captures the casual early spirit of the tilde.town old-web revival community.
https://roadtonowhere.altervista.org/
Road to Nowhere is Melanie's fanlisting collective, hosting and managing 10 fanlistings on eclectic subjects ranging from Burmese Cats and Monarch Butterflies to Black Eyeliner and Hoop Earrings. With over 7,800 members across its listings and 39 affiliates, it represents a well-established corner of the TFL fanlisting network community.
https://nightfall.city/
Nightfall City is a creative online community styled as a fictional cyberpunk metropolis, organized into thematic 'districts' for writers, socializing, and exploration, accessible via a telnet-style interface. With neighborhoods like Writer's Lane and Dusk's End, it evokes the spirit of old-school BBSes and text-based internet culture with a poetic, atmospheric twist.
https://aurorawho.neocities.org/
The k-hole is a personal site run by Aurorawho, featuring animated stamps, graphics, diary entries with depressing themes, and frank discussion of drug use. Marked as 16+ for its dark and potentially suggestive content, it embraces an unapologetically raw aesthetic with CRT toggles and old-web sensibilities.
https://fluffyhyena.neocities.org/
Old-School Hyena is a personal Neocities site built with a retro web aesthetic, centered around its creator's affinity for hyenas. The site features a classic old-web layout with webring participation and a changelog for tracking updates.
https://ombekende.neocities.org/
A whimsical personal site themed entirely around bees, inviting visitors into the 'bee zone' with image-heavy content and a playful warning about mobile compatibility. The site participates in the Hotline and Retronaut webrings, suggesting a love of old-web aesthetics alongside its buzzy subject matter.
https://memoryoftheworld.org/
Memory of the World is a project dedicated to the philosophy and practice of free public libraries, digital book sharing, and universal access to knowledge. It features essays, event logs, timelines, and resources exploring open library culture, the Calibre plugin for book sharing, and the political dimensions of making information freely available to all.