Star Gardens in Orbit
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What follows below is an extensive link list spanning past and present, for, as murid eloquently puts it, links are the prayers of the internet, expressions of gratitude — and so that, when everything falls, we will still have the ruins to remember our lost homes by.
Constellations
The following portals lead to the realms of fellow creative minds from around the community and the broader cyberspace that I enjoy visiting from time to time. You will see that every one of them has blooming gardens with flowers that no one else has, grown and nurtured with a love that comes from their own uniquely shaped heart. ❤
First up are comrades who I have had the fortune to share visions, thoughts, progress updates, encouragements and issues with while working on site projects in recent memory!
Andrea
My soulmate in cheese; the sole person who can pinpoint what constitutes my taste in poetry, down to the rhythm, diction and exact verse and metaphor. Will launch us on an unhinged four-hour hunt for a poem we both firmly (believe to) remember, even if it doesn’t exist.
Larissa
Excellent taste, with the sophistication to convey and gauge judgement in full depth and clarity. One of the very few people in the world whose book, film and video game recs I trust. I backread all of her liveblogging the moment I finish a game I know she’s played.
dubiousdisc
Pulls me in for hours of meta conversations on art, video games, life, anything, every time. Stops at nothing to write down, with Denise, all observations in detail (scratch self-indulgence!), bringing fandom discussion to another level. Draws Oddishes that heal my soul.
Celestial Maps
For your travels to farther destinations, be they shrines, fanlistings or related collectives, I highly recommend browsing the following directories:
- Cloudplane — anime, manga and video game collectives
- Amassment — collectives and shrines
- Emotion — anime, manga and video game shrines
- In the Fade — RPG shrines
- Ephemeral — fanlisting collectives
- The Anime Fanlistings Network
- The Fanlistings Network
Shooting Stars
A selection of my favourite shrines (and fansites) past and present for my rereading urges and inspiration. Regardless of my personal familiarity and opinion, I gravitate towards analytical shrines accompanied by personal thoughts, as I enjoy seeing new and familiar things from a different perspective. While that preference is fairly apparent in these bookmarks, the range of shrines I enjoy perusing is far wider.
Sites no longer online can be reached by way of time travel. Be warned that following dead links comes with the risk of security issues; proceed only if you are equipped with appropriate anti-malware software. If you object to your site being listed here, let me know and I will remove it.
Last updated in November 2016, this list was carried over unchanged from version 1. Clean-up later.
Click here to expand the bookmark list.✻
Anime and Manga
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Video Games
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Miscellaneous
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Other Fansites
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Stardust
A list of fondly remembered star constellations that are long inactive or have gone extinct, though traces of them may still be seen by way of time travel. A personal archive or a photo album of sorts.
If you object to your site being listed here, let me know and I will remove it.
Contemporaries
After my definite commitment to shrine-making in 2015, I was fortunate to meet and share the passion for the craft with various people. This list is in honour of friends and acquaintances who were active during my time and who have all, in one way or another, contributed to my experience of this part of the world. I am grateful that we got to make beautiful things alongside each other for a time, however brief.
- Aku (senpai!!)
- Fiona of cissnei.net
- Kate of hakuren.org
- Aria of ishiryoku.net
- Delphine of kurikaeshi.org
- Megan of like-knives.org
- Elysa of nymphae.net
- Sophia of raygunsue.org
- Emma of rydia.nu
- Lucas of storyteller.nightbringer.net
- Megan of sutarodo.net
- Crystal of zeruda.org
Forerunners
Part of me wishes I had started making shrines sooner – for the memories, and for the people whose works I admired but who I can no longer meet. Eventually, this is where I would like to keep a time travel log of admired collectives that had been active before my time, including the static ones I got to see live post-2014 until one day they, too, vanished.
To be added later.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Psychological Observations