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[glittergroovy]

[bl1nkiep0sting]

welcome home blinkies !!!!!! because i am hyperfixating so so so hard

made by me on blinkies.cafe , free to use with credit but do not repost ♥

[mel0di1]

#; Introduction ! ! !

Melodii or Melon. She/They. Aphrodite devotee.

Interact ; LGBTQ, Squid Game enjoyers, Artists, Fanfic enjoyers/writers, Music enthusiasts, OC x Canon

Thin ice ; Toxic fans, Chronically online, NSFW jokes

Do not interact ; Anti-LGBTQ, Proshippers, Over sexualisation, Racists, Albeists, Zoophiles, Pedophiles

Melo here! I'm lowkey just here because I really need to yap about my fanfic and squid game to people who will listen! I'm a fairly new writer but I adore making stories in my head >< ! ! The place I post all my fics on is @ mel0nnnnnnnnn on wattpad. I will mainly focus on my main fic on there, The winner takes it all; The loser has to fall ! ! I really hope you enjoy my rambles <3

[penumbralwoods]

yo i'm penumbra, you can also call me ink or leviathan. assortment of info down below for reference ✦ i use it/loop/ghost/ink xenos. however, literally any term or pronoun is fine if it’s for a joke and clearly a joke. we are married to the bit round here ✦ spam reblogs/likes/whatever are welcome, asks are always open, and i always reserve the right to block your ass if you start misbehaving

✦ this blog is not themed or organized, just whatever i feel like posting. current main interests are subnautica, undertale, warriors, and pokemon. ask me about any of them and i will talk for as long as you will listen. i have broken tumblr’s character count two times because of this ✦ no DNI, that's what our lord the block button is for. behave on my posts or i kick you out of my house. if you need it to figure out my morals and political compass rest assured i am extremely problematic ✦ i don't usually tag reblogs or fandom posts that i don't want to be seen. if you need something tagged for filtering reasons just lemme know and for the things i DO tag: #ink's inks - i draw #ink's sketches - i draw (unpolished work) #scripts - i write #answers - to your asks #ink says some words - original posts #blasphemy against the holy spirit - ultrakill posting

[milogreer]

JESSIEEEEE DROP AN AZMIDI BLINKIE AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSSSSS /nf ofc

special pink vind3miat0r one just for you !! and two other neutral colored ones for everyone <3 i used to pray for days like these i can't believe dude's got a real name now

free to use with credit! template from blinkies.cafe!

also of course i had to make a new one for my pinned too hehe <3

[kthecritter]

new stuff coming to my requests!!! now adding id packs and blinkies!!! if anyone has some good sites for blinkies (besides blinkies.cafe, I’ve already got that suggestion), that would be awesome :D

happy requesting folks :3

[eggkevinshouseaton]

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Egg Kevin's House Blinkies!/Egg Kevin's House quotes and low-quality egg blinkies.

Website used - https://blinkies.cafe/ (Simple Red and Simple Blue, edited two others)

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HonEGGstly, wasn't really sure about these, they really are just the things they have all said (or done BD), but if you yolks have any ideas, say em' and you might just get a whole new blinkie! ;)

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[glittergroovy]

[pleiocities]

Have a Mae blinkie I made...I was gonna make the other three but I ran out of energy quicker than I anticipated (i'm still new to blinkie making too)

Template: blinkies.cafe

[mandms-blog-of-silly]

🌟~🌈 WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

⭐️ I made this blog to embrace all the weird things about me and I do whatever I want to on here!

🌟~🌈 Hi!! You can call me M&M or Doe!! <3

⭐️ I use any pronouns {They/she/he} and neopronouns!!

⭐️ I'm Agender and use xenogenders!!

⭐️ I'm Oriented AroAce 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 and Pan 🩷💛💙!!

🌟~🌈 Here's My Pronouns Page!!

⭐️ I am Autistic, have ADHD and am mentally ill

⭐️ I am chronically ill and have Functional Neurological Disorder {FND}

💛🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈🌟🌈💛

🌟~🌈 My Interests!!

⭐️ My SpIn and current Hyperfixations include: Phantom of The Opera, Ghost, Gravity Falls, Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish

⭐️ My likes and hobbies include: Art {drawing mainly}, music, kandi jewelry, makeup and fashion {personal style, very maximalist kidcore lol}, collecting {PotO stuff, antique and vintage books, toys and trinkets, Raggedy Ann and Andy stuff}, and Childhood Nostalgia!!

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🌟~🌈 My Main Fandoms and Media!

⭐️ Phantom of The Opera

🌟 Book, ALW! Musical, 1990 Miniseries with Charles Dance mainly, but I'm into most adaptations!! {Not the 2004 movie though sorry 😅}

⭐️ Phantom of The Paradise

⭐️ Ghost

⭐️ Gravity Falls

⭐️ Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish

⭐️ Raggedy Ann and Andy

⭐️ Nosferatu {1922}

⭐️ The Man Who Laughs {1928}

⭐️ Metalocalypse

⭐️ Percy Jackson

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🌟~🌈 I'm a Selfshipper!!

⭐️ Here's my F/O list!

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🌟~🌈 {My Regular Tag List}

⭐️ My Tag: #🌈|M&MCore

⭐️ Important: #💫|Important

⭐️ Rambles: #🛼|That'sDefinitelyTalking

⭐️ Vents: #🌟|Blah

⭐️ Reblogs: #🪀|Reblogs

⭐️ Asks: #🪁|M&M'sAskbox

⭐️ Mutual: #🫶|MutualPit

⭐️ SpIns/Hyperfixations: #🔫|It'sInfodumpTime

⭐️ Selfship: #💙|ShipShipHooray

⭐️ Gushes: #💕|GushCentral

⭐️ Crushes: #💌|PassingNotes

⭐️ Agere: #🍭|Littlest

⭐️ Creations: #🌈|M&M'sCreationPit

⭐️ Art: #🎨|M&M'sArts&Crafts

⭐️ Stimboards: #🫧|M&M'sStimboards

⭐️ Moodboards: #✨️|M&M'sMooodboards

⭐️ Imagines: #💭|M&M'sImagines

⭐️ Reblog games: #👾|M&M'sReblogGames

⭐️ Reblog-esque: #🚀|TellMe

🌟~🌈 Let's Be Friends!!

🌟~🌈 Credit!

Dividers: Tumblr!

Gif: Tumblr!

Blinkies: Tumblr!; Blinkies.Cafe; and MyBlinkies which is no longer running

Pics: Long Top and middle: Pinterest; Left: Me; Right: My Universal Monsters Erik Plush

DNI Banner: Made by me!

[milogreer]

i love learning how to do new things !!!

free to use with credit! template from blinkies.cafe!

[hope-4more]

lots of websites!!

Updates

added 2 new sites!

General

all things kawaii (archived)

sozaioukoku/lostsozai

cutekawaiiresources

kawaiisozaiwebgraphics (archived)

blinkies.cafe

Kawaii Attic

gifcities

fancyparts

sozaiya405

samdyfong (archived)

barristerresource (archived)

cutie archive

ichigo directory

new kawaiiness

new amykawaii

Tumblr Blogs

pixel-soup

pixel-harmony

kawaiimaterials

cocopies

Rentrys

resources

themedpixel

border

mimicollects

[tentaclesofhate]

How/where do you make your blinkies? I wanna make a few 😁

For generators, blinkies.cafe is great & also the only one I can think of off of the top of my head (and just added a ton of new templates since the last time I checked/rules if you don’t have to have any graphics knowledge or programs etc.) I don't use them often but I see them around the most often & think it's cool how accessible it is. I'll tell people to use this site 56278 times because it's simple & there's plenty of options. (And with the saved images you can kind of dissect them frame by frame if you're trying to learn how they work to make blinkies from scratch, later.)

Example of one of the few blinkies I've made there:

Useless information about how I personally make blinkies:

For blinkies like the ones on my Neocities - I use Photoshop & the "how" is honestly just via being old (I should make a tutorial if I have the time - but I've been making blinkies since the mid-00s so it's second nature, frame by frame - there's a few other people on here have written too! It's just infinitely looping animation at .1s speed @ 150x20px.)

Examples of blinkies I've made myself:

I'll preface this by saying I've been making pixel art in general for fun for over half of my life at this point so being a picky bitch, 90% of the time I make my own templates/frames/borders, & usually make my own pixel art or just resize things. (Pencil tool in any program - set to 1px) For text I either use old mini-pixel fonts (that I've had on drives since like, 2007 - like the text in my pinned post) or hand-make them (The text in both of these I'm fairly sure I did pixel by pixel because I couldn't find something I liked, bare minimum I know the Type O one is my own "font") IIRC you can do the same process using GIMP but I haven't touched that program since maybe 2007 cuz it's not intuitive for me. (Yes, I know this is a totally useless & nonsensical description of how I make things lmao)

(If anyone would actually like a tutorial let me know, right now I'm using PS 2020 but it runs like CS6, which runs like CS3 & the steps for building the blinkies/pixels themselves aren't program specific IMO. I used to save frames in Apple Paint & upload them frame by frame to sites that would make them into .gifs for me!)

[onlyfluxus333]

new pfp, new username @onlyfluxus333 also new obsessions: blinkies, website customization, and black blythe dolls like omg do yall see them? they're so cute look at their little outfit! **blinkie made with https://blinkies.cafe/

[sundae-meringue]

The Old Web pt. 2: what's in a personal website?

The internet is full of possibilities.

This sticks out to you much more than usual when you start exploring the community of personal websites, many of which are hosted by neocities. With most social media, you have very limited customization of what your page looks like, what format of content you can post, and how users may interact with your posts. Personal websites change all of that and allow you to create something completely outside the box. You get to control every minute detail of how your website is viewed, from the fonts to the way the user's cursor looks.

For the sake of this post, a "personal website" is a website that someone created for their own personal use, not to promote a brand or sell a product. These websites are often made almost entirely from scratch using HTML and other coding languages. You can find many examples of these websites at this link. Warning: most of these websites are not meant to be viewed on mobile and might malfunction.

https://href.li/?https://neocities.org/browse

Personal websites are often a mishmash of different things the webmaster (the person who made the site) likes or finds important. Sometimes they focus on a single topic, a topic or fandom the webmaster is really into, or something they want to teach others about. While I browsed these websites I noticed a few tabs that often appear in the sidebars of these websites.

⋆｡°✩₊ °✦ ‧ ‧ ₊ ˚✧₊ °✦Blinkies!⋆｡°✩₊ °✦ ‧ ‧ ₊ ˚✧₊ °✦

Blinkies are little flashing images, usually with text, that are displayed on a website. There's a popular blinkie generator website called blinkies.cafe where you can make your own. Many personal websites have an entire page dedicated to listing all of the blinkies they've collected. It's hard to trace the origins of many because they can easily be downloaded and used without permission. Here are a few links to see some examples.

●○●○●○●○●○●○●○Webrings●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●

Webrings are described by webmaster neonaut as "curated link chains, or tiny community-shared directories where links are shared one at a time by clicking through to the next website." So rather than using google to find old web websites (impossible) many will link to other similar websites, so you can discover new websites by clicking on links, kind of like if you've ever fallen into a wikipedia rabbit hole.

Webrings are like little virtual clubs, and can have any theme from queer people who code to the art of being funky. Websites will link back to a centralized page, like the one shared above, or the websites will link directly to each other, having a buttons page with every other webring member's button.

●～●～●～●～●～Buttons●～●～●～●～●～●～

88x31 buttons are how a person gets from website to website on the old web. They look a lot like blinkies, something I eventually realized after frustratedly spam-clicking blinkies expecting them to link me somewhere. These are just as decorative, except they serve as a sort of advertisement to get someone interested in their website. They may have tiny images, colors, or fonts that match the aesthetic of their website. Buttons can have their own devoted section, or be a fixture on the side or bottom of a site.

✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ: Shrines / Collections :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧

A shrine is something you dedicate to something you love, perhaps a deity or ancestor you want to honor. A web shrine is a page or collection of pages dedicated to someone's interest, obsession, hyperfixation, or hobby. It tends to have lots of information about the topic, relevant pictures or videos, and the webmaster's own personal ties to the topic. A fandom blog could in a way be considered a shrine. There are tons of interesting, niche, and obscure shrines out there, such as this one about an old product called WebTV. There are also fairly common shrine topics like pokemon and hello kitty. Many shrines are combined with a collections page, where a webmaster shows off their collection of items. This can be a group of pictures of the actual items, or just pictures of ones that a person wishes they had.

⟡⋆⭒˚｡⋆✧˖°⁺˚Pets, dollz, and toyboxes˖°.✧˖°.⟡⋆⭒˚｡

Pets are little png images you put on your site because you like the way they look. They can be commissioned, pre-drawn and put up for paid "adoption" by artists, or just right-click-saved from directories like this one. A toybox is a page dedicated to storing all these pngs, many of which link back to where the webmaster found them. Dollz are sort of different. Dollz are kind of like a DIY dressup game, where artists create a base, clothing, hair, and other accessories, and you can mix and match in order to create your own unique look. This website goes into a bit more detail about the history of dollz.

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This is just a quick summary of all the things I've most commonly seen on personal websites, you can learn more by browsing the websites I've linked or browsing through all the different websites neocities has to offer. One of my favorite websites on neocities is called Lizzie Smithson, a webcomic detailing the adventures of a stylish cat thief who lives in the city.

Neocities is great because it offers a more intimate glimpse into someone's mind than you could ever find on mainstream social media. People who create personal websites do so just because they want to. They're not looking for likes and followers and validation. Maybe part of the reason personal websites have been on decline so much is that making content for the hell of it isn't all that common anymore. Capitalism tells us that we should try to monetize everything we do for enjoyment, it's not enough to just create something because we feel like it. And if you can't monetize it, you should seek some sort of validation through interactions, numbers created to hack our brains into churning out content that people want to see, regardless of if it's something WE want to make. This system, this Web 2.0, is what spawned the Old Web Movement, which is dedicated to creating an online space free from monetization, free from algorithms, where people can be truly creative and make great things. The Old Web movement and manifesto is what part 3 will be all about.

[glittergroovy]