Latest Mews: Discord Server
Great mews, everyone!
New discord server! Click here to join, of course.
This new server is for those wanting to do creative stuff. Worldbuilders are welcome, especially if you want to share your worlds, paracosms, or creations with others for feedback or just curiosity. Expect space for nonfiction writers as well, and artists of various sorts. I hope we can share ideas and more creations. These might be writing or artwork, including fiction, nonfiction essays, worldbuilding, and more.
Anyone, regardless of whether they’ve any connection to the new web itself can join. It’s about writing, worldbuilding, and art stuff, not websites. You're free to send this link to friends beyond neocities if they’d like to join. Having a website is not a requirement for participation here. It also isn’t meant to supplant other servers. There are plenty of those about other topics, and the existing ones are quite good.
If you remember from last week, I had posted a poll, asking what sort of theme this discord server ought to have. You can view the results here, which, frankly, surprised me. As I said before posting the poll, though, I’m able to roll with any of the options, including potential alien invasions. Hopefully I set up the server correctly, but I haven’t admin in a very long time and the technicalities might escape me. Let me know of major errors in functionality, etc…
Welcome!
Claire here. I’m a (dingy, old and gray) stray cat. I was loosed on the World Wide Web at a young age. Consider me one of many digital strays, with twitchy whiskers in the dystopian illumination of our computer screens. Maybe you’re one, too? Or just someone who understands?
On this site, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture from my own feline perspective. You’ll find weird and (sometimes) unsettling digital lore here, my own personal memories, and other liminal strangeness from the early days of the World Wide Web. I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. I have some things I’d like to hiss about, too…
Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects, and my writings here explore both. Have a look at this site’s growing collection of articles about that strange cusp. I’m talking (mostly) about the 1990s and 2000s, when the internet was just beginning to take over our lives. Perhaps you remember it, too?
Like most cats given the opportunity, I've always loved prowling the internet . I’ve been clicking away with my paws (and claws), conjuring up websites ever since the mid-1990s when I first logged on. I'm a gray cat, though, , not a webbing professional at all. I’ve used several different themes for this site. Cats like me often just can’t make up our minds. You are now viewing Version 5.0 Eleventh Dragon, running on 11ty. Lots of pawprints, a feline motif and more make it a bit of a new look for my territory…
I will try, as well, to share as many resources here as I can, particularly those that work well with large-ish sites on places like neocities. I mean this in in terms of content, not megabytes. I hope to encourage more people who want to do that on independent websites. I think it can be agreed that large articles don’t work well on most social media platforms, which tend to either have a “microblogging” or “tweet-like” format. Social media also seems dull after a while. Most feeds eventually resemble each other after a while aesthetically and emotionally, even if the content as such is different.
Also? The things that I write reference some complex topics, including sex, war, politics, etc, as you might expect of a site about nostalgia. Things are (mostly) SFW, but not intended for youth. Consider it to have a mature rating. Certain pages have their own content warnings, too, of course. The pages with the 's up icon often discuss serious subjects.
Fabled?
Why is this site called Fabled, in case you’re curious? The word shares much in common with terms like legendary and renowned, of deep historical significance, too. It also, though, carries the connotation of mythological or even fictitious. And why Fabled.day, of all possible TLDs? I'm not entirely sure I have a good answer for that. And yet... The phrase sounds nigh apocalyptic, doesn’t it?. Draw your own conclusions, and maybe choose what it means to you, personally, if anything at all, I guess? The phrase just called to me. Silly, but I just had to pick it.
There’s also a bit of peeking into the future here, though perhaps not successfully. We’ll see!
Contents
And here, we find a general directory of most every page and section on this site. Visit the updates page, where you'll see a running log of changes ever since the site opened way back in 2024. Pages in periwinkle give a listing of (soon) upcoming pages, but not all of them, of course, just some.
Links including a small icon like this are more vitriolic than the other articles. They're the ones where I really hiss and claw at reality. If you'd like to read all of these flames, they're here
Stay a while...
Anyways, I try to keep this updated, but it is not a blog. Anyways, here's a button you can use to link to this site if you’d like. Please save it to your own webspace and do not hotlink. Linking to this site is always appreciated. If you yourself have reason to believe I've somehow borrowed from you and you find it unacceptable, please simply contact me. Nine times out of ten, I will just remove the content in question if it is indeed yours. I try to follow everyone's policies, though!
If you are active on neocities, consider following me there. I share updates on my profile as well as the updates page here. I strongly encourage anyone seeking a static site host to consider neocities, speaking of which. It is one of the most ubiquitous options for a reason. Some other very zippy sites can be found linked on my wall of buttons.