Snowflake Challenge 2025 #14

[bedes]

Challenge #14

In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.

This is a really fun one!! After a bit of consideration, I decided to, once again, use a challenge to try to push my own, personal agenda. This time, turning more people to the indie web! So, my self-imposed challenge was to create a reclist of modern indie web fansites! Going in no particular order...

• It's Not Stupid, It's Advanced! - an Invader Zim fansite featuring episode transcripts, the history of the show, adoptables and more
• Monkie Business - a LEGO Monkie Kid fansite featuring fan analysis, a gallery of crew art, a fanlisting and more
• CANDYPOP GARDEN - a Pikmin fansite featuring merch, fanart, downloads and more
• Moonlight Promise - a Sailor Moon fansite featuring a fortune-telling page, fandom resources, a webring and more
• Klance is Canon King - a Klance (Voltron) fansite featuring all K/L crew art, fandom history, an essay on the subject of the show's queerbaiting, and more
• Inkposting - a Splatoon fansite featuring pixel adoptables, the webmaster's Inkopolis Square art, a "which idol are you" quiz, and more
• Soulsilvers - a Pokemon fansite (mostly focused on the Kantrio characters - Red, Green and Blue) featuring a fanart gallery and lots of information on their portrayals in various Pokemon media
• Dan and Phil GAMES Fansite - a Dan and Phil fansite (mostly focused on their joint gaming channel) featuring calendar and card scans, the chronology and characters of their Sims 4 series, the channel's yearly traditions, and more
• GEKIYAKU - a Hatoful Boyfriend fansite featuring theories, a timeline of all events, a guide to all supplemental media, and more

If any of these sound interesting to you, check them out! And if you like what you see, and see a link for a "guestbook", consider "signing" it with some nice words to the webmaster! I'm sure it'd make their day!

Comments

[muccamukk]

These are great! A couple of my fandoms have those fandom.com wikis (of varying levels of quality), but only one has a lovingly curated fansite, and it's such a difference.

[bedes]

I am consistently blowing up fandom.com wikis with my mind... (pro tip: replace the "fandom" in the URL with "antifandom" to be redirected to an ad-free, BS-free version of the page) Fandom.com is so painfully corporate, fansites are made from love!!

[ngtskynebula]

Oooh, how cool! I love blogrolls, and I find the indie-web an awesome part of the internet. I'll checkout some of these fansites, thanks for sharing!

[bedes]

Yay, I'm glad!!! :D

[supermario128]

Checked out both the Invader Zim and Klance websites.

Nickelodeon has kind of always been the masters of whiffing it, huh? Definitely won’t stop them from trying to profit off of Invader Zim despite flubbing it hard, though—’tis the Nickelodeon way.

I heard about how “Voltron: Legendary Defender” had a bury your gays moment regarding a character they introduced and then promptly killed off, but I had no idea about all the stuff surrounding the Klance ship and the shitshow behind the cartoon. Jesus Christ.

[bedes]

Yeah, I find it funny that Nickelodeon continues to try to profit from that show, when basically everyone knows that they are the ones who cancelled it σ(￣、￣〃) I'm glad it got the movie it did, at least!

And YEAH, a lot of people only really know about the character that got killed, because it's much quicker to explain. "They did a bury your gays" is much quicker to explain than "they continuously implied Klance endgame through X, Y, and Z means, and then later it was revealed through insiders that they purposefully sabotaged the ship because they thought the shippers were annoying, and also the main writer wanted to make it canon, and..." The more you know! :P

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I am delighted to see someone supporting the indie web! I am actively looking for individual fansites. None of these sound like my kind of fandom, but I will boost the signal for my audience.

Re: Thank you!

[bedes]

The indie web is one of my biggest interests! :D Glad that other people are excited about modern fansites!

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I backed the FujoGuide.

I tried looking for indie web on DW but there's no community for it. :( I guess we could toss recs into followfriday. It's mostly meant for DW blogs but people rec outside stuff occasionally. I'd love to see more people getting involved with indie web.

Re: Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

You might be interested in checking out smallweb

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[bedes]

Yaya!! I'm actually already a member! >v<

[greetingsfrommaars]

these were so cool to check out! had to send the LEGO Monkie Kid one to my friend as soon as I saw it.

[bedes]

I'm glad!! I hope they your friend likes it too! ^v^

[malymin]

Oh this is awesome. I never would have had any idea these sites existed if you hadn't linked them!

If you wanna view a big amount of old-web type stuff, the Petz fanbase has a directory of fansites with an on-site search function.

[bedes]

OOOOH NICE!! This rules, thank you! I'll be sure to look through these later!

[malymin]

Oh yea, since some of the search terms might not be familiar:

Archive: Short for "hex archive." In petz fan culture, a person's "archive" is like an art portfolio of hexed (modded) petz they've modded into the game themselves, and then adopted out to other players as little pieces of interactive artwork.

Crew: one's collection of pets. A site specifically for displaying one's petz is a "crew site." originates from the 90's slang "crew" for a group of buddies.

Shows: Petz shows aren't really about conformation to a breed standard (for a large variety of reasons), but about how well a Petz can do a specific kind of pose for the in-game "camera" screenshot function. Some people are very into training petz to pose for the camera, collecting show points on forums, and displaying a petz' show points and awards on its section of their crew site. This page describes the process of taking a photo of a "show pose."

PKC: Petz Kennel Club, a petz show website that was extremely popular during the 00's and '10's, which did have conformation to irl breed standards as a priority. The website itself closed very recently, but many realistic-looking fanmade petz breeds were specifically created for PKC shows.

Cliques: I don't remember if this word was popular outside of the PC in the 90's, but this is the word petz fans use for miscellaneous small collectible graphics you display on your website.

Stamps: A specific type of collectible graphic that was invented in 2017 on Whiskerwick forums, resembling a postage stamp. Similar in dimension to a Dreamwidth icon. This icon is a petz stamp! Unlike cliques, stamps are sometimes only available from their source sites for a limited time.

Find-It: A scavenger hunt for a specified image on a person's petz website, usually with a roleplay-esque prompt like "can you find Rover's missing blue ball for him?" The image usually has a link to some kind of reward, such as a collectible award graphic for displaying on the visitor's own website, a modded (pet/breed/toy/clothing/playscene/etc) file to install into the visitor's own petz game, etc. These are really fun and I wish "old web" sites outside of the Petz Community did these more! 90's cyberpet sites (of the pre-neopets "just a handmade gif you can put on your website" type) often distributed "rare" or "special" pet types with this method.

Adoptions, Auctions, Raffles, Sales: these are all largely just different methods of giving out individual .pet files to people. Attractively hexed petz, and attractively bred petz (using the in-game breeding functions) with no hexed ancestry, are both considered valuable within the petz "economy" so to speak.

[bedes]

Oooh gotcha gotcha! Ty!

[haunted_cherries]

The Invader Sim site is EASILY the coolest thing I've ever seen!! I can tell right off the bat how much love and care you put into it, and I'm eyeing that Pikmin one next!! 👀 Thanks so much for sharing these!! :D (I'll do my best not to spam the guestbooks 🤭)

[bedes]

I'm glad you like them!! :D I'm not the webmaster for any of them though, although Monkie Business is run by my friend! ^v^

[haunted_cherries]

OH COOL COOL, I'll make sure to check that one out, too!! :D

[silveradept]

That's an excellent list, and I'm glad you could find some good fansites to link to. None of them are any of my fandoms, but it's still heartening to see people are creating fansites out there.

[greerwatson]

Being mostly in old fandoms, it's the old fansites I know. So many of them have vanished over the years! Others have been archived. There are still a few active ones out there, though.