Favorite fansites?!?!?

[toothpastepancake]

 I just made a fansite dedicated to a specific topic and I was wondering if anyone had any favorite fandom-specific personal websites, or complex shrines you've seen on the indie/small web?

Here are some cool ones I found while looking!

It's Not Stupid (Invader Zim) NOTE: There is a fast moving gif on this page
Channel 27 (Weird Al)
Dan & Phil games NOTE: way too many flashing gifs on this page, but still very cool

EDIT: I wrote this at 5AM and forgot the indie web movement is new. I’m looking for fansites of any age!

Comments

[aikoto]

Looking for fansites and shrines is one of my favorite things! I mostly surf ones related to SMT/P3 though, but here are some I enjoy

- Allegory of Whatever (Persona 2 Innocent Sin)
- Tsumi x Batsu (Persona 2 duology, from 1999!)
- Heart of glasss (P3, Chidori)
- Amala Network (Collective of SMT fansites)

- Tomorrow's Calling (Exploring the economy & sociology of Animal Crossing)
- Sunyshore (Collection of electric pokemon, each plush has it's own story! Non-archive version focus exclusively on Raichu though)
- The Mewtwo Museum (Simillar to the avobe site but with Mewtwo)
- Level 20 (Gyarados shrine, it was so fun to read about all the different Gyarados the author has raised)
- Dark Claws (Sneasel shrine, I love how the author wrote about Sneasel's biology if they were real animals)

I have more sites saved here, but it needs updating + most are general websites. Then I also have a bunch of Persona 3 and DeSu specific blogs and small sites, but again most of them are fanart sites rather than shrines/fanpage.
(Also while writting this I noticed the Mitsuru shrine I liked got taken down and isn't archived, sad...)

[matsushima]

I'm loving "Level 20." It's so wholesome!

[aikoto]

Yeah, personal shirnes like it are my favorites 🥹

[matsushima]

Yes, personal shrines are the best! Especially now that fan wikis exist, I'm much more interested in reading about someone's personal experiences/interpretations/headcanons/etc. than basic facts about the franchise.

[larissa]

Thank you, also! I had a lot of fun making that Gyarados site, and even though I haven't really been into Pokémon for a few years now I look back on it fondly.

[matsushima]

It inspired me to make my own Pokémon shrine! It's still very bare bones, definitely a WIP, but thank you for the inspiration! I've been in an indie web idea rut lately and that helped me get going again!

[larissa]

Oh, I'm so glad to hear this! Your site looks lovely so far, I wish you the best of luck with it. I'm really touched that I was able to inspire you. More sites for all, I say :D

[falkner]

Amala Network!! What a blast from the past...

[larissa]

Oh, Level 20 is one of my sites! I'm glad you enjoyed it. (I'll pass along the kind words to the owner of the Sneasel shrine, as well!)

[aikoto]

What an honor! Level 20 is one of the sites I come back to from time to time, it's very sweet and I love how detailed it is. I don't have a pokemon that I've trained that many times (though Lopunny comes close), but it inspired me to make a page about the teams I had thru the years as well :)

(Oh, I actually got reminded about the Sneasel fansite the other day, whie reading thru Cryptodex it seems there's some beta designs of Sneasel that were discovered not long ago!)

[larissa]

I'm so happy to hear you were inspired! It warms my heart a lot to know that people are still getting inspired by each other's sites. It was a big part of how I got started (20+ years ago lol) and it feels like the torch is still getting carried.

Lopunny is an excellent choice btw, 10/10.