Links

Peachie's Collection of Cute Stuff - a collection of cute old web graphics! Links to source when available. *Some undetailed doll-like nudity.

Catch a Star - lots of super cute graphics by Caz! I've used a couple on this site, very charming, lots of cute critters, sweets, and pastel colours too.

Maple Town - My Favorite Place to Be - a lovingly-made website about Maple Town, providing information on the toys, explaining the differences between them and rival animal toys of the 80's like Sylvanian Families, and even providing some information on the animated series and guests’ memories of the original animated series!

Licca Fansubs - while sadly defunct (very understandably, as Doll was a lone fansubber for much of Licca Fansubs' existence, suffering overuse injuries, so had to stop for the sake of health), Licca Fansubs translated many rarely translated old anime, including shoujo and kodomo series, including World Masterpiece Theater anime like A Little Princess Sara and Little Women II: Jo's Boys, Magic Bus movies like Happy Birthday - Inochi Kagayaku Toki (Magic Bus often had movies tackling serious topics like emotional abuse and generational trauma [Happy Birthday's story], disasters like The Summer of Dioxin [a movie about the Seveso incident in Italy and its health effects during the cover-ups, shown from the perspective of children who were also affected to different degrees], but in age-appropriate ways for older children, I really love their films), as well as adaptations of autobiographical stories like The Diary of Anne Frank and The Glass Rabbit (a Japanese WWII film.)

Maple Town Story Forums - a forum dedicated to Maple Town, the toys and associated anime and manga. There are plenty of rare images, scans, and translations here!

It also explains the difference between Maple Town rival toy lines of the 80’s like Sylvanian Families.

BonBonBunny - a very cute site with varied content on cute Japanese fashion subcultures, affordable brands, DIY accessories, tips on decor, and other things! Girlish fun and informative.

Big Top Productions - the official website of the company that made some of my favourite childhood games is seemingly unchanged since 1996, it's warm and nostalgic, with some fun features like character-themed recipes (mostly sweets, but also potpourri!) and Keroppi's pond where he shares submitted poems and journal entries.

I Am² a beautifully and thoroughly written dedication to Ai/Aitwo (Amber/Ambertwo) from the The Origin of Mewtwo special (originally cut out of the dub and dubbed much later)and Birth of Mewtwo CD Drama. The character's story is very tragic, but she tries so hard to be a comforting and nurturing presence. [CW child character death, not really a spoiler, she's dead before the story begins.] The same webmaster also runs a beautiful website dedicated to Mewtwo himself, Copy Cat.

The Little Prince - you can read The Little Prince online here (it is in the public domain in most of Europe!), with colour illustrations. This is one of my absolute most favourite books ever! It's written in such a way that both children and adults can appreciate it, full pf dreamlike whimsy and charm, but also beautiful pearls of wisdom about life, friendship, love... a very meaningful and beautiful story. The ending always leaves me in tears.

Resources and helpful things:

middlepot- a very lovely site run by pooftie, who also makes beautiful layouts for websites... also, this little page is very nostalgic of the 95/98 era accessible through the links section; there's a lot of nice things there. She also colours graphics and runs a game, and runs a store where she sells hand-made needle-felted plushies.

Deleter Club Manga Technique - while these are very old and aimed at manga artists working traditionally, they also cover a lot of basics of drawing (like highlights and shadows, as well as how to draw trees and flowers), which I found quite helpful as a child and still find quite interesting today! I think they could also help other artists, regardless of whether they want to draw in a manga style or not, a lot of is it applicable to drawing in general.

arab.org - a collection of charity websites which you can donate via to good causes, including aid for the Palestinians, without needing to pay any money at all... the sponsors of the little ads you see on the page after clicking the button once a day will pay for the advertising space, which is then donated to the appropriate charity. Similar ad revenue charities are Miles for Charity (a mobile app that shows you one ad while counting how much you walk, which you can donate to a chairty of your choice) and freerice.com which is run by the WFP and has an additional educational element.

Decolonize Palestine - [CW war, genocide / ethnic cleansing, heavy subject matter] an excellently researched and well-sourced website dedicated to combating the many media lies and well-funded Israeli propaganda lies about Palestine), because I still see so many people confused by such an obvious case of genocide and occupation, or preaching the two-state solution despite how Israel had always treated it as only a means to an end and never the end goal, and how not only has Israel been ethnically cleansing, bulldozing (or forcing families to destroy their own homes so they don't pay for the Israeli bulldozing of their homes) homes, or stealing land through an unfair court system to give them to settlers as what happened to the Sub Laban family... and continuously expanding far beyond what was internationally agreed upon... it's less obvious when you follow the western media, which changes its story...

Making Fairy Tales from Personal Stories - a guide on how to distill the essence of lived experiences into fairy tales as therapeutic writing. It references Luthi's description of a fairy tale, so also read this. Learned about it from Princess Skye!

Toptal Color Blind Filter - a good site to use to check if your website's design is colourblind-friendly or not!

Codependency and Boundaries - a useful article by the webmaster of Mombojombo who also made this enlightening infographic.

What is Shadow Work? - an introduction and guide on how to identify the repressed and usually ignored aspect of your payche that's uncomfortable to acknowledge, but also most in need of acknowledgment and healing.

DeSteress Monday - simple, but helpful infographics!

There are more specific links to check out in the Cheer Up, Calm Down, and Islamic Healing & Protection pages.

Elegant Woman - tips on ettiquette, manners, and good posture, for making a good first impression and conducitng yourself more gracefully!

Yaqeen Institute - this website has a lot of great articles, like this one on Islamic Spirituality and Mental Well-Being - an article on weathering the difficulties of life by cultivating a spirit of contentment and purpose through religion. "Self-regulation is the will power that enables people to act in accordance with their values and long term benefit despite costs to energy or short term pleasure.

Araseel - Islamic blog with graphics, greeting cards, as well as very cute print-outs and and activities for kids during the holidays like 'Eid!

7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Suporting Black People Right Now - an article from Bon Appétite. There is also What's Good Bro? aimed at Black men, and The Safe Space app.

Bahrani Apps - this website offers a lot of useful and fun little apps, the GifCam is my personal favourite! It lets you make gifs from videos on-screen very easily. Some other sites have unfortunately taken it and bundled it with malware, but downloaded from the original creator's website, this little program is totally safe!

Online Counseling College - this tumblr blog belonging to the Online Counseling College has a lot of useful information and advice for mental health and wellness.

Shops:

Rubylane - online marketplace for antiques, including vintage dolls and their clothes!

Charities and ways to do good (with or without money!):

Muslim Aid - charities to help the victims of war and apartheid in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, ZakatFoundation also.

freerice - a game that lets you donate rice to the hungry via the World Food Program, for free! How it works is that hte ad revenue from the sponsors on correct answer pags pay for the food. Please turn your adblock off or whitelist the website so that the donations go through!

Miles for Charity - an app that counts how many miles you walk or run, dedicating them to the charity of your choice!! This one also works by ad revenue, your walk is sponsored by a company and a single ad will be displayed while you walk/run (you can also close the screen to spare your battery a bit while you run/walk—select the correct choice so the estimate won't be off!).

Unicef UK - Yemen crisis - donate to protect the lives of children threatened by extreme starvation and disease (the biggest recent cholera outbreak, for instence) in war-torn Yemen. See also savethechildren.org.

Blogs:

• The wayback archives of Princess Skye's two long-defunct websites, Princess Portal and The Lost Princess. She was one of my biggest inspirations as a young girl to try to always preserve a sense of childlike wonder about the world and make the ordinary extraordinary! Her website is also where that Princess Code button is from!
• A Clothes Horse - a blog run by someone with a love of vintage fashion, travel, history, and photography. She does shoots in scenic locations and also tells you about some of the history associated with those places, it's a pretty and informative blog!
• Paper Doll Hearts - a very sweet blog that's been defunct for a very long time, but the author gives such magical and dreamy little snippets about her life. [CW hospitalization, it seems she's often sick.]
• bwunni - a very sweet and cute kidcore/childhood aesthetic blog, the artist draws very cute pastel art too!
• otomec0re - a sweet and dainty blog! it's got a lovely feminine and vintage aesthetic she calls maidencore. ;3;
• fuzzypetal - a tumblr blog with lots of animals and cozy, idyllic cottagecore. ;3;
• silkfay - a mixed tumblr blog with a lot of old anime gifs, childhood aesthetic, and comforting Islamic posts that feels very nostalgic to me too.
• Islamic Art and Quotes - a peaceful and positive space, the author also has another website, Hawramani, with very thoghtful articles on a wide variety of topics, including modern and classic literatre, particularly Pride and Prejudice.
• babyblanket2001 - tumblr blog focused on nostalgia for childhood - childhood aesthetics, the rare text posts invoke an aching nostalgia...
• flowerais - advice on self-care, positive messages, and animal/nature pictures
• self-healing - a tumblr blog that collects a lot of practical advice, like these depression tips that work, and positive messages

Twitter:

• كلاسيكية الهوى (tooshi_80) - (Arabic only) حسابها فيه أعمال كلاسيكية و مشاهد من انمي قديم و تقريرات و كل شيء يبعث حنين للماضي !
• تطوير الذات (altatwer) - (Arabic only) حساب يبعثت الإيجابية و حسن الأخلاق.
• positive onigiri - a sweet bot that periodically tweets uplifting quotations from Fruits Basket's Honda Tohru, as well as some general positive tweets.
• everydaycarebot - a twitter that posts a small, simple, productive task each day, so you don't feel like any day's gone by without doing anything at all!
• TheRealDoctorT - twitter account with stories drawing inspiration from the doctor's own practice - Sayed A Tabatabai has a remarkable gift for storytelling, weaving poignant stories, hopeful and compelling, inspired by his patients, family, and own experiences to create fictional stories with genuine spirit. Some are sad, some are uplifting, all of them inspire love and compassion.

Webcomics:

• Wondermark - very funny, cynical, and surreal comics in collage style using 19th century woodcuts/engravings.

Art:

• pop_KOME - art twitter with cute and sometimes creepy artwork in a style reminicscent of anime influenced by rubberhose 1920's western animation. Some of my favourites include a wind-up girl riding a broken-down carousel, covered in creeping roses, a little princess in gold and white hugging a little unicorn that oozes gold onto her dress. It isn't bleeding, I think, because there's other illustrations where she meets it that way. ^^;
• yoovora - art twitter with sweet illustrations of children in a warm storybook-like style with a lot of lovely details. The artist has illustrated children's books before, including my favourite, The Little Prince! His hair being the same colour as the golden fields of wheat is so beautiful.
• bbo_sy - art twitter with a retro art anime/manga style and limited palettes,, with excellent anatomy and creative poses. There's original art, as well as fanart, including a lot of Disney fanart!
• hanayurihime - art twitter with vintage 70's shoujo-inspired aesthetics, colourful and girlish. Here's some printable colouring pages by hanayurihime!
• panibiscuit - art twitter with extremely cute animal characters, lightly anthropomorphized (they wear clothes and walk on two legs), with a rough-textured similar to old children's book illustrations.
• stardust_sorbet - art twitter with hand-painted art, with lovingly detailed clothes and hair, and some cute fairy tale aesthetics too. I love the lace-like effects in their art!
• HHplusH - art twitter with a focus on Arabian (Khaleeji/Arabian Gulf, specifically Saudi Arabian) traditional dress and culture, it was also the first time I saw 'Aseeri traditional dress in art, their art has a lot of details to lose yourself in, and conveys a sense of nostalgia. Varied subjects, but they mostly seem to focus on home life, siblings, childhood, while some art looks more fantastic or dramatic. [CW blood, swords, Nazis for some of the art that doesn't fit the usual subject matters... they vary a lot!]
• _dollmeup_ - art twitter with cute aesthetics and detailed clothes, I particularly like the Lolita fashion ones.
• kotono_n0_ - art twitter with very delicate art... the subjects always seem to be very sensitive, yet bottling up feelings. They have a side account for art displaying clothes they designed!
• rt0no - twitter account of an artist with a very painterly style, like old fairy tale illustrators, and draws both sentimental scenes with anthropomorphic animals (I especially love the aristocratic cats with all of their frilly clothes) and more creepy art. The animals remind me of Beatrix Potter's works...
• may3104 - art blog of Sweet May (it has since been deleted), one of my favoite Pokemon artists! Pastel aesthetic, loves Best Wishes! and Sun & Moon, she draws plenty of art for the 2019 series too! I believe Sweet May made a new twitter account for her art, pico_bx.
• nsmmm - art twitter focusing on very atmospheric art of anthropomorphized animal children - thi is the same one I suggest all over this site, very soothing and atmospheric, whimsical, captures the essence of childhood through the eyes of a goat girl and deer boy... and now also, a little wolf boy who lives among humans!
• sekhr0w0 - art twitter with dark, fairy tale-like art - elegant, flowery, delicate, somewhat foreboding fairy tales-like illustrations with gritty and faded colours.
• karimaro - art tumblr with very cute and cartoony art and animations and karimaro11 on twitter - very cute, pastel, lineless, minimalistic animations!
• DeStress Monday - animated infographics with advice to deal with stress!

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