...I should note that I really, really DO recommend Codecademy with the fervor of any new convert. With all due respect to all the other fun activities on the web, it's the only recent one that I can remember that made me actually learn something. XD And it's fun! Really!

Notes:
Contrary to what you might think...
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((Since I keep advertising it but seem not to have remembered to describe it... >_>))

Codecademy is a site that offers free courses in various kinds of code, including HTML (and thus CSS), Javascript, Python, and Ruby. No, it doesn't bombard you with ads or malware - as far as I can tell, it's a genuine power-of-the-people effort.

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Free website dedicated to teaching people how to code in-browser. Teaches HTML, jQuery, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and more!

I just found my new "But it's productive, really!" procrastination site. :D

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On a cheerier note, Totally Captioned is the most ridiculously amusing thing I can remember for a while. Ah, yuri fanboys. I forgot what it was like to see pure, shameless perversion, without any 'we-are-subverting-the-kyriarchal-paradigm-of-non-genderqueer-epistemology-in-the-unique-psychosocial-dynamics-of-water-bottle-orchestration-episodes' ( Read more... )

The Complete and Utter Insanity of 'Batman: Odyssey'
The Gender Genie
Texter

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Pseudodeaths, sock puppets, and conversations between undead sock puppets, oh my!

As a bonus, it has some amazing internet-detective work by the person who wrote the post. Hahaha, the timestamps...

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PROJECT UNICORN, VOLUME ONE is a collection of thirty young adult short stories featuring lesbian heroines. As ghosts and witches, aliens and vampires, the characters in this extensive and varied collection battle monsters and inner demons, stand up to bullies, wield magic, fall in love, and take action to claim their lives-and their stories- ( Read more... )

In early playtests, the author relates how one person introduced psychic vampires in time zeppelins, which, while awesome, was not part of the intended universe.

(Right over here.)

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...Or from this link, actually, which is mainly a complaint about the overuse of rape-as-drama in fiction. (*much applause*)

[If you don't understand WTH is going on with Something Awful's vocabulary, they have a word filter up for non-users to prevent filtering software from cutting them off. A partial key [as far as I can tell] is below:

( I can't imagine posts without the word filter -gently caress it, the LP Archive would just not be the same insane starting of WGB threads one gets used to... )