credits

site themes and layouts: aid's bloggy, 5493's green, cinni's blue bubbly 2 and nana, teppy's afraid???
astrophotography: various partial images of CEPHEUS taken by lefty's astrophotography
crt overlay: by oudkee
gojo manga panels: from jujutsu kaisen by gege akutami
3D metalheart renders: by me! snag free-to-use renders in the art gallery
miscellaneous textures and backgrounds: salvaged.nu, texturelabs, architextures
text editor: phoenix code, vscodium and notepad++
gummy ring and custom ring flavor: joroki! thank you again so much dude!!!!

resources

change your neocities thumbnail - arandomsite's tutorial and another resource from here. shoutout to water and joroki, respectively, for sharing these in the treefort forum.
Forum Siganture Tutorials by Water - step by step tutorials by Water on how to make a forum signature using a photo editor (in this case, Photoshop).
Info on RSS / RSS Feed Readers by Yogo Magpie - page by Yogo Magpie on what rss feed readers are, how to use them, how to find feeds to follow, and how to format your own rss feed with a .xml file. this page was also sent by Aid - thank you!!
Deploying to Neocities - a guide written by scumsuck that a mutual, Aid, sent me! really helpful tutorial on how to get your site working with Github Actions for easier updates
32bit cafe resources list for the personal web - includes everything from html and css basics to free layouts and layout makers. great to peruse when getting started.
list of webrings - whether you're trying to find like-minded people, a community, or inspiration, you can use this to look for webrings of sites based around a topic or a theme.
ribozone's web tutorial - a step-by-step guide on how to get started on your own free, handmade portfolio site.
w3schools - large collection of tutorials, references, examples and more in various languages. really useful for searching for particular things (ie: the responsive media gallery i used for my gallery page)