Resources and Whatnot

[ultranos]

I have a tendency nowadays to do an ungodly amount of research for whatever it is I'm writing. *glares at the XAOSverse Master Doc* This means I generally have anywhere between 1 and 5 Firefox browsers open with between 2-15 tabs each on a series of four desktops (I loves you, Virtual Dimension) at all times. Most of these tabs are of various Wikipedia articles, although these days other sites get hit up a lot too.

Since I'm just wasting time anyway right now, because I've decided that I'm going to finish actually watching the entirety of Stargate before I seriously write any of the three fics for it I have in my head (although two of them are s8 and mid-s9 of SG-1, which I have watched, and the third is an AU anyway, so the point is moot), I figure I'd throw up a list of useful links for people.

• Encyclopedia Mythica, one of THE best reference sites for mythology from all over the world on the 'net. What it lacks in depth it more than makes up for in breadth in terms of what's there. It's my default site for looking up anything mythological before I jump to another source for more detail. Such as:
  
• Perseus Digital Library, like Project Guttenburg, only for Classical Mythology. Also includes some documents from the English Renaissance. Spearhead is currently making extensive use of this.
  
• The Electric Eclectic, a writing resource on practically everything. I have not yet had the time to look through everything, but this thing pretty much just got immediately bookmarked like five minutes ago when I found it and decided to write this entry in the first place. (link via MetaFilter)
  
• Historical References for Fanfic Writers, which is a collection of, well, what the title says. Don't let the title fool you; it's useful for more than just fanfic. I've had this bookmarked for years, although I hardly use it because I don't write much historical fiction.
  
• The Final Fantasy Compendium, which as an extensive listing of almost every reference Square-Enix has put into the Final Fantasy series since the first one, from historical and mythological significance, with extensive cross-listing. I was shamelessly inspired by this thing during the writing of Centauri.
  
• The Seventh Sanctum, fun with generators. Not exactly a reference site, but awesome enough to be here anyway. :)
  

Oh awesome. I'm no longer dead-tired, although trying to go do quantum would probably be poor.