RIGELATIN
FANSITES!
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SINCE 2011
A WEBSITE THAT FUCKS. THAT'S RIGHT. THIS WEBSITE FUCKS

What is this?

Unrestrained and unincorporated Internet space.
This is not an archive, but a message.
I am sending my words to find yours.
Soon we will communicate.

This is not a relic, but a monument.
This is not an aesthetic, but a need.
This is not nostalgia, but a thrust.
This is not happenstance, but a flame.

Be present right now! You are as real as I am
if you choose to be. !

About Rigelatin

History

I've been making fansites since 2004. My first project was an Italian-language general Pokémon fansite which was called Angeltower. ! I updated it every week during its lifetime and it had a good run - it was surprisingly popular and I met a lot of friends through it. I closed it in 2009 because I no longer had the resources or the interest to run a general fansite.

Then in 2006 I discovered fanlistings and character shrines. My first project of that kind was Dark Claws, a fanlisting and shrine to Sneasel from Pokémon, which is still here in archive. I enjoyed this kind of focused fansite project so much that I made more and more, and eventually I needed to build a fansite collective to properly organize them. The first incarnation of my fansite collective was actually just a page on Angeltower, and then in 2008 I decided to do the big jump to a domain name, blind-dreaming.net, which was replaced in 2011 by rigelatin.net. Fuck. It's been 15 years of this site alone... But not by inertia! All this time has been full of projects that I've woven and unwoven and rewoven. As you will see, the site that you're visiting at this moment collects (and most importantly shares) all these years of passion and drive.

A Rigelatin. This one can be found in the level that looks like a meat mall stereo system, the one with the soundtrack that annoys my sister. Hey! What's it doing! Ow! Ow!

Rigelatin?

It's the name of the aliens from Duke Nukem II (1992). It was one of the first videogames I ever played, on a Windows 3.1 system :) I wanted my collective to be named after something important and foundational to my person and tastes. Bonus points, the Rigelatins are the aliens from Rigel, which is also my favorite star. ! And also gelatin is a funky word. In terms of naming I think it's a leap forward from my terrible previous naming choices...

Fansites in the wailing 20s

It's been a long road, hasn't it been? Back when I started, fansites were pretty much the default format to share interesting information on the internet. Over time, they almost completely disappeared from the web, and our circle shrank. ! Only lately are they making a wave again as a new group of people has gained interest in this craft. ! As for what concerns me, I've had many years of time to consider why I continue making fansites, seeking fansites, and being generally invested in this hobby.

My answer is really quite simple: I enjoy it. It's just so much creative fun at the intersection of every discipline, motivated by passion. After all, a fansite can have any format you want. It can be one single long essay in a plain page. It can be a whole graphic project. It can intertwine text, image, video, interactive elements, anything you want really. It can be an archive, or it can be kept as a permanent work in progress. A fansite lets you invent how to approach your interest: it's a creative project among creative projects. And on top of all of that, coding websites is awesome.

Right now, what I want from my fansites is not just self-expression, but communication. They are not a private creative project: they are by definition shared - and I value this aspect, I choose to share my reflections so they may open conversation. My fansites are there to say: here is what I think about something I am passionate about - and what about you? Let's share our passion. My ultimate goal is always connection.

Interested in fansites? See the Emotion directory!

Visuals

The mysterious guy on the left at the top of the page is Visor from Quake III Arena and Quake Champions, in a stunning artwork by me. Spend some time with him...

Have you found...

This artwork (like all of my Visor art) is also a tribute to the Visor artwork by John Mueller. ! And it's also about the song Everything Must Perish by Front Line Assembly, which incidentally worked on this song at the same time they worked on the Quake III Arena soundtrack, and I'm pretty sure there's a thematic connection.

Everything Must Perish - Front Line Assembly

Through the smoke I see the trees
No one left for us to please
A perfect world where no one dies
Go to heaven with your lies

Wasted and confused
I walk around with a shortened fuse
A fire burns inside my head
Is this living or am I dead

[Breathe, breathe]

In my dreams I see the end
A perfect circle never bends
As time and hope erode our fears
I close my eyes for one last tear

Tomorrow may never come
Mountains clash in the sun
The freezing snow starts to melt
A quiet moment to myself
Reflecting somewhere on the past
I hope this feeling will always last
A paradise we stand alone
Forgotten king without a throne
A bird takes flight
Now out of sight
The sun catches its shadow

[Come alive, come alive]

Above in the air there is no despair
We're waiting for the moment

A dark shadow hides my face
I hope I won't forget this place
This burning sky that we call home
In the end we stand alone

In general I highly recommend the whole album it comes from, Epitaph.

The line drawings through the page are also mine, though I made most of them a few years ago, long before the concept of this layout.

As for what concerns the rest of the layout, I wanted to do some design like in gaming and music magazines from the turning of the millennium. I won't say I was inspired by them as much as, I know them in my bones. I've succumbed too much to minimalism over the years. I have a need to return to this.

View previous layout versions

Layout credits -
Background textures: CC0.Fynaven. (Some) CSS animations: Animista. Title fonts: HEYRO fun, Onnenmyyra. Checkbox HTML & CSS generator: Webspe. Tooltips: Tooltipster. Clap button: Applause. Part of Our Kingdoms Eternal website marathon - thank you for the motivation to help me make this. 0% AI, 100% megaboobs.

Who is this?

Rosangela / Rosy / dubiousdisc / devilrose !

  • From southern Italy, where I currently live in a cave with fiber optic internet. !
  • Born 1990. I remain young, so no one believes, but it's true.
  • Artist, author, and comic artist. You've already seen my illustrations of Visor, and you can see the rest of my art at my art website, cyborgize.it.
  • In particular, I make the webcomic The Gifts of Darkness.
  • English is not my first language. This is not an apology, but a flex. I also speak Italian, French, Spanish, and a southern Italian "dialect" (its own language actually).
  • Always hungry. But well treated by the best food in the world and by being an excellent cook. That's how I keep myself in great shape in spite of all my chair-based jobs. That and things like climbing cliffs, and did I mention that this website fucks?
  • While I work on my paintings and comics, I sing. Recently I've also returned to the guitar after 20 years.
  • Another of my jobs is typing and editing and handling historical documents for my father, who is a local historian. He does drive me nuts, but it's cool that I get to see and read medieval papers and such.
  • Favorite video games: Quake !, Doom, The Elder Scrolls !, Pokémon Crystal, Simcity 3000, The Sims !, Age of Empires II, Fire Emblem !, Kirby !, Castlevania !, Slay the Spire
  • Favorite music: Lacuna Coil !, Dark Tranquillity !, Insomnium !, Thurisaz !, Starkill, Alcest
  • Favorite characters: See my list :D

Denise / ritabuuk !

  • She is my co-writer and editor on almost all projects here at Rigelatin, and she is the primary writer and keeper of some, most notably Copy Cat and The Unforgotten.
  • A thoughtful green snail.
  • From the USA, where she has lived on both the East and the West coast. Currently she lives with me in Italy in the same cave from before. We're married by the way.
  • Favorite characters: See the list :)
  • Also see her sub-collective and art site.

Projects

Staircase Spirit

Old-school blog thing with reviews and whatever we want

Since:
2017
Made by:
Rosy and Denise
Featured:
The review of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is very funny

Born out of discussions and notes about all sorts of things we care about, Staircase Spirit is full of lengthy articles we've written on topics as varied as the Pokémon movies to DOS games to fruit. We made Staircase Spirit first and foremost as a "fansite incubator", where we can write freely without worrying about the viability of a larger project - and well, it worked, because many of our recent fansites were indeed born like that!

rigelatin.net/staircase

Copy Cat

Fansite about Mew and Mewtwo from Pokémon

Since:
2001
Written by:
Denise, more recent collaborations with Rosy
Layout by:
Rosy and Denise
Status:
Permanent work in progress
Featured:
The essay about Mew's design

Since 2001, baby! Yeah, you read that right. Copy Cat is a massive Mew and Mewtwo fansite that has been around for more than twenty years, and there's still plenty of stuff we'd want to add. Come read pages both old and new!

rigelatin.net/copycat

Sundown

About The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Since:
2017
Last updated:
2026
Written by:
Started by Rosy, now written by both
Layout by:
Rosy
Status:
Lots to read, even more loooong pages to come

Rosy in particular is the Oblivion nerd, having spent thousands of hours on it over dozens of different playthroughs. In this site, we collect our many thoughts about the different aspects of the game: from gameplay aspects to its storylines, from lore details to overarching core themes. We've really only scratched the surface of what we want to say about Oblivion so far, but given that every year or so we end up replaying it, this is one project that we can feel good about leaving as a somewhat-permanent work in progress, in the same way as we're somewhat-permanently invested in this game.

rigelatin.net/oblivion

The Unforgotten

About the mistreated girl protagonists of Pokémon

Writing began:
2017
Last updated:
2026
Written by:
Denise and Rosy, but especially Denise
Layout by:
Rosy primarily on design and Denise primarily on code
Status:
20 long pages and it's barely started...
Featured:
The page about the beta names of Ash and Gary

When we started writing a Staircase Spirit article about our thoughts and feelings about the tumultuous history of the girl protagonists from the Pokémon games, little did we know what dreadful can of worms we'd just opened. Every topic we wanted to touch resulted in a tangent, and that tangent lead to another tangent. Every paragraph became a multiple-months research ordeal. We learned more than we ever wanted to. Now, we're ready to share our findings in the form of our most studious website, which happens to be about a bunch of Pokémon girls who just can't get a break. An abyssal dive through the history of the Pokémon fandom, of its canon... and its sins.

rigelatin.net/unforgotten

Eyyyy!

Fansite about Giuseppi Mezzoalto from The Sims handheld series

Written in:
2018-19
Last updated:
2025
Made by:
Rosy and Denise
Featured:
Do start from the introduction to this whole mess

Seriously, The Sims Bustin' Out and The Urbz handheld are so, so good, entirely too good to be so obscure. Also, Giuseppi is in them. Giuseppi stole our hearts (and also our in-game bed like thrice). He's so well-written, we forget he's not a real person sometimes. This site is maybe our most ~eclectic~ project: it contains character essays, but also content about aspects of these games that are relevant to Giuseppi, and also some content that is really about the games themselves and we keep it there because it has to go somewhere, and personal pieces. And also a recipe for strawberry tiramisù, and rules for a weird card game. It's wild. Just like Giuseppi himself. :)

rigelatin.net/giuseppi

No promises, no guarantees: I haven't checked these in hhhnteen years...

Interact

Yes, you!

You've seen what you wanted to see? You've read around, looked at fansites? Then you surely have many thoughts. It's your turn now to communicate.

You could...

  • Leave a message in the guestbook

    In spite of the ponderous name, think of it more like a site-wide comment board, where you can leave a message about anything you saw around here.

    rigelatin.net/guestbook

  • Contact me directly

    Or rather, by good old email. I'd give you my phone number but I don't answer unknown numbers...

    rigelatin.net/contact

  • Find me elsewhere

    This leads you to the /links page on my art site, where you can find my social media and other projects. Oh, and if you're on Tumblr, there's the Rigelatin account too.

    cyborgize.it/links

  • Press this button

    This button records the number of times it has been pressed. If today you're feeling shy and don't know what to say, just press this button as many times as you want: it tells me you were here :)

Links out

If you're leaving, consider that your next website visit might be to one of these websites - also fansite-related, and many of them are the sites of our friends :)

Do you have a similar website? Let's swap links!

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Note: you don't need a fancy domain name to swap links. A Neocities page is good too. If it seems otherwise, it's just because most of the sites in this list are older than Neocities...

Thank you for visiting Rigelatin!
  1. Ah! See, you just interacted. I am glad you are here.
  2. Do you remember?
    ROSY_CRYSTAL?! Sono passati tanti anni. Alla fine รจ andato tutto bene comunque.
    Sorry, I wasn't there Don't worry, it was so long ago that the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth and I rode their backs.
  3. Do you have a favorite star?
    Yes Oh! Tell me what it is when you sign the guestbook :)
    No Really?! Adrien from my comic The Gifts of Darkness would take issue with that. Hehe.
  4. In the 2010s fansites went out of the mainstream, but the scene that remained produced some of the best work ever.
  5. For which I have complicated thoughts. On one hand, I appreciate that a younger group is understanding the value of learning how to make your own website rather than rely on social media accounts only. That's great! On the other hand, many of these people seem to be doing it mostly as part of belonging to an aesthetic, and their fansites are just a glorified about page. That's ass. Then again, we had similar problems even back in the 2000s...
  6. I have previously gushed about it and the rest of his Quake art on my tumblr reblog blog: here :)
    1. Given name. I grant the privilege of speaking it to very few people.
    2. Acceptable nickname. Also the name I give to non-Italian speakers so I don't have to listen to the inevitable failure to pronounce my given name.
    3. Nickname that I have used in the fansite sphere.
    4. The username I more recently use, especially around my art. A pun on my given name.
  8. Not a joke, it's a traditional cave house.
  9. 1, 2, 3 are the best games ever to me, and I liked Champions well enough.
  10. Especially Oblivion, for which I have a fansite which I'm going to present in a moment. I love also Morrowind and Redguard. I'm in tsunderes with Skyrim.
  11. 2 and 3 remain my favorites for different reasons, and also I am fond of the handheld series, as you will see down the page. I enjoyed Medieval too.
  12. Fandom influx from back when Blazing Sword was new. I have played many of them until a certain point, I am not interested in most of the newer entries, and Blazing Sword remains one of my favorite games ever.
  13. I've played almost all of them and enjoyed almost all of them. My favorite is Return to Dreamland. You know, Magolor.
  14. Unpopular opinion, but my favorite is Harmony of Dissonance. With all due respect to Symphony of the Night which is objectively the best.
  15. Comalies is my absolute favorite album ever. I have listened to it thousands of times. I will listen to it thousands of times more. Listen to it for me if you want to understand me fully.
  16. Every era is my favorite era for different reasons. And I really appreciate what they're doing recently. One of my fondest memories with them was seeing them in concert and screaming naked with them, We are not nothing! We serve our purpose here!...
  17. Among the other reasons, I will never forgive 2020 for robbing me from seeing Heart Like A Grave live.
  18. Dearly gone. I followed them for their whole life as a band. Their Live and Acoustic is in my opinion the pinnacle of their achievements.
    1. Given name.
    2. Internet nickname since the the dawn of time. No... it's not Rita. Try pronouncing it.
  20. Directory of websites in the same style as this one.
  21. Andrea's sweet and delightful sites with layouts that I don't even understand how are they possible. I wish we could speak more!...
  22. I really enjoyed Genius, a shrine about Sailor Mercury.
  23. I hope that one day you will return!
  24. Keep it up Nyx, I'm cheering for you. Soon I'll even be able to understand your Devil May Cry stuff.
  25. I particularly recommend Pick A God And Pray, a tribute to the Fire Emblem series.
  26. Lethe! This layout wouldn't be here if it weren't for her and her efforts for the fansite community! I don't even know which site to feature as my favorite. Just, if you're reading this: go there. Just go there.
  27. I've been knowing Larissa for like almost 20 years and yet every time there's a new project I am absolutely blown to pieces. Personal recommendation: Moonrise, a fansite for Lunafreya from Final Fantasy XV.