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branchandroot

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branchandroot publishes comics at branchandroot.dreamwidth.org, a site they built themselves. Last published November 2025, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 75 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

21 dated posts since 200975 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksApril 2009 to November 2025

JFMAMJJASOND20092009-04: 120232023-04: 22023-06: 12023-08: 22023-09: 12023-10: 32023-11: 22023-12: 220242024-01: 22024-04: 12024-08: 12024-11: 120252025-10: 12025-11: 1
fewermorepeak: 3 in October 2023

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

120091320235202422025

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 21

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 21, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
114 KB, 8 scripts, 69 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
present
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 11 other sites, 1 platforms
Found
2026-08-26, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

reply481airplay2illumination21comment1598fixit24link1689arbor15peak98filter121michigan73tree518light1200room738downtown42

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches72 writers in the index

72 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

and 60 more.

Their neighbourhood

bensectdoodlemancyzwei_hexenbadly_knitteddrabblewriterbrumeieralexcatevil_little_doglove_jackianto1I have held back n12 sites outside the indexbranchandroot
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to I have held back no water in its season. Kept on the same blogrolls: krja (5 of the same writers link to both), drabble_zone (4 of the same writers link to both), sanguinity (3 of the same writers link to both), anythingdrabble (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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