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Source. The layout, the palette and the vocabulary are read out of two stylesheets captured from thefanlistings.org on 2 August 2026: the 10,090 byte globalstylesheet.css every skin shares, and the 1,852 byte skins/blue/stylesheet.css that recolors it. The 960 pixel layout, the 610 and 260 pixel columns, the dark header band, the uppercase navigation, the .formStyle label tables, the alternating .thelistings rows and the gray, red and green message boxes are all theirs, including the fact that the blue skin fills its sidebar panels with pink. Every quotation here was checked against the captured HTML as a contiguous string before it was used: the join requirement and the network's description of itself from the index page, the one-per-subject rule and the web design requirement from start/rules.php, the four etiquette lines from forowners/etiquette.php. All files are in reference/1-decoration/stamps-fanlistings/.

Not one real stamp ships. Every stamp on this page is drawn. The ten sampled files are third-party deviantART works of unknown rights whose filenames still carry deviation IDs and artist slugs, and they had been rehosted at least once already before reaching the reference folder. They are measurement specimens only, which is why the table of ten formats and byte counts withholds the filenames. The thirteen on the wall were drawn for this plate in palette index space at 99 by 56, in a 3 by 5 pixel font written for them, and are served from this origin as ordinary PNG, GIF and JPEG, 15,613 bytes for the whole set, by scripts/make-stamps.mjs. Their frame color #5D615D is measured: sample the same edge pixel on all ten sampled files and four come back at exactly that value. The frame geometry is this plate's own. The four animated ones are real GIF89a at four frames, 200 milliseconds, infinite loop, and their partial frames are an optimizer's genuine output rather than a claim about one. Every dimension, frame rectangle, delay, loop count and byte count printed here is parsed out of the shipped bytes at build time by PNG, JPEG and GIF readers in the page's own frontmatter, never typed in, so redrawing a stamp corrects the page.

Two mechanics are invented, and the page says so where they run. The subject box refuses everything, because there is no Approved FLs list behind it. The real registry checked one; the words it refuses you with are theirs. The seven second wait between joining and appearing is not a measured turnaround, it is a length chosen to register as a person being slow rather than as software failing, which is why the page stays live and says so throughout. The twenty-four member rows are invented first names and countries: nobody there is real, and no real fanlisting's member list is reproduced. The header wordmark is set in type because the real header is an image this project does not hold, and it carries the word recreation on its face. The readout under the wall uses cinni.net's period font stack verbatim, in which the tiny webface is unlicensed and not shipped, so it falls through to Verdana.

Deliberately absent. When stamps started, who made the first one, and what the deviantART stamp template actually specified: the folder holds ten outputs and no template. Any founding year, fanlisting count or cause of decline for the network, which is still live. Its footer carries a 2000 to 2025 copyright line, which is a notice and not a founding date, and thousands of fanlistings is its own description of itself. The seven other skins, whose stylesheets were never captured, so only the blue one is reproduced. One correction to this plate's brief, recorded rather than quietly fixed: the brief describes the collection page as thirteen ungrouped images. The captured file holds 259 <img> tags, 194 with a source and 65 with an empty one. The ungrouped half is right, and the file's only HTML comment is the stock Neocities template line.

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