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WARNING for those of you on limited access--IMAGE HEAVY!
This isn't the final work of the Bang, which is in progress. This is the report on the process of getting pictures done!
Now it is Done!! YAY!
See also the finished work here, thanks to lady_krysis!https://archiveofourown.info/works/2176650
Also, kisahawklin made ICONS for us!
Go see them here:
https://archiveofourown.info/works/2212656So many great ideas for the Bang, one person wanted to costume for it. This cosplay idea inched itself into my head. I have 1/3 scale jointed dolls. Instead of humans, hey, I have a doll head that needs a scar-face make up *anyway*... Imagine if, at your basic science fiction fantasy cosplay convention, the people in those fannish snapshots were being portrayed by 1/3 scale dolls. Imagine if fans of the Losers were quoting favorite lines from the movie and explaining it to fans who were cosplaying for other movies?
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
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As of April 2016, The database that stores works on A03 does not allow emoji. If you try to add an emoji it will end your story there. Any words after the emoji? Poof. Gone. This is a known, if poorly advertised, issue with the archive.
There are some workarounds; you can find them in: How to Make iOS Text messages on A03. But here? Here is for ALL THE EMOJI*.
10 chapters of emoji tables, each with the HTML for putting the emoji into your work and the CSS for putting it into your workskin. Copy-Paste baby. Copy-Paste.
*Does not contain the 2016 Unicode release. You'll have to come up with the code for pickle yourselves.
(Note, because this is 10 chapters of emoji tables, here is a link to the Index Tables (chapter 1) to speed up load times and reduce confusion if you have preferences set to "entire work.")
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Donna Noble is ready and willing to seduce the Doctor. However, the Doctor insists on making things difficult.
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How to do Proper English Good and Stuff by orphan_account
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, K-pop, GOT7, BLACKPINK (Band), EXO (Band)
15 Mar 2021
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A guide for the wayward fanfiction author, those without a beta reader or spell/grammar check functionality (or those with an inability to use one), and those for whom English is not their first language*. This guide (ever-updating) will walk you through homonyms, contractions and common errors found in fanfiction and help you to avoid them, kick ass and take names when writing stuff on the internet.
*You're a rockstar if English is your second, third or fourth language and you are writing fanfiction in it! This author loves and salutes you!
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A practical guide to writing bestiality fic.
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How to Come Out to Your Significant Other as an Ancient Eldritch God by VoreDrake
Fandoms: LOVECRAFT H. P. - Works
15 Feb 2020
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A step by step guide on how to ease your partner into you being a God of the Abyss.
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just html things that i've learnt/know. chap 1 is pretty easy formatting, chap 2 is slightly more effort. chap 3 is specifically table of contents (links). no css is used here. i hate css.
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How to get away with Magical Murder: a practical Handbook by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Jun 2020
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Well, it's rather what the title says, creative ways to conceal a murder in the HP universe, and several reasons why you might want to commit (or rather to have your characters commit) a murder. You are welcome to use any of these measly ideas in your own works, though they might not be very creative!
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Tips for Handling Broken Links to Fics and Fanworks by resourceress7
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Multi-Fandom, No Fandom
06 Jan 2021
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Oh no! You've been dying to get your hands on that fic, fanvid, or fanart that people keep recommending, but you can't find a link to it that works.
Sometimes a link is not really broken, and sometimes content is available elsewhere if you know how and where to look.
Includes some strategies specific to Livejournal and Dreamwidth, but the rest is applicable to the entire internet.
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Mute / Block an Author (how to filter works from certain writers from your search results) by tomayto_tomahto
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Mar 2021
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A short and easy tutorial on how to permanently exclude works from certain authors from your search results via site skin.
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Details for adding the KuroFai Olympic 2021 Banners by peaceful_fury
Fandoms: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
15 Aug 2021
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This year we would like to participants to add the KuroFai Olympics Banner for their team to the fic. This is in part to show the fic was part of the event and in part to show off the wonderful art done by ValdrickV.
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Guide for using CSS and HTML to create work skins and site skins on Ao3
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Easy Tag Counting Until a Counter Exists (in Desktop Browsers) by Deuterosis
Fandoms: No Fandom
03 Sep 2021
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In the news announcement for the tag limit, some users have suggested ways to determine your current amount of used tags on the fly. I realized another method, but comments have since closed. Therefore, I'm posting it as meta and hope this will be of use!
(Now includes the Fandom on tag/author pages... OW....)
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An unauthorized guide to finding, recovering, and playing the now-lost versions of the games that were deactivated with the loss of Flash Player
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Details for adding the KuroFai Olympic 2022 Banners by peaceful_fury
Fandoms: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
06 Jun 2022
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Instruction on how to add the Team banner for all entries in the KuroFai Olypics 2022 Cursed vs Blessed.
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A guide to uploading Fan Art. Specifically for the KuroFai Olympics.
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How to Fix "Floating" Chapter 1 End Notes by LadyAnatar
Fandoms: Original Work, No Fandom
30 Oct 2022
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One of the most common errors in multi-chapter works on AO3 is the "floating" end notes that should be at the end of the first chapter but insist on latching onto the end of the latest chapter instead. Here are instructions explaining how to stick these floaters at the end of your first chapter where they belong.
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NOT A FIC :)
here's a guide on how to create a manip (edit), it's definition, & more~
A full, completed guide with pictures.
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Details for adding the KuroFai Olympic 2023 Banners by peaceful_fury
Fandoms: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
28 Jul 2023
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Instruction on how to add the Team banner for all entries in the KuroFai Olympics 2023 Fate vs Choice.
The wonderful banner art done by Nadirising.
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Meta on How to Write Realistic BDSM by pennypaperbrain
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
03 Jul 2013
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A meta on how to keep your BDSM fic physically and psychologically realistic. It isn't and can't be a complete guide, but hopefully you will find some useful tips here.
Thanks to havingbeenbreathedout for the beta!
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This is an example story to demonstrate some CSS formatting options on the Archive. Click the "Hide Creator's Style" button and check out the related tutorial to see how it's done.
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Embedding tutorial
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
Bookmarked by CHIBI_CRAZY
02 May 2016
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So helpful, and easy to follow!
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
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Embedding tutorial
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Ten Little Peeves - The Big List of Fanfic Peeves by Fannish Butterfly / Sandy and the Bitkahs
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
30 Dec 2017
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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Rants & Rambles - The Big List of FanFic Peeves.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "There is no such thing as an inherently bad idea in fanfic (not even Krycek/Scully), only poorly executed ideas."
But there are a lot of poorly executed ideas. Or, to put it another way, there are a lot of clever and interesting plots undercut by the author's inability to write a sentence, to stay faithful to a character, or to not be their own worst enemy.
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30 Dec 2017
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A good guide of "please don't" and recommendations of alternatives for writers.
(The excamples are m/m slash, but still the guide is valid for all fic.)
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Embedding tutorial
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Embedding tutorial
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Super Awesome Learning How to Embed Place by leftennant
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Undertale (Video Game)
18 May 2025
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How to Mimic Letters, Fliers, and Stationery Without Using Images by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Jul 2017
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Embedding tutorial
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What it says on the tin.
A mock-up of instagram direct messages without having to use screenshots.
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How to Make an Instagram DM Mockup by xslytherclawx
A mock-up of instagram direct messages without having to use screenshots.
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Undertale (Video Game)
18 May 2025
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Undertale (Video Game)
18 May 2025
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- 19
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- 4,024
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Undertale (Video Game)
18 May 2025
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- 84,915
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- 19
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- 4,024