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Filtering AO3 Subscription Emails with Gmail Filters by ArrowanaGuides (Arrowana)
Fandoms: No Fandom
29 Sep 2023
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AO3 subscriptions are great for following series or users, but what if you don’t want to receive updates for fandoms you’re not in or for tags you avoid? Gmail filters can help.
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- Part 1 of AO3 Tips and Guides
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Minecraft Last Days of Humanity food supply guide by Anonymous
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
02 Dec 2023
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"Last Days of Humanity" Is a really hard Minecraft mod, nobody has beaten it yet due to multiple reasons. Supplies are hard to get, there are waves of hostiles, and plenty of mods to make life more difficult.
One of them forces the player to eat a variety of food stuffs or else they suffer from diminishing returns. This means you have to have 12 different food items in order to get the most out of a limited supply.
Food can be really hard to get in this mod, so I made this to help anyone else struggling with it.
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A Guide to Multivoice Filking by Meet a Meta with (SerenaEW), Pods and Filks by (SerenaEW), SerenaEW
Fandoms: Filk - Fandom
06 Jan 2024
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Since editing multivoice filk (specifically asynchronous polyphonic multivoice filk) is seen as something of a mammoth job, and I have a bit of experience in it, I thought I might break it down to the most helpful steps, tips, tricks and experiences that have made my multivoice filk projects so far possible.
I use Audacity for my endeavours but most of the things I wrote apply for most audio editing platforms.
I hope this helps.
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All The HTML Code You Can Use In HTML Limited Bodies by FlowCodes (FlowWrites)
Fandoms: None - Fandom
02 Aug 2024
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This shows the code that you put into ao3 and the result that it gives along with the following elements that certain code makes text as follows; font, font-size, alignment, other elements; ie bolded text, line breaks, etc. Along on what devices and
A Note: In this area I will NOT be writing out how to do lists, tables, etc. that require MORE then ONE tag since it won’t make any sense in this type of format along with the code that makes you insert images or links since it also will not work in this format and would be impossible to do so considering the restriction this tag has.
This is made to be a quick look companion of the code in ao3 to see all the info you need to know to make the best decision for the formatting of your fanfic!
This is not made for beginners since it may be a little intimidating to see this considering there is no explanation on how code works and stuff like that. You just need the most basic understanding of HTML and how the Limited HTML works on ao3 for the best reading experience.
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Details for adding the KuroFai Olympic 2024 Banners by peaceful_fury
Fandoms: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
04 Aug 2024
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Instruction on how to add the Team banner for all entries in the KuroFai Olympics 2024 - Ancient vs Modern
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how to make a custom EPUB of your HTML-ified fanfiction: a hack-y solution. by html_hell (jihnari)
Fandoms: No Fandom
10 Nov 2024
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ever tried to download your fancily coded fanfiction for offline reading, only to find the result ugly and unreadable? let's fix that!
(i.e., EPUB hacking for beginners.)
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本指南面向身处中国大陆/中国籍贯、深感风险、希望借助技术手段在同人创作中保护个人身份与人身安全却无技术背景的创作者。本指南同样适用 AO3 外的其他平台。
本指南将在未来更新更多章节,如需更新通知,请订阅。更新:
海棠的案例研究预计更新:
+ 如何针对作者的需求,学习计算机知识
+ 对于中国互联网的审查体系,作者们需要知道什么 -
How to Avoid AI-Generated Fics with AO3 Site Skins by ArrowanaGuides (Arrowana)
Fandoms: No Fandom
03 Jun 2025
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A 5-minute guide on how to avoid AI-generated fics with AO3 site skins.
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- Part 2 of AO3 Tips and Guides
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Amanda's How-To: Ruin Your Friendship with a Confession of Love by svnnyd4ys
Fandoms: Clarissa's DIY Wedding - Shoot from the Hip Sketch, Shoot From The Hip - Fandom
06 Jul 2025
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That's the issue with being in love with someone for so long. You forget to think with your mind, not your heart and things just- slip out! As Amanda comes to learn.
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
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- Part 18 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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The Nice and Accurate Guide to Footnotes by Vigs for fersh
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Aug 2019
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If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes.
But html can be confusing. What can you do?
Read this guide to find out!
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How to Size Images on AO3 by Informative_Dandy
Fandoms: media - Fandom, Meta - Fandom, All - Fandom
22 Jan 2019
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Learn how to edit the HTML of your image files so they automatically size themselves to fit any screen (both mobile and desktop). It's super EASY!
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
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- Part 18 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
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- Part 18 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Hooray! You've made a podfic! But now, how do you share it? Posting to tumblr, youtube, or a fandom-specific community are all decent options. But chances are, if the fic you recorded is from AO3, you'll reach the largest and most receptive audience by also posting to AO3.
The archive welcomes all types of fanwork, but is structured and built primarily for written works. Posting podfic can be confusing or complicated if you're unfamiliar with it. This guide will cover both the basic mechanics of posting podfic to AO3, as well as the typical conventions used by the podfic community to help your audio be found by people who want to listen.
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic social media in an AO3 work, specifically Twitter, Reddit, and LiveJournal.
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
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- Part 12 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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A tutorial for creating and formatting spreadsheets in AO3, using CSS and HTML.
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic social media in an AO3 work, specifically Twitter, Reddit, and LiveJournal.
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How to Make Deadpool's Thinking Boxes on AO3 by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom, Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types
20 Jul 2015
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This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
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- Part 2 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Live example and tutorial on how to include a Yelp product review in your work.
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- Part 2 of AO3 Work Skins
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Why Do Non-Canon Ships Become So Popular? (And Why Should Writers Rethink When They Do?) by sarehptar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Voltron: Legendary Defender, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Dec 2018
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A vaguely academic examination of the phenomena behind fandom shipping and why certain non-canon ships become exceedingly popular, far overshadowing the popularity of canon ships. This essay touches on common mistakes writers make with female characters and romantic subplots, and suggests a explanation for the enduring popularity of so many m/m ships which have no chance at all of becoming canon. Examples are drawn from Avatar the Last Air Bender, Voltron Legendary Defender (god help me), and My Hero Academia.
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- Part 3 of Echodrops' Meta and Fandom Analyses
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Mystery Work
Part of COTD Testing Private Works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Staring into the Tag Vortex: AO3 tagging demystified by JustSomeAo3Tips
Fandoms: AO3 Tags
19 Apr 2021
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[CW: Tag Vortex may stare back.]
Tagging! How many tags does your story need? How can you tell which ones will be useful? As a reader, how can you use them to find what you want, what you really really want? When you keysmash in the forest, does it make a sound?
AO3's beautiful and ridiculously wrangled tags do more than most people expect. Behold the mysteries, rejoice in the synonyms, and optimize your search results. Welcome to the tag vortex.
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Staring into the Tag Vortex: AO3 tagging demystified by JustSomeAo3Tips
------------------Very useful. Concise and easy to understand.
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How to make a News Website Article skin on Ao3 by ElectricAlice
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own, Fandom - Fandom
26 Dec 2019
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Live example and tutorial for a news article extract that include website header, fake social media buttons, title and author of the article.
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- Part 1 of CSS code scripts for Ao3
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Documentation/Examples for the CSS workskin and HTML code for a Wikipedia article inspired layout to use in your mixed media works.
Created with help from Nautilusopus and DarthTofu.
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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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Mystery Work
Part of COTD Testing Private Works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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iMessage as it looks in iOS 7 to present.
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- Part 1 of Azdaema's AO3 Messaging Skins