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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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- Part 11 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a personal experiment with HTML. It is a very limited list with what I find useful.
Update: Somehow I find more and more stuff useful, so this list is not that limited (and not that private) anymore. I'll improve it with time and according to my needs. I just realized, this will never be "complete" and there is no final number of chapters.So far that's posted:
Part One: Basics
Part Two: Lines
Part Three: Footnotes and Links
Part Four: Columns and Skins
Part Five: Pictures
Part Six: Videos (and gifs)
Part Seven: Choose Your Own Adventure
Part Eight: Chapter Title
Part Nine: The Title, the Username, and Links
Part Ten: Boxes (still in progress)
Part Eleven: Newspaper Article
Part Twelve: Content Notes and Spoiler
Part Thirteen: Playground for Jinx (glitch text, color, table)
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Work skin for different types of found documents, for people who are into that kind of thing.
Update 1 December 2022: Added parameters for links within div sections. Previously, applying this work skin on top of the Reversi site skin could make links difficult to read.
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Hiding/showing things based on Creator's Style by MijuWrites
Fandoms: No Fandom, Original Work
09 Mar 2023
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A guide on how to have some writing only appear with Creator's Style hidden, and some other writing only appear with Creator's Style shown!
Really handy if your fic relies on Creator's Style a lot and you're worried about how it might look with its style hidden; or if you want to play around with letting the user interact with Creator's Style!
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How to Mimic LiveJournal Posts and Comments by cursedcuriosities (SetsuntaMew)
Fandoms: No Fandom
17 Apr 2023
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic mid-2000s LiveJournal posts and comments.
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- Part 1 of Killian's AO3 Work Skins
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A tutorial + live example on how to create comic text effects/callouts on Ao3 using CSS.
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- Part 1 of Cool Coding Kumquats
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A tutorial + live example on how to recreate Ao3 on mobile in your Ao3 fic using CSS and HTML.
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- Part 2 of Cool Coding Kumquats
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A tutorial + live example on how to add Gmail-esque emails into your fic using CSS and HTML.
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- Part 3 of Cool Coding Kumquats
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Various fun CSS effects. Outlined text, shadow, condensed, expanded, blurry, even blurrier, smeared, mirrored, upside down, rainbow, neon, and highlight. Probably more to come! All of these are free to use and you do not need to credit me at all. Have fun formatting your works! <3
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- Part 1 of My Code Snippets
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Hold-hands Inspired Texting Skin by cursedcuriosities (SetsuntaMew)
Fandoms: Ensemble Stars! (Video Game)
25 Sep 2024
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This is a tutorial/live example for a Hold-hands inspired texting skin, based on the look of iOS messaging.
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- Part 2 of Killian's AO3 Work Skins
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This is a live example and the HTML/CSS for a work skin I pieced together to mimic a mobile Spotify playlist! Perfect for chatfics, showing what your character is listening to, having your ship exchange love songs, etc. It is not an embed and can't actually play music, but you can link songs.
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podfic instructions guide (for my bedtime stories!) by xiaokuer_schmetterling, xk_s_reads (xiaokuer_schmetterling) for ferntasie
Fandoms: Podfic Fandom, No Fandom
19 Jun 2025
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what i am doing and how and why
how i do my podfic thing with a second-hand kindle e-reader tablet; a third-hand iphone SE; a busted chromebook; and a gently used and only lightly chewed-upon set of wired gamer headphones with an attached little-bitty boom-mike!
⛔CONSTANTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION⛔
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How To Make Convincing(ish) Looking Veilguard Codexes for your Veilguard Fic [Guide] by Lunammoon
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Feb 2025
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I spend a few hours last Sunday trying to figure out how to get this to work, but I finally got something that I'm mostly happy with. I was using an original work labelled fic to keep track with the promise that I'd delete it eventually, but I decided to instead delete that and post it here. That way I don't have to delete it, and also it can possibly help out others.
EDIT 2/18/2025 FIXED ISSUE WHERE IT LOOKED TOO THIN ON MOBILE
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Mystery Work
Part of hidden_fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!