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    It is 2012, and Dipper and Mabel have been sent off to Gravity Falls, Oregon to live with their Grunkle Stan for the summer. They're expecting a boring summer up there, but the supernatural happenings common to Gravity Falls will make this a summer to remember. Luckily, Dipper's brought a tape recorder to record everything that they come across...

    What if there were other powers at work in Gravity Falls beyond just Bill Cipher? What if the true powers behind it all were more familiar to the Archives crew of a certain Institute across the pond?

    What if Gravity Falls ran on the rules of the Magnus Archives universe instead of the rules of Weirdness?

     

    This is primarily going to be a Gravity Falls work - it just uses the lore and logic of the Magnus Archives universe. Don't expect the Archives crew to show up except perhaps as a passing mention.

    It is also a quite slow-paced fic by my own admission. About three to four chapters per episode of Gravity Falls.

    Tends to update once a week between Sunday and Wednesday - but since the second I make that a hard deadline I'm gonna start procrastinating and rushing in that order; just take that as a vague idea instead.

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  2. 63

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    When gravity falls and Earth Becomes Sky, fear the beast with just one eye!

    When Dipper and Mabel arrive in Gravity Falls to stay with their Great-Uncle Stanford for the summer, the last thing they were expecting was to find out he had a wife and children even younger than them! But there's something odd about Aunt Eda and their cousins, something just as strange as the rest of this weird town.

    They couldn't actually be magic...could they? And what connection do his young cousins have to the mysterious Journal he found in the woods?

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    There's a message for him somewhere in there. And since he can't seem to get any more clues from the comfort of Wayne Family Manor, Tim Drake decides to go straight to the source: Amity Park, Illinois.

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    The 5 year anniversary of faking his own death was coming up on Danny, and the 2 year one of becoming a halfa. He's lived in Amity Park comfortably for all of the years, without trouble from the group of bats he'd left behind in Gotham. So why does Mr. Lancer keep talking about an exchange student from Gotham City, and why did CW's message say something about Robins?

    TL;DR: Damian Wayne faked his death and became Danny Fenton. Clockwork gave Tim a cipher that sent him to Amity Park where he meets Danyal James Fenton.

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  5. 93

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    This series started as just a one-shot to help people with AO3's CSS for making work skins.  Now that I've written a piece on making series (originally for a friend, but then shared to a Facebook group, so I figured why not add it to AO3), I figured that the two really should be linked for tutorial purposes.  I had no plans to do any of this at first, so maybe I'll add more in the future (Collections come to mind, and they're really easy to do).

    I don't expect to add further tutorials, but I hadn't expected to write these either.  I'm calling the series complete, but who knows (one thing that keeps nudging me is to take the statistics and show how fics' half-lives vary, for example; another is putting all weird AO3 fixes into one spot).

    NB:  If you're wondering, please see How to make and fix a series on AO3 (in this series with the tutorial on CSS work skins for fonts, which made that link become underscored blue ink [assuming that your browser settings, site skin, and third party apps didn't prohibit it]).

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      SERIES: How to by Charles_Rockafellor
      ch00 pt1 How to AO3
      ch00 pt2 Fonts, and colors, and work skins, oh my!
      ch00 pt3 Targeting specific AO3 work sections (not site) with CSS effects
      ch00 pt4 Inside, Outside, Upside-down
      ch00 pt5 How to make and fix a series on AO3
      ch00 pt6 Analyzing AO3 reader traffic flow
      ch00 pt7 A year-long AO3 overall traffic analysis
      ch00 pt8 Green Rain font, from The Matrix
      ch00 pt9 Building ConLangs, with a concrete example

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      Want to know anything and everything about ao3? This is the place. It is almost overwhelming with how much information is in this series and other works by Charles. Have a question? Just ask them in any work.

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    Cody picked up the voice comm with bad grace. It wasn’t his standard-issue device. “Hello, dear,” he said, sounding exasperated.

    Rex blinked, because Cody was speaking Mando’a, which meant Wooley had done a double take but Anakin hadn’t even looked up from the holoscreen.

    Obi-Wan goes undercover. Cody takes some calls. These two facts are absolutely not related.

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    Explains:
     ● how to make a work skin;
     ● how to view fics' work skin rules;
     ● how to colorize text and circle words and highlight backgrounds (examples in head-note), and change and resize your fonts;
     ● how to turn all links blue-underscore automatically;
     ● the CSS code for diacritics to render properly, e.g.: “ầ” & “ồ” (with diacritics not superimposed), or “ị” (with underdot directly beneath, not kerned to the left), without breaking words such as “gầu” or “vịt” (using a monotype font for these letters would create gaps to each side of the ầ or the ị). Head-note has corrected examples;
     ● Site Skin addenda to block / shrink tags, and block authors / works;
     ● even a quick way (code included) to simply make a Site Skin so that you can read everything in your font of preference!

    Full code is included.

    I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!

    𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️

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  9. 12

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    “Why are you wasting your time in the police?” Soobin asked. Beomgyu knitted his eyebrows and shook his head negatively. “You’re wasting your skills in that stupid place.”
    “I… I want to help people.” The moment that answer escaped, Beomgyu regretted it. It had sounded childish. Soobin laughed.
    “Then help me, altruistic boy.”


    Beomgyu shouldn't get close to Soobin, he's the biggest suspect in the case. But he just can't help it.

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    A relationship checklist causes Akihito to assess his relationship with Asami. Meanwhile, a scoop leads to Akihito's greatest danger since Hong Kong. Can he and Asami work together to catch the crooks before they can do any more harm? When Akihito finally gathers the courage to confront Asami about the troubles in their relationship, how will Asami react?

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  11. 16

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    [In progress] A machine is born into BLU from the skillful hands and mind of its resident Engineer, and learns just what it means to be a sentry. As it evolves its way to Level 3 it compiles everything it's learned from the team, but also starts to process more questions: Is it still a machine now, or has it built itself a more complex existence than Engineer has let on? What is life if not a string of functions and a sequence of runtimes, before an end command shows itself?

    A very, VERY experimental piece of writing featuring lots of poetry, semi-prose, programming-inspired pseudocode, and just a little bit of that DOS-era retro computer aesthetic. Best viewed on desktop.

    Written for TF2 Big Bang 2023 hosted by @hanktalkin.

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  12. 33

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    There’s a serial arsonist in town who calls himself the Son of Lucifer. Blue Underwood is a cryptographer working with the FBI who is sent to help the LAPD decipher the mysterious clues and letters this serial killer is leaving behind. Lucifer tags along because, frankly, he’s insulted that his name is being muddied by this lunatic. Besides, there’s something downright weird about Underwood and he likes a good puzzle.

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  13. 34

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    Rui Matsuhara's life changes when she sees a strange, shadowy pokemon. Freed by a mysterious young man, she travels across the desolate Orre region to uncover the conspiracy at the heart of these darknesses--and the possibility of redemption for all of them. "It is not by our light that we know ourselves, but our darkness."

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    After the failure that was his vengeful roadtrip, Stan finds himself roped into another karaoke party (courtesy of Mabel). He ends up being dragged into singing a song before he's allowed to leave, and this time, his estranged twin is in the audience.

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    Time isn’t linear, Stan has a catchy piano tune stuck in his head, and blue flames threaten to consume the peace that the Pines family has found. Based off the Same Coin Theory.

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  16. 56

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    Alice has something she wants to tell Bob.

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    There are rumors about the noises the Bats of Gotham use. The chirps and whistles that can be heard all throughout the city at most times of night. The most common rumor being that it’s a warning and threat for criminals in the area. When asked about this theory, nobody can answer why the Bats would warn when their goal is arrest. Some say it’s code for the police, but the officers never have a clue what they’re saying. Some think it’s just actual birds.

    The truth is much more simple.

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  18. 4

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    Inej receives another perfectly timed deeply coded letter from Kaz, but there's a little more to it than she expected.

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  19. 31

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    Seven years after the events of the first movie, Tewkesbury brings Enola a case: a blackmailer ensconced in the House of Lords. To solve it, she'll need his help; to protect them both, they'll need to utilize an elaborate cipher, London's newspapers, and their flower dictionaries for all communication. Enola is, as always, single-minded. Tewkesbury, as always, has more than one thing on his mind.

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    A Cheshire smile crept my mouth. “Well, I intend to play the game, of course—until I hear the word checkmate.”

    Sebastian chuckled and kneeled, raising my hand to his curved lips. “In that case, I shall be your pawn and knight. So then . . .” His voice dropped to a silken whisper. "Move me into place.”

    When girls from Lizzie's academy begin vanishing without a trace, the Queen's guard dog delves into the case with Sebastian. There, the duo find strange ciphers left at the scenes of the disappearances. However, it soon becomes clear this is no ordinary kidnapping scheme when Sebastian uncovers a clue from Cielle's past. To complicate matters, as the pair investigates in tandem, the essence of Cielle's soul starts to change. A change that, for the first time ever, tests Sebastian's impeccable aesthetics—and restraint. P O D F I C Here ^^

    (The last few chapters contain some of the smuttiest smut I've ever written, ever. EVER. This story was neverr supposed to be this way, but #2020 so OH wellss..)

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