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Movie Analysis: But I’m a Cheerleader by CelestialVapidity
Fandoms: But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
29 Dec 2021
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My final paper for sociology, analyzing the 1999 film (and my personal favorite movie) But I'm a Cheerleader.
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please note that this is not a fanfic, its an slightly scuffed analysis of my thoughts and ideas about the musical and why i love it and i just uploaded it here cause it is a fanwork, its just not a story :) also this is uploaded from a mobile so i apologise in advance for any mistakes in the formatting or spelling. Also HUGE SPOILER WARNING for the entire musical so if you clicked on this for whatever reason but have never seen/listened to it, please go do that and then potentially come back to this and read it :)
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The Queers Show Up For Women’s Rights by that_one_kid
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood, Jurassic Park - All Media Types, Sherlock (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool - All Media Types
26 Jun 2022
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Exactly what it says on the tin
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Copy and paste this code into the "custom site skin" thing in your dashboard for a pride themed site skin -Chcltcvrdstrwbrrs <3
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Doorways and corridors as liminal spaces in Heartstopper by jelazakazone
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV)
26 Sep 2022
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This is my analysis of doorways and corridors in the tv adaptation of Heartstopper.
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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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Guide to Beta Reading (for Authors and Beta Readers) by theirprofoundbond
Fandoms: No Fandom
30 Mar 2021
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A thorough guide to beta reading for both authors and beta readers. Neither exhaustive nor definitive, but hopefully a good starting point that covers the basics and explains how to get the most out of an author-beta reader relationship.
[February 2025: Minor edits and additions throughout the guide.]
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It's Complicated: Possible Reasons for the Lack of Femslash by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom
31 Aug 2013
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A chart illustrating all of the possible explanations people have suggested for the lack of femslash in my AO3 ship stats survey, and the ways in which they might interlink.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Ship Stats
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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)
Part Fourteen: Text generator -
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Hi hi! You can call me Jal, and I've been publishing exclusively at AO3 for about 6 months, with my draft work primarily in Google Docs. This is a compilation of helpful tips, how-to's, and gotchas from my experience. Let me know what else you want to see in future chapters!
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- Part 1 of The Writing Process
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The Ultimate Guide to Commenting on Fanfic by eri_daydreamer
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, No Fandom
23 Jun 2021
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If you've ever had trouble putting your appreciation into words, or didn't know what to comment on a fic, or you just want to be able to write more thoughtful comments for your favorite writers, this is for you!
Fanfic writers write for FREE, and we put in a whole lot of work into what we do. So receiving positive feedback is what makes it all worthwhile!
(This is a 5-10 minute read)
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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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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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Fonts, and colors, and work skins, oh my! by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: css - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom
24 Jan 2021
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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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- Part 2 of How to
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Embedding tutorial
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A meta essay about The Chess Game; on metaphors, toxic masculinity, internalized homophobia, and heteronormativity.
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How to by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandom: AO3, AO3 CSS, AO3 help - Fandom, Conlangs - Fandom, css - Fandom, HTML - Fandom, The Matrix (Movies), Work Skins - Fandom
24 Mar 2025
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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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MDZS Audio Drama Episode Guide by pumpkinpaix
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
31 Jan 2020
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An episode guide for all seasons of the MDZS Audio Drama, so if you're searching for a specific scene/quote, it's easier to find. A breakdown of novel chapters already exists, courtesy of the wonderful threerings, but the audio drama does slightly different things and has some really beautiful changes/scripting, so this is a supplemental guide for anyone who wants to reference the AD instead of the novel for any reason.
Obviously, spoilers for the entirety of the plot.
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Embedding tutorial