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The Specialist: Links and Resources by ChrissiHR
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Thor - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
10 Apr 2017
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[NEW SOURCES ADDED 6/21/2018] A compilation of links and resources used while writing World War II period piece, The Specialist in GhostCrumpet's Victory Girl verse, which isn't necessarily historically accurate, but pays homage to the zeitgeist/vocabulary/patterns of speech of the time during which it takes place. Until period accurate army resources can be located for certain army docs, modern army regs and rules may be listed instead, in some cases. (Also includes some writing/editing resources.)
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- Part 2 of The Specialist: a Victory Girl AU
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Bucky Barnes: Captured at Azzano, rescued in Austria by PerfectlyImperfect42
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
06 Feb 2018
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Fanfic PSA: Discovered through research that Bucky was captured at Azzano but held at a Hydra base halfway between Kitzbühel and Klagenfurt in Austria. Peggy tells Steve it's in Krausberg/Kreischberg. Complete with helpful (and readable) map right out of the movie. Please share!
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This is the various conlang dialogue I translated for the CW's The 100. The language I created, Trigedasleng, is an a posteriori artlang derived from modern English. The show takes place 100 years after a cataclysmic event that destroyed most humans and Earth society (about 40 years from the show's first air date in the universe of the show). Trigedasleng is what happened to English with those who survived on the ground in and around the D.C. area. Trigedasleng is the product of both natural evolution, and unnatural evolution, in the form of a widespread code that was used by a group who became the nucleus of what would go on to become Trikru.
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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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How to Make Invisible Text (That Can Be Highlighted) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
21 Oct 2015
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This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
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- Part 4 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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mm whatcha say?: Changing Text On Hover for Multilingual Fics (A Download Friendly Workskin) by mackerel_cheese for Graverobbber, enbyguous, vespeelira
Fandoms: No Fandom
18 Mar 2025
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Do you want to have a nifty way to have multiple languages in a fic:
- Without making your readers scroll to the AN for a translation?
- Without the text and translation sitting side by side?
- And still make it look pretty when people download it into an EPUB or PDF format?
Here is a solution for you. Come on babygirls, let's roll.
(This is a HTML tutorial but I'm lowkey flirting with you by calling you babygirl occasionally because I got bored while writing this.)
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- Part 3 of .shapes_and_colours
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The life of a ninja is a dangerous one, doubly so if you belong to one of the lesser, smaller villages. When Waterfall is overrun by Rock, young Chūnin Umino Iruka is tasked to flee to Fire Country with his village's two most precious assets; their young prince, Shibuki, and the jinchūriki of the Shichibi, Fū. He's hardly surprised when Fire allows them to citizenship - the draw of a second jinchūriki is a strong incentive. Building a life in a new country is hard, but Iruka is determined to full fill his last mission as a Waterfall-nin; provide a happy, healthy home for his charges. Everything is going well - until he meets Uzumaki Naruto.
Suddenly, Iruka is a single father of three at sixteen, living with what has to be the strangest, rudest (and attractive) Alphas he's ever met; Hatake Kakashi.
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- Part 1 of A Different Path
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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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Animatic song with words in ao3. Click play to start the audio and animations. Enjoy :]
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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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Toggle for all caps, all lowercase, and capitalization by DoctorDizzyspinner
Fandoms: No Fandom, Ao3 meta - Fandom
22 Mar 2025
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It's not a good idea to write in all caps or all lowercase. See: Use CSS Text Transform for Better Accessibility and text-transform - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN.
This provides free to use CSS for both
text-transform
and a toggle for turning these styles on and off so that the reader does not have to turn off the entire workskin if they do not want to see all caps or all lowercase words.Series
- Part 3 of My Code Snippets
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How to Block Tags With Site Skins (And Get Real Specific About It) by najio
Fandoms: No Fandom
25 Jun 2025
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Just some info I've gathered over the past couple of weeks, about how to:
1. Block tags using Site Skins, block only fics that contain both tag A and tag B, and block fics with a tag that contains a certain phrase, unless they are a specific whitelisted tag
2. Highlight the tags in pretty colors! Or bold, or hide them!
3. Block mega-crossovers with a million different fandoms
4. Select for/block fics that are completed/rated something/have a certain category/don't have summaries
5. Block everything that doesn't have a certain tag, or one of a list of tags
6. Block orphan_account and tag block by author
7. Block only tags of specific types (fandoms, relationships, freeforms, etc.)
8. Block fics focused on original characters, and/or fics without any tags of a specific type
9. Block every pairing with two characters in it—case insensitive, any order, no matter how many other people are also in the tag
10. Block by number of tagsSeries
- Part 1 of Site Skins and CSS Quackery
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A work skin and tutorial for a Discord chat in AO3. The Discord page is available in light and dark mode!
See Chapter 1 for examples of the work skin, Chapter 2 for a tutorial on how to set up your HTML page and explanations on the code, Chapter 3 for HTML templates for easy copy-pasting and Chapter 4 for the complete CSS code of the work skin.
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Heart Language by aroacejoot, ghostwriterofthemachine, loosingletters
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
24 Apr 2023
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Notes on the Jedi Conlang Dai Bendu developed by Yours Truly for the sake of incorporating linguistics into Star Wars.
Includes grammar, meta essays on the language and translations of canon dialogues.Series
- Part 1 of Pragmatics of the Jedi
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Handle With Care by SananaBanana
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
13 Apr 2025
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Bakugou was assaulted a few months ago. He swore to never tell a soul. But secrets have a way of crawling out of your skin.
And life didn't end there like he thought it would. It got worse but it also got better. Telling helped. People helped. Kirishima helped. And, fuck, even therapy helped. Helps.
And maybe he can do this.
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Frustrated by the way that AO3 would change or ignore HTML code I inserted, and unable to find an up-to-date, detailed guide, I decided to investigate the functionality of every tag that is permitted by the platform.
I learned a lot, and hopefully you can too!
Planned content:
Chapter 1 - Appearance Tags (tags which format text, and insert lines, etc.)
Chapter 2 - Functionality Tags (tags which do something; e.g. creating links to other pages, hover-over text, insert images, etc.)
Chapter 3 - Layout Tags (tags which affect the placement of the text on the page)
Chapter 4 - Tables (all by themselves because they’re a bit more complicated the other tags)
Chapter 5 - Global Attributes (general elements within tags that work on most tags)
Chapter 6 - Tips and Tricks (stuff I’ve learned about using HTML on AO3 the hard way so you don’t have to)
Chapter 7 - Accessibility (how to help people access your words and images more easily) -
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[this is an updated version of one of my older workskins!] The perfect workskin for when your character is scrolling through Youtube. I've made it to work well with the workskin disabled, and to look more seamless in fics.
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- Part 3 of AO3 workskins
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For when your characters are frantically googling stuff (includes search history!). There is a clickable version where you click to reveal suggested searches, and a normal, static version.
This was made to be fairly unintrusive, it works on both mobile + desktop, and it's still understandable when the workskin's disabled.
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- Part 5 of AO3 workskins
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Tolkien's Usage of "Thou" and "Thee" by DrummerWench
Fandoms: Lord of the Rings (Novel), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
20 Nov 2009
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An essay on the archaic familiar pronoun.
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Too Bright by Pumpkin_Poptart
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
03 May 2025
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Following his battle with Florian, Kieran has a revelation that's slightly distressing.