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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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- English
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A mock-up of a fake article about a TV series, with CSS and HTML code and a brief guide on how to use it.
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A Discord workskin that supports most Discord-style markup. Includes layouts for channels, DMs, and Group Chats. Darkmode only.
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How to set up a bookmarklet that applies a saved set of filters to any works or bookmarks listing page on AO3
(Bookmarklets are a bit fiddly on mobile, but very much doable—and functional. Since I've done all the coding already, you can just follow the instructions without worrying about that. ;D)
GitHub version (more technical) || Tumblr version (with screenshots for Chrome on Android)
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Saved Filters on AO3 by reisling
-----------------very useful and well explained. 😊
It's quite simple and easy to implement.
I tried it out with just a few filters (English, no Crossovers and no WIPs) and it works like a charm! 😀
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Permablocking Specific Tags - Site Skin by Eli0t
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, AO3, No Fandom
10 Aug 2023
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It finally exists. You can block any tag you want forever! You no longer need 3rd party extensions for this!
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- Part 1 of AO3 Skins
- Part 1 of :has() selector
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- English
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Permablocking Specific Tags - Site Skin by Eli0t
-----------------The code used here can also be used to highlight (by different text color) Works with specific tags.
It also has several useful "inspired by" Works that explain further useful possibilities of this code and its siblings.This Work is part of a Series that also has turorials for other useful Site Skins.
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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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Map of Hogwarts + 'A Beginner's Guide To Hogwarts' by SheFlooLikeAMadman
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jul 2014
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GRYFFINDORS. Go up the marble staircase and left, and keep travelling in that general direction; you’ll want to be going towards your left, because Gryffindor Tower is on the easternmost side of the castle, and you’re coming from the north/north-west. Once you reach the second floor, you can take a short-cut! Concealed behind a tapestry is a narrow staircase to the upper floors...
A guide for people writing fic set in Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, who want to know where everything is, a first-person walk-through, written as if a Prefect is handing out pamphlets to all the poor ickle firsties. ^_^’
( Includes a map I made, back before the new illustrated editions came out when we still had no official guide, based on JKR's. )( UPDATE: now includes a rough map of Hogsmeade! )
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Map of Hogwarts + 'A Beginner's Guide To Hogwarts' by SheFlooLikeAMadman
------------------Written like a leaflet for new students it also includes two maps and several charts; with very useful information about the locations of many things on Hogwarts' grounds and in Hogsmeade and additional 'good to know about' info about them.
Great writing reference, but also helpful for readers who like to visualise the layout while reading.
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Alphas, Betas, Omegas: A Primer by norabombay
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Supernatural, Supernatural RPF, X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, The Avengers (2012), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Teen Wolf (TV), Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV)
22 Sep 2015
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A brief primer on the concept of Alpha/Beta/Omega Universes: Also known as that trope suddenly showing up in your fandom that doesn't make any sense.
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Three Houses Canon Timeline by Anonymous
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
01 Apr 2022
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A reference timeline for everything (yes, everything) that happened in the convoluted pre-game lore of Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
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Reference for Modao Zushi Writers: Chinese terms by chaoticjoy
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Sep 2019
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This is to provide a reference for writers who are unfamiliar with Chinese literary conventions or terms used in canon. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.
Prompted by https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/187301034228/things-the-mdzs-fandom-desperately-needs-if-they
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She almost, almost catches the glass in time.
She should be able to catch it in time. If she can parry a sword in the same amount of time, she should surely be able to catch a falling glass, no matter if she’d been lax enough to let it slip in the first place.
She doesn’t catch it, and it hits the floor and shatters, shards scattering everywhere and the little water still in it splashing across the floor of Marinette’s room, and Kagami- freezes.
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- Part 4 of tumblr prompts/ask game answers
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Adrien finds out Ladybug's true identity. Since Cat Noir has been thoroughly friend-zoned, he figures maybe he can woo her as Adrien. But that means doing it without his mask. And that's scarier than any supervillain Hawk Moth could throw at him.
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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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Embedding tutorial
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Join Dodificus and Paraka as they discuss music and sound effects. Why we add them, how we do it, where to find effects, as well as fun examples inserted.
To find links to all the sites and podfics discussed in this and past episodes, check out our pinboard.
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- Part 9 of Episodes
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Uploading and Streaming Podfic: Part 1, Hosting Sites
Uploading and Streaming Podfic: Part 2, Coding for Embedded Audio Players
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FreeSound.org
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Merlin Out Loud Podfic Bang: FAQ Masterpost
InShipping
Swen Podfic Masterlist
Pod Together Challenge
Podfic Big Bang
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Post Oblivio. Marinette and Adrien are constantly held back by all the many hang-ups they’ve acquired. Oblivio took them all away and they lost themselves in each other. Now they don’t remember any of it, but there are consequences they have to face.
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This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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The Archive of Our Own has an option to name a Fannish Next of Kin--someone who would gain access to your account in case of death or incapacitation. By naming another individual who can act on your behalf, you can decide ahead of time how you want your AO3 accounts handled going into the future.
Maybe you want your works preserved; maybe you want them orphaned or deleted; maybe you want to have them open to remixes and related works. Whether your fannish identity departs with you or keeps on keeping on--that's a choice you can make. Learn more about how the Fannish Next of Kin works.
A Fannish Next of Kin can be part of your bigger plan for your social media will, and can ensure that your readers have someone to contact in case of questions about that unfinished WIP or whether or not their favorite work will get a sequel. However you want your works handled, this option will allow you to have a plan in place.
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How to Podfic: A Highly Biased and Incomplete Tutorial by the-dragongirl
Fandoms: Podfic Fandom, No Fandom
13 Feb 2020
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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So, a while ago, some of my friends and fellow cast members of the @sansukhpodfic asked about how to make and edit podfic on their own. I created this tutorial for them, as a supplement to the resources already posted by the Sansukh mods. In the wake of the most recent @auralphonic episode asking for technical advice on podficcing in Audacity, I thought I would polish this up and post it.
This tutorial explains how, once you have permission to record a story, you go about turning it into a podfic using Audacity. It focuses on technical and logistical details, rather than artistic advice, and is cobbled together from my own experience, my knowledge of the mathematics behind signal analysis, and other people’s tutorials. There’s lots of communities and resources out there that give advice on the artistic side (Auralphonic, for example, has an episode for newbies), which I recommend checking out.
Disclaimer: There is no one standard method of doing this! This is the method I have found gives me the best results, personally, but there may be better ways to do this. I strongly recommend checking out other resources for comparison.
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Beyond Wikipedia - A Guide to Research for Discerning Writers by Diana Williams (dkwilliams), michi_thekiller, MirithGriffin, PreciselyVex (CrashEdit), roane72 (roane)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
10 Apr 2015
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A list of references and links for authors and researchers, as part of the panel "Beyond Wikipedia" for 221B-Con 2015
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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
- Language:
- English
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- 3,724
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- 1/?
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- 8
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- 135
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- 1,647
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