ambrolen
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- Homestuck (57)
- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (4)
- Original Work (2)
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I thought it would be fun to write little blips about what everyone bought each other for Christmas (shorthand for their equivalent solstice exchange I didn't feel like doing world building for right now lol)! Non-canon except in spirit. One chapter for each present exchange in case I end up writing more.
Check the collection for the fic this is based on! Probably won't make sense without that context.
Mild no context spoilers up to chapter 21 and everyone's knowledge and relationships are vaguely around there.Series
- Part 10 of Medieval Dirkkat AU
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Prince Diederik "Dirk" of Skaia has plans and his knight, Karkat, finds himself at the center of them, and is determined to figure out why.
Dirk struggles against all sorts of outside interference to try to make everything fall into place.With seers, fey, thieves, and foreign princes to disrupt the prince's plans and the knight's investigations, the pair will have to put aside their own motivations and trust each other in order to unravel the strange happenings unfolding around them.
Arcs:
The Tournament (Chps 1 - 19)
Learning the Ropes (Chps 20 - 30)
The Heart of the Matter (Chps 31 - 46)
Of Bonds and Blood (Chps 47 - ?) - FinalSeries
- Part 1 of Medieval Dirkkat AU
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Bondless Prince, Bloodless Knight Collection of Worldbuilding by ambrolen
Fandoms: Original Work, Homestuck
01 Jul 2025
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A collection of my non-spoiler worldbuilding for my dirkkat fic that got out of hand. You can find the fic in the series.
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- Part 3 of Medieval Dirkkat AU
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An excerpt from an old history book Karkat bought at the tournament.
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- Part 9 of Medieval Dirkkat AU
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Harry needed a vacation, not only from work but from the British wizarding world as a whole. One portkey later, he's across the pond, far from anyone who knows him. That is, until, he overhears a familiar voice casting a healing spell...
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This is all the extra stuff for the main fic, Bondless Prince, Bloodless Knight. Initially made because I wrote a spicy before-the-fic Dirk/Jake pwp, it now hosts some extras for individual chapters, the map, and extra little world building not explicitly relevant to the fic.
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Currently all of these were originally published as one fic split into chapters and then I learned more about AO3 and realized that was obnoxious. Feel free to send new prompts in, though, and I'll try to get to them!
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Rose And Kanaya explore each others bodies for the first time. Rose's obsession with prehensile tendrils is explored. Kanaya is confused by Human Anatomy.
Bookmarked by ambrolen
28 Mar 2020
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
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- Part 16 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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- English
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31 May 2025
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“We’re going to fuck,” Malfoy repeats, enunciating each word clearly in that posh voice that drives Harry mad. “For a month. In every way we can think of. Then, at the end, we’re done with each other. Do you understand, Potter?”
“Yes,” Harry snaps, like he’s annoyed.
He wishes he was annoyed.
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26 Mar 2024
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It’s mid-August the first time you see him, standing in front of the Maid’s temple, staring at you like he’s carved out of stone.
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A reincarnated version of a dude who died, once upon a time, lives his life in New Houston, haunted by a ghost that may be a god. He has no friends.- Language:
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06 Mar 2024
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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 to update.
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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- English
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19 Oct 2023