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Frontotemporal dementia for the Teen Wolf fan(fic writer) by chi1013
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
14 Feb 2014
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all you ever wanted to know about frontotemporal dementia for your writing and nerdy needs.
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So YOU’RE looking to avoid sleeping on the couch tonight. I get it. Maybe you’re a reformed personification of evil and you slip up an insult entire species sometimes. Or maybe you’re just too good at sex and it’s overwhelming to your partner(s). Maybe you’re just too handsome. Maybe your partner sends you to the couch for no reason whatsoever. No matter why you’re looking to avoid the Couch of Doom, following these five easy steps will get you back into your loved one’s bed (and hopefully their pants, too) in no time at all.
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- Part 11 of Shenanigans
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A list compiled by the three inseparables on how to become a good Musketeer.
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Writing about Pianos and Pianists: a Friendly Guide to the Basics by AlibiNonsense for gelishan, JessamyGriffith
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
12 Apr 2017
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Want to make a character a concert pianist but don't know what they're doing with their feet? The girl is a very good player but not quite the top level: how do you say that? The boy likes slamming the lid down to annoy people... what else can he do? Is tipping a piano over a balcony plausible as a murder method? Well, you can PM me for specifics, but for general information, here is your handy guide to everything you need to know!
This includes everything from the differences between upright and grand pianos, what can go wrong with a piano, how to tell a scale from an arpeggio, examples of easy and hard piano music and has a handy glossary at the beginning for basic terms. I've written this with people who've never met a piano in mind, so hopefully everybody should find this easy to understand. And all in bite-sized segments, wow!
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Arrowverse takes over the MCU by Simon_says_fly
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015), The Flash (TV 2014), Arrow (TV 2012)
30 Nov 2017
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Everybody from the Arrowverse wakes up to find themselves in a “restructuring” meeting where they have been asked to save yet another reality because all of the old participants of said new reality were accidentally deleted and new/replacements were needed immediately
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How to Avoid a Summer Love by Masterless
Fandoms: Call Me By Your Name - All Media Types
05 Mar 2018
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Instruction Manual: How to Avoid a Summer Lover
Don’t notice how the skin of his inner arms and the underside of his feet are pale and soft looking.
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The Infernalium: So You Sold Your Soul, What Comes Next? by RemiBrokenwing
Fandoms: Original Work
17 Nov 2018
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The premier guide for new Inferni, So You Sold Your Soul, What Comes Next will take you through all the intricacies and politics of your new life as a dealmaking demon in an Infernalium. Learn what, exactly, an Infernalium is, what types of Inferni you might expect to meet, and how each new soul fits into the hierarchy therein.
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- Part 1 of The Infernalium
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How to Size Images on AO3 by Informative_Dandy
Fandoms: media - Fandom, Meta - Fandom, All - Fandom
22 Jan 2019
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Learn how to edit the HTML of your image files so they automatically size themselves to fit any screen (both mobile and desktop). It's super EASY!
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A “How To” Guide to the BDSM community and being a respectful Dom.
*This is a book of guidelines. Make sure to talk to your submissive/s before you do anything.*
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- Part 1 of How To Guides
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A dive into the life of a Satanist, and what it means to be part of this religion.
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- Part 2 of How To Guides
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After fathering a child via a surrogate Connor raises his son, Henry, with Hank as his own father and the baby's grandfather. As the child grows up Connor's understanding of humanity and of the concept of time begins to settle in giving the deviant a new appreciation for life and everything it has to offer.
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Ever wondered how to post into a collection on Ao3? Ever wondered exactly what IS a collection and how it differs from a series or challenge? Then this is the work for you!
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- Part 1 of Hermione's Guide to Ao3
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Ever wondered how to post to Ao3? Wondered what all the fields are? What they mean? What makes a work explicit and not mature? What you have to tag? What all of the fields mean when you're posting a new work? Then read on!
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- Part 2 of Hermione's Guide to Ao3
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Ever wondered how to put an image into your fic or work? Here's how!
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- Part 3 of Hermione's Guide to Ao3
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Shoyo Hinata writes "How to" articles for the gay version of Cosmo magazine. Tobio Kageyama advertises a jewelry company that wants to expand its horizons. Their paths cross unexpectedly - Hinata has to get rid of Kageyama as quickly as possible, while Kageyama has to make Hinata fall in love with him? Who will win? Who will get hurt in the process?
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“You know,” she said slowly, “orange lilies can mean hatred.”
Mundane au shipfic. Aerith runs a flower shop, dates Tifa, and tries to set up Cloud and Zack.
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The difference between, x reader, original character, and self-insert.
Why it’s important to have the correct tabs on your stories.
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CSS in Testing by InfinitysWraith
Fandoms: Ao3 Skins - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom, css - Fandom
18 Apr 2022
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This is a flaming dumpster filled with CSS and HTML experiments. It's not instructional, but I post the code and my own explanations for both our sakes. Feel free to steal the code or ask me questions- I don't know what I'm doing. :)
(Pics are mine though)
Chapter 5 is probably what you're looking for ;)
I'm not going to say I take requests, but I'm always looking for inspiration.
It seems I've broken Ao3 yet again. I can no longer add more code to my work skin so we're moving on to part two!
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- Part 1 of CSS in Testing
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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 5 of How to
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🙂 Don't panic. 🙂
This takes you through an easy step-by-step process so that you'll have as many series as you wish in no time — and yes, you can even weave multiple series together, and rearrange their order.
Bonus on how to search for a series.
Did your series glitch out on Next Work →, or give you two fics with the same part number and zero of the one before, and now it's freakin' tutti sciancato? Work with me here: we can fix this, we have the technology (cue music from Six Million Dollar Man).
Did your series disappear from the page that shows all of your different series? 〽 ♪ ♫ I think that I know why... ♫ ♪
(Bonus section on indenting [CSS work skin] and different-width spaces [HTML], and screen reader problems with lists and symbols, and empty row glitches.)
NB: ALL OF MY FICS ARE ON archiveofourown . org — GO THERE TO READ THEM (IF YOU'RE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, THEN THAT SITE IS PHISHING YOU).
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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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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Bookmarked by ShippersList
31 Aug 2014
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If you don't know what A/B/O is but wish to find out, read this. It might melt your brain and the trope doesn't make any sense even after reading this, but you'll either be completely gone on it or want to bleach your brain. Tread carefully.
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Embedding tutorial
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Embedding tutorial
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This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
EDIT 6/28/17: The third chapter now shows how to use anchor links as an index/table of contents.
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- Part 6 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Bookmarked by Knightfrog1248
13 Sep 2015
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How to use AO3- very useful
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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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Embedding tutorial
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
Bookmarked by Whispering_Rain
06 Feb 2016
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excellent step-by-step how to
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
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Embedding tutorial
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
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A/B/O: Adventures in Fake Science. by Hells Bartender (Firebog)
Fandoms: Unspecified Fandom
02 Aug 2016
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This is an attempt to bash weird porny a/b/o dynamics fiction over the head with science. Not that anyone asked for it.
So how the hell does a/b/o sex determination work? And why did a trinary sex determination system evolve in higher vertebrates alongside a binary sex determination system? Why aren't omega males dying in droves from massive uterine infections? Alpha females, what's up with that? Come on in and I shall tell you the very best in fake science and evolutionary history.
Part theorizing, part helpful guide. This one goes out to all you people who just want fictional worlds to make sense. I'm right there with you.
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Embedding tutorial
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A step-by-step guide to creating a new work on Ao3.
Intended for new users, but including some tips and tricks like implanting links, photos, YouTube videos and 'floating box' text which will benefit many writers looking to make their work stand out from the crowd!
Bookmarked by JenniferEsther
11 Jan 2017
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Real how to
Creating a New work on AO3 by ozhawk -
AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Undertale (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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Embedding tutorial
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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
- Language:
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- Comments:
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07 Oct 2017
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A Complete Guide to 'Limited HTML' on AO3 by CodenameCarrot
------------------Very useful. Quick, concise, and easy to understand.
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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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Adam considers Ronan's proficiency at lying by omission. It is far more useful and has far fewer limitations than he realized. Also, he is somewhere very interesting as he thinks about this.
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Embedding tutorial
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Ten Little Peeves - The Big List of Fanfic Peeves by Fannish Butterfly / Sandy and the Bitkahs
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
30 Dec 2017
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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Rants & Rambles - The Big List of FanFic Peeves.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "There is no such thing as an inherently bad idea in fanfic (not even Krycek/Scully), only poorly executed ideas."
But there are a lot of poorly executed ideas. Or, to put it another way, there are a lot of clever and interesting plots undercut by the author's inability to write a sentence, to stay faithful to a character, or to not be their own worst enemy.
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Bookmarked by Nightcandle
30 Dec 2017
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A good guide of "please don't" and recommendations of alternatives for writers.
(The excamples are m/m slash, but still the guide is valid for all fic.)