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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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- 4,500
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- 2/2
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- 7
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- 385
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- 3,925
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A guide for coding texts in ao3
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Star Trek, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (TV 2026), Undertale (Video Game)
07 Feb 2026
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How to create your work skins to have colored text by Goddess_of_the_arena
Fandoms: AO3 help - Fandom
22 Feb 2025
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This is a guide to make text in color, be it for a single word, a full paragraph, several paragraphs in a row, or even the whole chapter, also in different sizes. The tutorial also contains ready-to-use codes for you to add to your work skins.
WARNING: all the codes in this guide were tested on a computer. I can't guarantee the effect when the work they are applied to is read on a mobile phone.
CHAPTER 1 is for pure colored text.
CHAPTER 2 is for text in gradient color, both linear gradient and radial gradient.
CHAPTER 3 contains the steps to combine gradient background with gradient text. It also contains the links to each of the other guides of my CSS GUIDES series
CHAPTER 4 contains the links to eight sites where you can create your gradients and get the ready-to-copy code to paste in the CSS code of the workskin.Series
- Part 1 of CSS GUIDES
- Part 1 of Goddess_of_the_arena's CSS Playground
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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 and interests.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: Kudos Message
Part Eleven: Newspaper Article
Part Twelve: Content Notes and Spoiler (NEW: Opacity)
Part Thirteen: Playground for Jinx (glitch text, color, table)
Part Fourteen: Text generator
Part Fifteen: Boxes (still in progress)
Part Sixteen: Vertical Text
Part Seventeen: Transition (NEW)
Part Eighteen: Automated Animation (NEWEST)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,866
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- 20/?
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For anyone who wishes AO3 had dark mode, I have great news! Dark mode has been possible since 2013, you just need to know how to apply it.
Even better news? It's easier now than it ever has been before. Tutorial inside.
You need to be logged into an AO3 account for this to work.
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- Part 5 of How to AO3
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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:
- English
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- 27,843
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- 15/15
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- 8
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- 1,254
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Extremely useful beginner's guide to Ao3.
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How to make a fanfic header Ao3 Style inside your own fanfic by ElectricAlice
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own, Fandom - Fandom
26 Sep 2020
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Live example and tutorial on how to insert a fanfic header + fic tags + summary in your fanfic. In perfect ao3 style.
If you need your own fic to go extra meta.Series
- Part 3 of CSS code scripts for Ao3
- Language:
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- 714
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- 5
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A Users' Guide to AO3 Tagging by ErinPtah
Fandoms: AO3 Tags, Internet & Social Media (Anthropomorphic)
21 Jun 2013
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On the AO3, you're allowed to tag your works in any way you want.
But if what you want is the tags that are most standard, most searchable, and/or most wrangler-friendly, here's a short guide on how to do it.
Originally written in 2013. Rewritten in March 2025, to be accurate about current tags/guidelines. (If that was a long time ago for you, reader, it might be out-of-date again.)
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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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- 136
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- 1,696
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Embedding tutorial
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Html for AO3
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Tutorial on putting pictures and gif on Ao3 by RDJWINCHESTER1 for JS3639, Stuckys_baby
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own
26 Aug 2019
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Tutorial on putting pictures and gif on Ao3
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Uploading gifs and pictures onto Ao3 by DoubleTrouble007
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
16 Jul 2019
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not a work, just a test to see if/how i can put gifs on. I have a tutorial for how to upload images/gifs from dropbox, as well as my other notes on figuring out the best aspect ratio for computers and phones.
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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut Fic by QuinnAnderson for kali_asleep
Fandoms: Original Work
05 Sep 2013
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A comprehensive guide to writing both queer and het erotic fiction, written by published novelist Quinn Anderson. Includes lists of sexy words, references, and some general writing tips. Please feel free to use without credit.
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- 794
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Things to help in writing, reading, finding your own style, etc.
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This guide will help you with formatting pesterlogs using the Homestuck Work Skin. It is also very silly.
Now featuring the Almighty Cheat Sheet of Doom - a special cut-out-and-keep sheet with every HTML code you'll ever need to be a Pestering Master.
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