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SBURB Cooking Guide by timelyTurnabout (mutecebu) for GodsGiftToGrinds
Fandoms: Homestuck, SBURB Glitch FAQ
30 Apr 2012
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There are plenty of FAQs out there telling you how not to be horribly mangled by monsters; you won’t find much advice of that sort here. This guide, fellow player, is for the second most basic of needs: food.
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Most of this won't make sense without reading GodsGiftToGrinds SBURB Glitch FAQ. Go here it's fantastic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/340777/chapters/551606
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Maturity Quests (guest section for Sburb Glitch FAQ) by spacetimeCounselor for GodsGiftToGrinds
Fandoms: Homestuck
09 Aug 2012
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A guest section for GodsGiftToGrinds' Sburb Glitch FAQ! The game wants you to grow up, but it's not as good at that as it likes to think! Here's how it works, dudes.
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A large amount of notes on SBURB and Homestuck cosmology (with a little on troll society). Not necessarily homestuck canon, but should be an interesting enough read. Takes a lot of inspiration (but is otherwise separate from) the SBURB Glitch FAQ.
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Return to Night: the FAQ you never asked for by Naraht
Fandoms: Return to Night - Mary Renault
04 Jan 2014
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Everything you always wanted to know about Return to Night but were afraid to ask.
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1796 Broadway FAQ by rainproof, teaberryblue
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
16 Jun 2014
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Frequently Asked Questions about 1796 Broadway! You've got questions, we've got answers.
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- Part 11 of Earth-1796
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Some notes on the carry/maturity times of various frametypes.
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- Part 7 of Gatekat's FAQ
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"Timetrav Encryption: A Brief FAQ" by cogitativeMistake by lucidChthonia (liquidCitrus)
Fandoms: Homestuck
16 Mar 2015
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More than you probably ever wanted to know about Replay Value AU timetrav encryption!
Featuring answers to such questions as "Why do timetrav encryptions exist?", "What is the difference between a loose timetrav and a tight timetrav?", and "Can you use timetrav encryption together with regular encryption? Is that secure?"
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- Part 10 of Replay Value AU
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You're Fucked: A Classpect Guide by AmaranthineAmusement, EnigmaticHallows
Fandoms: Homestuck, SBURB- fandom
29 May 2016
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Do you need to know about your powers? Trying to figure out why your time player is so crazy? Are you confused and near death? This is the work for you! Welcome to You're Fucked, an all-encompassing guide to sburbia. In this guide, we cover every possible class and aspect combination- except for wastes/lords/muses, we only do those on request.
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Damaged Defenders Guide by Sherza
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Hulk (2003), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men (Movies), Thor (Movies), Captain America (Movies)
06 Sep 2017
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Herein lies: A timeline for in-fic events. Canon (generally a mix of comics/cartoon/movie and head) for main characters. Blurbs about frequently seen secondary characters. Blurbs about the Realms and their residents. An FAQ. Spoilers and hints of spoilers as to future events (but not many of those)
THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD. Read at your own discretion. Chapters with spoilers will be labeled with SPOILERS in the title.
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- Part 2 of Damaged Defenders
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Tomorrow FAQ/Notes by Min_Nami, NamiWrites (Min_Nami)
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
07 Dec 2015
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You might be curious or a little confused with the story flow so I made this!
Also, just a note to know if you guys missed something out :))If you happen to stumble on to this first, you can read the fic here! :D
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- 264
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
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Notes and such on OCs from my stories, and a few notes on canon characters too.
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- Part 6 of Gatekat's FAQ
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The writer's notes on all (I think) Transformers mechanical OCs that have been used in my stories and a few others that were created as background info.
This entry is one ch per letter.
Other entries will sort by other means.Series
- Part 4 of Gatekat's FAQ
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The cultural norms for various cities/groups when it comes to the relationship process, it's milestones, markers and legal events.
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- Part 2 of Gatekat's FAQ
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A narrative PSA for the 2017 Winter Holiday Gift Exchange. It's a FAQ... disguised as a fic... in (attempted) screenplay format!?
The team gets briefed on their latest assignment: a partnership with their friends at the Archive. :)
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Astral Aligned Continuity FAQ by Slaskia
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
19 Jan 2019
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A one stop shop for information on the 'Astral Aligned' continuity I've been building.
Since this thing is starting to become a monster, I figured I should start putting general info/headcanon stuff in one place for reference (for both myself and readers).(currently a WIP)
Please check the first chapter for update notes to see what has changed.
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- Part 1 of Astral Aligned Continuity FAQ
- Part 2 of Astral Aligned Continuity
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The organic OCs I have from all fandoms.
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- Part 5 of Gatekat's FAQ
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FAQ: Most Stuff by Fianna9, gatekat, Verilidaine
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
07 May 2010
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The master FAQ where a search will turn up the word you're looking for (using view entire work). At least when I get it done.
There will be a few FAQs that remain on their own because they have several chapters.Series
- Part 1 of Gatekat's FAQ
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Aliens, mechanimals, not-Earth animals and plants.
A lot from http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife
If the image doesn't say it's whatever it's I link it from, it's inspiration.Series
- Part 8 of Gatekat's FAQ
- Part 6 of Hunting the Rare and Rarest
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A narrative PSA for the 2018 Summer Solstice Gift Fic Exchange! All writers and ships welcome. :)
Please help share and promote: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TMFUSummerGiftExchange2018/profile <3
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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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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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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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Bookmarked by Jesse_the_K
01 Aug 2022
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A series on Modifying AO3 To Your Tastes
by ao3commentoftheday and memorizingthedigitsofpiincludes (as of 1 Aug 2022)
- Tags for Beginners
- How Tags Work
- How to move a work to a secondary account
- How to add a link anywhere
- How to file an abuse report
- Blocking on AO3
- Blocking User or Work
- How to get Dark Mode
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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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Fonts, and colors, and work skins, oh my! by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (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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Bookmarked by the_bi_ballerina
17 Mar 2024
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This FAQ explains how to use user-created tools on one's browser, such as userscripts and bookmarklets, for features AO3 itself does not yet offer. It also includes a list of such tools.
Despite what that page says, you can have userscripts on some mobile browsers. Firefox (on Android) has add-ons and many have mobile compatibility, including Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey. The same cannot be said about Firefox on iOS, due to restrictions placed by Apple, as explained by this article on the Mozilla support site. However, I do believe there is a way to implement userscripts on the Safari browser for iOS, though I cannot personally test it. If anyone knows more about this, please let me know, so I can add the information here.
Particularly useful filter-related tools from that list include:
AO3 Saved Filters enables you to save global filters for the entire site (e.g. "language_id: en OR language_id: es" shows only works in English or Spanish) or filters for a specific fandom. It works with the tag ID method linked above, so use that, when possible, so your saved filters will not be affected by any changes in tag names. (For example, "-filter_ids:20940" excludes works with the (Arthurian) "Merlin/Arthur Pendragon" tag.) I would note that, at least with the Firefox browser, I had to switch userscript managers from Greasemonkey to Tampermonkey for the AO3 saved filters to work.
AO3 Tracking enables you to save any search/filter and check for new fanworks in all your saved searches with a single click.