Coding and Workskins and Stuff
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mm whatcha say?: Changing Text On Hover for Multilingual Fics (A Download Friendly Workskin) by mackerel_cheese for Graverobbber, enbyguous, spearsofstarlight
Fandoms: No Fandom, Babel - R. F. Kuang
20 Mar 2026
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Do you want to have a nifty way to have multiple languages in a fic:
- Without making your readers scroll to the AN for a translation?
- Without the text and translation sitting side by side?
- And still make it look pretty when people download it into an EPUB or PDF format?
- Making it work with screenreaders? (Subject to varying screenreader capabilities)
Here is a solution for you. Come on babygirls, let's roll.
(This is a HTML tutorial but I'm lowkey flirting with you by calling you babygirl occasionally because I got bored while writing this.)
NEW UPDATE [20/3/2026]:
- Chapter 1: Sample Usage (Excerpt from a WIP in my drafts)
- A short character study about Griffin Harley from Babel (by R.F. Kuang). Utilizies 3 languages in multiple formats. You don't need to have read Babel to pick apart the code used.
- Chapter 2: Basic Tutorial (same as before)
- Chapter 3: FAQ (regarding customization and usage)
Series
- Part 3 of .shapes_and_colours
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Putting Minimalist Accessible Text Messages In Your Fic: With Special Guest Appearance From the Paris Gang! by chocolatefreckle for Bi_panic_actually
Fandoms: No Fandom, Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (Movie 2006)
05 Jul 2026
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Ever wanted to put, like, just a little bit of text message styling in your fics, but not too much?
Want to keep your fic's text messages as accessible as possible for folks using screen readers or downloading for e-readers?
Want a text message style that looks nice on Reversi and default AO3 colour schemes, and at any zoom level?
This tutorial will help you do a job of those that a proper designer could no doubt do better, but hasn't yet that I could find!
(With bonus seven-line text fic drabble, featuring the Paris Squad and Darcy at peak menace)
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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 and hover translations)
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) -
A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
06 Jul 2026
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You've seen it. A fic formatted like a classified document. A chapter that looks like a real social media feed. An interactive game, somehow, inside an AO3 work. You clicked the kudos button. You thought: how.
This is the tutorial that answers that.
A beginner-friendly guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 — no prior coding experience required. By the end of this series, you'll know enough to write formatted fics, build your own workskins, style your entire AO3 interface, and maybe make something that makes other people stop and think how.
Series
- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
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User-Selectable Names in a Fanfic Work by feindcode (feind)
Fandoms: Testing, AO3 Abuse, HTML Tryhard - Fandom
06 Aug 2023
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