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It's near the end of the first semester and Commander Reno and Cadet Lythe are trapped in a dead turbolift while the Athena speeds through a transwarp tunnel. They have two hours before the air goes stale, five before the carbon dioxide buildup exceeds safe levels.
They'll be exiting the tunnel in a little over an hour and a half and Jett would really, really, like a nap. Unfortunately, the words 'no life-support' caused Cadet Lythe to loose what little chill she had left.
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Drabble: Caleb's chosen his mother over Starfleet twice now.
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Add a direct link to comment on a chapter that looks like a real A03 button!
Right now, if a user is reading in "entire work" the easiest way to comment on a chapter is to open the next chapter in a new tab, then go back a chapter, click comments, and then leave a comment. Readers who downloaded a work have even more hoops to jump though.
This is a guide to making a direct link to the feedback section and/or dedicated comment pages so that our readers can give us some. It uses AO3's default CSS classes to piggyback on the archive formatting our reader is using, making it look like an official A03 button on the web. (CSS formatting does not carry-over if the work is downloaded, but the link will remain.)
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- Part 20 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Three Views From the Forum by CodenameCarrot for rosncrntz
Fandoms: Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
17 Dec 2025
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We're all our worst selves on the internet.
Lord Angelo, deputy to the absent duke, is no exception.
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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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Some Bridges Have Names, Some Make Them by CodenameCarrot for Mary_West
Fandoms: 11Foot8 Bridge (YouTube & Website)
11 Oct 2022
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Some Bridges are designed by famous architects like Leonardo or Calatrava. Some bridges are big, or beautiful, or historic. These bridges have names: the Golden Gate, the Sydney Harbor.
Other bridges make their own way in the world. They claw their way into names like “the can opener” or “fools bridge.”
And most bridges are just unappreciated, and would gladly be the backup singer in a boy-band for 15 minutes of fame.
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As of April 2016, The database that stores works on A03 does not allow emoji. If you try to add an emoji it will end your story there. Any words after the emoji? Poof. Gone. This is a known, if poorly advertised, issue with the archive.
There are some workarounds; you can find them in: How to Make iOS Text messages on A03. But here? Here is for ALL THE EMOJI*.
10 chapters of emoji tables, each with the HTML for putting the emoji into your work and the CSS for putting it into your workskin. Copy-Paste baby. Copy-Paste.
*Does not contain the 2016 Unicode release. You'll have to come up with the code for pickle yourselves.
(Note, because this is 10 chapters of emoji tables, here is a link to the Index Tables (chapter 1) to speed up load times and reduce confusion if you have preferences set to "entire work.")
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- Part 11 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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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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Given Captain America's shield is made of either Vibranium or a Vibranium-Steel Alloy: Vibranium must be a transition metal. Because it doesn't rust - even when lost in the Potomic - it should join silver, gold and platinum as a noble metal.
Ditto for Adamantium.
This is the periodic table that fucks with quantum mechanics to put the marvel elements where they belong. It should work for Marvel-616, the cinematic universe (Marvel-199999) and even the tie-in video games.
Or: the headcannon where the author always was fascinated by Technecium, and knows just enough quantum mechanics to be dangerous.