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There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

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"learn to be bored" "being bored is good for you" "be at peace with yourself" NO! 4 SCREENS AT ONCE!!!!!!

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Blocking specific works or works by Anon authors on AO3:

The muting and blocking functions recently introduced on AO3 are good and vital, but sometimes you don't want to mute an author's entire catalogue of works - you just want to stop looking at a particular work or three every time you go in the tag. And sometimes trolls will spitefully put their work into Anonymous collections specifically to circumvent people being able to block/mute them.

Luckily, the old method of muting authors - Site Skins - also works for individual fanworks! This is a more targeted method than trying to exclude tags in the filter, and more efficient/reliable because it will always work as long as you're logged in - no more needing to bookmark long filter URL strings and then getting burned when you forget to access the tag page through the bookmark.

On your Dashboard, go to "Skins" in the sidebar menu.

Click "Create Site Skin." (You can see that I've already got a skin active on my profile.)

Give your Site Skin a descriptive name that will remind you of what the purpose of the skin is or what the skin contains. Feel free to elaborate further in the Description field. You can even upload an icon for the skin if that would be helpful for identifying it in your Site Skins list.

Then, in the CSS field, enter this code:

.work-XXXXXXXX { display: none !important; }

Next, we are going to replace the XXXXXXXX part with a unique identifier assigned to each fanwork on AO3.

Open another tab/window and go to a fic that you want to mute. Look in the URL bar. It should look something like this:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43588455

or like this if it's chaptered:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17172854/chapters/40376879

The string of numbers that comes immediately after /works/ is the unique identifier that you want (I've bolded them in the examples above).

Ignore the numbers that come after /chapters/.

Highlight and copy the unique identifier. Go back to the Edit Site Skin tab/window and replace the XXXXXXXX in the code with the unique identifier you've copied.

Scroll down and click "Submit." You're done!

To mute more than one fanwork, you just have to add more lines for more works to the CSS code in your Site Skin:

.work-XXXXXXXX, .work-XXXXXXXX, .work-XXXXXXXX { display: none !important; }

Note: This method does not prevent you from seeing the fanwork if you go to that fanwork by entering its URL directly into the URL bar. It does remove it from any page on AO3 that pulls fanworks into a list of fanworks - like pages for tags, search results, author profiles and works pages, bookmark lists, etc.

Note 2: You must be logged into your account for the Site Skin to work. And the Skin does not affect anybody else's browsing experience, just yours.

Go forth and curate!

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i liked that video of a pig blowing bubbles but i thought i'd like it more if it played the amen break during it

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Cupping your own boobs for no real reason is important enrichment for girls

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okay Rook goes crazy for a non-binary name though

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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

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i love sluts i love perverts i love dykes i love faggots i love aromantics i love freaks i love librarians i love ibuprofen

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mimes a dismissive jerkoff gesture but im shaking and badly hiding that i orgasmed on the 2nd stroke

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some of you aren’t even perverts you just have normal sexual desires that you are ashamed of

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