#HTML Bold Tag

[riacte]

hi! i love reading your fics but i specifically love the social media shenanigans in dearly beloathed. i was wondering how you would feel if i took some inspiration from that for a fic of mine because i would love to write something that's very similarly formatted but i wanted to make sure you were fine with that (cause i'm assuming it took some time and effort to come up with) before i did. anyways your writing is awesome and i love reading it

Yes sure of course! I took inspiration from ao3 fics (F1 fandom in particular is stunning at formatting, I have so much respect for their dedication), such as this one (I basically took the formatting from this) and this Twitch streamer AU. If you're posting on ao3, there's the option of playing with HTML/CSS for a more "realistic" socmed interface, for example this one for Twitter which is magic to me. This one is an extremely impressive Discord mockup. An Unauthorised Fandom Treatise is a nice look into mid 2010s Superwholock era fandom whereas F1 rpf and indeed mcyt / streamer stuff is more "modern". Anyways yeah there's a lot of potential in this genre of fics and loads of stuff to check out on ao3 if you wish :) I love scrolling through the Unconventional Format tag because people are just so creative. Good luck with your writing!

[the-kiarah-organisation]

Pierro: What kind of snake are you?

Changsheng: Don't you know it's rude to ask a woman her species?

Pierro: ...

Pierro: Okay.

[noiselessbuck]

Buck's Guide to Making Fake Dash Posts

The general format of a "post" is

😀 emoji for the profile pic

regular text for url/username with maybe dashes or underscores or a -deactivated[numbers that indicate a date]

optional Follow text with the blue colored text option (if there isnt a follow its implied the reader of the fake dash post is already following them

contents of post

bold text for notes count

post divider image (see below)

example:

😀 fakestoftumblrinas Follow

ummm im new to tumblr this is my first post

3 notes

the ways to make it cooler:

there is an image between this line and the next which is a skinny rectangle thats a fake post divider (works best on people using dark mode but gets the point across regardless)

^^ feel free to save the image ^^ (as you can see adding an image also adds a blank line above it you prob wanna delete)

i've seen some people put a ♻️ before a users emoji if they are a reblog comment on a post

example:

🤡 clowncarboy

knock knock

♻️🎭 myharlequinromance

who's there?

2 notes

tags:

tags on a normal posts have hashtags before each tag and spaces between the tags and are regular sized but grey (or other alt color per color theme) you can make text grey using HTML but that's likely overkill

#example #tags

some people have been using tiny text for tags (on mobile you highlight text then select the button that says <s>)

example tags

you can also use, chat mode, text

or [this type of, thing]

personally i used chat mode as a pretend version of screenshotting tags

go forth! have fun! also tag your posts with at least "fake dash" if not also "unreality" so folks don't get unnecessarily freaked out :)

[html-tryhard]

HTML Fic Event Week

Prompt Sheet Generator | AO3 Collection | html tryhard on AO3

HTML is a markup language used to tell a web browser how to display content. You might be aware of simple uses of HTML, such as bold and italics but HTML can be used to do so much more! Do you like r/AITA stories? Have you ever been interested in including realistic text messages into your fics? Did you like choose-your-own-adventure books as a kid? HTML can be used for all of these things and more!

Join us for HTML Tryhards 2025, where we bully our friends (and you? 👀) into making fanfiction super extra shiny using the power of HTML.

AO3, a fanfiction hosting platform, supports the use of HTML, and that's where submissions for this event should be posted. We have a collection for you to post to, but please use the tag #HTML Tryhard on your work as well!

On Tumblr, @ this blog or use the tag #htmltryhard2025, and we'll reblog your posts.

Prompts

There are two (optional) prompts per day, one to influence the format and one to influence the story. You can generate your own custom prompt list here. Use as many or as few of the prompts as you like.

Rules

All fandoms welcome.

Submissions must include a significant portion of HTML. We'd prefer the entire work be HTML, but mixed prose and HTML is also acceptable.

Submissions MUST be HTML and not images or screenshots of text logs/tweets/etc.

There is no required minimum word count, but the suggested minimum word count is 500 words.

The prompts are OPTIONAL, use as many or as few as you'd like.

HTML/CSS guides are accepted (and encouraged!) as submissions.

Submissions should include the #HTML Tryhard tag on AO3.

Submissions should be added to the collection on AO3.

You can start posting submissions January 13th. The last date of the event is January 17th, though if you're running behind you can still post to the collection after that date.

Follow us!

If you don't know how to use HTML but it's something you're interested in, give us a follow! In the days leading up to the event, we'll be sharing works that have utilized HTML, as well as helpful tutorials. The difficulty of these tutorials will vary, and we'll post things we hope will be helpful for tryhard veterans and beginners alike.

You can also send us your HTML questions and we'll do our best to help you out!

[greenhorn-art]

All The King's Horses | As You Are Now, So Once Was I by @samwpmarleau (grumkinsnark)

All The King's Horses [LiveJournal ch1] [Fanfiction.net ch1]

As You Are Now, So Once Was I [LiveJournal ch1] [Fanfiction.net ch1]

Fandom: Supernatural, Criminal Minds

Rating: Teen | PG-13

Category: Gen

Words: ~36,192

All The King's Horses: Protect and Serve. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. To what lengths would you go to uphold those oaths? When it comes to a particularly brutal and unsolvable case, the BAU just may have to resort to some more unorthodox methods. SPN/Criminal Minds crossover.

As You Are Now, So Once Was I: Sequel to "All the King's Horses." When Dean catches J.J.'s press conference on the news about a current case and notices a few...inconsistencies, he realizes the BAU is definitely going to need his help. Again. ON HIATUS

About the Book

FORMAT: Letter quarto, flatback bradel binding, french link stitch, no tapes

FONTS: EB Garamond [via Google Fonts], Supernatural Knight [via DaFont], D-Din [via Font Squirrel], Daniel [via DaFont], Permanent Marker [via Google Fonts], Arial

IMAGES: Seal of the FBI [via Wikipedia], Dean's handprint scar [by greenhorn-art]

MATERIALS: 24lb Xerox Bold Digital paper (8.5"x11"), 80pt binder's board (~2mm), 30/3 size waxed linen thread, embroidery floss (DMC #721), 1.9mm cording, brown cardstock, black Cialux bookcloth, gold foil transfer sheet (came with We R Memory Keepers hot foil pen)

PROGRAMS USED: Fic exported with FicHub, word doc compiled in LibreOffice Writer, Typeset in Affinity Publisher, imposed with Bookbinder-JS, title pages designed in Affinity Designer/Photo

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I first read these stories on LiveJournal back in 2013, some time after I first encountered Tumblr, Supernatural, and the wider world of online fandom. Once I discovered SPNxCriminal Minds crossovers I devoured so many of them. Something about POV Outsider on the Winchesters, the existing connections with investigating monster vs human-crazy cases, and run-ins with the FBI... it's just works so well.

Of all the SPNxCM fics I read and enjoyed, All The King's Horses is among those that bookmarked themselves in my brain. Since it's been living there all these years, I thought it deserved a place on my bookshelf too.

(Rambling below)

Sourcing the Fic

I used FicHub to download the fics off of Fanfiction.net as HTML. Then I pasted them into LibreOffice Writer and created rich text documents of each fic, so I could Place them into Affinity Publisher.

The stories were crossposted, first on LiveJournal and then Fanfiction. I included the metadata from both sites in the appendices.

(It's fascinating to see the differences in the same work between platforms. FFN requires genres, so if the author doesn't add them on LJ then by default there's more info on FFN. But FFN limits listed characters to 2, so authors have to pick and choose the most important. Then there's the author's amusing disclaimers and spoiler warnings for these fics, which are only included in the LJ version)

Shoutout to the author for how they linked/listed their accounts on other platforms! Thanks to that I was easily able to track down all the tags/metadata for the fics, and find them here to express my appreciation for their stories!

Typesetting

Fonts

EB Garamond is my new favourite body font, 11pt as per my usual.

The title page is entirely Arial: 1) it was the closest match I have to the case file prop I was copying, and 2) if it was a government doc they wouldn't be using anything but the most basic fonts.

Headings and the the bullets bracketing the page numbers are set it Supernatural Knight, a free font in the style of Supernatural's title.

The location segments are in D-DIN, the closest free match to the font Criminal Minds uses (which is probably DIN).

Daniel is used for Dean's 'rushed but legible' note.

Permanent Marker for the 'thick black Sharpie' case file labels.

Artwork

Title pages designed as FBI case files, copied from a prop found online (specifically Etsy's propfictionstudios', but it's all over the web so no idea who actually created it). I had fun plugging in all the fanfic/bookbinding meta!

The ID# above the author's name is the FFN story ID, and the date is the date originally posted on LJ.

The handprint used in the headings of ATKH is Dean's scar. I traced off of a screenshot from s4e01 Lazarus Rising. I chose to use the handprint instead of the anti-possession tattoo or a Devil's Trap as my SPN art element because 1) it's specific to Dean, and 2) indicates/reminds that the story is not set during the season 3 Agent Henriksen/FBI arc.

Grabbed the FBI seal off of Wikipedia.

Construction

Both fics typeset and printed separately, then sewn together into one book. Title page for the sequel was tipped in like an endpaper prior to sewing.

Endbands sewn with orange embroidery floss (DMC 721) around 1.9mm cording. I chose orange because Dean's being in jail brought to mind the orange prison jumpsuits Sam and Dean wore in s1e19 Folsom Prison Blues.

Black bookcloth for the cover, like the Winchesters' beloved black '67 Chevy Impala. (I'd wanted a Supernatural reference to balance out the Criminal Minds-ness of the FBI case files).

I'd originally planned to make lineart of the front of the car, and have it stretch across the bottom of the cover (maybe even wrap around to the back). Even found a useful reference to trace [from here], but it didn't look as good as I'd hoped. Instead I reused the FBI seal and swapped out its text with the titles.

(The effect of shiny foiled FBI symbol on small black book reminds me of one of those FBI badge wallets!)

The foiling process was an unnecessarily long and gruelling affair. My laptop served as a massive power bank for the hot foil pen as I spent 2hrs ever so slowly tracing the image, and then 15mins on the author name and touch-ups. Did it need to take so long? Moving slowly, pushing down hard, going over everything at least three times? I'm sure it didn't. BUT I did not want to chance peeling up the foil to check how I was doing and risk shifting it. It was worth it in my books (haha) ‒ I feel giddy and kick my feet like a schoolgirl whenever I see it!

New Things

Used 24lb paper for the first time, and I love it! It's a little thicker and heavier then regular 20lb printer paper, feels more substantial.

The page numbers & running/section headers are along the outer margin, instead of in the header/footer. This was my way around Affinity's buggy-ness regarding pinning things inline in master pages. (More about that below). If I had been thinking, I could have formatted them like the tabs on a file folder and cut the textblock to match. Oh well, the things you notice once it's printed 😔

This time I also started new chapters/sections using text flow & paragraph spacing settings, instead of using a master. As always, there are pros and cons.

Pro: much faster and less involved. (find chapter start, apply paragraph style VS working from the end cutting text, inserting a frame break, unlinking frames, inserting new pages with master, relinking, pasting, and adding chapter title to a different text box)

Con: images need to be added manually (whether by adding image directly, or by applying a master with the image). I forgot to do this for the second fic, so only ATKH have Dean's handprint scar.

Difficulties Encountered

Affinity Publisher is fighting me on pinning things inline on master pages. They like to disappear on regular pages I've applied the master to. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it only works on some of the pages. Idk what's up. (The bullet character only faces one way so I had use textboxes, flip/mirror one, and pin them inline to the page number).

So instead of having page numbers in the footer, bookended left and right by text boxes with Supernatural Knight's bullet, I put it vertically down the side.

Updated Publisher and all my paragraph styles' fonts changed/went funny. Something to do with the update's variable font support, I think. What was previously 'EB Garamond' regular, was now something along the lines of 'EBGaramond-Regular' which isn't a font. Issue seems to have ironed itself out in my original (near-complete) doc while I was busy remaking it. 😐

On the bright side, the update brought QR code generation to Affinity!

[sgdlrexchange]

Guide to Optional Details

The Link Click/SGDLR Exchange is several participant’s first exchange on AO3! We wanted to compile some basic points to help sign up and which might help your creator write/draw something for you that you’d like to see.

While leaving a mostly-blank sign-up is an option, we’d like to make sure everyone’s familiar with how to elaborate on that if they so choose.

Preliminary notes:

To make your sign-up look cleaner, you may want to include dropdowns or formatting! AO3 allows basic HTML in terms of bolding and italics, and you can use the <details> and <summary> tags to include dropdowns.

A typical way to divide details in your sign-ups is to split up the text into sections for general likes, fandom-specific (in this case, character/relationship-specific) likes, and DNW. These can be split further into SFW and NSFW (e.g. SFW likes and NSFW likes), and can include a section for different mediums such as art likes/prompts.

You may want to look through some other exchanges to get ideas of what sign-ups should typically look like, or or steal ideas for your likes/DNW. Scrolling through the most recent rounds of Candy Hearts and Trick or Treat (two of the biggest multifandom exchanges) can help with this, if you’re curious.

We'll be splitting this into three different posts to avoid running too long!

Links: 1. Guide to Optional Details // 2. DNW (Do Not Wants) // 3. Likes/Prompts

[snarp]

How do I fucking....... iterate through HTML selecting all the text that's rendered as italicized/bolded/etc via CSS rules and such so I can wrap it in 'i' 'b' tags so I can easily strip out all the span class='msword-keysmash12 calibre-keysmash21 googledocs-keysmash76' onclick='popupAd()' style='text-decoration: migraineaura; font-size: 1.0002em; color: #000001;'

Programmatically I mean I don't want a GUI tool. I would prefer Ruby but I imagine that Javascript is the Sane Person way to do this

[minimalsizeconspiracy]

No-Google (fan)fic writing, Part 5: Obsidian

Storytime

In terms of how long I’ve been using Obsidian, well. Currently, a little more than a week ^^ And I’ll be honest, I’ll probably only use it for writing fic sporadically, because it’s proprietary software and I prefer Open Source (and I also love LaTeX too much, but that’s a different question).

The reason why I decided to give it a try in terms of writing fic was that I’ve been talking with others about moving to Markdown, Obsidian is Markdown-based and I’d been playing around with it in a different context for a while already. So, out of curiosity, I decided I’d try to write a story in Obsidian and see if it could live up to my demands.

Word/Google docs versus Obsidian

Again, Word and Obsidian do not work in the same way. If anything else I have described here so far can be compared to the way Obsidian works, it’s Zettelkasten. The same principle of “one note for one idea/scene/thought” also applies to Obsidian. Also like Zettelkasten, Obsidian relies heavily on connecting these notes by way of links, using tags to categorise/find specific notes and it also has the same feature of using folders for collecting “sub-notes”, which can be used for structuring in the same way the virtual desk is used in Zettelkasten. Actually, I would say that the main difference between those two is that Obsidian uses Markdown and a folder-with-subfolders structure, whereas Zettelkasten has its own file format and relies on XML behind the scenes.

Cost

The personal use version of Obsidian is free, so technically +1 for that. However, Obsidian is not Open Source. It is not free in the same way Writer, LaTeX, Zettelkasten and Markdown (= many MD editors) are free, the code behind it is proprietary. This does not have any impact on the cost, at least not at present, but there is a chance that at some point, the developers might choose to charge for private use of it. I think it’s unlikely, but. Just so you know.

File formats

Unlike Word, however, Obsidian relies on Markdown as its file format and stores every “note” as a separate .md-file in a folder. The “notebook” where all notes are collected is called a “vault” and it’s just one big folder with lots of subfolders. In other words, even if the software is proprietary, the files can be read and used without needing Obsidian itself. Which is really great, because again, it means you have plain text .md-files with your ideas, scenes and stories, and they wil be readable even if Obsidian as an app disappears.

+1 for that!

Features

What you need Obsidian for is the features. And of those, there are many. I’ll save words and say, read about Markdown features like bold, italics etc. here, but I really do want to talk about other features Obsidian offers that plain Markdown with an editor does not.

Firstly, an important feature that I talk about a lot is the export function. AO3 needs either HTML or RTF, fanfiction.net ODT or DOC(X). Obsidian can export to all of these, provided you install the Pandoc plugin. This is not the same as installing Pandoc on your computer; you need to install the plugin in Obsidian itself to use it. But as long as you do, you can export to whatever you like.

+1

Another feature very important for me when I tried Obsidian was whether outcommenting would work (again, I’ve talked about this here). Basically, what that means is that parts of the text are not exported when you export the rest of the note – such as comments to yourself, notes on what you still need to write in a scene or simply – as I use it frequently – stuff you wrote and don’t want to delete, even it doesn’t fit anymore. Much to my delight, it works in Obsidian as well, again because it’s Markdown and it works in Markdown. [text you want outcommented]: # will do the trick.

+1

Lastly, another plugin I would recommend is Smart Typography. It “[c]onverts quotes to curly quotes, dashes to em dashes and periods to ellipses”, as the description says, and that’s really useful if you use a regular keyboard layout to write, where you get the standard ' and ".

+1

Installing both the Pandoc and Smart Typography plugins is easy. Open the Obsidian vault settings (the little wheel you can see in the left lower corner, to the right of “example”, which is the name of the vault), Third-party plugins (which you need to enable) and then browse Community plugins by name and install and enable them. Done.

Now for the most important part: putting together a story.

If you want one big vault containing all of your stories, you need to create “folders” for every story and then store the single notes for that story in that folder. Personally, I prefer to have one vault per story, because I find it a lot easier to focus on working on one story at a time if I don’t have several other stories in the same vault. This, I want to note, is different to how I used Zettelkasten, where I generally had one big Zettelkasten containing all of my stories for a specific fandom. I don’t know why that’s different with Obsidian, it’s just that way.

In any case, the following examples are for when you have one story per vault. In this case, I’ve decided that I’m going to write a story involving the POVs of three different characters. I’m going to keep their respective pieces sorted by character, so I always know who’s talking right now. Every scene where that character is the main narrator gets its own note within the respective character folder.

This, in theory, is no different than what I do with regular Markdown. What is very useful in Obsidian, however, is that Obsidian offers the possibility to “embed” notes in other notes.

And that, in turn, means that just like with Zettelkasten, you can use one note to put together the whole story and move around scenes without ever having to worry that you’ll accidentally delete and lose texts while copypasting.

It works like this: [[name of note]] establishes a link from one note to another (useful if you want to connect different ideas). If you add ! before the brackets, like so: ![[name of note]], it means that the whole text of the linked note will now be embedded in the note with the link. Which will give you this:

And, because you’ve installed the Pandoc plugin, this will now allow you to export the note named “complete story” to HTML, ODT or whatever, and all of the linked notes will be exported into that file. You need to change the order of scenes or move one scene from chapter 1 to chapter 2? Just delete ![[name of note]] in chapter 1 and put it in chapter 2. You can also insert horizontal rules, by the way, which I have done here. These will also be exported.

If you need your story structured in chapters rather than as a whole, the process is analogue: one note per chapter, where you !-link all the scenes that belong to the chapter in question. Then, if you want it as a whole, create a note where you !-link the notes for the single chapters, done. Export at your leisure.

Embeds are hands down in my opinion the best feature Obsidian has. They offer a distinct benefit over other Markdown editors like Ghostwriter, KATE or Notepad++, because Markdown, other than LaTeX, does not come with a feature that would make it easy to include “child files” in a “parent Markdown” file that only includes the header and the child files in the order in which they should appear in the final output document. Thus, none of the three editors I like to use for Markdown can show me the whole story if I decide to create a separate file for each of the scenes, and that is really annoying, because it means that I’m back to cutting and pasting pieces of text from one part of my Markdown document to another. Which in turn increases the probability that I will lose something, and well. See Zettelkasten as to how I feel about that.

So that is definitely an extremely useful feature deserving a big +1 because like with Zettelkasten, it means you can move the order of your chapters and scenes around without running the risk of losing the actual text.

Interface

Something I find quite enjoyable is that there are a lot of “skins” made by the community that can be applied to Obsidian. This is important to me because, as the previous instalments have probably shown, I’m a big fan of simple, clean, customisable interfaces. I’ve tried several of the community-made skins already, and my current favourite is Cyber Glow – but there are also others I’ve found quite nice.

Again, skins can be installed via the wheel/settings button, and just to show it, the below is the vault from above with Cyber Glow enabled.

Syncing

One of the big benefits of Obsidian is that it comes with a syncing service. Yes, you don’t need anything else, you can just create an Obsidian account and your notes will be synced across your devices, even on mobile devices. And file versioning is an option (I’ll get to that in due time). And that is really great, because it’s a one-in-all solution.

If you don’t need or want that, you don’t have to sign up for it. You can also continue syncing your Obsidian vaults with your preferred service (Dropbox, OneDrive, GIT, USB etc.). But you can and it’s at least nice to have the option. Downside: sync is a paid-for service, starting at 4$/month for 1GB of storage. Which isn’t a lot generally, except you’re writing plain-text/Markdown, so your files are Kb-tiny in most cases, and it takes a lot of Kb-sized files to fill up 1GB.

Personally, I will say that I’d much rather pay 4$ a month and know that my stories are not going to be scraped for AI, but it’s really a decision everyone has to make for themselves. Just remember – if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.

Ease of use for Word/Google doc-users

It’s not intuitive in the same way as moving from Word to LibreOffice Writer is. At least having a look at some Markdown guides (linked over there) is important if you are going to use Obsidian. But as I wrote there already, Markdown takes you about half an hour to learn, if you don’t know it already. And yes, you’ll have to wrap your brain around the concept of “one note = one thought/scene/idea” as well, but honestly? In terms of cost-benefit ratio, Obsidian is probably one of the most rewarding transitions you could make if you’re looking to get away from Word/Google docs. My only gripe with it is really that it’s proprietary software, but otherwise? Definitely recommended.

Read No-Google (fan)fic writing, Part 1: LibreOffice Writer

Read No-Google (fan)fic writing, Part 2: Zettelkasten

Read No-Google (fan)fic writing, Part 3: LaTeχ

Read No-Google (fan)fic writing, Part 4: Markdown

[olderthannetfic]

Just spent some minutes changing my bookmarks' notes to state the title (with the title itself bolded), author, info (rating, pairing category, warnings and completion status), tags, series (if applicable), chapters, words, and summary (with "summary" bolded). Maybe this way I'll get rid of the urge to start the code while pressing shift and therefore getting >/strong> one day… Hopefully. Basically happens with every html code every single time, so I can't "mindlessly" type it, but oh well… Practice makes perfect, I hope.^^

Also, my bookmarks are unreadable now (one big blob of text with two bolded spots), but I'll find a way to make them legible without taking up so much space, hopefully. :/

Do you have a legible way of doing notes in your bookmarks if you also try to get some of the work's info in it, in case it gets deleted and you get confused what that deleted item used to be?

--

The most legible way involves taking up tons of vertical space.

[sandcobangevent]

FLASHBANG PROJECTS ARE DUE TODAY

It's the 26th and by midnight your projects are due! Please submit as stated in your assignment email in one of the three following ways:

To submit via Tumblr: Go to the Sherlock & Co Flash Bang Event blog -- Sherlock and Co Flash Bang Event Blog -- and click the meatball menu at the top of the page and then click 'Submit'. It'll take you to the "Submit your Flash Bang Project Here!" page (or click here). This page is just like posting on tumblr and submitting an ask at the same time. Just create a post like you normally would and it'll go into my queue for review and posting on April 30th.

To submit by email: All stories submitted by email MUST have HTML-tags for any special formatting such as italics or bold-face; there must also be a blank line between paragraphs. Submit your story in .doc/.docx, .txt or .rtf format. Stories that haven't been HTML-tagged will be posted without italics and related formatting changes. Art can be submitted in .jpeg, .gif, or .png.

To submit via AO3: Please go to the collection -- Sherlock and Co Flashbang April 2024 | Archive of Our Own -- and click "Post to Collection," then post your story the way you normally would on AO3. When you click post, it will enter the community queue. I will reveal the work in coordination with a post on tumblr and Discord.

SUPER EXCITED TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE MADE!

Edit: Midnight Anywhere on Earth (AOE) translates to the following for different timezones: 4/26, Midnight AOE would be 5:00 a.m. Saturday 4/27 PDT or 8:00 a.m. Saturday 4/27 EDT or 1:00 p.m. Saturday 4/27 BST or 3:00 p.m. Saturday 4/27 EEST or 5:30 p.m. Saturday 4/27 IST or 8:00 p.m. Saturday 4/27 AWST or 10:00 p.m. Saturday 4/27 AEST

[emiplayzmc]

started making the Ao3 post.

was doing pretty good with the tags i think

but then i realized i don't know how to make text italic/bold/underscore/strikethrough

help

OH NOO </3. Yeah I had to figure that out as well, it's confusing

I always put my documents into Rich Text to format easier bc I don't know HTML commands, I'm pretty sure it's the same on Web AO3. Rich Text gives you more of the typical text formatting options :D

[freyito]

Frey...

ᴍᴜʟᴛɪ-ꜰᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ | ꜱᴘᴏɪʟᴇʀꜱ! | ᴍᴀʟᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ʙʟᴏɢ [ꜰᴛᴍ & ᴄɪꜱ]

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ⨟ ʀᴜʟᴇꜱ ⨟ ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀʟɪꜱᴛ ⨟ Qᴜᴇᴜᴇ ⨟ ᴀᴏ3 ⨟ ​​​ɴꜱꜰᴡ ʙʟᴏɢ ⨟ ᴋᴏꜰɪ! ⨟ ꜱᴛʀᴀᴡᴘᴀɢᴇ

𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀

closed ♡

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Honkai Star Rail & Elden Ring & Twisted Wonderland [I prioritize asks & fics for these fandoms!]

Boothill, Mydei, Gallagher, Phaino, Leona and Idia Asks tend to be answered quicker than other characters requested.

𝗧𝗼 𝗗𝗼 ⨟ 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘆𝗶𝘁𝗼'𝘀 ��𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲

◛ Kiss Me Goodbye [Boothill x Reader]

◛ On The Clock [Moze x Reader]

𝗨𝗽 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 (𝗔𝘀𝗸𝘀, 𝗛𝗖𝘀, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀, & 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲)

◛ How He Knew You Were The One [Boothill, Gallagher, Mydei, Phainon, Anaxa x Reader]

◛ Nice Pillows [Mydei, Phainon, Gallagher ver.]

𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘀 (𝗪𝗜𝗣𝗦)

◛ Blessed Are The Peacemakers [Boothill x Reader]

◛ Summer Sun [Arthur Morgan x Reader]

◛ Strawberry Season [Gallagher x Reader]

◛ Can You Hear Them Sing? [Mydei x Reader]

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸

↺ Extra Dose Of Lovin'

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆

↺ Odd Customs

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼

✶ the maid cafe event is now closed while I work on the requests!

✶ works that are italic & bold are the ones im currently working on

✶ requests are not 'first come, first serve', i work on what i want to at my own pace, including requests and my own ideas. this blog was created for MY indulgence.

✶ all of my finished pieces + my rules and what not are tagged with #⁺◟freyito. my rambles/whatever thoughts/random posts are tagged with #freyposting.

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿

✶ dni: proshippers (as in: those who ship pedophilic, incestuous, and other ships that glorify things such as rape, grooming, sexual assault, and more), zionists, racists, transphobes, homophobes, terfs, advocates for ai, ai bot creators, if you use ai/chatbots/art/etc.

✶ i block freely.

✶ the headers for my about, rules, etc. are REDRAWS! they are my art, however they are redraws of this ending for chainsaw man! please do not reupload my art or use it in any way, shape, or form! for more examples of my art, please see my commissions tab!

© freyito, 2025, HTML organized by © amorphous

[ratsplendor]

Hi hello i read your fic on ao3 and leaving a comment on it wasn't enough to express my feelings. the level of insight and intelligence you have is insane. your mind is brilliant and wonderful.

i love market crash and its sequel, i think it's a brilliant and hilarious angle to approach house and wilson's relationship from. when I was re-reading it for the ump-teenth time and noticed it had a sequel i nearly had a heart attack! (nice work btw)

it works so so well with cannon to the point where it probably is in another world where the writers are more bold.

i love everyone that understands house is just a massive fucking brat that needs some stability and external support in his life.

im terrible with titles but i also loved your unconventional omegaverse fic. normally im not big on a/b/o because i don't like the dynamics it creates and it always feels kinda sexist, but i love that your wilson is still insanely respectful of house and house is still allowed his agency as a character. also few things are funnier to me than a fic tagged "no mpreg" lmao

basically thank you for your service to the world <3 you're making my uni summer holidays soooo much more entertaining

yooooo true story.. I write HTML every day as part of my fcuking job. & yet for three whole months. everything I posted. none of my social media links worked. I was missing one (1) single letter h . kill me

seriously tho I appreciate this so much. all of this to say I'm a massive dumbass and was not at all expecting my silly shenanigans in this fandom to enjoy the readership that they have. I mean y'all have surpassed my recent reylo stuff in terms of engagement, not that it matters, it's just a really hard thing to do and it means so much to me and I feel like we're all just having a really nice adventure together. it's like being in a living room having tea and parallel playing with the coolest ppl :) so thank you from the bottom of my heart!!

yeah house feels to me like the kind of high maintenance person who just needs a place they can let go. I'm that way. I hate to lose control but deep down inside I'm dying for somewhere I feel safe to give it up. while I've written a ton of d/s stuff, Hilson is one of the first times I've actually explored it from that pov: the "I'm tired, be my resting place" angle. there's just something so lonely about being the firebrand, so a hearth to lay it down on is sometimes the only thing between you and demise; not that I'm especially gifted, we're not the same in that regard, I just take on so much of everyone else's problems because if there's something I *can* do, I can't *not* do it. big ups to my spouse for being that place I can go, however brattily, to lay everything down.

whew. did not mean to expose my own baggage there. just meant to say that. idk. technically atoms never touch you know? we're made up of mostly empty space. when our bodies touch, our hearts cross that divide. that's what I really love to dig into. that's what erotica is to me. lol.

"some are wild" is the omegaverse fic (only writing it here so others can find it if they want); immediately before starting to write it, I had gone on a long, pseudo-philosophical rant on Bluesky about the patriarchy inherent in trad omegaverse. ironically I was in the midst of another doomed attempt to write reylo omegaverse, and over the course of both the Bluesky thread and my eventual discarding of said draft, I realized I'm just never gonna be able to write het omegaverse because of my own patriarchal hangups. hell. I live in the deep South of the US. shits too close to home.

so but then I was like "why tf do feral omegas get the knot cure, how about fuck you" and then I went and did all that. so yet again Hilson succeeds in excising the rot where other modes have failed.

every story teaches you something about yourself, and there are stories you can't write until you've learned certain things.

big props to everyone on Bluesky who puts up with my long ass threads about shit that probably isn't (always) that deep. and thank you, so so very fondly, dear reader, for loving the same way I do and enjoying what I make. and for your (hopeful) grace that I haven't really had a chance to let my ADHD meds kick in before answering this ask. lmfao ily 🤟

[thevalkyriesshadow]

Writing tag game by @bonecarversbestie !

Describe your writing process from idea to posting/publishing?

My ideas: I'm often inspired by moodboards, pinterest images, writing prompts I see on tumblr, movies and shows I watch...inspiration is everywhere! I also try and write things I'm familiar with or things I have interest in. It makes the research part more entertaining and engaging! Once I get an idea I play out the story in my head for a few days before I'm sure I like the possibilities of the story...if I really like the idea I get right to writing, even if it's a part of a scene or a small intro.

I LOVE THE RESEARCH ASPECT OF WRITING

I know, the boring part, but I learn so many new things and I like my fics to be accurate to a degree...of course at some point I just have to be like "Debbi, it's okay if it's not possible for your character to survive a fifty foot drop -- you're doing it for the angst!!!!!"

Writing/Editing: I keep everything I do to Google docs! I can access it anywhere from my phone and I love the outline tool. As soon as I get an idea, I make a new doc and add the idea or outline.

I will write at home, on the bus, on my break at work, anywhere! I'm shameless so I don't mind writing smut next to strangers on a bus or in a cafe 😅 I like to write a chapter out without really focusing on editing, and if there's a moment where I'm struggling to find a way to phrase or talk about something or a word to use, I just bold that section and keep going. Then I'll go back and edit it.

I'll admit, I'm an awful editor LOL I'll go back through and make sure it makes sense (I like to try and find creative ways to get what's in my head on paper and sometimes it just doesn't sound good LOL)

I only recently had people start reading my stuff before posting and I always feel so bad for the grammar of mine they have to endure (To my beta readers, I love you and you're awesome! 💖)

I just have to remind myself that Stephen King had horrible grammar, but incredible stories. That keeps me going hahaha

Posting/Publishing: I am too lazy to go back through and type in the html, so I just hope and pray my italics make it through while copying it to AO3. So far it's cooperated. I've only had to go back and add in italics two or three times.

I like to promote my stuff with sneak peeks before posting fully, and recently I've been addicted to making playlists on spotify for my fics, little collages for when I post a new chapter on tumblr, creating ways for my readers to engage with the story by letting them choose certain things that happen next.

Are you a plotter or a pantser?

Both! 😅

Thirty Moments I planned out. I did have a thirty day OTP prompt I had written for merthur back in like 2014 so I followed that and changed it up a bit to go with acotar/gwynriel, and I knew I wanted the prompts to tell a story as they went along rather than them being one-offs so that required planning. That was my most extensive outline. My other outlines are quick little notes, like a basic idea of what's coming next...some times I follow that and some times it derails completely and I go off course!

BB, NH is very much pantsing. I went into it deciding that's how I'd do it because I wanted to try the method and I really like pantsing!

I think it really depends on the fic for me and how much bandwidth I have for the fic.

What do you listen to when you are writing?

Spotify playlists that fit the vibe of the story, or the playlist I created for the fic!

There's also a guy who plays the trumpet in the park I live next to, so sometimes I'll just listen to that as I write 🤣

What’s your drink of choice (while writing)?

I find my best writing happens in the morning so I'll usually have coffee or tea. In the afternoons if I'm writing it's kind of whatever I'm drinking; water, seltzer, wine...I don't have a specific drink I stick to when writing.

Promote yourself! What’s your favourite thing you’ve written?

Um, all of it? hahahaha no but I really loved Thirty Moments Tell A Story. It was my first major (published - I wrote something right after reading ACOSF and it was basically word vomit, but word vomit with potential so I'm currently editing that lol) Gwynriel fic and I loved the themes I explored.

Share a fic of yours that you think is underrated/deserves more love.

I'm going to shamelessly share FOUR of my one shots that deserve more love:

Please...Stay (because I love some angst with a happy ending)

The Priestess Listened (because Azriel just needs someone to listen to him)

Song of the Shadowsinger (what I think happened *HOFAS spoiler* when Azriel returned without TT)

Getaway Car (I got this idea when driving through Philly...it's the wild west in these mean streets)

Do you have any advice for new writers?

From the inspirational words of Shia LaBeouf: JUST DO IT

Seriously. Write the awful stories. Write the ones you can't get out of your head, or the ones that you only gave a minute of thought to. Writing anything helps you to hone your craft and meld it to what you want it to look like.

Try and write a little everyday. Even if it's a sentence, editing, an idea...anything to keep the juices flowing.

Take your time. Don't rush it.

This part is easier said than done, but don't be hard on yourself. Write because you like to do it, not because you're expecting a million hits or comments or kudos.

Talk with other writers and get their advice.

Read, read, read...seeing other writing helps to fuel and inspire yours!

Take breaks and remember to be kind to yourself!

What is a writing style/technique that others do really well that you'd like to get better at?

I like my smut, but I think I could do better at making it less telling and more showing.

Is there a character you were surprised you enjoyed writing as much as you did?

I like writing about the other Valkyries and giving them personalities. I liked writing Azriel’s mother as well!

I also have Balthazar as a beta in my Valkyrie appreciation week fic and I've only written one line for him so far but I'm already entertained by him 🤣

Thank you for tagging me @sadiegirl2021

No pressure tags: @captain-of-the-gwynriel-ship @oristian @shadowsxgwynriel @foreverinelysian

[neenablog]

🍽️ Top 10 Foods of the World You Need to Try 🌍✨

Food is culture, memory, and magic — all served on a plate. From spicy street eats to elegant pastries, here’s your ultimate foodie bucket list.

🇮🇹 1. Pizza – Italy

📍 Where: Naples Crispy crust. Tangy tomato sauce. Melted mozzarella. It’s simple. It’s perfect. It’s pizza. 🍕

📸 Visual Idea: Wood-fired Neapolitan Margherita on a rustic ceramic plate.

���🇭 2. Pad Thai – Thailand

📍 Where: Bangkok street stalls Sweet, salty, spicy, packed with texture. Stir-fried noodles never looked this good. 🍜

📸 Visual Idea: Steaming wok, fresh shrimp, crushed peanuts, lime wedges.

🇲🇽 3. Tacos al Pastor – Mexico

📍 Where: Mexico City Marinated pork + pineapple + fresh tortillas = 🔥🔥🔥 A street food love story you won’t forget.

📸 Visual Idea: Tacos piled high with cilantro, onions, and a lime wedge on the side.

🇯🇵 4. Sushi – Japan

📍 Where: Tokyo or Kyoto sushi bars Minimalist beauty meets bold flavor. From silky otoro to classic salmon nigiri — sushi is edible art. 🍣

📸 Visual Idea: Wooden board with perfectly arranged nigiri and a small bowl of soy sauce.

🇫🇷 5. Croissant – France

📍 Where: A morning in Paris Flaky, buttery, golden perfection. Best enjoyed with a café au lait and a view of the Seine. 🥐

📸 Visual Idea: Croissant on a café table, sunlight streaming in, open book nearby.

🇮🇳 6. Biryani – India

📍 Where: Hyderabad or Lucknow Fragrant rice layered with marinated meat and spices. Every bite tells a story. 🌶️

📸 Visual Idea: Biryani served in a copper pot with raita and boiled egg.

🇨🇳 7. Peking Duck – China

📍 Where: Beijing Crispy duck skin, tender meat, and thin pancakes with hoisin and scallions. Fit for royalty. 🦆

📸 Visual Idea: Sliced duck with all the fixings arranged beautifully.

🇹🇷 8. Kebabs – Turkey

📍 Where: Istanbul food stalls Juicy grilled meats, flatbread, yogurt, and spice. Turkish kebabs are smoky bites of heaven. 🔥

📸 Visual Idea: Sizzling skewers over charcoal or a doner wrap being freshly sliced.

🇪🇹 9. Injera with Doro Wat – Ethiopia

📍 Where: Addis Ababa Sour flatbread meets rich, spicy stew. It’s flavorful, messy, communal — and unforgettable. ✨

📸 Visual Idea: Traditional Ethiopian platter with vibrant stews and folded injera.

🇺🇸 10. Cheeseburger – USA

📍 Where: A hidden gem burger joint Juicy, cheesy, and iconic. From gourmet to greasy spoon, burgers are an American staple. 🍔

📸 Visual Idea: Melty cheeseburger, crispy fries, retro diner vibes.

💬 Which one would you try first?

Reblog and tag your foodie partner-in-crime! 🍴 #WorldFood #Top10Dishes #FoodieGoals #CulinaryJourney #MyPhenteonEats #FoodLover #TravelEats #TumblrEats

Would you like me to turn this into a downloadable blog graphic, a formatted HTML post, or prep a caption set for sharing on Tumblr/Instagram too?

You said:

now put picture according toheading

ChatGPT said:

Nice! Here's your Tumblr-ready blog post with each food section matched to an image. I've paired each heading with its corresponding aesthetic image preview (using placeholders you can replace with the actual AI-generated or sourced images).

🍽️ Top 10 Foods of the World You Need to Try 🌍✨

Food is culture, memory, and magic — all served on a plate.

🇮🇹 1. Pizza – Italy

📍 Where: Naples Crispy crust. Tangy tomato sauce. Melted mozzarella. It’s simple. It’s perfect. It’s pizza. 🍕

Wood-fired Neapolitan Margherita on a rustic plate.

🇹🇭 2. Pad Thai – Thailand

📍 Where: Bangkok street stalls Sweet, salty, spicy, packed with texture. Stir-fried noodles never looked this good. 🍜

Steaming wok with noodles, shrimp, and lime wedges.

🇲🇽 3. Tacos al Pastor – Mexico

📍 Where: Mexico City Marinated pork + pineapple + fresh tortillas = 🔥🔥🔥 A street food love story you won’t forget.

Tacos loaded with cilantro, onions, and lime.

🇯🇵 4. Sushi – Japan

📍 Where: Tokyo or Kyoto sushi bars Minimalist beauty meets bold flavor. Sushi is edible art. 🍣

Wooden sushi board with colorful nigiri pieces.

🇫🇷 5. Croissant – France

📍 Where: A morning in Paris Flaky, buttery, golden perfection. 🥐

Café table with a croissant, book, and soft morning light.

🇮🇳 6. Biryani – India

📍 Where: Hyderabad or Lucknow Fragrant rice, marinated meat, aromatic spices. 🌶️

Biryani in a copper pot with raita and boiled egg.

🇨🇳 7. Peking Duck – China

📍 Where: Beijing Crispy skin, tender meat, thin pancakes. 🦆

Beautifully sliced duck with hoisin, scallions, and wraps.

🇹🇷 8. Kebabs – Turkey

📍 Where: Istanbul food stalls Juicy grilled meat and bold spices. 🔥

Skewers sizzling over coals or doner wrap mid-slice.

🇪🇹 9. Injera with Doro Wat – Ethiopia

📍 Where: Addis Ababa Sour flatbread and spicy stew. ✨

Traditional Ethiopian platter with colorful stews.

🇺🇸 10. Cheeseburger – USA

📍 Where: A hidden gem burger joint Juicy, cheesy, 100% iconic. 🍔

Melty cheeseburger with crispy fries, diner-style

[fearoffun]

hi there!! there isn’t a need to publish this ask I literally just am so curious if you had any resource or tutorial regarding your neocities! I’m sorry if this is so out of the blue but I saw your site and really adored the layout!! I’m specifically just wondering about the method you used for your blog posts - I’ve found some recommended ways to do it but i feel like yours is integrated really well imo :) also if you’re not comfortable answering or anything that’s totally fine lol pls don’t feel obligated. lastly your art is so gorg!!!

i'm finally going to answer this ask...!! it's going to be a very long read so i'll keep it all under this cut

i know you are specifically curious about the blog posts page but i figured this was a great time to thoroughly explain my website layout too since i had another person asking about it (i'll put that at the bottom though) :D

please bear with me btw because i... i have never made a tutorial like this before LOL

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blog posts guide

1. scrollbox

i made a super low effort format for my blog entries. i honestly just wanted it to be a super simple scrollable box with all of my entries being in one general place. CSS to do this, i created an all encompassing <div class> that had the styling property of overflow.

fyi, i also added a <div class> within the scrollbox class that would handle the padding but TBH i'm not sure... i needed to make an entire class for that LOL REFERENCES - scroll box

2. date & time

HTML ok honestly i just used a <p> element and made it bold....

3. images (optional)

HTML i don't always attach an image to my entries but when i want to, i use this <div class> that sits below my date & time. i style it with an <img class> that i created and add an <alt text> too to make it more accessible!

CSS this is what the <img class> looks like. i like my images centered and on their own "line."

4. status

HTML again, another <div class> specifically made for the status. i just made the font size smaller to visually differentiate it from the actual entry itself.

5. blog entry text

HTML my blog entries are simply typed up between <p> tags and i use <br> to start a new line... it literally just looks like this LOL....

THAT'S ALL...>!!!!!! :)

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website guide

1. general page layout

HTML in order to establish where i want all of my blog's content to lie, i created a <div class> specifically to store it all.

CSS the styling for it is pretty simple! just setting a max-width to limit the size of everything that will be in it and also centering the page with the margin.

2. sidebar

HTML my sidebar just comprises of a heading tag and navigation links.

CSS this is all personal taste aside from the fixed position

REFERENCES - fixed sidebar - responsive sidebar

3. main content

HTML because everything is stored in the <div class="content">, the sidebar and the page contents are limited to the constraints of the it.

that is all pt. 2...... bless <3