#userscript rec

[epicbuddieficrecs]

This is your periodical reminder to download your favorite fics from ao3 every once in a while!!

Personally, I got into the habit of doing it once a year, when I'm working on my "Favorite" fic recs.

While I'm at it, here's a few tools I use that help greatly with my Ao3 experience!

Userscripts

Here's a few userscripts that I love for Ao3!

AO3: Kudosed and seen history: Highlight or hide works you kudosed/marked as seen.

This is the userscript that helps me the most when making fic recs. While browsing a tag or my history, I can see which fics I've already kudosed and I can decide to skip/hide individual fics (there's other userscripts out there if you want to permanently hide specific tags).

AO3 Review + Last Chapter Shortcut + Kudos-sortable Bookmarks: Adds shortcuts for last chapter and a floaty review box, sorts bookmarks by kudos.

AO3: Estimated Reading Time: Add an estimated reading time to a fic description in hours and minutes.

Calibre

Calibre is an ebook management software. You can download it here. I really love using Calibre to send fics I've downloaded to my kindle, but there's also a function where you can download all the fics in one Ao3 page, or multiple fics URLS, all at the same time. Just last night, I used it to download all my Buddie bookmarks. Super helpful! It also allows me to add my own covers to fics and use them on my Kindle. I love it!

[mjlol52]

could i ask for ao3 userscript recs?

oh god my old laptop got KO'd unexpectedly and it's looking like I maybe don't have my firefox account synched up properly so I'm having to re-do all the firefox extensions I used to have and I don't remember all the extensions I used to have. Or all the block updates I had in UBlock to keep youtube from being an ad-ridden hellscape.

Help, fellow hellsite users--what are your firefox extensions of choice?

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Noah's Ark on Broadway

LISTEN NOW (8 minutes):

Listen Now as Francis Douglas tells of when Noah's Ark was featured on New York City's Broadway stage.

PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:

Today on Celebrate the Bible:

NOAH’S ARK on BROADWAY in 1896

You are not likely to find anything about Noah's Ark on New York City's famous Broadway today … but, at one time, it was the "toast of the town".

Noah's Ark, and the great world-wide flood as recorded in Genesis, is perhaps one of the most easily identifiable events in all of the Bible. The most interesting aspect of this episode is not the illusion itself, but the fact that it attracted so many people from New York City's secular population: from every-day working families, to the City's upper crust … all were thrilled with the experience.

A few points of note:

Technical details of the illusion were featured in Scientific American magazine

The Olympia was the premiere entertainment showplace of the world

Biblical themes were very popular, with all NYC audiences at the Olympia

It was founded and built by famous Oscar Hammerstein

It was reported that audiences were left spellbound after each Noah’s Ark performance

It was so popular and well-received, that the highly respected science publication, Scientific American, devoted an entire page to this Biblically-themed entertainment attraction -- complete with stunning illustrations.

Let’s take a step-by-step look at the Noah’s Ark illusion. I will inter-space the steps throughout today’s presentation.

STEP ONE

Hammerstein's Olympia Theater and Music Hall was once celebrated as the foremost entertainment venue in the entire world.

Located at 44th and Broadway in New York City, it was only two blocks from what is known today as Times Square. The main theater held 2,800-seats. And the building took up an entire city block.

STEP TWO

The rooftop was just as famous as the theater and music hall. It had a 65-foot tall glass roof, and was illuminated with over 3,000 light bulbs. To provide electricity, there were four dynamos that generated 3,200 amps of power. These dynamos also powered a complete air circulation system, and pump, that brought refrigerated water from the basement to the rooftop area -- providing what was a very early version of air conditioning ... in 1896!

Not to be outdone by any other venue, the rooftop also had trees, rocks, and even a stream that eventually led to a 40-foot lake. There were swans, ducks, and even South American monkeys.

And, while you were enjoying all of this, you could walk around the perimeter of the roof, and take in views of Central Park and neighboring New Jersey.

At the time, the cost of admission for everything, including entertainment, was only 50-cents! However, keep in mind, with the rate of inflation from 1896 to 2025, that same fifty cent admission price would be equivalent to roughly $15 to $20 today.

STEP FOUR

The Scientific American publication was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845. Contributors of note include Thomas Edison, Robert Goddard, Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein, and Linus Pauling -- just to name a few.

STEP FIVE: The SOLUTION

The answer to the filling of the Ark with water is a simple one … the water funnel on the top of the Ark is attached to a hose that runs down through the support beams, then empties under the stage. The water never fills the Ark in the first place.

Other than taking creative license with a few details (for instance, the real ark was never filled with water), it was a wonderful opportunity for audience members to experience one of the great Biblical events on the grand Broadway stage.

Perhaps one day we'll see a revival of the Noah's Ark Illusion, or a variation on the theme. In the meantime, I'm glad to have been able to bring it to you with this Celebrate the Bible 250 podcast.

So, until we meet again, and for celebratethebible250, this is Francis Douglas.


If you would like me to give a presentation and small exhibit to your church group, school, or organization, on the History of the Christian Holy Bible in America, I’ll place contact information below as the 2026 Semiquincentennial America 250 year approaches.

I will be available for Southern New Jersey, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Northern Delaware.

Source: Noah's Ark on Broadway

[revenblue]

Fanfic Extension/Userscript Reclist

To make your fanfic browsing a whole lot easier.

Firefox (and forks thereof)

Disclaimer: My experience is with a particularly broken install of Firefox, followed by a fork called IceDragon. (And, er, not anything based off Firefox Quantum.)

Ao3rdr, for use on AO3. Adds filtering, fic ratings (handy in combination with AO3 Savior) including a way to hide fics completely, bookmarking. I personally haven't used it all that much, because I've found AO3 Savior does basically everything I need, but it's an option.

Fanfiction-tools, for use on FFN. Makes a few minor tweaks to the site, such as colour-coding wordcount and update frequency, showing a chapter length average, adding endless scrolling, and making dark theme a hell of a lot nicer. Also basic filtering, marks/removes terms you set; doesn't have an option to leave placeholders (to you know how much you're not seeing). Also also lets you select how to view the filters (I have mine set on the side of the page instead of the popup).

FanFic Filter, for use on FFN. As of writing this I've only used the Chrome version, but I doubt it'd be much different. Also, note the "Not compatible with Firefox Quantum" (but if you're using an older version or a fork that tries to maintain compatibility, it's an option).

Chrome (and Opera, Vivaldi, etc)

Disclaimer: I greatly dislike Chrome, so opinions will be based on my poking around in Vivaldi.

FanFic Filter, for use on FFN. Adds filtering summaries, both positive and negative, with ship wildcards to catch all variations. Note that positive means "show me only this" and negative means "don't show me this"; the former is a bit of a bother when you want different filters for different fandoms. Also has an extended character filter, although I haven't managed to get that part to work in Vivaldi as of yet.

Ao3rdr, for use on AO3. Should work the same as the Firefox version.

Extension Of Our Own, for use on AO3. Lets you filter your subscriptions, provides more details, etc. Has to analyse the subscriptions page every time, and in Vivaldi it didn't quite finish loading, but it's worth a look.

Fanfiction.net Story Parser, for use on FFN. Clashes slightly with FanFic Filter, unfortunately (I had to adjust the settings for page width to 95%). The settings menu is complicated and I didn't really understand what was going on at first glance. I currently have this one disabled, personally.

FanFiction Organizer, for FFN and AO3. I haven't used this personally, but the purpose seems clear enough. Marking fics or authors as liked/dislike to see at a glance what could be worth reading, and optionally hiding "disliked". Someone also made a userscript equivalent, which I have limited experience with.

Userscripts

Here's where it gets fun. Use Greasemonkey if you're on Firefox, Tampermonkey on Chrome.

Disclaimer: I primarily use Greasemonkey 3.1 and the latest Tampermonkey. (Some of the AO3 scripts stopped working with a later version of Greasemonkey and I'm not sure why.)

AO3 Savior, for use on AO3. Blacklist your notp. Blacklist that trope you hate. Blacklist that author who keeps clogging up the tag you're in. (And they'll never have to know, muahaha!) Comes with a show/hide button in case you're just that curious. Lets you show placeholders or remove the fic from your screen entirely (placeholders are default). This is a lifesaver. Slightly-outdated guide, but the important info still works. Current version has a separate filter list, make sure you install that too.

AO3 Crossover Savior, for use on AO3. Never scroll past the entirety of that 107-work monstrosity from your fandom again. Counts the number of fandoms a work is tagged with and hides anything with more than the number you set (default is 2, anything with 3+ fandoms will be hidden). Same show/hide button as AO3 Savior.

Floaty Review Box, for AO3 and FFN. The. Best. Userscript. Ever. Adds a button for a floaty review box (like the name) that scrolls with you, so you can comment as you read. "Insert" button lets you insert what you read (on AO3). FFN version's "insert" button doesn't work properly but the script seems to allow highlighting of text so that's good enough, you can copypaste it in. FFN version also can't be moved once it appears. (If you know a bit of javascript and/or css you can edit the script to be more convenient in terms of size/placement/preferred quote indicators.) AO3 version gives a "latest chapter" button while browsing tags/bookmarks, too.

Kudos/Hits Ratio, for AO3. Just in case you wanted more stats to track. Note: Will break AO3 a little if you don't strip out the @require line in the header.

AO3: Kudosed and seen history, for AO3. Tells you what you've seen, kudos'd, bookmarked... Best if you only use the one browser, though. Note: Will break AO3 a little if you don't strip out the @require line in the header.

AO3: Comment Formatting Options, for AO3. Gives you buttons to add (the html for) italics, bold, etc to your AO3 comments, including putting it around highlighted words. Only applies to the official comment box at the end of the page (ie not Floaty Review Box's one). Also has a weird quirk of sticking your cursor right at the end of the text when you add any formatting.

ao3 tweak formatting, for AO3. The primary use I have for this one is, well, you know those fics with extra-wide line spacing? It can strip that. There's also other options if something's a different kind of formatting eyesore.

ao3 clone subscribe button, for AO3. Gives you a second subscribe button at the end for when you're too lazy to scroll back up. Note: Will break AO3 a little if you don't strip out the @require line in the header.

Fanfiction Qomplete, for FFN (and Fimfic). Gives you a button to see the entire fic on the one page. Particularly useful with painfully short chapters, because who wants to load a whole page just to read another 100 words? Also hides the review box (so Floaty Review Box won't work when it's active), which to me is a downside, but you can open up individual chapters from the links it adds if you really have something to say. Note: Tends to clash with Stylish themes.

Fanfiction.net - Customize Default Result Filter, for FFN. Reloads the base fandom page with your preferred filters in place, so you don't have to filter in M-rated fics every time or whatever.

Fanfiction.net: Not-Crossover Link, for FFN. Just in case you got to a fandom via crossovers and want to browse the things that aren't crossovers (like I did earlier).

There are more scripts available on Greasyfork, for both AO3 and FFN. Poke around, see what works for you. These are just the ones I like :P

[shamelesslymkp]

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You may notice me liking your posts but not reblogging them! Do not be too disappointed - odds are that I am reblogging them but they've gone into the Great Vortex of Queued Posts; check your notes again in like... 10-20 business days.

Before You Follow: Content Warnings

WARNING THE FIRST:

This blog is sometimes NSFW and occasionally contains images, videos, and writing of the pornographic variety (more specifically of the kinky variety). Blacklist the words "NSFW" and "KINK" to only see the vanilla geeky gleefulness. I also recommend blacklisting either my "i eat fic for breakfast" or "via:pinboard" tags due to the automated feed of fics I've recently bookmarked on pinboard, which include a copy of the original author's AO3 tags in the content of the text post.

Please note that if you are using Tumblr's native blacklist function, you must blacklist the specific tags "nsfw for kate's bls" and "kink for kate's bls" to ensure the posts are filtered.

Update, July 2019: While I do comply with Tumblr's ban on adult-only (visual) content, I do reblog and/or post explicit and/or kink-related content (particularly resources) from time-to-time.

This means that this is still an ADULTS-ONLY blog!

If you are under 18 (or whatever the legal age is in your country), Stop. Do not pass go. Unfollow my blog. Do not look at my archive. Do not like or reblog explicit or kinky materials I have posted or reblogged. Come back when you’re older.

This is mainly an honor system kind of thing, but if I happen to discover a minor following me, I will a) ask you to unfollow immediately and b) block you if necessary.

WARNING THE SECOND:

Unfortunately, due to a frequent lack of spoons and an increasing reliance on phoneblogging, I no longer can commit to regularly tagging content on this blog. I still try to tag for (at the very least) NSFW and kinky content, and for common triggers such as sucidal ideation, talk about self-harm, etc., but I cannot commit to it. I sometimes manage to tag posts about politics or discourse, but not always. Please protect yourself and follow with caution.

[shinelikethunder]

aftermarket hacks: a love letter

Not reblogging directly from @star-anise​ because the post is long e-fucking-nough already, but yeah, hey, let’s talk about actual useful things you can do with third-party code on AO3!

Simple stuff you could potentially do with the contents of the page, plus maybe some on-the-spot data-fetching:

Detect quotes from the fic text in comments, and float a little expandable comment marker next to that line in the text.

Make user links point to the user’s full works page. Or their profile.

Or auto-attach profile info to the default user-dashboard view.

On individual works, look for a “remix/reuse policy” paragraph in the author’s profile and display it after the notes section if found.

Set a work’s bookmarks page to only show the ones with tags/comments

Guilty Pleasure Ratio #1 on all work pages: anon kudos to logged-in kudos

More complicated stuff you could potentially do with local storage and periodic background fetches:

Guilty Pleasure Ratio #2 on your stats page and your works: private bookmarks to public bookmarks

Sticky / always-on “exclude” filters

Designate certain users as trusted bookmarkers, and whenever a fic they’ve bookmarked appears anywhere on the site, display the bookmark tags in a separate section below the work tags. I’ve seen this floated as a way to share warnings for, e.g., untagged racism while dodging the absolute shitshow of abuse potential you’d get with full crowdsourced tagging.

Not gonna venture into extensions that submit actions on the user’s behalf, because you really don’t want to fuck around with that lightly, but I do wonder if you could turn the “create bookmark” form into something along the lines of XKit’s one-click reblogs. Or pre-fill its tags/collections fields with ones you’ve used recently.

Stuff you can already do:

Floating Comment Box aka the best thing ever

Sticky / always-on filters - Exists as a userscript but I’m not sure whether it makes full use of the new “exclude” filters, someone should experiment with that... there’s also another one that lets you save searches and track them for updates

Bookmarking extras: star ratings, specific chapters, last-read date, update checking, track last reading position

“You might also like” recommendations (one userscript, in beta; note that it collects browsing data to crunch into recs; plenty of room for other people to post their versions of this too)

Filling localization gaps (translating menus into Chinese, adjusting typography and word counts)

Shortcuts: download buttons and “entire work”/”last chapter” links in work listings without having to click through, estimated reading time, tag ID on tag feeds, first/last chapter links on work pages, a subscribe button at the end of the work as well as the beginning, full user menu in the global dropdown, chapter navigation by arrow keys, quick links to more by this author in this fandom/pairing/etc

Highlighting (or hiding!) fics you’ve already read/kudosed

So many blacklisting options to go with your filters. So many. By user, including comments and kudos. By specific work. By pairing, character, freeform tag, whether it’s a crossover, whether your OTP is a secondary pairing, whether it’s a non-beginning part of a series. Hide works with too many tags, or just too many relationships. If you’ve got a blacklisting need that’s too fine-grained even for these, someone will probably write it for you just so it exists.

Selectively hiding parts of a work you don’t want to see: individual tags (or highlight ‘em!), lowercase tags, images, author’s notes, empty/double-spaced paragraphs...

Many, many options to display various ratios of kudos, bookmarks, hits, and hits-per-chapter. Although I haven’t seen any with the Guilty Pleasure ratios yet.

Most of these are userscripts; a handful are browser extensions. None of them are mobile apps because, well, any helpful AO3-related mobile apps just got nuked from orbit along with the scummy ones. That means custom functionality is mainly a desktop thing at the moment. AFAIK Firefox for Android allows extensions, including Tampermonkey, but I’m not actually running any userscripts on it so I can’t personally vouch for their availability. iOS users, to the best of my knowledge, are shit outta luck unless they’ve got a jailbroken iPhone.

[longlivefeedback]

Hey - so I saw chapter kudos were a no, and I get why, but I was wondering if there were any changes that were still in the works that would make it easier to comment from a mobile device. One reason I wanted something like a chapter kudos was b/c I read on my phone and its hard to type out a coherent comment and avoid hitting wrong buttons on my phone when I just want to say a quick "Love this chapter, thanks for the update" message.

We don’t know if ao3 has any changes in the works to improve commenting on mobile. This doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t, but we don’t know of any. While we’d love to see, for example, a native floating review box that could be hidden or made visible while reading on mobile, or native in-line commenting, we don’t have an answer yet as to whether these are something ao3 would ever be willing or able to pursue. However, on the user end of things, there are a few current suggestions and future directions we want to pursue.

Save a list of template comments in the notes app on your phone to copy-paste/modify after you read a story.

Open the fic in a second window or use the notes app on your phone to compose a comment while reading or copy-paste lines of the fic for reference.

Use bookmarks/recommendations as feedback. While many people don’t feel comfortable leaving a single word or sentence reply, creating a bookmark allows you to make it as-is, add a single word or tags (e.g., funny, sexy, domestic dog show au), or save it for easy access to leave a longer description or comment later. Read about how to create bookmarks-as-recs here, and how to tag bookmarks here.  

Userscripts. From what I can find, it is possible to use userscripts on android or jailbroken iOS devices. However, I don’t know if these actually work (for example, does the floaty review box hide the entire screen or even function on a mobile device), and I don’t have a way to test them myself. Here is a little more about what is available. If anyone has additional info on this, please let us know. 

Take part in the google doc in-line commenting project.

- Mod Rose

[shamelesslymkp]

@monstersqueen replied to your post “@monstersqueen reblogged your post “Petition for ao3 to have the...”

Wait it's already been more than a week? Gods I'm so sorry for that. In general I've been very glad with my AO3 experience so I can't think of anything i'd like to see especially, but if you have userscripts recs...

SEE THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT, AND THEN . EVERYTHING CHANGED!!

[shamelesslymkp]

Hello & Welcome to Today’s Episode of MKP Recs Useful Shit!!

OK, so I recently started using some userscripts designed specifically for use on the ao3, and they have been life-changing, which sounds overly dramatic I know and probably is overly dramatic, but honestly they’ve made my fic-reading experience so much better and easier since I started using them!

So. First of all: 

In order to use any of these, you need to have a browser extension like Tampermonkey installed. Once you have a user scripts manager running in the background, you can easily install these userscripts from GreasyFork!

(MKP, I hear you saying. MKP, I know what a userscript is. I know how to install them. Get to the damn point already. SO! Without further ado.)

MKP’s Non-Comprehensive List of Awesome AO3 Userscripts

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

AO3 Pinboard Button & Pinboard Button Options

OK, so this is only essential if you actually have a Pinboard account, but! if you DO! ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL, HOLY SHIT, I think I’ve posted about this one before - this userscript takes Flamebyrd’s amazing amazing bookmark-AO3-fics-on-Pinboard-the-SMART-way bookmarklet and turns it into a button right on the site itself:

Like the bookmarklet, it requires some setup to use effectively - luckily, most users will be able to do their setup entirely through the provided GUI! I’m a bit of a ... special case, when it comes to bookmarking shit, so I ended up doing a lot of manual fucking with a) the javascript of the browser bookmarklet and b) the userscript configs in order to get the results I wanted. (Still haven’t figured out how to get the userscript to grab the fandom and author names and include them in the bookmark title along with the fic title, which works fine with the bookmarklet version, but that’s a minor complaint, really.)

AO3: Highlight Tags

I did not know I needed this but now that I have it I’m never going back, I have seen the light and it is glorious and color-coded!!

This script essentially will scan all tags visible on the loaded page and will highlight tags matching pre-defined terms with a pre-defined color. As far as I can tell there isn’t a limit on the number of tag keywords you can set up, and it lets you use wildcards, which is fantastic!

This one’s pretty tricky to get set up with anything beyond the most simplest of configs, ngl, but so. fucking. worth it.

See it in action here!

AO3: Kudosed & Seen History

OK, so if you’re like me and you a) read truly impressive and awe-inspiring amounts of fic on a regular basis and b) have the memory of a squirrel, you may find this fic incredibly useful! Allows you to quickly identify fics you’ve already read/enjoyed, either so you can avoid them and read something new, or so you can find comfortable re-reads that you already know you’ll like! This is a super powerful script, with a lot of options. Don’t be intimidated, though! The script author actually provided as part of the script a GUI method of modifying the configs! After installing the script, refresh your AO3 page and take a look at the top menu bar, where you’ll see a new tab entitled ‘Seen Works’. That drop-down menu will let you customize to your heart’s content!

Depending on how you configure this script, you can:

highlight visually works you’ve already left kudos on

hide works you’ve already left kudos on

highlight visually works you’ve already bookmarked* 

hide works you’ve already bookmarked

mark works as ‘seen’** 

highlight visually works you’ve already marked as seen

hide works you’ve already marked as seen

*The ‘bookmarked’ indicator is independent of the ‘kudosed’ indicator and the two indicators are visually distinct from each other, making it easy to tell if you’ve both kudosed and bookmarked a work, or only done one of the two. 

**This can be done manually on an individual basis at the fic level, manually en masse at a page level (marks all fics on the page as seen), and/or automatically when a fic is opened, if that option is selected.

See it in action here!

DEAD USEFUL, THAT 

AO3 Download Buttons

Adds download buttons to each work blurb on AO3's works index pages, letting you download fics on the go without needing to click into each one!

AO3 Clone Subscribe Button

Literally just duplicates the “Subscribe” button down at the very end of the fic, which tbh seems like a more logical place for it to be than at the top, but that’s why userscripts exist, right?

AO3 Tag Hider

Collapses the taglist of fics that are tagged with more than a pre-defined maximum number of tags. This can be a godsend when browsing, especially when browsing on mobile! Personally, I found the default cutoff far too extreme - I was missing out on a lot of the genre/mood/trope tags - but modifying the max is easy enough. 

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT IN ACTION!

AO3 Series Collapser

Collapses the listing of any fic marked as part of a series except if listed as the first in the series. Useful for those who like reading things in order and/or really hate sp0ilers.

AO3 Crossover Savior

Allows one to hide fics that are tagged with more than a pre-defined maximum number of distinct fandoms. This is different from the AO3 native ‘Exclude Crossovers’ option and can be used to filter out fics that are being used as a collection of miscellaneous ficlets across a wide variety of fandoms while still allowing actual crossovers to appear in the search results.

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT IN ACTION!

AO3 Relationship Savior

Allows one to hide fics that are tagged with more than a pre-defined maximum number of relationships. This can be used to filter out fics that are being used as a collection of miscellaneous ficlets across a wide variety of fandoms and fics that are over-tagged with background and secondary relationship tags. The lower the maximum, the more likely it is that you’ll be missing out on fics featuring your preferred pairing.

AO3: Links to Last Chapter and Entire Works

This userscript affects work index pages, adding links to both the entire work and the most recent chapter directly following the fic’s title. By default, the links will show up as “E” for entire work and “L” for latest chapter, but that can be easily changed by editing the userscript.

AO3: Links to First and Last Chapter

This userscript, on the other hand, affects the pages of individual works. When reading a chaptered fic, it adds links to the first chapter and to the most recent chapter in addition to the already existing previous and next buttons.

AO3: Links for Entire Works

If, like me, you default to always opening the entire work instead of screwing around with chapter buttons and indices, you may find this userscript helpful! When you view a chaptered fic in the Entire Work view, you still see the chapter headings showing up/interrupting the text at the beginning of each next chapter; clicking that chapter heading will redirect you to the page for that specific chapter and pull you out of the Entire Work view. This userscript adds little up/down arrow links following each chapter heading, allowing you to jump up to the beginning of the last chapter, or down to the beginning of the next one.

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT LATENCY

AO3 Saved Filters

Gives one the ability to set pre-defined persistent filters on all search/index pages - filters can be saved as global or as fandom-specific. This obviously is awesome for excluding tags you’re always manually filtering out, but also has the perhaps-not-quite-as-obvious capability to set defaults for language and completion status. In order to default to always only seeing results in English, for example, you just need to add the filter words “language_id:1″ to the global filters field. 

Obviously a very useful and powerful tool! It does, however, at least in my experience, take a little longer to load than the page itself does, meaning the page will refresh again shortly after having fully loaded, which may or may not bother you. I found it was too jarring personally for me to use it on an everyday basis, but it really does work and it really is awesome.

(I’m afraid I don’t know the other language IDs off the top of my head, but the AO3: Display Tag ID userscript is a good tool for finding out - does just what it says on the tin, and displays the numerical string used in the backend to denotate the tag in question. Note that this only works on tags considered ‘canonical’!)

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Additional AO3 userscripts can be found on GreasyFork.

Bonus: Additional Scripts for Pinboard Users 

AKA When I Play Pin-the-Fic-on-Pinboard I Always Play to Win

Murklins’s userscripts are archived here on the static copy of the now defunct Userscripts.org. I especially recommend the following, with the caveat that these scripts have not been updated in years and I have not recently tested their functionality:

Pinboard - Sort Visible Links

Pinboard - Organize Taglist in Posting Page

Pinboard - Taglist Highlighting in Posting Page

Pinboard - URL Cleaner 

Additional Pinboard userscripts can be found on GreasyFork.