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Nosferatu (2024) Site Skin

First ao3 site skin that I've slapped together. Based on @ao3commentoftheday's Dracula's Castle ao3 site skin! I've been working on this so long (mostly fighting w ao3 html tbh) so I slapped this together and I'm releasing it to the world! Have fun y'all <3

ao3commentoftheday

Dracula's Castle AO3 site skin

Video description: a logged in user navigating AO3. The site is in dark mode with an image of a castle on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by clouds and with a full moon shining in the sky. The lighting is a teal blue rather than white or yellow.

As the user navigates the site, the image background stays in place. Areas with text have a semi-transparent background that allows the user to both read the pale-blue text and also see the dark image behind it. Headers, boxes, and buttons have glow effects on them.

On the homepage, the users favourite tags are each contained in a box with rounded corners and a glow behind it. Each tag is preceded by either a 🌙 or a 💫, recoloured to match the text. The site header and footer both have a black background.

When browsing works, there is a ▫️(also recoloured to match the text) that indicates when the tag type switches from warnings to relationships, from relationships to characters, and from characters to additionals. Warning tags have a solid teal background. Relationships have a semi-transparent teal background. Character and Additional tags have a black background. All tags are separated by being in boxes and each box has a glow effect. The icons at the top left of the fic blurb are desaturated in colour and also glow.

The search form has a transparent background and all of the text and lines are teal. There are glow effects on the outer box of the form as well as on the text entry areas.

On the user's dashboard, work blurbs have a transparent background and a glowing border around them. The dashboard has a semi-transparent blue background and is outlined in glowing teal. The current page is indicated by a more opaque background on the page's link. Works that have been visited have a grey title. End description.

If you want to visit Dracula's Castle while browsing AO3, head on over to github and grab this skin. Instructions are available at the link.

This site skin looks better on a landscape screen rather than a portrait screen, but I might do a variation that looks better on mobile (or maybe it looks fine? you tell me) Editing to add: I posted a video of how it looks on mobile, if you wanted to see that perspective.

archivalcordial

Until Dawn AO3 Skin

Find the CSS here!: Github | Docs

NOTE: MOBILE AND DESKTOP VERSION ARE SEPERATE CSS — FOR THE BEST VIEWING EXPERIENCE USE THE CSS THAT CORRESPONDS TO YOUR DEVICE

AO3 icons made by Zerafinacss !

Ao3 Logo in header was made by me Other elements are from Until Dawn/Pinterest :)

MOBILE VIEW:

If theres any issues/bugs and whatnot feel free to message me so I can get it fixed!

xhcoffee

𝔞𝔬3 𝔰𝔨𝔦𝔫

𝓁ℴ𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓈ℴ𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒾𝓁𝓁𝓊𝓈𝒾ℴ𝓃

i finally finished this skin 😆 found a bug today and fixed it tho

the inspo comes partly from destiel, partly from Ultraviolence, and a bit from Hannibal

so yeah… enjoy 🖤

if you wanna use it, here’s the code

based on this pretty skin and this one

setup steps:

click the code link above — it’ll open a long block of code. copy all of it (don’t include the title). it’s way easier to do this on desktop since mobile has copy limits

on AO3, go to your username → dashboard → skins → create site skin

give it a unique title, paste the CSS you copied, then scroll down and hit submit

once it’s created, just click “use” to apply the skin 🖤

hope there aren’t too many mistakes lol my english kinda sucks 😭

If you share my skin, please link back to the original post on my Tumblr. Thank you! Your likes really motivate me to keep creating🥺

inegenly

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Did you ever think to yourself, "I wish AO3 looked as pretty as Ellipsus, with the same themes to choose from?"

Well, now you can!

I've created a series of site skins based on Ellipsus themes. Just follow the instructions and copy the code!

FIG ESPRESSO

A dark mode theme that's described by @ellipsus-writes as "dark roast, coziness, old books, secret plotting by candlelight".

xhcoffee

ao3 site skin · Eternal Lost

hesitant-killjoy

🩸MCR Revenge skin for A03🩸

I used the AO3 Reversi theme as a base. Get it here (GitHub) or here (AO3) 🩸

Mobile previews 👇

thevalkyrieflies

constellations ao3 skin!!!

okay here!

i made an ao3 skin looklooklook

:))))

its an altered version of this green fireflies one

im really proud of this for no reason all i did was change the colors but anyways you guys should still reblog if you use it definitely id be very happy :)))))))))

edit: oh my god fine. it's not copy and paste anymore fine okay?? here's the link to github. for fuck's sake guys 😭

edit 2: here's a post tut i made on how to use these!

hayo-bsh

Uhh hey chat, new ao3 skin just dropped

(not perfect, still has it's issues)

computer

phone

adapted from: this orca skin

copy & paste:

#outer { background: #140506; } #inner { background: url("https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1c/9c/e8/1c9ce8bcc4aacaf099c22d4e5e2c16b7.jpg"), url("ht

comment with you're using! :)

UPDATE: i changed the code, it should work now (but still, tell me if it doesn't)

meanbossart

does DU drow has a house he's from? like do'urden, baenre, oblodra etc. if he does, which one is it? and if he doesn't, which one would most likely fit him in your opinion? (i am genuinely in love with your artstyle btw)

I don't think he can even pronounce most drow names 💀

Cheekiness aside, the answer is complicated. DU drow was found as a (very weird) baby lying in a pool of blood and mud somewhere in the Underdark's wilderness. He was taken in by the slaves of a drow matriarch and "adopted" by her - though he was treated more like a pet than a child (or at least slightly worse than the average male baby). His resilience was a source of entertainment for the drow mother as he survived on scraps of food and house pests without as much as a cry or complaint, and at some point even killed a neighbour's child. Alas, before she could begin to grow any feal fondness for him, a 11-year-old DU drow killed her and escaped the Underdark with Sceleritas' guidance.

That was probably a smaller house that did indeed have a name - but it's totally irrelevant to his story since the head matron is no more, and her biological adult child had died shortly before DU drow was brought in.

wyrninotwynri

I made something stupid Im

And before anyone gets mad, yes I know Loki is genderqueer/genderfluid* in the comics, I dont know that much about Adam comic wise- (I just recently got into him) I just thought this would be silly to make </33

also does this count as my contribution to warloki </3

cripplecharacters

How to go about writing tics? I have tics but I never know how to write them naturally, especially cause I often forget I even have them. To me it's like describing blinking or something? But I of course want the character to notably have tics, even though my internal experience of tics isn't very noticeable to me? If that makes sense?

Hello!

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen is a book about a character (Sam) with Tourette's syndrome, written by an author who also has Tourette's. One of the things I really appreciated about the book was that it described Sam's tics in a way that made sense with how they felt as somebody with Tourette's.

In the book, Sam's tics are generally described when they're relevant. Usually, this is either to show that he's upset/otherwise worked up about something or as a way to build tension within the narrative itself. Although it doesn't necessarily mean that Sam isn't ticcing otherwise, it came across as the tics being more noticeable in those moments -- which I felt was a nice touch.

Consider the following passage from the book:

I glance around. My muscles don't jerk, and I close my eyes. I breathe deep, and like the third runner who finally catches up, the overtakes me. Slowly at first–a hard eyeblink. But that's not enough; there's more that has to work its way out, and my teeth grind. Movement spreads to my shoulder, and soon my whole body springs to twitchy life.

Even without the rest of the context of the scene, the description of his tics is enough to convey how he's feeling in the moment.

In the more mellow portions of the book, his tics aren't generally described at all, which helps it to feel more calm.

Another thing I liked it that they're described in the same way as any other action or movement.

This is another passage from the book:

The class groans, Heather swears, and my shoulder jumps. My elbow knocks my textbook to the floor with a thump.

Although the author doesn't explicitly say that Sam is ticcing, we as readers can get that idea from the way it's described. Essentially, this is to say that you don't need to explicitly specify when something is a tic or not – your audience will generally pick up on it.

With verbal tics (Especially ones that involve speech), it can be a bit harder. There's a kind of balance you want to strike between showing the tics and still making sure that the dialogue is readable.

While discussing verbal tics that occur outside of dialogue (i.e. Not interrupting the character's speech), I'd suggest marking the tic as such through dialogue tags. Words such as "blurted" or "exclaimed" can imply an unintentional aspect to the speech.

You could also describe how the character is experiencing the tic themself (If it's from their POV).

This is another passage from Jerk, California:

"No thanks, Jace. I'll stay with Sam." "Hah!" The word fires from my mouth. I purse my lips and bite my swollen tongue, but my vocal cords are locked and there's nothing I can do. "Stay with Sam! Stay with Sam!"

If you're writing in the POV of another character, you could describe how it looks from their perspective. Though I'd be careful with this, as it can come across as mockery if it's not done well.

With verbal tics that do interrupt dialogue, be careful to ensure it's not too frequent as it can make it difficult to read. I'd also suggest using some sort of formatting to identify tics vs general dialogue.

An example could be: (Note: This is not from the book)

"You know, I don't think–hey!–that would be a good idea."

That said, you would have to establish that the character has tics beforehand (And, ideally, establish this speech pattern as such), otherwise it can look more like an interruption or something similar.

I'd definitely suggest taking a glance through some books about characters with tics, just to see the format that other authors use. There's a wide range of options out there and the book I referenced here is just one of many ways to do it.

Cheers,

~ Mod Icarus