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25 | i write | shackled to my bio masters atm ngl ao3: lakeblueside (hopepoint)

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Specters

- ao3 | hopepoint - M | chapters 13/? | 116k -slow burn | paranormal | magical realism - link to chapter one or link to most recent update

“How long have you known?” Jungkook asks cutting him off. “How long have you known you are being haunted?”

Namjoon thinks this can’t be real and that maybe he is still lying in bed imagining all this. But Jungkook's hand on his shoulder anchors him to the present and he thinks fuck it. Maybe they’re both half a brain cell short of crazy but fuck it.

“This morning. It happened this morning.”

or Namjoon doesn’t believe in spirits or ghosts. He’d never admit it to anyone but occasionally he watches an episode or two of those ghost hunting shows. It’s funny to watch them dick around and act like they’re at the forefront of discovering some hidden world. But maybe just maybe that world isn't as far off as he thinks.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[couldntbedamned]

If you come across anyone who starts off with "Scientists don't want you to know..." you need to understand that they're lying. They're completely full of shit and working a grift.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Scientists WANT YOU TO KNOW. Scientists want you to know SO MUCH. Scientists would be THRILLED to teach you EVERYTHING they know in EXPLICIT DETAIL. Scientists LOVE to share information and their findings and their theories. They don't want to hide anything, ever. They are SO HAPPY to share.

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I need everything to support this very specific font because I need to put fun nice like fleurons into my text (sorry traditional/supported fleurons I need more) because like !!! look at all these options, please I need them

like !!! i have my one cute one I'd like everyone to see !! just let me input the text instead of having me put a photo of my little guy instead!!! (photo of my little fleuron guy below)

[skaraptor]

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

[fisticuffy]

Good news, you can do this. You just need to learn and play around with html formatting a bit. Here's a great guide on AO3 of what you can do on the site that isn't immediately available by clicking a button on the upload page. I suggest Chapter 6, but I'll give you a quick and easy example from it. This works on both desktop and mobile, I just tested it.

So imagine you've pasted your fic into the Rich Text option at the bottom of the upload page and you want to add your annotation. (I'm using the dropdown option because it's so easy peasy and mobile friendly, but there are others.) Click the HTML button at the top-right of the Work Text section.

Find the lines of text you want to squeeze your annotation between. [Enter] to make space. And you're going to type:

<details><summary>Whatever you want the header to say</summary>Whatever you want the additional text to say</details>

(In html formatting, you'll have one command at the start telling it what to do and a second command at the end with a slash to tell it you're finished and closing out.)

So for my example if I put:

<details><summary>Side Note:</summary>I wanted to mention something here.</details>

My fic will look like this. (I use dark mode.)

And it will behave like...

Your readers can collapse it again after reading. You don't have to put header text ("Side Note:") if you think that's too distracting. Do a hyphen or something else small between the summary command if you want. Your choice.

Note that this would also be good formatting if you want to include warnings for your fic but don't want to spoil anything, thus making it optional for people to click the dropdown at their discretion.

There is A Lot you can do with html formatting on AO3. I recommend glancing over that guide. And others. Also just any site detailing html. Might work on AO3, might not, but you can try.

[evolutionsbedingt]

So, I was feeling rather grumbly about the <details> option forcing the annotation into a new line and thus breaking the text flow. But as I was complaining to @perchingowl about that (because xe got me into coding so xe gets to listen to my whining) I realised that nothing keeps me from putting the whole paragraph in the <summary> part!

After playing around with it a bit I've settled on this:

<details><summary>text of the paragraph</summary> <blockquote><em>annotation</em></blockquote></details>

As you can see it also works on mobile:

I added the blockquote and emphasis tags to differentiate the annotation from the rest of the text. Unlike La_Temperanza's hover method, which was mentioned most often in the notes, this one doesn't require a workskin, allows for longer commentary, and, most importantly, it works on mobile, without moving the clicked line to the top of your window!

Big caveat: <details> only works if the user is reading on ao3! If they download the fic as epub, all text will be there but only the <em> tags survive. If they download it as pdf the whole annotation vanishes and the arrow becomes unclickable!

(A variation of mackerel_cheese's workskin-based option may be better suited for that, but I'm now too tired to wrangle CSS, so I'll save that for another day.)

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fuck it. redesign

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not rn..... but soon........

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fuck it. redesign

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Brumal Nights Vol. IV

- m | chapters 1/1 | 20.7k - paleontologist Yoongi x ghost Jeongguk - magical realism | yearning | winter solstice - [ ao3 fic link ] | [ audio credits ]

This collection of hours, shared between two souls, catalogues the ephemeral moments unfolding before sunset and ceasing after sunrise.

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Brumal Nights Vol. IV

- m | chapters 1/1 | 20.7k - paleontologist Yoongi x ghost Jeongguk - magical realism | yearning - [ ao3 fic link ] | [ audio credits ]

This collection of hours, shared between two souls, catalogues the ephemeral moments unfolding before sunset and ceasing after sunrise.

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Brumal Nights Vol. IV

- m | chapters 1/1 | 20.7k - paleontologist Yoongi +  mariner Jeongguk - magical realism | yearning - [ ao3 fic link ] | [ audio credits ]

This collection of hours, shared between two souls, catalogues the ephemeral moments unfolding before sunset and ceasing after sunrise.

[marbleboa]

“…And we drank it down, the taste of it sweeter than the food that now rotted on our plates or the drink that curdled in our cups.

And we both tasted it together.”

Friends got to 128 in their TMA rewatch so I decided to finally try my hand at drawing everyone’s favorite deliverymen. I love how they love…

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Distorted Structures

- ao3 | lakeblueside (hopepoint) - M | chapter 1/1 | 34k - vmin | strangers to lovers

summary:

What does it mean to find yourself among the stars?

The answer is simple. To find yourself among the stars means joining a chorus of quiet echoes like a stringed melody reverberating in the interstitial space of two apartments, like water against the sides of a pool, like becoming the dying lights in the sky.

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Artists Once Known | Paintings Washed Away

- T | chapters 1/1 | 8.2k

- a little magic | a little surrealism

From an ocean of deep midnight blues and the white-hot anger of crashing waves, a Being was born. At the same time, another Being was born from the ashes of unyielding sand and arid earth. They met in a hall filled with forgotten frames and pulled closer together under each passing moon.

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first sentences | zee

ao3: lakeblueside (hopepoint)

paper sungrazers [ sope | G | 3k ]

make my heart [ into ] tinder [ sope | G | 1.3k ]

untitled still life I [ namgi | G | 3k ]

falling like tears of willows [ vmin | T | 33.5k ]

[sunkillerlovechild]

Trevor fucking Herbert HAHAHHAHAHAH

genuinely laughing my ass off rn, its so funny to me

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Falling like Tears of Willows

Epilogue | Woven and Stitched

- T | chapters 4/4 | 37k

- reincarnation | magic

For as long as he can remember Jimin tended to the forest alone. Although it's not uncommon for some travelers to stray too close, Jimin quickly learned the price of allowing them to stay. But along comes a man that refuses to forget and refuses to walk away. Afraid that this man will meet the same fate as those who previously strayed too close to him, Jimin pushes him away not knowing the strings of fate will always find a way to tug them together.

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Paper Sungrazers

- general audiences | chapter 1/1 | 3k

- book mender YG + book turned human HS | cozy magic

- a piece i wrote for the lovely @/mygcosmoszine on twitter [ completely forgot to post this earlier ]