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[pika-bitch-iii]

Welcome to my writing side-blog! I mostly post chapter updates here, or random-relevant content.

Snowfall (Shindeku longform) has been completed!

Currently, I’m working on:

feelings are fatal, a JJK/Hogwarts Hana/Ozawa??? Apparently??? Catch my Hogwarts schedule spreadsheets here

Currently on the back burner:

We Could Be Heroes, an Uraraka-centric quirkless Izuku/Uraraka gets OFA AU with Kaachako and other background relationships.

I Don’t Smoke, a JJK Junpei Lives AU. This will be intermittently and occasionally added to but each fic is complete on its own

How to Overthrow a Government in Four Years or Less, a JK/HG fic, apparently—detailing Junpei’s Hunger Games all the way to the Capitol’s overthrow, featuring Itajun.

My pseuds include PikaPixie or, if you’re still on fanfic.net, my ancient Naruto fic can also be found there under PikaPixie the Demigod. Feel free to AMA!

See my Spotify and all my fic-related podcasts here and all my Pinterest boards here

You can read my works here:

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

[lourdes-archieve]

@Fanfic writers:

My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool

Lists of tutorials:

How to make images fit in mobile browsers

This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.

How to mimic letters, fliers, and stationery without using images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.

How to make a “choose your own adventure” Fic

This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.

How to make linked footnotes on Ao3

This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.

How to change text on Ao3 when the cursor is hovering over it (or clicked on mobile)

This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.

How to mimic author’s notes and Kudos/Comment buttons

Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons

Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!

How to wrap text around images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.

How to mimic email windows

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.

How to make ios text messages on Ao3

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.

How to make Customized page deviders

Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).

How to make invisible text (That can be highlighted)

This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.

MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.

How to make a rounded playlist

Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.

How to create notebook lined paper on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

Sticky notes on Ao3 without using images

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make deadpool’s thinking thinking boxes on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make newspaper articles on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

[justshushu]

[pika-bitch-iii]

feelings are fatal - Chapter One: bunny hops

Kurusu Hana/Ozawa Yuko

Sometimes my brain just… comes up with things. I don’t make the rules. Anyway fuck JK Rowling Ozawa is trans in this

Also this Whole Thing is largely inspired by this art by @quaithz

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

[pika-bitch-iii]

Chapter 4: Trick Shots is now up! Thank you everyone for your patience as I hit one of my “not very good at writing for my longfics” slumps ehe <3

[darkaviarymc]

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[notgilderoylockhart]

subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

[pika-bitch-iii]

To whichever anon recently commented that they hope the ao3 writers curse doesn’t get me - I see you. I hear you. You sent me to the ER with kidneys full of gravel tho

[aropride]

blorbo = you’re holding them captive

The Character = THEY’RE holding YOU captive

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[bitchfitch]

other things I'm bitching about but which could still be useful as writing advice for 1 eyed characters:

2. they're going to favor their sighted side, obviously, but it doesn't always manifest in the way you think. when I walk down a hall I walk much closer to the wall on my sighted side than on my blind side. which is the opposite of how it might seem logical to do that bc it means the world at large is on your bad side, but the reason is I can't fucking See the wall if it's right next to me in the blind side and I end up knocking into it.

3. door frames and poles are my enemy. If your character is smart this will not be a problem but for me it is. I am King of walking into shit I could absolutely see but couldn't tell how far away from me it was. on this note, their blind side hand is getting bashed into every jutting out thing in a 5 mile radius.

4. having 0 depth perception is less of a big deal than you'd think it is. Especially with driving. I've become a Much safer and more wary driver because I can't tell how far the other cars are from me. however I fucking suck at parking now. because I can't tell how far the lines are from me either.

5. you know how people who lose limbs get phantom pains? that happens with eyes too but like. phantom sights. for me it's like. a lot of bugs. like every so often my brain will just put something suddenly skittering beside me there. hate that.

6. it is completely possible to "get stuck" somewhere because your ability to tell how wide a space is is just Gone. shopping isles especially where bumping something or Someone is matter of embarrassment or potentially breaking something. it can be legitimately paralyzing and also irritate everyone around you because they can tell there is Plenty of space for you to get your cart through even if you can't.

7. if the eye is still in their skull it can still be the normal kind of painful. Glares off of shiny surfaces causing weird sharp pains you can't figure out the cause of are genuinely one of gods greatest tests of my patience.

[flabbergastedpigeon]

Recently finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and I just HAD to sketch this creep

[despair-the-zero]

never getting over them i fear

[pika-bitch-iii]

Well I WAS starting to write the next chapter of holy sick divine, but the ao3 curse decided to smite me with a kidney stone, so instead I’m just boiling myself alive in the bath like a lobster

[pika-bitch-iii]

the holy sick divine nights - itajun

Chapter Nine: there’s always force

The aftermath of Nagi Yoshino’s death and every future day to follow.

Or: the slow and horrifying realization that you are holding the axe above their heads.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57246388/chapters/182563501

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[whereserpentswalk]

In the late 1970s a glowing orb appeared in the sky. Every day at about 5:00 Greenwich standard time, the orb would go somewhere new, shoot out something similar to a laser, and kill one person. Every day, always at the same time, always exactly one person.

The person killed by the orb seemed completely random, with almost fifty years of studying it we've been able to find no rhythm or reason to who it kills. It kills the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the urban, the rural, anyone. Every human on earth seems to have an equal chance of being killed by the orb. It's a headline the few times someone of note is killed by the orb: Britain famously lost a Parliament member to the orb, Brazil to this day remains the only country where a head of state was killed by the orb while in office, there was a short lived sitcom in the 1990s called Friends that ended halfway through its first season due to the orb killing one of the main actors on set. However, these are outliers, on any given day the person who dies via orb is very likely to be someone you never heard of. There are billions of people on earth, and only one is killed by the orb every day. In almost fifty years only a little over 18000 have died because of the orb, which is nothing in the face of the sheer amount of humans that exist.

When the orb first appeared people were horrified. Both the US and USSR thought it was a weapon from the other side. Almost every religion made some claim of it being proof of their beliefs, oftentimes claiming it was divine punishment. Atheists claimed it was proof no loving God could exist. People were so very apocalyptic and horrified by it, they thought of it as part of the end times, because when it was new that's really how it looked.

However, it's been long enough so that's changed. Most people have lived their entire lives in a world where the orb exists. The orb isn't that scary a concept. People know their odds of being killed by it are low and that it's not going to end the world or anything. The orb has become normal, and we've accepted that the orb is just something that kills people the same way cancer, or heart attacks, or natrual disasters, or car crashes kill people. In the nineteen eighties there were efforts to find a way to stop the orb, but it's since proven to be extremely difficult, and it's as distant and nebulous as finding a cure for cancer. When a community is struck by the orb you'll see that community in mourning, but it's not a global thing anymore.

So people grow up learning about the orb, as part of science, like anything else. A lot of gen z remembers learning about the orb from Magic School Bus. It's just something normal. There are a few people with an orb hyperfixation, and a few cults that give the orb importance but it's not most people's concern. The orb is how we first confirmed that interdimensional objects existed and are possible. A lot of people theorize dimensional studies wouldn't exist without it, meaning without the orb we might not have thermitizers or grand drives, we might not even have a moon base without the orb. Some have even rather tastelessly claimed that the orb has saved more lives at this point than its taken with all the knowledge it's given us.

Which is why I regret to inform you, that just last week, without warning, the orb killed two people in one day. And for the past seven days it's been killing two people instead of just one. Nobody knows why.

[whereserpentswalk]

Some more fun facts about the orb and it's impact on society:

The biggest orb research stations are in Asia, as it has the largest population of any landmass and thus is where the orb is most likely to strike. India has more orb research then any other country in the world, and most orb researchers will study there at least once in their life. Japan, Brazil, China, The United States of America, and Pakistan are all also major orb research hubs for similar regions.

The orb takes ten hours to make a complete trip around the world, though because it moves for efficiency it will only ever make a trip of five hours or less. After a death is confirmed orb researchers in the local area will rush miles to get to it, knowing it might be as little as nineteen hours until it's somewhere else, possibly too far away for them to get to. Orb deaths in major cities tend to be selected for research, as they have more nearby researchers. Now that the orb is killing two people a day it's even harder, as the orb could kill someone, and fly for another five hours to kill a second target, giving scientists a mere fourteen hour minimum.

One of the first major orb deaths of a notable person was in December of 1988, when New York real-estate mogul Donald Trump was killed by the orb in one of the orb's brutal public displays of death. He's legacy lives on in the Trump family foundation for orb victims, that provides relief for the families of those killed by the orb.

It's a myth that the orb flies high in the air all the time. It's only up in the sky when it's traveling. After killing someone, it hovers at a mere two to four feet above their head hight until it's ready to kill again. The hight that the orb hovers is tied to the person's height, but still has some random variations.

The orb isn't from the type of dimension most people think it is. Unlike a lot of the deliberately contacted entities it isn't sapient, or even sentient, and seems to be from a dimension that we still can't contact.

In 2005 the orb killed a soldier in active combat agaisnt U.S. troops in Afghanistan. After that much of the American right semi jokingly praised the orb as an American ally. Though for many this was only a joke, for a lot of American evangelicals, who already had strange ideas about the orb's nature, this was further proof that the orb was a source of divine punishment sent to destroy sinners. Since 2005 evangelical obsession with the orb has only increased. As recently as the 2020s, President Ted Cruz not so subtly referenced the "blinding light of God" in a speech about American troops, as an obvious dog whistle.

You cannot touch the orb. It travels by anti gravity, and if you get close enough to touch it, it merely pushes you away. It feels like falling, but you're being sent sideways instead of downwards. Though the experience of being pushed away from the orb isn't dangerous most of the time, everyone whose experienced it has described it as very unpleasant to experience.

There is an orb fetish on the internet, becoming a meme of sorts around 2017 and quietly sticking around for awhile. The orb currently has 481 images of it on rule34, most of them being from the late 2010s. How much of this is ironic will never be truly known to humanity.