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HTML Fic Rec Monday

Welcome to the Adventurer's Guild by Erina

In which the characters play Genshin Impact, if Genshin Impact had teams, competitive rankings, and friendly fire.

A cute (but unfinished) story told from various different Genshin character's POVs as players of Genshin Impact. This fic uses a beautiful custom chat skin based on the in-game Genshin chat window and has a ton of very funny interactions between characters.

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A good starter pack for getting into HTML!

would you be willing to share some tips about how you did some of the html in your how to start a cult series? it was a super fun read!! but now that I'm writing something that incorporates tweets, emails, and messages, I'm really struggling with it so I was wondering if there was maybe a resource you had or a good starting point beyond just "here's how you can do italics"?

in no specific order:

w3schools is your friend

googling "[specific problem you're experiencing] stackoverflow" is your second best friend

make sure you know the difference between straight quotes and smart quotes. it is Very Important. (html only recognizes straight quotes. text editors like gdocs and word default to smart quotes. this can create problems.)

DOWNLOAD A CODE EDITOR, LMAO. dont be past!me; dont use google docs. i hear vscode is great.

for ao3 specific html weirdness, this page is helpful. (ive also started a log of weird ao3 stuff ive personally noticed on my github, but they're mostly edge cases you won't run into)

there's a TON of html guides and examples in this collection. there's also this other collection, which is smaller and probably a good place to start for beginners

hope this was helpful??

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hello Ao3 HTML users-- tis I the person with the Ao3 HTML masterpost. I recently co-wrote a fic with the most HTML I've ever used, and I thought the fine people here would appreciate it. It's an epistolary fic (told through a collection of documents) based around the game Phasmophobia. Please enjoy and I wish you luck on your future HTML endeavors!

This is EXTREMELY cool! I've only skimmed through it but that's a ton of different CSS you're using, and a ton of different types of media. I can only imagine how much time that took you.

Also thanks for your extremely detailed and organized HTML masterposts! You are doing a service 🫡

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HTML Fic Rec Monday

this account's tweets are protected by alsahm and benetnash

fandom au, where joker is a big name fan, crow is his favorite fic author, and everything goes even worse than expected.

This Persona 5 AU is told primarily via twitter feeds and DMs. The authors paid meticulous attention to POV and details like profile pictures and number of likes, and the result is a very clean and enjoyable reading experience. The plot itself is also a ton of fun, though we won't say anything more and spoil it for anyone. The authors also have a list of the workskins they used in the final chapter's author's note, if you see anything you like and want to replicate for your own stories.

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HTML Fic Rec Monday

@heyitsspiderman by meggannn

This fic was written in 2019 as a hypothetical sequel to Into the Spiderverse, and, just like the movie that inspired it, it pushes the limits of the medium to tell a fantastic story. The fic follows Miles's adventures as Spiderman after the events of the movie, and reconnecting with his interdimensional spidermen! It all starts when Miles gets a text from an unknown number - a number that didn't originate in this universe.

But this fic doesn't use JUST texting, it has tweets, reddit posts, post it notes (+ other stationary) and even a spotify playlist!

Note: this fic came out way before Across the Spiderverse. Also, this fic is locked to ao3, and will require you to be logged in, to read it.

[jihnari]

hehehehe

behold: the next evolution to Y/N fics.

fully functional on ao3 baybeeeee

still need to update the button to be less ugly. and actually write the fic. and i have a bunch of ideas for how to change the narrative depending on the choice of character that might end up being insane. and i feel a little bad because the story will be entirely prose instead of social media but the code behind it is COOL AS HELL (and took me a massive amount of time and effort) (and the code for the prose will be SO VERY UGLY and i am not looking forward to it) so im counting it as #htmltryhard.

(shout out to @mystyrust who held my hand through all the horrible math behind that tiny button)

Informal check-in time! Don't forget, we start posting on January 13.

Are you working on anything you're excited about? Do you have any fun HTML to share? Let us know!