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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time to update.
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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- English
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- 28,034
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- 15/15
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- 8
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14 Jun 2026
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After Jack kills a security guard in Dodge City, Cas begins to fear he made a terrible mistake insisting Jack be born at full power.
Searching for solutions, Cas and Dean uncover a Men of Letters device designed to suppress celestial energy under emotional distress. Cas volunteers to test it himself—but when his grace lashes out, he starts to wonder if he’s just as dangerous as Jack.
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- 1/1
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03 Jun 2026
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After a quiet afternoon spent discovering that tying knots and untying knots are, in fact, different skill sets, Dean finds himself overwhelmed by a realisation: some things you never get used to, and some things only get better with time.
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Dean cries during sex.
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- 4,650
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- 1/1
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02 Jun 2026
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It all burns through his body like he's been lit up from the inside out. This matters, he tells himself, don't pretend this doesn't matter.
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01 Jun 2026
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“So uh,” Dean’s voice starts to crack, and he has to blink back some tears. Stupid. He’s gotta say it before he chickens out. He wants Cas to know. “Part of me is kinda– kinda glad you got that. With him. ‘Cause I don't know if I’d be able to give you all that. Even if I want to.”
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- Part 2 of Should Have Known When We Began
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27 Apr 2026
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Infinite Cakes Great Big Bang 2026 - The Crossness Monster by bethmints - Illustrations by tallula03 for bethmints
Fandoms: Supernatural
22 Apr 2026
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- Part 101 of Books and Fanfics Illustrations - 2020-now
- Part 58 of Supernatural Fanarts - 2013-now
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- 207
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- 3/3
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- 2
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22 Apr 2026
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No one's heard from Dean or Sam since right after the pie festival.
A story told in texts, newspaper clippings, and journal entries.
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- Part 1 of Filling in the Blanks
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- 6,002
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- 3/3
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20 Apr 2026
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Dean Winchester is a twenty-five-year-old travel nurse with nothing but a car to his name and wild oats to be sown. Suffice it to say, but he’s not looking for anything serious when he meets Cas Novak, a travel doctor with big blue eyes and a stupid-hot face, and the two of them spend the next few years bumping around different emergency rooms and bumping uglies any chance they get. It’s the perfect no-strings arrangement until Dean catches full-on feelings for the guy, which, given that Cas is even more committed to the no-commitment lifestyle than Dean is, is a pretty stupid thing to do.
Castiel Novak has never been one for casual relationships, but after working so hard during his residency, he deserves to have a little fun. And Dean Winchester, with his green eyes and his crooked smile and his perfectly freckled skin, is fun. And yes, perhaps Castiel should have known better than to hope for their no-strings arrangement to one day lead to something serious, but he comes to his senses eventually. He knows now that Dean is never going to feel the same way.
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Long-term fuck buddies fall for each other but are both too stupid to realize it.
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- English
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- 48,459
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- 7/7
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19 Apr 2026
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How to Mimic Letters, Fliers, and Stationery Without Using Images by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Jul 2017
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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.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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- 3,724
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14 Apr 2026
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"So what'd the Easter Bunny do to piss off a witch, anyway?" Claire asks.
"Witch? Eh," Dean says, tipping his hand from side to side. "Rowena says her great great great—I don't know, a bunch of greats anyway—grandmother. Now she was powerful. Put a spell on a gravy boat—"
"A gravy boat?!"
"Yeah, a gravy boat. Handed down through the generations, yada yada, and this woman—Beth—well, everyone's coming over for Easter, so she gets the good china down from the attic, and—"
"And Great Grandma Gravy Boat, she's the one with a beef with the Easter Bunny?!"Bookmarked by bethmints
04 Apr 2026
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When Dad got sick, Dean helped make ends meet by shaking his chaps-framed ass at Birds of Paradise, Lawrence’s most discreet club. After Dad passed, Dean threw himself into work and into taking care of Sam, burning the candle at both ends to keep himself occupied and to try to get ahead of his debt.
After saving the mysterious, wealthy, and reserved Castiel Novak from a fire at the club, Dean is offered a deal: one night a week at Cas’ penthouse in exchange for Dean’s regular income while the club is being rebuilt.
But despite how much Dean wants it, Castiel still won’t touch him. And the longer Dean waits for Cas to reciprocate, the more the walls he’s built around his repressed grief and stress begin to break down.
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24 Mar 2026
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At eighteen, Castiel Novak thinks he’s an adult. The X’s on his hands at the music venue say otherwise. So does the bartender who shuts him down with, “I don’t think so, kid,” when Castiel asks for his number.
He keeps coming back anyway. For the music. Not the bartender, of course.
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12 Mar 2026
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"So, who asked who?" Sam asks.
Dean takes a noisy slurp of coffee and says nothing, so Sam looks at Cas expectantly.
Cas smiles beatifically at Dean—like the sun shines out of his ass—and says, "Dean and I are already married. Today is officially our fifth anniversary."
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What if Dean and Cas got married for a case and then just... never bothered to get a divorce?
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06 Mar 2026
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there's an angel on my shoulder, in my hand a sword of gold by xylodemon
Fandoms: Supernatural
04 Feb 2014
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"It's not unlike prayer," Cas says slowly. "The words are directed at me, even if you only intend them for yourself."
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- Part 4 of deancas codas: season nine
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28 Feb 2026
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A beat. “You… prayed for me?”
“Must’ve been an accident. Now’s not really a good time, Cas,” Dean strains out. He doesn’t dare let his eyes stray from where they’re locked on the kitchenette table in front of him, like if he can’t see Cas then Cas can’t see him. “Sometimes a man needs his privacy.”
“Is that what you yearn for, Dean? Privacy?”
He gulps down the sinking, sinking feeling that he has been caught with no way out. It’s not the first time in his life that he’s been trapped in a half-truth, and he bears this with as much grace as he ever has in situations like it. Jaw clenched. Ungraceful. “I’m not sure what you’re getting at.”
Cas’s voice is all unflinching divinity from a creature that watched the Library of Alexandria burn. “I feel your longing.”
or the one where dean is so touch-starved that less is more
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28 Feb 2026
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A prince. A knight. A destiny written in the stars. Castiel was raised to hide the truth of himself and what he can do with his powers, but when his world comes crashing down, the halcyon life that both he and Dean have lived for years is upended. Swords, sorcery, secrets – and at the heart of it all is a prophecy that could change everything.
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- 73,160
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- 23/23
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- 178
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25 Feb 2026
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You're a Mirror I Cannot Avoid by Feargach, violethoure666
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
12 Oct 2025
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“To think, if you weren’t so–” Crowley squeezes Dean through his jeans. “Repressed. That could be you there, writhing in his lap.”
Or; Crowley shows Dean what he's missing when Huntercorp Dean and Castiel get close.
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- Part 1 of Should Have Known When We Began
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24 Feb 2026
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Dean Winchester's Guide to the Appalachian Trail by quiettewandering
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Feb 2026
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On the heels of his father’s sudden death, Dean makes the impulsive decision to hike the Appalachian Trail in hopes that it will disconnect him from the world and his grief. However, soon after Dean meets the mysterious Castiel on the trail, hikers begin to disappear, and as Dean hikes more and more miles, it becomes clear that something lurks deep in the woods—an evil whose true nature Dean and Castiel must unravel before it’s too late.
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- English
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- 33,670
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- 10/10
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20 Feb 2026
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Castiel sees his a coworker on a dating app and swipes left to avoid humiliation. Months later, a stray comment outs him to the same coworker, Dean Winchester.
As misunderstandings pile up and avoidance becomes its own kind of harm, Castiel is left asking: how much of the life he’s built is peace and how much of it is just practice at staying unseen?
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06 Feb 2026
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Special Agent Castiel Novak has worked for the FBI for a number of years. His very first undercover mission, which he chooses to accept, is to infiltrate Kansas City’s largest organized crime family. The mission is fairly straightforward and Cas is happy to sacrifice his normal life to clean up the streets of Kansas City.
Then he meets Dean, a young man who has been kidnapped and forced to work for the organization by way of prostitution.
Despite the point of the mission being to take down the organization, Cas finds that he only cares about saving Dean Winchester.
- Language:
- English
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- 48,842
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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05 Feb 2026