Writing Resources for AO3 Multimedia
A collection of works detailing how to embed, add, or mimic social media, websites, and other possible multimedia elements into fic.
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
07 Sep 2026
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You've seen it. A fic formatted like a classified document. A chapter that looks like a real social media feed. An interactive game, somehow, inside an AO3 work. You clicked the kudos button. You thought: how.
This is the tutorial that answers that.
A beginner-friendly guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 — no prior coding experience required. By the end of this series, you'll know enough to write formatted fics, build your own workskins, style your entire AO3 interface, and maybe make something that makes other people stop and think how.
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- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
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- Part 12 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Text convos with bubbles in several systems!
IOS, Signal and WhatsApp for nowSeries
- Part 1 of Works Skins
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Have you ever wanted to put a Tumblr post in your fic? Even if you haven't, you now can!
This is a tutorial on how to mimic different Tumblr post types using a work skin, without using screenshots.
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Based on phyripo's guide, with some usability improvements made to reblogs and photoset creation.