justabrain
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This is a fan edit, overlaying nuclear waste site warnings with scenes from the comic.
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O Heart and Hearth by justabrain
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
21 Dec 2025
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For the Day of Heart and Hearth, Caleb hosts the Nein in the tower and sings a song for them.
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Carol and Santa discuss Jack Frost in the aftermath of Santa's resurrection.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 430
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 45
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A tale of how a brother meets his sister, and how they are both prisoners, and how he frees her in the end.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,942
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 13
- Kudos:
- 38
- Bookmarks:
- 11
- Hits:
- 258
Bookmarked by justabrain
23 Aug 2026
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How to Use Hidden Search Operators (And Get Real Specific About It) by Stellar_Eclipse
Fandoms: No Fandom
18 Feb 2024
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This came about mostly because I kept needing to bounce around all over the internet looking for guides on how to use the hidden search functions on AO3. In other words, filtering tags and more using the "Search within results" field. It turns out these operators are capable of a lot of useful stuff, but how to do it isn't always super intuitive, so. Here is my attempt to consolidate as much information as I can into one spot!
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- Part 2 of Site Skins and CSS Quackery
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mm whatcha say?: Changing Text On Hover for Multilingual Fics (A Download Friendly Workskin) by mackerel_cheese for Graverobbber, enbyguous, spearsofstarlight
Fandoms: No Fandom, Babel - R. F. Kuang
20 Mar 2026
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Do you want to have a nifty way to have multiple languages in a fic:
- Without making your readers scroll to the AN for a translation?
- Without the text and translation sitting side by side?
- And still make it look pretty when people download it into an EPUB or PDF format?
- Making it work with screenreaders? (Subject to varying screenreader capabilities)
Here is a solution for you. Come on babygirls, let's roll.
(This is a HTML tutorial but I'm lowkey flirting with you by calling you babygirl occasionally because I got bored while writing this.)
NEW UPDATE [20/3/2026]:
- Chapter 1: Sample Usage (Excerpt from a WIP in my drafts)
- A short character study about Griffin Harley from Babel (by R.F. Kuang). Utilizies 3 languages in multiple formats. You don't need to have read Babel to pick apart the code used.
- Chapter 2: Basic Tutorial (same as before)
- Chapter 3: FAQ (regarding customization and usage)
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- Part 3 of .shapes_and_colours
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i am a sacrifice by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
20 May 2026
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A two-column poem, Stratt and Grace's perspectives of his last moments on Earth.
yes, i relive that day when i close my eyes. // i can't do it
you cried // you're murdering me
and i condemned // a sacrificial lamb
with clear-eyed cruelty // to the slaughterBookmarked by justabrain
03 Aug 2026
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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
17 Aug 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