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brookheimer · 1 year

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other speculation about tonight's episode for those interested (aka throwing shit at the wall, seeing what sticks, etc. the usual. also i'm bolding the TL;DR stuff bc it's long):

jimenez lead, ATN/roys [do something], then mencken wins. (talked about this here)

connor splits the vote for a bit but eventually drops and endorses mencken

mencken agrees to block the deal, jimenez refuses to work with the roys. i feel like this is pretty clear already but i think it'll be made explicit. the election will be not just ab ideological issues but the company, obviously, and anti-deal anti-ideology roman just sees mencken as their best option and doesn't give a shit about any political beliefs, shiv is the least anti-deal of the three which helps her because she wants jimenez anyways bc she's the Liberal Good one (sure, shiv, sure), and ken is trapped in between the two. basically, roman pro-mencken, shiv pro-jimenez, kendall unsure (jimenez will not block mattson deal/work with kendall and mencken will, but ken's performative liberalism makes it difficult for him to back mencken). i think ken will end up backing mencken anyways because he cares far more about his own success than america's, and i also think he would justify it to himself by saying, like, 'look if i'm in charge at waystar i can make actual change, i can't do that if i'm not CEO, so i gotta back the person who will make that happen so that way i can help society' or whatever it is he tells himself lmao

there's gotta be something with shiv pregnancy. the two biggest threads left dangling rn are shiv pregnancy and kendall-sanctioned logan smear campaign, and i'd be v surprised if the latter doesn't make some sort of appearance in the funeral episode, and idk if they'd try to work in both those threads in the same hour when so much else is going on. i also don't think they'd mention the pregnancy in ep4 and never again until the finale which meaaans something happening with it this episode. idk if it means reveal or not (because frankly it will not be shiv's fucking focus rn lmao) but it's gotta come up somehow

honest to god no fucking clue what the shocking thing will be. i don't think it'll be the election outcome itself (either mencken or jimenez, both expected) so i feel like it has to be in either the way it plays out or some sort of roy-related reveal. something i can see happening, maybe, is some sort of ATN fuckup -- they call it too early, they send out false information, some minions get the wrong order, idk -- that they have to scramble to either fix or lean into. like, their action decides the election, but it was a fuckup. it could work, i think, because it would show how unstable american 'democracy' is -- it rests in the hands of people like the roys and companies like waystar and news media like ATN, and one mistake could quite literally decide the future of america. that's how unstable things are. idk, maybe an anchor misreads a prompter and says something that's taken as an incitement to violence, maybe a phone call cuts out and orders are misheard then followed, just something that shows how terrifyingly flimsy our entire political process actually is. again this is literally ALL JUST SPECULATION i have no fucking clue how things will play out i'm just trying to figure out how things could maybe go

i think the election will be a backdrop for other huge developments in roy family life but not to the extent that con's wedding was -- i think there are probably big things that happen that are unrelated to the election, but i do think it's going to be election focused, mostly just bc i would be kind of disappointed if it wasn't lmao. but seriously though succession is such a political show (even when it's not explicitly about politics) that i'd be very very surprised if they eschewed it entirely to focus on family matters, especially bc so much of succession is about the interrelation of familial abuse, capitalism, and political fascism. this episode is the perfect fucking storm for them all to come together.

rome/ken fight from the teaser possibly this ep? just looks like they're wearing the same clothes/in the same room based on the episode trailer. not sure though

again really don't know what the Shock will be. i can see a nailbiter but a Shocking Twist? we shall see...

#will update and post other thoughts if i have them but for now i need to go work on my finals #lmao #i know this is long and excessive but i've gotten like five asks today asking for it so this is for yall #TLDR: mencken win after rough start and ATN intervention. connor eventually endorses mencken. rome and (eventually) ken back mencken bc he #will block the mattson deal. shiv refuses to back mencken on moral principles (and also she's the least set on bombing the deal so there's #less of a conundrum for her). probably shiv pregnancy returns -- either a reveal (in the context of abortion bans under mencken? tbh idk #that feels a lil on the nose for me) or a mention of/reference to it. overall ATN/roys/etc are the deciding factor not votes/america #MAYBE: ATN has a fuckup that snowballs into deciding the election somehow. miscommunication or smth that has drastic consequences #could see that being a nailbiter/shocking thing/etc. that's just pure guessing though irdk #THOSE ARE MY PREDICTIONS FOR ALL WHO HAVE ASKED. IT'S 2:21 PM 5/14/23. I WILL CHECK BACK TONIGHT #really this is so ridiculous bc u can't predict succession but it's fun speculating and now it's become a Thing i do so. here we are #succession #succession spoilers #(except as always not really)#long post #succession speculation #ok im starting a tag for this lol

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accessible-maccadams · 1 year

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You can start writing descriptions, they can be as simple as a sentence, it's better than having media undescribed, I promise. Simply don't lie to the reader.

So, for anyone starting to write image descriptions, there's a method that I am going to call the Who, What, How, Where Method It works like this. In one sentence describe:

Who is in that picture (or what, if it's not a person)

What is the person/thing doing

How is the person/thing doing that action

Where is that person/thing doing that action in a certain manner

Note that sometimes the How and Where can be skipped, but the Who and What are essential. Example:

Who: Arcee and Aileron

What: Kissing each other. Arcee has pulled Aileron into a kiss

How: Passionate. Additional information: Aileron is surprised

Where: Yellow background (there's no actual information)

Basic description: Arcee pulling Aileron into a passionate kiss.

A bit more detailed description: A photo of Arcee pulling Aileron, who looks surprised, into a passionate kiss.

A more detailed description: A panel from Transformers IDW of Arcee pulling Aileron, who looks surprised, into a passionate kiss. They are over a warm yellow background.

There are other methods but this can be sueful to begginners and people that do not have the energy to do more.

Also, descriptions can't be written in small or bold text, italics, under a read more, with colors, fancy fonts or similar things.

TL;DR: Descriptions are important, even if they are short. You can do descriptions by describing who, what, how and where of a picture. Who is in the picture? What are they doing? How are they doing it? And Where are they doing it? The Who and What are essential, the How and Where can be skipped sometimes. You can expand the description but never put it under a read more, with small text, italics, bold, colors or fancy fonts.

#not id/transcript #resources

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bifidonut · 1 year

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wow it’s been a while since I’ve done a little ask game, ty @wackmxter ✨

(apparently the app doesn't let you copy more than one line of text at a time 🥴 so now that i finally am opening my laptop this week here i am)

15Qs / 15 Mutuals

lol idk if i even have 15 (active) mutuals these days so uhhhh i'll just tag @asthma-goddess @actualhero @j1r4ch2 @uglyluckylucky and if anyone else wants to do this one go nuts, i'm not tagging more people because i'm shy 👉👈

1. Are you named after anyone?

nah my mom got my name from a baby name book in the 90s BUT what's wild is that she gave me and my brother Irish names based on the fact that she was told my grandma's birth family was Irish... which is wild because we had no proof of that until like 2 years ago when she was able to find half of my grandma's birth family thru those genetic testing family tree sites. so it's a good thing that was true because it would have been kinda weird in hindsight if we weren't

2. When was the last time you cried?

um 🧍‍♀️. like an hour ago while i was in the shower... i think i'm PMSing a little bit because it kinda came on suddenly and then i was fine lol

3. Do you have kids?

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

listen if you lived with my boyfriend you would too

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

hmmm idk beyond basic physical appearance stuff like height/hair color/whatever i guess maybe their sense of style and how they seem to present themselves?

6. What’s your eye color?

hazel

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

bold of you to assume those are mutually exclusive, person who wrote this initially! anyways both.

8. Any special talents?

i think i'm fairly perceptive, and i'm also good at blowing bubbles

9. Where were you born?

colorado 🏔🦌⛺

10. What are your hobbies?

scrolling on my fucking phone forever if we're being real but i also like cooking, baking, video games, listening to podcasts, and maybe someday getting back into reading

11. Have you any pets?

12. What sports do you play/have you played?

i played soccer for like. a year not even when i was 6 or 7. i'm a delicate flower though so sports weren't really ever my thing lol

13. How tall are you?

5' 1"

14. Favorite subject in school?

science or biology specifically in hs

15. Dream job?

been thinking about this lately... currently i work in the R&D department of a biotech company and i like it a lot for the most part, and in general i really enjoy being a research scientist but i don't think it's a job i want to be in forever... in no small part because the role i'm in now is sort of "entry" level, so you're sort of naturally expected to rise through the ranks over the years but these days it just gets harder and harder to do that without a master's degree or higher. so i think i might go back to school once i decide what kind of specialty i would want to be in and then i think settling into a more established scientist role could be nice. but honestly i also think i'd make a pretty decent lab manager since i'm insane lol. also considered pivoting into science writing for a spell because i think that could be something i could do on a part time/freelance basis if i find myself in the family way but idk.

tl;dr i currently do science and would like to keep doing science without ruining my hands by pipetting for like 40 years

#keelposting #about

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wanderingwomanwondering · 2 years

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Buck/Evan 601 Meta - Integrating Buck & Evan via Eddie’s Affirming Words

**Longish post. The tl;dr of it is in bold.

Honestly the more I think about it, 601 is no joke. In terms of Buddie stuff, it’s basically a hybrid remix of mostly 217 & bits of 218 and it slaps! The biggest thing I realized when I watched those two eps again is that eddie putting his feelings for buck into words is critical to buck’s process of stepping into himself more fully. Really, it’s critical to buck and evan integrating and him realizing that those aspects of himself are both beautiful, valid, and worthy. evan (aka the man) doesn’t need to keep referring and deferring to buck (aka the role he plays at work). buck is amazing BUT SO IS EVAN.

Even by 601 after everything buck has been through over the course of the show and all the ways he’s grown and matured, buck does not see evan’s worth much at all. That’s why he’s constantly trying to prove himself. Buck is more than valuable and worthy but everything buck does is never enough because evan is still inside him struggling to feel like he matters above and beyond the buck of it all.

Buck is going to do some heavy lifting this season in terms of discovering his self-worth as we all know. We also know that everyone is going to support him in that process, especially eddie. But what that support will look like is a part of the question.

I think eddie’s support has to be related to his Boggle word search. Eddie has to find the words to tell buck that he matters and is important to him and to Chris above and beyond his role as a firefighter and his upward career path. Eddie has to tell buck that he connected him to resources for chris (aka Carla) as evan aka out of uniform outside of his buck mask. He saved chris during the tsunami as evan, out of uniform. He saved eddie during the shooting as evan. He took chris to the zoo as evan. He accepted the responsibility as evan of taking care of chris if something happens to eddie. “Because Evan, you think you’re expendable but you’re wrong.” He helped eddie through his breakdown and healing process as evan. He support chris through eddie’s healing by taking him to school, helping with homework, and being there for him as evan. But buck doesn’t see or understand any of this. Buck needs to top off his windshield whipper fluid and clean the glass so he can see the road to his own healing. Evan has been present and showing up for the Diaz family but buck doesn’t realize that. Evan the man is worthy and loved.

We’ve all been begging for eddie and buck to talk about the shooting but we’ve been starving for that at least in part because it will hopefully be the conversation that helps buck and evan integrate by eddie pointing out that Evan Buckley saved his life in every way. Buck is eddie’s partner at work and evan can be eddie’s partner in life. He’s already stepped up and leaned into that, he just needs to do it as an integrated, whole, authentic version of himself.

The lasagna dinner was bobby’s recipe because buck doesn’t realize that evan already feeds the Diaz Family daily and can love and be loved by the Diaz family as himself, whole and beautiful - buck and evan integrated. Eddie has to find the words this season to tell him that, to say thank you, to say I see all of you, to say I love and respect all of you, to say that all of you is worthy and always has been. Buck has to spend the season getting ready to actually hear what eddie has to say about him and to feel it and to believe it when eddie says it.

Holy hell this is gonna be good!!!

#evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #buckley diaz family #911 meta #911 6x01 #911 s6 spec #911 fox

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unpopularly-opinionated · 2 years

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Watched Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness today and uh...

It’s a bit...messy. It’s hard for me to say I liked or disliked it for a multitude of reasons. It was directed by Sam Raimi and boy does that show because the movie is shot like a 90s horror flick, it’s actually really cool in that aspect. Where it feels messy though is, as you’d expect, with how it fits into the rest of the MCU.

I’m not going to spoil anything explicitly down below, but I will mention vague details that could be considered spoilers so if you want to go in spoiler-free, don’t read this. Basically, the TL;DR is: the movie was good as a Sam Raimi movie, bad as an MCU movie, and overall probably a 6/10.

Look, I’ve watched WandaVision. I thought it was a pretty OK show. It’s where I first began to notice Marvels tendency to all-but-bold-face-lie to you about the direction the show/movie is going in, which isn’t great, and is one of the major gripes I had with this movie but w/e, that’s not why it’s messy. What’s messy I think is just that both A) you really need to watch WandaVision in order to even attempt to grasp Wanda’s character in this movie, and B) even if you do, her character still feels...like a bit of a major pivot from the last time we saw her.

I’ve said before that I like that Marvel seems to be leaning into the fact that, yes, people watch your other movies. Maybe not all of them, but at least enough to get a general understanding that things happen outside of this movie that relate to it somehow. The rub I have isn’t with the fact that you need to watch WandaVision to understand this movie, it’s the fact that even if you do you probably still won’t understand this movie. I’m not sure I understand this movie.

Also, you don’t need to have watched this show, but if you watched the What If...? series too then you basically have the entire cast of characters for this movie. Fuck, you almost even have the plot to this movie.

Honestly, without getting into spoilers, I’ll just say this movie is certainly not helped by being related to a series of movies and shows. It makes previous entries feel a little pointless and future entries a little less interesting.

America Chavez was actually pretty interesting of a character though and I am eager to see where she ends up. Although, I say that but she strangely wasn’t in the movie all that much. Like, she definitely was...but she also really wasn’t. It sort of felt like the movie should’ve been an American Chavez movie w/ Doctor Strange tacked onto it (similar to the last Spider-Man), assuming they wanted it to be a good intro for her character, but instead she sort of got cast aside partway through the movie and then comes back at the tail end, and overall she doesn’t add much but plot-convenience. So...yeah, I might’ve just talked myself out of liking her character but whatever I thought the actress did a good job so I’ll keep an eye out for her later I guess.

Also also, and this is sort of a spoiler, but fuck them for butchering the fuck out of the Illuminati. I can’t help but feel like them adding that in this movie was them saying “see we did it” and then they never do it again because at this point, from a non-comic reader perspective, it might come across as odd to bring in the Illuminati when they showed it in this movie and they turned out to be a bit of a joke.

#random #movies #review #MCU #Marvel #Marvel Cinematic Universe #comics #Doctor Strange #Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness #no spoilers #ish

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lycan-bytez-genuine-corner · 1 year

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Random rambling on white in a bio description

[I don’t think I use Tumblr right but I’m just going to do basically a diary entry to myself but I’m going to post it online like a moron instead]

So a few days ago I read a post that I didn’t agree with on any level, with the TL;DR being that minorities are being forced to shoehorn in their race / identities into their bios which is just not true. The main reason I don’t think that is true is that people actively like to put identifiable information, willingly, into their bios especially when it can mean finding a community that is similar to you, for safety, community, and what not I don’t think it’s a force, and I really didn’t agree with the idea that their info undermines any work they post ala Art, Writing, etc. People LIKE labels that they can apply to themselves and to things and even, including when it’s wrong, to others. It gives us a sense of self as people and that’s [Usually] a good thing, it just starts to become wrong when that is no longer a thing for individuals to decide and especially wrong when it’s a large group applying a label to a smaller group by force. Putting that info doesn’t demean you, or your work, or your person, if anything it’s kind of you and brave of you to put that out there for strangers to know.

The main thing that’s stuck with me is moreso why I don’t put say white into my bio because I’m a white gay 25 year old cis man, and I think it has a lot to do with that just looking innately bad to me. I’ve never interacted with someone in a positive sense who ever mentioned that they’re white as a pride thing or put any value into being white in person, and online I think it looks even worse with the rise of antisemitism among whites and the obvious White Supremacy movements. The OP would argue that I don’t do it cause I feel like my race is “Default” when in reality I don’t do it because there’s basically nothing to be proud of in being white or identifying as white. My life long friend who is now happily married and has a kid placed a lot of value in his Meximerican upbringing [His own wording] and told a lot of fun stories based on his family culture, but for me the only love I have for my family tree is in my immediate circle, so mother - father and that’s it. There’s nothing prideful to my racial identity at all or even worth talking about in a positive manner. Like yaaaay I’m the same race as Christopher Columbus, a mad mass murderer who invaded indigenous lands and pillaged them for any and all valuables while killing every single person who didn’t lay down and die that’s soooooooooooo wonderful, or yaaaaaay, I’m the same race as a bunch of puritans who forced their way onto a different country, genocided all the people there causing the long, incredibly violent and racist history of the US, wooooooooooooot......

Obviously I know I can be wrong to an extreme degree, but I really don’t think I’m wrong on this bit when it comes to myself. To me putting the label of “white” on yourself is pretty close to putting “I’m a giant asshole” in bold on your forehead. That’s not universally true obviously, but it definitely doesn’t fill me with confidence. I don’t have the same view when it comes to putting a cultural identity up there, like if you’re Chinese or Irish or German or Spanish that’s all well and good, it’s just the specific use of “white” that tends to bother me. Maybe I haven’t been exposed to the right person, but it’s probably the last piece of info I’d ever want on someone online and in IRL if I hear you mention the words “Pride” and “white” in the same sentence I don’t think I’ll text you back ever. To me there’s an incredibly different context between putting “Black” or “POC” and whatnot on your bio and putting “white” on there.

... This is one of those posts that in 5 years someone will bring it back up to me with it being potentially problematic and I’ll implode right?

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oceanic-recollection · 1 year

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here's the obligatory rules post!

sorted by basic stuff that's on most blogs and EVIL stuff that's NOT ALWAYS MENTIONED

the tl;dr is be respectful please , but if you want to you can go ahead and read it regardless!

i use the bold to make it easier for people with ADHD/DDD and such to read, ! yeah

basic stuff

for like stuff I see on every blog. still important reading but you can skim a bit more it's ok

that thing you see everywhere. if you're a bigot go explode your preferred body part and then go on a journey of self discovery before coming back to me

unlike most other blogs , im chill w you sending suggestive asks here..please make sure to only send suggestive asks to my ocs who are old enough (if you aren't sure feel free to ask in dms) and id also prefer if mostly only friends sent me anything Really suggestive.

do not send any asks that contain jokes about or references to pedophilia or incest.

if I don't like your ask im hitting you with THE BAT.thank you!

M!As and giving physical gifts to my ocs is always allowed and honestly encouraged!!!

additionally, oc interaction is COOL AS FUCKING HELL!!!! this also includes canon au interaction! if you want a proper RP w any of my mobile iterators or anyone in group oceanic, check out @oceanremnants

please don't take everything I say here as canon to the games!!! I have a lot of specmech and specbio stuff and i dont know 112% of the story yet so i sometimes say things that Just Aren't True one way or another. if you're curious abt in canon stuff, check out the wiki or ask my blog @threedeliciousflavors !!

sending spam asks is completely okay!!! this blog is low stakes fun for me and I like answering a lot of asks at once

evil rules

for all the ECIL rules that are EVIL and not super regular

referring to any of my ocs, or any canon characters, as "chonky" or "larg" or any actively negative or infantalizing descriptor term for "fat" will get you blocked immediately. idc!

if one of my ocs sets a boundary in character, even if i do not state i am setting it in the tags,.please follow it!

everything here is more or less canon t my oc au unless specifically stated otherwise or it would actively contradict smth else (M!As can be explained prolly I'll try to do that . later

if you mention interactions between my ocs with others ocs , you get a free 1 affection of your choice

resending asks that have been asked in the past to characters that didn't answer them would be cool....... btw.....

all of the ocs in my rw toyhouse folders are askable and interactible at any given time!! keeping this in mind, however, I generally will answer for them in the current timeframe of whatever rp I am focusing on

please try to avoid mentioning irl stuff!

ans th most IMPRTrule....

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house-of-laminations · 2 years

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A not-so-quick how-to for Ao3 work skins

Ao3 has some pretty powerful customization tools at your disposal - if you know how to use them. Did you know this entire time you could change your text colors, size, background colors, outlines, underlines, overlines, and even fonts of your works? It's fairly easy to do - you only need a little knowledge about markup languages to get started. The way this is done is through classes and the clever application of some simple CSS. Though I've written this guide around using my Obey Me coloring and work skin, the principles are applicable across anything you may want to do with your Ao3 styling.

I've done all the heavy lifting this time around, and have actually created a very, very simple skin that you may want for the purposes of your Obey Me fic including:

Unique colors for each character (sticking to WCAG 1:3 minimum contrast ratio for accessibility)

Heading font and size styling (separate from character colors)

Styled 'pullquotes' for written letters/passages/quotes (at 75% size)

Make sure to keep checking back for updates - I'll put word out here on my tumblr whenever I update, but I've also created a codepen (work skin CSS found in the CSS tab) with the latest version of the skin that you can use to play around in.

Just a heads up before you start: there is a bit of a learning curve, but I have tried to make the explanation as simple as possible, and hopefully provide enough tools and knowledge that you can run with what I've given you and start creating your own styles.

1. Markup: The Basics

I'm sorry - no matter how simple I try to make this work skin, you're going to need at least a little understanding of what markup languages are and how they work. But don't fret: I've had a few years experience now teaching this to absolute beginners so hopefully by the end of this tutorial you'll be feeling like a real Hackerman.

So what is Markup? A tl;dr

Markup is a set of instructions used to tell a program (in this case your internet browser) how something should behave. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is likely the markup language you'll encounter most often. Ordinary text like you would type in a word document is meaningless to a computer browser - it doesn't know how to read. You need to talk to it in a language it understands so that it can translate your wonderful words into something that appears in your browser. This is done through the use of 'elements'.

Like how you know "words captured in these quotation marks" are quotes (or text written in parentheses is related to but non-essential to the main body), elements are essentially markers that indicate how a thing should be read. In HTML, these elements are denoted through angular brackets <> containing the necessary info that your browser understands. These often consist of an opening tag <[element type]>with content within, followed by a closing tag</[element type> denoted through the use of the "/" slash. Every element that has been opened must always be closed. Common tags include:

<p></p> for paragraphs

<em></em> for emphasis (typically displayed as italic)

<strong></strong> for strong (typically displayed as bold)

<h1></h1> for your highest headline (and subsequent-level headings use 2-6)

<div></div> for generic sections or blocks

<span></span> for specific selections of text.

<a></a> for anchors (links)

<img> containing images <- this one doesn't have closing tags because it's special

and more!

Everything you see on the internet rests within tags like these. You don't see them because they're only for your browser's eyes. Even your fics are formatted with this - though Ao3 does it automatically. You can freely switch between Markup (HTML) and Rich Text Formatting up in the top right corner.

Attributes

Attributes are additional information you can add to an element. Some attributes are essential, like a href (hyperlink reference) for anchor elements. Some are additional information used to differentiate between different identical elements like a class or id. It's this latter, non-essential attribute we're going to be utilizing for our work skins.

Once you have your fic in Ao3, make sure to switch over to the html editor. From there, you are going to find the element that you want to change the look of, and we're going to add a class.

We do this by finding the open tag of an element. That will probably be a <p>. Inside those angular brackets, after the name of the element, we are going to type class=""

What we've done there is create a field for the class, but we haven't actually given the element a class yet.

It's always a good idea to name classes that describe the content, not what you want it to look like. You could change your mind down the line, but then you're stuck with a class called red that's really changing the color to blue. So rather than calling a class "gold", you might instead give it the name "Mammon" as it indicates when Mammon is speaking. This is known as Semantic markup.

Here's a few things you need to know about classes:

Class names cannot contain spaces. We use spaces to delineate new classes in the same element (like commas to separate tags on tumblr).

You can use as many classes as you want, as many times as you want.

They are case-sensitive.

You can add classes to all most html elements. That means that you don't have to just make entire paragraphs a particular style.

I have already specified several classes in my existing work skin. These are [Luci Mammon Levi Satan Asmo Beel Belphie Dia Barb Luke Sol Sim Heading pullQuote] - remember that these are case-sensitive. Feel free to use any one of these, or use your own! Put your chosen class name between those quotation marks I had you make earlier like so!

These don't actually do anything just yet. For that, we need to now head on over into our work skin.

2. Introducing the work skin: CSS

Now that we hopefully have our heads wrapped around the basics of elements and classes, we can start using that to make things look interesting. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. HTML gives the browser structure, CSS gives the browser style.

But first, we have to create a new work skin.

Go to your Ao3 Dashboard and up in the top left underneath "Profile" and "Preferences" you should see an option for Skins. It'll land land you in "site skins" by default, so make sure to click on My Work Skins. From here you can click on Create Work Skin in the top right corner.

In the "About" section, make sure Work Skin is selected, and give your new skin a title!

Feel free to also include a description for your own sake. Now. Onto the fun part!

Below the "About" section, you should see a box labelled CSS. In that box, feel free to copy+paste the styles below into that box:

#workskin .Luci { color: #0071ed;}

#workskin .Mammon { color: #e5a71c;}

#workskin .Levi { color: #e26600;}

#workskin .Satan { color: #00c117;}

#workskin .Asmo { color: #ff00bd;}

#workskin .Beel { color: #e80b00;}

#workskin .Belphie { color: #4f08b5;}

#workskin .Luke { color: #00c0ed;}

#workskin .Dia { color: #9b0000;}

#workskin .Barb { color: #007215;}

#workskin .Sim { color: #c1ac44;}

#workskin .Sol { color: #757575;}

#workskin .Heading { font-size: 1.25em;}

#workskin .pullQuote { text-align: center; font-size: 0.75em; display: block;}

This can also be found in the CSS section in this codepen. (disclaimer: tumblr may or may not mess with the line spacing when you copy things over. After you've copied, save your work skin and then reopen it in "edit" - Ao3 will automatically format your work so that it's nice and clean).

So what's actually happening here?

Let's read from left-to-right, top-to-bottom - because that's precisely what CSS does. Feel free to skip this part if you're not interested in creating your own styles and you're happy to just copy and paste existing work skins :)