#this was the wrong angle

[ltleflrt]

I wrote 1374 words today!  😄 I hate all of them! 😄

#ltleramblings #writer's angst #trying to figure out what angle to come at this at #this was the wrong angle #delete delete delete

[melannen]

How To Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just Ten Easy Steps

As the go-to "person who knows about AO3" for quite a few people who read fanfic but aren't really linked-in to wider fandom culture, I've fielded a lot of questions about how to do certain things on AO3 to which my best answer is "you should really start your own archive!" I think, in general, more fans starting their own small archives would be a net good for fandom. AO3 was never meant to be the only archive for all fandom, or even the main archive, and the more spread out and backed up we are the more resilient we are.

But of course I have to be reminded that a lot of fans these days don't really have any idea how little "you should start your own archive!" really involves. (Also, that I should practice what I preach.) So I am now making my own fanfiction archive, and writing up this post as I do it to tell people how to make theirs!

Go to https://neocities.org/ and sign up for an account. It only needs a username (which will also be your website address), password, and email. Pick a username that will be related to your archive's title!

Choose the free account option (if you ever need more than what the free account offers for a text-only archive, you should probably look into graduating from neocities.) This should take you to a menu of "how to make a website" tutorials. You should do them! They're useful skills. But let's get your archive running first.

Hit the big red Edit Site button, or open the menu under your username and select "Edit Site".

Select the "Index.html" file to edit. You're now in an HTML Editor. Congrats, you're a web developer c. 1999!

Find where it has text between the < title> tags. Delete the filler text, and put in the title of your new archive. This text will be what shows on the tab when people go to your archive.

Find where it has text between the < h1 > tags. This will be big header text at the top of your page. Put the title of your archive here again. If you have no experience with HTML, you should read over the other sample text. It covers the basic basics very well! Once you've done that, you can delete everything else between the < /h1> tag and the < /body> tag. Save your index.html file.

Get an HTML file for a fanfic you would like to add to your archive. If it's on AO3, you can use the html download option built into AO3. If you have it as a word processor/google docs file, you should have the option to save as an html file. Save that html file to your computer.

Go back to Edit Site on Neocities and go to "upload". Find the html file you saved and upload it. (You can also drag and drop files to upload.)

The file you uploaded should now be showing with your other neocities files. Right-click on the title and select "copy link".

Go in to edit index.html again. Under where you put your header text, type < br> < a href=" . Then paste in the link you copied. Then type "> Then put in the title of the fic. Then type < /a> . Then save the index page again when you're done. You can do this for every fanfic you have.

Congratulations! You now have your very own personal private fanfiction archive that you are 100% in charge of and make all the rules for. It's at least as good as half the ones I was reading on when I started reading fanfiction and will serve its function well as a way to let people read your fic. You can link to it from anywhere you want! (Including your AO3 profile.)

Blogpost version, with FAQs and discussion

Anyway, here's my beautiful new fanfiction archive made using this tutorial:

Melannen's Fanfiction Archive

(I am honestly way more disproportionately proud of finally making that than I expected to be. It's nice to have your own archive.)

If you make one, share it here ! I want to see!

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanfic archive #how-to #tumblr what are you doing to my angle brackets #why would you do that what's wrong with you

[welcometogrouchland]

I've been binging Batman Beyond recently (Terry ily so much) and thought about how- bc of the JLU twist which I think isn't even canon to the comics BB verse but shhh bare with me- he'd technically be Damian's half brother??? Which is just so ridiculously soap opera to me. I need them to interact in a silly time travel adventure so bad you don't even understand (ID in alt)

#dc comics #damian wayne #terry mcginnis #batman beyond #batman and robin #mine #also feat the mild damian uniform redesign i like playing around with. it's fun i like her. i love u classic robin colours #the backstory for this image in my mind is that Terry knows of Damian/has maybe met him #in the future (whether we're going w the rebirth ''damian rejoins the league'' angle that i. don't love conceptually but can't judge- #-bc i haven't read. or if we go w/ some other potential future route for damian) and Terry is like. experiencing whiplash at meeting him- #-as robin. like you are 5 feet tall why r u so bossy. where is your dad good god. this is why i don't have a robin (?this is pre matt-robin) #but Terry's in an unfamiliar time trying not to cause a paradox so he puts aside his indignitude(?) at being bossed around by a kid #just long enough to make sure nothing goes horrifically wrong. hence this image takes place #<- i could've been a lot more eloquent explaining this but it's very late and i should've been asleep ages ago #anyway. absolutely crazy to me that Damian has had multiple flavours of secret brother plots and terry is a potential addition. rip damian #(also in my ideal future damian took up the nightwing mantle (EVERYONE READ NIGHTWING MUST DIE!!!) before retiring( #idk what his future career is. lowkey hes a webcomic artist in my brain but that's so horrendously self indulgent i can't condone it #also i decided to try my hands at lineart again. evil. how are you so stiff looking and difficult to do. waughh #anyway if things look weird. no they don't

[thelastharbinger]

AND I OOP-

#he's so hot for this #if yt ppl wanna get offended idk what to tell you like... #he ain't wrong #tenoch huerta #namor #namor the sub mariner #k'uk'ulkan #black panther #bp2 #black panther 2 #wakanda forever #bpwf #namor x shuri #it's the lighting switch up for mee and the dramatic close up side angle #tenoch huerta mejia #marvel #mcu

[sweetmapple]

I am not immune to propaganda

#across the spider verse #miguel o'hara #peter b parker #mayday parker #miguel prolly just bites through food at the wrong angles and im not wrong

[hollis-art]

this one image is so funny to me. why are we so tall? why are they standing so close together to look up at us? and their stupid little shoes poking out. i love this image

#kirk's arm is at the wrong angle so it makes the pose look worse but its funnier this way to me so im not gonna fix it #i probably should post the original picture for context but eh #star trek the original series #spirk #tos spirk #star trek #star trek fanart #fanart #spock #james t kirk #doodle

[humming-fly]

given how gluttony is shown being "born" in the anime I can only imagine the horror show that must've gone down with envy

#given how we see gluttony being reborn in the anime natural homunculi childbirth is a helluva thing #ya'll remember those videos they made us watch in middle school health class #anyways #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #greed #lust #envy #sorta~ #my art #doodles #comic #realistically envy was made to eat other people and was probably born with less souls as a result #but the alternative is way funnier #it's been a while since i did a shitpost in this style haha #always a pleasure to break it out again #what's funny is drawing this i could immediately tell the angle of greed's arm was wrong in the second panel as it were #but it worked so well with the overall posing i just left it lmao #as the artist i can ignore the anatomy errors when i think they look good

[romidoes]

boooooyfriiiiieeeeendsss (husbands) you love a fool who knows just how to get under your skin

#it’s 3am and i was supposed to sleep but this drawing has been #making me so angry and i wanted to make it less horrible than what it is!!!! #i’m not used to draw from references without ‘coping’ everything #so i told myself to start trying #so i downloaded 1000 pics of them to find the right angles for everything #BUT mickeys body just made me so angry bc it looks so wrong #but the reference looks ok?? 😭😭😭 #i hate drawing #gallavich #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #ian x mickey #mickey x ian #shameless us #shameless #noel fisher #cameron monaghan

[castiellesbian]

Supernatural was on so long in the hands of so many people with very differing views on the story they were telling that there is evidence in canon to support almost any interpretation.

#and thats why i cant get in circle jerking arguments with people who disagree with my opinions #neither of us are wrong or right we just have different parts that are compelling to us #and so im just going to ignore you or block you even! #we will never agree so why waste the energy!! #but this is also why i get annoyed at people (even if i agree with them) acting like this is the TRUE thing the show was telling us #because tbh often thats not the whole picture and i can understand why people see it from a different angle #and i mean all stories are like this but spn is particularly broad

[sesamenom]

Happy new year!

#silm #silmarillion #maglor #maedhros #elrond #elros #elrrond & elros #lunar new year #chinese new year #elros no those aren't cooked yet- #argh i know somethings wrong with the angle of mae's face but i cant actually tell what it is

[umblrspectrum]

got carried away practicing in preparation to make something else

#yeah i stole this general format from some blog here that i can no longer find but it was cool #and i like the idea of having refs to make sure i stay as close to my stylized on-model as i can #that fucking part of the mantis arm was giving me a headache though #you change the angle even slightly and it looks like a whole new limb #its so complex and so hard to portray in 2d #the others are fine though except for my wrongness with the camera limb #i guess its technically not upside down depending on what angle its coming from but bite me #little stain there to fill space #might not even get to what i actually wanted to draw today. tired #art #absolutesolver #murder drones absolutesolver #murder drones absolute solver #murder drones #but i will make it eventually. you will see

[wingsofwater]

<wakes up in a cold sweat> oh right i can draw

reference :

[ID 1 : a drawing of a sickly looking icewing dragon with clusters of ice spikes along the back of its neck and patterns inspired by arctic oceans in shades of pale green, teal, and grey. it has a distressed, wide-eyed expression with its spikes puffed up and wings open, and is exclaiming “the queen has the plague-“ in all caps. END ID]

[ID 2 : a drawing of the same icewing to the right, facing away from the viewer with the same panicked pose. it is facing towards another sickly purple icewing in the distance, who has its talons over its face and is saying “nicky nooo :(“ in all caps. the green icewing replies with “girl im talking about glacier” in all caps. END ID]

[ID 3 : a screenshot of a twitter thread with all of the users censored, reading ; “the queen has covid-“ in all caps, “nicki noooo” in all caps, “girl im talking about elizabeth” in all caps. END ID]

#i meant to draw this a while ago but i lost the screenshot 💀 #the angle is SO not correct but i didnt feel like fighting to make it actually look like they were looking at the urple icewing #I SPELT NICKI WRONG GDIITTTT whatever #wings of fire #wings of fire icewing #dragons #🖌

[skywerse]

chip doodles (you have no idea how sad he makes me)

#every time I think about chip jrwi i get so much more miserable #he makes me so sick #that boy needs a fucking hug dude #and I know the horrors with the black sea arc only just begun but #fuck #me #man #do you think at the end of the day he'll just lay there awake and think 'I died today' #I would assume it would eat away at him #that realisation #coz he would not talk about it #he is the kind of guy that would put a brave face on and laugh it off #but boy do I feel like he's gonna break when he's not in sight #btw that sword in his left hand looks so wrong for some reason #the angle is so wrong #ANYWAY #just roll with it #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi chip #jrwi fanart #jrwi spoilers #jrwi ep 109 #digital art #sketches

[ar-mage-ddon]

would love to play the game so i could get better refs o(-(

#kingdom hearts #khml #kingdom hearts missing link #kh missing link #keykid #this was supposed to be a warmup and then i . aha #im p sure the angle of the keyblade is still wrong but i cant wrap my little brain around it #also am i the only one thats noticed theres a single shot in the trailer where player has a different outfit #like. why is it different. whys it like that #myart

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hi! Your Hollow Knight AU has really cheered me up so I wanted to do a little drawing for it! This got me to get my art tablet out after months of not feeling like it so thank you for the inspiration! I hope the colors look good on any monitor that's not mine sdfsdf

Bugs In the Jingshi wyd?

I am so genuinely awestruck at how well you translated this AU to the hollow knight style! Also obsessed with the height difference.

#mdzs au #hollow knight #lan wangji #wei wuxian #fanart #Thank you so much for this B'*) #This is *so* incredible!! I feel incredibly honoured to have inspired something so beautiful! #I showed this asap to my friend who's been letting me observe their hollow knight playthrough and oh man oh man. The hype was real. #The colours have the Hollow Knight gloomy swag and the way that this looks like it could be an area in the game is soooooo good. #Thinking about the bug sounds they would make.....Peace and love on earth could be achieved with lwj hollowspeak.... #I hope you keep finding fun things to draw!! Your art has continuously brought a lot of joy! #I very much understand the pain and struggle of having a craft you just...cant seem to get your heart back into. #Sending you so much love and energy and artistic inspiration!!!! #(lwj has the wrong eye shape b/c I was too focused on getting the silly angle for dramatic perspective. whoops) #I have honestly loved doing this AU and I'm fiercely happy that its been resonating with people (as it makes me want to do more hehe)

[magicicephoenix]

Can you do batim ink demon doing some terrors with #115 or #117? If you still doing these of course

Really love your art and fics by the way👉👈

oh he’s doing a terror alright

batim ink demon with #117 - power

and thank you so much!! :D not often my fics get acknowledged haha

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy #the ink demon #the projectionist #doodle dump #dialogue dump #palette #played through ch 4 to see the fight myself to make sure i got things right. bc why not. and i love replaying batim <3 #did you realize that he snapped the projectionist’s head entirely the wrong way around? i didn’t. what a violent guy. (affectionate) #that’s why he holds the head at SUCH a weird angle #fun fact: the brush i used in this is called dry ink :)