apparently_alive
Recent bookmarks
-
A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS on AO3 by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, AO3, Original Work
29 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
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.
Series
- Part 23 of Izzy's HTML & CSS Experiments
- Part 2 of HTML/CSS AO3 Skins & Tutorials
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 34,929
- Chapters:
- 6/?
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 139
- Kudos:
- 959
- Bookmarks:
- 1,440
- Hits:
- 25,077
Bookmarked by apparently_alive
04 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Ranpo noticed the small things about people, it was simply a fact of his character, something that was as much a part of him as breathing was. The rest of the agency must have been aware of that by now. At least, that was what Ranpo thought until his small acts of goodwill were met with expressions that he was far more used to seeing when he saved lives rather than taking a few hours out of his day to do something with a coworker. His friend's reactions didn’t make any sense to Ranpo, but honestly, most emotions didn’t, so he simply categorized them as one of the world’s great unknowns. He never intended on solving the mystery either, until the members of the agency waved the answer in front of his face that is.
AKA
5 times Ranpo did something “small” for the people in the agency without thinking much of it and 1 time they let him know it’s the small things that count.
-
Tags
Summary
“You have some of my soul jam, correct?” Shadow Milk asked, clearly having deduced the truth. And Pure Vanilla was not a liar, so he nodded reluctantly in confirmation, watching the Fallen Hero's twisted smirk stretch even further up azure dough. “Then that makes us one and the same! We wield the same magic, hold the same thirst for knowledge, we alone are able to manipulate the truth wholeheartedly. You and I are capable of possessing all-consuming power!” The Beast crowed, and a new sort of fear began to settle in Pure Vanilla’s gut.
“No,” he blurted out suddenly, before the action could even register in his brain. It was an instinctive response: a denial of something that simply couldn’t be true. He didn’t want ‘all-consuming power’, and Shadow Milk Cookie had fallen. He was corrupted. Pure Vanilla refused to let that happen to him.
“Yes! You are like me,” the other cookie hissed delightedly. “We share a soul, little cookie. And that makes you mine.”
OR: Pure Vanilla buys his friends some time, and Shadow Milk Cookie decides to have him put on a show.
(BTHB Prompt: Forced to Kneel/Bow)
Series
- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,745
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 72
- Kudos:
- 935
- Bookmarks:
- 128
- Hits:
- 10,751
Bookmarked by apparently_alive
22 Jan 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
well-written and tasty. Live laugh love this interaction of Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla