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Thrud Of Asgard

@thrud-of-asgard / thrud-of-asgard.tumblr.com

Was a Thorki blog. Now I kinda post things that I find interesting. AO3: Vee017
Side blogs: That-Trashy-Reylo-Chick. Jonsa-In-Winterfell. LuNyx-Offering. Chocobros-Forever. Ahsoka-Kenobi. Billie-Harrington. Hoodlander.
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adampvrrish

no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

#yes
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sarah-dipitous

April Fools day here is always funny because my dash is full of “here’s a Rick roll but it’s actually a different song” “here’s ‘do you love the color of the sky’ just kidding! It’s not the full long post!” “Here’s a drawing I made of a kitty! Just kidding! It’s two kitties and they’re best friends” and we do this unironically and completely ignoring the blood lust we all experience every year just two weeks prior

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mctreeleth

Maybe we need to go through the ides of March to get the violence out of our systems so that April 1st doesn't end with the website in literal flames.

#true
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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!

  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. Hit the big red Edit Site button, or open the menu under your username and select "Edit Site".
  4. Select the "Index.html" file to edit. You're now in an HTML Editor. Congrats, you're a web developer c. 1999!
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.)
  9. The file you uploaded should now be showing with your other neocities files. Right-click on the title and select "copy link".
  10. 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!

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decepti-thots

Oh, this guide is great!

People following this blog probably know I use the free/base Neocities plan for my fansite. I host a more than just plaintext there (some .pdfs, graphics, all sorts), and I have not come close to running up against the 1GB limit yet; if you're plaintext posting fic, it is more than enough to host anything you could possibly want. You don't have to pay a penny, as I've seen some people wonder. Trust me. You will never get close to that 1GB.

If you have any fic that is illustrated, it's also gonna cover those still images, unless you have truly enormous amounts of fanart in like, .raw format or something, LMAO. You're good.

Anyway, I want to add a few tips:

  • If you have new fic you want to post and which you therefore can't immediately download as HTML from AO3, or for any reason you want to post a fic to your site and not AO3, you can run it through this Google Docs script. It formats it for you; I often use it, in fact, if I have a bunch of text I need to quickly add basic HTML to for the site. It's also obviously useful for formatting to post to AO3 as originally intended, haha. This naturally won't give you the tags, rating info, etc that AO3 lets you download and include, but the fic itself will now post with all your line breaks etc included!
  • To upload and embed images, first you upload the image file to Neocities. This will automatically assign it a URL for where it is hosted. Then, wherever you want it in your fic, you embed it using: "< img src="[URL HERE]" >. (Remove the spaces!) Yep, that simple. Here's an example of what uploading a picture as its own file looks like in Neocities:
  • So that bottom image has a URL- "https://autothots.neocities.org/images/G2AutobotInsigniaAlternate.png". I would copy that URL into the tags as above and presto! It would show up on my page. I host all my images on Neocities itself, and it works great. So no need to worry about finding a host.

If anyone wants any resources for stuff relating to this, do feel free to ask, I've accumulated all sorts over the course of mashing my site together with half-remembered HTML knowledge from 2005, haha.

#to read#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction#fanfic archive#how-to
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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate

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ladyknightthebrave

Oh my God every bit of this is wild

-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don't understand enough of what I'm looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue

-He's dancing to music from Succession????? I don't recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I'm not sure if it's out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣

-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible

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THAT'S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!

  • That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It's 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it's so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
  • Yes, he's skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
  • He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he's the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).

Some other notes for everyone:

  • Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn't committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you're not committed to anything on the sheet but it's generally your "plan" for the program.) He also doesn't do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It's incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
  • He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they're just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
  • He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it'll usually be a Salchow instead because it's much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn't have a good skate).
  • His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.

In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.

#i used to watch the Worlds a lot when i was younger#in the days of elvis stojko and alexei yagudin#ilia malinin#i don’t think i’ve ever seen a routine look so effortless and clean#he is something else#figure skating
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funsized-loser

For the @sambuckylibrary TFATWS Anniversary Event 2024

Week 2: Soul Stone

Here are a few recs! Yes, I've recommended some of these before! And will continue to do so!

On and On by cailenbraern | Rated T | 8K words

Oh man, beautiful story about Sam and Bucky's time trapped in the Soul Stone. They actually end up reliving each other's memories, but it gives them both insight.

things you never say by @glittercake | Rated M | 8K words

So this one starts in the Soul Stone, but continues into their post-Blip lives. Let's just say, actions have consequences! *looking at you, Sam Wilson!*

not an end, but (the start of all things) by @notcaycepollard | Rated M | 11K words

Sam and Bucky are en route to their next mission--right? Soul Stone road trip with surprise guests and my favorite explanation of where Valkyrie's flying horse came from. (And to that one person who asked me a year ago to podfic this: I'm sorry I never got around to it, despite the 3 armadillo carcasses I saw on my own roadtrip the week after you asked that were a clear sign to do it...)

With Shadows as with Solid Things by @elwenyere | Rated M | 10K words

Another beautiful tale of Sam and Bucky's time in the Soul Stone. But what happens after they return pulls at my heartstrings.

A mildly chaotic hereafter by pjordha | Rated T | 18K words | 3 chapters

This one is definitely a wild ride! It features some other friends that were also blipped, all of whom can see the connection between them that neither of them see. But, once they do connect? It's beautiful.

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Note: There are a few other fics I've read in the past that I was unable to find again based on how they were tagged. If I find them, I will add them to this list.

#to read#winterfalcon
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