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Hover Notes or ‘Floating Boxes’in Ao3
This is a fun option if you use, for example, phrases in other languages in your story. I often do, and this is a nice way to give translations without having to scroll to the end of the text, or putting them in the starting notes where people have to keep checking back – or where they spoiler the story!
HOWEVER. The drawback is that the floating boxes only work when a ‘mouse’ is ‘hovered’ over the marked text. They do NOT show up on tablet or phone screens, so you’ll still need to put a list of translations in the notes for readers using those devices.
Let’s have an example.
“Qu’est ce que tu veux?”
Now if you speak French, you might know that means “What do you want?”
But not all of your readers will know that. So, you offer them a translation. And since the boxes don’t appear unless you hover directly above them, I usually add a Beginning Note to the chapter that reads something like this;
‘Hover over italicised foreign language text for translations! (Mobile and tablet users please see the Ending Notes)’
In HTML mode in Ao3, (if you try this in Rich Text mode you will get a horrible mess so don’t) the line with this example would appear as:
<p>“<em>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</em>”</p>
To add the floating box with the translation, you would select the words to be translated (that is, Qu’est ce que tu veux?) and paste in the following HTML.
<span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span>
The whole line will now read:
<p>“<em> <span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span> </em>”</p>
Review your work, hover over the part that requires translating, and you should see the following:
And you’re done!
I tend to set up a Word doc with all the <span> lines I want to use created in it, and then when the time comes, just copy/paste them into Ao3. Saves lots of time!
Obi-Wan: plays dirty wins dirty
Obi-Wan: flirts with the enemy
Obi-Wan: has slept with half of the galaxy
Obi-Wan: always outsmarts the opponent
Obi-Wan: jumps out of windows for fun
Obi Wan: uses his charms to always get what he wants (especially the council)
Also Obi-Wan: follow my ~example~ Anakin and be 🌸mindfull🌸 💗👨🏻🦰💗
Anakin: *screams*
(Also 19-year-old-Obi: you should listen what 💗Master Windu💗 says, my master🥰
Qui-Gon: oh you little shit)
😄 Indeed, anon. Indeed.
I always love the fact that Obi-Wan is out there seducing everyone and winking saucily and whatnot and there’s Anakin, his young charge who idolizes him, taking this all in. You know that when Anakin was like 18 he tried to very awkwardly and artlessly kiss the hand of some planet’s king or president or whatever during negotiations and Obi-Wan was like ANAKIN NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING and Anakin was like “What??? YOU DO THAT ALL THE TIME, I thought that’s what we were supposed to do at these things!” and then Obi-Wan had to fake-laugh and be like “would you excuse us for just one minute, I need to speak with my Padawan about something”
Also there is no way I believe Obi-Wan was ever NOT a gigantic flirt, so you know he was pulling that crap way back when. Like Qui-Gon would leave the room to get a glass of water and by the time he’d come back the Queen of Planet Whatever was blushing and giggling and his 20-year-old student is looking almost too innocent and then what do you know, suddenly the negotiations are over and the Republic got everything they wanted! Weird.
Probably the best SPN vid I’ve ever seen. This made me fall in love with the show all over again. Huge, amazing thanks to starstruckspnenthusiast for bringing this into my life.
“This is the house that built me and I’m gonna burn it down.”
Courtney Love Prays to Oregon, Clementine von Radics
a collection of seemingly unintentionally profound shitposts that fill me with a viscerally intense feeling of existential awareness
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?
it just occurred to me that darth vader, master engineer, probably looked at the death star plans at some point and noticed the flaw, but didn’t bother to tell anyone about it because he despised everyone who was involved in the project
The fact that Snape is one of the youngest if not THE youngest professor is fucking hilarious.
They’re having a very serious conversation about Cody’s behaviour (being mean to uncle Ben)
bo katan: okay now listen cause i can't stress this enough: when you meet ahsoka tano you have to immediately tell her bo katan sent you. she's got hair trigger reflexes and an overly developed sense of self preservation and she will kill you.
din: now hold on i think your underestimating me just a little.
bo katan: not possible. and besides this chick is nuts i once saw her decapitate four grown mandalorians in under a second when she was just fourteen years old.
din:
din: wut
Obi Wan has no fucking chill
how to draw arms ? ?
Ahsoka Tano is a six foot two carnivorous space ninja with magic powers. She’s a horned, fanged super-spy who’s been fighting in wars from the frontlines since she was a preteen. It’s always a good day to remember that at sixteen Ahsoka Tano decapitated four full grown Mandalorian warriors; that she fought General Grievous, bested Darth Maul in single combat, evaded and sabotaged the Empire for decades, travelled through time, and may or may not be a deity of the Force. That she survived the annihilation of her people and walked away with kindness and compassion in her heart. What I’m getting at is that Ahsoka Tano, both immovable object and unstoppable force, is a gods-damned hurricane, a Valkyrie with two laser swords and a cocky smile, and if she does show up in live action they’d better well appreciate her.
the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised
the witcher but with britney spears music (heavily inspired by @paper-records)
An interesting sci-fi short story from 4chan.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Crack
Cedric: What did you want to tell me, Harry?
Harry: Have my babies
Cedric: ...
Harry: I mean, the first task is dragons
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McGonagall: Potter, who is your partner for the Yule Ball?
Ron: *kicks down the door while in a stunning blue dress and four-inch heels*
Ron: It's me, bitches.
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Ron: My dad sent you this to help with the second task
Ron: *opens up box to reveal a bunch of rubber duckies*
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Harry: Can you give me advice on how to talk to girls?
Sirius: *stares at Harry blankly while the Mii theme plays*
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*Quidditch world cup*
Arthur: Hey, where's Percy?
Harry: I'll go check
*five minutes later*
Harry, traumatized: He's fucking my old Quidditch captain
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Draco: *sees Harry and Ron dancing at the Yule Ball*
Draco: MY FATHER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS
*later*
Draco, writing a letter: Dear Father, I have never been so heart broken or betrayed
draco malfoy being draco malfoy
“if you’re going to get in trouble for hitting someone, might as well hit them hard.”
“he’s got a stick so far up his arse you can see it when he yawns.”
“explain, and do it carefully or you might find yourself being throttled to death.”
“i always have a note in my pocket saying ‘harry did it’ just in case i get murdered because i don’t want him to remarry.”
“i’m a demanding lover, potter. i require care and attention 24/7.”
“THAT’S THE PROBLEM, PANSY. MY EMOTIONAL BARRIERS ARE DOWN, AND I’D LIKE THEM BACK UP THANK YOU VERY MUCH.”
“i would agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
“i could devour a whole bowl of alphabet soup and spit out a better statement than that.”
“my moral compass is a fucking roulette wheel, thank you.”
“harry, love, do these trousers make my arse look big?”
“i want to see things from your point of view, but i can’t get my head that far up my arse.”
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN’T WEAR THESE TO WORK? I LOOK FUCKING BEAUTIFUL IN IT!”
“sorry, pans, i’m busy today. i have a mental breakdown scheduled at five.”
“it’s pointless to make fun of you ‘cause it would take the rest of the fucking day for you to figure it out.”
“i totally have a bigger arse than you do.”
“pansy, hold my earrings for me. i have a bitch’s body to hide.”
“a single walk in the woods for me is so relaxing. the fact that i’m dragging a dead body should be irrelevant.”
“get out, blaise. potter and i are going to have sex.”
“did you just say my fucking hair is bleached? honey, do you think bleach would ever produce such fine and silver blond hair like this? yes, that’s right, back away bitch.”
“harryyyy i neeeeed atteeentiooon”
“i love you too. what? no. i said you smell like a shoe. idiot.”
“whoa, it smells like bitch in here.”
“I DO NOT NEED READING GLASSES! MY VISION IS PERFECTLY FINE, THANK YOU.”
“wanna check out my peacock army at home?”
“pff, what makes you think i sleep with a stuffed lion? that’s a lie. you … you have a picture? can i … can i see?”
“i like being organised but i’M TOO LAZY TO BE ORGANISED”
“ME? BECOME A POTTER? I DON’T … actually, draco potter doesn’t sound too bad. where are the marriage papers?”
“please, i’m too classy to top. have you seen me? i have an aristocratic face, and this phenomenal arse. power bottom it is.”
“sweat? me, sweat? i don’t sweat. it’s disgusting, so i don’t do it.”
“i am the prince of destruction, death and … yeah, i’m a cuddler.”
“i do not blush. that is undignified and—POTTER AND I WEREN’T SPOONING!”
“if you win this match, potter, you can do whatever you want to me. are you daft? yes, i said whatever you … what? you want me to spend a night with you?”
“to be fair, professor, i’m not the one who decided to maul my own neck with hickeys. blame potter.”
“YES PANSY SHUT UP I HAD A CRUSH ON VIKTOR FUCKING KRUM ONCE BUT THAT WAS ONE TIME!”
“harry! harry! HARRY! do i look pretty?”
“pans, i need you to tell me your embarrassing sex stories so i can forget last night when harry stared at me and i waved.”
“FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, I DO NOT NEED READING GLASSES!”
The worst-off person at the end of The Old Guard isn’t Andy or Booker, it’s Copley. The man has the job of being the beard for this group of old assholes, half of whom are depressed and half of whom are in a perpetual honeymoon phase, plus one who has yet to figure out just what immortality means (PS. It means skiing off the top of Mt. Everest) When he goes to do the paperwork he’s astounded at how these people managed to stay a secret for any length of time in the 20th century and beyond. Andy has become an honest-to-god cryptid with a massive internet following (it would help if she’d just stop having one night stands and doing the ole’ love and leave em’ routine) Booker regularly goes gambling at and cleans out high-end casinos, which means he has literally every mob on the planet after his ass, Joe kills 100+ people every month for breathing in a way he didn’t certify near Nicky, and when Nile gets over the shock of things it dawns on her that she can do literally everything and anything and not die, which. is another type of hell altogether. Nicky is the only fairly normal one out of them all, until Copley finds out he secretly owns seventeen different fortune 500 companies and runs a black market or something, and Copley has to take a month off to fuck off back to Booker and just like. drink for ten days straight. This is a disjointed mess, and not even remotely meant to be taken seriously, but Copley probably thought he got off good by being made into the Guard’s secretary/PR man, but my point is that that is distinctly so NOT the case.
TWILIGHT: but it’s just 3 chaotic (probably gay) best friends...
group pic
Edward
Bella
Jacob
Can I get uhhh.. twilight but with more diversity
jeremey renner, despite popular belief, played barney barton. the real clint barton will be revealed in marvel’s limited hawkeye series.
Hot take: why the Jedi seem so unnatural
There’s something about their movements; it’s too smooth, too sure. They never trip on their feet, never run into anything, and their bodies navigate crowds too easily.
There’s something about their eyes, too, how they seem to bore straight through the soul of whoever they speak to. They sometimes seem to begin to answer a question before it’s even asked, and they always know what words to say to placate the emotions in the room.
There are rumors that the Negotiator and the Hero With No Fear do not need words to communicate, that they can speak without a comm while they are miles away from each other.
The rumors say the Negotiator has a true silver tongue, that the reason he is so successful is not because he is a skilled diplomat but because there’s something else to his voice and words that makes him so convincing.
The rumors say the apprentice of the Hero With No Fear is like a bird in flight when she moves, too graceful to be fully Togruta, her leaps so high it is as if she has the wings of a convor.
(The Tuskens believe that Death walks on two legs and brings with him a blade forged from the flames of the sun. They believe they displeased him for they were not strong enough, and they have never taken a prisoner since that day. Their victims are always killed and offered in sacrifice to Death.)
ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader
“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”
“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”
ATLA characters as royalty
this was…kind of a warmup writing exercise that I ended up liking more than I thought I would, so enjoy?
Aang: A lost prince, a ghost prince, a prince who will never take the throne. A palace with open windows; a fountain that has run dry. He carries an unused blade at his side, its hilt wrapped in cloth instead of leather.
Katara: A queen with too many connections, weaving a web of human life. A satchel lying open on her desk, spilling medicines and poisons over the floor. Folded letters in her cloak. Healer’s hands, stained with blood. A dagger she chooses not to draw.
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ok so i have this hc that’s like immortal!percy except it’s not because he accepted the gift.
we know that the gods are basically manifestations of culture and that they can change and disappear because of changes in culture.
and percys been through horrible things and has done incredible things and he’s basically legendary around camp. and we have fannon where he’s known all throughout ny boarding schools as this troubled, potentially dangerous kid. and the whole country has heard of him as the kid who fought off this gunman and fell from the st. louis arch and maybe they start to make connections.
so picture percy fighting a monster one day and getting like impaled and everyone freaks out, only to remove the weapon/horn whatever, and gold ichor is pouring out and then the wound just closes.
he storms olympus like “i said no, i don’t want this, what the hell” but the gods are all shocked too. because it wasn’t them. it was the people. they made him a god through their awe and fear.