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That voice inside your head that says, “Hey, you should write an AO3 skin that fully replaces the default. It will be fun :D”?

Yeah, that’s the devil talking.

Screenshot of an AO3 user dashboard with a custom skin applied to it. It has is a dark, low contrast, modern flat design theme with a handful of playful design elements.

I don’t want to know how long I spent on this, even excluding the year-long break where I gave up after realizing I couldn’t use flexbox, grid, or calc. The only reason why I decided to finish it this week was because I forgot that was the case and then I was too stubborn to stop.

The AO3 front page. The collection overview.
Bookmarks and the filter sidebar. Metadata on a published work.
A screenshot of the upload form. Another shot of the upload form.

Oh, and you bet it’s responsive. Well, responsive in the way that AO3 allows you two breakpoints and no custom media-queries.

Screenshot of a mobile view next to the three skin components. The dates on the skins show that the breakpoint skins are form October 2023 while the original skin was created in April 2022.

It needs a bit more tweaking in some places, but for the sake of my own sanity I want to say that version 1.0 of this skin is finished now.

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I like dinosaurs, Otto Clemens’ voice, manga and other stuff.

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