thebravethewise/ao3-skins — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Hide fan fiction works that include a specific ship or character from your AO3 browsing feed.
Automatically hide works tagged with sensitive content like Suicide Attempt.
Recolor or highlight specific tags, like turning a Friends to Lovers tag green.
Combine with other AO3 skins by adding important to override conflicting styles.
| thebravethewise/ao3-skins | 0verflowme/alarm-clock | agg23/csse333project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | — |
| Language | CSS | CSS | CSS |
| Last pushed | — | 2022-10-03 | 2018-01-21 |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | moderate |
| Complexity | 1/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | general | vibe coder | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Just paste the CSS into your AO3 skin settings, no installation needed.
ao3-skins is a small collection of custom CSS rules made for Archive of Our Own (AO3), the fan fiction website. It lets a reader hide certain stories from their browsing view based on tags, without needing to write any code themselves, just paste the CSS into AO3's own skin settings. The main feature is filtering. The code hides works that include a specific pairing, a ship involving a character named Brendon "The Park" Shark, works tagged with Suicide Attempt, and works with any tag containing the word drinking. Each rule works by matching the tag link's web address, so it looks for a piece of text inside the tag's URL and hides the whole work preview when it finds a match. There is also a note on how to make the drinking rule case sensitive, by adding a small marker after the search text. Beyond hiding things, the project shows how to style tags and story previews instead of hiding them. Examples include coloring a tag with the word lesbian using a gradient background, turning a specific Friends to Lovers tag green, and turning the background of a story summary red if it is tagged AI-Generated Content. The README also explains how to combine this skin with other AO3 skins: add the word important to the end of every line so this code takes priority over conflicting rules. There is no license file and no other documentation in this repository beyond the README itself. It is written entirely in CSS and has no build process, no dependencies, and nothing to install. Anyone who wants to use it just copies the relevant CSS block into their own AO3 skin. It has not attracted any stars yet.
A ready-made CSS skin for Archive of Our Own that hides fan fiction works by tag or ship and lets you recolor tags and story previews.
Mainly CSS. The stack also includes CSS.
No license file is included, so default copyright rules apply and reuse terms are unclear.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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