## [RST] The World As It Appears To Be by Benedict_SC - Chapter 42

* Author: u/Bowbreaker  *Solitary Locust**
* URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9402014/chapters/28650940
* Score: 16

* Created: 2017-11-01T08:16:53

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/CouteauBleu** [+5]  *We are the Empire.* (8 hours later)
> 
> ... Ok, this got weirder than I expected. Also, dammit, my complaints about the realism of the scenario were included and now they're looking petty and ridiculous.
> 
> Also, I didn't know you could get this kind of formatting out of AOOO. Kind of makes me want to write a whole forum-only fanfiction just to see how far I can take it.

>> **u/callmesalticidae** [+1]  *writes worldbuilding books* (10 hours later)
>> 
>> Ao3 is pretty dang flexible.

>>> **u/Benedict_SC** [+3]  (11 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Yeah- it's HTML and [a subset of CSS](https://archiveofourown.org/help/skins-creating.html) that's pretty permissive except for custom fonts. It's mostly set up the way it is to prevent people from hosting arbitrary/potentially dangerous content as a fic. This chapter was pretty much just done with tables and some styling to mess with font size and padding and so on! (h/t Nostalgebraist for an example of how to do it in The Northern Caves.)

>> **u/nerdguy1138** [+1]  *GNU Terry Pratchett* (3 days later)
>> 
>> Ao3 was created specifically to give writers more creative freedom; that includes formatting choices. ff.net basically only gives you basic markdown.

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