#lw codes

i made a tool for creating gradient text! it's similar to this great site, but with a few additional features:

extract a color palette from an image

paste a string of hex codes to load the colors

AO3 export mode (it's a bit of a pain in the ass but it works)

sharing another silly-but-useful thing i made for myself — a handy lil comment notepad for AO3!

hangs out inside your ao3 tab right next to the fic text, always ready to receive your dazzling remarks

saves your draft comments locally in browser storage

minimizes to a small icon when not in use (& shows a lil badge if you started writing a comment for the work you're currently reading)

quickly add blockquotes and text formatting (and preview the html!)

pastes into the comment box when you're ready to roll!

i also added a bonus feature that will hide that obnoxious fundraising banner that won't go away right now 🙊

if you've ever seen the "Floating Comment Box" script, it's a gently beefed up version of that.

you can grab it here; tested on firefox, opera, and chrome (desktop only) — let me know if you try it out in a different browser!

you'll need to have the Tampermonkey or similar extension installed first :3 instructions for doing that in various browsers is here.

** note: if you didn't have Tampermonkey installed, you might need to enable "developer mode" in chrome://extensions and restart your browser before it'll work!

i made an extended version of my cyberpunk text threads tool with themes that emulate different messaging interfaces, and the ability to customize the colors, fonts etc. i've seen at least one person on ao3 who was using the "minimal" interface for non-cyberpunk fics, so i thought i'd generalize it a bit more!

you can also now add centered, freeform timestamps (ie "Yesterday" and "Today" in the image above), hide the per-message timestamps, and/or use a 12hr format instead of the 24h-with-seconds format

on neocities ->

i'm working on adding an avatars feature too :3 (edit: avatars have been added)

hi, another lil script i made for myself now gets a web UI! here is a virtual atelier redscript generator that works with both .yaml and existing .reds files 🫧 how to use

drop in any number of archivexl .yaml files, and/or the .reds file for an existing store

it will detect the item names (including expanding any .yaml anchors/aliases)

edit price/quantity/quality in bulk

bob's ur uncle

so if you have an existing store you want to add new items to, you should be able to drop in your existing .reds and the .yaml with the new items :)

tools & widgets

-> an index of posts for various things i’ve made

ao3 / fanfic

luvnotes comment notepad — a handy floating composer right inside ao3

text threads — styled text threads between your blorbos to add to your fics (or just share as images)

styled dividers — fancy horizontal rules to use as scene separators

ebook prettifier — create covers & add some basic formatting to your downloaded fics

footnote helper — easy footnote html

cyberpunk workskins: text threads, shards, emails

general purpose

gradient text maker — for that ~aesthetic~ touch

last updated: may 18, 2025

hi i moved all those lil tools i've made (like cyberpunk texts, shards, emails; the divider playground and this footnote helper) to: neocities!

i will still keep the old codepens up, but it was getting unwieldy to update those (codepen's editor is trash, it's tough to work with library imports, etc)