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To add your Fan Art to AO3 using the Rich Text editor you will need to have posted your Fan Art on Discord, Twitter, Tumblr or another social media.
This is required as your image needs to be hosted somewhere that you can grab a URL ending with .jpg or .png etc.
Once you have uploaded your Fan Art to a social media post you can right click on the image and choose to copy image link.
The link will look something like the following (if using Tumblr)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/50ed19fe0aacf7179a555ba4e2cc1b53/9f2cf737dee7a15f-5d/s1280x1920/e948642032ecae186f4ff841f21ba9010945066b.jpg
Keep the link handy as you will need it after adding the Metadata to your New Work in AO3
When you are logged into A03 you will have the option to post a New work using the following steps.
Click Add New Work
Fill in your Tags
Add Title and Summary
Add note to start of work by clicking “at the beginning”. (Only relevant for KuroFai Olympics)
Copy the following and paste into the note field. Updating the Prompt for your Fan Art. (Only relevant for KuroFai Olympics)
<div align="middle">
<h1>KuroFai Olympics 2025 - Drama vs Comedy</h1>
<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/23cdb03c95140841ae8c7b8b841e28b4/f2b2cbd0082cd0b3-e9/s2048x3072/ae66b7fb52cd35b82195b9c65b300a7280a12790.pnj" width="600" alt="KuroFai Olympic banner 2025. Artist Okami" /><br />
<h2><b>Prompt:</b> This is where you put your prompt<br />
</h2>
</div>
Add 2025 KuroFai Olympics to the Collection. (Only relevant for KuroFai Olympics)
Change the Posting type to Rich Text
Click the add image button
Source is the URL for the Image that we saved earlier. Image description is the Alt Text
Preview your work to ensure it looks correct. You might have to edit the size of the image with Width or Height if the image is showing to large or to small.
Once you are happy with how it looks you can either Save As Draft or Post straight away.
Check back on the work every so often to ensure the image links have not broken.