(((I Will Outlive)))

do you know if it's possible to hide a series of fics from an anonymous author? since the author is anonymous I can't just find who posted the series and either hide their works with my site skin or use the mute button (since that's what i recall the mute button doing since I haven't used it before since this is the only thing I've found worthy of it in my eyes).

It is! You can hide a series with a site skin, whether the author is anonymous or not. (This is also useful if you just want to hide one series by a known author and not mute them completely).

AO3 doesn't (yet) have a handy dandy button to do this, but users like @laurelnose have learned that you can use the CSS has selector to get the job done.

First, go to the landing page for the series you want to mute. Since this one is Anonymous, you can't find it on the author's page. Instead, you'll need to find one of the works in the series and press the link that will take you there.

On the series landing page, look at the url. I'll use one of my series as an example:

archiveofourown.org/series/3943204

The important part of the link is that series of numbers after series/ Those numbers are the unique ID for that specific series. We're going to use that series ID number in the following CSS:

.blurb:has(.series a[href*="/series/3943204" i]) { display: none !important; }

What this CSS does is it searches blurbs (the title, tags, summary bit that you see when you're scrolling a tag or search result) for a url that contains /series/3943204. When it finds a blurb that has those letters and numbers in that order, it hides them.

You can do something similar to block a specific work (instead of muting an author entirely). In that case, you visit the work and pull the work ID number from the url in the same way. Then paste that number into this CSS code (replacing the zeroes with the work ID number):

.work-000 { display: none !important; }

Right now, blocking and muting via the buttons on the site only work at the user level, so if you want to block a particular work or series or tag, you need to break out the CSS and use a site skin.

If you've never made a site skin before, you can do so very easily!

Tap on your name at the top of the site and then select Dashboard from the dropdown menu. Once on your Dashboard, select Skins from the page options available. They'll be right under the header if you're on mobile and on the left hand side of the screen if you're on a computer. From there: