A personal problem (I'm new) feel free to ignore. I just need to complain in the hope it clears my mind or something.

Ok so i did my writing in ellipsus and well after testing it in ao3...i was hit with something that made my brain want to give up on ao3 entirely.

Ao3 does not inherently support font changes and font colors. You need to read a guide and use "work skins" figure out how coding works, relive why you couldn't do IT classes because your brain shutdowns and wants to do anything else causing you to not know what path to take in life if simple coding killed my brain and hate myself for not getting it.

Get frustrated that i can't have basic writing stuff, get frustrated that it discourages me from writing the way i wanted.

Like the coding for name inserts was fine (copy/paste) but i limit name usage so i didn't have to use code so much. But that is an exception because name change is not "normal". I don't know any other site that will allow my story especially when it gets closer to adult material.

As writing this I've been going back and forth and trying to make it seem easier so my brain doesn't force me to "give up" the moment i see any type of coding. It's so frustrating that my brain just denies it so hard. Why can't it be simple like every other program?

Can someone here explain things like I'm an absolute moron? Reading the guides got annoying, videos made it sound more complicated somehow.

Like all I wanted was simple font color change and i change the font for one character.

Like I'm sure what i am complaining about seems trivial to people and i wish this was for me. I think the tedious part of going through what i wrote to insert code is also stupid and my brain hates it.

I honestly think i just have to limit myself with my writing and have filler words to replace text colors. If i am lucky, I'm just stupid and their is an easy way around it. I'm just happy that the code for name inserts was as simple as copy and pasting.

"Oh JuSt LeArN hTmL" yea no...if thats your only genuine response, you are not a helpful individual.

I guess I do feel "better". But unless I get some miracle response i think I'm just gonna give up and redo some things. I guess i should be happy only portions of my stuff used it and one part needed that color font difference during a breaking news section. Idk I'm in a mood now.

How alone am i in this? Like i was genuinely surprised a place about writing didn't inherently support basic writing stuff.