Fictional Messenger

Easily add fancy group chats and text conversations to your fic or website.

How-To Guide

We're still in alpha, so there will be bugs, and many planned features and chat styles aren't available yet.

Have questions or comments? Join the Discord.

Turn this...

fm: Welcome to Fictional Messenger!
af: Make fancy chats like this,
without messing with HTML.

...into this.

Simple to use

No more messing with complicated HTML. Write your story normally and add chat conversations in a straightforward format. Fictional Messenger will do the rest.

Features
  • Works seamlessly with AO3 to display chats as actual text, not just embedded images. Chat messages are still available for readers with work skins are disabled, and those using a screen reader.
  • Lets you type short usernames, then display them as long ones.
  • Supports multiple named chat configs, so you can easily use different chat styles in the same work.
Contribute

Fictional Messenger is free, open-source software. Know CSS or JavaScript and want to add new styles, improve existing ones, or add new features? Check out the project on GitLab, or join the Discord.