diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 55d20b7..7709ae7 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ gem "pg", "~> 1.1"
 gem "puma", "~> 5.0"
 gem 'slim-rails'
 gem 'kaminari'
+gem 'redcarpet'
 
 gem 'redis'
 
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index a350854..97731b4 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ GEM
     rake (13.1.0)
     rdoc (6.6.3.1)
       psych (>= 4.0.0)
+    redcarpet (3.6.0)
     redis (5.1.0)
       redis-client (>= 0.17.0)
     redis-client (0.21.1)
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   pg (~> 1.1)
   puma (~> 5.0)
   rails (~> 7.0.8, >= 7.0.8.1)
+  redcarpet
   redis
   selenium-webdriver
   sidekiq
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a969da6..e86a926 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # FoalFetch
-A replacement for FiMFetch.
\ No newline at end of file
+A replacement for FiMFetch.
diff --git a/app/controllers/chapters_controller.rb b/app/controllers/chapters_controller.rb
index a612712..f63f8ac 100644
--- a/app/controllers/chapters_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/chapters_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
+require 'redcarpet'
+
 class ChaptersController < ApplicationController
   def show
     @story = Story.find(params[:story_id])
     @chapter = @story.chapters.find_by(number: params[:id])
+
+    @rendered_html = markdown.render(@chapter.body)
+  end
+
+  private
+  def markdown
+    @@markdown ||=
+      Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML, autolink: true, tables: true)
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/controllers/images_controller.rb b/app/controllers/images_controller.rb
index d385737..ef14b30 100644
--- a/app/controllers/images_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/images_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 require 'open-uri'
 
+# Handles proxying images from the FiMFiction CDN and caching them locally, in case they disappear.
 class ImagesController < ApplicationController
+  #noinspection RubyMismatchedArgumentType
   def show
     url = params[:url]
     parsed = URI.parse(url)
@@ -10,9 +12,10 @@ class ImagesController < ApplicationController
       return
     end
 
+    ext = File.extname(url)
     hash = Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(url)
-    path = Rails.root.join('public', 'cached-images', hash + File.extname(url))
-    our_url = '/cached-images/' + hash + File.extname(url)
+    path = Rails.root.join('public', 'cached-images', hash + ext)
+    our_url = '/cached-images/' + hash + ext
 
     if File.exist? path
       redirect_to our_url
diff --git a/app/jobs/recount_words_job.rb b/app/jobs/recount_words_job.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c8af59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/jobs/recount_words_job.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+class RecountWordsJob < ApplicationJob
+  def perform(*)
+    Story.find_each do |story|
+      word_count = 0
+      story.chapters.each do |chapter|
+        count = chapter.body.split(' ').size
+        chapter.update_columns(
+          num_words: count
+        )
+        word_count += count
+      end
+
+      story.update_columns(
+        num_words: word_count
+      )
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/views/chapters/show.html.slim b/app/views/chapters/show.html.slim
index 76945a9..c8ec31e 100644
--- a/app/views/chapters/show.html.slim
+++ b/app/views/chapters/show.html.slim
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ body.story
           - if @chapter.number < @story.chapters.count
             = link_to 'Next Chapter', story_chapter_path(@story, @chapter.number + 1)
       hr
-      == @chapter.body
+      == @rendered_html
 
       span.chapnav.bot
         - if @chapter.number < @story.chapters.count
           = link_to 'Next Chapter', story_chapter_path(@story, @chapter.number + 1)
-
diff --git a/app/views/search/index.html.slim b/app/views/search/index.html.slim
index f237dc7..19449c2 100644
--- a/app/views/search/index.html.slim
+++ b/app/views/search/index.html.slim
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 .main
   #wrap
     nav.home
-      = link_to "Daily Fictions", "/ficoftheday"
+      /= link_to "Daily Fictions", "/ficoftheday"
       = link_to "News", "/news"
       = link_to "About", "/about"
     section.search.search-l
-      img alt="FoalFetch" src="/img/banner.png"
+      = image_tag '/img/banner.png', alt: 'FoalFetch'
       = form_tag "/search", method: :post
         .searchbox
           = search_field_tag "q", nil, placeholder: 'Search story titles...'
         = render partial: 'advanced', locals: { show_button: false }
         .buttons
           = submit_tag 'Go Fetch!', name: 'search'
-          = submit_tag 'Pick one for me!', name: 'luck'
\ No newline at end of file
+          = submit_tag 'Pick one for me!', name: 'luck'
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 8fbba7c..6faf6df 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
   get '/images' => 'images#show'
 
   resources :authors, only: [:show]
-  resources :stories, only: [:show] do
-    resources :chapters, only: [:show]
+  # using singular-named routes to match FiMFetch/FiMFiction.
+  resources :stories, only: [:show], path: :story do
+    resources :chapters, only: [:show], path: :chapter
   end
 end