AO3 & Coding Layouts & Creative References
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Random works
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where I test and share my original workskins and experiment with improvements to existing skins.
- additions to Heterochromia_Mars's Discord skin
- TV/theater scripts
- AO3 Entries
- Tumblr DMs (experimental)
last edit: 3/27/20
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Skin for Recreating Unlocked Achievements by SpookyTesting (FierySprites)
Fandoms: No Fandom
17 Feb 2024
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A work skin for recreating the Achievement/Trophy Unlocked messages from various systems, including PlayStation and Xbox.
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Userscript to add Series [Public] Bookmarks total count to author's stats page by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 stats - Fandom
04 Jan 2026
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It's bugged me vaguely for years, though never enough that I really cared... but it hit me last night: if JS can do one thing, such as return the special kudos messages to their days of tailored glory, then it can do another, so... yeah, why not?
If you want to see your series' total number of public bookmarks in your stats page: you got it! ❤️
NB: Cf. Userscript to return tailored kudos thanks' and styled comments' visibility client-side re. CSS to return
overflowandsticky, or link for same as a userscript.Full code included.
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Hunt the Wumpus by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Interactive Fiction | IF, Hunt the Wumpus (Interactive Fiction | IF)
20 Oct 2025
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Playable game with RNG (Random Number Generator) driven random events!
If you don't remember this game, think back to things like Zork (or, as a poor simile, something remotely like Sir-Tech's Wizardry series in atmosphere [this version of Wumpus being far less graphics-intensive]).
Armed with vorpal arrows and bearing lid-bags of wumpusnip and wumpuspurge of dubious effectiveness in hope of alternately luring and warding away the evil monster, will you take up the gantlet?
Who says that CSS is 𝖍ard?
(NB for TTS screen readers: that last word was “hard”, not “ard”, but I cheated with an “h” from an unusual Unicode range instead of CSS, so that it would remain visually odd in the Summary... and found that my testing-purpose [and sometimes laziness] freebie TTS browser extension can't read it... because of course.)NB 1: HTML-structural redundancy bloated the word and chapter counts; ~15K actual words (~4K vis. by RNG) and 20 caves!
NB 2: More PG than G, about as graphic as Oregon Trail, but I'm not sure if that's enough to rate as Teen.
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Chess puzzle extravaganza by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor) for Mewsmodeus (Mewzebub)
Fandoms: CSS abuse - Fandom, Chess - Fandom
13 Jul 2025
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But does it play chess? While chess is hardly DOOM, there still are some constraints on actually moving things around without JavaScript (though gifbot has some ideas that might render such possible).
Don't panic! 😉
Time for some in situ RNG aikido.
I can't [yet] offer any definite way to actively play chess on AO3, and so, in lieu of such, I offer you 256 preconfigured static-display chess puzzles, one selected randomly per refresh, with random black or white to move, using only HTML and CSS, no offsite JS.
There are also some secret messages from the BBEG upon
:hoveron desktop Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and TOR [in a WIN 11 environment], or upon:touchon iPhone Safari (Android Chrome... is iffy, because Android : it has both worked and failed for me, so no guarantees). Lemme know how it is on Mac / 'nix!Part CSS extravaganza demo, and part How To for leveraging RNG for stunning results.
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- Part 6 of How to
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How to permanently filter out certain tags on AO3 by orphan_account
Fandoms: No Fandom, site-skins
09 Jun 2023
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- Part 2 of ao3css's templates
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A simple text message format that retains basic readability even without skins enabled. Please feel free to use. Instructions included, some assembly required ;) Please feel free to comment if you have any questions or issues.
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Replika Skin by FaeriMagic
Fandoms: Replika - Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, Archive of Our Own
28 Mar 2022
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I tried to replicate the Replika aesthetic as much as I could within the confines of AO3's limited HTML/CSS pool.
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Skin for Putting Music Indicators in Your Fic by SpookyTesting (FierySprites)
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Apr 2022
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A work skin for inserting stylized music links into your fic, ala Super Smash Bros.’ music labels at the start of each match.
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A tutorial + live example on how to recreate Ao3 on mobile in your Ao3 fic using CSS and HTML.
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- Part 2 of Cool Coding Kumquats