CSS Abuse and HTML Tryhard
My HTML and CSS works are growing, and they're not all in the tutorial series (though honestly, a lot of my regular fics [not in this collection] have snippets of CSS in their notes, outlining and explaining quick little bits of computer magic used for an offhand effect [not being the focus of the work] in some chapter), but I figured that collecting the particularly CSS-heavy or *-related works (tutorials, demos, games, etc.) into one spot might be useful for readers and researchers, so... here they are, all in One Big Happy — ENJOY! 😁
Tutorials, QRLs (Quick Reference Lists), demos, [playable] games.
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Random works
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Building ConLangs, with a concrete example by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: Conlangs - Fandom
07 Apr 2024
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Sometimes we want a conlang (constructed language) in our fic (or even without a fic). They abound in the wild — Star Trek's Klingon has an essentially functional vocabulary, Tolkien put in a lot of work on Elvish Quenya and other languages of Middle Earth, and many others exist in one state of completeness or another.
So, how do you go about making one for yourself? This takes you through the steps alongside resource links; where you start building one is up to you, but this provides a good grounding in some of the basics at least. It also goes through those steps as it progresses, building up the lelɹli conlang as we go. The sounds and written form, the vocabulary and grammar, and even dialects, though each section's associated linked resources are probably of more interest to most (except perhaps my readers).
NB: there's a metric shit-ton of IPA in here, for which I apologize beforehand should you read this with a TTS screen reader (or, I imagine, a braille reader) that's not majorly buffed.
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 11 of How to
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Targeting specific AO3 work sections (not site) with CSS effects by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: css - Fandom, AO3
26 Jan 2025
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Want to apply CSS effects (e.g.: some background color, image, or .gif) to entire sections automatically from your work skin (without having to waste precious character count within said sections)?
Wish you could adjust the font, color, highlight, alignment, etc. of the section headers themselves? Perhaps even extend the work beyond the boundaries, covering that wasted space to the sides, and even the site page header and footer regions?
No clue where to even start? Tired of trying to find which part of the work is which from peeking at other works' work skin rules, or mucking about with trial and error?
🤣 Don't Panic. 😉
Here you'll find how to aim your work skin rules at any section of your work (or combination thereof) that you want — and yes, even how to expand those effects to outside of the work area ! (Even... comments )
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome! ❤️
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- Part 8 of How to
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Bubble-pop! game by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: css - Fandom
27 Jul 2025
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Ever want to pop some bubbles? Ever want to use RNG to generate them? Well then, here's your handy, dandy bubble-popping game with Random Number Generator, all rolled into one! (Full code included.)
But wait, there's more! Yes sirree, Bob, this li'l baby comes with colors and patterns on its bubbles, and a little tense background music for ambience (might need a pop first, depending upon browser)... and no, it's not a Rick Roll (TL;DR from testing: audio in desktop Chrome, not desktop Opera, iPhone Safari, or Android Chrome; desktop results vary with settings for Firefox, TOR, and MS Edge — details in head-note). G'head: kick the tires and take her out for a spin! ❤️
And YES, it's PLAYABLE ! Tap / chase to click the bubble, find the next; OCD Heaven/Hell!
Don't panic! 😁
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- Part 7 of How to
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Acronyms, sōreîtai, Superman and such, sew it now seams by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: Superman (Comics)
15 Feb 2026
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Riddle me this:
The Riddler has left a set of clues to follow, and Batman is fighting other crime.
There's a hit piece on Superman in today's Daily Planet, by authors unknown. What sort of people could possibly have written it? It's up to you to find and sew together the seaming/seeming clues of this wild goose chase — and to watch out for red herrings!
Of course, if you get tired of syllogistic logic, then you could just... rebus alone! 😉 🤣
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How to make and fix a series on AO3 by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 help - Fandom
23 May 2021
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🙂 Don't panic. 🙂
This takes you through an easy step-by-step process so that you'll have as many series as you wish in no time — and yes, you can even weave multiple series together, and rearrange their order.
Bonus on how to search for a series.
Did your series glitch out on Next Work →, or give you two fics with the same part number and zero of the one before, and now it's freakin' tutti sciancato? Work with me here: we can fix this, we have the technology (cue music from Six Million Dollar Man).
Did your series disappear from the page that shows all of your different series? 〽 ♪ ♫ I think that I know why... ♫ ♪
(Bonus section on indenting [CSS work skin] and different-width spaces [HTML], and screen reader problems with lists and symbols, and styling list items' bullet point markers, and empty row glitches.)
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
Series
- Part 2 of How to