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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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 (and other search tips and details).
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
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Olive Pine Moon site skin theme by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: Site Skin - Fandom
03 May 2026
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This theme uses an olive tone as its basis, and was built at the request of a Redditor.
It requires ravenothere's Closer to Home BASE site skin in order to function.
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Green Rain font, from The Matrix by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: The Matrix (Movies)
02 Apr 2023
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This gives you the CSS and HTML necessary to present a somewhat passable but rather primitive and
staticDYNAMIC emulation of the “green rain” / “digital rain” of The Matrix. Webkit is included for lead symbols' outline, in order to sharpen the contrast.A dynamic one could be faked nicely with .gifs (AO3 can run Doom, after all), but you can't (by T.o.S.) use Javascript within AO3 (not sure about T.o.S. w.r.t. external), so an actually dynamic font seems a little out of reach for now. But that's OK: 27 Nov 2023 I found a workaround for a dynamic background.
Full code and illustrations are included.
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 10 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! 😉 🤣