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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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! 🙂
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Series
- Part 10 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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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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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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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! ❤️
Series
- Part 8 of How to