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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! ❤️
Full code included.
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This is a personal experiment with HTML. It is a very limited list with what I find useful.
Update: Somehow I find more and more stuff useful, so this list is not that limited (and not that private) anymore. I'll improve it with time and according to my needs. I just realized, this will never be "complete" and there is no final number of chapters.So far that's posted:
Part One: Basics
Part Two: Lines
Part Three: Footnotes and Links
Part Four: Columns and Skins
Part Five: Pictures
Part Six: Videos (and gifs)
Part Seven: Choose Your Own Adventure
Part Eight: Chapter Title
Part Nine: The Title, the Username, and Links
Part Ten: Kudos Message
Part Eleven: Newspaper Article
Part Twelve: Content Notes and Spoiler (NEW: Opacity)
Part Thirteen: Playground for Jinx (glitch text, color, table)
Part Fourteen: Text generator
Part Fifteen: Boxes (still in progress)
Part Sixteen: Vertical Text
Part Seventeen: Transition (NEW) -
Userscript to return tailored kudos thanks' and styled comments' visibility client-side by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor) for Mewsmodeus (Mewzebub), GumbaBunny
Fandoms: CSS abuse - Fandom
02 Jan 2026
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Remember when people started tailoring their kudos messages and error notices? Pepperidge Farm remembers — and so do I.
Not a site skin, but much like one: a script permitting those special messages to be seen in the work skin again.
Not much more to say: this gives you a userscript in JS that you can plug in and make things go brrrrr again (at least for yourself as a reader). I used it in Violentmonkey in Firefox. I don't speak JS (this is me dipping my toes into the water here) and am not at all familiar with the ins and outs of all of the different userscript managers, so you might need slightly different syntax or something if you use a different manager (and since I discovered last night that Chrome no longer supports Violentmonkey, and it seems that Tampermonkey and others aren't really open source, I was stuck between Skýlla and Khárybdis).
Don't Panic
Make Kudos Great Again!
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Add a direct link to comment on a chapter that looks like a real A03 button!
Right now, if a user is reading in "entire work" the easiest way to comment on a chapter is to open the next chapter in a new tab, then go back a chapter, click comments, and then leave a comment. Readers who downloaded a work have even more hoops to jump though.
This is a guide to making a direct link to the feedback section so that our readers can give us some. It uses AO3's default CSS classes to piggyback on the archive formatting our reader is using, making it look like an official A03 button on the web. (CSS formatting does not carry-over if the work is downloaded, but the link will remain.)
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- Part 20 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Model Station by Mewsmodeus (Mewzebub) for GumbaBunny, Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own
25 Dec 2025
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Is a tool for previewing and troubleshooting 3D-Kinda Models (can be used in other ways too).
Features include:
- Live (but temporary) transformations or adjustments (2 modes!)
- Model Switcher
- Premade Cuboid Models (New model(s) is coming later, much later)
- Semantics
- Fun Settings (temporary, I'll try to make it not but I don't know how text fragments (
:~:text) with id fragments (#id) work (#id:~:text=text) - Displays a warning when Creator's Style is disabled instead of being broken in pieces
The tool uses
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Popup tooltips that work well on both desktop (hover) and mobile (tap open and close). Constrained width, so best for short tooltips or translations for a couple words at the most.
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- Part 1 of Simbeline's Work Skins
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RNG in site skins by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: css - Fandom, HTML - Fandom
07 Nov 2025
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〽 ♪ ♫
Do you want to build a site skin...?
Come on, let's go RNG !
♫ ♪1950s TV announcer voice cuts in:
Is that you whom I see, staring wistfully at flashy websites with eye-bleeding '90s randomization, never knowing what the next site in the webring might bring? Or how about you — yes, you, right there, reading this — do you yearn to expand the limitations of work skin RNG past the 500K char count, and you're not sure of where to turn?
Well, do I have a deal for YOU!Yes, my friends, you, too, can have the random surprise package of your dreams, with this handy-dandy never-before-seen unlimited time offer of one RNG Site Skin introductory proof of concept for the low, low, low price of a kudos and a comment (not that I'd complain about shares, subs, and bookmarks 😉)!
How whoa can you go?
* Reader participation required.
Bonus: Target n-tuple works with totally different rules from one single skin.
Cautionary tale: not 8 new RNG sources in DOM, only page source!
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Archive-Wide CSS Classes that you can use without a workskin. Nothing really crazy though. Ignore the wordcount.
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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As I've Written Terminal (AO3 Work Skin) by Pent
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
17 Oct 2025
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Writing a story that includes code execution or related sci-fi shenanigans? Here is a mobile-friendly computer terminal work skin that you can use on AO3, styled to imitate Lygus's notes in As I've Written.
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- Part 5 of Pent's Fandom-Specific AO3 Work Skins
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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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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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Zenless Zone Zero Inter-Knot (AO3 Work Skin) by Pent
Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)
28 Apr 2025
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Have you ever wanted to add canon compliant Inter-Knot posts to your Zenless Zone Zero works? Now you can! This is an accessible, readable, and mobile-friendly AO3 work skin that imitates the look of in-game Inter-Knot posts.
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- Part 4 of Pent's Fandom-Specific AO3 Work Skins
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Now that a version of AO3 is canon in the DC universe (called Tales of Our Own), here's a work skin to help you create a TO3 fic-within-a-fic! Complete with the top navigation bar, kudos, comments, and custom TO3 logos and styling.
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This is a work skin to create a fic-within-a-fic on AO3, complete with the top navigation bar, kudos, and comments!
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An accessible, screen reader friendly AO3 work skin that imitates the look of in-game Zenless Zone Zero DMs (Knock Knock).
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- Part 3 of Pent's Fandom-Specific AO3 Work Skins
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Inside, Outside, Upside-down by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 CSS, css - Fandom, HTML - Fandom
24 Mar 2025
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I threw this together overnight (and have tweaked it some since then). Just applying a few little CSS party tricks that I've learned or developed along the way... 😉
My tricks aren't revealed in the narration, but since this is a How To series, you should be able to ferret them out by now — and if not, then take it as your homework challenge! ❤️
Use your 1337 haX0r Wiz zen skillz.
Click for keynote
Best viewed on a COMPUTER browser with a MOUSE, not a 'phone where some effects will be missed or simply not optimized (though there are a couple of surprises that appear on iPhone [not Android] rather than desktop browsers).
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CAUTION, beware of audio from invisible video; see notes.
⚠️Cf. notes in work skin for issues w.r.t. different approaches used in this work.
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- Part 9 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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This is a guide to crafting explicit content, designed to make it less daunting for writers who might be new to writing smut but not new to storytelling. This is not a guide to anatomy or a step-by-step on sex acts; it's a mix of craft (what to write) and process (how to go about writing it) advice that aims to be practical and easily digestible.
It is illustrated with femslash examples, since that’s what I write most, and my aim is to help others feel more comfortable writing it. That said, the advice itself is largely non-specific.
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CSS & HTML for a small box with text that looks like a classic text message.