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Open collection: please add anything you believe fits the title.
My notes on essential, basic formatting is in the profile.
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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
05 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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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
03 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 use 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).
And bonus: it even permits the effect on multichapter works in single-chapter mode!Don't Panic
Make Kudos Great Again!
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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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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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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.
Recent bookmarks
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AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandom Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types, No Fandom, Star Trek, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (TV 2026), Undertale (Video Game)
07 Feb 2026
- Words:
- 93,564
- Works:
- 21
- Bookmarks:
- 4,428
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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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Embedding tutorial
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 212
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4,070
- Kudos:
- 8,356
- Bookmarks:
- 5,300
- Hits:
- 393,299
Bookmarked by Fyrefly_Adi (Firefly_Aki)
12 Jun 2020
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Inserting photos, gifs, and links.