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    This series started as just a one-shot to help people with AO3's CSS for making work skins.  Now that I've written a piece on making series (originally for a friend, but then shared to a Facebook group, so I figured why not add it to AO3), I figured that the two really should be linked for tutorial purposes.  I had no plans to do any of this at first, so maybe I'll add more in the future (Collections come to mind, and they're really easy to do).

    I don't expect to add further tutorials, but I hadn't expected to write these either.  I'm calling the series complete, but who knows (one thing that keeps nudging me is to take the statistics and show how fics' half-lives vary, for example; another is putting all weird AO3 fixes into one spot).

    NB:  If you're wondering, please see How to make and fix a series on AO3 (in this series with the tutorial on CSS work skins for fonts, which made that link become underscored blue ink [assuming that your browser settings, site skin, and third party apps didn't prohibit it]).

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    The woman standing right across from you was exactly like you in every way, except that you were shrouded in black while she was shrouded in white. Both your armies were the same. Two sides, two colours. It has been this way since time immemorial.

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  3. 3

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    game shows that are fairly and mediocre

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    Across the multiverse, characters have found themselves transported to our world, and with it, wacky and depressing adventure ensue as they struggle to survive, make new friends and lives for themselves, and discover what exactly happened to bring them all together

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    "I don't want to be their slave again!" The White Queen screams as she collapse into a ball of tears. After yet another brutal loss, The White Queen is now faced with yet another punishment. Will she give in to the obese and evil Black King, or will she find a way to save her army once and for all.

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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 :hover on desktop Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and TOR [in a WIN 11 environment], or upon :touch on 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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    Millie was just a rosy-cheeked, placid milkmaid - a pawn in a great chess game beyond her understanding.

    Or was she?

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    A pawn's service and sacrifice.

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  10. 1

    Mystery Work

    Part of Testing ground
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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    • 07 Jul 2025

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      Can't see this in the Testing_ground collection (at least not in Edge), where it's just one more of the unclickable Mystery Works even though my main account invited my Testing_Account to co-author it (and having earlier invited this account to be an invitee, a mod, and even an owner of the collection, none of the works had been visible to this account then, either), but I can see it by pasting the test-fic's URL into the address bar.  Interesting.

      Wow, had to edit the bookmark in order to drop in the chess puzzle test-fic's link directly, because even the bookmark is an unclickable link for the Testing_Account! 😲

      Invited my Testing_Account to co-author another test-fic and accept that one, just to see the difference(s), as upon accepting it I found that the other one (still in that Unrevealed Collection) was then perfectly visible and clickable.

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    Every July since 2009, various lunatics come together to try to write a piece of flash fiction for every single day of the month. And every July since 2015, I have been delighted to be one of those lunatics. This series contains every Flash Fiction Month entry I've written thus far, in chronological posting order!

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    A surprisingly serious tale of loss and the aftermath of grief.

    look you can see this is a crack fic about chess, you decide if you read or not.

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    The queen moves fast. The king can't keep up with her. There's a reason for that.

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    When playing pieces from different board games, including Cluedo, Chess, Monopoly and Scrabble, start to learn about the culture and politics of each other's worlds, anything can happen.

    Dedicated to anyone who has been coping with the boredom of lockdown by playing board games.

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    The stage is set.

    Eight rows. Eight columns.
    Thirty-two pieces. Six piece types.

    One goal.

    Who will triumph?

    Only time will tell.

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    From the war memoirs of a white pawn.

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    A loyal knight has one goal: to guide the kingdom's heir to promotion. But nothing will prepare them for the friends and threats they meet on the way to enemy territory...

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  18. 9

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    It had been a long, cold war.

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    The center pawn is loyal to her deities, win or lose. She wishes they'd stick to the normal rules, though.

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    The Pawn of e file must navigate the dangers of the Board and capture the Queen. The plan goes well...until the Pawn makes contact with the Queen.

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