#html tryhard

[jihnari]

@html-tryhard my second entry for the html tryhard 2025 event, behold: a clicky button

sebastian/farmer, 6k, slightly funny slightly angsty, idk i had fun

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62271195

[html-tryhard]

HTML Fic Event Week

Prompt Sheet Generator | AO3 Collection | html tryhard on AO3

HTML is a markup language used to tell a web browser how to display content. You might be aware of simple uses of HTML, such as bold and italics but HTML can be used to do so much more! Do you like r/AITA stories? Have you ever been interested in including realistic text messages into your fics? Did you like choose-your-own-adventure books as a kid? HTML can be used for all of these things and more!

Join us for HTML Tryhards 2025, where we bully our friends (and you? 👀) into making fanfiction super extra shiny using the power of HTML.

AO3, a fanfiction hosting platform, supports the use of HTML, and that's where submissions for this event should be posted. We have a collection for you to post to, but please use the tag #HTML Tryhard on your work as well!

On Tumblr, @ this blog or use the tag #htmltryhard2025, and we'll reblog your posts.

Prompts

There are two (optional) prompts per day, one to influence the format and one to influence the story. You can generate your own custom prompt list here. Use as many or as few of the prompts as you like.

Rules

All fandoms welcome.

Submissions must include a significant portion of HTML. We'd prefer the entire work be HTML, but mixed prose and HTML is also acceptable.

Submissions MUST be HTML and not images or screenshots of text logs/tweets/etc.

There is no required minimum word count, but the suggested minimum word count is 500 words.

The prompts are OPTIONAL, use as many or as few as you'd like.

HTML/CSS guides are accepted (and encouraged!) as submissions.

Submissions should include the #HTML Tryhard tag on AO3.

Submissions should be added to the collection on AO3.

You can start posting submissions January 13th. The last date of the event is January 17th, though if you're running behind you can still post to the collection after that date.

Follow us!

If you don't know how to use HTML but it's something you're interested in, give us a follow! In the days leading up to the event, we'll be sharing works that have utilized HTML, as well as helpful tutorials. The difficulty of these tutorials will vary, and we'll post things we hope will be helpful for tryhard veterans and beginners alike.

You can also send us your HTML questions and we'll do our best to help you out!

[mackerel-cheese]

posted my first entry for the @html-tryhard fest last night and then passed out lmao

its an Everything Everywhere All At Once AU!! it's such a learning curve to write in this format but sooooo rewarding. i have to think about it in funky 4d ways.

im soooo excited, this will be very fun :D

also thanks @otrtbs for letting me play with your sandbox!! it will be relevant,,, soon,,,

[voiider]

Slay the Robin

a Slay the Princess style "Jason's attack on Titan's Tower" fic

This was written for the HTML Tryhard 2025 fic event week!! This is the first time I've messed with work skins on ao3 since my dark Homestuck past, and let me tell you this was a doozy (for me) other people participating in the event were so nice tho and helped me quite a bit so tysm!!

[yuureitheghost]

Title: The Misadventures of Sakura-chan

Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed

Summary:

That day at Tropical Land, Kudou Shinichi disappeared and was never seen or heard of again. Or was he?

There we go

I don't want to look at this anymore :'D

[hatsukoi-neidhardt]

Guess who has written something in forever! Wanna thank the mods of @html-tryhard and @mackerel-cheese for encouraging me down this fun rabbit hole. I’ve already got a few other things planned, so I’m hoping that I can finally write more after a LONG multi-year hiatus (oops)

This was super fun and janky in honour of how much I love both games, so I hope everyone else enjoys the read too!

[mackerel-cheese]

thanks for inspiring this fic. ur struggle was not in vain

no one talk to me i just figured out how rich text works on ao3 and i feel like a new man

[mystyrust]

Hi, wrote an html fic for @html-tryhard

i know i normally dont write for amphibia, but ive been deeply unwell about it since the series finale, and wrote an outsider pov fic

as you can see, theres interactive easter eggs in there

anyway go read it, and read the rest of the fics from this event too!!

[gifbot]

But can it run Doom with a GAMEPAD??

In celebration of the HTML Tryhard 2025 fest on AO3, I gave Doom on AO3 a little HTML facelift!

Now you can imagine you (and all your friends) are making Doomguy spin endlessly at 4 frames per second on a PlayStation controller! It's still impossible to play correctly, but now it's impossible to play correctly in style.

[gumbabunny]

My College Au Riddlebat is posted :]

Made for @html-tryhard event week :D

Fully complete and finished | 27k words and only the finest fluff and pining around

[ao3feed-superbat]

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬𝐞

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/9ImFv8T by GumbaBunny Clark is assigned an impossible task: Interview Bruce Wayne. The only problem? Bruce has always refused interviews, and Clark quickly learns that getting close to Gotham's reclusive billionaire is no easy task. How could he score an interview with him when no one else ever had? On the other hand Bruce notices a reporter following him and unsure of his intentions follows Clark only to for him to be impossible to track down. This intrigued him, especially with his ability to catch even the most elusive criminals. How could one reporter slip through his fingers so easily every time? Words: 5281, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Clark Kent is Superman, Bruce Wayne is Batman, SuperBat, Superbattinson, Strangers to Lovers, HTML, CSS, HTML Tryhard, Daily Planet (DCU), Misunderstandings, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Feel-good, Secret Identity, POV Alternating read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/9ImFv8T

[jihnari]

@html-tryhard just posted my final entry for html hell week, a genshin modern uni AU social media fic. i feel like none of those things are particularly popular, plus it's a rarepair fic (childe/alhaitham) but the heart wants what the heart wants. and my heart wants the akademiya student body to gossip about the insane snezhnayan transfer student. 

bonus, tighnari gets to tell people not to eat poison:

[html-tryhard]

And that's a wrap!

The inaugural HTML Tryhard 2025 Fanfiction Event Week has come to a close. Thanks so much to everyone who participated! All entries for this event can be found on the AO3 collection.

This year, we had a total of 21 works spanning 24 fandoms. The biggest fandom to participate was Harry Potter, which currently has total of 555,256 works on AO3, and the smallest fandom to participate was Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes, which has a current total of 2 works on AO3.

Y'all contributed to create exactly half of this fandom tag.

The biggest overlap was the Batman - All Media Types fandom, at 3 entries. A majority of entries were the only entry for their fandom. It really goes to show that writers from all fandoms are finding fun and innovative new ways to tell stories.

It's almost like you tried to actively avoid each other.

We only had 2 HTML tutorial entries, but that means we had 19 story entries! That's a lot! Not only did people write chat fics and fancy new-age epistolary stories (with in-universe posts from Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, and even Yikyak), they also wrote choose your own adventure stories (with multiple endings!), and works that were completely unique that pushed the boundaries of storytelling.

The event collection will be officially closed on this coming Sunday (1/26), but if you have additional entries to add, just let us know.

That's all for this year. Hope to see you all again next year!

[mackerel-cheese]

have you ever read a fic and was like wow i would like to make fanart and then realised that you arent an artist so you made an html/css ao3 workskin instead?

my last entry for the @html-tryhard fest is inspired by @badhairred's marauders F1 AU on ao3 :)

anyway now if you want to add race results to your ao3 work with HTML, you can use this guide

[voiider]

turtles all the way down

ok but what if jason todd and donnie tmnt kissed actually???

^click the link and it'll take u to the fic

they don't do that in this fic but they do hang out!!!

Written for the 2025 HTML Tryhard fic event week check out some of the other works they are so cool!!

[audiio]

can we get an F in chat?

The Homebrew (Podcast) Category: Gen Tags: Social Media, Canon Compliant, HTML Tryhard, Post-Episode 12 Words: 1.9k

we're building up The Homebrew's fic tag from nothing 👍 let's go gang