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Welcome to So Obsessed! This is my home on the net, where I post some personal stuff, fanart, memes and news regarding my screencaps and fansites. I have lots of wallpapers and icons here, as well as FocusWriter themes and more! Have a look around and I hope you enjoy your visit and come back soon!

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New AO3 Site Skin: Gilded Frost

Ariane October 12, 2026 · Filed under AO3, AO3, Fan Works & Other Downloads · No Comments

It's been a while since I posted an AO3 site skin. That's because I had a lot of problems with this one - it started life as a House Stark (from Game of Thrones) skin, but no matter what I tried, I just wasn't happy with it. Finally I scrapped the whole House Stark idea, and this one emerged pretty quickly! I'm very happy with it now 🤩

  • Gilded Frost — AO3 Site Skin

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    A dark, wintry site skin for Archive of Our Own: near-black stone surfaces, icy blue accents and antique gold, with a signature ice-to-gold gradient running through the header, work titles, dashboards and fandom tags. It uses Cinzel for headings and EB Garamond for reading text, on a single consistent type scale. It includes a companion mobile add-on and recoloured ZerafinaCSS icons.

    Author: intothisshadow
    Version: 1.0.0
    sAO3 instructions: https://archiveofourown.org/works/94504386 GitHub: https://github.com/intothisshadow/AO3-SiteSkin_GildedFrost/
    Website: https://www.so-obsessed.com

    Fonts

    This theme uses Cinzel (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cinzel) for headings, the Archive of Our Own title in the header, buttons and navigation, and EB Garamond (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond) for body text, links and tags. AO3 skins can't load web fonts, so to see them you need either to install both fonts on your system (download them from the URLs above), or to load them in your browser with the included stylus_fonts.css (see Fonts via Stylus below). Without either, the skin falls back to Georgia/serif.

    File Structure

    style_desktop.css       Desktop stylesheet (required)
style_mobile.css        Mobile add-on (requires style_desktop.css as parent skin)
stylus_fonts.css        Optional: loads the custom fonts via the Stylus browser extension
CHANGELOG.md            Version history
README.md               This file

    How to Install

    Find the files mentioned here:

    GitHub: https://github.com/intothisshadow/AO3-SiteSkin_GildedFrost/

    AO3's skin system cannot load external fonts: its CSS sanitizer rejects @import and @font-face outright. For the intended look, load the fonts separately with Stylus, a free browser extension.

    1. Install Stylus for Firefox or Chrome
    2. Click the Stylus icon → Manage → Write new style
    3. Paste the contents of stylus_fonts.css into the code editor
    4. Under Applies to, select URLs on the domain and enter archiveofourown.org
    5. Name it (e.g. AO3 Gilded Frost Fonts) and save

    Without this step, headings and body text fall back to Georgia/serif, which still reads well. The custom fonts are a polish layer, not a requirement.

    Desktop skin (required)

    1. Go to Hi, user! → My Dashboard → Skins → Create Site Skin
    2. Paste the contents of style_desktop.css into the CSS field
    3. Set Media to All Media Types
    4. Save. If you are also using the mobile add-on, don't activate this skin directly.
    1. Go to Hi, user! → My Dashboard → Skins → Create Site Skin
    2. Paste the contents of style_mobile.css into the CSS field
    3. Under Media, check Handheld Devices and Narrow Screen Devices
    4. Under Parent Skin, select the desktop skin you created above
    5. Save and activate this skin. AO3 applies the parent skin alongside it automatically, so you only ever activate the child.

    Desktop only (no mobile add-on)

    If you don't want the mobile add-on, activate the desktop skin directly instead.

    Icon replacements

    The ZerafinaCSS icon replacement set is built into style_desktop.css as Section 34, recoloured to the Gilded Frost palette, so no separate skin is needed. It's based on ZerafinaCSS's Replace the AO3 Icons 2.0. To remove the icon replacements, delete Section 34.

    Customising the Palette

    All colours are CSS variables in the :root block in Section 2 (Color Palette) of style_desktop.css. To change the colour scheme, edit that block only.

    Variable Value Role
    --gf-void #0d0f12 Page background
    --gf-stone #1a1d23 Main surface
    --gf-granite #252830 Cards and panels
    --gf-slate #3a3f4b Borders and dividers
    --gf-ash #8a92a0 Muted text
    --gf-silver #9ca3af Body text
    --gf-frost #c9d3e0 Primary text
    --gf-white #e8edf4 Headings
    --gf-ice #9ed4e3 Icy blue accent, links
    --gf-ice-mid / -dim #6fa8c4 / #3f89a8 Secondary accents, borders
    --gf-gold #b8965a Gold accent, authors
    --gf-gold-pale / -dim #e8d4a8 / #7a6038 Text on gold pills, muted gold
    --gf-danger #d67878 Warnings

    Muted colours were lightened where needed so text meets WCAG AA contrast on every surface.

    Type Scale

    Every font size in the skin comes from one set of tokens in the same :root block:

    Token Desktop Phone Used for
    --fs-xs 14px 12.3px Buttons, nav, footer links, pagination, meta labels
    --fs-sm 16px 14px Tags, blurb stats, dates, footnotes
    --fs-md 18px 15.8px Blurb titles and authors, legends, small headings
    --fs-base 20px 18px Body and reading text
    --fs-h3 / h2 / h1 20 / 24 / 32px 17.5 / 21 / 28px Page headings

    The mobile add-on shrinks the root font size, which scales the whole set together, and pins --fs-base to 18px so fic text stays comfortable to read. Author-written headings inside fic text keep their own scale.

    Stylesheet Structure

    The desktop stylesheet has 34 numbered sections, listed in the table of contents at the top of the file.

    The mobile stylesheet has no @media blocks, on purpose. AO3 already applies the whole skin only to the screen types ticked under Media, and when you save, it silently removes any @media condition you write inside the CSS, so the rules inside apply at every screen size instead. If you edit the mobile file, add plain rules rather than media queries.

    Credits

    Version

    Current: V1.0.0. See CHANGELOG.md for history. The changelog documents significant changes only: new features, architectural decisions and notable bug fixes.

Welcome to the Updated Site!

Welcome to the Updated Site!

Ariane October 8, 2026 · Filed under Coding, Information · No Comments

Welcome to the fresh new site! After years of relying on third-party software, I’ve now officially swapped standard WordPress  and Coppermine for my own custom-built platforms. I built these entirely from scratch out of personal need, but kept fellow fansite creators and hobbyists in mind every step of the way.

First up is Lumora Press - what you are reading this on right now! It's a lightweight, self-hosted PHP blogging platform inspired by the elegance and simplicity of classic WordPress (think 2012–2015 era!). It’s all about writing, publishing, and customizing with classic themes, widgets, and plugins. No block editors, no page builders, no AI bloat - just simple, fast blogging. Since it’s an independent codebase built from scratch (not a fork), it runs fast and stably on modern PHP and basic shared hosting.

On top of that classic WordPress goodness, I also added a few features to Lumora Press core that I've been wishing WordPress had without needing a million plugins: virtual folders in the Media Manager (so you can finally organize hundreds of icons, wallpapers, and photos by subject with ease!), direct file importing from FTP and Downloads just to name a few.

Then there’s Lumora Gallery, a modern dedicated gallery inspired by Coppermine Photo Gallery. It’s built to handle big visual collections, fan archives, and tons of photos without breaking a sweat. It's been running my Xena screencaps gallery since June, and Game of Thrones galleries since last month so you've maybe been using it already.

Building both of these from the ground up gives me total freedom from modern web bloat and brings back the classic workflow that makes site-making fun again ❤️

I’ve also put together a few other handy scripts—feel free to check all my scripts out at https://coding.unloved-heart.net!

  • All the Dowloads are again online! Sorry it took me so long to re-add them!
  • I've switched this site to PHP 8.4 

As always, if you spot any problems, let me know!

NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye

NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye

Ariane September 14, 2026 · Filed under Music · No Comments

Liked this song a lot back when it was released, and now re-discovered it. Only they insist on singing "bye, bye, bye" and "I want to see you out that door" ....instead of the much cooler and totally correct "five by five" and "I wanna see you walk that dog" 👀 🌟

Getting Back Into Fanlistings

Getting Back Into Fanlistings

Ariane September 14, 2026 · Filed under Blog, Fanlistings · No Comments

So I've been getting back into fanlistings the past few months! ✨ Once I saw that Martina of inspirationally.net had released a brand new fanlisting management script (the old ones are really old and out of date now which was part of the reason I got out of fanlisting making). I was so rusty when it came coding html + css layouts! But at the same I've had lots of fun doing layouts for my fanlisting collective and fanlistings! 🤩

Feel free to have a look around my fanlistings and join if you're fan! ✨ URLs below.

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All sites have now moved and are online!

All sites have now moved and are online!

Ariane May 21, 2026 · Filed under Information, Server Problems & Fansite News · No Comments

The move to new host is now complete! All sites are on the new host, online and everything should be working normally. If you spot any errors or things missing, do let me know!

https://www.seven-kingdoms.net is the last to finish just a few moments ago. The DNS update can take anywhere from several minutes up to 48-72 hours. Once you can see the page at https://www.seven-kingdoms.net/moved.html you know you’re viewing the site on the new server!

All the other sites are already resolving to the new host since days ago.

Moving To New Host – Progress Report 2

Moving To New Host – Progress Report 2

Ariane May 20, 2026 · Filed under Information, Server Problems & Fansite News · No Comments

Almost there!

Completed & Online

Working On

Moving To New Host - Progress Report

Moving To New Host - Progress Report

Ariane May 18, 2026 · Filed under Information, Server Problems & Fansite News · No Comments

 

Completed & Online

Working On