...I’ll write it in OneDrive and just post it on AO3. To avoid issues like that.
—Ls, happy someone else has read it.
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...I’ll write it in OneDrive and just post it on AO3. To avoid issues like that.
—Ls, happy someone else has read it.
One note for safety purposes: be careful where you write things if you're posting to OneDrive, because your email is visible in the Author field on downloaded copies. In this case it doesn't match your Board email but doesn't give any extra personal information, but if you start the file on a home, school, or work computer it could give out info you don't want to make public.
hS
London, Unreal has been in the works long enough that I don't remember exactly why Jasmine came along, but I think it was a combination of her being the right age, and a desire to do something with her that wasn't Cats-related. Tanfin had possibly-maybe just gone through the Pantheon event at the time, and the other three are a bit too small for such a major role.
The "crowd", by the way, is something C&J are approaching, not something approaching them. Specifically they were walking east, but have now turned north towards the sound of people.
hS
As I said below, Gintama is high on my list of must-see manga/anime series 🤭
It was at the same moment Carlisle finally portaled off of the float, that Lindsey finally slipped out of her mother's grasp using every once of strength in her eight year old body, along with no small degree of support from the Ironic Overpower.
Sasha froze for a moment looking at Carlisle and then at the rapidly closing portal that her daughter had just run through. While most mothers would scream and panic at this point, and likely let loose a string of foul language aimed at Carlisle, Sasha just sighed. She'd been doing this far too long now.
On top of the float meanwhile Lindsey burst out with a huge grin, clearly proud of her momentary shot at escapology, watching the 'crowds' below the float before finally locking her eyes on the teenager before her. "Hello, who are you?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about Markdown not interpreting line breaks as paragraphs. Currently, when you do an Enter Enter, it renders as a new paragraph (with <p></p>
tags) in the post's source code. It's just that if you do a single Enter, it doesn't do anything; it ignores the newline and treats the text before and after the Enter as part of the same paragraph.
What we'd like it to do is render a single line break (<br/>
), which is what we code in manually to not have the newline ignored. It comes in handy occasionally for things like sharing poetry. Example with desired paragraph and line-break HTML shown:
<p>
The rain in Spain<br/>
stays mainly in the plain.</p>
Just seems odd that it can interpret Enter Enter as "code for a new paragraph," but it can't interpret Enter as "code for a single line-break." If I understand you right, it sounds like it can't distinguish between a manually Entered newline and one generated by word-wrapping in the composition text box...?
~Neshomeh
Oh man, the T.S. Eliot imagery . . . this is going to be a good series!
Gosh, my mental view of Jasmine is so colored by her appearance as a Cat during your histories . . . it's going to be weird picturing her as a preteen! I'm excited to see more, but at the same time, I'm dreading the reactions Constance and Jasmine will have when they realize what's happened . . . Also, whoever this crowd they can hear is, since it seems to have been gaining on them even before they turned around . . .
—doctorlit has a Plan of his own for this world, but no time right now to write it anyway . . .
Not, because it's inherently unreasonable, it's just that we're not rewriting the markdown parser, and that's probably buried too deep for a configuration change to fix it. I haven't fully investigated this yet, admittedly, mostly because I honestly know neither redcarpet nor the board codebase all that well, relatively speaking.
(If you're wondering why this is the behavior, it's because Markdown was designed with the goal that "a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions."—this is a direct quote from the original creator. And when publishing raw text files, it is expected that you will wrap the text yourself to fit a line width rather than trusting the reader's text editor to wrap on word breaks. Typically, this width is 80 columns, largely for historical reasons. As such, if Markdown interpreted a line break as a new paragraph, there would be a new paragraph roughly every 80 characters in many common usecases. Which would be bad.)
“Well,” said Carlisle. “I’m getting off this stupid float! You can throw candy to little kids all you like, but I'm not riding on this eagle any longer!”
“Of course you don’t like floats!” Mina sighed. “You don’t like anything.”
“Well,” Carlisle said. “I’m getting off! As soon as I figure out how.”
((You can reply as if he’s off if you’d like, it’ll speed up interaction.
—Ls))
"Mummy, why are those agents on that float?"
Sasha Fontwell glanced down at her daughter and then up at the passing float, two agents appearing to bicker on top of it. "Shenanigans I expect," she said slowly. "These things never seen to go off without shenanigans, to be honest with you that's why we left daddy at home."
Lindsey cocked her head to one side seeming to think about it for a moment. "Is that why you locked Daddy and Uncle Wallis in the bedroom?"
Sasha grinned shot Lindsey a wicked grin. "Don't worry, I told Shawn to let them out if there are any problems or if the console goes off."
You definitely came up with some clever ways to, uh, use Kaguya's body . . . uh . . . but yeah, very creative, and it worked out well with the lack of textures in the Word World. That fic was indeed boring, so I'm glad you gave the canon characters a chance to break away and shine in the end!
—doctorlit, eating a late lunch
I'm always on the hunt for new spin offs (I like to try and slip occasional references of what others are up to in my work occasionally) When I come back I tend to find to the last post on the board and go through all their stories before moving onto the next. You have officially made yourself next. :)
It's easy enough to get around if you're conversant with HTML, but not everyone is. Also, it's a pain in the butt to do HTML on a mobile.
~Neshomeh
Thank you so much for the kind comments on the agents’ dynamic.
I fixed all the errors, both in the AO3 and the Word versions. I really love the grammatical nitpicking. Seriously, thank you. (What do those quotation marks taste like?) Comments are gone.
Also, I’ve done some work on Mina’s wiki page. So...that. (Side note: I really thought “whinge” was a typo, I’d never seen the word before.)
—Ls, happy.
Right now, doing a double enter after a paragraph codes for two paragraphs to appear with a space between them, which is quite reasonable and intuitive. But doing a single enter between paragraphs makes a single paragraph appear, which is rather unintuitive. This crops up when I'm pointing out errors in story reviews, which I usually format as:
"Bob drove a bar."
You wanted "Bob drove a car."
But I have to put (backwards) >rb< after the first line; otherwise, it displays as:
"Bob drove a bar." You wanted "Bob drove a car."
Could we maybe cause a single stroke of the enter key to produce a second paragraph with no space between? It would save a lot of html keystrokes for me on my reviews . . .
—doctorlit worries he's being overly selfish here . . .
I seem to have missed "An Introduction" when it was first posted, but I've read it now! I quite like both Mina and Carlisle. Mina feels like she has all the best qualities of a Suvian: confidence, curiosity, and a willingness to question authority. Carlisle, on the other hand, is a fun deconstruction of the "veteran agent" archetype: yes, he knows how to do missions, but not how to interact casually with others. And in the actual mission, you show that for all of Carlisle's experience, he's actually easily flustered by badfics, and not nearly as in-control of his words and reactions as he appears at first glance. Meanwhile, despite being a newbie, Mina takes the mission in stride and is willing to give it the benefit of the doubt when Carlisle becomes overly critical. I know that's partly her formerly Suvian nature giving her natural resistance to things like scene changes, but ultimately, her open-mindedness and optimism prove better psychological guards against the insanity of a mission than Carlisle's rigid by-the-book mentality does. They have an excellent dynamic that's fun and thought-provoking to read!
And now, may I proudly welcome you to your very first installment of "doctorlit points out every little grammar and spelling error in your story because he has That Kind Of Brain." (It's a great honor, I assure you. Everybody loves when I do this, and it definitely isn't irritating at all!) These are all from the onedrive link, which is the version I read.
"While you had you beauty sleep," said Carlisle. "We were assigned a short one-chapter fic in the Harry Potter continuum."
"your" beauty sleep
Also, since all of Carlisle's dialogue here is a single sentence, that period after "Carlisle" should be a comma, and "we" should get a lowercase "w" Making the final product look like:
“While you had your beauty sleep,” said Carlisle, “we were assigned a short one-chapter fic in the Harry Potter continuum.”
“Yeah, yeah, great.” Carlisle said.
This period should also be a comma, since the dialogue is flowing into a dialogue tag.
“Ooh, disguises!” I’ll be a werewolf.”
A bonus quotation mark! eats
Lastly, a technical note (in the computery sense): your and your beta's comments are publicly visible in "Maya Sue."
—doctorlit only whishes wishes Rez was still around, to have seen the whish!
I'm rather overworked right now, and struggling to keep up with the Board, but I'm still pushing forward and surviving!
—doctorlit just got a Gloria Gaynor song stuck in his own head
It looks cool and it's alliterative too! I love it!
How are things going?
—doctorlit
“MINA!” yelled Carlisle. “What is going on?”
He had been relaxing in his RC when Mina randomly opened a portal beneath him. And now he was here. At a parade. Carlisle hated parades.
“It’s Fourth of July!” said Mina. “And we’re at a parade. And we can go see my aunt later.”
“Yes,” said Carlisle. “I can see that. But why did you have to bring me along. And why do we have to be on the float?!”
((There’s a bit of an example of what this should be.
—Ls))