5 things: baskets, remix fic writing, painting mishap, faraway friends, ao3 skin, tags

[sophia_sol]

one

it's amazing how many baskets one person can need, once you commit to the basket lifestyle

tidying and organising one's space is best done by having a "home" for things where they belong, and baskets make it all look deliberate and aesthetic! once you realise how many problems baskets can solve, you never stop wanting more of them!


two

I've begun a draft for my mxtx remix exchange fic and I'm very excited! I think (I hope!) that this is gonna be a good one :DDD


three

note to self: when doing things with paint, an apron is insufficient to actually protect your nice clothes from getting paint on them!

thankfully I caught it early enough that I was able to wash the white paint off my navy blue pants - but that was a heart-stopping few moments


four

we need teleportation, stat. I have cool friends I want to visit, all over the globe! how am I supposed to live like this!


five

I learned recently that some people avoid blocking/muting users on #ao3 because they can't stand the notification bar that is visible at the top of every page if you do

I am here to bring good news: this is fixable, using site skins! Even if site skins intimidate you, it's an easy copy-paste situation. All you need to do is create a site skin, paste 3 lines of text into the css field, save it, and apply it as your standard site skin.

Or if you use a custom skin (eg one of official ao3 skins, or other public skins) you can duplicate the skin, saving it as your own, and then edit it, and add the same 3 lines to the code along with all the other css that's already there. And then the fix will be implemented as part of your usual skin.

Here's what you need, these 3 lines. Including the third line with the closing curly bracket is important! and then you're good and will never see the notification banner about mutes/blocks again when you're logged in :)

p.muted.notice {
display: none;
}

six

You may notice that I've updated all my tags that used to begin with "about" to begin with "anent" instead. There's a bug in dw that makes tags beginning with "about" not work right (basically, you can't navigate through more than one page worth of the tag) but it's useful to me to have those tags appear alphabetically near the top of all my tags, so I went for a fairly archaic term as my replacement. As etymonline says:

"concerning, about, in respect or reference to," c. 1200, onont "on level with, beside," also "in the company of, fronting against," a contraction of Old English on efn "near to, close by," literally "on even (ground with);"

Yep, that'll do.

Comments

[luckyzukky]

huh the last thing on about tags is interesting! i don't think i fully understand but if i had to guess it's something to do with ruby on rails routing. basically in rails, there's pages like /about, which goes to a static page wrt AO3 and the software behind it. but if you start a tag with about, i think that could cause problems with routing.... actually maybe not, because it should be like, /tags/about+this (well AO3 tag urls are fucking batshit but that's an example), but that's my initial thought lol!

[sophia_sol]

yeah that's what I figured was the kind of thing going on! I did submit a bug report to them, and they said they'd look into it, but I haven't heard back in ages so I'm guessing it's not high priority for them to look into. If they ever do figure it out I'll be curious to hear the details!

wait I just realized I wrote my post to say "ao3" when I meant "dw". dreamwidth is the site where I had these tag issues!!

[luckyzukky]

AH dw makes more sense to me!!!!!! interesting!!!!!!! that's even more confusing to me but mostly because i'm unfamiliar with perl which is what most of dw is written in but there's also the wildcard of the literal custom markup language the LJ founder wrote it in that they're replacing with perl gradually so that could also be a problem. very interesting!

[sophia_sol]

YEAH a custom language from decades ago will be a wildcard for sure!!! it makes a lot of sense that there would be random things that are fucky as a result!

[shipperslist]

I learned recently that some people avoid blocking/muting users on #ao3 because they can't stand the notification bar that is visible at the top of every page if you do

The what now? I don't think I've seen a notification like that and my site skin doesn't include that smol code. Weird.

[sophia_sol]

huh that's so weird that you don't see that notification! It's just, like, a banner across the top of the page like they do with announcements and things. I don't think it's visible on every page? just pages where you're browsing for fics and so the people you muted might plausibly have been present. but honestly I don't remember a lot about it bc I put in the code to stop seeing it so long ago at this point lol

[shipperslist]

I have the "Turn off the banner showing on every page." clicked on in my misc.preferences, not sure if that's it?

[chestnut_pod]

Your whole first section here reminds me of the meme conceit where someone is posting on whatever platform from another time. Here's Soph posting on DW from circa 8000 BCE!

[sophia_sol]

lkjsfsjkdf oh I love that! yes it's me from the neolithic checking in! :D

[china_shop]

Ahh, you're making me want more baskets! (Ninety-five percent of my kitchen and living-room storage is shelving, and baskets solve so many problems...)

[tamsin]

Thank you for explaining how to make the notification on AO3 disappear! I'm not that tech-savy, but with your help I managed.

[pauraque]

The fact that teleportation hasn't been invented yet is just rude.