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So far, Christmas Hols are productive. My house is much cleaner, I've made homemade chicken stock (and some soup with it), a large amount of knitting has been accomplished, and the fic recs are up-to-date as of today!

If I have more fics, I'll make new posts, I think. Those ones were getting long by the end.

My knitting telly was Miraculous Ladybug, in an attempt to improve my French by increasing my exposure. I've discovered I'm a sucker for mutual pining even in kids shows. Also: who on this production team decided that a superhero catboy in latex, leather, and a belt for a tail was a totally appropriate choice for children??

I do have an unrelated question: is there a image site that's commonly used by DW members? I feel odd about putting personal photos on a random service - it seems like a lot want full rights in return for the hosting. Any suggestions?
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Edit: And as usual, DW messed with the code in THIS post. Give me a moment to fix it. XD
Edit 2: I've got it! Finally. 


So as you all know, I've recently been working on some fic rec pages, and the formatting has been... a Journey. However, I think I finally came up with a basic format that works with DW's HTML and CSS styles on most journals, so I thought I'd share it for others' use. The posts look like this:

Preview of Fic Rec

To use the code, copy/paste the code here into the HTML editor of your DW post.

Now to edit. 

The <h1> tags are your headings: in my case they separate the Completed fics and the Incompleted fics. If you have more than one heading, go ahead and copy/paste this line multiple times. In the code above, there are two headings, and the first doesn't have any fics beneath. Replace the entire bracketed text (including the brackets) with your title.

The <h2> tag is for your pairings/subheadings. These will nest under the h1 headings, and be less prominent. There's a cut under each h2 heading, so if you want to add more, make sure to copy from <h2> all the way through the next </raw-code> (this is why that first <h2> is empty in the source code above: if you add things between the two lines, they'll be under the cut). 

Here's where you have two options: you can either link to an Ao3 fic, or a fic hosted elsewhere.

For Ao3 fic:

Go to the fic you want to rec and hit the share button at the top:
Direction toward "share" button

A box with code will come up. You can now delete everything between the tags that say <!--THIS IS WHERE YOUR FIC REC BEGINS.--> and <!--THIS IS WHERE YOUR FIC REC ENDS.--> Just paste your code between, then add your comment in place of the [PERSONAL COMMENTS] bracket.

To add more fics, copy and paste the code -- the comments in-code show you where to start and stop.

For non-Ao3 fic:

Every portion of the fic is in brackets. Go ahead and fill in what information you wish. If you don't want a line or a link, you can delete it!

If you have any questions, please let me know. I'll do my best to answer what I can! This setup isn't perfect but I tried to make the code as simplistic and organised as I know how to without going into some CSS/more complex do-dahs. Good luck reccing!
alchemistdoctor: A pigeon sitting on my leg. He's giving you a look that says "give me the food or I will shit on you." (Default)
So: half the bathroom is deep-cleaned, and I'm 2/3 of the way through finishing those fic recs.  I've also added cut tags for those viewing the recs on their reading page. I don't know how to make them work inside the post itself. 

Something I realised is that while I subscribed/bookmarked a lot of BBC Sherlock fic, I didn't do nearly as much bookmarking/subscribing/keeping ACD Canon fic. I know part of that is because most of the ACD fic I read here, on DW, but I think I'm also reluctant to hold onto canon fic the same way. It feels like I'm somehow betraying canon? I'm going to try to get over that this next year, because I want those authors getting more credit after I've enjoyed their fic. 

Anyway, now to take a food break, which has been long-coming. 

alchemistdoctor: A pigeon sitting on my leg. He's giving you a look that says "give me the food or I will shit on you." (Default)
 Today I've got my masterpost placeholders up, and my BBC Sherlock Rec list is caught up to my bookmarks. Keep in mind this is NOWHERE near finished and I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to format it, but it's a start.

Tomorrow I want to get my Venom bookmarks up, and then we start working through my subscribed list (which I was using as a bookmark list on Ao3 before I realised you can private bookmark). 

Edit: Note to self that you're on page 1 of your subscription list. 

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