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macintoshpluss-deactivated20171

Thiddies OUT but still rocking that designer choker.. she knows what she’s about. That smile? She really dgaf.. thiccorita

icytraditionforest-deactivated2

So I'm guessing Chanse's birthday getaway was just them in the desert doing this for 3 days.

junkfoodcinemas

Twister (1996) dir. Jan de Bont

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

sunflower-delicacy

THE WAY IT KEEPS GOING AHHH JAHAHDNCNE

iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid

CANNOT get over this dude's commitment to the bit

lingua-mortua

Oh god, please delete the extra spaces between paragraphs in your fics on AO3. Please. I know it takes ages and it’s really annoying to do, but it is an immediate backspace away from your story if I’m on mobile because I get one sentence per page and acres of white space.

wintersoldierfell

I can help! There is an easy way to do this if you have a word processor! Instructions with screencaps follow:

1. Before you paste your text into the Ao3 text box, make sure “Rich Text” is clicked.

2. Paste your story into the Ao3 text box (like you usually do)

3. Instead of hitting post, go back and click “HTML.” Your story will suddenly show the HTML markup, including all those pesky extra spaces:

4. Open a new, blank document in your word processor. Copy all the text from the Ao3 window and paste it there.

5. Do a find / replace for all the lines that say “ ”, replacing them with nothing.

6. Now you have a document with HTML markup and no extra carriage returns.

7. Copy this and open up your Ao3 window again. MAKE SURE “HTML” IS CLICKED. Paste your nice new text into this window.

8. When you click “Rich Text” again, your story will look beautiful and have no extra spaces!!!!!!

9. Now you can post your story!

10. Congratulate yourself on your amazingness, win $100,000,000,000,000, become best friends with Idris Elba, roll around with a pile of happy puppies

iblamethenubbins

oh look! @thepurrbutton i may be able to give you chapters with proper spacing again!

sarking

Also! You can stop it from doing this in the first place by using the right settings in your word processor. From the Rich Text Editor (RTE) help text (linked from the question mark next to “Type or paste formatted text.”):

Press Enter once between paragraphs. Pressing Enter twice will insert a blank paragraph, creating additional, and likely unwanted, space between paragraphs when you paste into the RTE. The Archive uses top and bottom margins to create the appearance of a blank line between paragraphs; you can use the paragraph formatting options in your text editor to create a similar effect without adding extra tags.

In Google Docs, you can go to the “Format" menu, choose “Line spacing,” and then choose “Custom spacing.” It will let you set how much space you want before and after paragraphs.

In LibreOffice, go to the “Format” menu and choose “Paragraph.” Under the “Spacing” heading, there will be options for Above and Below paragraph.

Those are the only programs I have handy, but generally, you want to look in the formatting menu for something about either paragraphs or spacing, and you’ll find a similar option there. You can then use any amount of spacing that’s pleasing to your eye and it will still have AO3′s usual amount of spacing between paragraphs.

(I could teal deer about all the whys involved – why did fandom start hitting Enter twice, why do paragraphs on computers and paper have different amounts of vertical space, why does the RTE not know what to do when given text where someone hit enter twice, why don’t we we change the parser if we can’t change the RTE – but that’s probably a little more detail than necessary to be helpful.)

specialagentartemis

Also, there’s an easier step - if you go to your word processor document that the fic is written in, and go find>replace, replace ^p^p with ^p. This replaces all double-paragraph-breaks with just one. Boom you’re ready to cut and paste.

starfieldcanvas

If you use gdocs, I highly recommend the gdocs AO3 posting script! It converts your gdocs styles (italics, spacing, etc) into HTML so that you can post straight into the HTML editor on AO3 instead of the Rich Text editor. I use it every time!

https://ao3commentoftheday.tumblr.com/post/187558714490/i-write-my-fics-out-in-google-docs-and-then-paste

three--rings

#this is one of those posts that makes me feel impossible old#some of us used to code the html into our fics as we wrote them#because rich text editors didn’t exist#or were so uniformly shitty they couldn’t be trusted @greaseonmymouth

Yeah some of us still do. I started this in the days of LJ when we just used html for all posts anyway, but when I type fics I almost always type etc into my fics and then just paste into html and it’s perfect. It’s also much faster to type than to stop, switch to mouse, find the menu, and choose the formatting.

When for some reason I have to format otherwise (like I’m posting elsewhere first), I use the gdocs posting form that auto does it. OP’s way is super complicated.

dwinkus

my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to

dwinkus

my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that

dwinkus

hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures

dwinkus

like she’s bringing me dead mice

damnamour

The Young and the Restless (2022)

sloppyslippers2

The actress whose character is making this statement is Elizabeth Hendrickson. She played Maggie Stone in one of the original big queer ships in American soap television--- "BAM" from All My Children (Bianca and Maggie).

She and her costar saw firsthand how differently their characters' friendship/relationship was treated by producers and network, so having her be the one whose character says this is just beautiful.

P.S. Okay, crazy backstory for these two, because I can't be stopped: So originally Hendrickson played Maggie's twin sister, I shit you not, named Frankie. Frankie was the first one to be in a romantic something with Bianca Montgomery. Yes. The same girl.