#ffnet is messing up on the formatting for some reason

[tzeetzeethirteen]

Here’s a short sad story:

Be me, using FFnet’s docmanager to post stuff to AO3

Uploading documents to the docmanager and copy pasting the text from the document in it to AO3′s Rich Text Editor

Wants to stop using FFnet’s docmanager to avoid having to depend on an online site

Starts to copy paste directly from Microsoft Word and Libreoffice to the AO3 RTE; all works well... apparently.

Catches an error in one of the recent chapter updates, goes to edit with the HTML editor, discovers the HTML code is a eye-watering mess and it’s almost impossible to read.

Discovers that copying and pasting from Libreoffice/Word causes the HTML to become bloated in the first place. Copying and pasting from the FFnet docmanager the same document nets clean HTML code instead

Has borderline obsession with cleanness, can’t tolerate the HTML to be as ugly as it is

Tries multiple methods to solve the problem, including but not limited to:

Trying different WYSIWYG word processors to see if copying and pasting from them nets better HTML; some applications simply crash upon opening the pre-existing stories or even by just copying pasting the stories into a new document, others bloat the HTML code when copy-pasting to worse, almost nightmarish levels.

Trying to find solutions to clean the code directly. Wants to avoid online tools since that was the whole goal in the first place (not having to rely on an online site), which conveniently removes 95% of solutions as a result

Tries google docs. Discovers it has the same exact HTML bloating problem as World/Libreoffice when copying from it and pasting to AO3.

Tries scripts to install into google docs to clean up the HTML, specifically made for AO3. Doesn’t work, the code is still bloated with <span> tags.

Tries to find offline scripts to clean the HTML code locally on the computer. Most don’t work or require installations of dependencies or software I’d have to learn from scratch and spend days doing it.

Tries various options within Libreoffice to stop the bloating from happening in the first place. None work. Find people with similar problem, apparently it’s a known Libreoffice Writer issue that’s been around for years and was never fixed.

Tries creating a document from scratch in Libreoffice and write from zero, discovers the bloating comes up literally as you write. You can’t avoid it.

Realizes it’s 1 AM and I haven’t written a single fanfic word for the next chapter of one of my WIPs as I originally planned to do this evening

Cries

Tests a crude alternative method, finds out it somewhat works, decides it’s enough and dives into the bed

The morning after, here’s the final verdict: to get clean HTML - without losing the basic formatting I sometimes use - going back to using FFnet’s docmanager appears to be my best bet. Besides me being stubborn about keeping things clean, shorter and less bloated HTML code would also mean that some of the offline downloads generate way smaller files that are less likely to give issues when opened for reading, it would make the webpage of the fics itself lighter, and it would make things for myself much easier when editing out mistakes, so there is (somewhat) a practical reason for doing this and I’ll try to stick to it.

In the event that FFnet ceases to exist, I’ll fall back to the alternative method I found in the end. It’s as simple as copying and pasting the text from the word processor to a notepad-equivalent text editor. That way you’re sure there are no HTML tags whatsoever, so the bloat is removed. Then, I can substitute newlines with double-newlines (\n --> \n\n) and then manually add the <em> and <strong> tags for italics and bold to get an AO3-ready HTML text to copy paste into the HTML editor. Other minor details can be added back directly on AO3 with the RTE.

It’s slow, but it works and it is not unreasonably slow, so it’s fine for me. Was it worth the hassle? Probably not :O

TL;DR: Random internet user and fanfiction writer loses an entire evening spending hours finding solution for a minor problem with HTML code

#fanfiction #ao3 #ffnet #html #random #i don't even know html that much or use it for work #i shouldn't even be concerned by this #but i couldn't help it

[the-random-phan]

Cosplay Contest

Ao3

FFnet

WC: 1,332

Summary:

Post Phantom Planet, Danny decides to enter a cosplay contest of himself. Hilarity ensues when he recognizes one of the other contestants.

Danny looked around at his competition haughtily. Copies of his hazmat suit and white hair could be seen all around him. At least 20 people were seriously cosplaying, the other 10 or so just had t-shirts and sometimes wigs, obviously just entering the competition for fun.

"There are some pretty good costumes here, Danny." Said Tucker, who was standing next to said halfa and also watching the crowd.

"Like I would lose a costume contest for myself." Danny snickered. He and Tucker had been looking forward to this all day. Ever since the reality gauntlet incident, Danny had wanted to do this. And now that everyone knew who he was after the Disasteroid - he stood by his claim that that was a horrible name- he felt comfortable doing so without ghost hunters showing up. At least, he hoped.

The pair of the trio -Sam's mom had dragged her to some party, she would be coming tomorrow- had wandered around the convention all day. It wasn't completely Phantom-themed, but given that he'd saved the world a few months ago, a lot of it was. Danny pointedly stayed away from the artist alley. Frankly, he was a bit afraid of what he'd see. It was also cool that they got VIP passes, in exchange for hosting a panel on the last day of the convention. Danny didn't think that a comic-con suited him necessarily, but he is like the first real superhero so it kinda made sense.

"I don't know, Danny. I could probably confuse you and that guy." Tucker said, pointing at someone that did look a lot like Danny. But his face was a bit longer and he didn't have Danny's freckles. There was also a person who was a lot shorter than Danny and had a rounder face, he looked almost exactly like 14-year-old Danny. It was uncanny.

"Oh come on, he's not nearly as handsome as me." Danny made a goofy grin before it broke and he ended up laughing along with Tucker.

"I'd be inclined to believe you, if you hadn't gotten turned down by Paulina even after you saved the world."

"I turned her down, you-"

"Contestants please come to the stage." Came a voice over the speakers. Immediately the crowd began heading in that direction. Danny said goodbye to Tucker and headed for the stage. He'd made sure he was entering a contest that didn't have a prize of any sort, if he won he wouldn't want it. But this one is just for fun, and they tell everyone what place they're in so he wouldn't be taking the glory away from anyone else.

Danny got into his spot in line with his doppelgangers and they went up to the stage, one at a time by order of the number they received when they signed up. Three judges were sitting at a pop-up table in front of the stage. Danny went across the stage -number 22- with a smirk on his face. He was half-tempted to fly over it and out himself there just to give everyone a laugh but decided not to, instead channeling the very essence of his "Phantom" persona into his expression and gait. One of the judges looked slightly confused, one was seemingly surprised and the third was unreadable. Danny didn't stretch out his time on stage and joined his lookalikes on the other side of it.

"You look just like him. How'd you get the glowly look?" He exclaimed. Danny stuttered for a moment. How would a cosplayer make themselves look like they have an aura? Should he have tried to tone it down?

"Woah-" Said a guy who had a mid-tier cosplay. A bit of his blonde hair was sticking out from under the wig.

"Uh- that's my little secret." Danny gave a grin he hoped was convincing. The guy just gave him a knowing smile and a nod before going off somewhere else.

Danny waited with bated breath at the last ten or so Phantoms crossed the stage, and then the judges asked them all to come up, standing side by side. Some had to stand on the step leading up to the stage at the front because they wouldn't all fit shoulder-to-shoulder. The judges took a few more moments of deliberation before the unreadable one took a breath to speak. The halfa leaned forward unconsciously, beaming and waiting for the judge to say 'number 22.'

"First place goes to number 13!" The announcer said with a big smile on her face.

"What?!" Danny looked surprised that someone had shouted at the same time as him. He saw the short cosplayer from before standing next to him and squinted his eyes before he realized exactly who it was.

"Awesome!" Exclaimed the long-faced guy from earlier. At the same time came two shouts of:

"Danielle?!" He exclaimed.

"When the heck did you get here? I though you were still in Tokyo!" Danielle smiled sheepishly.

"I wanted to have some fun, but you beat me to it!" She socked the older halfa in the shoulder and made him laugh.

"Uh- is there something going on here?" Asked the guy judge who had looked confused earlier. The Dannies exchanged wide grins.

"Oh nothing much," Danny started. And then he triggered his transformation back to Fenton and let his feet leave the floor. (he'd been practicing using his powers in human form, it seemed it'd paid off.) He'd made sure to wear the same outfit as Antarctica, just to be sure they'd recognize him.

"Hey I thought we agreed on cousins- and I got back just to mess with this. I even cut my hair! In both forms!" She exclaimed. And she was right. Except for her jacket and beanie, she looked just like him. She was even wearing the same clothes in human form as Danny. He wondered at first where she got them but then he looked a bit closer and saw a spaghetti stain he distinctly remembered making a few weeks ago.

"My clone and I are just a bit confused how we didn't win a costume contest on being me! Guess I wore the wrong face this morning." Danny said the last part, looking almost troubled. Danielle changed and rose into the air with him and the whole room froze. Except for Tucker, who could be heard cackling.

"Did you raid my closet?" He asked. He thought a few things had gone missing!

"Are you really Danny Phantom?" Interrupted one of the contestants incredulously.

"It had to be authentic! I've gotten like twelve compliments on my outfit just today." She smiled a smile that reached her eyes, one Danny had only rarely seen.

"Me?" Asked Danielle, though she knew it wasn't aimed at her.

"Nah, I'm just a clone of this dork." She elbowed Danny in the ribs.

"I resemble that remark!"

"Clone?!" Came a confused consensus.

"Oh yeah, Plasmius was a real fruitloop." Danny said, and the pair nodded in sync. That was almost creepy. There was a beat of silence before Danny continued.

"So I figure I'm disqualified -you too buttmunch- but I'll say here; I'm hosting a panel tomorrow and I'll probably somehow convince this brat to join me. So be there!" With that Danny disappeared, invisible, and Dani followed suit a moment later.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The first ten minutes of Q & A the next day was just about the competition, and Danny had completely confused half of them by saying he had no idea what the heck they were talking about. And when questioned about the girl next to him he told them that was his sister- if they were true fans how didn't they know he had two sisters? Overall he trolled the crowd for a few hours and explored afterward as Phantom, getting compliments on his cosplay. Sam somehow convinced him to go down artist alley, claiming no one was allowed to have explicit stuff.

One: Sam was wrong. And two: There was so much blood.

#danny phantom #dp #danielle phantom #dani phantom #tucker foley #sam manson #hehehe #i found this on my computer from forever ago #so i polished it up a bit to post :) #if there are any typos... sorry #its almost 3 am lol #ffnet is messing up on the formatting for some reason #it wont let me space out the paragraphs #so for the sake of your eyes read it here or Ao3

[maraudersftw]

Set Ablaze - Chapter 2

Summary: The Morning After, it would seem, doesn't always go as planned. Not even when you were both enthusiastic participants.

The second and final part to this smutty two-shot is up now! AO3 really messed up with the format during upload for some reason, so if any italics or spaces are out of place, please let me know!

For @all-things-jily, the best cheerleader and (accurately) self-proclained smut-enabler! 😂❤

Chapter 2

Not a word of sense penetrated her mind in class that morning.

As Professor Vector droned on and on about advanced Numerology and the complex mathematics behind spellwork, topics that would’ve normally had her spine snapped straight in attention, all she could focus on was the golden light streaming in through the window near her, warm and glowing. A generous patch of brightness fell over the back of her palm, rested on the desk, stirring woeful surprise in her over the fact that such a brilliant morning could feel so acutely grey.

From her third-floor view, she could spot a group of young witches who’d braved the November breeze to have a little picnic by the lakeside. She wished she could be out there too, comfortably lost in her thoughts instead of uncomfortably lost in them in the stifling setting of a classroom.

“Lily.” A nudge on her elbow pulled her gaze away from the window and to the boy sitting next to her. Remus frowned, concern etched onto his face even as he stared straight ahead. “You alright?”

James’s closed-off expression flashed in her mind, unbidden and aching, but the lie dropped easily. “Sure.”

Read more on: AO3 || FFnet

Read from Chapter 1

#claudia writes #claudiawrites #jily #jily fic #jily canonverse #jily smut #jily two shot #set ablaze #james potter #lily evans #james x lily #romance #drama #angst #smut

[kairi-chan]

Sarada is very selfish in igy. Not like her original character in canon.

Hello, Anon! 

You’re right, Sarada is selfish in IGY. But so is Boruto. At some point, so was Mitsuki, Kagura, Inojin, Shikadai, and Chocho. Everyone tried to stir things into the direction they wanted, and instead of helping, it became one giant mess. I’ll get back to that in a bit, but first, I’d like to tackle her not being completely in character in IGY. 

Her personality in IGY will really not be the same for two reasons:

1. It takes place in a real word AU, not in canon setting. Expecting characters to be 100% like their canon selves in an AU isn’t realistic (at least for me), as there really will be slight changes with how they carry themselves, react, and interact with people given the circumstance you threw them in. 

2. She’s a lot older, almost 18 in IGY. Her canon self is 12/13 years old. There’s no canon depiction of her yet in this age. It’s a free playing field for her, with, of course, the basis of how she is like now that she’s 12/13. 

In terms of her being “very selfish,” I would say she’s selfish, but not use the term “very” because it isn’t selfish to want to date someone when you’re single. What was selfish of her was to keep dating someone when she was already coming to the conclusion that she was in love with someone else. It isn’t easy for some people to let go, or to easily do what’s right. I’m not saying I condone this behavior, but I wrote this in to emphasize that it happens.

I write IGY to be as realistic as I can, basing situations and even conversations from my experiences or others that I have witnessed. Mistakes were made, and apologies were given, but what was more important to me--and what I think the real Sarada would do--is really swallow her pride and fear to set things right. Which is what she did, no matter how painful it was for her and everyone involved. 

Boruto was selfish in his own way, expecting that Sarada had to tell him everything, and still flirting with Sarada when she already had a boyfriend. Worse--he and Kagura were friends. Yes, he was in love with Sarada, and yes he did try his best but he still disrespected Kagura, drank his fill of alcohol, and used Sumire to cover up his feelings. Again, not condoning this behavior but a lot of people fall into toxic habits as a means to cope. 

Kagura wasn’t selfish in the beginning, only really wanting to date Sarada, knowing she was single and he was interested. He only started exhibiting toxic behavior when his insecurities got to him. I understand his pain, anyone would be insecure if they knew their girl was glowing different with a man that wasn’t them, and that man had a thing for their girl. Bro code, guys. But he also ended up just hurting himself because he forced continuing their relationship, despite these hurts and didn’t properly communicate his feelings. 

The rest of the lot was selfish in a way that they knew Sarada and Kagura were together but would meddle to help Boruto get the girl. In terms of “friendship”, I supposed you would say a lot of friends would do anything to help their friend out but looking at it from an outside perspective, you shouldn’t be homewrecking because your cowardly friend didn’t have the guts to get the girl first. For the sake of fiction and entertainment, I do hope you found it amusing, though because I have fun writing the parts of the crew conniving to get these two together. 

This has gotten way longer than I expected. haha! I love talking about IGY. It’s my fic that gets the most reactions, be it good or bad. Possibly because it’s controversial and “feels true to life.” It probably feels like the latter because I shit you not, I based a lot of the scenarios and conversations from a close friend of mine’s life. I told them if this makes me money I would take them out for dinner. Hahaha! 

Anyway, thank you for the ask, darling. I had a lot of fun answering. Remembering the plot and talking about it is making me miss writing IGY. If a lot of you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting here, it’s because I’ve been posting on ffnet a lot more. I’ve been working on Sincerely Yours with @ss-tyytyy. The chapters are around 4-6k long, and it’s too much work to format on tumblr when we work on googledocs to write it. I hope you do check it out. :) 

And for those who don’t know yet... I’m writing smut now. ;) 

Teehee. 

Cheers,

Kairi 

#fanfiction #blog #IGY #i got you #borusara #ask #anon

[catsafarithewriter]

Number 12 for the writer ask meme? Pls and hi

Heya, thank you for the question! Numero 12: Which story of yours do you like best? Why? from this list. (this is the point where I had to detour to FFnet to remind myself which stories I had up...)

Okay, truthful moment... I actually struggle to like any of my stories after I’ve finished posting them. Especially the multi-chaptered beasts. I only see the lines that drag, the klunky phrasing, the pacing that isn’t how I’d do it now... especially with opening chapters.

However, I guess if I had to choose a multi-chaptered fic, I’d go with The Bureau Files: Series 3? It’s one of my more recent fics, so the quality is closer to what I’m happy with, it doesn’t have the weird pacing that Series 4 does, I really like the case written by the guest writer, and it has a special place in my heart for the Cornelia/Lady Elaine romance. (At the time, I hadn’t come across any non-het couples in the TCR fandom, and so I wrote them to see how the fandom would react... The positive response was part of the reason I later went on to ship Louise/Persephone, actually.) 

I tend to be kinder about my ficlets however, especially the ones I post to ffnet/ao3, because they usually concisely capture whatever emotion I was feeling when I wrote it, and because I play around a lot more with style/formatting and sometimes it actually works really well. Unspoken is probably my favourite TCR ficlet; I like the pacing, how it speeds up towards the end; the simplicity of some of the scenes, and just some really good lines that I still enjoy re-reading.

(For Sale: One Body - Used, my Wolf 359 fanfic, gets a special shout-out for just being so much fun to write (I really enjoyed messing around with the formatting); and Ink First, Think Second, my Skulduggery Pleasant fanfic, another shout-out for just being fun in general,and coming second-place in the competition I entered it into.)

#the cat returns #i'm sorry I ramble #I'm just happy someone asked something #and it was kinda a shock to realise I don't have a fav multichaptered fic of mine #Anon #replies