‘Oh, Niki Lauda? He’s Just Some Little Austrian Fellow With A Creepy-crawly Insect Dæmon. If You’ve

Hello! I apologize if this is a presumptuous question or isn't the right place to ask, but is there a place you share the css code for your AO3 skins? I was very excited about your Hesperus skin, but I couldn't find where you might post about your skins beyond progress posts.

I'm going to be posting the new skin on GitHub in the future.

Unfortunately, Hesperus has been cancelled. There were a lot of issues with it and things I don't like, and then my computer self corrupted its entire storage and I lost pretty much everything, most of Hesperus included.

I still have an older version of it, but that specific backup didn't have any notation, which is how I remember what parts of the CSS do what, and was long before I properly optimised its layout. Not to mention, it has some bugs present that weren't there a year ago.

If you really really want it. Here's a file I just put together with all three parts. And here's all the images it's linked to. Make sure to download them all because if I ever take it down to free up space you'll have to host and re-link them yourselves.

To get the mobile overlay to work, you have to add both the tablet (set as max-width 62em) and mobile (set as max-width 42em) skin as parents to the main skin, (they overlap to get to the correct layout).

And please 🙏 don't bug me about issues with it. There's a lot. I know. Feel free to try and fix them yourselves.

Edit: The fonts used on desktop that you need to install [Josefin] [Open Sans]. Not fully needed since I've set them to default to something else, but probably the best to use since I tested the layout most with them.

My Twitter has been officially WIPED. It was good while it lasted, now for more time on Tumblr and Bluesky.

i promised you 🦋

(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)

Regarding Fandom Trees & AMTs

Tag wrangling is, on the whole, a fluid process. It's meant to be, because the way language is used and the way tags are used change over time. We're the first to admit that we don’t always get it right, and that we do sometimes make mistakes despite our best intentions. This is why wrangling decisions are not set in stone and are reevaluated periodically as circumstances change or as new information becomes available. 

In light of the impact that removing the Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms metatag has had, we have put that metatag back in place. 

When it comes to fandom metatags and fandom trees, there is no 'one size fits all' approach that works for all fandoms. Consequently, we have placed a hold on all structural changes to fandom metatags, All Media Types fandoms (commonly called AMTs), and fandom trees while wranglers discuss the need for additional guidelines and adjustments to our approach regarding these tags going forward. 

This hold will remain in place until tag wranglers have had ample time to fully reevaluate our fandom wrangling guidelines with the aim of making it easier for Archive users to find the content they’re looking for and filter out the content they aren’t. This guideline reevaluation process is something we are actively working on, but it will likely take some time to complete. We will update again once these fandom guideline discussions have come to a close.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)

Three cool looking species of raptors:

The Harpy Eagle, the Bateleur Eagle and the Bearded Vulture 🦅

Those are some cool looking birds if i say so myself.

got a major pest problem this year actually

I love how professionally the interpreter communicates the emotions of being both disappointed by and sympathetic with your disappointment at Great Western Railway

hii i was wondering what ur process was for making skins ?? i am trying to make my own but ngl the process is annoying. i have a separate tab open js to see how the changes will look… 💀i need helpp 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Tbh the process is annoying and very fiddly, but there a definitely ways to make the actual writing it part easier!

I use an add-on called Stylus that lets you write CSS in a pretty way, will show you most syntax errors automatically, and will update the site live as you write it. It takes nearly all the difficulty out of actually writing the theme.

I normally split my screen between AO3 and Stylus like this:

(But note that Stylus is an actually well-maintained system, so if you're planning to copy-paste the code back into the AO3, then check your theme regularly, because Stylus will accept it just fine but AO3 may find reason to throw a tantrum.)

The next thing I suggest is uBlock Origin. Its core functionality is as an Ad-Blocker, so I recommend it on that alone lmao. Google recently updated its entire service just to ban Origin on Chromium, so I heavily advise not only Firefox in general, but Firefox for AO3 theme writing.

Origin, using its element picker feature, actually lets you more accurately, well, pick the elements you want to target. It will show exactly what you're selecting, and will let you move up and down the element hierarchy to get what you want. 85% of the time it'll do better than what you'll get with inspect element.

These two together really simplify the process.

Aiiiughm if you want more tips I can give you more but purely process-wise, this be it.

I'm now taking Pixel Art commissions for Flight Rising Dragons!

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Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!

Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.