Victory is sweet and it tastes kind of like this miniature Twix from my coworker's candy jar.

[dira]

You guys, you guys, ALL MY DUE SOUTH STORIES ARE ON AO3 AND FRESHLY FORMATTED ON MY WEBSITE.

Did I just spend four hours wrangling Hawks & Hands, with its a) stupid, stupid length and lack of actual chapter divisions and b) fucking footnotes omg who thought that was a good idea?

Well, yes. But the point is: now Hawks and Hands is posted on AO3 with its sequel and prequels all nicely linked as related works because I am neurotic about what should and should not be made part of a series, and also now I have a Twix bar. So everyone wins.


(If anyone happens to feel the urge to reread H&H anytime in the nearish future, and you run across, say, a paragraph that got eaten by its footnote, leaving an awkward gap in the text, or ... any other formatting disasters like that, would you please let me know? Just because I already deleted six failed attempts to get it onto that archive doesn't mean I'm necessarily done fighting with it.)

(Also, as it turns out for five years the story has been up on my site with no link to post a comment anywhere, which ... possibly explains the relative rarity of comments on it. Oops.)


This entry is crossposted at http://dsudis.livejournal.com/557206.html.

Comments

[missmollyetc]

\o/ VICTORY!

[dira]

\o/

Now just ... thirty more stories to go before I'm REALLY done. Well, and I should fix the index pages on my site. And....

[missmollyetc]

::pets:: Sure thing, Captain Serious. Sure. Thing.

[dira]

Where's my seven hugs, then? :)

[missmollyetc]

::TACKLES:: ONE!

[celli]

AO3 does FOOTNOTES? That is awesome.

[dira]

IT DOES IF YOU SPEND ENOUGH TIME HITTING IT WITH A STICK.

I mean. No, there's no built in functionality for footnotes (although wouldn't that be awesome) but if you code them correctly (very correctly) you can include anchored links within the page to take people to and from footnotes. If you are a crazy person and decide to do something like that.

[celli]

*carefully reaches forward and takes stick away from you*

Footnotes would be awesome! You could suggest them?

[dira]

*puts down the stick peacefully now that I don't need it anymore*

Hey, yes! I suppose it doesn't matter whether I know how they would implement that, I can just ... suggest, and see what happens!

[fox]

I, for one, applaud your tenacity.





What?

[dira]

*curtseys*

dS fic by dira

[iadorespike]

ALL MY DUE SOUTH STORIES ARE ON AO3 AND FRESHLY FORMATTED ON MY WEBSITE.

Including Exposures? Which broke me into itty, bitty pieces and makes me cry every time I read it?! Oy.

H&H is an awesome story and I love it more than the telling of it. I really should re-read it, and I probably will. Hopefully sooner rather than later. ;) Also, it is easy to leave fb on AO3 - with is nice, but I hate that I can't use all my cool icons. I am shallow.

Your coding battles are impressive and you get huge points for sheer determination. \o/

<333

Re: dS fic by dira

[dira]

Yes! Exposures went up last week. I, uh, have been getting deeply acquainted with the "Animal Death" tag, among others. *g*

And thank you, I'm glad you've enjoyed H&H! I also wish we could have more icons on AO3, but I suppose it's still amazing that we get any at all. :)

Re: dS fic by dira

[iadorespike]

So true about the icon. I'm just a little greedy when it comes to icons, I suppose. Shallow. Yeah. But, my point was that when I re-read on AO3, there will be fb. More than just an *I love it*. Hee! Although I did. My overwhelming memory of the fic (other than amazing) is that you write Fraser and RayK unbelievably well. Your RayK just about killed me - so out of control and self-destructive. So very Ray, though.

<333

[purplevks]

You probably don't want to hear this, but I just started to reread H&H (<3) and, ah. WHen you click the images in the footnotes you get:

"
Error 500
We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly"

I don't know if that's on your end or AO3's, though. :)

[dira]

Oh, balls. No, I know what's wrong there and how to fix it--thank you so much for letting me know!

[purplevks]

You're welcome. :) Hopefully it's not too much work to fix.

[dira]

It's ... sort of fixed already, in the way where it still seems to be broken but you get a different error message, because now at least the links are right. I'm hoping the other half of the fix, which is a changed setting on the ficlaundering.com server, will kick in at some point, so I don't have to take more drastic measures. *g*

[dira]

Okay, that turned out to be sort of irritating due to settings not seeming to work the way they should on the server, but ANYWAY, it is all fixed now. Thank you again for letting me know!