saturday merlin recs

In honor of it being Saturday and also some small but significant triumphs in coding my DW style...

Merlin porn recs!

Stripped by shinetheway, Merlin/Arthur - sequel to Wild Magic, in which Merlin and Arthur are in the woods. As happens. And have a very good time.

Quivering by b_hallward, Merlin/Arthur - dirty talk, hallways, and yeah. They also have a very good time.

Spoils of War by casspeach, Merlin/Arthur, AU - so Arthur conquers Ealdor and tries to do that entire ravishing thing. It's hot and adorable and funny. Arthur's a lousy attempted ravisher and Merlin's a terrible victim. It's like fate, even.

ETA: Okay, the crossposting is awesome when it can do that with the usernames. *glee*

dreamwidth and customization - crazy fun! emphasis on crazy

Multiple Reading

Okay, this could be because I just like complex things, but I kind of like having two flists to read. I mean--okay, you have to understand. At my highest Ritalin dose, I don't have what anyone sane would call a great attention span, and I miss things like whoa. At least one person on my flist has given birth and I didn't know she was pregnant! That was very lowering.

When people crosspost, I miss a lot less! Part of this is because yes, I'm coding my style live and so hit refresh a lot, but also, because I'm less cluttered in my reading. It's almost like creative filtering, except I was never really good at filtering.

I don't know. It's nice. It's more reading!

Housekeeping

If you're on my flist on LJ, I am adding you here. I could say I haven't had time, but that's a total lie. Every time I come over here to do something like, say, add people, I end up in advanced customization trying to create new and exciting if statements.

Adventures in Bad Customization

If anyone wants it, by the way, I did figure out, sort of, how to put the username below the icon if you want your name/usericon to the right in entries and on the Reading Page, but it's makeshift until I can go over the entire css and functions by hand and remove the older code.

You'll have to do this in Advanced Customization from Your Layers. I think it could be done thematically, but off the top of my head, I'm not sure how.

Add that to your CSS.

.eidentity {
float:right;
text-align:right;
width: 150px;
}

In the Page::print_entry() section in advanced customization, do this:


"""div class="eidentity"""";
$e->print_userpic();
$e->print_poster();
"""/div""";

(add the > and < back in when using. I cannot figure out how to keep the code untouched, and raw doesn't work, darn it.)

Basically, you create a div class to put it in, limit the size, and it forces the name below the userpic. And they really try to sit by each other. I mean, I gave up doing this in comments, because it was just breaking the comment box unless I px'ed everything to an exact size and no one wants that.

Drawbacks: Names below six characters still float up beside it on the left. Lowering the width, however, make long names or long feeds vanish or hide. So I compromise because my Reading Page was driving me nuts.

You may have to play with this to make it work; I did about a dozen tries that all *should* have worked and didn't until this one did. I was trying display:block and some seriously unholy looking CSS at W3 before this one suddenly worked. The only other option I found so far--again, I'm making this needlessly complex, so keep in mind I start complex and messy and then streamline it once it looks like I want it to--is to do a lot of div classing and width percentaging, then use margins to stack the divs like sad little blocks. It was kind of horrifying. It was also funny. And three hours after I finished, I could not for the life of me work out how I did it even with my own documentation, it was that complicated and weird. And I'm fairly sure it would break probably half the browsers that tried to view it. I'm actually not sure this doesn't break for other people, come to think, but you can check my Reading Page and see if it lines up. Except for those short-named people, who just need to get longer names.

I think this is visible: you can find the entire current working code here. It's based off of Negative by Phoenix Dreaming, but still has tons of code I'm removing and changing as I figure out what everything does and discover strange things like removing entry-title suddenly kills my layout despite the fact I never use that class. Always an adventure. And let me tell you one day of the Great Hunt for how the hell to add a | between reply and comments, because the way I am doing it I hate, but tracing functions backward to their root is a new and exciting way to wonder about your own sanity! I'm beginning to put together a chart to trace what functions inherit from what properties, but I have a feeling that I'm getting it dramatically wrong.

If anyone found a better way to do the icon/name thing, please, please drop a line here. Otherwise, I will be haunted by finding a more efficient way. I'm just using too many divs.