ohhh we love a good “forced to torture your friend while undercover as a bad guy” don’t we

like. when you meet their eyes and you both know you have to do it and you have to do it well

Not me explaining that here on Tumblr tits is a gender neutral term for big chests unless the person has said they don't like it

On a serious note people being unironically horny about cis men and referring to their chests as tits in their horny rantings has made me feel more comfortable as someone who is transmasc

Like I don't have huge dysphoria about my chest because I'm not very well endowed but I still have some and like thinking: "I'm a sexy dude with sexy tits" is actually a good feeling for me personally

my blog is a safe place for the gender neutral usage of tits

“This potion will give you the body that your heart desires, the body that will bring you true and lasting happiness. But be warned: don’t expect beauty. I’ve seen men become literal monster from the darkness in their hearts. Happy monsters, but monsters nevertheless.”

Every time I see this post, I think, yeah, I’d be happy being exactly this. The Fuck Yea Dragon.

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina → Chapter One: October Country

anti this character, anti that movie, can’t you just shut up and enjoy the things you like

note: that's supposed to say cheerscoops week day 3

Someone you know irl could have secretly written your favorite fanfiction do you ever think about that

True story: I once had a RL friend gush to me about a fic I wrote.

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I cannot emphasize this enough: sometimes the draft sucks because you keep looking at it. It doesn’t actually suck. You just need to post it and stop beating yourself up.

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House of the Dragon 1.05

tag a horror movie that most people are terrified of but youre unfazed by

She’s so adorable in season 1 🫶

I genuinely don’t understand eleven haters how can you be looking at that face and hating it?

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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.

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 “<p> </p>”, 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

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

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.”):

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.)

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.

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

I mean, honestly, I just delete them in the rich text. 

It’s a bit slow, but when I’m writing, for my own sake, I need the extra spaces, and I can’t stand dealing with any more HTML than absolutely necessary, so I stay in the Rich Text Editor pretty much exclusively.

Really, you can just manually go through, which is usually a good idea anyway for a last pass to check for typos and the like. I do both at once! It’s not foolproof, but I have absolutely caught things! It doesn’t take that long; it’s a bit tedious, sure, but not that bad and no more than dealing with HTML is.

But, here are many other options that will probably work for a lot of other people!

I delete them in Rich Text because scrolling slowly through the story in the new context of the AO3 editor gives me one last opportunity to scan each paragraph and catch a handful of typos (of course, some still manage to evade me). 

I just write my fics in html because this is all too much of a pain in the ass.

there are so many things that I write in html. sometimes i do it in my novels because i forget. (i just copy the document from word or google docs, and i don’t have extra spaces.)

I’m the same, I write in the HTML for italics and etc and just copy from gdocs and into the non-rich text editor in AO3 (TIL there’s a rich text editor in AO3…)

And it never double spaces or anything.

A habit I developed in my old livejournal RP days that carried over into fic writing

IE: