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clevermanka) wrote2021-05-07 10:08 am
clevermanka) wrote2021-05-07 10:08 am
Friday
Fanart: Happy Weilan. Rainy High School AU. Fireworks kiss. Guess who? Zhubai. This Zhao Yunlan reminds me of a Nagel painting. Chibis on vacation. Isn't this your phone? Illustrations for a Zhubai fic.
Glasses kink with Bai Yu. Weilan smiles (with a little 🔪 at the end). Spinny Zhu Yilong. Bai Yu devastates you with a look. How is the most beautiful person in the world so beautiful?
I think I outed myself on Twitter yesterday as the horniest over-40 in the Guardian fandom so that was fun. Thanks, all, for your sympathy and support.
If you are like me and hate seeing Deleted Work in your bookmarks or Marked for later,naye has a possible solution for you! Full disclosure I tried to do it and gave up after about five minutes of trying to figure out the first step because I was about to cry from frustration (seriously, it was like I was reading something in a different language). I still have to deal with installing the new SIM card in my phone today so I gave up. But for people with normally-capable brains it's probably not nearly so much of an ordeal!
Glasses kink with Bai Yu. Weilan smiles (with a little 🔪 at the end). Spinny Zhu Yilong. Bai Yu devastates you with a look. How is the most beautiful person in the world so beautiful?
I think I outed myself on Twitter yesterday as the horniest over-40 in the Guardian fandom so that was fun. Thanks, all, for your sympathy and support.
If you are like me and hate seeing Deleted Work in your bookmarks or Marked for later,
naye has a possible solution for you! Full disclosure I tried to do it and gave up after about five minutes of trying to figure out the first step because I was about to cry from frustration (seriously, it was like I was reading something in a different language). I still have to deal with installing the new SIM card in my phone today so I gave up. But for people with normally-capable brains it's probably not nearly so much of an ordeal!
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I got stumped at "then click on the bookmarklet button" to drag it to the toolbar, because... what bookmarklet button? I would love to click and drag it, but I? can't? find it? I dragged the file called e ao3_work_stats.csv to my bookmarks bar but I don't know if that's what it meant.
When you say save each page of your history as a CSV file, do you mean manually enter or is there actually a way to download that? Or is the downloading what the bookmarklet is supposed to do?
Ugh I hate how difficult it is for me to learn this sort of thing.
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Okay, first: what is a bookmarklet?
Shortest possible answer: it's code! It's called a "bookmarklet" because you stick this code in the address field of a bookmark. But then instead of taking you to a page, you use the bookmark ON a page to trigger the piece of code to do a thing.
An example:
Here you can see my bookmarklet name [AO3 Ebook Download Helper]. When hovering over it you'll see it goes to a piece of code that looks weird in the pop-up box.
Here you can see what happens on the page when I click the bookmarklet
So the instructions to "drag and drop" the bookmarklet is a complicated way of saying the button comes with code that will be saved like if it was a bookmark. Executing the maneuver looks like this:
In that last screencap, the button has been placed into the bookmark bar as a bookmark.
HOWEVER. You can also right click on the button, copy the link, and then create a new bookmark where you paste the link into the "address" field.
Once you have that code saved as a bookmark, you can then click on the bookmark name on any page where the code will deploy. So for anything with AO3 works, you need to be on an AO3 page or nothing happens. (Full disclosure: sometimes bookmarklets are installed and you click them and...nothing happens. For no reason. At least this is my experience.)
Some examples of different bookmarklets I have installed - in other words, I click, and the following happens:
* "Yun Lan" gets displayed as "Yunlan" on the page (I am a pedant, Manka)
* Double paragraph spaces turn to single paragraph spaces (LIKE I SAID)
* A pop-up offers to download the stats of all works on an AO3 page
* Any alt-text (invisible if you're using a normal browser) turns into title-text, which is the kind that you can see in a little pop-up if you mouse-over a picture.
So yeah, bookmarklets are super versatile, and can do everything from change how the page you're looking at is displayed to actually open context menus for downloads and other things like that.
So that's step 1! And then for the CSV: it downloads files with all the works (usually 20) shown on an AO3 page, with the following metadata (copied & pasted, excuse the format):
title,author,fandoms,category,relationships,characters,freeforms,rating,warnings,date,words,chapters,comments,kudos,bookmarks,hits,link
It only does 20 works per sheet, so to make a big spreadsheet with all data you have to either open the sheets and copy and paste content into a master spreadsheet, or you can use the "insert" function that I know exists in Google Sheets at least. (I don't have Excel on this computer so I can't check.)
Hopefully that's a little bit clearer? Maybe? XD
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I think so many of these communication breakdowns happen for me because I learned how to tech in ways that just? aren't? done anymore? I'm basically using outdated modes of processing and trying to apply them to terminology that used to mean something different.
It was only in the past couple years I figured out "app" could refer to things that you installed on a desktop computer and not just things on your phone. 😂
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It was only in the past couple years I figured out "app" could refer to things that you installed on a desktop computer and not just things on your phone
SO CONFUSING
And then there are webpages that have "apps" that you save to your phone but they just look like shortcuts, they run in your browser so how are they apps...?? Words have no meaning anymore.
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I just got through all my Marked for Later and was aggrieved to see THREE MORE deleted works, so at least now I'll know what future ones are.
And then there are webpages that have "apps" that you save to your phone but they just look like shortcuts, they run in your browser so how are they apps...??
That just makes my head hurt, ugh.
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I did not expect this to make my day but it kind of did. (How can he be so bad at dancing when he's so graceful?)
I am still the person who uses brute-force ctrl-c and pastes into Word documents to save fics I really like offline, so not even touching the technological adventure, although I'm sure it's helpful...
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Truly, a mystery for the ages.
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I saw that "save your history" thing and I am honestly torn. The archivist in me wants that information so badly; the normal human being in me looks at the 188 PAGES of fic in my history and just nopes the fuck out. Don't want to be confronted with the true depths of my depravity! ahahahaaha. And that's just on THIS profile. My mothballed profile has 412 pages. Just. WTF, self. ;_;
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Not sure mine was inadvertent so much as a blatant call for pity, but yeah. 😂
I didn't bother dealing with my history, but it was really handy to get my Marked For Later wrangled so I can (maybe) better decide what to read when I'm in A Mood.
Don't want to be confronted with the true depths of my depravity!
Am I the only one who absolutely revels in my vices around here???
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Deleted Works are the bane of my existence! Thanks for the linkage!
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