#HTML Script

[recurring-polynya]

hello i’m not sure if you take fic requests (if not, ignore this), i am pretty new to your page but i’ve been reading your fanfics only for the past month and i can’t seem to stop. so i’m here asking you if you could write anything izuru centered ? or if not centered around him i would be perfectly happy reading something even remotely connected to him. i really liked the restaurant review stories with rose since he’s even less popular than izuru… i also love him, renji and momo written together. if you ever think about him please do not keep it to yourself and share it with us, i’d love to read your thoughts! but really anything is fine, i’d just like to read more about izuru

So for the record (mostly to keep other people from asking), I am not doing requests right now, but when I got this, it occurred to me that I write about Kira all the time, but always as a supporting character. I should write a story about Kira, I told myself, he deserves it for all the time I have forced him to be a bystander to Renji's terrible lovelife.

Of course, ten minutes into brainstorming, I remembered why I don't write Kira stories, which is that I like him, but I don't like any of the things that happen to him. I do not want to write about Gin. I do not want to write about The Hole. Normally, I would just write (yet another) Academy story, but I have an Academy thing I noodle around on sometimes and if I had any story ideas, I'd rather use them there. I went through most of the Kira tag on ao3 for inspiration and mostly what I got out of that is that people sure love to ship him, which just made me feel like Kira deserved a story that was about him.

Anyway, then I remembered that I am very interested in Kira's time at Squad 4, even though (perhaps because?) we know almost nothing about it. So, here you go. Of course, Renji is in it, too, because what am supposed to do, write something without Renji in it?

🩸 💥 🩹

here's to moving on ( ao3, registered users only )

Summary: Kira doesn't know how he thought he was going to transfer to Squad 4 and not run into the only person in the Seireitei who makes worse career decisions than he does.

Starring: Kira and Renji, with special appearances from Iemura, Ogidou, Kotetsu the Taller, and Iba

Rating: T, for cussing

Words: 4702

[pinkkop]

I've now posted my second weekly QL recap post and I'm honestly just really proud of myself. Not just that I've stuck to doing it but also that I've managed to make it something I might actually be able to keep doing because I've made it as easy as possible for myself. That way it's less likely that it'll start feeling like a chore or that it'll take up a lot of my time when I'd rather be talking about the shows than formatting a post.

So because I'm a nerd and I kinda wanna show off a little bit because I'm proud of what I've managed to make, let me tell you exactly what I've set up to make my weekly recap post.

The basis for the post is simple enough: an excel spreadsheet and a python script.

My Spreadsheet of BLs

The spreadsheet is based on My Watchlist on MyDramaList which I literally just do ctrl+A and copypaste into a sheet. This is then automatically compiled into a different sheet where I've made a better overview of all the shows I'm watching and have watched in the past.

Based on this I've set up the weekly overview in a separate sheet shown below

When I'm compiling my weekly recap I can then easily add any new information here.

For new shows I add the information below to the sheet

- MD Title (copied from MyDramaList overview sheet)

- Title (usually copy of MD title with minor edits)

- Site I'm watching the show on

- Tags I want to use for the show

- Episode nr. I'm starting the show on

I also make a banner for the show but I've found a good source for images so it doesn't take long most of the time.

I have to manually upload the banner for the first week but then for the second week a show is in the recap, I can add the HTML for the banner from the previous week's post to the sheet. That way the banner will just be automatically be added to the post every week after that.

Throughout the week I then write notes on each episode I watch into the sheet and before I make the actual post I add the order I want the shows to appear in on the post.

The Script is Where the Magic Happens

When I've finished filling out the spreadsheet for the week I go to my python script, change the week number in the script and run the script.

In the script I've taken the HTML code from my original recap post and set it up so the script fills the information from my spreadsheet for each show into the right places in the HTML code. Since I doubt you guys would find it riveting to look at my full script, here's a little snippet!

When I run the script it then prints out the HTML for the post which I can insert into a new post on tumblr and voila, a weekly recap!!!

I do then have to go through the text for each show and add breaks and spellcheck because that's easier to do here than in the excel cell where I write the notes to begin with. If I have any overall notes or any new banners I have to add, then this is also when I'd do it.

I'm sure there are things you could set up in a better way but this works for me and reduces the amount of time I have to set aside every week for creating the post by a lot. It just makes it easier for me to share my thoughts in a way that's nice to look at without having to spend a ton of time formatting a post each week.

Hope this didn't take away any of the magic behind my posts but just gave a cool insight into the things you can do to make recurring posts easier to make.

Any questions or comments are welcome!

Side note: if you use tumblr on the mobile app and notice that any of the lines with "Episode x of x || Watching on:[site]" are split into two lines, let me know!

That line was surprisingly the hardest to make look the way I wanted because the width of posts and look of text types change depending on whether you're on desktop or the mobile app.

[katatty]

Very excited to finally be getting Pleasantview Plus archived on my website! I have been putting it off for a long time, since the neighbourhood in chronological order is 808 pages long... but that's all the more reason to get it backed up somewhere, I would hate to lose all those memories some day.

This project is mainly for myself, obviously, but if you ever wanted to read the first season of my uberhood, complete with low-quality pictures, in a chapter-by-chapter format... well, here you go! XD

[kafus]

not sure who needs to hear this but the HTML/CSS required to make a run of the mill neocities site is more like learning a specific type of grammar/structure to organize information and less like coding. it only really becomes what feels like "coding" when you start adding scripting like javascript, which you really don't have to do. if the idea of "coding" sounds overwhelming but you like making spreadsheets, lists, graphs, or other ways of organizing information about the things you like (or even if you haven't done that before, if it sounds appealing at least), i highly recommend looking into basic HTML and CSS anyways and giving it a shot, because i think the process of writing HTML/CSS is much closer to that than scripting

[banyanas]

loading the marball draft is now an incredibly cursed activity

[tvmblrsillyman]

thinking about this demo and the potential of plugging a desktop buddy onto A Theme here

imagine

[concorp]

i am definitely thinking way too much into this. but i decided to transcribe the code we saw on screen (it was the same text for all four times it showed).

LOADING PROTOCOLS

public class Ayrobot:

private String name:

private String version:

private String description:

public Ayrobot(String name, String version, String description) :

this.name = name:

this.version = version:

this.description = description:

:

public static Ayrobot initializeAyrobot():

String ayrobotName = "Ayrobot":

String ayrobot Version - “1.0”:

return new Ayrobot ayrobotName.ayrobot Version):

:

public static void mainString[] args) :

Ayrobot ayrobot = initialize.Ayrobot

ayrobot.execute():

:

:

(end transcript)

first. what scripting language is this even supposed to be. i get what it’s trying to imply but. it is very funny also.

second. this is a protocol, a script, that was run. what triggered it to run? did the stress from purgatory cause it to run as some sort of survival fail safe? ayrobot seems convinced that his influence on aypierre’s actions on the elimination day saved them (as he may be right if elq was told the truth by the eye) and that aypierre wouldn’t have done the same on his own.

[cryoculus]

the one (1) time i decided to be a little careless and wrote a fic on the ao3 text editor instead of gdocs, ao3 goes under maintenance

[retroghost16]

The next prerequisite class in taking is a code one.

[scarlettcryptid]

one of my favourite things about tumblr is that you can't see follower counts

[simplyghosting]

“No one needs a computer anymore.”

Wrong.

>right-click

>inspect element

>delete annoying script housing this opinion

[beepbananabus]

beta’ing is going well

[mokeonn]

So I heard that Tumblr is slowly being abandoned (they seem to be laying off a majority of their staff and keeping a skeleton crew) and we might be nearing the end of this webbed site. I don't think it's currently worth panicking over, but I'm definitely going to start making that neocities website.

I'll make a post soon about other places where you can find me. Unfortunately, I've spent quite some time these last couple years getting rid of a majority of my social media because most platforms were bad for my mental health. I do not plan on going back to these platforms, so if tumblr goes down, I'm going to be only on non social media.

Maybe if one of the new social medias being created, actually take off (like bluesky or pillowfort or whatever else these days) I might join, but if not I might be entirely on personal websites, patreon (I will start posting regularly like a blog and make more free posts), some old websites I deleted but not because I hated them (such as ko-fi, which I deleted due to inactivity) and possibly furaffinity. I'm still on the fence about furaffinity. I might also finally start using my toyhouse but that is an oc sharing website and not much of an art sharing website.

I really do hope Tumblr doesn't go down, this is my one social media and if it does go down I am going to lose nearly all of my audience. I can make do by creating a personal blog and using whatever I have left in terms of "can post my art there and people can find me", and it won't discourage me from making my personal projects. I can make do, and I will make do, but I don't really want to make do.

Anyways, that's all I have to say right now, I'll make a post later once I set up some alternative sites to find me at, but for now I want to give the heads up that if I'm gone, you're not gonna find me on twitter, Instagram, or whatever third option there is. I'm likely going to just make do, be offline more, and likely just become active on the discord servers I'm on.

[xumoonhao]

the layout is over 3000 lines of code btw 😑

[mountmortar]

i love it when federal sites haven't updated their code since like. 2003 or something

[nowoyas]

"how's the writing session going"