alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2024-01-06 02:08 pm

Snowflake wishlist

[community profile] snowflake_challenge 3:
Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm mostly blanking on things I want that aren't on my [community profile] fandomtrees wishlist (which has Emelan, Encanto, Miraculous Ladybug, and Yuri on Ice prompts) or [community profile] holiday_wishes wishlist (though the only fannish bits there that aren't on the [community profile] fandomtrees list are in the spending-money section).

But! The first chapter of starting right now I'll be strong and all chapters of Jeu des princesses avec les pommes d'or de la discorde, inscribed 'to the fairest', both canon-divergent Yuri on Ice fics, are told entirely through stuff the characters said on the internet. Notably on Instagram. Thing is I do not have either the art skills or the art commission money to illustrate most of those Instagram posts. So if I can't glue the Insta post together using canon screenshots, Wikimedia Commons, and Unsplash, then the Insta post has to stay text-only. (You can see in the second chapter of Jeu des princesses how well that's going. I do have two and a half of the images for the first chapter of starting right now—the first one, the Minami one, and the top half of the one where the bottom half is Yuuri stole Phichit's Pikachu hat—but comparing those two chapters may illustrate why I haven't added those images yet.)

So in addition to what's listed on [community profile] fandomtrees—and I'm joining the chorus of Snowflake participants who want people to look over all those wishlists, or at least the ones with fewer than two gifts, and fill what you can—I am asking for fanart that's the image part of one or another of the Insta posts in one of those two fics.

And! [community profile] fandomtrees doesn't do Creator's Choice of Fandom, which is valid, but does mean I had to leave this prompt off that list:
* exploration via historical documents, primary and secondary sources, etc., of canon characters/events and their effects on the local, regional, and global courses of history. this could be set a couple hundred years after canon and thus explore canon from a historian's perspective (social media posts could be both primary and secondary sources here, depending), or it could be set around, during, or before canon and explore characters who have been name-checked at most.

Also, the how to use CSS to make iOS messages look realistic guide by [archiveofourown.org profile] CodenameCarrot and [archiveofourown.org profile] La_Temperanza makes it seem like there should be a way to use background-image in the CSS from the how to use CSS to make vintage-2016 Instagram posts look realistic guide by [archiveofourown.org profile] gadaursan (with instIcon1 instIcon2 instIcon3 instead of instIcon, as well as instIconRight instHeart) so that those five little icons don't display when creator style is off. But so far all I seem to be achieving is making them not display when creator style is on, either. Send help?
sparrow2000: (Snowflake 2024)

[personal profile] sparrow2000 2024-01-06 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There has been such a growing chorus to boost the signal for fandom trees. From what others have said it's definitely helping - collective fandom effort is a brilliant and mighty thing.

I don't have any visual art capability so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that there is someone out there who can help with your fanart wishes.
dragonofeternal: Kanata looking to the left in profile. His eyes are covered with a black censor bar. (Trigun→ Vash Space 150)

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2024-01-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
OOOH That creator's choice of fandom prompt is very much my cup of tea... I might see what I can whip up owo I love epistolary fics like that.
lyntergalactic: (ᐅ headphones)

[personal profile] lyntergalactic 2024-01-07 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
can you possibly paste the code you're working with somewhere? i might be able to puzzle it out if i know exactly what changes you're making to the codes in those work skins.
lyntergalactic: (ᐅ /procrastinates with the internet)

[personal profile] lyntergalactic 2024-01-07 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
if you don't want the corners rounded you just need to remove the border-radius: .3em; in the .instBody class

i must admit i'm a little confused what you want to accomplish outside of that and why you're using span tags. do you want the icons to still show up when you're not using a workskin?
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[personal profile] lyntergalactic 2024-01-07 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
ahhh, okay! i get it now. i was not looking at the right thing. gimmie a second to take a look at things again and then i'll get back to you.
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[personal profile] lyntergalactic 2024-01-07 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
okay! i think i've got your span tags figured out. part of the problem was all of the span tags had width set to auto. since the span tags themselves were empty that meant that it was defaulting to 0px width. this is easy enough to fix by just making your width equal to your height or however wide you want it.

there is one small problem though and that's that the images you're using aren't uniform in size and you've got the background-size set to 100%. if you set your background-size to match your height and width dimensions, everything should fit just fine? a couple of the sizes of images you might want to mess around with because, like i said, they're not uniform and so squishing one here or there might make it look more even.

let me know if this doesn't work on ao3 (i tried it in a code tester) and i'll take another look!