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[laurasauras]

 my dreamwidth is dead because obviously people haven't done the full migration yet, so i'm gonna chuck a greatest hits kind of thing up here, just repost my favourite of my fics. (moods are on this. like fucking myspace. what a weird site.)

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[elendraug]

lmk if you need help with formatting; not sure if you used LJ back in the day but this is like coming home for me so I know which cabinets all the dishes are in

[laurasauras]

thank you so much, it seems pretty straight forward so far but i don't think i'll know if i've fucked up until i do. i never used LJ and am generally pretty meh on new social media but i don't hate this yet, which is saying something. :)

[elendraug]

I absolutely love Dreamwidth and I wish fandom was moving back to it under less duress/better circumstances, but this is a good place to be. Truly.

One of the most useful things I think to know if you're posting fic is that the equivalent of a "readmore" here is a "cut" and can be done like so:

<cut text="what text you want the viewer to click to see the full entry"> all your fic text goes here </cut>

The tradition for posting fic here (all up to individual users' tastes of course) is also to write out a header. It's something like

Title: Whatever
Author: you
Rating: you get the idea
Pairing:
Summary:
Notes:

and then a cut for the fic text.

You can use <strong> and <em> (for emphasis) just like on AO3 for bold and italics.

There's more info in general here too: What Dreamwidth-specific markup/HTML tags can I use? This talks about how to link to other users as well.

What's REALLY important to note here is that to get the tags to show up (I couldn't get the raw code to stay as raw code), I had to do & l t ; and & g t ; but in practice you'd want to type out the greater than/less than signs yourself, not just copy/paste what I have here, because it may not work.

Hope that helps!

[laurasauras]

oh damn that is actually super helpful, thank you! i'm a bit confused by that last para though, do you mean tags like on other sites?

[laurasauras]

hey! i figured it out i think! https://laurasauras.dreamwidth.org/1928.html

[elendraug]

NICE

[elendraug]

I just mean that I had to type & l t ; (that is, < ) to get the code to show up in a visual way without turning into actual bolded/italicized/cut text in this very comment

If you copy/paste this literal comment with the "cut" code it won't work probably, similar to & n b s p ; for nonbroken space

If you just type it you're fine

[laurasauras]

gotcha! thank you so much for your help. :)

[elendraug]

Of course! Don't hesitate to reach out if you need something else, this is all like the back of my hand