LJ: Can I cry yet?
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate self-posting for fests?
Not the fests themselves, because they're usually brilliant.
Just the bit about self-posting. Because I suck at it like a five year old with a stick of rock candy.
I can not get it right first try. Or frequently even the second, third or fourth try.
For reasons I can't fathom LJ's Rich text formatter hates me, in the same way electrical kitchen devices hate me. It explodes at me in much the same manner, only without the actual fire. So I tend to use the HTML formatter.
This leads to exciting posts in fests where variously:
The entire post has no lj cut The entire post is just tags and no entry The headers disappear inside the lj cut when they are supposed to be outside it The headers remain outside the lj cut when they are supposed to be inside it Everyone else's posts have lovely long cut texts saying "Come hither you stud" and mine just says "Yeah, there's like, um, crap in here, 'mkay? Whatever."
I mysteriously manage to delete the whole commThis hasn't actually happened yet but can only be a matter of time
I mysteriously manage to delete the whole of LJ across the entire planet. Okay. This one is unlikely, I'll grant you, but unlikely is not the same as impossible.
I end up more worked up about whether or not the post has worked than about how well the fic will be received. My nerves are never at their best to start off with, and by the time I've finished posting to a self-post fest I usually have to go have a diazepam, some chocolate, and a few hours of repeat tv in order to calm them.
I understand how much pressure it puts on mods to be posting other people's work, which is why I'm never going to demand that they seriously consider that, but man I love the ones where they do.
I think I'll go make some cupcakes now, so I can eat some whiskey with my chocolate while I wait for someone to comment on the post and tell me where I've gone wrong with it this time...
EDIT: Aaaaand... I did get a notice that it needed fixing. My headers were inside the cut when they needed to be outside it, which is the way I originally had it till I 'corrected' it. What I don't understand here, and obviously I'm missing something obvious, is that when I view the comm no one else's posts appear with the headers outside the lj-cut, at least not from where I sit. Why is that? If the headers are outside the cut, shouldn't I be seeing them for every post? Bah-humbug to this coding lark.
Not the fests themselves, because they're usually brilliant.
Just the bit about self-posting. Because I suck at it like a five year old with a stick of rock candy.
I can not get it right first try. Or frequently even the second, third or fourth try.
For reasons I can't fathom LJ's Rich text formatter hates me, in the same way electrical kitchen devices hate me. It explodes at me in much the same manner, only without the actual fire. So I tend to use the HTML formatter.
This leads to exciting posts in fests where variously:
I end up more worked up about whether or not the post has worked than about how well the fic will be received. My nerves are never at their best to start off with, and by the time I've finished posting to a self-post fest I usually have to go have a diazepam, some chocolate, and a few hours of repeat tv in order to calm them.
I understand how much pressure it puts on mods to be posting other people's work, which is why I'm never going to demand that they seriously consider that, but man I love the ones where they do.
I think I'll go make some cupcakes now, so I can eat some whiskey with my chocolate while I wait for someone to comment on the post and tell me where I've gone wrong with it this time...
EDIT: Aaaaand... I did get a notice that it needed fixing. My headers were inside the cut when they needed to be outside it, which is the way I originally had it till I 'corrected' it. What I don't understand here, and obviously I'm missing something obvious, is that when I view the comm no one else's posts appear with the headers outside the lj-cut, at least not from where I sit. Why is that? If the headers are outside the cut, shouldn't I be seeing them for every post? Bah-humbug to this coding lark.