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~Stay a While~

a BKDK College AU One-Shot

Tonight, Katsuki can be found in the dorm kitchen making soup. Chicken noodle soup. NOT for his useless friends, who have been subsisting off of chicken nuggets, cold ramen noodles and who-the-hell-knows-what else, but for a boy he can't admit that he's worried about.

Tonight, Izuku is sick. He is stressed. He's practically waist-high in used tissues and there's almost no way he's finishing his criminal justice paper before midnight. At least Uraraka brought him some chicken nuggets earlier?

Rated: Teen & Up (for swearing, mostly)

Pairing: Bakugo Katsuki/Izuku Midoriya

Characters: Bakugo Katsuki, Izuku Midoriya, Kirishima Ejirou

I'm getting back into writing, and I'm coming back to tumblr for the first time in YEARS. Unearthing this old thing for some inspiration, and because I just finished my own college finals week- I am SO glad to be done with that noise!

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Tried to change the background color to this blog...

I decide I'm really set on this color pallete, because look at it! it's adorable! And I want the lightest green to be the background color for visibility. Wayyy less harsh than #FFFFFFFFF white.

For some reason the standard background is bright freaking white (#FFFF, classic) and there's no built-in button on tumblr to change it like your font or accent color.

I go into the HTML, real tempted to say fuck this shit, but then I pull myself up and decide that it shouldn't be that hard. I've done python! I was a CS major for at least two minutes (3 semesters) so this should be easy as pie, right?

Wrong- I go through the documentation, a couple quora posts, and half of a tumblr blog specifically related to my question. Try all of their suggestions. Nothing seems to work. it's hopeless. Eventually, I hopelessly change 'background color' (seen below)

to the color I want. like so:

I say great! I hope this works!

Okay,,,,,, it's still bright white. Amazing. Cool. Add the hexcode hashtag back maybe?

........ nope.

.....fuck

So I end up searching the entire HTML code for where the fucking backgroundcode variable is identified, find nothing.

Eventually, I sigh loudly enough about it that my dad comes over and asks me about it. We've just been chilling on the couch, he's been watching basketball. Its been chill, excluding the pain I'm in about this blog background color.

I suddenly remember that he's literally a current software engineer (maybe doesn't use HTML) who used to make websites for people with my mom (DEFINITELY USED HTML). So I ask him to help, and he gets me to cast my laptop screen to the tv for a bit before (not unkindly) yanking my laptop away for a bit to search for the variable himself.

He ends up going through 90% of the same steps I did. He has't played with HTML in like, 10 years, so he's rusty too. Eventually, 10 minutes later, he says "fuck it, what if we just do this".

(for non-coding folk, the only difference is a lack of brackets)

.... processing

...no fucking way.

ANYWAYS, quick lesson that sometimes we make shit way harder in our heads than it needs to be. I'm also sure there was a better source on how to do this out there, but google was being unhelpful today, so we made do with using our brains instead. Not that it was much faster, but. whatever.

Anyways, quick PSA on how to change the background color of your blog I guess. Grab a hex code and don't spend half an hour of your life on it like I did!

Moving on, this is going to be my writing blog. I want to get back into writing because it has felt inordinately hard lately to write anything more than 2 sentences at a time for any reason at all. So like,,,, look forward to that I guess!