#site skin ask

[someidiotwithalaptop]

Hi, hello, I a in desperate need of css help because I'm a beginning trying to do something for my story on a workskin.

I have 3 images: Left(100×100), Center(100×200), and Right(100×100). I would like the Left to be left-aligned, Center to be center-aligned, and Right to be right-aligned all in the same paragraph/sentence so that when it's seen on the screen, they'll be aligned. However what I do this, the images fall out of alignment.

On desktop, the Left and Right images are perfectly placed but the Center is more left-aligned following after the Left image. I checked the html and it's clear that Center is "centered-aligned".

Is there a simple fix? Or is there some hidden rule or easier way that I'm not seeing?

Ok so fair warning that 99% of my CSS dabbling is in tag blocking and urls, so this is the result of a bit of fucking around and trying stuff moreso than actually knowing what I'm doing.

That said, using this tutorial, I did manage to get this result:

The workskin looks like this:

#workskin .column { float: left; width: 33.33%; padding: 50px; }

#workskin .row { display: flex; }

and the html in the fic itself should look something like this, though I had to retype it to not have tumblr auto-format it:

<p>======================================================================================================================================================</p>

<div class="row">

<div class="column">

<p><img src="https://image1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

</div><div class="column">

<p><img src="https://image2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

</div><div class="column">

<p><img src="https://image3.jpg" alt="" /></p>

</div></div>

<p>======================================================================================================================================================</p>

(the paragraphs of equal signs were just so I could see what the width of the actual text space was supposed to be)

Increasing the value under "padding" should make the images smaller and farther apart, and decreasing it will make them closer together.

Also, if you want the center image to be wider (I think it's just taller? idk how the order of height and width goes lmao) then you can make two column classes in the work skin like this:

#workskin .column1 { float: left; width: 25%; padding: 50px; }

#workskin .column2 { float: left; width: 50%; padding: 50px; }

and give the <div> the middle image is in "column2" as a class and the others "column1"

I think that should work for any combination of column size/number, as long as the percentages of all of them add up to 100.

*Fair warning also that from what I read in the tutorial the flex container used here isn't supported in some versions of internet explorer (10 and before I think???), so this might not work in those browsers.

also, hehehe:

[solosvejs]

Introducing: LCAoRs!

Or... "What if they had Ao3 on the Enterprise-D?"

GitHub repository | Instructions

Because I'm a giant nerd with too many hobbies, I made an Ao3 site skin based off of the computer interface in Star Trek TNG! This was my first attempt at an entire skin, so I hope people like it :)

[888-fr]

What are some of your favorite skins you've made?

I thought about the answer to this question for a very long time. I want to tell you a story about a skin that broke the site.

(I think this has been fixed now, which is the only reason I'm posting about it.)

Up until around March of this year, skin names weren't sanitized. I wasn't aware of this and continued to be unaware of this until the day I asked for my Valentine's pearlcatcher skins (named <3 and </3 respectively) to be renamed. Special characters often break when you submit them through the queue, so you have to go and ask the mods in the skroblems thread to fix apostophes for you so they display properly. I went and asked them to fix my pearlcatcher skin's names for me, since they weren't displaying correctly either. This lead, by accident, to the most interesting way I've gotten the site to break in a while.

My friend noticed first when they got a subscribed notification to my skin shop thread. They realized there were two pages that were completely gone.

Then they realized that the front page didn't look right either. My catalogue posts had completely vanished. Only to find... when you hovered over the thumbnail of the </3 skin's icon, my posts had hopped into the item description.

We experimented a little more before realizing this thing was... very, very powerful! You could put the skin into a den tab description, and it would put every single dragon in that tab into the space of the description box. You could break your userpage for ANYBODY on site. Your entire dragon could get swallowed up if you put it into their bio. And because the skin deleted the edit button, you couldn't get it back out.

Little did I know, the </ part of the skin name - when posted using [skin=skinid] or [item=skin: </3] - would act as an HTML tag anywhere it was posted, and completely mess up how the site displayed! I compiled everything I found and sent it into the bug forums and the contact team box for review. The thread got deleted almost immediately, confirming what I suspected: skin names aren't sanitized, and this could very easily be exploited with malicious intentions or SQL injects.

Luckily, they fixed it pretty quickly! I hope the way the site handles skin names has been updated now too. This sort of thing wouldn't have happened even if I had named the skin </3 or, god forbid, dropTable(); in the first place. I do think it was because I had the mods go in and edit the skin name that allowed the unclosed </ to display in the skin's item icon and then break the site.

So that's the story of one of my favorite skins I've made! <3 and </3 are now LOVE and LOVE(LESS) respectively. The designs themselves didn't sell too well, but for a glorious 16 hours, they contained all the power of little nuclear bombs detonating on various HTML-dependent sitepages.

[junglejim4322]

how do you live like this (having a popular blog and having anon on)

I survived the days of when people hated you so much they’d make entire blogs dedicated to sending you gore I can survive anything. I also conquered the tumblrinaction war

[wtfforged]

Sir Forged do you have a top 10 list of Zenyatta skins I want to hear the opinion from the zen main of all time himself

oh velo youve done it now. (my second default)-> 1. royal astronomer also known as THE WIZARD SKIN. i actually used to dislike this skin when it first came out bc i am PICKY but then i started liking wizards more and more for.......... Reasons. 2. fastball. obviously. 3. skullyatta (my default) -> 4. toronto owl skin. not bc i enjoy esports. ive had enough esports in my life thank you im never joining a team again it was hell. i just like how zen looks with his plating red its suuper cute 5-10. um. idk. i dont actually like a lot of his skins if im honest. hes my oldest and favorite blorbo but they really squander the potential of a lot of his skins. takoyaki is ok iguess. the rest of this list is sponsored by genji sentai skin whatever runnerup and a moment of silence for when the owl skins first released ages ago and then they changed them after a while for accuracy sakes. after id already paid money for the skins i wanted. grits teeth. anyways these old owl chengdu and hangzhou zen skins used to be my mains for like the month that they existed

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I try to put in the effort to read comments as charitably as I can, and with as good faith an interpretation as possible

but sometimes I get one that irks me in just such a way

[answersfromzestual]

hello! i was wondering if it’s possible to use the skin from top surgery as a graft for phalloplasty? (sorry if it’s worded badly, i didn’t know how else to explain it)

i’ve been wondering this for a while but had difficulty finding anything about it (and it doesn’t help that i’m dyslexic)

Hello, no worries I understand you just fine. It's all good.

So I'll be honest, no, you can't.

There are a few reasons;

Healing time-

your body needs proper time and care to heal with the best results. If your body is trying to heal too much at once, you may not heal as well as you and your surgeon would want. Which can mean revisions or complications. This is often 6-8 months between procedures.

The doctors involved-

in top surgery there are a lot of doctors and nursing staff already taking care of you. There would be a lot of hands on one body if both teams worked at the same time. This could cause complications in one area or both because of doctors needing to position themselves properly.

Operation Time-

You would be on the table for a long time. This causes blood circulation problems, heart problems, clotting issues, anesthesia complications, and even breathing issues.

Chest Skin Graft-

skin taken from your chest is not nearly as sensitive as the alternative options for making a phallus, such as your arm, leg, back, or even abdomen. The tissue on your chest after years of being constantly rubbed and interacted with, makes it a less sensitive skin, and therefore may not produce any sensations you wanted or were hoping for.

Blood circulation for Phallus-

to get a blood supply to your phallus they take veins from other areas of your body (often a big vein near the donor site) to provide steady and healthy blood flow to your new phallus.

I hope this helped you understand a bit better why you cannot use your chest skin for phalloplasty.

It does seem a shame, but doctors only have your best interests in their mind. They want you to be safe, and they want good results.

Thank you for your question, if there is anything else you need do not hesitate to ask.

Stay Golden ✌🏽💙❤️

-Zestual

[snekdood]

im just gonna say im mediterranean and call it a day

[justaboutsnapped]

the greatest injustice in this fandom

[uniformbravo]

downloading 5 million japanese fonts like I'm ever going to use them literally ever

[someidiotwithalaptop]

hii do you know if it's possible to hide platonic relationships tags on ao3? I don't want to filter these fics out completely, i just don't want to display the "character x & character y" tags, only the "character x/character y" ones

Okay so, short answer: yes, this should absolutely be possible!

Long answer: I’ve figured out how to do this with my adblocker but for some reason the site skins are giving me a lot of trouble.

The filter that really should work, considering the exact same one works fine through my adblocker, is this:

.commas > li.relationships:has(a[href*="*a*"]) {   display: none !important; }

Worth trying, since it’s possible this is an issue with my browser. Especially considering that when I use inspect, suddenly the filter starts behaving :/

For me though, this gets a ton of false positives when a fic has both platonic and romantic tags on it. So if it doesn’t work, one option that will hide the tags, but not the commas that come after them (so a tad bit of an eyesore unfortunately) is this:

.relationships > a[href*="*a*"] {  display: none !important; }

Also, if you are willing to go through a browser extension, the way I have gotten tag hiding working properly is through Ublock Origin, which is a free extension that works an adblocker, but also lets you add your own filters. If you use the picker tool in that extension, and paste basically the same filter into the box that comes up:

##.commas > li.relationships:has(a[href*="*a*"])

then it should hide those tags just fine.

Sorry for the weird answer, I’ve been trying to get this kind of tag hiding to work for a while and it’s... a bit temperamental haha!

EDIT: Upon further testing, I found a way to get rid of the commas, though it does leave a bit of white space:

li.relationships > a[href="*a*"], li.relationships:has(a[href="*a*"])::after { display: none !important; }

[adelaidedrubman]

ok why the FUCK are all my mobile ads today exclusively the most graphic, viscerally upsetting skin picking flash animation games?

[skerbbie]

I can't seem to reply to my posts atm so I figured I'd let you know - user @ao3skin has actually already made a site skin for the colour of the sky meme :D https://ao3skin.tumblr.com/post/660767585769504768/hello-im-back-with-useless-ao3-skins-i-hope

OH MY GOD THAT'S AMAZING THANK YOU,, ♥ :D

[minotaurfemme]

really getting desperate because none of my roommates have any extra money and so i think we might just be fucked :/

[alex51324]

So, the NDA signed by producers of The Apprentice just expired, and one of them has published a tell-all article. Most of the article is about how they used standard reality-TV tricks to portray Trump as being wealthy and intelligent, when in reality he was, and is, a deeply indebted buffoon.

The money shot, however, comes when Trump and the producers are preparing for climax of the final episode, when the winner will be decided.

Per the FCC's rules for game shows, producers could not be involved in deciding who would be fired each week, or who would ultimately win: it had to be Trump's decision alone, like contestants and viewers were told it was. The producers could, and did, give him a presentation about the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants each time he had to make a decision. These were recorded, in case questions ever arose about whether the producers had crossed the line.

So, for the final episode, there were two contestants remaining. Both were men, one white, the other Black. They'd both done well in the final challenge of the competition. As the producers were summarizing the points for an against each candidate, this happened:

“Yeah,” he says to no one in particular, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?” Kepcher’s pale skin goes bright red. I turn my gaze toward Trump. He continues to wince. He is serious, and he is adamant about not hiring Jackson.

In the finished program, Trump chose the white contestant as the winner.

(Four years later, Trump would propagate the baseless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a native-born US citizen and therefore had not legitimately won the presidency.)

The article also describes how women working on the production faced discrimination based on whether or not Trump wanted to look at them while they did their jobs:

While leering at a female camera assistant or assessing the physical attributes of a female contestant for whoever is listening, he orders a female camera operator off an elevator on which she is about to film him. “She’s too heavy,” I hear him say. Another female camera operator, who happens to have blond hair and blue eyes, draws from Trump comparisons to his own Ivanka Trump. “There’s a beautiful woman behind that camera,” he says toward a line of 10 different operators set up in the foyer of Trump Tower one day. “That’s all I want to look at.”

And there's a third anecdote where he pressures a woman producer to break the FCC rules, while being casually misogynistic toward a contestant:

Trump corners a female producer and asks her whom he should fire. She demurs, saying something about how one of the contestants blamed another for their team losing. Trump then raises his hands, cupping them to his chest: “You mean the one with the …?” He doesn’t know the contestant’s name. Trump eventually fires her.

This information is pretty unlikely to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded by any of the other things Trump has done and said, which would for anyone else be a career-defining scandal. But it is a useful reminder of who we're dealing with.

(Link is to Slate, an x-number-of-free-articles-a-month site, but the incognito window trick works.)

[answersfromzestual]

Oh boy... I didn't think 14 people would want to see it? I mean, so far, over 93% of you want to see (as modestly as possible) what's going on in the downstairs. Not that people wouldn't want to see, it's just I dunno I'm surprised? It may help show you my size as well. My wife reminded me to take some of me pumped as well.

I want to remind everyone when I had this surgery, that time I was heavy (i carry my weight in my stomach and face only really basically, so my arms werent any different for the surgery). I dropped a ton of weight since then. I dont know if that will make a difference to anyone thinking about the surgery. I just thought that when you saw/ saw any of these images, I was heavier at the time of surgery.

I dunno I felt like it may be important to someone?