#what i didnt expect has having to realign every fucking thing. bc say what you will about the ao3 editor | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

aethercurrent · 1 year ago

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The Incident in the last tags was in relation to leer aka eden rewrite.

check-ins required gdocs. which, like, fine, whatever. bothersome since that thing is laggy as SHIT on my end but i'll live.

i thought

now, you see, i'd been having a wretched time. lowest of the lows i'd had in a while. working on leer had been nothing but the little bit of joy i had at the time. it's nice to work on something experimental and seeing it come together after all! then, The Incident. i paste leer into gdocs thinking it'll be fine.

leer, experimental as it is, is in screenplay format. meaning fully edited and formatted, it looks like this.

leer was nearly finished at that point. it had 60k of its 77k words.

all the formatting was gone. uploading the darned thing didn't make the formatting work either, because the universe fucking HATED me that day. so guess which person going through a hysterical breakdown laugh-sobbing as it progressed, was forced to re-align already aligned text. because the mods said it needed at least the base formatting.

and THAT's why i have a blood feud with gdocs

also read leer please

#mind you it took me 2 consecutive days of a couple hours each to actually make this beast presentable on ao3 #but i expected that to happen from the MOMENT i got the screenplay idea into my skull. i think i could just go back to dms w mix and noah #and ill say 'oh this would be a nightmare to edit and post though' within 20 lines of talking about that idea.#what i didnt expect has having to realign every fucking thing. bc say what you will about the ao3 editor #at least it copies fuckin formatting when you paste something in the richtext editor #99% of the editing was fiddling with the spacing and 1% was seeing a typo i'd missed #also JUST putting everything middle or right where it belonged took like 4-6 hours #i dont remember it i spent it between a fugue state of utter agony and hysteric laughter #also the mods were.... us american. and didnt have someone from a non-us timezone helping out w questions #meaning that half that time i spent editing i was operating on not knowing whether or not i needed to do it at all it was just a precuation #caution. one that paid off but god DAMN #in honour of twitter circles going away or something idfk because that breakdown was entirely in those.

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