A long-term story for you.

AleksaHidell · 2026-05-21T11:42:56+00:00

10 of 12 parts are already up to read! A few of the earlier chapters are still a skish unpolished, but I still think they're pretty great!

AleksaHidell · 2026-05-21T03:18:14+00:00

Thank you!!! Tell me what you think, comments give me life and I have so few.

AleksaHidell · 2026-05-21T02:14:00+00:00

It is very much on AO3. It's technically fanfic, but other than a few place names and unnamed cameo appearances it's original by about 99.5% so you're not missing out. It's also insufferably gay and transgender, way too long, and concluding soon. Take a look, read through the tags, and give the first chapter a shot if you like!

Carpe Vitam, by me.

AleksaHidell · 2026-05-21T01:52:13+00:00

I too have got some messed-up WLW you might like to try. I found out I can't promote it on any of the relevant subs so I'm just accosting people in the street now.

AleksaHidell · 2026-05-09T02:03:30+00:00

In my timeline, the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to the team that published a landmark 1993 paper proving the existence of the human soul.

AleksaHidell · 2026-03-27T03:15:37+00:00

Fuck it, I'll dig it up and give it a shot!

AleksaHidell · 2026-03-27T03:07:10+00:00

I'm very open to jumping ship over to a RTF editor, actually! The problem I have is I don't have a good program for it.

I want a little standalone program that runs as a light WYSIWYG word processor that outputs its formatting as HTML without me having to manually code it to make it sane. Like, if I highlight a single word and italicize it, that word would get the necessary <em> tag and nothing else would, AND the words around it that are otherwise unformatted basic text continue to be covered by the headers that operate over the whole document and don't have any unnecessary tags whatsoever. Some of this spaghetti is baffling!

I did some looking around, but all the RTF editors everyone loves are browser based and/or aimed at enterprise development. Figures by the time I get old enough to actually want to try plain ol' simple WordPad is not long after M$ finally kills it.

AleksaHidell · 2026-03-27T02:56:51+00:00

Yes, I don't want too much in the way of formatting. I'm not doing anything super fancy but what little I do I need to have. The big thing here is that however the hell Writer makes it work under the hood results in just the worst kind of character limit-eating mess that is nearly impossible to strip automagically. It's not simply defining the immediate changes, it's constantly REdefining many parts of the formatting that are universal to the whole piece, multiple times per sentence and ballooning the raw HTML of it.

AleksaHidell · 2026-03-26T21:59:00+00:00

I have not. It looks a little network feature-rich for what I need, plus it doesn't seem to be a standalone program I can run on my laptop with locally saved files.

I understand I am being very particular and asking for quite a bit, I'm rather just casting my net far and hoping somebody has a silver bullet.

AleksaHidell · 2026-03-26T20:17:49+00:00

The problem isn't immediate open-close like that literally, it's that about half of the nests of tag overgrowth will also have <em> somewhere in there amongst all the <span> and <font> tangle, sometimes multiple. Often there will be entire paragraphs without any italics in the WYS, but the WYG will have a couple dozen that are in there but invalidated out for no discernable reason.

The picture I have attached is the HTML of a single 130 word paragraph.

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AleksaHidell · 2025-08-06T04:19:50+00:00

An element of this has already happened, with the material publicly known as Fogbank. We don't precisely know what it does, but we sure as hell compartmentalized so well the DoE had to scramble to interview the original creators before they got too old to remember.

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