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Cast-Iron Caryatid


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  • 17 weeks
    Merry Christmas, all!

    My track record with Christmas releases is no longer perfect, but I do try! Only one 5k chapter of Sharing the Nation this year, though I'm hoping to have 5k more out before the new year. To make up for it, though, I've also brought out the Harry Potter crossover that's been languishing in

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  • 121 weeks
    Nothing this year, sorry

    Man, this has been… a year. Shortly after my last blog post, I had some (non-covid) medical issues that somewhat took over my life for a while, and while that's all in the past now, I'm only back where I was beforehand—completely unproductive. I was determined to get back into things at NaNoWriMo, but work steamrolled those plans and I just haven't been able to find the words to write something

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  • 161 weeks
    More burned out than I thought

    Jeeze, it's been four months since I decided not to force myself to generate updates for the sake of Patreon and gave myself the freedom to write whatever I wanted… but I haven't really written anything. I've done a thousand words or so here and there to play around with other fandoms, but nothing of significance.

    Shocking, I know.

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  • 174 weeks
    Tis the season for status updates. Not as much the other kind of updates as I would like, though

    It wouldn't be Christmas if I hadn't been completely incommunicado for at least a month or two beforehand, right?

    Unfortunately, I don't have chapters of Sharing the Nation to post for Christmas this year. I do have some Equal Opportunity Ascension chapters that only Patreon has seen, and I'll post those, I guess, but it's clear this… isn't working.

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  • 226 weeks
    Christmas Updates!

    Merry Christmas!

    As I've done every year since I started writing, I have updates here for you on Christmas day.

    ( It might look like there's a missing one, but the chapter for Sharing the Night that year was taken down and reposted)

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Dec
5th
2013

Dark theme quick-fix update · 5:48am Dec 5th, 2013

Some may remember that I released a dark-themed fimfiction.net front page redesign earlier this year. I know I promised alternate colors and such, but with everything that happened around that time, I never got around to them, for which I apologize.

Users of the style, however, may have noticed that the new fimfiction theme breaks it, adding a non-transparent background image that overrides the dark blue background. I have made a quick fix for this and updated the style where it is published on userscripts.org.

(Edit: As I said, though, this is mainly a quick fix, removing the background image in question. The result is a plain, flat-blue background which may be a significant change, depending on your previous configuration.)

Interest in a more complete dark restyling to counter this update has been expressed, but I sadly have no plans for such a thing at this time. Knighty has specified that this update is to free him from the limits of variable background colors in future updates, so any style to counter the update would need to deal with each such situation as they arise, and I don't really see myself committing to such an undertaking.

As for further updates to my existing, front-page-only style, I do actually have a new such style in the works which would essentially be update-proof, but I'm not really up to making promises for that either right now. For the moment, my free time is being directed to having Sharing the Night Chapter 10 ready for christmas. Progress: 2100 words.

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Just so you know, Greasemonkey wasn't detecting the update via the 'check for updates' option for some reason. It worked when I went to Userstyles and manually downloaded the updated userscript, but it was still an oddity. Anyway, thank you for the update/patch!

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The script component and the style component are completely separate in the case of my redesign :facehoof: It's terribly inelegant, but came as a result of the script portion being almost an afterthought. :unsuresweetie: If anything was going to recognize the update, it would be Stylish, not Greasemonkey.

The whole thing was a bit of a learning experience for me, and I made a lot of mistakes in how I implemented it :twilightoops: Aside from time, this is one reason I've never gotten around to updating it at all. I'd rather tinker around with doing it right when I do get the urge :fluttershysad:.

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*shrugs*
I was actually referring to the link on the right of the Userstyles page, where it says "(Though installing Stylish is recommended, Greasemonkey users can also install this style as user script.)", not the companion script. Either way, though, it appears to be working at the moment, so :yay:

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Ah, my mistake! I wasn't even aware of that feature, since I'm personally using Tampermonkey on Chrome.

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