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A tiny blinking image that reads "Is the moon big?"

Fiddling around with Dreamwidth features is still underway, but I'm learning stuff! Now that I'm more familiar with the interface, I really like it. For one thing, it keeps rewarding me for experimental settings-manipulation in the way all the best websites do. 
As of this evening, the links in my profile work! And there's a GIF at the top of this post, which demonstrates my awe-inspiring ability to embed media! (Thank you AO3 and Purimgifts specifically for significantly truncating that learning curve) Next I'll see if I can make a cut happen.

Okay, this is kind of perplexing me. Maybe it'll work when I post it and maybe I'll dig through tutorials tomorrow.
Also tomorrow, I want to try to give my journal a header that'll go with the purple theme it's got going on.
I peer-pressured [personal profile] zanzquest into making an account, though it's still unclear whether I'll be able to convince her to do Battleship with me. And I've got around 50% of a fill for Summer of the 69, which, if I hurry, could be the year's first fill!

Oh, does this text show up below the cut? Confusion rescinded. This slaps, actually.

Re: Since you mentioned me...

Date: 2025-06-14 05:19 pm (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
Yes, I'm a big fan of putting headings inside the cut-tags for organizational purposes. (Assuming the cut tags were added for organizational purposes in the first place, that is!) And just in general, it's good to remember that people coming directly to the post will never see the link/descriptive text for the cut-tag: it's often a good idea to repeat that info inside the cut, if it somehow contributes to the understanding of that material.

And thank you for the additional code for the details tag! I've heard that people struggled with knowing that it's clickable; I didn't know that the cursor was part of the problem.

Re: Since you mentioned me...

Date: 2025-06-14 05:57 pm (UTC)
pangolin20: A picture of a white crow in a tree (Corneille Blanche)
From: [personal profile] pangolin20

In the case I'm most familiar with (using the cut text as a kind of "whisper space" for book reviews), I don't put it in the post itself, but I do put it in the TOC/index, where I enclose it in square brackets to indicate that it's the cut text. It's been exceedingly helpful to keep posts apart if there'd otherwise just be "Chapter 10", "Chapter 11" and so forth!

I've heard that people struggled with knowing that it's clickable; I didn't know that the cursor was part of the problem.

It does show up as clickable when navigating with the tab key, I see, but since most people will be using the cursor to navigate, I presume that that causes confusion (or not knowing that you can click the text in addition to the little arrow?).

Re: Since you mentioned me...

Date: 2025-06-14 06:53 pm (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
You can click the text, too? *experiments* Huh, so you can. Learn something new every day, thank you!

Re: Since you mentioned me...

Date: 2025-06-14 07:10 pm (UTC)
pangolin20: A picture of a carrion crow. (Corneille Noire)
From: [personal profile] pangolin20

Glad to have shown that, then!

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