User talk:MatthiasRat/Made Alone

Hey there. Just added a Work in Progress tag. --Buck 13:17, 23 January 2008 (EST)

Thank you, Jon!! I hope you are enjoying this story. You've got a great setting! --MatthiasRat 18:35, 23 January 2008 (EST)

One interesting thing about this story is the way the TG aspect comes out. Since nobody can see Christopher as a woman, it's basically all in his own head. She has to buy bras, and probably hygiene products, all by herself. In Tall Tales, DL decided to go all out for the newbie convention because only other furs can perceive her for what she is. Other than the practical details, it won't be an issue socially for Chris until she starts encountering other furs during her female phases. Once he hits male rat permanently, it's going to make quite a book. :) --Buck 18:55, 23 January 2008 (EST)

I've never really done much in the way of TG in my own works. Though I've written a few in Metamor Keep, I've never gotten into the head of a character who has TGed. The real question for Chris will be if she can admit that she's a she when she's a she, or will she continue to call herself he. ;-) --MatthiasRat 21:19, 23 January 2008 (EST)

Text as images

I notice you're converting text into jpegs for parts of this story. That takes a lot of bandwidth, is hard to edit, and the text-to-speech program I use to read stories on Shifti to me while I do other things is not going to like it. (I'm so lazy, I have machines read me bed-time stories :) May I suggest an alternative? You can accomplish pretty much the same effect by using a little CSS-styled HTML. I've put a demo over in Shifti:Sandbox, if you like I can apply that styling to the appropriate sections of text in the story for you. Bryan 03:06, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Oh, I forgot to mention, if you'll tell me which font, size, and line spacing you used I could probably match the appearance even closer. Bryan 03:15, 26 January 2008 (EST)

I'd very much like that! I struggled vainly to find some way to make the journal entries stand out, and naturally, it proved difficult. If you could get it started for me, I'd appreciate it. The font I used is Technical, size 14 Bold. I wanted something that at least looked like it might be handwriting! Thank you, Bryan! --MatthiasRat 05:57, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Hm. I don't have Technical on my system (Comic Sans MS is very similar though, and a standard font that's already installed on most systems, so I've made that the first fallback choice). When I boost the font size to 14pt and the font weight to bold the words become huge and cartoonish-looking compared to the images, so I've left it at 12pt and normal font weight for now. It's your story, though, so by all means tweak the styles on those divs to make it look right to you.

The text of one of the journal entries wasn't in the story's edit history, rather than retype all of that could you perhaps insert it? I'll do the formatting for it as well, and any subsequent entries you may add. Bryan 14:17, 26 January 2008 (EST)