questions! and sneak preview of "Daughter of the Sun"!

[alexseanchai]

So I'm experimenting with formatting the first few scenes of my queer_bigbang (this is the always-a-cis-girl!Yuugi and um-actually-a-trans-woman!Yami-Yuugi fic). I am attempting to use paragraph alignment to convey a particular mood. I'd like people's opinions on what mood I'm trying to convey and how well I'm succeeding at conveying it. Actual text of the first scene and a bit provided.

I'd also like to know how much of an accessibility fail I'm looking at. Paragraph alignment isn't a thing screenreaders register, is it?

Also, how to HTML code the text behind cut two to look like the text in the image behind cut one. I seem to recall <center> is bad form and I can't remember if I ever knew how to code right-aligned, and while I could look this up, I'd like someone more familiar with HTML to tell me whether I'm correct in my suspicion that I can't actually make the text look like the image without a lot more fuckery than I'm prepared to do or possibly than AO3 and DW are willing to handle. Because I think alignment goes with <p> tags, so I could do consecutive snippets with the same alignment as the same paragraph with <br /> tags between, but I'd need a new paragraph (with paragraphs spacing instead of line-break spacing) to make the following snippet a new alignment, which would mean breaking my paragraphs midsentence. So I would need to fuck with paragraph spacing in my <p> tags in order to get it to look like the image, which I don't think I want to slash can do.



Days and nights
blurred together
in
silent
darkness
to the part of him aware
of the world
outside the stone maze
where most of the parts of him resided.

He passed the time with games.

Fractured as he was,
he never lacked for opponents:
his courage played against his loyalty,
or
his intelligence against his faith.
Sometimes he set up tournaments
in which all the parts of him competed;
the winner was never the same twice running.

Try as he might,
he could never piece himself together.

* * *

The sound of a footfall
pierced the quiet.

Interesting.

This had happened
a few times
before,
but always the invaders were,
to put it simply,
tomb robbers,
unworthy of the Shadow Games.
Still, it was a change,
and a welcome one.

He went to watch the fun.

Comments

[silveradept]

According to current best practice, alignment is covered in the CSS portion of a webpage - you could create your own stylesheet, house it somewhere, then link to it and use it, peppering your post with <div> tags to shift the alignment - and you could control the paragraph spacing of those tags in the same stylesheet. The generated pages might not validate worth a damn, but they probably would work.

[alexseanchai]

I don't know how to do that or if AO3 and DW would both take it. Thanks, though.

[silveradept]

If they don't really take that idea, you can define individual style in each paragraph tag, but that's a pain in the backside to do. AO3 and DW will take it, though, I believe.

It all has to do with the text-align director in CSS, I think.

[alexseanchai]

Nod. Thanks.

[sylvaine]

Feels very disconnected and disjointed to me, divided either by time (like, keep lapsing into unconsciousness or simply long, long pauses in-between) or by physicality (Atem is kind of literally in pieces at the moment, after all, which the content of the text also conveys.)

[alexseanchai]

AWESOME. Thanks!