Been using this skin for a while and it's lovely! But lately there seems to be a problem with an element on the work page. There's the picture of the scribe in the stats/tag box that gets repeated below in the work text, and I can't figure out how to remove him without removing the stats/tag box image as well. Unfortunately he's obscuring the text... Any pointers? (Screenshot to illustrate.)

I have no idea why this happened, but here's the fix. Find this part of the code:

.works-show.region div.wrapper dl.meta {
border: none;
box-shadow: none;
background: url("https://64.media.tumblr.com/6fdc92a6e98b450d03f65bb1538acb0e/7fa12c05ca858dab-83/s500x750/86dae0593b29adb575c45a9a2cbfb7c763a6d8bb.png");
background-position-x: right;
background-position-y: top;
background-size: 30%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

and add that dl.meta to the end of the first line. That'll restrict the background image to just the metadata area.

"I had typing classes but got a D bc I had already taught myself to type over 100 wpm and refused to learn the Right Way" is not an option. :/

USAmerican here, let's see how many of these I can answer. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, so some folks from other parts of the US may call some of these things different words, too. The SPN characters are from the Midwest.

That first one, if it's a piece of furniture that had multiple drawers and a flat top, it could be a dresser (usually the kind meant for clothes), a desk (usually the kind meant for papers and to sit down and write at), or a table (typically doesn't have the drawers, but I've definitely seen them in entryways here before.) I'm not that familiar with this one mostly because I haven't lived in a place with a hallway and need for a table quite like it, I confess. I tried doing a search as well, and "hallway table" or "hallway dresser" sound pretty normal to describe this kind of furniture. I'd call the top just "the top" if it were me, LOL.

The base of a landline phone, like where you plug it into the wall, is called a phone jack. For the part where you stick the phone in to charge it, I'm guessing you're referring to a wireless landline. That would probably still just be called "the phone" or "the base" with the handheld part called the receiver. Sounds kind of formal still, though, for casual speaking.

The thing that provides internet = modem, and the thing that provides the Wi-Fi connection to that = the router. They're often a combo, which most people would just call "the router" in my experience.

Electric cables that run into the router are usually called ethernet cables, if we're talking the part that goes from router to computers to connect to the internet. "Ethernet cable" would be totally normal for Sam to say about the internet cord to the router. The cord from the router to the wall for power would just be "the power cord."

Cords running to the router that charge devices is not something I'm really used to, unless the router happens to have USB ports to plug phones in and such. I almost always hear "phone charger" for the little brick your phone cable hooks to to charge it, and I'd call the cable itself "the charging cable" even if it was just hooked from phone to USB to charge.

Most people call those shoes flip flops. I've heard some people call them thongs, but that's also a kind of underwear, so I'd err with flip flops, LOL. If in doubt, "cheap sandals" would get the idea across without specifying.

I hope some of this is helpful! Feel free to message me with some specifics you're writing about, I might be able to answer some of these better with a bit of context. ♥

i’m from the northeast and i can vouch for pretty much all of these terms.

my only additions are:

I don’t know a specific term for an entryway hallway table and not a lot of places i’ve been to have the space for that anyway. i currently have a small bookshelf in my hallway but that’s the middle of the house. it may be that if there WAS a term for it, it’s fallen into disuse.

if you asking where to CHARGE a phone, then i’m assuming you mean mobile and i’d call the spot you plug the charging cable into a port. a typical landline won’t need to be charged, though i haven’t had a landline in 23 years so i can’t remember if it only gets signal off the phone jack or if it also gets power (i am trying to visualize my phone from college and i really only remember ONE wire. I made sure to get a VERY LONG one so i could drag it to any part of my room i wanted and i was even able to get it down the hall a good ways too) Though you CAN get a cordless landline - that just means the handheld part is cordless and it needs to be placed back in the cradle to charge between calls.

i don’t make distinctions between charging cables either unless i need someones help finding the right one. So i’ll absolutely just think “I need my charger” (Could be my phone charger, my DS charger, my headphones charger - anything) and (for me) i think of that entire unit as the charger: that includes the cable and the removable adapter block that allows it to be plugged into the electric wall socket/outlet. And i might shorten that to a number of variations: socket, outlet, wall socket, wall outlet, electric outlet, electric socket.

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder