What the actual bouncing bananas

I'm updating my Lauren Esker website for the first time in way too long, and I have discovered that Wordpress's new post editor now handles text in "blocks." This is actually pretty useful for something like, say, my books page, which is heavily formatted.

For text posts, though?

Every paragraph is a separate block.

I thought at first it was an annoying formatting issue from converting my old posts to blocks. But then I discovered that even if you type or paste more than one paragraph into a block, it converts to separate blocks as soon as you click out of it.

Which means any post longer than a paragraph ... if you want to edit it, delete it, or paste in new text, has to be edited ...

one
paragraph
at
a
time.

Even Tumblr is not this stupid! I would actually really like the new editor if you could have multiple paragraphs (an entire text post/short story/etc) in one content block, but for a blog interface this is absolutely bonkers.

Defenders relationship exchange

Now that I FINALLY have the brain to think about things other than novels for a bit, I have figured out what I'm doing for a Defenders-verse exchange that won't toe-step on the existing Tumblr-run one, and that's a relationship-based exchange, similar to Chocolate Box.

It would be open to all the Defenders-verse shows (Punisher included) and I'm going to use similar rules to SSRC - fanfic, art, or vids, a low minimum for both # of requests and word count. It would be open to both gen and ship relationships.

Tentative schedule:
Late Feb (after the ChocBox deadline) - tag nominations
Early March - signups/assignments
May - deadline

This would avoid overlapping the "busy times" of this and SSRC (which typically does signups/assignments in late March/early April, and has a June deadline). It would also avoid overlapping with the Tumblr exchange, which tends to run twice a year at mid-year and year's end.

I need a name for it! Any ideas? Thoughts/input?

A couple other things I'm considering:

- Leaving tag nominations open throughout the signup period, like the flash exchanges do. (I might also try this with SSRC this year.)

- It matches on relationship and not character, but you can mention that you're open to other options in the optional details. I tend to get a certain number of people in SSRC who just want anything Peggy, or anything Dottie, and that wouldn't be possible in this one, but you could (for example) ask for Jessica/Matt or Jessica & Malcolm, and also mention in your optional details that you are happy with anything at all Jessica-related if your creator has a different idea. That is, I wouldn't be requiring creators to stick to the requested relationship as long as it is clear that a) the the recipient would also welcome the other thing, and b) the creator doesn't have to create anything they didn't sign up for.

Name suggestions very welcomed. Something with New York in the name, maybe?