Shipping Grids

[melannen]

This is how badly I'm procrastinating on the things I'm currently over-deadline on:

I sat down today and decided it was time to finally teach myself Javascript.

So, um, I have made a thing. Specifically, I have made a Troll Romance Shipping Grid Generator, where you can put in a list of characters and then automatically fill out the grid with ♥/⋄/♣/♠. Because that is something I've needed in my life, and I haven't been able to find one that did what I wanted, and it seemed like the sort of thing I could program with pretty basic stuff.

Troll Romance Shipping Grid Maker


There is a bunch more stuff I'd like to fix/add to it, but it's reached the point of functionality that I'm spending more time playing with it than coding it, so I thought I'd share. :P

(and while the example lists there are all Homestuck characters, let's be honest, I made this so I could do a TTOI shipping grid, it is not limited to Homestuck characters.)

Sample grid:

	♋	♍	♎	♑
♋		♣	♥	♦	♣	♠
♍	♣		♦	♠	♣	♥
♎	♥	♦		♣	♠	♣
♑	♦	♠	♣		♥	♣
	♣	♣	♠	♥		♦
	♠	♥	♣	♣	♦

I spent about half the time trying to remember basic programming stuff I haven't used in so long I've forgotten (like, oh yeah, == and = are different, that matters in C-ish languages) and half the time figuring out the weirdness that comes with js and html and making output happen. (I was going to be good and do the styling with all CSS, too, but I still can't make myself do rube goldberg css kludges when table and font tags work PERFECTLY FINE for the purpose. :P I did the CSS-appropriate stuff in CSS, anyway.)

Things to work on:

Style:
more flexible formatting on column/row headers so longer labels fit better
accessibility
figure out metadata stuff
make page prettier
add comments to code (if i have to, i guess)
figure out how embeds work
in-page way to save grids (output as HTML table?) Done!
mark center diagonal Done!
Highlight row/column on mouseover
recognize image urls in input field
strip unwanted html in input field
strip unwanted html & add bg colors in html output

Functionality:
automatically fill in mirror-image space on grid WOOHOO!
automatically check for duplications/contradictions
notify when a grid is fully drone-safe
add option for & and / symbols for human relationships Done
add option for vacillation
puzzles

Most of those - especially the functionality fixes - will require basically re-doing the whole thing, so it, like, uses actual arrays to store values and stuff, but that can be my Lesson 2 :P

Comments

[calvinahobbes]

Hee, I'm sure it doesn't! It seems like an awesome solution to have an auspisticeship coach :D Although idk could it work even if Bel <3 Lix (because that is just such an enticing possibility)?

(Is it time for me to make the caveat that I am not per-se in Homestuck fandom, so apologies if I get something wrong /o\ I just love troll romance.)

[thatyourefuse]

Bel♥Lix is getting to be more and more there this season -- oh, I am so not over 2.02. (Lix, honey, we can all SEE where you keep looking, there. Not that we blame you.) I mean, I wanted it last season, but I couldn't get there -- but wow has something shifted. Like, if it were to turn out that they drunkenly kissed at some point during the missing months, I would not be surprised. There is also something going on with Bel and Randall that I can't pin down to a quadrant, n'est ce pas? (Possibly because there isn't a quadrant for "Holy. Crap. Nice To Make Your Acquaintance, Bel's Daddy Issues." Although there should be.)

I don't know, basically I ship Bel/Everyone? Bel/Awesomeness? Bel/Such Multifarious Ways Of Relating To People That If She's Not Sleeping With Everyone, She's Denying Bits Of Herself?

(And I'm not in Homestuck fandom either -- I keep trying to stick with the comic until the good part, and I haven't got there yet. But I will probably try again, because TROLL ROMANCE.)

[calvinahobbes]

Oh oh oh, agreed! There was this wonderful amazingcakes tension there in that scene. I just thought they were so deliciously intimate in that first scene in the bathroom, just the way their near each other and their voices when they talked IDK at that point I could have actually believed they had more than just drunkenly made out, you know? Now I'm not sure, but holy cap I just think Lix would be amazing for Bel.

Wrt Randall I didn't actually pick up on anything? I may just have been too focused on the Randall/Lix MYSTERY, though. But I do just love how much he's already surprised Bel, because she underestimated him HARD in episode 1.

(Possibly because there isn't a quadrant for "Holy. Crap. Nice To Make Your Acquaintance, Bel's Daddy Issues." Although there should be.)
Best sentence ever!

(Thank you, now I feel like less of a poser :oP I did exactly the same thing, tried and failed.)

[thatyourefuse]

TOTALLY agreed; they would actually be great for each other. And Lix manages to be the queerest queer thing ever to have two canon het involvements. And they are so comfortable and casual physically around each other.

With Bel and Randall -- "let me hear your tick, Miss Rowley." I mean, you can absolutely read everything that goes on with them in that episode in a totally gen way, but she is so thrown by him, and I think he likes her in a somewhat left-of-center way, and to my eye there's some sort of kink potential there. IDK, mileage, probably I'm biased by Peter Capaldi and Romola Garai and daddy issues, but I see something. (He's also one of those actors who can have UST with the furniture, so there's that.)

(Needless to say I am also totally obsessed with Lix/Randall. But I was expecting that one.)

[calvinahobbes]

Haha, well, maybe except for how Freddie is plainly queerer, but then again he's only been seen onscreen with Lix, so maybe that doesn't even count? Does their mutual queerness make it impossible to count their tryst as hetero-anything?

Ahh, it's funny because I am usually very susceptible to daddy kink and age difference kink, but mmmaaayyybe my usual being-skeeved-out by the straight iterations of that made me ignore it? Right now I just believe Randall is some kind of mind-reading superhuman -- he's got them all so exactly pegged, it's a wonder to behold how he interacts with everyone *__*

(Yes yes yes. I want to know about them! So badly! I really hope the writers won't string us along all season, I can't bear it!)