Roberos

If you were wondering why @lillikoifish was singing my praises earlier, it's because they got to beta test my latest lil project inspired by our convo, where they mentioned how annoying it is going through lots of pesterlog scripts and formatting em for ao3... even with the homestuck skin... and I was like, oh, surely there's a tool somewhere that can look at your chatlog, see which character is typing and add it in for you??

Nope, apparently that didn't already exist? So figured I'd make one. I'm still messing around with it rn, but you can try it here: https://viridiancubist.tumblr.com/pesterlogformatter

Most of the kids share shortened handles, like Dirk and Rose both being 'TT' so one of them is the default TT and on is 'TT2' - you can toggle which one that is. The output script removes the '2' part.

So you can put in a chatlog like this;

TT: Hi.

TT2: Sup.

and it will give you this:

<p><span class="rose">TT: Hi.</p> <p><span class="dirk">TT: Sup.</p> or <span class="rose">TT: Hi.</span><br> <span class="dirk">TT: Sup.</span> (depending on whether you want line breaks or not)

which will end up looking something like this in Ao3:

TT: Hi. TT: Sup.

So long as the character handle/name at the start of the line is followed by a colon (:) and matches one of the aliases in the drop-down menu, that character's style should be automatically provided in the output. You can add new characters and aliases via the 'character name + aliases' drop-down menu.