WYSI[sorta]WYG

The WYSIWYG post editor on Vox drives me batty and I wish I could disable or circumvent it. I know HTML. I'm not great at it, but I don't want anything fancy, and for what I want, it would be more than enough for the task. In particular: * I never ever want to use <font> tags (or CSS equivalent) -- the overall page template imposes fonts and I'm fine with working within that context. If I try to paste some text from elsewhere, such as another web page, the WYSIWYG Javascript editor somehow tries to pick up the pasted formatting -- fonts, styling, etc -- and apply it to the blog post. This is never what I wanted. Aside from hyperlinks, I'd be happy with flattened, styling free text. * I embed one of my Flickr photos with most or all of my Vox posts. This used to be twitchy, but basically worked. Now, the last two times I've tried to use it, it's throwing off the formatting for the whole post. In the current example (http://chrisdevers.vox.com/library/post/amazon-misremembers.html), I've ended up with a block of blank lines at the top that the editor won't let me delete, and a big unwanted margin all the way around the image. What I really want is an option to just use HTML, or even a subset of HTML -- the only tags I'd consistently need would probably be <p>, <a>, and <img>, with an occasional (but easily dispensable) <b> or <i>. That's it. Is it so much to ask? This has always been kind of annoying, but it's getting bad enough to make me seriously start thinking about migrating to another service such as Tumblr... :-(