Blast from the past (an origfic that I am not writing)

As a kid and teen, I had lots of stories in my head (both origfic and fanfic) but I never wrote any of them down.  (Mostly, as is often the case with juvenalia, they were really obvious self-insert stories.)  Most of them I haven't thought of in at least a decade and a half, but all of a sudden in the shower this morning one of the origfic ideas came back with a vengeance, and I had a lot of ideas about what I would do with it if I was writing it now.  Since I'm not going to write it now, you get it!

The setting: a world similar to the Vorkosiverse's Barrayar and the Honor Harrington universe's Grayson, a world in a sci-fi setting that got cut off from the galaxy, regressed to feudalism, then got re-contacted and brought back to the interstellar age.  This allows me to have BOTH the romance of kings and queens and such, AND the fun of spaceships, both.  (There are no actual spaceships in this particular story, but at least the potential was there.)

The Heroine: a Young Orphaned Queen, beset by Wicked Advisors, who falls in love with and marries a commoner, who saves her from the attempted coup of her Wicked Advisors!  (I didn't much care about the romance part, bb!ace that I was, but you had to have a romance, right?  So I dutifully put one in.  But, being a bb!ace, I didn't really understand how romances worked, so it was very underpants-gnomes-esque.  Step one: they meet!  Step two: ????  Step three: they realize they are in love and get married!  Looking at it now, the marriage can stay but the romance is gone.)

( So anyway, this young queen got orphaned at, idek, ten or twelve or something like that. )

Linkspam

So there has been kerfluffle and wank over community norms and terminology between tumblr refugees and Ye Olde DW Hands.  Basically, what's the etiquette for sharing someone else's content (which seems to have been greatly magnified by tumblrites using "reblogging" for what DW peeps call "linking").  legionseagle has a roundup and some funny (albeit dense) British legal witicism about the whole thing.

Also, melannen has some thoughts on adult content warnings on DW, and what actually happens when you set your whole journal as 18+.

And given how long it's been since I've even HAD an LJ, maybe it's time to create a protest icon for DW?