Idol Mini: "All The Old Stories"

[halfshellvenus]

All The Old Stories
Idol Mini 24 | Write-Off | 1460 words

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The Fairytale Land economy just wasn't what it used to be. There were only so many princes available to rescue luckless maidens, and some maidens now preferred to rescue themselves. With the stigma lifted on single fatherhood, evil stepmothers were less able to find work. And

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[passing_through]

I haven't had a chance to look at your previous submissions. Even though voting is over I'm still going to read through everything!

Reddit is my hangout now, even though it's completely impersonal.

There are several subreddits I post in regularly and didn't think anything about it until one day a commenter said that they remembered my name from another post and it shocked me! I don't pay attention to anyone's names on that site so the fact that someone remembered mine was mindblowing. Of course, I was bitching about Kdrama tropes in the Kdrama subreddit :D

Occasionally, the AO3 subreddit will have posts that reference LJ and how no one uses it anymore and I'm over here waving my hand and saying, "I do every once in a while!" and then I feel really old :D

I have also lost my Professional Package status at LJ, along with my 250+ icons :(((((
I'm awaiting help from the support staff. This is the third year in a row this has happened and they usually end up giving me the professional package at no cost for a year. Fingers crossed it happens again.

[halfshellvenus]

I lost my professional status, too. I tried to renew it, but my credit-card payment for LJ won't go through on the site. Might be because of the Russian situation? I wish they accepted Paypal--I'd feel more comfortable with that, and maybe the LJ software would too!