Archives of our own

 Doing this rummaging around in the ruins of LJ has made me realise what a fantastic resource the archiving function is. LJ had it and still preserves it. DW has it.  No other so-called social medium has it. With the advent of the algorithm came timeline-free chaos. The end result is that you can never pin anything to a particular historical moment (and I'm sure that is ideological) nor do you own anything as you can hardly ever find stuff you posted aeons ago (and that is definitely ideological).

The calm bureaucratic list of 'Archive' with its timestamps of day and hour is so reassuring. 

I am so grateful that the AO3 inherited that archivists' legacy. 

FIC: Desert Prince REDUX. Fascicle the Fourth

Series: The Desert Prince: A Fable
Chapter 6: Fascicle the Fourth.
Fandom: lotrps AU. So AU.
This chapter features: Orli, Dom, Elijah. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is not exactly coincidental but mainly very, very tenuous.
First posted to LJ: 14 Aug 2003

After the meal, I wandered alone about the castle, while my beloved friend talked and bargained with the men, and night kissed the shadows of the moon.