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[thistlerose]

- Could someone please explain to me what's happening with LJ, or point me to someone who lays it out simply? I read the update and it sounds a little dodgy, but I don't quite get it. Looks like people are abandoning ship. I was already thinking of letting my paid account expire in September, and just focus on DreamWidth

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[cruisedirector]

What's happening is that LJ is asking everyone to agree to a translated version of the user agreement, which 1) no one is sure contains everything the Russian version says and 2) LJ itself is saying may not be legally binding since it's a translation. As far as I can tell, nothing practical has changed: LJ reserves the right to boot you for violating US and Russian law as they see fit, which may include gay porn since that's illegal in Russia but at least the translated agreement doesn't say anything about gay material. Whether they actually intend to delete American journals for violating Russian laws is not at all clear

[cruisedirector]

Oh and I have an outline of a Leia story too, since before Carrie died (I have a friend who's a Vader fanatic and this bothers me far more than it should; it's a story about how while Leia understands why Luke can forgive their father, having grown up far away from the Empire and the worst of its atrocities, her most intimate memory of Vader is of him holding her still while Tarkin blew up her planet and the people she considers her parents). It's somehow too depressing to work on.

[thistlerose]

Heh, my story has a scene like that too! In mine she confesses (probably to Lando, since this takes place post-TFA and I want a scene where they're grieving for Han together) that she's glad Luke wasn't able to bring Vader home alive, and she still thinks of Bail and Breha as her real parents.

[ragdoll]

Thank you for the rational explanation, esp since it jibes with what I'm taking from all of this. I have a permanent account so costing LJ money by still being here, and I've had so many friends going on about the sky falling without any actual evidence of the sky falling (including claims of journal deletions but it's always 'I heard frm someone who heard from someone) that it's nervewracking.

[browngirl]

Another friend of mine is hosting a sensible discussion here:
http://lavendertook.livejournal.com/232679.html?style=mine
(check out the DW side too)

[thistlerose]

Thank you! They make a good point. I dunno. I read the thing (the English version) and while it made me raise my eyebrows a little, I don't see what's so dire. I figure I'm paid up until mid-September, so I'll just see how the thing develops.

[angel_vixen]

Since others have already posted links to discussions, I'll just say that I think it's great that you're hiking for the Sierra Club! That sounds like a lot of fun. :)

I feel you on the writing dry spell. I know my own is because I'm coming up on graduation, but I still have these little bits and pieces bouncing about the inside of my head, and I really want them out...

[thistlerose]

Thanks. :)

Good luck with your writing. Maybe the words will flow more freely after graduation? I don't know how to jump-start my muse.