LJ Bleg

Is anybody else having trouble with LJ-Cut? I'm sure I am using the correct tag but I can't get it to work. I've tried switching browsers, OS's, everything. Now I'm REALLY SLOW when it comes to technical stuff so there is probably something obvious that I'm doing wrong. But I just wondered if anyone else has had this problem. (And yes, I've got a paid account.)

UPDATE: Okay, forget I said that. It's like when you take your car to the mechanic and everything magically works fine.

{hiding face in hands with embarassment}

well I'll be dipped ...

looks like it's working now ...

Here goes one more LJ Cut test:

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TQC v2.0

I've been tweaking "The Queen's Courtesan" and hope to have it ready to re-post tonight or tomorrow. I'll post the full text, with the introductory section visible and the rest behind an LJ Cut (now that I've finally gotten that to work) so I don't monopolize people's f/lists.

The Queen's Courtesan

Shakti.
No one can find the planet now.

The race that once called Shakti home have multiplied, spread out, and grown strong - an ever-growing sphere, illumined from within like the shell of a supernova. But no trace of their ancient homeworld remains in all the light-years of known space, or in all the countless Ages that dwell side by side in imaginary time. And with Shakti, all knowledge of the origins of the Gilkesh race are lost forever. Not only that, but the Gilkesh remain divided to this day in every Age. The two Realms do not openly war with one another, but remain separated by mutual mistrust and a cultural gulf as deep as the one between any two alien races. So they are a paradox: mighty but divided, with a great future but no past.

No one can say for sure what brought about the loss of Shakti and the diaspora of its people, and as you may expect, the historians of the two Realms give widely different accounts. Nothing in our Universe is known with certainty, but mortal souls must guess as best they can.

This is how it might have happened.

( continue reading )