KNEEL BEFORE LEIA

I hope you all had a merry Christmas, f-list, and that there's a decent probability of us all having a good year in 2011.

So!

I used to wonder why Leia is always Princess Leia.  I mean, of course there's Everything's Better With Princesses (TV Tropes!), but it seemed a little odd that she'd be continually identified by that persona.  Naturally she would in ANH, and I can even see why she'd want to retain her Alderaanian title -- as a way of honouring her parents and Alderaan and so on.  No, it's simpler than that:

Why is she a princess at all?  A princess and not a queen?

( why this perplexed me... )

( BUT MAMA WHY?! )

statistics are giving me a complex

Livejournal statistics, that is.

Once upon a time, I cherished the happy (?) delusion that my blogs were so obscure that only the handful of people on my f-list would ever read them.  If I didn't get any comments, I assumed nobody was reading them.  I didn't mind, since I write as much as to work through my own thoughts as to have conversations about shared interests, though the latter is always usually enjoyable.

Then I noticed that I'd occasionally get comments from perfect strangers.  Not necessarily anonymice, either (though I've had a few of those -- in one particularly winning case, a self-appointed Official Jane Austen Troll Descendant) -- just other lj people I didn't know.  I figured I popped up on searches and left it at that.

Then "My Guests" came along.  ( Read more... )