Ack, some (nonfannish) lawyers thought tropes could be registrable IP? Yeah, that'll end well (and possibly with really sarcastic grounds of decision!). I haven't been keeping up to speed with the omegaverse controversy, but I assumed no news was good news!

Re LJ and vanishing fanwork, it's sad to think that we might lose a generation of fanwork! I'm definitely up for donating to having things imported, if there was a viable movement towards this.