If nothing else this conversation made me go back and read some Link again to see if my opinion would be different now. So I read this again because it’s a story that stuck with me:
https://smallbeerpress.com/free-stuff-to-read/2005/07/01/the-faery-handbag-by-kelly-link/
It’s like a Livejournal entry, not necessarily in a good way. But I like the premise. I like it less overall than I remembered, when I first read this it must have felt a lot more novel. I didn’t realize how old this story was! And how old I am now, sheesh.