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[grey_damaskena]

These days it feels as if people have fled LiveJournal en masse, and I don’t know where they’ve gone. Granted I’ve been missing myself for quite some time-- first because of the endless black hole that was my dissertation, and then it was off to Rome, and then I entered the secondary black hole of job searching. You would think that being

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[grey_damaskena]

I've . . . never participated in NaNo, and never felt particularly stirred to do so. Usually November is a time when I'm terribly busy; at the moment not so much, but. I'm hoping that I'll be starting a job in November, in which case I might also be looking for a place to live, and it might be insane. But overall, I just . . . don't feel like I have the drive, or I'm just looking at it too cynically, or it's just another thing for me to fail at when I fail at too many things already. :-(

XMFC fandom is full of talented writers and artists, aye, and there's immense amount of output . . . but really, if you're not interested in Erik or Charles, there's not so much there. I do, but then there's an added nostalgia factor for me because I followed the X-books religiously when I was in middle school. I spent a great deal of time tracking down places where I could buy comic books.

I did think that the first Magatama book was quite different from anything else I'd read, and I didn't dislike it; it simply didn't enthrall me as much as I was hoping. It didn't put me off, though, I just had no particularly strong reaction of any kind. So I would certainly try the second book, though I'm not terribly compelled to go off and find it unless I heard an enthusiastic recommendation.