Monochromal (Amalin)

[grace75]

I don’t know when monochromal’s journal was deleted, but it happened sometime after the publishing of the seventh book.
She still has another LJ under the name of amalin, but in June/2008 she wrote that her fandom experience is over. In the Amalin LJ there are just her stories archived.

I didn’t know her at all, but her disappearance struck a deep chord for me.

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[grace75]

Believe me, even now I regret immensely the fact that I never managed to comment on that post. Maybe it was just laziness, or the fact that I still don’t feel comfortable enough with my English. Or simply that I would have commented something along the lines of “Amen!” and be done with it, because you just summed up everything and there was nothing else to add. But I was sorely tempted to ask you to translate your post into Italian (my native language) because I sort of needed to take hold of it, to seize every single nuance and word and line and reference. It’s the same feeling I get when I read a really good story, the one that pointed me towards translation and not original writing since the beginning of my fandom experience. Sometimes I write as well, but I’m translator at heart and I know that.
Anyway, the fact that you’re still here it’s somewhat comforting. As well as knowing that Aja has a repost of your original contribution: it’s good to know it’s still out there!
Thank you for replying to my post: if it made you feel good, then it means that I managed to repay you in kind.
Take care

Grace