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So, it's been about a million years since I've been here. But I got a survey from LiveJournal saying "What can we do to make you come back!?" and since I answered "Get my friends to come back!" I thought I should see if any friends were still around

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(I was wondering why Scott Summers was writing me about old fic-- "Sempai noticed me!*)

I legitimately had an emotional moment at work right now because my little baby Sam is all grown up and on the Avengers. Oh, my heart! Okay, clearly time to run out to the local comic book store and see what I can find in the back issues.

I'm really liking what I'm seeing in Firebirds so far (I just don't have all the context yet because I didn't read the issues it's dealing with). It's so great to see you writing again because you really do have such a gift for it. I think the difference is most of the fic I've read since has focused on one or two main characters (Dean and Sam in Supernatural, Sherlock and John in Sherlock/ACD) who really stand apart from the rest of the world and X-Men world is COMPLICATED. Like there's so much history there and so many character relationships and we thought it was really important to be aware of and acknowledge all that history. Plus, your world building was A+, and Dominika's whole fic about fluid dynamics as a model of temporal flux, like, come on. That will forever be the golden age of fic for me. We were so creative and so productive and our community felt so small and appreciative. Dang. The kids these days missed out.

ALOOH, to me, really does feel like Juvenilia. It's really weak in places (Although it got a lot better once I had you as a beta!). Even at the time I knew it had some deep flaws in structure and content because I was writing it on the fly and also I was 17 and stupid. But I still think there are some really good ideas at the root of it, and I think if I re-wrote it today, while a lot of the surface stuff would change, I think the bones of the story are still strong. And also, dear God, I wrote a novel! Like, short stories stress me out now, but I was writing a few thousand words a day back then IN SECRET. That's incredible! And I'm still trying to figure out a way to turn the ideas in Black Sheep into a feature film script. I still think that was a really original take on the genre that hasn't been done before.

I too am entangled in academia, but I am the enemy: An administrator. I kinda want to teach, even though the money is better over here on the dark side of the force, but I learned yesterday that I can't do both next year, despite us being super short-staffed on the teaching side of things. Some sort of union-y thing. :( Oh well. Hoping to send in my Permanent Residency paperwork any day now, though, so the admin job has helped on that front.

I am technically on Facebook, but I try not to actually log on too much because every time I do I see some racist post from extended family that sends me into a week long rage. Mostly I haven't deleted my profile yet because my mother calls once a week to remind me to send her extra lives on Candy Crush and I can only do that on Facebook. XD I'm mostly on Tumblr, but it feels a lot more impersonal than LJ, so that's why I keep coming back here I guess, looking for something on my friendspage aside from rolling tumbleweeds. XD But, yes, I still super miss you and I think about you lots even though we don't talk anymore, and also if there are ever any Medieval Studies conferences out here in BC you should definitely come hang out.

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(Is it a current era RPG? I feel like I've got a decade plus of catching up to do!)

Sam is a DADDY!?!? OMG, I am emotionally compromised. Why is there no comic book shop on campus??? I need these issues NOW.

Apparently SDCC had a panel about fic with all these authors who did the serial number thing and made it. That makes it totally a legit thing now, right? :) I'm actually quite fascinated by pastiches at the moment-- That is, writing Sherlock Holmes fanfic of stories that are in the public domain so it's publishable. I actually won a pastiche contest last year hosted by the Sherlock Holmes Society of Toronto. That was a lot of fun, but still, the idea of churning out a novel at our old pace just makes me tired at the moment. The internet is so much more distracting now!

Let me know if you decide to Tumbl so I can follow you. :) It's really hard to communicate on there, but it can be fun for some stuff. Especially around comic con when promo trailers/pics are dropping every 30 seconds.

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Hah! We should form a (comic) book club to catch up together.

Is this the same AU from way back when? Gosh, that's a long running RP. Is there a main community where I can check it out?

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You're gonna kill Cable and break my heart, aren't you? Well, you've done it before and I've survived.

And thanks for the heads up on the RP. I will go take a look when I get back from my picnic today!

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Just wanted to let you know I'm officially intrigued by the RPG. Not entirely sure how it all works yet (because I've never really RPd on LJ before), and I see that you had a Sam before so I'm still trying to catch up on what that characterization of him was and his backstory. I found the Wiki and am doing my best to read up on what that Sam has done so far so I know his history in the game at least.

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Aha! Excellent. I had found his personal journal, and his backstory on the wiki, but I couldn't figure out where he had left off. What's the next step now? The application on the wiki page?