Comments | grey_damaskena: no harm in another

grey_damaskena

no harm in another

Oct 16, 2011 14:14

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 ( Read more... )

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subsiding_leaf October 16 2011, 23:41:49 UTC

Ha! Awesome coincidence! My good friend just recently fell into the X-Men: First Class fandom too!

I've never thought about it like that, but I share your addiction to reading too. I'm always online reading things. Even when I can't bear stuff online for various reasons, I trawl through my old stuff on the computer, read that, and cringe because they're so terrible.

Speaking of books, an acquaintance lent me the new English translation of Mirror Sword & Shadow Prince by Ogiwara Noriko and I'm uber-psyched to read it. XD Do you know the series? It's a Japanese fantasy trilogy, Tales of the Magatama.

grey_damaskena October 17 2011, 23:14:04 UTC

XMFC fandom is like a hole. A dark, endless hole so deep the vertigo is its own gravity well. A hole FULL OF AWESOME.

and also crack.

And your stuff has never been terrible. :-P At least, not what I've read of it.

I . . . believe I read the first of the books, and I remember it had a lovely cover. Other than that my recollections of it are somewhat vague, and I don't know if that's the book's fault or mine.

subsiding_leaf October 19 2011, 00:01:41 UTC

Aha, see, that's why I don't show you all my really awful things.^_~ NaNo is almost upon us again and once more I feel stirred to participate. You?

My friend tells me the fandom is a pretty good one. It's a shame I have no interest in XMFC characters, although I've always been fond of Professor X, because the CCFF7 fandom is godawful.

As for the Magatama trilogy, I have it from Nijibug on DW that the 2nd book is a lot better than the first, as Ogiwara-sensei improved a great deal from 1 novel to the next. I love them for the retelling of Japanese mythos and folklore, in a way that feels familiar and not at all borrowed, like a lot of the stuff here that's based on Japanese folklore.

grey_damaskena October 19 2011, 20:51:47 UTC

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 ( ... )