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You know what's making me sad? I seem to have lost the knack for fandom. There are series I find brilliant but have no urge to be fannish about - Scrapped Princess comes to mind - and it may well be that the reason I don't feel fannish is that I find the canon complete and complex, in a way fandom neither can nor needs to replicate. And then, there are the series I do feel fannish about. Death Note. XxxHolic. Saiyuki, a bit. But since I've grown too picky to look through the slush pile, as it were, I wind up at a loss as to where to proceed once I've read everything by authors I already trust from other fandoms. (And with some of these, Death Note in particular, I really don't want to look blind. From what I know of the fandom, it's capable of some serious shite.) There's always recs lists, but that goes back to the same principle. I must find a recs site I trust and then hope my tastes match the reccer's.

And you know, I miss that bright, near-obsessive feeling of having a new fandom, or even an old one that's yet to let me down. I miss the love and the eager anticipation.

Also, I'm bored.

Bah. I sound like an old lady who misses her youth. Back in my days, we only had mailing lists for our fic, and we liked it. Whippersnappers.