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It is depressing to see that I last updated this lj in *May*, and I talked about updating my archives, and Andraste gave me Xavier links to do... and I didn't incorporate them until *now.*

However, the Xavier site has finished stage 1 of its update cycle. I've fixed the broken links, used the wonders of the Wayback Machine to find everything that was lost forever, and added a pile of new stories. The pile continues to grow as I add new Magneto fanfics to Asteroid A.

There's a bug in Asteroid A I need Tom to fix for me. It thinks it has a moderator. It doesn't. So I approve stuff as the editor and it says it's waiting for moderator approval. Hello, there is *no* moderator! This makes updating slower than it could be. Fanfiction.net going down like a 2 dollar whore doesn't help. Many of the Magneto fanfics I had lined up were on ff.net.

What I need to do is systematically go through Luba's site since last October, Outside the Lines, X-Men Movieverse, and fanfiction.net (once it's up) and identify all the new stories in 616, Ultimate, Movie and Evolution universes which focus on Doug, Mystique, Magneto or Xavier, and get queries out to people.

I also absolutely need to streamline Shifting Sands. Not sure if Liquid Mercury is ready to run with the big dogs yet; Tom says it is and Asteroid A is just broken because it's old. Maybe I can talk him into making me a second LM site for Shifting Sands. If that happens I'll need a volunteer staff for moving stuff over. Life would be sweet if Tom had the time to build an applet that allows me to just load a filename from a browser, instead of opening the file, cutting, and pasting the HTML into LM's "New Page" template. If he doesn't things will go slow. Alternatives for Shifting Sands include breaking Darqstar's directory structure all to hell, putting everything into author directories, and then having *one* Master Author List to access all the authors, removing the Story Shortcut page and replacing it with a search function... but damn it'd be so much easier to do with Liquid Mercury.

Next time I get on my computer at home I need to remember to give Andraste an account.

So what's planned for this cycle of updates: I'm going to update all my X-Men sites (including XXY), my Q site, and Darkest Heart, and create a new site called "One of the Few" which focuses on mentors and teachers. (LOTR fans: this means Gandalf. BTVS fans: this means Giles. Potter fans: this does *not* mean several megatons of Lupin/Black slash because I am basically sick to death of romantic pairings dominating fanfiction, but if you give me some good character studies on Dumbledore, Snape, Lupin, or McGonagall I will be very happy.) On the Xavier site I have to put up the article Neva gave me on the Anti-Xavier phenomenon and write an article debunking anti-Xavier myself (without reading Neva's article first, that wouldn't be fair :-)), and Andraste has promised me an FAQ soon. On the Magneto and Q sites I need links to the IMDB for Ian McKellan and John de Lancie respectively. I think I may also be putting up links to Left Turn At Westchester on Magneto, Xavier and Mystique sites.