Okay, well, first and foremost, you make beautiful things. I love this icon ridiculously, and it's so awesome that you made it for me. Secondly? You give off this air of capability, of coping with things even when life is really doing its very best to make things difficult, and I admire that more than I can say. Also? I like you. So.
Becca! Becca Becca Becca! You're so awesome because you're so very talented yourself but you don't give the impression of needing to prove that to anyone, it just appears in RP and drabble requests that make me bounce and glee. And you're - the book reviews show how thoughtful you are and how much you delight in the talent and creativity of others, and you're just gracious in it. And then lurking under all that you have this crazy Cthulhu of a brain pan that occasionally moves and stirs up bubbles of terrifying crack that make the world quake.
Kaaaaaaate! Kate, you are kind and sweet and you are genuinely interested in people, you listen when they talk and make contributions, and that's - it sounds like nothing, it sounds like what everybody does but it's not. Also your enthusiasm when you are caught up in something is really awesome to watch, and infectious. :D
Your writing rewires my entire brain to create incredibly sensitive triggers where I never knew it was possible for them to exist. And your friendship and your understanding and your willingness to share humbles me.
I want to curl up with you and drink tea. You are sweet and attentive to people and you make the most bizarre things interesting; I think it's - you don't have the bouncy kind of SQUEE enthusiasm I see so often on my flist, or at least you don't project it so often. Instead it's a quieter, more intricate understanding that makes the things you talk about compelling.
Hee! That's why I totally haven't changed the code - partly because I get to guess, and partly because this way I respond to what is said and not to the person, which makes it interesting.
You are a talented writer and a sweetly intriguing person and you have the most impressively resilient sense of humour, and I miss writing with you a hell of a lot. I miss you a hell of a lot; you're one of the easiest people to be with I've met online.
You are brightly, vibrantly, unapologetically yourself. It is always interesting, reading your journal, and I really admire what I know about you and always want to know more.
You care - and do - more for people than most people would ever consider, it's extraordinary. And people love you for it - I've never seen a negative word about you. And yeah, I've totally benefited, not just in a material way but also in your generosity with your time, because you are a hell of a lot of fun to hang out with in person and I can't wait for the opportunity to do it again.
You are incredibly cute, your squee is ridiculously infectious, and you are delightfully articulate when you're talking about the things you love. Reading your episode reviews is a total treat because of the palpable joy you take in the show; it's just as lovely (if not more so) reading about things that are important to you on an individual level. I wish I lived closer to you because I would love the opportunity to hang out with you some more.
Your writing is lovely and genuine and able to suck me so completely into a story that every now and again when you use a turn of phrase that is like an emotional punch to the gut it's almost a surprise to detach enough from the text to notice writerly tricks. Like - it's almost as if I were there, with the characters, and noticing that it's a story is faintly bizarre.
On top of that, you're a genuine sweetheart. From really early on when I friended you I felt very much like you registered me as an individual and not as a kind of blog-audience, and I know that sounds weird but it means a lot to me. I feel like your friend, and I value that very highly.
You're extraordinary. I am absolutely fascinated with the way your mind works, and even when I don't agree with the concepts in your journal I am always affected by the way that you put them into words. You are what prompted to become more active in my writing, to seek out what other people have written about the process they go through, because the posts that you've made about writing have opened my eyes.
And that's not even the half of it. Hanging out in person with you is mind-bending and full of incredible new experiences, and always volatile and changeable. You are challenging in the best possible ways, and the fact that sometimes I have difficulty with that is a fault in my character.
You are worth so much more than you think you are.
I wish I'd had the opportunity to hang out with you more at Millicon, Gen, because you're one of the sweetest people I have the pleasure of knowing. Every time I'm down you're right there, offering ridiculously cute icons and careful words that show that you care, and it's enough that even seeing your LJ name in my inbox is enough to prompt a smile. You make me want to talk to you for hours, like in that ridiculous letter I sent you about art, and the postcards you sent were such an incredible bubble of glee in an occasionally pretty lonely life. I appreciate you so much, and I wish you'd talk more on your journal so I could start to pay you back in kind.
I hate that we live so far apart. I want so much to be able to be a part of your everyday life because you are incredible. Everything seems so close to the surface, you have these awesomely volatile moods and you express yourself so directly, and then there's so much more to you underneath that I seriously just want to spend days, weeks, holed up with you somewhere talking about anything and everything that comes to mind. I love you very much, J-face, and I hope you know that.
You? You I miss. You were always a lot more than a milliways friend to me but I've been absolutely dreadful at expressing it, and I haven't done nearly enough to keep up with you. I wish you'd post more in your journal, partly because I want to be reminded to comment at you more, and partly because your brain is a fascinating place to see inside of.
You are tiny and adorable, and I want to hang out with you in person some more because it's genuinely rare that I click that well with someone straight away. Usually I can fake it well enough until I'm not scared of them any more, but with you I just felt at home straight away. You're also a truly impressive writer and I love the way you use words and the subtle way your manipulate reader emotions, enough so that you've pretty much pulled me wholeheartedly into bandom, damn you.
It's really difficult to come up with something that doesn't sound overblown and ridiculous.
Sometimes it seems like everything you touch turns to gold, I'm constantly blown away by the level of talent you exhibit on a daily basis. And when you add to that your museish tendencies, your ability to inspire other people towards creating awesome things... You're kind of incredible, and I'd think that even if I was just lurking on your journal and watching the things you do. But I get to talk to you too, to start developing this friendship thing we've got going on, and I feel lucky enough that if I articulated your head would probably explode with embarrassment.
Hi hi hi! I haven't seen you around for AGES so I don't know if I can even remember enough about you.
*giggles*
You have an awesome and cracktastic brain, and out of everything I love about you - there's a lot - I think it's your fearlessness that is my favourite. You will take any idea at all and run with it, no matter how ridiculous, and you give such a sense that every person you speak to is equal in value and status to you. It's an incredible ego boost, and it's a majorly attractive quality.
Heee, I too am drunkardly buggerdly. I need to come see you again soon.
Debi? You make me happy. The comment about my sims diamond still stands. You take care of everyone, briskly organising them, and you're interesting and fun and I adore hugging you. I can't - I want to make a list of your awesome, but it's difficult to know where to start. I never feel self conscious with you, I have confidence that you actually enjoy my company, and that's so incredibly rare. Love you.
I miss you so much. You never update any more, and that makes me reallyverysad.
What gets me about you is that you have this quicksilver mind that comes up with extraordinarily cracktastic ideas at the drop of a hat, but they're all so well supported with this knowledge and intelligence. They make sense, and are an extrapolation of what's going on around you and all your brainspace behind it, and it's always impressive to see. I think there's probably a hell of a lot you could teach me about looking at the world, and I'd love to sit down with you someday and test that theory. ;)
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Date: 2008-08-13 12:13 pm (UTC)And, genuinely? I appreciate the comments you make, because you come across as a very caring individual. :)
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Date: 2008-08-13 12:51 pm (UTC)*loves*
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I want to curl up with you and drink tea. You are sweet and attentive to people and you make the most bizarre things interesting; I think it's - you don't have the bouncy kind of SQUEE enthusiasm I see so often on my flist, or at least you don't project it so often. Instead it's a quieter, more intricate understanding that makes the things you talk about compelling.
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Date: 2008-08-13 01:32 pm (UTC)Make something up for me? :D
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Date: 2008-08-13 01:55 pm (UTC)Or I could, you know, highlight them or something. But it is more fun to guess by icon. :D
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:01 pm (UTC)You are a talented writer and a sweetly intriguing person and you have the most impressively resilient sense of humour, and I miss writing with you a hell of a lot. I miss you a hell of a lot; you're one of the easiest people to be with I've met online.
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Date: 2008-08-13 04:58 pm (UTC)Your writing is lovely and genuine and able to suck me so completely into a story that every now and again when you use a turn of phrase that is like an emotional punch to the gut it's almost a surprise to detach enough from the text to notice writerly tricks. Like - it's almost as if I were there, with the characters, and noticing that it's a story is faintly bizarre.
On top of that, you're a genuine sweetheart. From really early on when I friended you I felt very much like you registered me as an individual and not as a kind of blog-audience, and I know that sounds weird but it means a lot to me. I feel like your friend, and I value that very highly.
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:04 pm (UTC)And that's not even the half of it. Hanging out in person with you is mind-bending and full of incredible new experiences, and always volatile and changeable. You are challenging in the best possible ways, and the fact that sometimes I have difficulty with that is a fault in my character.
You are worth so much more than you think you are.
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:08 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:12 pm (UTC)I hate that we live so far apart. I want so much to be able to be a part of your everyday life because you are incredible. Everything seems so close to the surface, you have these awesomely volatile moods and you express yourself so directly, and then there's so much more to you underneath that I seriously just want to spend days, weeks, holed up with you somewhere talking about anything and everything that comes to mind. I love you very much, J-face, and I hope you know that.
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:30 pm (UTC)You are Jon levels of awesome.
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You are stronger than I think you know, and you are sweeter than I know what to do with, and you hug better than 'most anyone I've ever met.
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Date: 2008-08-13 08:47 pm (UTC)Sometimes it seems like everything you touch turns to gold, I'm constantly blown away by the level of talent you exhibit on a daily basis. And when you add to that your museish tendencies, your ability to inspire other people towards creating awesome things... You're kind of incredible, and I'd think that even if I was just lurking on your journal and watching the things you do. But I get to talk to you too, to start developing this friendship thing we've got going on, and I feel lucky enough that if I articulated your head would probably explode with embarrassment.
&smishes;
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You have an awesome and cracktastic brain, and out of everything I love about you - there's a lot - I think it's your fearlessness that is my favourite. You will take any idea at all and run with it, no matter how ridiculous, and you give such a sense that every person you speak to is equal in value and status to you. It's an incredible ego boost, and it's a majorly attractive quality.
♥
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Date: 2008-08-14 12:01 am (UTC)Debi? You make me happy. The comment about my sims diamond still stands. You take care of everyone, briskly organising them, and you're interesting and fun and I adore hugging you. I can't - I want to make a list of your awesome, but it's difficult to know where to start. I never feel self conscious with you, I have confidence that you actually enjoy my company, and that's so incredibly rare. Love you.
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Date: 2008-08-14 02:33 pm (UTC)What gets me about you is that you have this quicksilver mind that comes up with extraordinarily cracktastic ideas at the drop of a hat, but they're all so well supported with this knowledge and intelligence. They make sense, and are an extrapolation of what's going on around you and all your brainspace behind it, and it's always impressive to see. I think there's probably a hell of a lot you could teach me about looking at the world, and I'd love to sit down with you someday and test that theory. ;)