I've may not have said it before (or maybe I have), but it bears saying (repeating)

[katekat]

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

*squishes you all*



meme from aesiron

I've written 33 lines about 33 friends.  Go ahead. Guess. Some of these apply to more than one person. 

1. You have such a gentle heart and a gentle soul and I'm glad there are others in the world who also see that in you too
2. I admire your ability to come up with incredibly creative solutions to so many things - your fiction, your work, your life.
3. Fierce and unfraid and generous, you teach me about the meaning of the word undaunted
4. You are, and have been as long as I've known you, filled with a radiant dancing light. 
5. You are so generous with yourself I am inspired 
6. You are not only funny, and witty, earthy and wise in equal turns, you constantly make me smile
7. You are a great heart that has amazing strength 
8. I adore the way you are always so very much yourself
9. I love the way you perceive the world and cut through to the heart of things
10. You are, without a doubt, one of the unexpected but great joys of my life
11. Your gentle, wise, nurturing soul is breathtaking
12. You are irrepressibly forthright, and I adore that
13. There is such a joy and gentle smile to so much of what you do that I delight in you
14. I utterly respect not only your talent as a writer, but the way you lead your life and love
15. You are one of the reasons why I am in grad school 
16. I think of you, always, as gentle, adorable, and fiercely brilliant 
17. The best of friends, we've gone down the years together, and I could not have ever conceived how much you've added to my life
18. Your curiosity and your eye and your talent have always amazed me
19. My heart is brighter and more idealistic because of my friendship with you
20. Even though you're continents away I feel as if you are a kindred soul 
21. I think of you as someone who is truly alive in all ways and delight in that
22. You are, in a sense, a sister of my soul
23. You remind me that the only way to be is yourself, respecting yourself, knowing yourself, loving yourself, and how that brings the love in return
24. A little crazy, adorable, a little wicked and my darling
25. You are wise and witty and interesting
26. There is so much of you in me, from the tips of my toes to the ends of my fingers, and every drop of it makes me proud to be the person I am
27. You sparkle with wit and mirth and sly textual grins
28. I think of you as a giving, wise, adventurer 
29. Astonishingly smart, I am in awe of your brain
30. So deep in my heart I'm not even sure sometimes where you begin and I end, and yet so different from me that you challenge me every day in the best of ways, I cannot imagine anyone else I would rather make a life with
31. You remind me that being a gentle, encouraging, enthusiastic spirit is it's own kind of strength 
32. You pull no punches, ever, and that kind of honesty is painful at times, but worth it.  period.

If you guess today I'll tell you the answer, and I'll post the whole list tonight / tomorrow

Comments

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

I don't see myself in any of these.

[katekat]

HA. you may not see yourself in any of them, but you're #1

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

What a fun, fun twist to an old meme. I love it! The only problem (although it's a problem in the fun sense of the word) is trying to find out who I am. And trying to find out who others are, too. *ponders ponders*

I picked one that I'm assigning to myself, even though, you are right, I can see myself in more than one of them...does that make me egotistical? ;) :D

~e!

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Aw. Well, thank you. I think you have me beat, though. :)

Impressive list, by the way. I stopped at nine because I couldn't think of a full ten.

[katekat]

wait, which one did you pick? you have to tell me before i can release the info to you ;)

[katekat]

i dunno about that. but absolutely.

it took me like three tries to write it, and i still feel like in certain places i was a little repetitive, but I tried to hold an image of each person in my head as i wrote them, so :D

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

I'm going with 24. >:) I'm probably totally wrong, lol.

~e!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I have no earthly clue who any of these are. It just makes me absurdly happy and heart-glowy to read the list and know that so many of them could apply to any number of awesome people I've met in and through fandom. ♥

[katekat]

well, 24 would be a little apt, although for many reasons i never actually think of you as crazy, but the ones i actually had in mind were 10 & 22

[katekat]

it's true! i feel kind of bad closing down the possibilities (by saying who i was thinking of) because there are so many of them that really apply to so many people. We have an awesome bunch of people around here, and you are one of those awesome ones.

and if you wanted to know which one you were ... ;) i can tell you today or tomorrow

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

There are a few in which I would be pleased and honored to see myself, and don't seem entirely out of reach. Should you choose at some point to tell me in which light you see me, that would be a happy thing. :-)

[soft-princess.livejournal.com]

I am not going to try to guess because I am always wrong. But this was very very lovely. *g*

[that_mireille]

Whether I'm in this list or not (I've no idea, as I don't recognize myself in any of them), this was a lovely thing to do. *hugs you*

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Aww! Those are both so sweet. I definitely see you as 22, so the thought crossed my mind, but I felt that would be a bit presumptuous of me. ;)

This is so cool. I'm tempted to post something like this in my own LJ.

~e!

[katekat]

having had someone else do this meme with me (and with only 10 choices to pick), I know how hard it is to find yourself in all the words, and I'm glad you liked it even before i revealed (although perhaps you would not be wrong? you'll have to tell me). There are actually many that fit you, dear one, in many ways, but when i thought about you these two are the ones that specifically came to mind: 5 & 31

[katekat]

you may not recognize yourself in the words per se but you're in there (and really, in more than the two that i really ended up writing when i visualized you, but that's ok). And it was more than fun to do this, and to realize how amazingly awesome my friends list is. It's something I would not have dreamed of pre-lj life.

(and since i can't not tell you: 14 & 23)

[katekat]

rereading what i wrote, there are *lots* of them that actually apply to you, but the one that i wrote when i visualized this? 8

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Both of those things make me very happy. ♥

[mishloran.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm one of those 32 you've listed, but if I am, I'd peg myself as 32? Or possibly 12?

[biodamped]

Oh bless! I'm so doing this once the Greek review is done.

And might i guess me as being #20? :)

[dara-starscream.livejournal.com]

(thinks) If I'm on here I don't see me.

(hugs) I haven't been commenting as much as I should be, but you're never far from my thoughts.
-BJ

[lostgirlslair.livejournal.com]

Well, I have no idea where I am, but, I have other people guesses!

I know that 30 is snash_attack, and I'm guessing that 31 is soft_princess, and . . . . hmmm . . . I thought I recognized D, but she fits in more than one space! Hmmm. I don't know!

[katekat]

of course you're one of those!! more than one! but the one I wrote when I thought of you? 24

[katekat]

YOU ARE RIGHT! I think the overseas thing gave it away, didn't it? *squishes you to pieces*

[katekat]

you're on there, you're totally on there.

and MASSIVE HUGS. neither have I, but you are in my thoughts, seriously.

[katekat]

you're SO on there!!! twice! and you're right about both 30 & 31 (and i just did the results, so you can check the next post to see where you were?) *squish*

[biodamped]

YAY! *pom poms* Um, maybe? Although i was going to add as a post script that i figured you probably knew hundreds of people on other continents. There were a couple i thought might have been vaguely directed at me, but that was the most fitting. *squishes YOU, you gorgeous thing*

[soft-princess.livejournal.com]

*Thank you*. You are amazing. *hugs you tight*

[that_mireille]

*hugs you* Thank you, sweetie. Yeah, I sometimes lose track of how awesome my friends list is (really, really have to cut it down to the purely awesome) and this made me re-think that.

[mishloran.livejournal.com]

Crazy, eh?

[lostgirlslair.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I did! Thank you, sweetie! That is so lovely and sweet and ::hugs you lots::!