Blood will Flow

I saw this on FB and now I've wiped the tears of laughter from my eyes, I have to share.
I think circumvent might be my fave, but they are all such great words and meanings, I'd love to use them in a fic!( Read more... )

I missed my original date for this post but here it is, better late than never. A little celebration of the fantastic breadth of talent in Fandom.
Bear in mind, this is just a small sample of what's out there, and it's only the tip of the iceberg of wonderful art I've admired over the years. Plus, they are not in any particular order. I LOVE THEM ALL and I wish I could just post everything here because it's all SO GOOD.

But I can't, so here's a selection.
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Just because...

holiday love meme 2015
Dis am my thread

Reading some of my lovely flisties comments about how hurt they have been by dreamweaver37 deception, or how they are feeling foolish for giving him their trust - I think there is something very important you should all bear in mind.

Don't feel bad! We all believed him (or wanted to). The only reason I had any doubts was down to having been taken in before by that micamonroe (who apparently is tragically dead according to his still live LJ). When that happened I looked up this syndrome and it is a thing - people often have multiple online identities (though how the hell they keep up with them all I have no idea) and can even use one ID to reinforce the others. Mostly they are harmless but sometimes theycan be malicious - like that woman on Twitter who has a serious personality disorder and has threatened people in real life (my friend Dave being one).

In this case, I think dreamweaver wasn't malicious, he/she was just looking for attention/reinforcement, maybe a feeling of importance? Who knows.

Whatever the reason, please don't feel bad about this - Think of it this way - any emotional investment we had in this person's story was still real because we genuinely thought here was someone who was doing good things that merited our support. The fact that these things may not have been real doesn't negate our sympathy or empathy or any words of support we might have spoken. The fact that the recipient didn't deserve it doesn't mean our actions were worthless. Our own goodness and thoughtfulness in putting together messages of love doesn't change, neither does the intent behind the messages. So his child wasn't real and we mourned - we've mourned fictional characters before and it's good to feel. Human beings need to feel.

We are still good people who had good thoughts and tried to do good things. That is a truth that his lies cannot change.

And don't let it stop you being kind in future. It's a small risk we take that has a huge impact. Loving someone is always a risk - we can't really get hurt if we don't love.

Um, I'll stop moralising now LOL

Love without borders.

What? It's important! You can't have too much of it, right?



♥ LOVE MEME ♥

full meme | my thread

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everybody who sent me virtual gifts, jolly messages and even actual real cards and stuff too!  You are all lovely jubbly peeps and made my day very special.  Hopefully I will get round to thank you all individually but thought I'd throw out this fluffy blanket of love just in case I forget or accidentally miss someone out.

Don't ever let anyone tell you there is no such thing as love at first sight.  Or that love cannot last, it will always die.

Today I watched a good friend bury his wife.  He met her when he was in the Merchant Navy, a young man playing and working hard on a cruise ship back in 1957.  He and his mates were drunk and decided to hit on the next pretty girls to walk through the door of the function room, and Christie was the first one he saw.  52 years of marriage later, through all sorts of stress related illnesses, memory malfunctions, bodily decrepitude, they were still in love. I am so sad that he will now have to find some way to live without her, because I know that his life will seem empty.

And I don't want to think about how empty my life would be if I were to lose my husband (and we have only been together for 32 years).  Certainly, our love isn't the same creature it was 32 years ago, but that doesn't make it less, or invalid, or something to be thrown away.  I hope it will continue to change and grow as we change and grow (well, I also hope the growing is figurative not literal, I don't want to put any more weight on thanks!).

So anyway, next time you have a drink, raise a glass to my friend Mal and his late wife Christie, and if you are the praying type or just a deep thinker, spare him a thought to keep him strong without her.