The Stars and the Cookie Jar

I have this to say to some people who said some things about her.



You know what, anonymous impaired persons who have to get their pathetic rocks off by heaping shit on others?

We must be voyeuristic and silly too.

We're voyeuristic, and silly, and transferring jobs and rewriting leases and planning legalities and making this work, even if we do live 413 miles apart.

Finding the one you love. Oh, yes, how silly.

I can guarantee you neither of us meant to fall in love with the other. It was a holiday-weekend last-of-summer spree, with a gang of people. It was a fandom meet in a major metro city. It was the kind of thing that happens all the time.

We were hanging out, not looking for our life match. It just... it happened. Boom. Done. It didn't ask our permission. There was, suddenly, just this empty ache where I needed her to be, inside my heart.

And you know, it might be a fantasy. But I've never found myself having a fantasy that involved stating my relevant information to the clerk overseeing our joint savings account...

muffinbutt, you know we'll help if we possibly can. Or we'll put our heads together and find a way.

Because it's about tidings of comfort and joy, people.

 

indy_go  is a curatrix of the past, and of cool old dusty archival books. She keeps things from being forgotten.

copperbadge  is a perfect gentleman from a bygone era.

friede  is an artist who really captures the expression of a person, even when their face can't quite be seen.

yuki_onna  has taken the lemons and made sharp-sweet lemon granita with a lemon-peel twist on the rim of the glass.

wickedtrue  gives people icons, and gives people smiles, and gives people a better day.

shirei_shibolim  bakes bread. You have to be a certain kind of person to bake good bread, with a certain patience, and spirit, and willingness to experiment.

muffinbutt  reminds me of myself, and that reminds me to be as thoughtful as she is to other people.

setissma  is a stuffed, plush pseudomonas, or maybe a campylobacter. A bacterium is really a very beautiful, delicate, well-designed thing, lest you think this isn't nice.

vivien529  has an evil giggle, and she shares it, too.

miraielle  is always a welcome guest at our table.

villainny  brightens your day because you want to hug her and spin her around. I want a Nny for my very own.

copinggoggles  is elegant and has a classical mind. I think of her in some ways as Sappho thought of Cleis.

la_rainette  is awesome, and she believed in our future almost before we did.

mortifyd  knows that the purpose of the descent can be found in the ascending again.

genarti  is a warmhearted writer who always leaves good comments. This says more about a person than you'd think, in this medium.

twoweevils  are my inspiration to fight, if I must, for a very quiet, boring, domestic sort of thing. Because they did it first, I can follow after.

metallumai  is a folkie at heart. This is also one of those things that says more than you'd think.

spiderine  brings the snark.

ari_o  is full of wit and independence and style.

fahye  has made a beautiful start.