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It's been two years now since I came back to MBP after an initial brief flirtation followed by a month of deletion. I've certainly had my ups and downs around here and while I have, on the whole, enjoyed my stay, it's time for me to move on. I won't get all mushy because it's a good time to wrap things up. I still love Nathan, and I've adored writing him, especially when Dr. Horrible came out and was so hugely popular -- I think my favorite thing to write was Captain Hammer's end-of-year survey. But the infatuation has receded quite a bit as my interests have shifted; between that and following him on Twitter, it really makes me feel kinda weird about continuing to play him. If I kept it going, it would just be more copout posts like the last few, and that doesn't seem fair to anyone, really. So this is where I hang up my hat.
There are a few people I have to mention, of course, because they have been everything to Nathan (and to me) and it'd be a crime not to give some praise where praise is due.
sullen_mullen, first and foremost. You know just how much I love you, here and [here] and everywhere. There really aren't words, so I won't try. Just know that I have always adored your Larry and I will always love what he and Nathan became together, despite the oddity of the pairing. Oh my God, TWO houses (three if you count the remodeling in NY) and pets and kids and Knott's Scary Farm, tattoos and San Francisco and Boston, Edmonton (and Edmonton and Edmonton), Dublin and Australia and France, an earthquake and a season of Desperate Housewives and "I Should Be Sleeping", Little Deadman's Cay and Hawaii, and oh yeah the MARRIAGE. How did we survive?
embanks: BANKS. I just adore the socks off you, woman. I'm trying to come up with something and all I can think of is this picture. BECAUSE IT'S SO TRUE. You are absolutely wonderful and sweet and generous beyond measure. Thank you for being my best man at the wedding, no one was more perfect for that than you. And I'll never forget how you added me back ten seconds after I undeleted, I've always loved that. I'll miss our Wicked birthday tradition, that was the most fun. Stay beautiful, platonic girlfriend o' mine. I will miss you (and our unintentional innuendo) so much. :*
bryhoward: Aw Bryce, the first conversation I remember was where we talked about comparing scars and being twelve and I thought you were fantastic then and now. Thanks for having that awesome Halloween party and for generally being utterly fantastic. I wish you the best, lady. (PS: Escaflowne forever! Oh, and check out RahXephon if you haven't already.)
cox_charlie: Keep fighting the good fight against the gnomes, man! I wish you the best. Take care of yourself.
vodianovan: You are so lovely, I never knew what to comment to your amazing posts. Nathan fanboyed you from afar and I really cracked up over the thread that told the anatomy of an argument in icons. Thanks for the tiramisu in London. :*
sackhoffkatee: You are still missed, lady, good thing I know you elsewhere now. I always enjoyed the hell out of Nathan and Katee's conversations and I'm still sad they never got coffee together.
tudyk_is_a: You're also missed, dude. But I know where you live.
bassmanclayton: Thanks for being Larry's best man and giving a wonderful speech. Good luck to you.
To my Summers, summer_glau and glau_s, you were both a lot of fun and it was nice having SOMEONE from the cast around after Alan abandoned me! mahers, you were great too, I wished you'd stuck around. Same goes for staite_jewel. The only thing I could have wished for was to have all of the cast around at the same time, but it was still so good to see the faces I did see.
jmfischer and jbkrasinski: I will forever associate the two of you with each other, just so you know. You've been immense fun. Best of wishes to both of you.
russellkl: The brief time you were here was really a treat. I kept my pie icon just for you!
amanda_laura: WE DO THE WEIRD STUFF.
smichgellar/gellarm: OMG you have been so awesome in all your various incarnations. You will always be very fondly remembered, fave Slayer.
elizap_d: You were awesome, I'm watching Dollhouse solely because of you. Trufax.
This is getting long, so let me also take a moment here to mention ambernbenson, mayjames, kathyfoster, jsegel, frankiero, five9onthebooks, thebarrowman, jackmanm and johncmcginley for being lovely commenters. If I've left you out of this list, I am sorry, but I've tried to remember everyone. I truly appreciated every comment.
So this is goodbye. Thank you to everyone I've interacted with, seriously, you all made it so much fun. Please feel free to keep me friended, as I'm not deleting this journal, but I'll be defriending everyone unless you specifically ask me to keep you. I will keep Nathan's gmail so if you want to get in touch with me, feel free to do so there. Oh and if you want to check out the real Nathan's twitter, it's at twitter.com/NathanFillion and is totally worth the read.