i like you, too

[pocky_slash]

So, bessiemaemucho posted a thing about Rent and the internet and her friendship with a late friend of ours and...I don't know, now I'm thinking about Rent and the internet and friendship and things like that.

I've known Renata for probably about ten years now. Ten years. If my friendship with Renata was a child, she'd be finishing up her last year of primary

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[harmonyangel]

*raises hand* Dude, in 2002, you were TOTALLY the cool kid I wanted desperately to hang out with. You had purple hair and Wishbone! Your writing was amazing! I stalked your LJ before I ever had one of my own, and even when I got one it took me forever to work up the gut to friend you. When you gave me positive feedback on a fic, I was shocked and amazed. You have always been the cool kid.

And I can't express how happy I am that we're actually friends now, that I know you beyond your internet persona (and beyond who you were in 2002, when we were both just stupid kids). But I've never stopped thinking about you as someone who is really, really cool and really, really smart and talented.

[pocky_slash]

I was just saying to someone recently, maybe Nicole or Margaret this weekend, maybe Becca at some point in the countless hours in our living room, that I vaguely remember meeting you for the first time and being shocked and confused and scared that someone I didn't know liked me that much. And then, when I met you again later and became friends with you, I was shocked that someone smart and nice and shit wanted to be friends with me. And clearly you're one of my favorite people and I'm so glad our friendship could come out of it all, even if I never quite understood (and continue to never quite understand) what makes me stand out among the sea of fic writers who are so much cooler than me.

Anyway, that's all to say, I'm glad you worked up the nerve to friend me and I'm glad we're friends and my life is infinitely better with you in it ♥

[harmonyangel]

<3 Dude, I am still kind of surprised that you wanted to hang out with me! I am a creepy awkward weirdo sometimes, and I definitely was the first few times we met. But it all worked out, and I am very, very glad it did, because you are awesome.

[ilovetakahana]

I like you a lot. ^__^ [I don't even claim to *know you* know you. But I like you.]

And from one neurotic writer to another, well, we can all be self-deprecating and cracked-out and strange together?

Either way, ♥ ♥ ♥

[pocky_slash]

There's not much to know! I have heard that I am pretty much exactly like my LJ in RL, except I say more stupid things because I don't have time to think about what I'm saying before I say it. (Not that I put all that much thought into my LJ entries/comments, obvs XD)

I like you, too! ♥

[coffeesuperhero]

See, once upon a time, Mary was like, you should be friends with my friend Kait, she's pretty cool, and I was like, IDK IDK I THINK SHE MIGHT BE COOLER THAN ME. THIS HAS BEEN A TRUE STORY.

Also, in a really strange turn of events, what Becca said to you is like 99% of my conversations with Mary, only this time I AM BECCA AND SHE IS YOU. WHAT IS THIS UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD, KAIT.

Uh, also, I feel compelled to add that I still think you're pretty cool and smart and talented and stuff and I miss your face a lot.

[pocky_slash]

I frequently panic that you guys are way cooler than me, SO DON'T WORRY ♥ ♥ ♥

The internet is a crazy place, I think! Fandom, I mean. It's like we create our own heirarchy of celebrity, but in real life, none of us recieve that treatment, so when we do encounter it online or at cons or whatever, we don't know how to act because, we are nobody, we answer phones all day, we are wearing our underwear inside out because we forgot to pack clean ones and we haven't had time to go to the store yet, we are not special!

Anyway, I miss your face too and I think you are amazing ♥

[cb_eaglemaniac]

Lady, I like you very much, even though the "knowing" you comes only from LJ and Twitter. I read your fic for a (relatively) looonnnng time and was too fucking nervous to say "Hey, I want to add you as a friend because we hate and love the same characters on this one TV show and you have fic ideas I didn't know I needed in my life until I read them on your journal". You were the cool kid and I was (am) the lurking reader who is...less so. =P

So yes! Lurking-reader/OCD/self-conscious/cripplingly shy person indeed likes you, for what that's worth to you!

[pocky_slash]

I like you too! And it's funny, because before I got up the nerve to friend you, I would always talk to you on other communities/other people's journals and think, "She's sane! She has right opinions! She is not crazy, like most of this fandom! But we can never be friends, because w0e, I am not cool and no one likes me :("

SO I'M GLAD WE'RE FRIENDS NOW! ♥

[xsnarkasaurus]

You're totally the cool kid I want to hang out with. Just sayin'.

[pocky_slash]

Aw, thanks, bb! ♥