What I like about you!

[ciircee]

In a previous entry I decided that if anybody on the flist wanted to know what I thought about them in my spare, not-on-the-net time. Several of you took me up on that. You poor, poor bastards.

So, read on if you want to know the random things that make me think of you, the random thoughts I have about you, and the ways in which I might be a total creeper. Yay! But please know that knowing all of you makes me so happy. You guys and Arashi make want to do my best every day.


The first sucker to take the bait is actually a new friend, tangiblewhimsy. Why I friended you is pretty much the same as most of the people on my list: I loved your fic/art and wanted to stalk you or I saw you around and you were both smart and funny and I wanted stalk you OR BOTH. In all seriousness, I really thought your fic was amazing and I've discovered that amazing fic is almost always written by amazing people and it holds true here. Every time I see Toma I think 'hey, you know who likes Toma? Aya does!' MmmTomalicious layout….

ferinough also wandered into this trap. I'm so sad, Erin, because I love you so much. When I'm away from the net I wonder how you're doing—if college or your family is wearing you down, if they're making you laugh. If I miss you a lot, I think of Sho and Nino (no, really, I do) and I think of Nino being a brat. Random things that come to mind when I think of you: Bob the Builder (it made me laugh while I did the dishes) and 'my life is my message'. A-also badfic. CANCER. AND BOOBS. (And purple bras but that's mostly because you are so cute that I could hug you.)

Oh, lady_gemma. I still think of your journal as 'Lady Gemma'. Right now when I think of you I really do think of the wedding and how much I cannot wait to see you and hang out and watch you and B get married. It is going to be SO AWESOME. Ed still calls you 'Nino' on Yahoo. Despite the fact that you don't have Nino anymore. Whenever I think about you…I generally try to see if you're online.

aatash Aki-chan! It's sad but every time I think of Voice it leads to thinking of you and how you are a;lfjjflskj SO AWESOME. And I love you so hard. You love Sho's scarf, you make it possible for me to enjoy Arashi by providing translations. You haven't kidnapped little Satoshi but I can over look that. ♥ Thinking about Arashi generally brings you to mind, but so does thinking about Ohno. One day he will take you fishing and you can slap sunscreen on him until Nino and Johnny hunt you down. Whenever I miss you that is what I think about—how one day you will make news when Ohno runs off with you.

My dear, dear beckerbell. You are one of the two people most directly responsible to my actually contributing to the Arashi fandom. And Kamen Rider Kabuto. And Gekiranger (I hate the fights. Damn it, show, more Jan-based retardery! You are slow going, Gekiranger) and eventually Garo and…well, who knows what else. You enrich my life and your recaps are compelling. Discussing things with you is so wonderful and I want to hug your brain. Whenever Jun does something cute or gay or fabulous I think of you. When I am missing you, I dig up pictures or videos where Jun smiles and is so truly happy. ETA: Correcting some truly crap spelling but I wanted to let you know that Jun's happy smile is sort of a visual translation for how happy you make me.

lazulisong you are my hero. Forever. Along with Becky you pulled me into shows and fandoms that I love the hell out of. I've known you since the days of my really, really awful fic, days when I thought you were way to cool to talk to me. And yet you're a huge nerd and that makes you even cooler still, to me. I think of you whenever my younger twin is being a Younger Twin. You're so funny and smart and…no, seriously, I want to write like you when I grow up. I can't even tell you the number of things that bring you to mind. Dumb fangirls, for one, because I know how much you'd like to pop their heads off sometimes. But also better things like watching my cats do something Jun-like or whenever I am treated as a couch with an automatic petting function. And border collies. And awesomeness. ETA: Again, with correct spelling (I spel gud!) but I thought I should add that I always hope you (and, yes, your younger twin) are doing awesome, that you're not over worked and that your meds are doing what they're supposed to do. I'm glad you didn't die in the heatwave.

flang5 ♥ I think about you every single time I look through Arashi is Alive. And watch concerts. I can seriously hear the comments to the picwar posts and they make me laugh. When I am away from the internet (or you are) I miss your posts and recaps of Arashi because they are hilarious. I blame you for whenever strange, terrible food ideas come up in my head. And my kids say 'you know they only feed them on t.v.!' whenever I mention that so-and-so should eat more. Whenever my husband feels weird about being an Arashi fan I reminded him of yours and that he's pretty awesome. Now he wants to have chocolate with bacon in it, but that's dudes for you. Currently I also find myself wondering where you are in the roadtrip. Shootin' at the walls of heartache!

You, too, fell into my wretched trap, waxrose. I am sorry. But at least I love you? You're one of the people I have been missing a lot—we're both busy. You with being Yamada Taro (I expect your Mimura to show up, damn it!) and me with having children everywhere. I always wonder how you're doing, how you're holding up under your schedule and with everything else. I also think about your picture memes and how you are so lovely and how your pictures always make me smile. A lot of your fic sticks in my mind because it's so beautiful and it flows up to the surface at random times and makes me smile (and wish that I was a better writer). Randomly: Daigo makes me think of you and so do certain old cars and cookies with pictures on them.

Last to enter the trap was ill_ame. I tend to think of you as 'The Lovely Emily' (because I read Cleolinda's book) and the first thing that comes to mind when I think about you is 'That anon is awesome!' because that was how I knew you for a long time—the awesome anon who had such great things to say over at Becky's journal. When I think of Maou, I remember you were the only other person I knew (at the time) who cut Serizawa some slack. I often wonder if being non-anon is dragging you down (especially when I think 'crap, comments, nooooooo!') and randomly, your daijoubu icon. Smiley rainbow cloud FTW! Which is probably why seeing rainbows reminds me of Arashi first and you second. Plus your icon just makes me happy.

I'm so busy. And not in a good way today. Potentially I'm going to be severely disappointed and upset about something. Everybody's fine and things are all right--just the several things that aren't good.

Comments

[nicefinalbeam.livejournal.com]

Not just Bob the Builder, Dora the Explorer too! Basically kid shows in general. ♥ And hahaha, my purple bra that was almost toted about campus.

I think those are all good things. And I miss you! Hope you don't end up severely disappointed, even though you think you will... about something.

Thinking of you too! ♥

[beckerbell.livejournal.com]

This post is filled with so much happiness. It was fun to read all of them and be reminded of what a deeply and truly wonderful person you are. ♥ How truly and deeply wonderful all of these people are.

And also it never fails to brighten my life immeasurably to know I've helped take someone down on a new fandom. It's like the most fun thing to do EVER. :D :D :D

YOU'RE WATCHING GEKI? :D :D :D Sentai is... not my preferred genre, but Geki's the best of the lot, I feel. (That I've seen so far.) I just. Love Jan with all my heart, he is my favoritest Red ever. And, oh, Retsu. Trying to have dignity around Jan. It never gets old EVER.

(P.S. It is seriously ridiculous how many times I reread the comments you leave, you have no idea how much I love you and your brain. *__*)

[waxrose.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥ you! Hopefully sometime we'll both be able to slow down a little and enjoy some serious flailing.

I am falling a little more in love with Daigo every day. He is AWESOME. Exactly my kind of pace and personality.

[flange5.livejournal.com]

&hearts!

That was so sweet ^_^ and I could totally score you the bacon chocolate if he's serious ^_^ There are even multiple brands ^^ And curry chocolate, and habaneryo chocolate very Arashi, really. I think they've run into more habanero than most people ^_^;;;

But I loved this whole post--I've run into most of these people, even if as a lurky person, and I just grinned through the whole thing&hearts

And it was awfully timely--I was cut off from the internet for *gasps* almost 40 hours *sobs*
I-I may have a tiny problem.

But seriously. The Boy's Long Island grandmother doesn't have internets >_< I felt serious withdrawal especially as crazy work-related stuff had started up and I'm 2500 miles away and a bit of a wreck. (It's ok, it's just that I kind of have to make a big work decision that pretty much pits relative job security against potential future mobility options and . . . eek >_<)

hee! I'd forgotten you were a twin ^_^ Me too ^_^ I have eleven minutes on my twin and wield them like a bludgeoning thing ^_^ Too bad he got an inch on me for every single one of those minutes ^^"

RE: roadtrip: Back from MA and LI, in NJ again. IL either tomorrow or Thurs, then MO, then TX by the end of the weekend \o/ I will be so happy to get home soon, awesome people I've been visiting notwithstanding.

And then I can post before I really fall back into the hysterical back to school thing *weeps*

And it totally cracks me up that the 'they only eat on tv' thing has caught on in your circle ^_^

I really hope the piling-up stressors give you some slack soon.

*hugs*

Better things soon, I hope.

[ill-ame.livejournal.com]

This was not a trap at all, it was wonderful. Thank you, love. (I really need to get over to Becky's journal again. I miss making massive comment threads with her, haha.)

And you know, I think it might be dragging me down a little. I feel more of an actual obligation to be active, which tends to make me less active. I also keep coming up with ideas for posts to put on my LJ, and in many cases actually writing them up, but the idea of posting them is sort of scary. Hopefully I'll get over that soon. I feel sort of bad because I'm not busy, you know? I don't have kids to take care of, my job is only part time. But I just have this block. I'm also reading a lot more lately, which is great because I'd sort of stopped for a while, but it also means less fandom time. Add to that my attempts to watch through 400 episodes of Domoto Kyoudai and 300-some of Shoujiki Shindoi and keep up with Arashi fandom at the same time (which becomes more daunting each day), and I tend to let comments slip. I'm glad you're so understanding. :)

Here, rainbow icon just for you. ♥

[tangiblewhimsy.livejournal.com]

Tch, right, I'm smart. I"m so smart I scrolled down the list looking for my name because I figured I'd be anything but the first person on the list. I ended up reading everything from the bottom up looking for my name!

You flatter meeeeee too much. Especially because I've been lurking around you foreeever.

You also make me feel kind of bad now because I just changed my Toma layout to an Ohno layout! T_T (though I don't love Toma any less)