Can I have my depression back? I keep tearing up when Andi does.

I'd rather have the numbness of depression back.

And ita.

Mostly ita.

Hope it's okay, I wanted David's post in COMM here, too:

Saw this from ita in the Bureaucracy thread. I know how thwarted she felt by her health issues, but this line made me feel a tiny bit better. She knew what a beautiful thing she had made. She knew its worth and value. An amazing legacy in itself, for all the other worlds she didn't get to conquer.

*********

ita: Oh, we are so not a CMS. Hand-stitched from the deepest layer.

There should be an ita archive so if accounts get closed, it is not lost.

One of the things I thought of after I heard the news was the table of ASCII and HTML entities that she kept up on her domain that I bookmarked years ago because it was just so damn useful. I still use it to this day (last Saturday, in fact).

I love the idea of archiving ita's work. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help with that.

It sounds odd, but one thing I liked was disagreeing with ita. It didn't happen often, but when it did we could argue things out in a straightforward but civil way. I tend to avoid conflict because I worry about losing friends. But I had the impression that ita welcomed the exchange of differing ideas, as long as The Stupid didn't get too thick. It was something I miss about my dad, and it's something I'm going to miss about ita, too.

Man, I'd totally forgotten about the Batman Fact Generator.

[link]

Ha, I found a recent discussion on I09 where she was digging into the casting issues with Ghost In The Shell and she just sounds....so like herself. Feisty without being contentious, strong POV, making people check their assumptions, putting things in context.

[link]

This is just a week ago.

She's Serenada over there, though I'm sure you could tell that anyway.

Hope it's okay, I wanted David's post in COMM here, too:

Of course!

But I had the impression that ita welcomed the exchange of differing ideas, as long as The Stupid didn't get too thick.

Many of us learned quickly that we had better be prepared to back up random posts. She was able to be both challenging and comforting.

Damn, I can't stop crying.

Many of us learned quickly that we had better be prepared to back up random posts.

Oh god yes! I have a Stop sign in my head labeled 'ita" just to check myself from making broad categorical generalizations.

She busted me on that shit so often.

There are small dedicated parts of my brain entirely dedicated to dialogue and discussions and fights I've had with her. Thinking it through still.

And I have to say on the very rare occasion that she conceded a point to me, getting a "hmph" from her was like getting a gold star from Dumbledore.

I think secretly I always had half an eye on making ita laugh. Like, it's great to be COMM'ed, but if ita laughed...