People always get elevated when they are in distress, but I have said, more than once, that you are the best of us, JZ.
Seconding this, and I have been discussing this with others lately. JZ, you were always the best.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Aug 17, 2023 11:06:51 am PDT #24048 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
askye - Aug 17, 2023 11:13:54 am PDT #24049 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Nope, you're the best. We all voted.
Definitely the Best !!
EpicTangent - Aug 17, 2023 11:13:54 am PDT #24050 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
JZ, nice to see you, even in flyby mode (I know, the struggle doesn't feel like flight. I'm sorry, Love). I don't need to add my voice to the chorus saying you're the best, since it's already marked down as unanimous. But you are!
erikaj - Aug 17, 2023 11:16:38 am PDT #24051 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...whatever decides what happens on this planet, don't think it has much to do with *deserving*. Sometimes I think mine? Is like when McNulty got boat patrol cause he said he liked open spaces.
askye - Aug 17, 2023 11:18:52 am PDT #24052 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
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beekaytee - Aug 17, 2023 11:23:01 am PDT #24053 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I wish you didn't have that pain, erikaj. I won't insult you by pretending that I can relate to your situation, but the cast of characters in my life have been so, so awful, I've had similar experiences.
I was tempted for a second to go through the litany of things I did for those people as they passed, but it's not a flex. I did all of it for my own humanity. In some ways, I guess, to prove how not-them I am, which is honestly the greatest joy of my life. My service was genuine, because it was mine, but it was not remotely out of loyalty.
What that service did for me was to dilute the effect of their evil on me and to create a stalwart and completely open ability to be with people I do love and appreciate. While they burned the fear of death out of me, they made it possible for me to be with others. So. That's the upside.
If you ever want to trade vile grandmother stories, ping me. I'm down.
Cashmere - Aug 17, 2023 11:31:45 am PDT #24054 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
We all voted.
And the lurkers support us in email.
Polgara - Aug 17, 2023 11:38:41 am PDT #24055 of 30000
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
And the lurkers support us in email.
Yup.
Atropa - Aug 17, 2023 11:48:41 am PDT #24056 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Vampiric Council and the Eldergoth Council also support this ruling: JZ is the best.
JZ - Aug 17, 2023 12:23:20 pm PDT #24057 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hospice nurse reports it will be less than a month. I'm weirdly relieved to have a timeline.