Holiday Pats on Holiday Backs

[rinue]

I've been heavy on the memes lately, and it's getting out of hand. Nevertheless, via Smeg:

Comment to this post, and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, I would like it if you would post this in your LJ.

Comments

[rinue.livejournal.com]

This is horribly belated, due to a combination of extenuating circumstances and lethargy, for which I apologize.

1. Tell you why I friended you.

I hadn't been on lj that long, and I was doing a lot of random looking at journals to find people who seemed interesting - I'd search esoteric user interests and then click around until I found people who I enjoyed reading and who posted regularly. That's how I found Johnny M. And then you were on his friends list and I liked your writing (both how you wrote and what you wrote about) and so I friended you.

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.

Well, I wound up picking this wine red as your user color (I give everybody colors so I can scan really quickly to see who has updated) and so I associate that color with you, although it is one I probably imposed on you. (I'm not sure, as I normally take a certain number of cues from the user's color choice on their main page, so maybe it did originate with you. It works well as a background for most of your user icons, especially the one you used on this comment.) Otherwise, I closely associate you with snug knitted caps, trigger gloves, tea, hanging laundry, spinning yarn, bicycles, layered clothing in the cold, nice warm indoor burrows when it is late and the weather is awful, and being careful with crumbs. Lots of comforting things.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

As I've mentioned, I find you comforting. I guess that could sound like small praise - it's always a risk to call someone "safe" - but, well, you are tender and thoughtful and frightened and brave.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

Although I have never seen a photo, I have a (likely innacurate) internal picture of you and of the place where you live (you have a low ceiling and lots of places to sit and the walls are coated in Tuscan yellow resin), and I visualize almost all of your entries. This is not something I do with anybody else; with other people, I stop with the words. But I have various memories of you in cafes and on sidewalks in late autumn and in a class sitting at your desk (in a circle with other desks) and cleaning the stove and holding a large black telephone reciever, and they are perfectly clear, and there is a particular way you move, although you may not move that way at all.

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

I have no idea why you are where you are, or what you intend to do next. Not in any critical "what are you thinking?" sense, but simply by virtue of having no information. It's not terribly important, and I'm happy not knowing. I just like to imagine that at some point I'll run in to you someplace, although I also like to imagine that we correspond for 70 years and never meet and writers and historians talk about it.

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

I am excited when "bliss" comes up, because I enjoyed that film and enjoy remembering it. But my favorite user pic is "chorus," which perfectly captures what it tries to capture. (It also tends to be on entries that are happy or mischievous.)