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Oct. 30th, 2010 03:26 pmToday there was an awesome rally to restore sanity. There were medals for reasonable behavior and fear mongering. There were songs. It was funny and smart and made thoughtful reasonable points. It made my day good, as I finished work and ate a late breakfast.
Last night I heard from a friend who was missing for a long time. To celebrate this, I really need some bad ass Adrian Pasdar icons. I found one abandoned LJ community dedicated to the awesomeness that was Profit but I'm still looking for icons. I really should have nominated that fandom for Yuletide. (But I checked and it is on the list, yay!) But anyhow!
My friend wrote something I feel profoundly necessary to quote. Because, quite honestly, I cried a little. We've known each other since high school and he's seen me through all kinds of life stages. This is the guy who signed my yearbook as Jim Profit, and who engaged in all kinds of crazy English assignments designed solely to antagonize our teacher. Kevin is one of those people who is just more amazing than you could possibly imagine and whose sly humor has always cheered me. He was gone for awhile, but now he's back and getting that email last night was really one of the best moments of the year.
Personally, the stories you've been through are equally compelling with you cast as a male or female. It's not so much that I see your life gendered one way or the other, it's that from my view you've always been on the border trying to figure out where you're most comfortable. It was always all kinds of cool to watch. Rainbow eyelashes? Cool. David Bowie suit? Right on. You said it yourself once that you be entranced by beauty of both men and women. I remember nodding as I tried to imagine how you saw the world. Over the last 30 years you've tried to be a lot of things. You've tried to make a lot of bad situations that most people would have run from better. Often times you held out longer than almost anyone else would. You've also gotten yourself into amazing situations and entre into worlds most people are unaware of. And now that you've seen enough, you're ready to define who you are with authority. I don't see it as a change like the poles reversing or a switch being flipped. It's just a progression of who you are and clearly a result from careful analysis of the data you've collected during your life.
Last night I heard from a friend who was missing for a long time. To celebrate this, I really need some bad ass Adrian Pasdar icons. I found one abandoned LJ community dedicated to the awesomeness that was Profit but I'm still looking for icons. I really should have nominated that fandom for Yuletide. (But I checked and it is on the list, yay!) But anyhow!
My friend wrote something I feel profoundly necessary to quote. Because, quite honestly, I cried a little. We've known each other since high school and he's seen me through all kinds of life stages. This is the guy who signed my yearbook as Jim Profit, and who engaged in all kinds of crazy English assignments designed solely to antagonize our teacher. Kevin is one of those people who is just more amazing than you could possibly imagine and whose sly humor has always cheered me. He was gone for awhile, but now he's back and getting that email last night was really one of the best moments of the year.
Personally, the stories you've been through are equally compelling with you cast as a male or female. It's not so much that I see your life gendered one way or the other, it's that from my view you've always been on the border trying to figure out where you're most comfortable. It was always all kinds of cool to watch. Rainbow eyelashes? Cool. David Bowie suit? Right on. You said it yourself once that you be entranced by beauty of both men and women. I remember nodding as I tried to imagine how you saw the world. Over the last 30 years you've tried to be a lot of things. You've tried to make a lot of bad situations that most people would have run from better. Often times you held out longer than almost anyone else would. You've also gotten yourself into amazing situations and entre into worlds most people are unaware of. And now that you've seen enough, you're ready to define who you are with authority. I don't see it as a change like the poles reversing or a switch being flipped. It's just a progression of who you are and clearly a result from careful analysis of the data you've collected during your life.