I think everyone here could use some cheering

[druidspell]

Okay, I don't know how everyone else's days/weeks/months have been going, but I know that I need some love on my flist today.
So I'm totally going to steal skoosiepants's love list, make my own, and encourage (read: beg/plead/demand/whatever will get you to post your love list in comments) you to post your list of things you love in comments whenever you stumble across this on your flist.

ETA: You know what, the internet needs love. So. I'm making this public.
I will also periodically update this list, which was started in June of 2007.

So. the List of Laura's Loves:

*Willow trees, all varieties, although I have a special place for snake willows
*Shade
*The ocean. I can't stop being completely enthralled by it, and I don't even want to
*Mountains.
*Fanfiction. Because yeah, I admit to it, and fandom people are some of the most awesome people I've ever met.
*Midnight Rising
*Our personalized CafePress store for MR
*Jay's puppy
*Tessa, even though I don't think she has an LJ and so probably won't be reading this.
*phoenixsansfyr, because she listened to me freak and bitch about Jason, and because she is one of the most awesome people I know, and because she's seen me grow up from that horribly awkward and really bitchy 13 y/o I was into the person I am today, and she still thinks I'm pretty awesome. Also, she's coming here to visit this summer, which leaves me excited beyond all previous excitement
*Ross, because I almost lost him, and he lets me squeeze him as tightly as I can, and I never want to let him go. Because I didn't realize family could be friend, until I realized that he was one of my best friends. Because when I don't care about anything else, I still care about Ross, and what he thinks. Because he's sturdy.
*Joey, because he's known me for years, and still thinks I'm amazing. He brags about me to his friends, y'all.
*My dad, because I can count on one hand the number of times he's told me how proud he is of me, but he makes sure I believe it when he does. Because he gave me his life story for an anthropology project, and trusted me enough to let me write it up and turn it in.
*My mom, even though she drives me insane sometimes.
*Aunt Anne, the first one of my relatives to treat me like an adult
*The internet, keeping me connected to my friends and my entertainment and my sanity
*miriel, because she's one of the first people I got to know as a person, not just an author, in my first explosively large fandom
*Andrea, who has a bedroom waiting for me in her and Scott's house, if I decide that this is all too much and I need to hide for a while
*I love epiphanies at work, and figuring out pieces of the puzzle, and characters who are so alive you expect to have them programmed into your phone
*Pop/punk/alternative/rock music
*Bandom. And I'm not embarrassed to admit that anymore, because it makes me happy. It really, really does.
*Fic DVD commentaries, and authors meta'ing on their own writing
*Building worlds
*Drawing maps
*Darkstar, and the fact that he has the patience of a SAINT
*Thomas. He came back. After twelve years gone, he came back, and I love him just as much now as I did when I was a kid
*impextoo, because she's a-fucking-mazing. She's funny and creative and talented, and not afraid to corner people and ask awkward questions, and willing to listen to me talk about things that other people would call me crazy for. I don't love everything she loves, but I do love that she loves them.
*People who write songs, and are really earnest about what they want and what they believe. People who play music, people who listen to music, people who love music.
*Singing. I really don't think I'm that good, but I like to sing, so I'll do it anyway.
*Sunset
*Moonrise
*Scott. He's really amazingly tolerant of our family's eccentricities, and I'm so happy he married my sister.
*Pirates
*Celtic things
*seperis, because I just... My first public meta was inspired by her "I love John Sheppard, please tell me I'm not alone in this" post. She was my gateway into SV fic. She's also funny and articulate, and I'm always happy to see that she's updated.
*Tattoos. I have a thing for guys and girls with ink.
*On a related note, I love the show "Miami Ink"
*Violin music
*Watching my cousin Will dance, because it's obvious that he loves what he's doing, and it's obvious that he's not just in love with it, not just that he's passionate about it, but that he's good at it
*The episode of "Will & Grace" where everyone finds out that Jack hasn't come out to his mother yet, and Will drags him into the kitchen and talks him into it, because Jack was the one who convinced him to come out of the closet and stop making himself miserable. "Aren't you tired?"
*agroovytaco, because he always makes me smile, even when I want to smack him for doing things like lying to the military. I love you dearly, Joe, but... sometimes you do dumbfuck shit.
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, especially Raph, because he is such a badass
*Ivy, because she's the most vibrant, loving four-year-old I've ever met, and I will literally fight you if you try and tell me that she's not the most amazing child on the planet
*Plants. I like growing things.
*skoosiepants, and all of her fiction. All of it. No exceptions. Even the thing with the cheese.
*Movie soundtracks.
*Oh my gods, I cannot believe I forgot to add lighthouses to this list so far. Because god, yes. Lighthouses. It is my totally unironic, completely serious dream to live in a lighthouse when I grow up. Seriously. More than anything else in the world, if I never get anything I want ever again, I really want to live in a lighthouse.
*My LJ layout, because it's whimsical, and makes me smile when I see it.
*duchesspariah. Because whether I'm at my most intense or my most disinterested, high or low, manic or depressive, she knows how to be with me. Because we can watch movies together, unconcerned that we're going to the special hell. Because without Jay to play Damienn, where would Asher be? Because our characters are in love, even if they don't know it yet. Because she loves Midnight Rising like I do, far more actively than I do, because it is our baby. Because we saw something that could be great and wasn't, and said with no false modesty that we could make it better. Because together, we are better. Because I cried last night when I had to watch her pull out of my driveway, because it hurt to see her go and not know when I might see her again. Because I've never loved anything as deeply and purely as I love my soulsister, and it's never been too much for her. Because she's alive.
*Pete Wentz, and everything about his crazy emo self. I love his blog, I love his songs, I love the answers he posts to fans' questions, I love the fact that he ANSWERS fans' questions, and I love that he wrote a couple songs that helped me not want to fucking die. I don't care about what crazy hijinx he's gotten up to with his Sidekick; if he wants to date Ashlee Simpson who am I to say anything at all; I don't want to hear about how you think he's retarded/ugly/writes stupid music/is a whore. I especially don't want to hear that you think he's a whore, because I'd have to punch you in the face, and I don't love to punch people. I DO, however, love Pete Wentz.
*Brendon Urie, and his goofy face. Yeah. Just go with it.
*Gerard Way. He wants to save my life, and I want to let him.
*Mikey Way. Because any guy who so obviously loves his older brother deserves a lot more love than the internet sometimes gives him.
*Frank Iero's laugh.
*Puppies in general.
*Australian accents.
*7 Minutes in Heavean (Atavan Halen)
*Hum Hallelujah
*Famous Last Words
*Gay Is Not A Synonym For Shitty
*My moodtheme (notice it! It's filled with beautiful boys!) and, by extension, wearmyhat for making it--I had a bitch of a time just uploading all the links to the "Create Custom Mood Theme" thingy, and I can't even imagine the amount of work it took to find all the pictures (because ALL OF THEM are different), resize them, and then make the moodtheme.

Comments

[phoenixsansfyr.livejournal.com]

I love you so fucking much. :)

Won't be visiting until August... our classes end the 15th or 14th, I can't recall, but I'll be heading out like THAT DAY or the day following and I'll spend a couple of days in Kentucky.

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

ILU2. :)

And hey, August is still summer to me; it's still fucking hot, and the 14th/15th week is still the week before we start classes. I'll have lots of time to show you where I work (and buy you food), show you my apartment (and you're welcome to stay there if you want), and do fun stuff in/around Lexington

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

*pokes* Also, you should totally friend daphne_neville. :)

[jmmackin.livejournal.com]

*MAJOR LOVE*

BTW, thanks for the movie. Thanks for the hugs. OMGthanks for playing with my hair! Thanks for letting me pick on Ross. Thanks for running with me Friday night/Saturday morning. Thanks for giving me someone to discuss Orli's amazing looks, and thanks for agreeing that--in Pirates 3-- his hotness totally made up for any lack of acting ability.

Oh. And, thanks for loving me. Love you, too. *HUGGLETACKLECLING*

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

**HUGGLECUDDLECLING**
Thanks for being free on Friday. Thanks for the pizza. THANK YOU for letting me play with your hair; it was wonderful. It's starting to be the hair I recognize from before the dye jobs. I'm glad you got to pick on Ross--I like to share. Thanks for agreeing that Orli is hot like burning, and that in comparison to TRULY bad acting, he's really not that bad.
And thank you for the promise you made me on a rainy Thursday in the Wendy's drive-thru in senior/sophomore year. Love you lots. Miss you more.