A tiny slice of history...
May. 23rd, 2006 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordinistaJust over three years ago, I was at an entirely different place in my life. A year out of grad school, I was just finishing up my second semester of teaching, and I'd started watching this funny little anime on Adult Swim. It featured a foul-tempered guy with white hair and dog ears and, okay, the dubbing was a little annoying, but the storyline was entertaining. Eventually, I decided I'd search out more about this show, and investigate the fandom. And, also eventually, I found a pretty fun forum by the name of Iridescent Dreams, and, okay, the fandom had moments when it was totally cracktacular, but it was fun all the same.
After a while, I decided I'd try my hand at writing a story. I didn't expect many people to read it, and not many did, particularly at first. But one night, I checked my Iridescent Dreams private message account, and there was a note from someone named "everstar," who'd written me an invocation of the muse. I was so amused that I wrote back. And she wrote back. And then I wrote back again. And finally we were like, "Enough with the PM ping-pong." We exchanged AIM screen-names, and that was the beginning of the end. The more we talked, the more we realized we had in common. It was almost eerie -- by the time we signed off that night, I felt as if I'd known her my entire life.
I had no idea that this silly little anime would bring me to someone who has become one on a short list of online-turned-RL-friends. If I had known, I probably would have -- no, not gone screaming in the other direction, smart-ass -- looked into it sooner.
This is someone from whom I have learned a great deal -- quite a bit of it vocabulary. ;) She is someone who seems to know beyond a shadow of a doubt when a truly awful pun simply needs to be made. The same goes for the truly off-color joke. She is someone who knows how to make me laugh, even if she doesn't realize it. Each other's triumphs make us happy, and each other's trials and failures make us feel sharp disappointment and that terrible sense of helplessness that comes from knowing there is very little either of us can do, separated by as much of the country as we are.
We've had our differences, certainly, but our friendship has always managed to overcome the few arguments and problems we've experienced. We have a creepy sort of ESP with each other, and it actually gets sharper when we're in the same room.
She's one of my best friends; nothing and no one has made me gladder that I ever Googled "Inuyasha" in the first place. :)
Happy birthday, hebi-chan.
After a while, I decided I'd try my hand at writing a story. I didn't expect many people to read it, and not many did, particularly at first. But one night, I checked my Iridescent Dreams private message account, and there was a note from someone named "everstar," who'd written me an invocation of the muse. I was so amused that I wrote back. And she wrote back. And then I wrote back again. And finally we were like, "Enough with the PM ping-pong." We exchanged AIM screen-names, and that was the beginning of the end. The more we talked, the more we realized we had in common. It was almost eerie -- by the time we signed off that night, I felt as if I'd known her my entire life.
I had no idea that this silly little anime would bring me to someone who has become one on a short list of online-turned-RL-friends. If I had known, I probably would have -- no, not gone screaming in the other direction, smart-ass -- looked into it sooner.
This is someone from whom I have learned a great deal -- quite a bit of it vocabulary. ;) She is someone who seems to know beyond a shadow of a doubt when a truly awful pun simply needs to be made. The same goes for the truly off-color joke. She is someone who knows how to make me laugh, even if she doesn't realize it. Each other's triumphs make us happy, and each other's trials and failures make us feel sharp disappointment and that terrible sense of helplessness that comes from knowing there is very little either of us can do, separated by as much of the country as we are.
We've had our differences, certainly, but our friendship has always managed to overcome the few arguments and problems we've experienced. We have a creepy sort of ESP with each other, and it actually gets sharper when we're in the same room.
She's one of my best friends; nothing and no one has made me gladder that I ever Googled "Inuyasha" in the first place. :)
Happy birthday, hebi-chan.
