Because November is hard for lots of us, and in particular is something I find hard (my not-quite-month of mourning begins tomorrow, officially); because it's spring in the southern hemisphere and the days just keep getting shorter in the northern; because I talked to my counsellor yesterday about all of the shapes and forms that value takes.

Autumn crocuses growing through a carpet of sweet chestnut husks.

This post will close to new nominations at the end of the month (because November), though I'll keep unscreening comments after that point if any new ones do come in.

Love meme

♥ Nominate yourself or someone else, anonymously or logged-in, by putting your/their username in the subject line of a comment to this entry. If you do not know for certain the person's preferred pronouns and they do not list them on their DW profile, please use gender neutral pronouns as a default. Other people can then reply to that comment with goopy declarations of love, reasons that person is awesome, sparkly expressions of admiration, etc! All comments are screened, and I'll unscreen them as they arrive. (So, if your comment doesn't appear right away, please be patient; I'll leave my online status at the bottom of this post to keep people updated on whether I'm unscreening or not.)

♥ If you don't want to be nominated, or don't want comments referring to certain things [body/appearance, wrong pronouns, etc] to appear on your thread, please let me know; I won't unscreen any such comment or nomination. If I make a mistake in unscreening something, if you want a comment to your thread unscreened or deleted, if you have any concerns you need to raise -- please just tell me, and I'll attend to it as soon as I can. If there are any inappropriate comments made to a thread, I will check with the person being referred to before unscreening.

♥ Share the love: please do send people over here (and to your own thread!) Words-and-deeds it up if you like, but that's not obligatory!

♥ These guidelines are modeled on

dingsi's love meme guidelines, with modifications by

jjhunter and wording lifted from

surpassingly.

♥ That's it -- happy posting!

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aella_irene
alee_grrl
alexseanchai
angelofthenorth/MsMiriamM
azurelunatic

balsamandash
beckyc
boxofdelights

calissa
cesy

danohu/oedipamaas49
dingsi
dreamsofwinter

elisem
el_staplador
emef/iteration
ewt
ewx
exor674

florallel
forthwritten
fyreharper

glass_icarus
goodbyebird

haggis
hairyears
holli

inkstone
inoru_no_hoshi
itsamellama

jenett
jjhunter

kaberett
k_a_webb
kerrypolka
khronos_keeper
kiezh

laceblade
likeadeuce
littlebutfierce
liv
lizcommotion

marina/sabrina_il
mirabehn (Elly, kindjourneys)
mirrorshard
mme_hardy
moetushi
Muccamukk

nenya_kanadka

oursin

palfrey
palmer1984
phi/Saira
pipisafoat
plures
pretty_panther

quartzpebble

raanve
randomling
raven
raze
recessional
redbird
rhivolution
riseswiththefall
rydra_wong
rysmiel

sabinetzin/sabinelagrande
sasha_feather
Seascribe
sebastienne
serpentine
ses/hazyjayne
shanaqui
shehasathree
silveradept
silverhare
snowafterfire
staranise
strangecharm
stultiloquentia
such_heights
surpassingly

thatyourefuse
thebonesofferalletters
thefairymelusine
toft

vass

were_duck
wildeabandon
wisdomeagle
woggy

ysobel

zarhooie

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Hello! I don't run into you very often, but whenever I do you always seem to be saying something thoughtful.

I like how much you explicitly value enjoying things. There's a very persistent Thing of enjoyment being something one has to atone for or otherwise compensate for, and I really admire (and benefit from hem hem) how much you actively just go "enjoying nice things is great and should be done as much as possible!" I won't call it indulgence because that still sounds like something negative, but how you make nice things into an actively positive value.

When I was first getting confident about describing clearly wrong or silly things as wrong or silly (mostly but not limited to eg Guardian opinion pieces), sometimes I would practice by asking myself, "what would

oursin say?"

Liv is the only person on DW whose journal I go to directly every other day or so just to make sure I haven't missed anything, because every single post of hers is worth reading for me. She's one of the best writers I know of (I don't mean just of people I know, I mean in the world) because she's very skilled at explaining complicated exciting things in a way that makes them not difficult to understand (if I didn't know about them already) and reminds me of why they're so great and I love them so much (if I did). Her comments are my model for how to listen to people in a text medium. She makes my brain go *_*.

Reading your comments is always lovely; they are so consistently thoughtful/gentle/kind <3

I'm really in awe of Elly's commitment to compassion and their hard work in actually following through on that commitment. Their talking about that work is encouraging and inspiring – it doesn't pretend it isn't work but it does show it can be done, and very well.

Awesome kind lady, hysterically goddamn funny, a word wizard with fiction & languages, prolly the only person willing to have internet sing-abouts w/me.

Me me me!

<33333333333

I like that you're thoughtful and discerning about trashy media, and goofy and fun about Serious Literature (and vice-versa). You don't draw a line between Stuff To Analyse and Stuff To Make Dumb Jokes About, in either direction, which means you're always a fun and interesting person to talk to about things.

also Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuce forever

Kerry is just awesome. Brilliant, and funny (whether writing, in her own person and when doing comic acting!), and consistently astute, thought-provoking and interesting. She is also a kind friend, I am very glad I know her. :-)

hairyears is one of those people I like drinking whisky with until very late in the morning, talking about pretty much everything. :-) He is kind and generous-spirited, exceedingly witty, and just generally a thoroughly good egg. He makes me smile. :-)

I rather wish I knew you better and saw you more often, because every time we interact I feel better for it. :-) You are thoughtful and delightful, and outstandingly compassionate, and have the most gloriously infectious smile.

auntsarentgents is kind, sharp-witter, practical and delightful. Someone I am always very glad to see. :-)

wildeabandon is one of my favourite people. Immensely kind and generous-hearted, delightful company, and one of the few people who can tease me in a way that makes me feel better about myself. :-) Whenever I know I'm going to spend time with him, it makes me that bit happier about life. He is also dashing and delightful to behold, and underrates himself quite shockingly as an actor.

An exceedingly thoughtful person, who has always struck me as having a great deal of integrity and kindness. :-)

<33333 HOW THE FUCK LONG HAVE WE KNOWN EACH OTHER. I know shit is really hard right now, but it's been really great seeing you moving on the path to where you are today wrt, idk, ~meaningful work~ or whatever? Your students are v. lucky to have you. Keep being your snarky hilarious smart fart-loving self, please. :D

Hare is amazingly love-giving even when she's going through really challenging situations. I admire her strength and good energy.

boxofdelights is ferociously intelligent and perceptive and kind.

oursin curates some of the funniest and most insightful linkblogging I've ever encountered, and has what seems to be deeply fabulous hair.

I am not going to say more than "what the original anon said" in a public context, but WHAT THE ORIGINAL ANON SAID. Lots.

rhivolution is a lovely and intelligent person and I need to create more opportunities to speak to them, because I always very much enjoy doing so.

rydra_wong is brilliant, compassionate, mordantly hilarious, and directly responsible for an interest in perfume that has given me HUGE amounts of uncomplicated joy at times when I direly need it.

Thank you.

You have been a pleasant part of my on-line life for many years. There are many things that I like about you, but the main things that come to mind at this moment are your enthusiasm for all things rock climbing, your many useful posts on cooking, fitness, and self-care, and the general rationality and level-headedness of your posts.

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