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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Index
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

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M's writing is some of the best I've read, and I am always in awe of the depth of thought and feeling she brings to every characterization, and every word. Her advice has been very helpful to me when I needed it, and although we don't always agree, I am consistently interested in whatever she has to say, and grateful that she has said it. She is great.

I appreciate your fashion, your sense of humor, and your pragmatic approach to accessibility and your willingness to talk about it. I've also been very grateful for your posts thinking through various issues and such related to harassment and other things this year; they've very much helped me grapple with such things, too. You are great. <3

Your vids are great--they always make me smile, and sometimes (as with the latest one!) laugh out loud, and I am very glad that we got to hang out this past summer in person for a bit. I really admire your kindness and enthusiasm, and I am glad to have you on my DW and Twitter. :D

You are so great. I admire your snark and your principles and how you wield them in tandem, and I am really glad to know you. <3

We've only just met, but I'm so glad I did meet you at Worldcon. Your presence makes my DW better, for sure--not only through your poetry, but just through your presence and your commitment to everything you do.

You have mad origami skills, for one, and you are an awesome person in general, for another--I very much appreciate your posts, whether it's about food or fandom or whatever. Your fic is great too, and I am glad to know you. :D

You are great and I am glad to know you. I admire how you take no shit and how you get things done and I really respect your opinions and your integrity. Also your Twitter is great. :D

Your fic and your vids are uniformly wonderful, and your presence on my DW feed is always a delight.

You are unfailingly interesting and kind and wonderful, and I'm really glad that you are my friend. <3

Your art is amazing, and I am very lucky to have your creativity and your thoughts in my Twitter and DW feeds. I'm very happy that you've gotten to where you are now, and very grateful that you share all of that with us.

They are wonderful, and also probably have the single best wardrobe of anybody I know. I was really glad we got to hang out a bit this summer, too. Their knowledge about and enthusiasm for music is something I have benefitted from in particular, but I am always awed by their dedication to language learning and to everything they do, as well as their empathy. They deserve a much better time than they've been having lately, and I am glad to know them. <3

I adore your writing and your brain-poking, which is always chewy and always makes me think.

I am always delighted when a post from you pops up; you write engagingly about fascinating stuff, and I am grateful to you for your willingness to introspect and self-examine in public.

You. Your writing and your research and your poetry and your ruthful self-examination and your learning to be kind to yourself even when it hurts -- you, you, you.

I am perpetually super bloody impressed by the grit with which you work on your edges and on understanding yourself, and I adore your enthusiasms and your generosity with them; thank you, as always, for all the awesome stuff you have introduced me to and squeed over with me!

Hey you. :-) You try at things & you know your competencies and use them well, & you are eager to share your knowledge and experiences generously, and you are great.

Over and over, M holds up a mirror to the world and shows me myself reflected in it and thus makes me less alone. I adore her writing to the point of having read >250k words of fic in a fandom I've consumed none of the canon for and only osmosed a bit of detail; and it makes me laugh and it makes me cry and it takes my head apart and puts it back together running a little more smoothly and a little less painfully. Her dragonic advice helps me be fiercer about facing the world, and provides a lens through which I understand more and better; her writing about herself frequently makes me laugh; and she is ruthlessly enthusiastic in ways that make me shiver.

You are brave & noble & awesome for self-nominating; it's something I'm always scared of doing, so - well done, you, for going actually yes I deserve this, too.

Because you do. You make me think more & harder about reading; you make me think more & harder about what I'd like my life to look like in terms of volunteering; and you awe me with how much of yourself you pour out. You're fantastic.

I have, recently, been particularly enjoying your posting about Cat. Also the ways you talk about making your environment better. Also it -- helps, as always, to see someone else slogging on. You awe me.

Hey that human. You are totally someone I consider an academic mentor, you are totally someone I want to be when I grow up, I love your ridiculous sense of humour and your ridiculous face and your marvellous facial expressions, and I am very glad you are a human in my life and I get to hear your anecdotes and so on. It is always an absolute unalloyed pleasure to spend time with you.

Your photography is a big part of why I ever get anywhere close to dabbling, and is firmly in the category of "reasons to get better"; thank you.

Plus of course my impression in every interaction we've ever had is that you're a sweetie, so. :-) Affection to you for being lovely & skilful & willing to talk about your knowledge bases!

HELLO YOU.

You seek joy & beauty & kindness & insight with a fierceness that inspires me. You share it so generously and you try always to be kind and you are just -- you are fantastic and creative and I love your jewelry and I am so, so pleased that I got to know you lo those many years ago and continue to get to know you better and -- you're fab. You make me think I can be better. You are a gift.

I am grateful to you for your community-building, and all the effort you go to to disseminate information. Also I like your fanworks! Thank you :-)

"Soft-strong" is such a lovely way of describing Hare! I respect their kindness and compassionate and determination to live a life that's theirs, and the quiet strength and courage underpinning all of this.

l-) l-) l-) (More coherently: it's good to hear that the photography is appreciated. It's a lot of fun to do but a positive response is always welcome l-)

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