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Anoel ([personal profile] anoel) wrote2008-11-26 11:48 am

Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! I am going away for the next two days without internet so a few things before I go.

I am thankful for my shiny new 2 TB hard drive with SO MUCH SPACE OMG (and if you want one for only $230, try newegg) and all of the new music and DVD space for vidding available for me. I am taking music recs, rec me every artist you think I should listen to from the most obvious (The Beatles) to the least known.

I am thankful for Television for all the amazing stories, characters and relationships it gives me, for all that it makes me feel and think and love. I am thankful for The Office, for House, for The Wire, for Pushing Daisies, for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for Project Runway, for Queer as Folk, for The Rachel Maddow Show and for all the other shows I love so much. I am so thankful they exist or have existed and I will never believe there will not be a time when beautiful, amazing shows are created and someday will be allowed to be complete regardless of the business.

I am thankful for all modes of narrative from TV to movies to books to everything in between and I am thankful for all the arts that create so much beauty in the world. I am thankful for music and how fun it is to listen to, how much it inspires me and how it makes me feel so much emotion.

I am thankful for my new president, President Barack Obama and getting rid of the old horrible government and bringing in change I can believe in. To give me hope and inspire me to do more, to help build back this nation from the wreckage and to work for so many new beautiful things. God, I am SO thankful for this.

I am thankful for all the friends I've made and all the people I've met who have touched my life in a positive way. I am thankful for the good times, the laughter, the shared jokes, the interesting conversations and the close bonds I've formed. And I'm glad I still have the hope that I will find my chosen family some day.

I am thankful for all of fandom for helping me not feel so alone in being a fan and in giving me so much shared joy in the works we celebrate and the words and art we create from it. I am thankful for vidding where I finally found my creative expression and love so much all the amazing vids out there not to mention the smart conversations that talk about them. I am thankful for my fellow shippers and the joy in shipping, of loving Brian/Justin, Jack/Irina, House/Wilson and all my other favorites and having people out there who feel the same way and who share my squee and create art based around them. I'm thankful to be able to meet fandom people in real life and have them be just as awesome whether it be Vividcon or a local friend. I am thankful of all the things I've learned in fandom and all the ways fandom has helped mold me as a person as I grew up and helped influence me so positively.

So thank you Flist and I hope to be back with you soon!

[identity profile] clayangel.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Music rec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEbE3fGfF-o

^_~

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] caesaria82.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*glomps your icon* ♥

Fandom is indeed love and definitely something to be thankful for :D

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I really can't agree more.

She's so cute!

[identity profile] illusory-thrill.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a kick ass post, my friend. Have fun in your internetless times!

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks :) I did for the most part! With the help of my trusty laptop of course.

[identity profile] fadsy.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
happy thanksgiving! :)

I almost can't conceive of 2TB of space. That's very tempting.

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

I couldn't either...now that I haven't I'm so tempted to buy another. But I am resisting because the prices are fast going down so I can probably get one for less next time (cause there WILL be a next time, I have too many DVDs).

[identity profile] noncanontv-girl.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks :) Hope yours was good!