{ happy snapping! }

[delga]

First off: small flist cut, just journals that I don't read because of drifting interests/lack of interaction or what have you - not because you aren't lovely. If you'd like to hang about, commenting and polling and what have you, that's cool, too. There's not a lot of stuff that I lock either way.

Every day is defriending amnesty, so friend/de-friend at will.

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I saw this on the fflist the other day and last night I decided I wanted to do my own. Firstly: snaps to anyone who has a job, or is in academia, or is battling with Life Issues because every single one of you works so hard, and every one of you deserves to reap karmic benefits from that, if nothing else.

agentcat47: Snaps for being an endlessly lovely person and putting up with my endless bullshit, lols.

aliasagent: Hee, a new flister! Your fannish-loving makes me smile (I love meeting people who get happy about the things that they love.) Snaps for your SCC lovin' and your impending trip to France! Plus: good luck for your Cambridge proficiency exam. You're going to rock it :)

atlashrugged: Another new flister - snaps for your poetry love (I now feel like less of a dork - or a less lonely dork, lols), and your love of NCIS! Though a sporadic poster, I always smile to see when you have. Your del.icio.us tag brings me endless glee!

aureliapriscus: Multi-fandoming for the win! Snaps for your geekery because I whole-heartedly support and believe in it.

daygloparker: Firstly, snaps for rocking the fundraiser organisation! Not only are you in the workforce, but you're also Competent x100. Any praise you've been getting? DESERVED. Further snaps for: your newfound love of Bones (LOLS), your Anglophilia, and Sober Perspectives. I don't think many people beat you for sheer vitality of life and a talent for being fun. You are who you are on your own terms and you make no apologies, which makes you a strong person, more than you know, I think. You're going to rock whatever comes next for you, be it more careerising or more academia. Thumbs up, yo.

denorios: SNAPS for your kick-ass Masters dissertation! SNAPS for your fandom-loving self! SNAPS for dealing with my inability to act my age! You're super nice, and your glee is infectious. I impress The Flatmate with footie knowledge that I glean from you, lols.

dreamer_86: Snaps for working your hind off at the clinic and snaps for coming to the end and getting ready to brave the world some more. Your fannish glee is my fannish glee.

emmademarais: Snaps for your minimalist-fu! No, but really, snaps for your superlative comm maintenance, your fic skills and for quietly, unobtrusively battling through your RL shenanigans.

fallapartagain: Hahahahaha, HI THERE YOU! Snaps for living with a chronic illness and still pushing through it to get work done! I believe two things about you: that you are a true and wonderful variety of headcase, and that you are going to kick-ass in whatever you choose to do. Omg, I have fic to beta for you don't I? Aie, I should get to that - thanks for putting up with the fact that I never remember ANYTHING anymore. *hugs* Continue to be smashingtastic, m'dear!

filmedinsepia: Snaps for living it out, yo. Talk about riding the waves. I know you sometimes feel shitty which is why I am all the more awed of you because you consistently step up and mow on regardless. That's true inner strength.

general_jinjur: Snaps for amplificathon which is not only an awesome idea for a comm, but being brilliantly executed! Snaps for your meta, which is always well thought-out, interesting, and entertaining. Snaps for kicking some serious hind at your job! I can't really pinpoint why I like you so mcuh, hee. Let's put it down to your general aura of awesome, yes? Yes. :)

grimorie: SNAPS FOR LIFE-LOVING. I'm just saying. New flisters so there's much still to learn about you, but I can tell we're going to have a lot of fun, lols. Rock on, yo.

halliwellgirls: Hee, I think RL has swallowed you up, so you probably won't see this but SNAPS for being awesome at your job. You're such a shiny, happy person and your glee is infectious. I hope that the change in position at the day care has been everything you wanted it to be!

hestia8: Weird, stalkery-type confession: sometimes you're so utterly brill that I want to be you. Snaps for putting up with your sister, heh (although, really: sisters. What to do with them?!) Snaps for kicking ass at your job and for your recent raise \o/ Snaps for your attention to detail! I love reading your updates so much, fannish and real life. Your writing skillz are top-notch; the way you articulate yourself makes me smile. You're terrific, and I'm super-glad you're on-board at the comm because it's basically yours anyways, lol.

inflightdata: Snaps for hardcore schooling plus a deep-seated love of NCIS (natch)! Further snaps for verse-kinks. We haven't been flisters for a great length of time but it's a smooth road so far. (Well. My lane, at the least, lols.)

inoue130: You are a fighter. Snaps for surviving every piece of crap the universe has thrown at you, and then some. Snaps for have the guts to stand behind what you believe 100%, regardless of the consequences. Snaps for fighting and fighting and STILL FIGHTING, even when you're beat, even when you don't want to. On the days when I just want the world to swallow me up, I look at you and I pick myself up. Because if you can get up, then there's no excuse for me to be lazy. I believe in you.

kabutar: Hee - my desi sister, lols. SNAPS for the Epic Trip to Kenya and for the subsequent return. Snaps for not taking BS from anyone! You have a perfect ratio of fun to studious, which I love endlessly - your Bollywood yays, your giraffes (!), your MANGOES (did I tell you that I now live on Rubicon? Because: YES). Good luck with the grad application!

lauren_sark: Snaps for your first date! Your tone in those posts was so infectious - I'm pleased for you. We're new flisters, but you always make great posts, and I'm sure we'll get to know each other better as time goes on.

leda_speaks: SNAPS FOR BEING A SISTER LOVER. No, really. Your glee for a things womankind is empowering and celebratory and beautiful. I think you're smashing, lols, and I think you should be less self-deprecating because you are wonderful!

melanie_anne: Snaps for being a playwright! Seriously, I'm so amazed by that (I know, I know, it doesn't take much; but I'm impressed!) Snaps for your writing-fu! I love reading your posts - from your travel picspams to your day-to-day. Out flistship so far has been marvellous :)

melliyna: I have a handful of fighters on my flist and whether you believe it or not, you're one of them. You are. You have a big, big heart (and, yeah, okay - I'm kind of wowed by your brain, too!) You are going to make it through. Snaps for picking repeatedly picking yourself up. (On the shallow end: snaps for your love of Damien Lewis, lols. I love you.)

muldy: Snaps for your adventurous soul, and for getting back into academia after your break. Snaps for persevering in the face of irksome males! Snaps for being lolsome and kind and devoted. Girl. WE IS GOING TO MEET, YES? You better believe it, yo.

natushka: An old-timer! We have been flisters for FOREVER, yes/yes? SNAPS for swapping football teams! SNAPS for being a working woman in the big wide world! SNAPS for your mad literary skills! And ESPECIAL SNAPS for surviving last year. I'm coming to meet you one day: BE READY!

neur0vanity: I don't know if you're around to read this but: SNAPS FOR RECOVERY. For one day at a time, and going the distance. I was pleased to read your latest post, and I'm thinking positive for you.

noorie: Snaps for being a fighter, every single day. For getting back to academia, for working your hind off, for being a kind, generous friend (with an ace taste in music *g*) Snaps for getting back up every time you get knocked down. And especial snaps for being my friend. I wish only good things for you *hugs*

och_aye_85: You are so, so lovely. Really! I think you must think that I'm a crazy person (which: true) but you are so down-to-earth and real. And you're supertalented. You have true artistic vision, and I'm in awe of you. :)

ofadoration: Snaps for persevering on the job-hunt which will be worth it eventually, so hang on in there! Also, snaps for being a sister lover. Seriously: we need more fandomers like you who know where the women are at. We've only been flisters for a short while but so far it's all been rather smashing, y/y? lols. I'm pretty certain you're about to covert me to Twilight, so. Yeah.

perverseparagon: Rho! I don't even know if you'll see this on your flist because you're always away being INTENSELY AMAZING. I don't really remember how we met but I do remember that despite the fact that we're so often incommunicado, you've always been there for me. Snaps for being a person who's found what they love to do and continues to love doing it. *hugs*

powerof3: Hard-working, fandom-loving, mom and all-round kindly person? Yeah, I'd say snaps to you :) Snaps for putting up with ridiculous customers on your airline, and for dealing with insomnia, odd shifts and Life in General. *hugs* especially for the events of your last post.

pretty_cynical: Snaps for finishing high school, omg! You're another completely lovely person! See, because I'm a little bitchy and catty but apparently my flist is filled with people like you, who are just so GENIAL. Marvellous!

raeyashi: Firstly, super-belated (and continuing) snaps for grad school. The day you emailed around about the acceptance, damn. I was so pleased for you. And I still am. I love reading about your grad. shenanigans. Further snaps for all-round wonderfulness, your on-going Anglophilia, your understanding of the divinity of leg/arm warmers and your musical tastes. I think it's been a few years now since we became flisters, but that seems ridiculous to me somehow. I can't imagine what my flist would be like without you. ESPECIAL SNAPS for the hand-holding you do, and your amazing ability to make people feel buoyant and loved. One day I am going to have wonderful food delivered to you, and then have you shipped over here to the UK so that we can haunt various British Folk. It's going to be fabulous!

raucousraven: Your brain, let me at it! Or something. SNAPS for being the coolest academic that I know. Your every post brings me something to be happy about and to think about. You should know that I am highly enamoured of your grey matter. I'm just sayin'...

razorxrosary: Snaps for being a year older - woo! Further snaps for your marvellous quasi-apreciation of standard English syntax. I swear, I've never come across anyone who phrases things the way you do. It's smashing! You have some serious writing-fu in you, and your posts are always yayful to read. Yayarms all round! (I am STILL sorting out the last of my top 5s for you. I'll do it if it KILLS me. Which it might, I being the moron that I am.)

rogueslayer452: Snaps for enduring the surgery! I hope that you're feeling much better soon. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better. Yayface!

russianvelvet: ZOE. SNAPS FOR YOUR IMPENDING AS LEVELS. I know that you're going to ace them. SNAPS for your musical yays! SNAPS for being a couple of years younger than me and still totally on my level. SNAPS for being fun, for persevering through the past year, and for coming out on top. I love you, girl. See you when I get home!

sepiaxtoned: My Scottish bairn! SNAPS for finishing the second year! SNAPS for working hardcore in the hospital. SNAPS for your NCIS love (hee)! I don't know whether I'll have time in December, but if I do, we've GOT to meet up. Continue to be marvellous, darling!

snowpenguin545: Girl, you're what I call an 'old-timer'. I'm pretty certain we've been flisters since I started this LJ. I love your femslash-love, your mad photo skillz, and the PENGUIN that you MADE for me. MADE. YOURSELF. !!! You get snaps for doing what most people only sit on their ass and think about doing: getting out there, getting a job and getting a place to live. I love you for that. We'll drain that Atlantic one day. I've got my spork handy.

solanpolarn: Snaps for being one of the sweetest, mos good-natured people I have ever known! Your love of life and your love of your work make you a wonderful person to know. You are so considerate! Thank you for all the cards you've sent me. I treasure them all!

storyloves: I am kind of stupidly blessed when it comes to my 'closer' LJ friends and you're the epitome of that blessing. I meant all the things I said on your birthday post. Snaps for finishing out the college year! Do you realise how much you've grown in the past few years? I've seen it. I've seen how you faced the world and took a step up. You're so kind to every one, and I adore you. You're ace, and I'm rooting for you.

svu_fan_4ever: SNAPS FOR STARTING YOUR COURSE SOON. I am so proud of you! Your life keeps throwing ridiculous objects in your direction, and you keep climbing over them. You are a strong soul, so determined, so kindly and hard-working. Tany, I'm always so touched by you. Stay strong, chica, you're beautiful.

the_grynne: snaps for every piece of poetry and fic that you've posted, hee! You're so articulate! Your meta makes me think; your showbiz round-ups bring me glee. Your picspams are delightful. We haven't been flisters for very long, but I look forward to talking to you more!

the_muppet: SNAPS FOR FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT, YO. For keeping busy, for being selfless, for all the beautiful cards you send me - not to mention the random hugs, and the cheering comments. I believe in your ability to rise above things, and I love you for it. I can't even remember how we 'met'; I just know that I'm glad we did!

tigertrapped: Snaps for being the most prolific person I have ever met. That you have so much talent deserves double snaps. Snaps for being a wonderful mother, and for being a no-nonsense, straight-talking, wit-toting emblem of marvel! Especial snaps - and good luck - on the latest manuscript. I'm so excited for you! I know what the internet is like; I know that it's difficult to hear people say things and believe them to be sincere. But every time you make another notch on that post towards your endgame, I'm so happy for you. *hugs* I meant what I said on your birthday post!

trascendenza: Snaps for the new job! And also for every single meta post on the qualms of being anally retentive about tagging because, yo, I FEEL THAT. Snaps also for your twitter updates which always make me all, "...! WOW". One day you're going to have to share some food/cooking tips about the marvellous things that you are preparing!

twincy: Girl, it's been under two years since we net-met. Which. That's sort of ridiculous? I feel like there hasn't been a time when I didn't spam you. Snaps for nearing the end of your first year of uni (which I know you've kicked ass in) and for being generally on the ball with your witticisms. Twince, it's true: I love you for your brain. And your taste in music. And your loveable geekery! \o/ [Oh. My. God. You need to explain to me that new emoticon that razorxrosary has been using recently. I broke my brain trying to decipher it. I think it might be an Ood? I-- what?]

viciouswishes: You are witty, smart, hard-working, fun-loving and ficcishly prolific! I read every post you make and you always have something to say that's worth listening to. I don't engage with LJ/fandom wank, but I can trust you to cut through the bull's balls and lay it out straight. I can only wish to be as articulate as you. Also: many thanks for the vegetarian recipes: yum! Snaps for putting up with Bride-to-Be, family shenanigans, and for making it through the difficult parts of last year. I have true respect for you; I know you're having a low of it right now, and I hope that things get better damn quick.

wishes_of_stone: Alice, my girl. How did we even meet? I really don't remember. You are always there. You're my fighter. Keep on rocking on and I'll see you when we're both back in that endless, aching Fen. SNAPS for being a survivor. SNAPS for your musical career! I'm your fan, always. One day, when you're wildly famous, I'm going to tell everyone how I was lucky enough to hear your talent early xx

wliberation: It's true - we were separated at birth. That's the only reason I can think of why I feel like you've been in my life forever. Internet friends are fleeting because of all that distance, and because a lot of LJ is built on fandom which can be transient in itself. But you prove to me that distance doesn't mean anything. We have enough in-jokes to retire RIGHT NOW and make a living selling T-shirts, and drinking shroom-spiked tea. Here's a cheer for EPIC comment spams, our Army of Awesome, and postcards, lols. Snaps for conquering your second year of Brain Ploughing (aka academia), working so damn hard to do it, and being on the ball re: work-getting. DOUBLE snaps for being the person that you are without compromise. *loves*

wonda_woman69: You're a fandom babe, and though we haven't been flisters for very long, I've enjoyed reading your posts. More, yes? Yes! Snaps for outing your slash habits because damn girl, that's hardcore.

xanitia: ah, my bff. Es, I'm fairly certain you don't even know what a bff is, but you're mine. You're also my real life partner-in-crime, and I'll see you in the summer. Why so far away, yo?? lols. I miss you, like always.

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Stuff what happened today: walked to sub. campus - saw pink lady/blue dog combo AGAIN - and picked up The Flatmate. We walked to the main campus, took pictures of everyone being delightful. Also: of tiny ducklings, aw! Caught a rather stuffy, overcrowded bus to town where we walked through the park and then headed to the shopping centre. The reason for the outing? Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme. I've never experienced such a thing, so that should be interesting. We had lunch at this sandwich place in the food court, browsed through an art display/gallery and then Waterstones, bought stuff from Paperchase and Whittard's, then headed to Asda. It's been SO NICE. Later we're going to make crispie cakes \o/ Now, though, I have to try and be at least a little productive, lols.

Comments

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!! NO GIRLY, SNAPS TO YOU

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

Snap cup time, snap cup time, gather ye round friends and foe; together, united and bound! Pass it to your neighbour instead of blowing up and we'll find harmony and love in the snap cup!

"a true and wonderful variety of headcase" - I LOVE IT. Snaps to YOU! And I have more fic for you, when you're ready? I have more of the soon-to-be-epic NY fic too, I meant to email you earlier but then I went to see the doctor and forgot.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Haha, when I'm ready? Might be a while...

No, no, send it on Tuesday and I'll get it done before my next deadline. (Freaking end of year!)

*hugs*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

The women who work at the store always give me weird looks because I buy about 8 litres a go. They know me as the juice girl, aie! lols.

*hugs*

Well, the snap cup meme is that anonymeme thing where people put down their names and you say nice things about them. Which. I hate anonymemes? So I just decided to snap EVERYONE. \o/

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be known, I guess? lols.

Exactly! I hate anonymemes, lmao. So this way is better. No anony!

[ofadoration.livejournal.com]

Aww, you are so utterly fabulous. It has indeed all been rather smashing, y!

A word of warning, however: for the love of all that is sane, do not read Twilight. It is terribly written, but also terribly addictive. Pretend it does not exist.

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

You are seriously lovely. I have bookmarked this for whenever my ego needs a boost. Thank you! xx (Have you noticed how my icon goes with your background?)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have! I love all of the stock icons you've chosen, actually. They're so simple and pretty.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you so much. You definitely brightened my day.

And this weekend is going to be awesomesauce as Jason and I are going to Emerald City Comic Con. So here's to things looking up.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Ooh, smashing! Have a great time!

[pretty-cynical.livejournal.com]

*hugs* THANK YOU!!

[twincy.livejournal.com]

I don't know what this is, but THANK YOU. My life would be less joyous without you in it, and wow, under two years, really?

[melanie-anne.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thank you.

You're pretty awesome too, by the way. :)

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you! You're pretty damn awesome yourself. And I'm seriously impressed at the number of people you did this for. That's some hardcore dedication there!

[muldy.livejournal.com]

*is totally coming to meet you*

Probably at the end of this year ;-) *stalks*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Haha, I look forward to it! I'll be back in the Fen by then but there's more room there anyway.

I'm holding you to your above comment!

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Awww. Thanks, darlin', you're v. v. sweet! And SNAPS to you for being one of the most fluent-in-arts people on my very fluent, extremely artistic flist. (I enjoy your poem selections very much, btw.)

[emmademarais.livejournal.com]

emmademarais: Snaps for your minimalist-fu! No, but really, snaps for your superlative comm maintenance, your fic skills and for quietly, unobtrusively battling through your RL shenanigans.

Thank you so much! /feels the love/ Real life is done killing me, I've decided. It's time I was the one kicking ass and taking names. It starts this month and ends when I say it ends, damn it!

Thank you also for noticing my fic and comm skills. I've been feeling rather unloved as of late so it helps to get a kind word on that front.

Minimalism FTW!

For you, some haiku...

We forget that while
Our summers are glorious
Winters mean endings

Ink and quill, old school
Writers now tap their fingers
For a new reason

Tearing your hair out
Never undoes your faux pas
It just leaves you bald

Ice forms, cracks, shivers
The lake resists its prison
Winter warden laughs

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Then snaps for kicking back, too ;)

Haiku! Marvellous! Thank you for sharing *hugs*

[svu-fan-4ever.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks for that, girlie! You know how much i adore you. You're so incredibly talented, brilliant & kind. You're more than just a friend, you're like my little sister. I love you bunches. Keep being as fabulous as always.

Hugs!!!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*TACKLEHUGS* How do you always manage to put me in such a good mood? Aaaw.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the lovely things you said, really made me smile =)

We met when I was trawling the Numb3rs icons comm and came across your lovely icons and joined your icons comm and we went from there... I have a savant-like memory *lol*

Thanks again =)

*hugs*

[sepiaxtoned.livejournal.com]

I am so stealing this idea, and thank you so very much for your loooooooofly words!

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you!! :D

Sounds like you had fun on campus! A good day out is lovely.

[trascendenza]

Awwww, snaps. I FEEL SO LOVED I AM MELTY INSIDE. And, dude, yeah, the anal retentive thing. It's amazing how much it factors into daily life too, isn't it? Such as working on a tan and noticing that I have two patches of lily white skin on my sides and going OH NOES I MUST SCHEDULE IN HOURS TO TAN THESE AWAY, FOR THEY ARE RUINING MY COLOR COVERAGE.

And snaps to you for your whole online persona. I've always quietly loved the way that you just write about anything and everything and do it all in such a very *you* way. Reading your LJ actually changed the way I interacted with my LJ. You are legend!

[noorie.livejournal.com]

*loves on you*
thanks so much for this post, not just the lovely things you said about me, but also about everybody else. the entire vibe of it, so positive, something we all need in our lives. and i will try to be more like this person you describe :)

[inflightdata.livejournal.com]

Snaptacular! You are a million sorts of lovely!

[dreamer-86.livejournal.com]

Oooh don't I feel special! ;) *g*

Well my internship at the clinic does take up a lot of time and even though I'm not a full time fangirl any longer, I'm still keeping track of past fandoms and all that. I'm horrible at commenting these days but I do read through my Friends Page quite often to see what's up in the world of LJ. Anyways, I'm totally one of those silent/passive LJ friends (especially these days) but I don't have the hear to de-friend anyone... ♥

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

oh man, this is so lovely, thank you so much for the lovely, lovely snaps -- snaps back to you, of course! I love reading your thoughts and seeing your art and the poems you post and sometimes I stand back and admire your posts.:)

[natushka.livejournal.com]

An old-timer! We have been flisters for FOREVER, yes/yes? SNAPS for swapping football teams! SNAPS for being a working woman in the big wide world! SNAPS for your mad literary skills! And ESPECIAL SNAPS for surviving last year. I'm coming to meet you one day: BE READY!

Can i say. you just made my week. seriously. MUCH LOVE. yes i am an old timer. dude i think you were one of my first flisters on eljay. THAT MAKES YOU AWESOME. also. i got through all that stuff last year because awesome people like you are on my flist and are SO SUPPORTIVE WHEN THINGS SUCK.

I WILL BE READY. WE WILL LEAVE A PATH OF DESTRUCTION BEHIND US. *glee*