Awesome

[ailbhe]

Let me tell you why you are awesome. Comment here, and I will pledge to write at least a short sentence about why you are awesome - obviously the ones I write while Astrid is napping will be longer than the ones I write while I'm walking past the open laptop on the way to something else, but I will write something!

Comments

[khrister]

I don't usually fish for compliments, but I must admit to being curious: Why am I awesome? :)

[ailbhe]

Social bravery! You just came to the con and met people and socialised all night and did things, on your own, in spite of not knowing anyone! That's incredibly awesome, especially since it didn't seem to make you really sick. And you were JUST as friendly when I met you in 1999.

[supermouse]

I would rather find out why Eleanor of Aquitaine is awesome. She was mentioned on R4 today and I missed it and I haven't bothered to google yet. But apparently, she is awesome.

[ailbhe]

Oh, I read a Jean Plaidy that said why she is awesome. I can't remember what it was called.

You, of course, are awesome because you have splendid creative ideas and work hard on self-care without sacrificing the possible enjoyable things for tedious "important" things.

[taimatsu]

It would be nice to hear why you think I'm awesome :)

[ailbhe]

There aren't enough bits on the internet, I'm afraid. But part of why is that you are kind and cheerful - innately cheerful, I think, which is magnificent - and stoic and realistic and funny and witty and generous and honest and creative and thoughtful (in two senses). See you this evening :)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[ailbhe]

You are kind on the internet, something I find admirable. You have excellent ideas for how to face the crap life throws at people and you offer them gently.

[ailbhe]

Your mental health- and fat-activism are awesome! Also your personal journey to a place of wellness, unicorns, rainbows and excellent shoes! And you swear well.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Me, please? I could use the confidence booster.

[ailbhe]

You are a provider of confidence boosters yourself, and the oilpourer of sanity on the troubled waters of other people's parenting dilemmas. Yay! (You make me feel better about myself).

[cabbagemedley.livejournal.com]

That would be really nice.

[ailbhe]

See her juggle a new baby, a new home, feminism in real life, a sense of humour, self-awareness and yet remain considerate of and towards others! If I needed to get stuff done, I'd get you to do it.

[da-pol.livejournal.com]

Please?

[ailbhe]

And you would drive five hundred miles and you would drive five hundred more just to be the guy who helped someone who needed something at their door, diddle-de-da-da, etc. Srsly, the lengths you go to for your friends are *mindboggling*.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Crumb of awesome for me?

[ailbhe]

Oh but the creativity and colour and makingness of it all are AWESOME with little awesome unities of tone or theme throughout!

[jexia]

I need this.

[ailbhe]

Twins. Schoolchild. Writing gig. PND. Sense of humour. And you need ME to say you're awesome? you are MADE of AWESOMESAUCE.

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

whimpers :-)

[ailbhe]

Your lactivism, not just online but in real actual life, is awe-inspiring - and knowing the background against which you do it just makes it more so. Also with the rejecting the paradigms in which you grew up and building better ones to grow around your son.

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

I shall add to the challenge...

[ailbhe]

I don't know a great deal about you, but you are articulate and funny and somehow you manage to do non-childy-stuff while I am swamped in non-adult universes.

[annifa.livejournal.com]

You are awesome for doing this!

[ailbhe]

But do I work daily to the benefit of a profession which SAVES LIVES and rescues people from BURNING BUILDINGS and often their own MINDBOGGLING STUPIDITY while maintainined a professional outlook? No, no I do not, that would be you! Also, do I actually DO anything with my feminism? Like book groups or meetups? No, that's you again, awesome annifa!

[rosefox]

Gosh, what a lovely thing to do! Me, please.

[ailbhe]

You built a career out of the materials available to hand and now you're growing it like billyo! I think that's pretty damn impressive, especially given where you were say five years ago.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

Do me! Do me!

[ailbhe]

You may be surprised by this, but what I most admire and find most enviably awesome in you is that you seem so peaceful, not frantic even when you're annoyed - you are neutral-to-energising to be around, never, ever, ever, ever draining, and that's pretty rare. (To anyone else reading this: even having a wonderful time with other people can be draining. St L isn't. No idea why.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

That would be really... awesome.

[ailbhe]

I'll have to come back to you, this could take a really long comment, anti-bullying home-educating PhD-having, sermonising, political writing and all. Give me a few hours.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Funny, I could actually use that. Thank you.

[ailbhe]

You think the thinky thoughts and poke them with sharp things until they bite you so that you can learn from them. I don't know a great deal about your personal life, because you are cryptic beyond the wit of me, but I know you think even the not easy things.

[rmc28]

*bounce* Pick me! Pick me! *bounce*

[ailbhe]

Money, where mouth is. Over and over. Even to egg-donation, which is a step beyond political canvassing as far as I'm concerned.

[barakta]

8am on a Monday - yeah sounds good for being cheered up. Thank you.

[ailbhe]

You're loooooovely, and also do good works! I see you popping up in all sorts of places giving people information, and you respond to gauche or potentially offensive questions kindly.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Big me up :D

[ailbhe]

You are funny and clever and fond of sparkly things and don't take things too seriously - or too gravely, I really mean - but do give things serious thought. You are generous with your time and effort, and also, you have TRAINS in your GARDEN like HELLO!

And I keep going back to that waterlily photo. It's so... *wet*.

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

Yes please, how lovely!

[ailbhe]

Your personal, internal strength is absolutely astonishing and awe-inspiring. You do stuff, and you get up the next day and do more stuff, and you find you've failed at something and you get up from under it and you fix it, and then you do more stuff, on and on and on, and periodically you break out and look at the sunshine and how far you've come and it's glorious, so you put your head down and go do some more.

Your kids are so, so lucky.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

I may steal this. I'd love the boost, because I'm really knackered today.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

OK you know what? No. Scratch that. You are not awesome. You are awe *inspiring*.

[sfred]

Go on, then.

[ailbhe]

You're another of the people who makes the world nicer by being in it! You're intelligent and kind, not just in the easy ways but in the more complicated sharing and not wasteful ways, and deliberately doing things in your life to make the world better rather than just wishing it.

[quentinwrites.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you know me well enough but it's worth a try. I think I might do this on my own journal too, if you don't mind?

[ailbhe]

Mm, tasty tasty thoughtful feminism! I love that bit.

[eponymousarchon.livejournal.com]

Coolness - do you know me well enough for this? :)

[ailbhe]

Not really, but you value spelling, which is something the world needs more of!

(She said, putting in considerable effort not to write "of which the world needs more," because Oxbridge Latinophiles do not get to dictate my grammar.)