text, memeing it up

[rathercommon]

Hullo, all.

So...The days are short, the air is cold (except in Heropa), and all of us are struggling with lingering embarrassment from all those mis-sent texts. So, to give us all a bit of cheer, and in recognition of all the holidays we've constructed to help us deal with winter, I thought we all could give one another a bit of love.

So! How does this work, then? Well -

1. Go ahead and post your name in this post.
2. People respond to you with things they like about you, lovely moments you've shared, et cetera.
3. You go out and respond to others with things you like about them.
4. NO BEING AWFUL. Do NOT give backhanded compliments or secretly troll people or things like that. The point of this is to be good to one another. Go be good to one another!

Comments

[deadtective]

That's not a compliment, that's a warning label. Nice try, though.

[helpline]

That's definitely a compliment. I've been in plenty of situations where someone's ability to throw things was useful, why wouldn't it be a compliment?

[deadtective]

Because you don't need compliments for bullshit that you worked hard at.

[helpline]

Course you do! Why wouldn't you? You worked hard at it, so you deserve compliments.

[deadtective]

You busted your ass, and now you're good at shit. That's it, that's the reward. Compliments are for stuff you have no control over.

[helpline]

Then what would you call it, a statement of fact? I thought telling an accomplished dancer 'you're so good at dancing' counted as a compliment.

[deadtective]

Not unless you're offering her a job.

[helpline]

But you're still complimenting her! It's still a compliment!

[deadtective]

Nnnnope. Doesn't count, sorry.

[helpline]

Doesn't count according to you. Definitely counts according to me.

[deadtective]

Good thing everybody already knows your opinion's garbage, then.

[helpline]

I don't know, I wouldn't call it garbage. Awful, maybe, but not garbage.

[deadtective]

Total trash.

[helpline]

Mild trash.

[deadtective]

The kind of dump heap that's got the shit at the bottom starting to fuse with the ground again.

[helpline]

The fact that you're describing that so well makes me think you know that portion of trash better than we realize.

[deadtective]

Fucking duh. It's the go-to layer people use to tell me how much better scum is than me.

[helpline]

Oh now they're just wrong. Scum's not better than you, scum's awful for holding conversations.

[deadtective]

You'd be surprised, it's pretty chatty.

[helpline]

I must know awful scum, then.

[deadtective]

Not surprising, considering it's you.

[helpline]

Someone's got to scrape the bottom of the barrel of knowing scum, might as well be me.

[deadtective]

That's a nice way of saying 'all the good scum was taken'.

[helpline]

I'm two thousand years old, all my good scum's in a retirement home by now!

[deadtective]

What, scared if you cross the threshold of one they're not gonna let you back outside?