Christmas is always a weird time for me. I don't particularly have a good relationship with my mother and father, and I've spent my life being raised by my aunt. So spending Christmas with just her is nice, but it's strange over the years too. I'm sad I don't get to spend it with my extended family, which I have a much better relationship with. And overtime, I've tried to sort of substitute my family with friends instead, people who have been good to me.
I was talking to potabun yesterday, and I realized that I pretty much thought of her as the weird doting sister that I never had, but if I had one, she'd probably be it. And I started thinking about my good friends, elan-ra, and yukiniku and lesbianblack. And my wonderful fiance milesian. I don't know how everyone else thinks of me, but these friends are like family to me. I wish I could spend the holidays with them. They'll just have to deal with my late shitty post cards instead.
It's been a good year. I got to meet boysstealingsantaclaus, kalinst, popotopancakes and glumshoe (Ship particularly in person. We must do it again!). I hope that over time, you all will become like family to me as well. I also got to meet some wonderful people on XIV. tiergan-vashir, shofie-ffxiv, chimerafood, bloodydragonwings, penanna, tinolqa, and a bunch of others. Thank you for liking my pictures and putting up with my dumb hype for an MMO, something that I haven't felt in a long time. You are all wonderful, and I hope you have wonderful holidays.
And of course, there are tumblr mutuals as well. Particularly 267198, whom I feel a particular friendship with, even though we don't speak much. I hope to one day meet you in person still, even though Seattle isn't in the cards for my immediate future anymore. If nothing else, I hope still to be able to visit. Also particularly iamilex, who, while we don't know each other well, is the only other law student I know of that I follow. May we both have good fortune (and good grade averages!) in the coming year! Hopefully as time passes we know each other better than just our knowledge of the law.
Shoutouts to itsdorkgirl, the only TBF Zaibatsu fan that I follow. I should follow more, but you're cool and awesome, so thanks for being part of my dash.
And to anyone I forgot, it's not for lack of affection, but rather that I just woke up and I'm tired and I'm writing this all down and putting it up and never speaking of it again.
