The thread of hope.

[empath]

Thank you, Mr. Judge.

[Kirkygirl]

There's five million reasons to be hopeful in this world. And all of them are to help kids.

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/news/p ... dsplay2012

THANK YOU GAMERS.

-Kirkygirl

[Geoff_B]

To: People who say gamers are anti-social, violent and maladjusted

Read the above and suck it.

Love and kisses

All of us.

[empath]

Agreed!


Oh, and something Geoff posted in another thread that totally belongs over here, too.

[The Jester]

I wasn't sure where to put these. The Gay thread, or the thread of Win, or of Soothing Cuteness are all potential candidates. But I felt like here was a strong compromise for all of them.

[Deedles]

[empath]

I wasn't sure where to put these. The Gay thread, or the thread of Win, or of Soothing Cuteness are all potential candidates. But I felt like here was a strong compromise for all of them.

Cross-post it and maximize the exposure so that some people who follow one thread but don't follow others will still see it and be heartened by it.

You reminded me that this thread existed, so I'm bringing over something I planted securely in Win:

“I’m not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.” -Iggy Pop

Apparently his manager saw him and asked "Ig, why are you wearing a woman's dress?", to which MISTER Pop took a page from Eddie Izzard and replied "I beg to differ, this is a man's dress."

[empath]

Aaaaand,

i’m just gonna leave this here as a reminder that “hitting bottom” doesn’t mean “staying on bottom for the rest of your life and dying as a piece of crap”

[Geoff_B]

Also "thread of win" as well methinks?

[LogicSword]

I think this belongs here.

[Tapir12]

This is sad but beautiful

[Geoff_B]

I think this belongs here.

Um... Page not found

[LogicSword]

Ooops.

Here it is.

[Lord Hosk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTaB-hPg0P4

[Geoff_B]

This is win, awe and hope all wrapped up in one heartwarming package.

Edit: Sorry, didn't realise that it's the same video Hosk just posted. Have cross posted it to Awe and Win anyway.

[Tapir12]

Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success

[empath]

This makes me happy enough I might be able to get some sleep now...at 7am.

[JustAName]

Yeah, I've seen that one around, and it's always great.

[Deedles]

This makes me happy enough I might be able to get some sleep now...at 7am.

;_______;

[empath]

(yeah, this probably should go in Lols, too - but I felt this thread was being left out)

Don't despair:

[Geoff_B]

[The Jester]

Okay. Someone asked me how I feel about writing fiction in a world that still needs actual activism and hands-on work to make life better. They said something similar to, “I get pulled away from writing fiction because I feel guilty for not making tangible benefit to the world. Isn’t fiction just escapism?”

But I also got the following message, which I’m filing some of the serial numbers off of, as it were:

“I just wanted to tell you something. When I was 18 years old, my life was a fucking mess. I worked at a store that sold comic books and one day I stumbled upon Spider and the filthy assistants. Your comic kept me from killing myself. There is a character limit here so I can’t say everything I want to but thank you. From the very deepest part of my heart.”

I post this not to self-aggrandise. It is not a unique message, for good or ill. I get them surprisingly regularly. Frankly, messages like that scare the hell out of me, because I’m not very smart and not a very clever writer and I fuck up all the time.

But fiction speaks to people. Even fiction like mine acts to tell someone, somewhere, that they’re not alone.

You want tangible, social benefits to writing fiction? There are people walking around today because other people wrote words that spoke to them. That’ll do.

And thank you.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

And thus is all art ever made justified in a single stroke.

[empath]

For someone who is "not very smart and not a very clever writer" and fucks up "all the time." he got that one nailed beautifully, eh?

[DSmaster21]

Let's see autism, depression, ADD, but everyday is another day.