Please Excuse Me a Minute While I Indulge My Ego by Jumping Up and Down Clutching a Newly Received C

[queerbychoice]

I think you're pretty. You're very fragile, but not in a helpless maiden kind of way... more in a nervous-shy boy sort of way. You were an outsider before you became one of the only vocal "queer by choice" people and thus put yourself into the margins of both straight and queer society. That's just how you do things. And when people hurt you, it's not just that they're mean, it's that people are mean and you don't understand why. I can tell why you like Depeche Mode. I think you're a lot like me, only that you base a lot more of your actions and ideas on principles than I do. It makes you more politically oriented, a little more vocal, and a little more rigid. I think getting very close to you would feel, for me, like hugging Comma, who's more bones than fat. But I'm working on becoming fatter and fatter, metaphorically at least, which helps.
—sammka, in an LJ comment reply to my last entry

This is now officially my absolute favorite description anyone anywhere has written of me ever.

(Only, do explain - why is it that I like Depeche Mode, then? Even I don't know why I like Depeche Mode. It's something that happened to me so long ago, so early in high school, that I can no longer remember or even vaguely imagine what they would sound like if I were still hearing them for the first time without any of the nostalgic memories attached.)

Comments

[exterra.livejournal.com]

wow, that is a great description

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Not only is it an excellent compliment, from your LJ entries, it also seems to me to be completely and 100% true.

[heronblue.livejournal.com]

That's my Sam!

And she's right.

I probably shouldn't be so possessive of her, but in a lot of ways we're possessive of each other. Sam and I cling to each other because nobody else remembers what we were like when we were twelve and dreaming up elaborate fantasy stories in the study hall. She used to be birdlike, quite violent in some ways, but now she's just profound in a delerious sort of way.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

*CLINGS*

[princesswitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can completely understand why you'd love every totally accurate word of that response! *smiles for Gayle*

[sammka.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

I just think that in certain ways relevant to the description you're a lot like Martin Gore, who is also fragile in a nervous-shy boy sort of way (which isn't surprising, because he is a nervous, shy boy). The reason I said right there I understood why you liked Depeche Mode was because of songs like "People are People" and "Condemnation"- the whole "why are people mean?" question. But you also remind me of Depeche Mode romantically, like... "Somebody" or "Stripped". Sometimes you say things and I can so easily imagine Martin Gore saying the exact same thing.