Friends I Haven't Met

It's Thankful Thursday, my friends! And today I am expressing thanks for the FABULOUS friends I've made online that I have and have NOT managed to meet yet, but with whom I bonded before ever seeing each other face to face.

In fact the earliest of these, I wasn't even comfortable using my NAME. I was rather paranoid in 2005 when I first ventured into interactive (as opposed to just information seeking) forums. Oh, it has been sweet, and some of these bonds have been true familial type bonds. I've got the Lady Marauders (and the early seeds of the Naked World Domination Tour), the Roadtrip Sisterhood, the whole High Wizard Court, my fellow Burrowers, my encouraging fan fic readers, the writers I've met through Facebook and Blogging... I've made some amazing and fabulous friends and I just wanted to express my GRATITUDE!

So to thank all of YOU, I wanted to share a few things that people have shared with ME...

From Snehal—college student in India who I made friends with through the fan fiction stuff... THIS is HYSTERICAL. http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/1127991128/offended-by-rank-objectification-of-writers.

Or there was this note from Rayna, my Thursday Twin:  
Perhaps you should look at making Kali your patron Goddess-
Kali: "Just as all colors disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her. Her nudity is primeval, fundamental, and transparent like Nature — the earth, sea, and sky. Kali is free from the illusory covering, for she is beyond all Maya. Kali's garland of 50 human heads that stands for the fifty letters in the Sanskrit alphabet, symbolizes infinite knowledge." [Tart note: See—through nudity, knowledge!]

And Joris makes me true FABULOUSNESS with regularity... this being one of my early favorites.... Though Joris has also made me book covers and a variety of other things to entertain me...

And Marissa, another artist friend... I've SHARED my image of 'me' (Dominatrix Llama in a wine glass) (the duck is a Wizard War Joke)

There are FAR too many of these friends to go through all of them... and they include all of you... so THANK YOU for being fabulous!


SPEAKING of Fabulous.... Heads up! And by heads up, I mean BEER HEADS... My friend the Beer Wench opened her Microbrewery and Saturday is the Grand Opening for Wolverine Brewery Tap Room in Ann Arbor. I am going to do a FEATURE on Saturday—watch for it—but in the meantime, if you want to check it out, she'd love it!
Beer Wench