X Years Ago Today

[sorcyress]

One year ago today, it was 2008, and I went over to jere7my and adfamiliares's house in order to watch bad movies for the very first time!

(Snarking movies with jere7my is one of those things I try to do at least once a month or so. I credit this awesome habit with giving me understanding of the mbta bus system. Did you know that the 86 goes in two different directions? I do now!)

More interestingly, I spend a good amount of entry babbling about the fact that j7y's house feels like The Empty City --that house in Maryland that I grew up in. Subsequent visits over there hasn't changed this fact.

Nothing I've found in Boston serves as a perfect recreation of The Empty City. There is this permanent feel of fandom that it needs, and lots of people just showing up, and just a feeling that, no matter when you go over there, there will be interesting people doing interesting things.

Dan4th's house is probably the closest I've got now, there or the Big Blue House in Milford. Just...constant Things going on and people and happiness and animals and lots of conversation and laughter...it's what makes a place feel like Home to me.

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[benet.livejournal.com]

I miss there being a place like that too; haven't really had one since Bag End Under Hill, back in London, Ontario. (It was not much like a hobbit-hole, really, but the doorknob was in the middle of the front door, and that was enough for us.)

Ever since leaving Toronto, and thus going back to square one in terms of a social network - which is just awesome for a pair of introverts who don't drive - I've rather wished that someone would adopt us, in the way that persis seems to do with people; simply including us in a regular round of social activities that they have going. That hasn't really worked out either in Seattle or Madison, where we've been painfully piecing a network together a person at a time.

[persis.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the wonderful compliment. *hug* You do know you are both welcome here any time... :-)

[benet.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, and thank you.. that is very good to know. (I wish there was a you in Madison, though!)

[forexample.livejournal.com]

The skills that go into making an Empty City are hereditary. I suspect in a while a new Named Homey Space will erupt volcano-like around you.