Happy birthday Sakata Gintoki (10/10/2011)
Oct. 9th, 2011 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nijibugThis is not a love letter but a thank you letter. I haven't written one in 3 years since Avatar: The Last Airbender ended its run....
If any of you had told me a year ago today that I was going to find myself living from week to week for an anachronistic Japanese sitcom about a lazy single dad who never pays rent, I would have laughed in your faces and said, "You don't know me! I live for sweeping stories of love and timeless tales of valor; for magic swords and reincarnation; for time-traveling ancient wells and two moons in the sky!"
But I am in the here and now, where I stand corrected and humbled. Because you gave me something to laugh at until I doubled over wheezing when nothing could make me crack a smile in real life, and then you showed me how to find those things for myself so that I could start laughing out of the blue and not care if other people wondered why. Because each time I cried for you was a tear I didn't have to shed for myself, and when I felt a lump in my throat and a burning in my eyes, I didn't need to hold back. I could sob my heart out with ugly gulps and tears on my chin and snot on the back of my hands, then lift my face from my sodden sleeves knowing for sure that you, your family and your friends would stand back up no matter what brought you down.
Because you showed me that family is a choice and that love is people. That the most fortunate thing in the world is finding those people who will help you find yourself.
I want to thank you for knowing what's most important and never losing sight of that. For your integrity in everything you set out to do. For always letting old friends crash (sometimes literally) at your apartment, whether a political insurgent with pipe dreams and frustratingly nice hair or owner of an intergalactic trading company and the galaxy's stupidest laugh. For the role model you are to the little alien girl who sleeps in your closet and eats you out of house and home and the insecure teenage boy who drags both of you out of bed every morning and cooks and cleans and hollers till your ears bleed. For being the best neighbor anyone in Kabuki town could ever ask for, never turning down a job because in our heart of hearts we know you have never turned your back on anyone you could help.
Demon, alien, witch's son, or lost timelord. I think I speak for fandom when I say we don't care what you could be, because what you are is a slacker, a hopeless Shounen Jump addict, a gambler and a loser, and quite often you are either hungover or drunk; you have no purpose in life other than to protect that of others, and that alone is more than reason enough — you are our hero.
Happy birthday, Sakata Gintoki. Thank you for being born.
If any of you had told me a year ago today that I was going to find myself living from week to week for an anachronistic Japanese sitcom about a lazy single dad who never pays rent, I would have laughed in your faces and said, "You don't know me! I live for sweeping stories of love and timeless tales of valor; for magic swords and reincarnation; for time-traveling ancient wells and two moons in the sky!"
But I am in the here and now, where I stand corrected and humbled. Because you gave me something to laugh at until I doubled over wheezing when nothing could make me crack a smile in real life, and then you showed me how to find those things for myself so that I could start laughing out of the blue and not care if other people wondered why. Because each time I cried for you was a tear I didn't have to shed for myself, and when I felt a lump in my throat and a burning in my eyes, I didn't need to hold back. I could sob my heart out with ugly gulps and tears on my chin and snot on the back of my hands, then lift my face from my sodden sleeves knowing for sure that you, your family and your friends would stand back up no matter what brought you down.
Because you showed me that family is a choice and that love is people. That the most fortunate thing in the world is finding those people who will help you find yourself.
I want to thank you for knowing what's most important and never losing sight of that. For your integrity in everything you set out to do. For always letting old friends crash (sometimes literally) at your apartment, whether a political insurgent with pipe dreams and frustratingly nice hair or owner of an intergalactic trading company and the galaxy's stupidest laugh. For the role model you are to the little alien girl who sleeps in your closet and eats you out of house and home and the insecure teenage boy who drags both of you out of bed every morning and cooks and cleans and hollers till your ears bleed. For being the best neighbor anyone in Kabuki town could ever ask for, never turning down a job because in our heart of hearts we know you have never turned your back on anyone you could help.
Demon, alien, witch's son, or lost timelord. I think I speak for fandom when I say we don't care what you could be, because what you are is a slacker, a hopeless Shounen Jump addict, a gambler and a loser, and quite often you are either hungover or drunk; you have no purpose in life other than to protect that of others, and that alone is more than reason enough — you are our hero.
Happy birthday, Sakata Gintoki. Thank you for being born.
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Date: 2011-10-10 02:14 am (UTC)I AM HAVING ALL THESE EMOTIONSSS
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Date: 2011-10-10 03:21 am (UTC)nijibug-donooooooo~
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Date: 2011-10-10 05:27 pm (UTC)gintama is great IT IS GREAT
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Date: 2011-10-22 10:36 pm (UTC)And yeah, the paragraph about your normal taste sounds pretty much like mine would xD