God, I remember [Jdoogie] (who does indeed keep me locked up as an au pair) telling me about this thread and thinking I should chime in and never did, but didn't realize it was a year ago already. This popped into my head because I just got home from the third wedding I've attended of a friend I've met from here and I'm in my feelings. I did indeed stop coming by here primarily because of politics - it wasn't intended to be permanent, but there were a lot of things I tapped out of before the Kavanaugh hearings for what I thought was a temporary basis that I never ended up tapping back into again - but also because I had long since developed really close friendships with so many people from here that I was talking to elsewhere all day every day that I just kinda fell out of the habit of checking in here. But, especially since a few of them were mentioned in this thread (although I don't remember the usernames of the ones who weren't, I'm sorry) I thought everyone might appreciate hearing that that group has become some of the most important people in my life. Like I said, I just attended my third wedding. We were some of the earliest people who found out when two of those couples had babies. We've been there when loved ones have died. I lived with someone from here for 7 years. I have tearfully been on both sides of conversations getting each other through some of our toughest, scariest, most surreal moments. This place has ultimately been the source of so much joy, and love, and laughter, and adventure, and romance, and pain, and travel, and comfort, and support. And that includes a couple people I still haven't met in person yet. Like, my dad knows who Jdoogie is because I have him ship me homemade bacon for the holidays. There have been so many moments, like tonight, when I stop and think "it is so fucking weird and crazy that these people who I love so much are in my life because 15 years ago my ex was talking to me about this Tucker Max message board and I decided to check it out." So... Thank you? Just as a quick update after 5 or so years, I am doing very good. I'm still in Brooklyn, I'm working at a literary organization where I talk about books all day and hobknob with famous authors all the time. I'm still writing a ton, although focusing more on book projects lately than magazine writing so no one is reading it except for one friend and the agents who keep saying very kind words while rejecting me. I am still having a lot of adventures around the city and around the world and my romantic life is still full of stories rather than a nice normal relationship. It's not like things are perfect exactly, but my life looks the closest to how I've always imagined it than ever before and I am - dare I say it - happy. Anyway, just thought I'd say hi.
@toytoy88 hasn't logged in in over half a year. Wonder if his roommate killed him or if he just got tired of all you libs being wrong all the time?
He had some skin cancer issues he wasn't happy about and something about his GF having cancer or something. Can't recall the exact details. He might just have a lot on his plate.