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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2005-04-24 09:12 pm

One I will enjoy doing

Swunked from four or five people:

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like/love/adore you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

[identity profile] aphoenix2007.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! :) Go on... ::preens::

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
I just enjoy everything you write. You are lively, charming and intelligent. I suspect that you are the youngest on my f-list - or at least among those who answered - so I hope you will not find it patronizing when I say that you are huge promise wrapped up in a delightful bundle.

[identity profile] privatemaladict.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
This'll be interesting. :)

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
You just are everything I would want a daughter, sister, or friend to be. To begin with, you are very pretty; not that that matters so much, but, to judge from your photograph, you have that animation, especially in the eyes, that counts for more than mere good looks. You work hard - look at your long journal entries even after you committed yourself to the hard graft of a medical course. You are witty without being insulting or flippant, you take others' views seriously even where you oppose them, you know what you do not know and do not pretend to have opinions where you have no knowledge to back them up. On the other hand, you take your own views seriously and defend them even where they might be unpopular; and when you set them out, it is in an articulated and nuanced manner. You always have in mind that views are not just views, but come with people attached to them, and you take the trouble to avoid being personally offensive even to ideological opponents. You are friendly without being submissive, and, at the right time, you can give a show of claws, but you do not go looking for trouble or keep grudges. You are altogether someone whom I am proud to have on my f-list.

[identity profile] privatemaladict.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
Um. Wow. Thanks. *is stunned*

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you asked. Sometimes a compliment can be more burdensome than an insult, because it can imply a higher standard of behaviour and achievement than the person is used to seeing in her/himself.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? You are intelligent, a first-rate writer (more fics! More!), thoroughly pleasant and well-balanced. You argue intelligently and with an open mind. I do not really know enough about you to say more, but you always are a white, charming spot in anyone's f-list.

[identity profile] curia-regis.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
*grins* Me!

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
I could never have guessed at first, but you are a pleasure to argue with. You are full of interesting thoughts and experiences. I cannot help feeling that you are your own worst enemy, a rather confused young woman, but I firmly believe that there is something good coming out of you.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and you can write. Although, for my taste, there is a lot of echoes of your own personal problems in your fics. Of course, there would be. But that goes back to what I said about your talent and your personal confusion.

[identity profile] curia-regis.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe. I'm a messed up person. But then again, aren't we all?

Anyway, thank you. :) I love having good discussions with people and it's so difficult to find somebody willing to do that in RL.

[identity profile] tashmania.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, go on then. Moi?

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
I love your vivacity, your intelligence, and the fact that you love Rome and books. You evidently have the right tastes. Plus, I have a thing for small, power-packed ladies.

[identity profile] becomethesea.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Whee! Fell teh lurrrve!1!!one!

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-25 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
You are a total charmer. You are feminine in the best sense of the word, yet well-read and intellectually ambitious. Personally, I like very much a person who wants both to become an astronaut and to fall in love for life, and who cares about Mozart as well as about her Proms dress. If you ever do come to Cambridge, look me up - I'm in London, a few dozen miles south (nothing, for an American!).

[identity profile] purple-mirie.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... I'll give you a bit of a challenge here, I think. :D Humor me.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I know very little about you, but you come across as intelligent, charming and lively. You gave me lovely reviews, both positive and intelligent. You are Catholic, which cannot be bad. And I like your icon (an icon in every sense of the word).

[identity profile] purple-mirie.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You're the first person to recognize my icon. :)

Thanks. And I do wish I'd get to know more of you.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'm an Italian, and an artist! Like asking a German musician whether he can recognize Beethoven.

As for getting to know each other... lookin' forward to it, mademoiselle, lookin' forward to it.

Dear fpb,

[identity profile] super-pan.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I know this is an old post, but will you do me, because I want to put it in my lj too.
hafguk

Re: Dear fpb,

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a good look through your LJ and I think I can say you are a very fine person. You enjoy life, in spite of having suffered greatly most of your posts are about fun, positive, and constructive things. You are friendly, warm-hearted, sensible and sane, and if you think that these are lukewarm kinds of praise, they are not to me. You are articulate and lively and fun to read. And don't think I haven't noticed that you have been treating me like a friend, although you once asked a certain question and got an answer you cannot have liked. I hope we have a long friendship.

Re: Dear fpb,

[identity profile] super-pan.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, fpb, I hope so too. If you wonder why we can be friends, it is because you are everything you advertise to be. You straight up warned me you were tough, and you are. But it's worth it.