well this thread resonates. As a lot of you know, I went through some dark stuff, starting almost exactly five years ago. This place helped out.
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RT @petersagal
1) An elegy/tribute thread to this hellsite.

Even with all the trolls and Nazis and replyguys and liars, this has been a place where anybody with something to say could reach anyone willing to hear it.

Or, needing to hear it, as I just found out via DM.
https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1591132914221473792

Peter Sagal on Twitter

“1) An elegy/tribute thread to this hellsite. Even with all the trolls and Nazis and replyguys and liars, this has been a place where anybody with something to say could reach anyone willing to hear it. Or, needing to hear it, as I just found out via DM.”

Twitter
To echo Peter's original thread -- the bad stuff that happened, it's still bad. It's also distant and mostly unimportant at this point, and a lot of good stuff has happened since then. You couldn't pay me to re-inhabit my old life.
I was having coffee with a friend this week and he asked, would you go back to your old life if you could, and the vehemence with which I said "fuck, no" startled us both.
Anyway, some shit happened and it took awhile but I got through it, and since I think our time here is more likely than not drawing to a close, I just want to thank everyone who was kind and supportive back then. It helped!
@tomtomorrow that's right along with the conversation I had with my sister: if you met your husband today, as he is today, would you marry him? And we both said "fuck no!" Even though we love our spouses and have no intention to divorce...
@tomtomorrow Seems that's a good thing. Like, congrats!