insertmeathere | Give thanks, people!

♠ ♠ ♠ GRATITUDE MEME!♠ ♠ ♠

To the players and characters in or from the United States, happy Thanksgiving! To everyone else, that'll be why many of us are unusually quiet tomorrow. But before we go off to be harassed by relatives, let us participate in an exercise in the power of positive thinking! Before you run, though, it's not as scary as it sounds.

1) Hey characters, you're thankful for something, right?
2) No, don't give me that crap about how everything's horrible and you want everyone to screw themselves. Come on. There's SOMETHING, even if it's as simple as 'I'm thankful that that jerk over there is more miserable than me' or 'I'm thankful that torture exists'. Post!
3) Write your thanks in that post. Even if you don't want to admit that some of these people are sometimes tolerable, you're damn well going to. It's standard meme ~magic~.
4) Respond to others' lists and be merry, thankful, and giving! Or...maybe you could just be slightly less cruel than usual. That works too.
5) Mind the turkey, it was prepared in the back room. It might not be so innocent!

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What am I thankful for? I'll have to untangle this.

Thankful to be alive has always topped my list, I suppose, and I am. As long as I live, I'll continue to fight.

I'm also thankful for the people I know and have known: my friends and family of the present, the people from my home in the past, and the opportunity to forge more friendships in the future. Specifically, I'm thankful to Renne and Katara for giving me a family to hold to, Kaylee for keeping the smiles on our faces and encouraging us, Jamie for being my more focused companion when I tend to lose sight of the goal, and all of our engineers for sticking with us through the rough patches.

I have to also extend gratitude to the Power Rangers: Dustin for providing all the help with our mission and fighting beside us, Tenaya for assisting us and giving needed perspective, Jamie for leading the team even more capably than I'd hoped, Lash for giving us excitement and advanced weaponry, Ron for giving us wit and motivation, Andy for working so diligently on the battlefield, and Kate for connecting us. You're all worthy of carrying my friends' mantles---I knew you would be, but I see it clearly now.

And this wouldn't be complete without saying that I'm thankful to have known B5 and Cassie, and their deaths were tremendous losses.

...this is getting far too long, isn't it? I'll conclude by saying that I'm thankful to have known ~~all~~ the vast majority of you, and that I'm thankful that we're together.

((He will elaborate or give more thanks if asked about it.))

Give thanks, people!

Billy Cranston's