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AnSionnachRua  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: Do You Have a Best Friend that You've Never Met?

Lots. I've been involved in a bunch of internet communities, and made a number of good friends I never met or at least didn't for some time.

I was active on a Nintendo fan forum many years ago; there I met a girl and a guy, in that order, with whom I fell in love at different times. I was much younger then. I met the girl, with some other friends from there, back in 2010. I never met the guy, though we did recently get back in touch. I'm Facebook friends with a bunch of the Nintendo forumgoers - though the forum very quickly stopped having anything to do with Nintendo, and was just about us - but we rarely speak.

I used to play Team Fortress 2 back in the day, and made friends with the people on a particular server. One became a very close friend of mine, an English guy called Alex. He was about three years younger than I (a lot, at that point). But I haven't played TF2 in a while.

I was active on an asexuality forum as well (though I'm not asexual myself). I ended up getting quite close to a small group of members, and we met back in July of 2012 when I went to WorldPride in London. I was very close to one in particular; Sori, a teeny Asian girl from Alberta. But she killed herself in January.

And then, of course, there's Hubski. Unfortunately I've yet to meet anyone from here, due to that pesky Atlantic Ocean...