Truth and Beauty Bombs

Does this seem like something that people here would be interested in? I was thinking about the failure of the H.P. Lovecraft Epistolary RPG, which led me to thinking about letter-writing in general. I'm not saying it's better or worse than internet communication, but it's certainly different; and it can be fun to have someone on the other side of the country (or even the world) to send letters and CDs and fake ransom notes to. So, if interested parties could post in this thread, and then I can pair people up and you can exchange postal addresses, then we could give it a whirl.

Obviously there may be some bickering about people getting paired with those they dislike on a personal level, but I think we're all mature enough to be able to sort out something to the benefit of both parties.

I'm down for it! I feel bad about not responding to Kendall's letter in the Lovecraft game, but I feel like, if we drop the pretense of holding up characters and the like, it'd work better and would be a bit more interesting.

Why not pair everyone up but also send the pen pal list out to everyone so anybody can send letters to anybody else, but everyone gets at least one pen pal out of the deal?

I would do this.

Well, so far we have two takers. I guess Scuba and Super can just exchange postal addresses and invest in some stationery.

fft investing in stationery
just be indie and write it on a diner napkin

Sure I'll be a pen pal. I have paper and pens and a lot of stamps for some reason. And I was quite an accomplished pen pal when I was teenaged. At one point I had thirty pen pals I think! I don't want that many now though because postage is silly expensive and I no longer use the stamps of my parents so I am more aware of the prices, etc.

But yeah, I'll try it out.

Let's go, let's go! PEN PALS.

I like partaking in written correspondence. I have also come to the realization that some of the funnier things I have written have been in letter form (though this is a judgment that I have not asked for second opinions about).

Anyhow, let's do this.

yeah i'll do this

This'd be fun. I'm in.

I think it would certainly last much longer than those mandatory pen pals in high school language classes.

"My Spanish is terrible but don't worry you'll never hear from me again."

Letters for the Low Lands (Holland)
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Quasi-related pen pal anecdote:

A couple years ago, I got a graduation announcement from the little sister of one of my pen pals who I'd fallen out of touch with maybe 8 years earlier, with a hand-written personal letter. I'm not sure who she thought I was.

Well, we have 8 now (including myself). I guess, if people still want to do this, that I will pair everybody up later today.

Do it!

OK, I sorted the names using the time-honoured method of a bunch of scraps of paper and an old felt hat. The results are in, and the TaBB pen pals are:

Pair One: ScubaGoomba <-> anomrabbit

Pair Two: chugbuster <-> Randy Johnson

Pair Three: Tom Meade <-> octobites

Pair Four: Super Duper Girl <-> kfunque


ALL PRAISE BE TO THE POWER OF THE HAT!

Kindly exchange addresses and get to writing. For the sake of keeping this thing going, I think it might be best if everyone tries to send a letter off before the end of April, and tries to manage at least one letter every two months after that.

ah chugs you will totally get a little graphic novel or something

yesss$$$

uh i'll pm you my address

me plz

requesting a cute girl

Well you'll have to rope one into signing-up. Or I suppose you could just start posting anonymous letters to a beautiful friend, writing a P.O. box as the return address.

At this point do newcomers etc get to just choose their own pen pal? Like "Hmm I will just PM this person and see if the shoe fits"?

Did I start treating this as a game with rules for no reason at all? Any of the rest of you: I can have more than one pen pal probably, if you wanted me to be yours for some reason. For any of you who want extra pen pals. And everything.

You should be my pen pal and sent me a sock cat

OH GOD THAT SOCK CAT

D:

I'm so sorry!

I really want to see what this is.

When I was a kid I made yarn-puffball cats - with realistic shedding!

When you Google "sock cat" the first thing that comes up is Clinton's cat, Socks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks_%28cat%29

I will be anyone's pen pal as long as they can wait until May. Also anyone is welcome to sign up for a very enthusiastic postcard from Ireland.

ScubaGoomba I have almost finished your letter I just need to go out and get some paper and envelopes and make it look all official and penpal-y.

Awesome! I guess include your new address in there so I can send mine to wherever you'll end up instead of where you are now (or are you having mail forwarded? I didn't even think of that!).

What we really should have done is partnered with another forum and paired each participant from here with one from there.

I would like to participate in this! Getting penpal letters is so much fun. I'm facebook friends with my Italian penpal from middle school. Also I want to go home and hug my sock cat now.