/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Used to browse this place some years back when I was a fairly overweight shut-in.
Stopped around the time I started working out with the help of a friend who wanted to do cosplays together.
He dropped it a few months into it but I had been really enjoying it all along and made a habit out of it, soon it branched out into other physical activity like rock climbing and canoeing and I was spending a lot more time outside.

For some years I lost contact with my cosplay friend. Two days ago I ran into him and he looked completely gone: pale as shit, huge eyebags, random streaks of color in his hair, baggy clothes stinking of weed etc. What's worse, I could see him trying to hide some intense resentment as we talked.
And in truth I felt repulsed by the thought of ending like that as well.

So I open this board again, see this thread and tell my life story apparently.
We're all gonna make it, and your husbandos are all terrible.

I met my best friend through /cgl/. Nobody has ever been as compatible as she was, to the point where a lot of people thought we were dating. We loved eachother in a completely platonic sense and she was like a sister to me. She then started hanging out with this rampantly opinionated SJW type girl who rubbed off on her and suddenly my best friend who had the same sense of humor as me became this over-sensitive, "everything is sexist" type almost overnight. Because of that, suddenly she hated me for making the same jokes we used to all the time.

So, because of some toxic bitch, I lost the closest person to me. I still love her and miss her and wish her the best, but it eats me up inside every time I think about it.