as requested, rebloggable: "What is another word for alone?"

Check out how depressing these thesaurus.com entries for solitary are! This is why I don't use thesauruses, especially when I do Otherwordly things. I refuse to believe that the only words for solitary are negative. I don't believe that someone who likes their space sometimes should be called "friendless", "desolate", "distant", "misanthropic", "unapproachable", "forsaken". Those are terrible. Try these.

Solivagant means wandering alone; I've always wanted to post it but it has the same distinct suffix as something I already have up wait a second, it's right here! Waldeinsamkeit is the feeling of being alone in the woods--something I could probably use today. Sturmfrei or stormfree is being alone, with the freedom do what you want.

If you wanted to get metaphorical, you could say you were an inselberg--an isolated mountain. And if you wanted to work baked goods in there somewhere, you could use eremite (closely related, of course, to 'hermit') which means someone who lives a solitary life and also, apparently, a "spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts".

If anyone ever asks why I do this, this is what I'll tell them--because the universe and the people in it are a lot bigger than any one language can wrap its words around.