HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY LITTLE ... LAMB. i was going to buy you new glasses, but i bought sunglasses instead because they're cooler. i'm going to barge into your flat any minute probably, so don't be alarmed ~ i love you. p.s you are so old now, wow, ew.
thank you, love, they’re wonderful. sure to protect my delicate eyes from the harsh london sun; i couldn’t have asked for anything better, though “barging into my flat” beats sunglasses by miles. i love you too, paget.
p.s. not old, just more dignified with age, i hope.
HAPPEH BIRFDAY GIDDY! *YELLS* AND FABIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a great day gid, fabian on the other hand -- tell him i hope he doesn't die from alcohol poisoning.
thanks, andy, i'll be sure to. don't worry, i've made sure that he stays far away from the pub today.
have lovely birthday, gideon! i hope you go out and do something fun. i know fab will be inclined to go to the pub, but don't do that, all right ;c
thank you, lily. i'll try. and i fully intend on making fab celebrate his birthday in a significantly healthier and more productive way, don't you worry.
and it's a little strange to thank you own characters, but i'm sure as any creator of any fictional character knows, there are thanks to give. because you have this kind of strange bond with your character, because you know your character better than you know yourself, and you constantly shit on your character (...figuratively, but hey, props to those who do so literally?) but then you get to hand them swords and weapons and a brooding hero face (TM) to sufficiently kick the ass out of any problem they face. and sometimes they don't kick so much ass, and sometimes they die (spoiler alert: one day, you will too), which sucks. but -- it isn't like real death, obviously. you get to revisit the character as many times as you want, and your character would have died some kind of meaningful hero's death (hopefully, unless you're walter glass). so i guess it's kind of like having all the perks of having a kid except they're stuck in a certain time of their life and they're immortal. essentially.
anyway, i do have a point with this whole spiel, and this is it: a creator learns from his created. always have. i'm sure god learns a whole lot about us while we muck around on earth. i'm not sure why, because you'd think it was the other way around, but i guess something about the process of creation is also a path to self-enlightenment. because, really, most, if not all, things are made in the image of their creator. you can't really create what you don't know. and you can also give them all kinds of perks not afforded to yourself, since you know your own limitations and imperfections and can hopefully give your creation, if not flawlessness, at least cooler, more bad-ass flaws. like a battle scar, for instance, but i'm getting way off track.
so thank you, gid, for teaching me about myself. i've said before that you and i share not only a "save the world" complex but a tendency to lecture, and well, i guess we could both work on that a little bit. but you've also taught me what true bravery and fraternity means. i talk with a lot of pomp and circumstance, but i could have never joined the order like that, not with so few reservations about my own safety. i still get scared when it's time to stand up for myself and what i believe in. and you've also taught me what it means to fight for friends, and not just yourself. so pretty much what i'm saying is that you put me to shame, gid, because i'm a year older than you and i'm still sitting around at home on my computer and you're out there in the middle of battle, kicking all kinds of evil butt. it's pretty good motivation to whip my lazy ass into shape, because i can't lose out to a fictional character, can i?
also, thanks for teaching me to love astronomy. i watched quite a few documentaries on the universe and astrophysics thanks to you, you know, quite a few. i didn't even give a rat's ass about nebulas until you came along. but you're right; stars are pretty rad. (are you never wrong?)
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