Happy birthday!

[shimotsuki]

Here's wishing the happiest of happy birthdays to duck_or_rabbit! I'm so glad I've gotten to know you, and it definitely feels like I've known you a lot longer than I actually have. Your insightful, quirky comments add so much to any discussion. I love the vivid and original language in your writing, and I always enjoy your take on Sirius, Regulus, and Sirius/Rosmerta. And you leave such supportive and thoughtful reviews!

I have to say, though, that meeting you last month wasn't as much fun as I expected. Because it was more. (Erm, that's a Gricean-maxims joke, for the philosopher of language.)

Let me add my voice to the chorus at the birthday comm that the amazing train_lindz has set up, duckbirthday, to wish you many happy returns and leave you a Sirius double-drabble (200 words, G).

For the Sport of It
Sirius sat on his bed and watched the three other boys sitting on theirs—the short blond boy who was staring at his hands, the thin brown-haired boy who was pretending (not at all plausibly) to read, and the messy-haired boy who met his gaze and grinned.

“How’s it feel not to be in Slytherin, then?” Potter’s tone was conversational, as if his words hadn’t just sent hundreds of years of Black family tradition spinning into dust.

Sirius had spoken to Potter on the train mostly because he knew the boy’s family was notorious. Sure enough, Mother’s face had gone that perfect shade of puce when the train pulled away and she saw her firstborn framed in the same window as a blood traitor.

But the thing was, Potter had turned out to be all right. In fact, he was bloody brilliant. The two of them were going to pull off more and better pranks than Hogwarts had ever seen.

And his being in Gryffindor would wind Mother up more spectacularly than anything Sirius had ever even dreamed of coming up with.

So he returned Potter’s grin with a wicked one of his own. “I think I’ll manage.”

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Comments

[duck-or-rabbit.livejournal.com]

I wanted to stop by before bed to say that the companionable feeling is absolutely mutual. You are one of the few people I've met who has taken note of my 'language game' theme and don't think I'm insane for being fascinated by language - it's bewitched us both. And I crave more philosopher of language jokes from you because that's the kind of humor I understand, lol.

Thank you for your compliments - they matter to me. Lots.

Be back tomorrow with commentary on Sirius ...

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Be careful asking for more language jokes, because you just might get some! ;)