Res ipsa loquitur

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I had a completely uneventful birthday. We didn't even make a cake. I always feel disappointed about my own birthday and guilty about other people's -- I should have done more, I should have made a bigger deal of it -- so in a way it was nice not to be able to go anywhere or see anyone; it couldn't have been a big production no matter what I did, which took the pressure off.

My mother can't go out and buy cards, so she sent me a valentine.

First I want to offer another song for download: L'Homme Arme' by the Christmas Revels, from Sing We Now of Christmas. If you're a fan of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, you'll enjoy the fact that this is "The person, the person, the person with the weapon." The English verse is not historic -- the notes say it was composed by Susan Cooper, but it doesn't say whether it's that Susan Cooper.

Now.

reginagiraffe, "(It's MrGiraffe's birthday so...) Have you ever written a birthday themed story? If not, what couple would have the best/funnest/easiest birthday story to write and why?"

I don't remember ever writing a birthday story.

I'm not good at birthdays. My standard experience of birthdays (my own and other people's) is standing around in the twilight, feeling like the day is too special just to go watch television but I don't have anything better to suggest and it's too late to start something, and wishing I'd done more. (At least when the kidlet was small the parties were structured and there were activities. Maybe I should plan my next grown-up birthday party with a quiet game, a craft, an active game, cake and ice cream, and goodie bags?)

I wonder how long symbiotes live in the Venom universe? I can see Eddie getting down about getting older and Venom having to be talked out of literally making him younger, but the symbiotes are clearly intelligent, and movie canon doesn't say they don't have culture. It would be interesting if they mark the passage of time too.

It would be interesting if the lifespans of their natural hosts were such that they marked time so that they knew when it was time to abandon one host and find another one.

Characters with canonically iffy childhoods (Harry Potter and Severus Snape, probably BBC Sherlock though I haven't watched most of the relevant series, Benton Fraser) would be easy to write into a birthday plot, but it seems so prefab to me that I must have read all those stories already.

In the Harry Potter universe, we've seen Nearly Headless Nick having a Deathday celebration -- I'd love to see what that looks like for other ghosts.





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