forget your Unified Theory of Everything

Happy Birthday, chrisleeoctaves. You're one of the warmest, kindest, most thoughtfulest, funniest, creativist, one-look-at-you-makes-me-feel-betterist,-even-though-we've-never-met-est people I know. Have a good one, toots. With CAKE.

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Also, [dwight] question [/dwight]: Is it possible to post something on a delay so that it automatically posts in the future? For instance, for daily_words, I thought it'd be possible to make all the posts on the weekends and have the posts automatically post themselves each morning. Semagic has a queue feature where you can line posts up, and you can adjust the dates, but it doesn't post them on those dates. It just posts when you click "post" and the posts show up on the journal and in people's friendslists as if they were just made, even though the dates on them are future dates.

Pls I can has help?

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SOOPER SEKRIT MESSIJ: HAI THAR jadntonic; YIS THIS IS ME!!! Can my cousin come with us Friday? She's 19 and just visiting. Will talk to you later.

I don't know if she's around to see, but everyone should know this: crazydiamondsue is a spectacular person, in a fannish sense, in a good hearted person sense, in an orange sense, in a good taste sense, in a talented sense, in a fuzzy feel good sense. She margaritas my Mexican dinner, and I'm glad she was born.

femmenerd, you a la mode my pie in so many ways, I don't even know how to say. But I'll give it a start:

1. Sending me 4 a.m. pics of Jared and Jenson and who knows what; it's actually all kinda hazy, now.
2. You are just as excited about looking at pretty girls as you are about...power issues as they pertain to sexual identity. You get all jazzed up about slumming around watching old tv shows, and bubble over with a similar enthusiasm over...feminist theory as applied to readings of specific texts. Especially when the texts are like, episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You are all the sheer ebullience I long for in academia, with none of the pretension or assholism.
3. You're a damn fine writer. To whom I can talk to. About writing. These two things don't always go hand in hand. Also. I like your paragraph structures.
4. I bet if I met you you wouldn't smell too bad.
5. You are loving in a rare way. It appears effortless to you, and easy, and joyful, and open-minded, and insightful, a bunch of other good stuff which I don't really know how to describe except that it makes me feel kinda uplifted when I see a post or comment by you.
6. You like wine. I like wine. We should have a party, some day.

There's more, like how well you punctuate and how hard you fall for things and how pretty I think your hair is and how I really like the green color on your lj, but it could get creepy, so I'll stop. Eat cake!

No, really. Eat cake. NOW.

I had no idea your birthday was today! I almost missed it! Or I did miss it, in your neck of the woods . . . punctuality is the bane of my existence.

I really actually *can't* count the ways, but here are some reasons lostakasha really doubleshots my mocha:
1. You have a sense of humor that is flagrant, unashamed and devastatingly forthright. You say what you think and you do what you please, but you never make the mistake of taking unserious things too seriously.
2. You write thoughtful, meta-heavy fic that makes me see the characters in new ways. You write fic thick with metaphor and ways of phrasing things I never would've thought of. You write really hot fic, too. Sometimes (often) you do all three at once.
3. You keep on truckin'. You smile when you can, and your chin is still up when you can't.
4. Brillo balls.
5. You love with enthusiasm, and throw yourself into things you're interested in, and you have *fun* with your inner fire. I think that's so very important.
6. You metatate with me! Sometimes I wish I could sit down in a room with you and mine your brain for all your interesting thoughts on Buffyverse characters, and then all your thoughts on any other characters ever, and then on writing or living or watching grass grow. 'Cause with you, I bet even that would be interesting!
7. I could go on!

*slips in last minute*

violaclaire's a jolly good fellow.

I wish I was better with birthdays. I wish I was better at keeping in touch! Which shouldn't be hard on lj but it *is*. I have your IWRY fic saved up to read and I look forward to it. You rock like a gravelly object, the Beatles, that Hudson guy, and also that Oliver guy if you want to get all Sharon about it; the pun was "Stone" there; like a Rolling One. Alright so that doesn't make sense, but I wish you frosting, candles, a badly sung song, and a talking tree. Because who doesn't want a talking tree? I feel that you would, particularly. This is just my feeling, not a judgment on you. Well actually, it kinda is, but it's a good thing, really. At least, you know, in my opinion. The opinion of the one I am.

a2zmom, you are the sunshine in my sky, the apple in my pie, the single perfect tear in Angel's eye, the sweet in a sorrowful goodbye, the platinum of Spike's hairdye, the woman in my guy (yeah I don't know), the truth in every lie (that doesn't even sound positive), the life that gets me high (now that sounds a little too positive), the roastbeef on my rye (ok, now I'm hungry), the longing in every sigh, the alcohol in Colonel Tigh? Yeah I could go on forever with this.

THINGS THAT ANNOY ME ABOUT A2ZMOM.
1. Whenever I go to write meta it's always, a2zmom said this, a2z said that. I get tired of writing the lj user stuff over and over.
2. She can always say in 10 words what it takes me a 100 to say, and she always knows what I mean anyway.
3. She lives too far away from me.
4. She won't let me make a fairy Spike to put in her miniature greenhouse.
5. Even when I've completely convinced myself of something, she can always make me see her objection. And she's always right.

But other than that, a2zmom is caring, discerning, enlightening, helpful, enthusiastic, thinky, generous, hilarious, talented, and snarky. She's actually much much more but it took me a long time to find that last link so I quit. This woman, she emailed me once a week for half a year just to remind me to watch "Bones". I love her and am so glad I met her. I hope work shapes up, that you get some sleep, that you feel better, that you eat yummy cake, and have a happy birthday, a2zmom.

p.s. I'm going to send you something one day but I haven't sent it yet so uh, it's going to be late. Really late. And don't get excited, it's not that special, but you are.

Happy birthday, semby! You're one of the first people I met lj, and I've never regretted it. Except for that one time when you flamed me and I called you a whore and we fought and then made up but then you had my boyfriend's baby and it was an alien and it vomitted on my shoe, but that didn't really happen so I forgive you completely for it, unless you want to buy me new shoes. Um, what I'm trying to say is I'm really glad to know you.

Happy birthday germaine_pet!

It's such a wonderful thing to be able to admire a person's personality as well as her talent. I love both in you, Lynne. I can never decide which of the two is the handsomest; I was awake all last night trying to figure it out.

l_aurens! Hi! It's her birthday! I want her to get a pony! And cake! And a very well meaning belly dancer who is not my sister-in-law who is wearing belly bells! And a trampoline! And ice cream! And an earnest well wish from an extremely dead poet! And a kudzu! Because everyone should have a kudzu, but l_aurens is not everyone. First of all, she is too small.

She is also singular! Get it? Okay I guess I'll have to explain. Here's why:

1. She's a phan! But not the sort of fan of Phantom of the Opera who insists on spelling everything with a ph. Or has nominated Erik and Christine as eternal woobie teddy bears for life and beyond, where there is only cuddling. She likes her Erik skinny and scary and nose-lacking. Also, the Persian. There's not enough Persian appreciation, but l_aurens has it in spades. And in hearts and diamonds and other small trowels!
2. She's introspective in a deep down soul-searching way.
3. She seems to think that Spike's spectacularly small popsicle privates could defeat the amazing awesomeness of Angel's alabaster and alliterative anus.
4. Photography, thy name is someone famous I've probably never heard of. But l_aurens's photography is not only beautiful and sometimes soothing and sometimes fun, it's so...cathartic to see her discover it, contemplate it, attempt to understand it, improve on it--not just in a technical sense but on an emotional and sometimes even metaphysical level.
5. She has interesting things to say about sexuality, gender, vibes of genderfucking, etc. Christine Daae in pants! Yay! Spike as femal Peter O'Toole! Uh...huh? Yay!
6. You know how some people say, let's agree to disagree. Then keep arguing/trying to change your mind? l_aurens doesn't do either. She says, "hey! We disagree! Cool. Let's discuss." And thereafter follows some of the most entertaining and insightful discussion you can get with two cents, two shakes, and twenty-two years of trying to have such conversation but usually falling flat on your face with a certain sort of mud-covered ignominy not exclusive to shipper wars, f_w, and American politics.

And one to grow on:

7. She's cute!

Is it really kita0610's birthday? How do people find these things out?

Anyway, happy birthday, kita0610. And, because I'm mushy like that, 5 Reasons You Float My Boat are:
1. You loved on and recced my first ever finished Jossverse fanfic, which made me feel kinda famous.
2. You'll flash VK's dick without much provocation.
3. You proved wrong my erstwhile opinion that certain things just can't be achieved in text, and made me a better writer just by having read you.
4. You're like Xander's Cock with wings, in a way, and I believe in you.
5. I think you're a good, loving, and strong person.
6. There are so many reasons you keep my cheesewheel cranked I thought there should be more than 5.