They made a circle out of sage and gold

[sovay]

It is my birthday. I am forty years old, which makes me the age of a character in an unpublished novel when their life changes all ways for the better, which I would enjoy as an omen: a second plague celebration was definitely not on the docket last year. I woke to a card from my godmother and a package from selkie and a book from my parents. With any luck this wandering cloud-slipping sun will hold long enough for us to get to the sea, as I have been promised. I am still here and especially these days that should count for something.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Hippo birdie two ewes! :o)

I trust there is cake?

[sovay]

Hippo birdie two ewes!

Thank you!

I trust there is cake?

There was excellent cake.

[yhlee]

Happy birthday!!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!!

Thank you!

[shewhomust]

Happy birthday - I hope it includes some sea!

[sovay]

Happy birthday - I hope it includes some sea!

Thank you! It did!

[thistleingrey]

Felicitations!

[sovay]

Felicitations!

Thank you!

[chanter1944]

The happiest and most fulfilling of birthdays. Here's to many more. :) May your day be filled with seaside wonderfulness, excellent food, beloved humans, and kitty cuddles.

[sovay]

The happiest and most fulfilling of birthdays. Here's to many more.

Thank you!

May your day be filled with seaside wonderfulness, excellent food, beloved humans, and kitty cuddles.

It did, in fact, contain all of these things.

[aurumcalendula]

Happy birthday!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!

Thank you!

[troisoiseaux]

Happy birthday!!!!!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!!!!!

Thank you!

[strange_complex]

Happy birthday!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!

Thank you!

[pameladean]

Happy birthday! May the sun welcome you to the sea.

P.

[sovay]

Happy birthday! May the sun welcome you to the sea.

Thank you! They were both kind. Or themselves, which is even better.

[batdina]

these days, that definitely counts for something.

Happy birthday.

[sovay]

these days, that definitely counts for something.

*hugs*

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

[asakiyume]

Happy Birthday and many happy returns of the day!

I hope the new decade brings wonderful, positive things.

[sovay]

Happy Birthday and many happy returns of the day!

Thank you!

I hope the new decade brings wonderful, positive things.

I think that would be great. I would like to request a surfeit to share if possible.

[radiantfracture]

Happy birthday! I made you a thing (as yet untitled):


[birthday incantation? something like that.]


I need a beginning.

The sea, then, with its gifts.

Let me see you as you will be, singer,
upright among the shore rocks, a taper
each moment brighter, eating the storm
and shining back its fervors,
lightning dancing in your grinning teeth.

Or Proteus, if you prefer,
uttering the ocean’s prophecies,
first taking, then changing,
the form of each thing clutched,
released –
turning all the stones of the strand
with your long fingers
to show the life surging beneath.

Caveat, proviso –
I worry about the undertow
in all wishes. An it harm none,
especially you.

If Arachne were all admiration.

Then let my thoughts travel on the night bus,
slow shuttle, drawing the line
between the far edges of the frame,

while you set to work
unravelling the snarled roadways,
sorting them into even weaves.

What pattern emerges?
You will tell me. You will sing it
beautifully.

[sovay]

Happy birthday! I made you a thing

It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Thank you for it. I didn't expect it at all. Also, if it doesn't sound narcissistic, you should really send it somewhere. It's good.

*many hugs*

[larryhammer]

Hippo birdies two ewes, and many more!

[sovay]

Hippo birdies two ewes, and many more!

Thank you!

[sartorias]

Have a wonderful day, and I hope it is the start of a wonderful year!

[sovay]

Have a wonderful day, and I hope it is the start of a wonderful year!

Thank you!

[thomasyan]

Happy birthday!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!

Thank you!

[cyphomandra]

Happy birthday and happy new decade!!

[sovay]

Happy birthday and happy new decade!!

Thank you!

[kore]

Happy very happy birthday!

[sovay]

Happy very happy birthday!

Thank you!

[steepholm]

Happy birthday!

[sovay]

Happy birthday!

Thank you!

[drinkingcocoa]

You are but a baby! Happiest of birthdays!

[sovay]

You are but a baby! Happiest of birthdays!

Thank you! I am not at all unhappy to have reached this age.

[sholio]

Happy birthday! I hope it's a lovely one with much sea. <3

Let me know if you have any special requests for a snippet of birthday fanfic involving any of the various characters we share, and I'll see what I can do.

[sovay]

Happy birthday! I hope it's a lovely one with much sea.

Thank you! It was.

Let me know if you have any special requests for a snippet of birthday fanfic involving any of the various characters we share, and I'll see what I can do.

Oh, wow. You are probably the only person who will ever write for Turn for me, so either something in that direction or whatever space Daniel Brühl is currently taking up in your head? Thank you!

[asakiyume]

Cloud-slipping sun, slip loose and take them to the sea...

[sovay]

Cloud-slipping sun, slip loose and take them to the sea...

The sun was an excellent guide.

[starlady]

Happy birthday! I hope there is ocean.

[sovay]

Happy birthday! I hope there is ocean.

Thank you! There was, and it was lovely.

[nineweaving]

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays in beloved company. May all your paths lead seaward,

Love,

Nine

[sovay]

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays in beloved company. May all your paths lead seaward

Thank you. A good one did.

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

Happy fortieth birthday!

[sovay]

Happy fortieth birthday!

Thank you!

[dewline]

Congratulations on surviving another orbit around Sol, then!

[sovay]

Congratulations on surviving another orbit around Sol, then!

Thank you!