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I was only suggesting fifty years of me

derspatchel and I are engaged.

I gave him a copy of The Lady's Not for Burning. He gave me Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway. I brought the rings: a design of two cats, side by side. At the Friendly Toast, we signed our names to the question on the frontispiece of one book and the finale of the other.

(We are still making wedding plans. It is with great self-restraint that I have not titled this post THIS WILL ALL BE GONE INTO AT THE PROPER TIME.)

We are very, very happy.

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Wow! Congratulations and best wishes!

Congratulations and best wishes!

Thank you!

Congratulations!

_The Lady's Not for Burning_ is an excellent engagement gift. (I'm sure the other is too, I'm just not familiar with it.)

Congratulations!

Thank you!

(I'm sure the other is too, I'm just not familiar with it.)

(We both read Tom Swift in our childhood, which almost certainly damaged us for taking certain tropes seriously. I haven't read this particular one yet, but it will be mid-century pulp science with implausible portmanteau names for all its inventions and almost certainly one fictional country and it will be delightful, even if it's not good.

derspatchel is reading it first. I trust him to provide reports.)

Hee! Congratulations as well as felicitations (and good luck with the wedding plans).

Congratulations as well as felicitations (and good luck with the wedding plans).

Thank you! (Right now we are spending more time thinking about the screwball film festival than the legal ceremony itself, which tells you where our mutual priorities lie. It is one of the reasons we love each other.)

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thistleingrey - 2013-03-07 19:18 (UTC) - Expand

Mazel tov! What splendid news!

Mazel tov! What splendid news!

Thank you! It is what we knew we wanted quite some time ago, but we were going to be sure.

ὐμήναον!

ὐμήναον!

Ah. Thank you!

Wishing you all joy!

So very very happy for you both.

*hugs*

Much love,

Nine

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Congratulations and best wishes!

Thank you! It is not what I could have imagined this time last year. It was not, by the time we spoke of it, a surprise at all. That in itself was a wonderful thing.

W00t! Congratulations! (We're going downtown to the pub in half an hour, and the pub is a short dash from Taaffe St - I might try to sneak out and drink you a toast in yr eponymous street...)

Congratulations!

Thank you!

(We're going downtown to the pub in half an hour, and the pub is a short dash from Taaffe St - I might try to sneak out and drink you a toast in yr eponymous street...)

Dude! Did you manage it?

(

shweta_narayan and

emily_jiang had already intimated to me the existence of a street of this name in Sunnyvale, but now I really feel like I need to make a pilgrimage.)

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desperance.livejournal.com - 2013-03-07 16:56 (UTC) - Expand

All right! You've done your worst. A misadventure
So intolerable, hell could not do more.
Nothing in the world could come and touch me
And you have to come and be the damnable
Exception. I was nicely tucked up for the night
Of eternity, and, like a restless dream
Of a fool's paradise, you, with a rainbow where
Your face is and an ignus fatuus
Worn like a rose in your girdle, come pursued
By fire, and presto! The bedclothes are on the floor
And I, the tomfool, love you.

What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have
Deeply. What is good, as love is good,
I'll have well. Then if time and space
Have any purpose, I shall belong to it.

Also, I may have been too young, the first time I heard The Lady's Not For Burning. It was on the radio, I was still a child, and I misheard or misunderstood. What I heard...?

But it's not a dog at all. It's a witch:
A rather appealing brindle witch with many fleas.

Which is - of course! - what I still hear, every time. (And, damn it, I knew what "brindle" meant! Apparently "bitch" eluded me, or my ears censored it out because it was a Bad Word, or whatever. "Witch" it is, and "witch" it will always be, for me.)

the first time I heard The Lady's Not For Burning. It was on the radio

I think it is wonderful you heard it first on the radio. (Do you know the cast?) My grandparents took me to a production when I was thirteen. I imprinted.

YAY!

YAY!

That's how we feel!

Thank you.

YAY!!!!! Dammit, LJ doesn't have room for all the smiley faces, either.
Congratulations, and may the both of you have all the happiness in the world and all the time in the world to enjoy it.

Congratulations, and may the both of you have all the happiness in the world and all the time in the world to enjoy it.

Thank you!

I will imagine all the smiley faces, which are as numberless as happiness and time.

I am thrilled for both of you.

I am thrilled for both of you.

Thank you. We were still laughing wide-eyed with each other when we woke: this happened, this stays, this is real. It feels like getting away with something. It doesn't feel strange at all.

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readingthedark.livejournal.com - 2013-03-07 18:13 (UTC) - Expand

I felt a great happybounce in the Force, as if millions of geeky folk across metro-Camberville all threw their heads back and went YAAAAAYYY.

In all seriousness, congratulations to you both. :)

I felt a great happybounce in the Force, as if millions of geeky folk across metro-Camberville all threw their heads back and went YAAAAAYYY.

Hee. Thank you!

I am surprised, still, genuinely, by how many people seem to be made happy by our announcement. I am filing this knowledge away against Tiny Wittgenstein and all the other neuroses, personified and not. I like knowing joy is a communicable thing.

Hurray! Oh, congratulations and much joy to you.

Oh, congratulations and much joy to you.

Thank you!

And your icon just makes me smile.

HURRAY!!!

So tempted to sing Yiddish wedding songs in a horrible voice.

That's for the wedding.

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sovay - 2013-03-07 09:28 (UTC) - Expand

Congratulations! Wonderful gifts.

Congratulations! Wonderful gifts.

Thank you!

This is wonderful, wonderful news. Congratulations, Sonya. And congrats

derspatchel! Hugs all around!

Congratulations, Sonya. And congrats derspatchel! Hugs all around!

Hugs happily returned. Thank you!

Hooray! Congratulations! Oh my goodness!

Hooray! Congratulations! Oh my goodness!

Thank you!

It makes us very happy.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Mazel tov!

My sentiments precisely!

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sovay - 2013-03-07 09:33 (UTC) - Expand

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

THAT IS SUCH WONDERFUL WONDERFUL NEWS!!!

Congratulations!!!!!

Look, I picked a bunch of exclamation points for the two of you:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they don't need mowing or anything--they stay at that height.

And they don't need mowing or anything--they stay at that height.

You are an absolutely wonderful friend. Thank you!

Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway

Semi-OT, but that's the one Tom Swift I've ever read!

< Steve Rogers >I understood that reference.< /Steve Rogers >

Semi-OT, but that's the one Tom Swift I've ever read!

That's awesome!

(The Lady's Not for Burning is worth your time, too.)

Χαίροισα ηύμφα, χαιρέτω δ᾽ ὀ γάμβροσ.

Love you always. Many congratulations.

Love you always. Many congratulations.

Thank you. You give me Sappho. I do love you so.

Hey, congrats.

(Do report back on the Swift, in due order -- I haven't read that one. Not that I've read many of the Tom Jr.s.)

---L.

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Hey, congrats.

Thank you.

(Do report back on the Swift, in due order -- I haven't read that one. Not that I've read many of the Tom Jr.s.)

They were what we had in the house when I was growing up; I haven't read any of them in years. I remember loving Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron (1966) especially, although I can remember very little of the plot now except for Easter Island, which I'm sure made more sense when I was twelve. The Caves of Nuclear Fire (1956) had one of the best titles.

Oh, this is the best best BEST NEWS. Congratulations!

Oh, this is the best best BEST NEWS. Congratulations!

Thank you! Thank you! It is the best thing to happen so far this year. I do not expect it to be the only.

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