you deserve cake!

Today is ceredwensirius/ ceredwensirius' birthday.

I've known her for going on seven years now, and when we first encountered each other (in an RP called allinplaid) I was a snotty eighteen-year-old barely stepping into HP fandom and she was already a BNF in the Hermione/Sirius bits thereof. (Of course, whitmans_kiss and I managed to seduce her over to the slash side something awful fast, but let's pay that no never mind right now.) The last several years we haven't managed to quite keep up with each other, falling into parallel depressive spirals and kinda withdrawing from fandom at large, and I miss her something terrible some days. We have written together and I have often been in awe of her prolificity and proficience, but what stands out in my memory is the rp-ing. All the rp-ing. Years worth of pretending to be fictional lovers, friends, parents, children. nephews, cousins. All of the people I have been who have loved all the people she's been wildly, yearningly, with the easy glow of familial affection. All the ways in which I have loved her.

Dearest friend, elder-sister-in-a-different-land, beloved, I hope you are having a good birthday, that the year ahead is happier than not, that life treats you with great kindness.