How my birthday was awesome like David Hewlett's ass (or: midnight is where the day begins)

I am hungover and I am in a great mood, and that is the wonderful contradiction of life in fandom. Yes.

So yesterday was my birthday (guess how old I am. No, go on, guess! And no peeking at my userinfo!) and it was wonderful and incredible, first and foremost because a bunch of fabulous people put together the community day_begins and gave me prezzies! First you should go check out the hilarious and wonderful list of interests in their userinfo (my own interests seriously need to be updated), and then you should check out the amazing things people made for me. Which I will now proceed to gush about.

*reccea wrote the lovely, subtle story Campfire, which is wonderfully atmospheric and has an excellently characterized John who just breaks my heart, but whom I have real hope for, too. It's great.

*smittywing wrote Padraic's Legacy which...well, I don't want to spoil the AWESOME, CRACKISH DELIGHT that is this story, so let's just say that it starts out with John quoting Indiana Jones, proceeds to take full advantage of the St. Patrick's day theme, and ONLY GETS BETTER FROM THERE. I'm into obnoxious caps-lock territory because of this story. *glee*

*tardis80 made me ( this )

...which I have to display in its fully glory here. I just...*spasms* It's enough to make me find religion.

*stop wrote Going Soft, which has puns, euphemisms, and FOOTNOTES. Sing with me now: "These are a few of my favorite things..."

*Speaking of euphemisms, _inbetween_ performed a truly miraculous feat, writing Pull My Daisy, a story featuring every single one of the penis euphemisms listed here. And it has an actual plot! It's a scary, scary genius that _inbetween_ has...

*megolas wrote Entanglement, which is a simply gorgeous look into Rodney's mind and which makes both math and physics incredibly SEXY. *boggles* Go boggle, too.

*dar_jeeling made me six gorgeous icons, including the one proudly sported by this post. (And how much do I love that I seem to have created a new phrase?) There is even an icon of Ralph the Elephant! *loves*

*not_sally made me a beautiful Shirley Manson (of Garbage) icon and wallpaper, and also (scroll down), possibly the most hilarious and clever SGA icon EVER. Just...*is filled with gleeful pride*

*fyrie wrote me Playing the Game, an adorable fic about Rodney and Radek, with some fab Cadman bits lurking in the background, too. I don't want to spoil this, either, but let me just say that I can TOTALLY see this happening. In fact, I bet it already has.

*And last but so, so very far from least, siriaeve wrote Sfumato, which is an absolutely breathtaking fic about John and Rodney in Italy. But it's about so much more than that, too. You must read this, and tell Siria how wonderful it is, and encourage Siria to write more, more, more. I'm just...guh.

(Verklempt, Siria: now would be a very appropriate time to say I am verklempt. *g*)

Thank you, also, to everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday, and to the anonymous person who bought me the pint of Guinness in my userinfo. You're all wonderful; you make fandom a fabulous place to be, and I love you all. *big squishy hug*

NOW, onto what I actually did yesterday to celebrate...( There was a big parade and it was all for ME! Or possibly for some dude named Patrick. Whatever. )

So it was a fabulous, fun, crazy, dorky birthday, and I loved every minute, even if my toes didn't. Then this morning I woke up, ate some more Nutella, and wrote a piece of baddirtywrong smut that'll probably never see the light of day. And thus my 23rd year looks to be following in the footsteps of the last: full of porn and chocolate.

Well. Can't complain.

And also: GIP!

Because an icon this awesome deserves its own post, dammit.

*glomps not_sally*