Happy Birthday Meres!
Guys, it's meresy's birthday! As a result, we here in Canadaland have declared a special long weekend to celebrate Meres' greatness. Trufax!*
*Okay, so Monday is actually a federal holiday celebrating this lady's birthday:
But still. It's also Meres' special day. It's implied, got it?
Meres at the ripe old age of "older"
So you might ask why, exactly, meresy is special enough to warrant a Canadian holiday. "Yes," you might say, "She's pretty great. She is full of endless squee and enthusiasm for this fandom, she is ridiculously obsessed with CKR, she gives great feedback, she writes wonderful domestic stories, and she posts picspam like nobody's business. But really, why is Meres so great?" Clearly you-the-naysayer hasn't met Meres in person, which I have been fortunate enough to do on many occasions. Meres is my Canadian fangirl! She makes the long trip down from her City of Residence to my City of Residence every few months, and sleeps on my air mattress, and traumatizes my cat (but then promptly wins her over) and we hang out and watch terrible movies and type on our computers and have a good time harassing my boyfriend. \meres/
meresy is a very good friend: she is funny and wacky and very intelligent. She is also incredibly articulate about her work as a scientist, and I'm even starting to understand some stuff about human genetics and lab procedure and bioethics from talking to her. And this is big, here. I am a failmonster when it comes to science stuff.
Also, Meres is sweet and very kind and wonderfully tolerant of my oddness, and she feels like the cool little sister I never had. (Yeah Meres, that's right. Little sister. You are three years younger than me. Deal!)
I wanted to do something really special for meresy's birthday, but the story I was trying to write (about Fraser and Ray and lab experiments run amok) would have offended Meres' scientific sensibilities, so I had to scrap it. So Meres, in honour of your birthday, I will write you a story to spec. Give me a C6D fandom/pairing, a plot rundown, an AU idea, a setting, or a scene you've been dying to see (or, hell, any combination of those), and I'll do my best to execute it faithfully. But if you say, "Oh, y'know, write me whatever! I'm sure I'll like it!" I will send you a birthday story about genetic sequencing that is so full of technical errors and bad procedure that it will break your mind and cause you to abandon Science forever.**
**Some may say this cheery request for a birthday prompt sounds more like a hostage negotiation. "Tell me what to include in your ideal fic or I'll write you a travesty that mocks your profession!" But then Meres and I have that kind of relationship. In addition, I know how to deal with Canadian reticence when it comes to requesting birthday presents. This is necessary, dudes. Necessary.
Okay! Well, Meres, threats to inflict bad science upon our beloved characters aside, you're a wonderful person and a dear friend and I love you very much. I hope you have an excellent birthday filled with much goodness, and I'm very serious about this birthday fic stuff. Whatever you like, name it and I shall write it. Also, next time you come to see me, there will be birthday cake*** and margaritas. Just sayin'!
***I promise you that the birthday cake will NOT look like this. It's easily the freakest thing I've ever seen, and I've read the Kara/Lee shipper thread on Skiffy:
YIKES!
♥♥♥HAPPY BIRTHDAY MERESY♥♥♥
*Okay, so Monday is actually a federal holiday celebrating this lady's birthday:
But still. It's also Meres' special day. It's implied, got it?
Meres at the ripe old age of "older"
So you might ask why, exactly, meresy is special enough to warrant a Canadian holiday. "Yes," you might say, "She's pretty great. She is full of endless squee and enthusiasm for this fandom, she is ridiculously obsessed with CKR, she gives great feedback, she writes wonderful domestic stories, and she posts picspam like nobody's business. But really, why is Meres so great?" Clearly you-the-naysayer hasn't met Meres in person, which I have been fortunate enough to do on many occasions. Meres is my Canadian fangirl! She makes the long trip down from her City of Residence to my City of Residence every few months, and sleeps on my air mattress, and traumatizes my cat (but then promptly wins her over) and we hang out and watch terrible movies and type on our computers and have a good time harassing my boyfriend. \meres/
meresy is a very good friend: she is funny and wacky and very intelligent. She is also incredibly articulate about her work as a scientist, and I'm even starting to understand some stuff about human genetics and lab procedure and bioethics from talking to her. And this is big, here. I am a failmonster when it comes to science stuff.
Also, Meres is sweet and very kind and wonderfully tolerant of my oddness, and she feels like the cool little sister I never had. (Yeah Meres, that's right. Little sister. You are three years younger than me. Deal!)
I wanted to do something really special for meresy's birthday, but the story I was trying to write (about Fraser and Ray and lab experiments run amok) would have offended Meres' scientific sensibilities, so I had to scrap it. So Meres, in honour of your birthday, I will write you a story to spec. Give me a C6D fandom/pairing, a plot rundown, an AU idea, a setting, or a scene you've been dying to see (or, hell, any combination of those), and I'll do my best to execute it faithfully. But if you say, "Oh, y'know, write me whatever! I'm sure I'll like it!" I will send you a birthday story about genetic sequencing that is so full of technical errors and bad procedure that it will break your mind and cause you to abandon Science forever.**
**Some may say this cheery request for a birthday prompt sounds more like a hostage negotiation. "Tell me what to include in your ideal fic or I'll write you a travesty that mocks your profession!" But then Meres and I have that kind of relationship. In addition, I know how to deal with Canadian reticence when it comes to requesting birthday presents. This is necessary, dudes. Necessary.
Okay! Well, Meres, threats to inflict bad science upon our beloved characters aside, you're a wonderful person and a dear friend and I love you very much. I hope you have an excellent birthday filled with much goodness, and I'm very serious about this birthday fic stuff. Whatever you like, name it and I shall write it. Also, next time you come to see me, there will be birthday cake*** and margaritas. Just sayin'!
***I promise you that the birthday cake will NOT look like this. It's easily the freakest thing I've ever seen, and I've read the Kara/Lee shipper thread on Skiffy:
YIKES!
♥♥♥HAPPY BIRTHDAY MERESY♥♥♥