Oh my goodness, I don't even know what to say. I got everything I asked for (best Christmas ever? It just may be). You win the internet. You win all the things. This was so perfect I don't even now if I can be articulate enough to tell you how COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY AWESOME IT IS, but I'm going to try. Top ten reasons this is the best small gift ever:
1. The title is hilarious, and very Sirius 2. The section headings - they fit each character's situation perfectly. 3. Emmaline/Tonks - I love you forever. 4. The four of them living together and raising Teddy? I love you for infinity squared. 5. I knew Tonks/Remus was a shotgun wedding. Had to be. 6. Teddy is adorable. Sleeping starfish style? Half-chewed sausage bits? Black hair like his godfather and favorite cousin? Awwwwww. (As we would say where I'm from, that kid is wicked cunning.) 7. The ending. Happy endings for the win. 8. Everyone lived! And yes, in my head, I am imagining the ninth Doctor at the end of The Doctor Dances going 'just this once, everybody lives.' 9. Your little details make the post-war world feels very real -- Tonks still sleeps with her wand under her pillow; they have a bug-out bag in the cupboard under the stairs; Remus can't remember the feeling of not being on edge. 10. So many funny lines! Let me quote you back just a few:
"the Muggle baby monitor (which she had bought because family clocks only worked if you were looking at them, and then had needed to replace six times, because she was cursed with a housemate who couldn't see something Muggle without trying to take it apart."
"Will you give up, you jealous prat! He was nice, the world as we knew it was ending, and we got drunk. Get over it."
"Well, my dad's dodgy Uncle Phil won it off some bloke at the races, but Phil's retired to the Cayman Islands with three blondes, so it's mine now."
Sirius flicked him on the nose. "I'm not one of those Blacks, mate. Besides, boobs bore me." "Poor you"
"He got better," Emmeline remarked dryly.
Remus' smile twitched out again. "Before or after he was turned into a newt?"
"Nobody's turned me into a newt since that thing with the catnip in McGonagall's desk in Fourth Year," Sirius protested. "And, trust me, the war's over. You're not dead. I'm not dead. Harry's not dead. You Know Who is definitely dead. Nothing to worry about now."
I could keep going, but I'd basically just be retyping the whole thing.
Seriously, I feel like I'm not being effusive enough in my praise of this. I think words might be insufficient. I think this clip of The Big Bang Theory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyQz8jWAl7s) sums it up. Thank you SO much.
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Date: 2012-12-30 12:17 am (UTC)Top ten reasons this is the best small gift ever:
1. The title is hilarious, and very Sirius
2. The section headings - they fit each character's situation perfectly.
3. Emmaline/Tonks - I love you forever.
4. The four of them living together and raising Teddy? I love you for infinity squared.
5. I knew Tonks/Remus was a shotgun wedding. Had to be.
6. Teddy is adorable. Sleeping starfish style? Half-chewed sausage bits? Black hair like his godfather and favorite cousin? Awwwwww. (As we would say where I'm from, that kid is wicked cunning.)
7. The ending. Happy endings for the win.
8. Everyone lived! And yes, in my head, I am imagining the ninth Doctor at the end of The Doctor Dances going 'just this once, everybody lives.'
9. Your little details make the post-war world feels very real -- Tonks still sleeps with her wand under her pillow; they have a bug-out bag in the cupboard under the stairs; Remus can't remember the feeling of not being on edge.
10. So many funny lines! Let me quote you back just a few:
"the Muggle baby monitor (which she had bought because family clocks only worked if you were looking at them, and then had needed to replace six times, because she was cursed with a housemate who couldn't see something Muggle without trying to take it apart."
"Will you give up, you jealous prat! He was nice, the world as we knew it was ending, and we got drunk. Get over it."
"Well, my dad's dodgy Uncle Phil won it off some bloke at the races, but Phil's retired to the Cayman Islands with three blondes, so it's mine now."
Sirius flicked him on the nose. "I'm not one of those Blacks, mate. Besides, boobs bore me." "Poor you"
"He got better," Emmeline remarked dryly.
Remus' smile twitched out again. "Before or after he was turned into a newt?"
"Nobody's turned me into a newt since that thing with the catnip in McGonagall's desk in Fourth Year," Sirius protested. "And, trust me, the war's over. You're not dead. I'm not dead. Harry's not dead. You Know Who is definitely dead. Nothing to worry about now."
I could keep going, but I'd basically just be retyping the whole thing.
Seriously, I feel like I'm not being effusive enough in my praise of this. I think words might be insufficient. I think this clip of The Big Bang Theory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyQz8jWAl7s) sums it up. Thank you SO much.