Happy birthday this 17th August to ...

msmoocow!

And since I remember she tagged me for this meme months ago but I never got around to answering, by way of apology hereby:

Writer's Meme: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

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As usual, consider yourself tagged if you like the idea, etc.

Lyrics: The last one was The Major-General's Song aka I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General from Gilbert & Sullivan's 1879 comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Trivia: the first ever performance was in the Bijou Theatre in Paignton, which I remember was still there up until recent years -- behind Woolworths, next to the railway line just before you come into the station. Gone now though. Anyway, jesspallas, junediamanti, nineveh_uk, tree_and_leaf, and kerrymdb all recognised it, and inter alia informed me who Heliogabalus was (a Roman emperor and "a psycho with tremendous style").

(As a related aside, it would be fun to see the story suggested by someone on (I think) the dh_predictions comm. Due to an odd quirk of wizarding law, Petunia finally gets her Hogwarts letter on her eleventh birthday -- 29th February 2004. :D)

This time, something rather more up to date -- the mention of local railway lines reminded me:

On the night train, from the city to the south
I saw spirits crawl across the river mouth
In skewed ascension, with no destination
Like this lone bachelor in me
This constant yearning, for great love and learning
For the wind to carry me free (2000s)