happy birthday to me, and (of course) a story

Yesterday, as some of you noted, was my 25th birthday! It was a slightly insane birthday-- my students were all bouncing off the walls and I had to wait forever at the DMV (what do you mean birthday girls don't automatically get to jump the line?)-- but I got many lovely gifts, both in real life (copper teakettle, new Magnetic Fields CD, DVD of old-school Sesame Street, to name a few) and here! drjohn gave me a bunch of virtual balloons (so much more earth-friendly than the real sort), quill_lumos made me an absolutely stunningly gorgeous banner that I will eventually figure out how to put into my currently boring journal layout, shadowsonthesun made another gorgeous banner for The Slave Breakers, which ditto for the Slave Breakers main page, and morgan_cian dedicated a lovely little fic vignette to my birthday happiness. Thousands of thanks to you all!

And now to give back a little to the community. morgan_cian has been pestering encouraging me to write a scene involving Bran getting fucked in a suspension sling. At first I wasn't sure Holden and Alix even owned such a thing, but mature reflection informed me that of course the frakkin' slave breakers own a frakkin' sex sling, and when morgan_cian rose to my tagback challenge and wrote a sling fic herself, I caved and wrote this quickie, set sometime during Bran's first year with Holden. Bon appetit!

( When the wind blows... )