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ASASFKFSDGLKKGDSK THINGS! THINGS IN THE POST! Seriously, you guys, you have no idea how much it makes my day when I open the postbox to find something handwritten with my name on it. No idea.

draegonhawke has sent me a frankly amazing postcard with a drawing of Fran (FFXII, not Black Books) totally pwning Pyramid Head. NO, SERIOUSLY. THAT IS HOW AWESOME SHE IS. ('She' was written with

draegonhawke in mind but could, of course, be applied with equal relevance to Fran.) The text is equally brilliant and opens with the wonderful (if slightly alarming) words, 'Because Pyramid Head attacks are such a concern among first-time students, modern universities employ squads of trained Viera to hunt them down'. I really hope that the postman read it and was horribly confused.

Also,

cane_tie has sent me a letter! It is on BRIGHT YELLOW PAPER and hilariously disjointed and has a random doodle of a ukulele and 'VOTE SAXON' and hand-written emoticons and panics about awkward silences on paper and generally made me grin a ridiculous amount. Also, handwritten fanfic! About Jack and the Doctor and the Master! And it references Jack's travels with Balthier and Fran! (Their trio has become so very ingrained in my mind that I'm always a little surprised when I watch Doctor Who and Balthier and Fran aren't there.)

ALSO, IT ENDS WITH A STICK-FIGURE PYRAMID HEAD.

WHY HAVE I GOT MULTIPLE PYRAMID HEADS THROUGH THE POST TODAY? DO YOU HATE ME? IS THAT IT?

(I suppose it is slightly less horrifying if one is a stick-figure and the other has been soundly defeated by an awesome Viera. BUT STILL.)

(EDIT: ALSO ALSO ALSO

wanttobeatree HAS A FIC-IN-PROGRESS ABOUT SAM TYLER AND SHERLOCK HOLMES WRITING ZOMBIES AND IT IS AMAZING.)

(EDIT II: ...AND BY 'WRITING' I MEAN 'FIGHTING'.

ERM.)

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That paper is now my standard letter-writing paper. i ♥ it.

and all those panics and disjointed-ness etc? THAT IS SO ME IN REAL LIFE, TOO.

i am glad i made you grin a lot. the fanfic made my hand hurt! a lot!

and i really think i should have written it up at some point so i don't forget it. but oh well. ♥!

Is it actually possible to get pretty letter-writing paper where you are? Apparently Iowa City is of the opinion that letter stationary is for the weak.

Alas, not really. I picked up a pad of very yellow paper in one of the loca stationary shops aaaaages back.

Why do people not make stationary any more? That's horrible.

I was trying to find proper letter-writing paper in Brighton, and there seemed to be none, alas. The paper

sacred_sarcasm wrote her letter on was absolutely beautiful, though, so obviously the place to go if you want letter-writing paper is Cumbria.

That... that is far away. (And I'd probably wind up stalking the natives and fangirling over their accents.)

I was sending you Pyramid Head to assuage your fears about Pyramid Head! ...I take no responsibility for Stick!Pyramid Head.

I sent you a letter! (The name on the envelope does not say "Mary.") I have no idea how much an ounce weighs (or how much the letter weighs), so there is the slight possibility that they'll send it back to me and make me stick three more stamps on it before it gets to you.

Fun fact: if your mother gives you stamps in rolls of a hundred and you rarely ever send actual mail, there is every possibility that you will not use them up before there's a postal rate increase and your stamps are rendered useless for domestic mail. So, those 37-cent stamps? The rate has been increased two times since I got them.

Yeah.

ENJOY MY FLAG STAMPS. YOU MAY BE GETTING ALL OF THEM.

'BECAUSE PYRAMID HEAD ATTACKS ARE SUCH A CONCERN AMONG FIRST-TIME STUDENTS' IS NOT REASSURING. Although I am glad that we are being protected by the very fine Viera.

The name on the envelope does not say "Mary."

Amusing as Silent Hill references would have been, I think my nerves will probably thank you. Also, I'd have assumed that the letter was for a Mary who lived here last year. (Or three years ago.)

THE POINT WAS THAT UNIVERSITIES NOW HAVE ADEQUATE PROTECTION AGAINST PYRAMID HEADS, WHEREAS THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE IN THE PAST.

Well, I imagine that Mary's name would be in the return-address spot.

I always wondered about the name-on-the-envelope thing! Is putting the sender's name/address on the envelope common practice in America, then? I'd only do it for parcels; never for letters.

It is. I don't think it's strictly necessary, but pretty much everyone does it. I mean, it's so common a practice that a lot of places send you stylized address labels with your information on it when they're trying to solicit money from you. (Which always seemed really bizarre to me; I mean, why go to the expense of purchasing labels and printing them and sorting them if you're trying to raise money?) I have a roll of clear stickers I use (one of them might be on that postcard, actually) when I send stuff.

My roll of clear stickers is actually larger than my roll of flag stamps.

Right! That makes a lot more sense than "It's ridiculous; couldn't possibly be true. A person can't, er, address a letter to a dead person."

"A dead woman can't write a letter. It's illegal."

Er, I realized something - you may be receiving something from Amazon that may have no identifying info on it, OR just my name and payment info. Er, I did not think of the fact it did not let me write any sort of note. So it is not a crazy present from a stranger; in fact it is a crazy present from someone you met once.

It's possibly for the best that I couldn't write a note, as the temptation to write "NOT POISON" on it would have been too strong and then it might have got held up in the warehouse.

Sorry to ruin any surprise, but I thought it better than a strange, no-name present...

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