The world is quiet here.

[ishyface]

A Series of Unfortunate Events was the first series of books Little Sister and I ever bonded over. She wasn't that big of a reader when I was younger and I never really felt that we had anything in common, really, as she was (and is!) very pretty and can talk to people and never went through an awkward I-want-to-look-and-speak-exactly-like-an-L.M.Montgomery-heroine phase.* Having those books to talk about and share was fantastic. We both thought the VFD tattoo was awesome, and decided that we'd get it together. Someday.

We got a lot closer as we both got older. By the time we moved to St. John's we'd begun talking to one another like real people, rather than siblings, and found that we actually had a lot of things to talk about. When our parents decided that they were going to move back to Halifax- taking Little Brother and Little Sister back with them- she decided that someday had come. So today we went to a studio in the city and got inked together. This was her first tattoo. She is already planning her next one (ain't that always the way).

My little sister is a fucking superstar and I am going to miss her.


* This is the worst of all possible phases.