Creepers gonna creep

Alas, we must now cast off the lovely white-tailed hawk and peregrine falcon, because their juveniles are nothing spectacular. Shame, but so it goes, when there are so many other beautiful birds to look at!

( Smile for the camera! )

Well look at that, you guys got rid of the other bird I was tentatively considering for next fall. ;D But duck hawking sounds like a lot of work. Anyway, say goodbye to the excellent but not-as-pretty prairie falcon. Don't worry, they all hate you guys too.

( Fly, fly away~ )

Today, we must bid a fond farewell to the Cooper's hawk. Apparently, the desire to KILL EVERYTHING (and the ability to pull it off half the time as well!) does not mean a bird must be beautiful. (For those of you who have not heard the Coopers vs pheasant story, feel free to ask and you will learn what I mean.) Fun fact: I'm thinking of taking on one of these little monsters next fall.

( Look at the sweet little face of this juvenile. How dare you vote him off? )

You guys have something against big noses, don't you? Woe. Say farewell to the Steller's Sea Eagle and the Crested Caracara. They are now emo and insecure about their big noses. Way to go.

( One last look at the losers, before we vote once more! )

Okay so I tried to come up with ten guys and ten girls for that meme. I really did. I spent over a day trying to think of people, and looking up people online, and by the end of that time I had three guys and one girl. So that failed.

BUT I HAVE A BETTER VERSION. It took me all of five minutes to think of this one! Yes, that's right, I'm going to make you guys vote for raptors! HAHAHA. Take that! Vote off the bird you like the looks of the least. Yes, bird looks. How pretty or how deadly or whatever you want to base your opinion on, I don't care. Every 24 hours, I will re-post the meme, with the two birds with the most votes from the previous day removed from the new poll. And by the end of ten days, there will be one winner each from two categories: hawks and eagles, and falcons.

( So for day one, here are our contestants! )

I'm sure you all hate me now, don't you. ;D

From bluerose16:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Becca chose:

1.
This is Shadow! He is wearing goggles. :) Except he's too cool to have them actually over his eyes so instead they sit stylishly but uselessly on top of his head, because that's what real badasses do when they're preparing to take part in an amusing but not terribly good spinoff game like Sonic Riders. Trufax.

2.
And this is Church! Fitting, that the first two she chose are my current RP characters in Aphelion. This is from the RvB Animated short which hopefully will someday become a full animated series but until then is simply a promotional short. Which is totally and completely awesome. You can watch it here, and it requires no previous knowledge of the show to enjoy.

3.
These are feet! These feet belong to a whole bunch of juvenile aplomado falcons that my field partner and I released from a hack site in west Texas two summers ago. Aplomado falcons are extremely endangered here in the US, and for a while were basically extinct here but for vagrants from Central America, but the Peregrine Fund has been releasing juveniles for several years now in Texas and New Mexico and they are slowly being re-established.

4.
This is Noel Fielding's face Richmond! He is from the fantastic British comedy series known as The IT Crowd. He is a goth. And he's lost his milky lens, which is quite distressing for him. But this face is not because he's distressed, no, this face is because he thinks perhaps it slipped around the back of his eye, and he's trying to get it back. ... Yeah.

5.
This is a Dalek! Daleks are cruel, terrible aliens-come-killing machines that hate the Doctor. Except for this one because it is pink and loves you. It is a nice Dalek. ♥

6.
This is Howard Moon! He is one half of The Mighty Boosh. Or one fifth, more accurately, but one half makes him sound more impressive, and that's what he likes. He is wearing atrocious clothing. And apparently he is concerned that he is getting too old. Thus he has to look at himself in the mirror and observe his wrinkles. And his tiny shrew eyes. Poor Howard.

Um, so this is that color meme where you tell me to give you a color and I give you a color and then you post ten things that are that color that you like. zolac_no_miko made me do turquoise because she is a horrible person.

1. Lazuli buntings
2. Turquoise, the stone
3. Easter eggs! I always make turquoise dye for easter eggs. Every year. Truth.
4. Thrush eggs - they are not dyed though, they are just turquoise naturally
5. Collared kingfishers! I might be doing a paper on them this summer if I get enough data. Exciting! I love them so.
6. Garapan lagoon
7. Tucker! Shut up, I know he's aqua (teal's out) but that's pretty much turquoise
8. Cyanobacteria! What a fantastic little creature.
9. Um... in my personal headcanon, Iota is turquoise? He's sort of entertaining.
10. Uhh. Uranus? Uranus is totally turquoise.

THERE. :|

In other news (and this is relevant to very few people on my flist) there is an RvB kinkmeme! And I did not know about it until last night! Although it was posted a few years back it recently went through a rebirth of activity, so you guys should go spam it with prompts and I promise I'll fill some. The ten sentence meme made me want to write.

Okay so it took me a seriously long time to finish these, I know, but here you go, ten sentences for shinyget's request of Church/Tex (and so sue me, I took some liberties with interpreting which of their various incarnations to use for some of these :p).

( She's a wicked girl... )



Some of these really wanted to be more than one sentence, so I guess if anyone really wants me to write something longer for one or two of them, I might consider it.

Anyway, next I will try and write some for Shadow! That... should be interesting.

ALSO SINCE I DID NOT SPAZZ HERE ON RVB DAY LIKE I MEANT TO, OMGWTFHOLYCRAP. YOU GUYS. WHAT.

Yet.

From dr_sipp,

Give me a character or ship and I will write one sentence each of ten genres for them. The genres are:

01. Angst
02. AU
03. Crack!fic Plot
04. Crossover
05. First Time
06. Fluff
07. Humor
08. Hurt/Comfort
09. Smut
10. UST

So I probably won't actually have time to do many of these (and by even posting this I'm procrastinating on writing another one of my major update things) but go ahead and pick some characters and some ships and I'll see what I get to.

Should've known I'd fail at updating a daily meme.

( Here's posts for days 2, 3, 4, and 5! :D;; )

Portal progress bar: 75/76! Slightly less than one hour to go! omgomgomg

Edit: Well done, internets. Well done.