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[queenlua]

stealing a meme from necrophilia:

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Ask away. ♥

(my answers might, uh, take a few days *stares at Friday deadline for a thing* but feel free to ask away in the meantime!)

Comments

[queenlua]

i will assume, for the sake of argument, that you are holding a metaphorical gun to my head as you ask this, because otherwise my only answer will be a steadfast NO NO NO, I WILL NOT CHOOSE BETWEEN MY CHILDREN, ALL BIRDS ARE PERFECT AND WONDERFUL

so, with that being said,,,,

worst bird: penguins. look, a huge part of the appeal of birds, for me, is when they’re flyin’ around doing their flappy thing; flightlessness is a problem. emus, ostrichs, and hoatzins get a pass because they are so damn weird they manage to be hugely appealing anyway, but penguins? eh. too mainstream. to conventionally cute. swimming is meh.

best bird: picking a single best bird is impossible, BUT, i can give best bird in various subcategories:

best warbler: hooded warbler. first saw these guys in west virginia and been obsessed with them ever since. they have little HOODS it’s so CUTE ahhhh (runner-up is black-and-white warbler because the way they hop up-and-down tree trunks is very unwarblerlike and also adorable)

bird with the best song : hearing pacific wrens singing in the spring always makes me lose my entire mind; literally one of the most beautiful songs in all of nature bar none

best angry bird: MARSH WRENS. they sound like furious lil typewriters! what’s not to love

bird with the best colloquial name: the slang term for yellow-rumped warblers is BUTTERBUTTS and i love it

best invasive species: people are way too mean to starlings D: it’s not their fault they’re invasive! and also they are SO PRETTY; i love iridescent birds so much sighs into hands

best north american bird of prey: osprey. did you know those bitches are zygodactyl? and also exist on six continents? and look and sound majestic as hell (unlike, e.g., the bald eagle, which i love, but has the stupidest-sounding call ever)? yeah i just think anything that can dominate land AND sea AND air this hard deserves a hat-tip

best gull: the swallow-tailed gull. goofy nocturnal gull that feeds on jellyfish and lives in the Galapagos, but one got EXTREMELY lost and wound up in a park near my old house one time and i have loved them ever since

best vulture: egyptian vulture. true story i wrote like half a novel when i was 13, about a giant Watership Down / Firebringer-style war between the birds, and there was a bunch of vulture representation of the form of Weird But Nice Pacifistic Cultists, and i had an egyptian vulture as their leader and it was awesome and i love them

[helicoprion]

Ospreys rule! FISH HAWK BEST HAWK

[necrophilia]

I love starlings! I see a bunch of them outside my window at work every day. Their little star-speckled feathers are so pretty.