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lb_leeMori: You have heard of fursonas, but have you considered... BIRDSONAS??? (The icon for this post is chosen because it's the only one with a bird in it.)
We found an ornithology manual in the thrift store for a birdwatching friend, and read a little before giving it to them, and we found a picture of a house wren. Rogan and I immediately went, "oh look, it's Bob, in bird form."
Bob got so indignant about it. So offended. He insisted that he was a PEACOCK, by god, not some dumpy little brown bird. (He only got all the more pearl-clutchy as we decided Sneak was a rosy-cheeked lovebird and Grace a harpy eagle.)
And because I am a troll, I borrowed our birdwatching friend's Audubon Guide to North American Birds and looked up the house wren. "A portly little brown bird," "stubby," "constantly singing and chatting," "constantly foraging [and sticking its narrow beak into places it don't belong]." The more we read, the more Bob sulked.
"Don't sulk, Bob!" our birdwatching friend said. "Wrens are so cute! They have eyebrows!"
Bob also has prominent eyebrows, so he just sulked harder. For his sake, we've adapted our mental image of his birdsona into a winter wren with one male peacock feather sticking out of its tail. It's okay, my dude! You can be a peacock on the inside! (And I can't lie, the personality fits, since peacocks are screaming little beasts.)
We've also decided Miranda is a swan (so beautiful, so elegant, so bitey), and Biff a rooster. (He went, "Aw, man, why I gotta be a chicken?" and I replied, "because you're a fighting cock, that's why," and he went, "Yeah, okay, that fits.") Rogan's probably some kind of griffon vulture (eats really disgusting death without keeling over) and Gigi is most definitely some kind of adorably tiny yet knifey owl, probably a flammulated owl. Bony lady is absolutely a spooky skeletal raven (so clever and mysterious but absolutely slides down snowfalls on its back and acts silly). Jury's still out on what me, Mac, Rawlin, and Fal are.
Quick, birdsona your headmates/friends!
We found an ornithology manual in the thrift store for a birdwatching friend, and read a little before giving it to them, and we found a picture of a house wren. Rogan and I immediately went, "oh look, it's Bob, in bird form."
Bob got so indignant about it. So offended. He insisted that he was a PEACOCK, by god, not some dumpy little brown bird. (He only got all the more pearl-clutchy as we decided Sneak was a rosy-cheeked lovebird and Grace a harpy eagle.)
And because I am a troll, I borrowed our birdwatching friend's Audubon Guide to North American Birds and looked up the house wren. "A portly little brown bird," "stubby," "constantly singing and chatting," "constantly foraging [and sticking its narrow beak into places it don't belong]." The more we read, the more Bob sulked.
"Don't sulk, Bob!" our birdwatching friend said. "Wrens are so cute! They have eyebrows!"
Bob also has prominent eyebrows, so he just sulked harder. For his sake, we've adapted our mental image of his birdsona into a winter wren with one male peacock feather sticking out of its tail. It's okay, my dude! You can be a peacock on the inside! (And I can't lie, the personality fits, since peacocks are screaming little beasts.)
We've also decided Miranda is a swan (so beautiful, so elegant, so bitey), and Biff a rooster. (He went, "Aw, man, why I gotta be a chicken?" and I replied, "because you're a fighting cock, that's why," and he went, "Yeah, okay, that fits.") Rogan's probably some kind of griffon vulture (eats really disgusting death without keeling over) and Gigi is most definitely some kind of adorably tiny yet knifey owl, probably a flammulated owl. Bony lady is absolutely a spooky skeletal raven (so clever and mysterious but absolutely slides down snowfalls on its back and acts silly). Jury's still out on what me, Mac, Rawlin, and Fal are.
Quick, birdsona your headmates/friends!
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Date: 2023-09-20 06:24 pm (UTC)-Mirak
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Date: 2023-09-21 01:38 am (UTC)What did you decide Sneak is? One of my friends took a lovely picture of a rainbow parrot, and I thought of zer: https://www.meaghanq.com/birds/dzxp6tdnerz7zyw8ds8p13s3isuvpv
I do not know enough about birds to play, but I shall think.
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Date: 2023-09-25 10:35 pm (UTC)I think you would be a red-tailed hawk! Because they're sharp, quick, and they also really like squirrels (though in a very different way)!
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Date: 2023-09-25 10:50 pm (UTC)I was also thinking of some kind of owl who holes up and looks confused half the time. Like so: https://www.meaghanq.com/birds/9nbhw1mqrarlmy16d61kw0db7rc2kq
Plus owls move silently, and I can be downright stealthy when I choose.
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Date: 2023-09-26 12:06 am (UTC)That's true, you are very sneaky!
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Date: 2023-09-21 11:23 am (UTC)I am, without a doubt, a peacock. (sorry Bob).
I am loud and dramatic and a little vain and look awesome most of the time, but most important, at the end of that year I came out as nonbinary at work and was able to say "and it's a bird a lot of people assume is a girl but isn't."
(I didn't plan that metaphor, but it felt good when I realized I could do it.)
~Sor
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Date: 2023-09-25 10:37 pm (UTC)