A Feathered Friend @SomeEgrets@awoo.space

Watching them land right on the very top branches looks a little... precarious

Hm, oops, I RT'd a bad opinion again. I mean, the deadmau5 thing. I keep meaning to do that... less, but it's easy to slip.

Didn't really accomplish anything, and a bunch of you probably didn't need to read that sort of image quote again (esp. since they bypass mutes)

My window gets all the friends

@ShrimpyShiro@snouts.online it's also possible i might be overthinking this

@ShrimpyShiro@snouts.online granted, I haven't really used masto exclusively a lot for posting anything, so it hasn't been a big deal. Sometimes I vaguely worry that something that gets crossposted from birdsite might deserve a CW, but of course, that site doesn't support them, so...

Slapping a CW on every crosspost is an option, but just blindly CW-ing everything makes a timeline impossible to skim, so that's a pain in the ass too.

@ShrimpyShiro@snouts.online yeah same

@thingywott having to do the same thing manually more than once gets old fast, and also if we're being real about it, I would forget to do it probably like 90% of the time anyway. But I still wanna share stuff over here too

@thingywott I mean, I'm looking at twitter most of the time because... that's just where most people I follow are, so that's naturally where my attention is.

I enabled crossposting specifically because masto sits in the background and gets checked less, so I wouldn't have to manually copy/paste things over.

I keep forgetting I enabled twitter crossposting to this, so I'm always surprised when I get boops and mention notifications here

I'm not really going anywhere in particular with this, I don't really have a mental image or anything I'm working off here.

I just get frustrated about this sometimes and wanted to sort of dump whatever sort of stuff I've been thinking into text.

Haven't picked a particular bird species though.

Big cats aren't a good fit for the same reasons. Biggest I've ever felt good about is chee, but I think I'm actually more comfortable going smaller, maybe right down to small cats.

Beaks - I tend to prefer short and slightly curved, so probably small predator birds.

Big predator beaks (like eagles) are right out - too aggressive looking for me. Also kinda open to reasonably proportional pointed beaks (like, maybe woodpecker shaped?)

Also: more cat like features. Four paws (Opinicus!) instead of talon-hands. Face more like a cat with a beak than a bird head on a cat body. And crests are good!

I'm probably a greyshades disaster, as much as I like bright colours, I shy away from them. Possible earthtones?

I think I like smaller builds, both in terms of height, and frame? Like, definitely not buff - I don't connect with that at all. But not rail thin either. Like, just, sort of short and not a lot of definition?

I've been trying to figure out which design elements of anthro gryphons I seem to gravitate towards, as a sort of starting point, and I've come up with a few so far

@reacocard@mastodon.social like, for me personally, I use the search function so little that it's absolutely not worth it (in its current state) for the amount of harassment it enables.

@reacocard@mastodon.social yeah, that's about where I stand. Probably 90% of the time, I want to find something that I remember from my timeline a week ago (but there isn't even a way to just search your own TL, so...)

The other 10% is "did I already tweet this?" or trying to find an image I attached from a different device. But even then it's maybe like, once a month or something.

Bird names for the spooky month:
- flocktober
- squawktober
- octobird

It's a particular kind of frustration following a lot of people in the US who stand to be directly affected by this and... just unable to do anything at all, though.

Not American, so I can't even vote on anything (as if that could eject a supreme court appointment, anyway)

Anyway, you know how I feel about this. There's probably thousands of tweets I could RT about this, but I probably won't. My reach is small, and you're all already seeing it for yourselves anyway. It's exhausting, and burying everyone who follows me in misery isn't helpful.