A Feathered Friend @SomeEgrets@awoo.space

just got a fresh bottle of my family's homemade strawberry jam so yes, I absolutely am making PB&J sandwiches at like almost 11

HAPPY BIRDSTAKING to everyone doing the holiday today instead of tomorrow.

(And to anyone else who wants to join in, it's better about that other holiday about the murdery boat guy)

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

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

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.

Anyway, fuck Kavanaugh in particular, I hope he has a fatal heart attack his first day on the job.

Hey, so, lifetime gov positions are bullshit
Lifetime *appointed* positions are double bullshit
And let's be clear, this bullshit position was only even open because the party cheated the system to hold it open, which is a clear statement that all they want is power at any cost.

Still not tired of bongo cat

Please appreciate that this is through my window, with a phone camera. They get close!

I have visitors.