welcome sleepies, to our very first meme saturday! every month a little mod-hosted meme will go up for us to play around with admist the chaos, and this theme was chosen by popular demand! we've all heard about texts from last night, but have you heard of......
MURMURS FROM LAST NIGHT
strange things happen in the night. maybe you drink, or dream, or get high as a kite, and it's hard to hide it! especially when we're all collectively connected in a way! the rules are quite simple! you may even know them by now.
π post a top level for your character and include a few text starters, like the ones provided.
π interact.
π thrive.
π if you wish for your threads to be game canon, the sky is the limit (just make sure your thread partner is okay with it!).
π We might have some special guests later.
Usually with their beaks, which...might complicate things. [ Unless she gets one of those too...which seems like an absolute possibility, given some of what they've already seen. ]
There are a few things. When they shake and fluff up their feathers, that's to get the feather barbules that might've come apart to hook back together. There's some smoothing to get feathers back in their place, so they're properly aerodynamic. It's harder to fly if feathers are displaced.
And...distributing oil or powder, like I mentioned already. The birds that have powder down get it from down feathers breaking down into dust, or it's formed around the feathers -- I think that's mostly parrots and herons. The birds that have an oil gland...
[ This is the most awkward answer ever. ]
That's usually located...well. Around the tail feathers.
[ Every bird you've ever seen with their beak in their butt? Yeah. ]
[Well, she definitely doesn't have one of those. She hopes? File under: things to awkwardly check later. But still, the rest of this is good - fluffing, barbules, powder... she can try to put that to good use.]
I can't say there's much to fluff. I just have a few feathers sprouting individually from various limbs. It hasn't been that intrusive yet, but sometimes they snag if I'm putting on a coat or something.
[Which is both inconvenient and mildly painful.]
...maybe I can find some baby powder or something to put on them. I just want to make sure I can maintain proper hygiene.
That might be your best bet. Or if that doesn't work out well, maybe a light oil would. The main idea is that it helps you waterproof and stay aerodynamic.
[ Alas, if he knew more about the oil composition...but this is a dilemma no non-fiction book about avians ever prepared him for. Maybe if he read more weird fiction. ]
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There are a few things. When they shake and fluff up their feathers, that's to get the feather barbules that might've come apart to hook back together. There's some smoothing to get feathers back in their place, so they're properly aerodynamic. It's harder to fly if feathers are displaced.
And...distributing oil or powder, like I mentioned already. The birds that have powder down get it from down feathers breaking down into dust, or it's formed around the feathers -- I think that's mostly parrots and herons. The birds that have an oil gland...
[ This is the most awkward answer ever. ]
That's usually located...well. Around the tail feathers.
[ Every bird you've ever seen with their beak in their butt? Yeah. ]
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[Well, she definitely doesn't have one of those. She hopes? File under: things to awkwardly check later. But still, the rest of this is good - fluffing, barbules, powder... she can try to put that to good use.]
I can't say there's much to fluff. I just have a few feathers sprouting individually from various limbs. It hasn't been that intrusive yet, but sometimes they snag if I'm putting on a coat or something.
[Which is both inconvenient and mildly painful.]
...maybe I can find some baby powder or something to put on them. I just want to make sure I can maintain proper hygiene.
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[ Alas, if he knew more about the oil composition...but this is a dilemma no non-fiction book about avians ever prepared him for. Maybe if he read more weird fiction. ]
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[But it can't hurt?]
Either way, this has been... helpful. Thank you for your advice. Are you some kind of zoologist?
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No, not really. I just read a lot. And I like animals.