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[birdsofshore]

I love talking with you all here each week / day / hour / insert own level of addiction, but I often think I don't even know basic stuff about your LJ , like what your username means, what your icons are, etc etc. Come and tell me everything.

Why did you pick your username, and what does it mean? What's your default icon, and does it have any significance? If it's a famous person, please don't assume I will know who it is - I never know who anyone is unless I have the hots for them. What about those other things we can personalise on LJ - the quotes or messages at the top of your journal, and that odd little thing I've never worked out how to change, for instance who_la_hoop's says "I can see your house from here", which always makes me laugh. Do you have special art or graphics on your header? What are they all about?

I will start you off. My username is from a poster that I have in my living room, which says "Birds of shore & sea", with, er, drawings of different birds. Of shore, and, indeed, of sea. "Birdsofshoreandsea" is more characters than LJ allows, and besides, the shorebirds are the ones I like the best.

My picture is probably self-evident, but it's a curlew, which is my absolute favourite bird. I live quite near to plenty of these glorious creatures and they make me very thrilled and happy whenever I see one. They're just so ludicrous and beaky. They look like they shouldn't exist, and they seem to have really fabulous personalities. I can watch them for hours, just mooching about and digging for worms. They also have subtly beautiful plumage and the most wonderful song. I'm not actually OBSESSED with birds in real life, but I can verge on HIGHLY ENTHUSIASTIC about birds on any given occasion, so apologies if you just glazed over there.

The quotes on my journal are from one of my favourite books, The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. "You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed" and "Keep passing the open windows" are pieces of advice from the book on how to survive whatever life throws at you. If you haven't read it, it's a big, insane, sexy, sweet, funny, tragic romp of a book and please don't tell me if you don't like it, because I have adored it since I was about 15 and bought it to impress a boy I fancied who worked in a bookshop (my rec for Frequent Patronage will be along any day now, by the way). Fandom is definitely part of my plan to remain sane and to 'keep passing the open windows' (in other words, to avoid falling into depression and self-harm), so both quotes seemed apt when I was picking my layout.

I have only got a standard LJ header thing - it was the one that seemed least offensive when I looked through. I'd love fancy graphics or some beautiful art up there, but OMG, how hard to choose, plus, if I'm being honest, I don't have a clue how to do such things DD:

Please come and do all the sharing. I really, really want to know.

p.s. A very big thank you to whoever nominated me at HPfanficpoll thingy, if you are on my flist. I was very flattered indeed that you liked my fics, and touched that you took the time ♥

Comments

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Fun fact: I used to be LumosNox. (Yes, I was sure to delete all my badfic before admitting that.) I had that pen name when I was about 18-20. Then Kedavranox is just 20 year old Nox's way of preserving one of my favourite Potter words in my username. Kedavra- from the killing curse.. and then what happens after you die? DARKNESSSS. i.e. Nox!
I don't even know.
I've grown to love it though. :)

I don't have header words or anything. I used to have 'Hi, I'm Nox and I write things.' because I'm Nox and I write things sometimes. :)

[birdsofshore]

I like your username C:

Now you were one of the people I wanted, but you've changed your layout AGAIN. I wanted to know about all those frilly petticoats and things you had. But they've gone.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Aww. That was just a pretty layout I saw and had to grab on a whim because
I messed up my layout by testing layouts on the wrong journal.

This may or may not make any sense to anyone. Lol. :)

[birdsofshore]

LOL, sort of / not really, to me anyway. But not much about layouts makes sense to me.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Oh, my icon!

It's usually Draco because I like him and I have feels for writing things in his persepctive. Also I was tired of seeing 'Draco's' with dark blond hair and black eyebrows. He is white blond! Everywhere. His eyebrows, too!! His pubes! Everything. :D

I have a white blond kink, maybe? But I like to just put my Draco head canon as my icon whenever I find a good one :)

[birdsofshore]

It's usually Draco because I like him and I have feels for writing things in his persepctive.

I had sort of guessed that part :D

That's funny you feel so strongly about Draco's all over white-blondness. That would be an albino person rather than a blond person, maybe? Most blonds have darker body hair, in my experience. Or have I just been hanging out with FAKE BLONDS? :D

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Nah. I'm just silly about it. But I usually use albinos as my userpics. haha.

[capitu]

I love your username. I was thinking about it the other day, how cool it is, and Nox for short. I love it.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love yours, too. :)