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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

[birdsofshore]

Now you are another one I wanted to ask all the things, so I am very glad you are here. I wanted to know who that woman was, and now I will never now. I had it backwards with you - I thought Ines was HER name and it was some cool actor or singer or something. It is a lovely picture.

This book is about a man who is absolutely convinced his wife Capitu is cheating on him
Am I allowed to snort a little bit at this? In the circumstances? No?

I love the Magic is Everywhere line. It makes me feel shivery and fannish when I see it :DD Your offer to make me a layout, OMFG yes. You darling. The only thing is that 1) i am super super picky about how I want things to look, I would probably drive you insane and b) I would drive mySELF insane trying to choose the perfect thing and getting in a tizz about it and stressing. So I will probably put it off almost forever, but, as your offer runs until forever, yay, I will DEFINITELY take you up on that, without a doubt. It just may take me years. I am frightened of change but one day I will do it. Thank you ♥

Birds! I am not obsessed *cough*. Just ENTHUSIASTIC. I want to know about your bird. What does she look like?

Yes! you wrote a lot! Most people are! it's brilliant and just what I wanted!

[capitu]

Am I allowed to snort a little bit at this? In the circumstances? No?

Of course! I love Irony. Irony and I are great friends. She likes taking me out every other Friday. LOL

No, this woman comes from a stock photo. I have a larger version of it, but I don't know who she is. ^^

Don't worry about being picky. What I mean is, I am picky, that's why I haven't changed my layout, I'm super anal and I have to have every single detail just right before using one, so I totally understand that in others, and, I don't know if you can tell, but I'm very patient, so bring it! I mean it though, you can check out anything and have an idea of what you'd like and we can go from there. No rush, no pressure, but it could be fun. :) It doesn't even have to be something complicated, if you want a simple layout with no header or whatever. So yeah, think about it! <3

My bird, well, she's very small, and brown, but I've seen it from bush to bush and she's fast and loud. I'm fond of her. :) I'm pretty sure it's the same because she's the only one that doesn't fly away when I come out to the backyard, other birds see me and jump far or fly off, but this one tiny bird looks at me and... I have the feeling she doesn't mind me. :D

Christ! I just realised my entire comment was left to raitala instead to the original post. >.<

Sorry Birds. Sometimes I shouldn't be allowed to play with others. ^^

[birdsofshore]

Hah! Don't worry about the reply post, a bit of confusion just livens things up around here.

Birdwatchers have about 3 really sad jokes, and one of them is that your kind of bird (that is kind of like lots of other birds, and hard to identify, is called an LBJ. In other words, a Little Brown Job. She sounds lovely. In the UK our robins are small and fast and friendly like that, and have a beautiful song, too.

I don't know if you can tell, but I'm very patient, so bring it!

You would need to be. Oh, yes. Well, gosh, I will hold you to this. Thank you so much <3

[capitu]

Little Brown Job. Got you. Not Long Blow Job. OKAY!

XD

<3 I mean it.