A wee beautiful and astonishing thing!


Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

bmouse has made adorable art of one of my very favorite subjects-Team + birds! Go see Birds of Atlantis over at sga_art.

I am so lucky! siriaeve wrote me the most adorable John and Rodney fic, Date Night, in which there is car racing and trash talk and KISSING! \o/

And chkc drew me my very own birthday chibis with CAKE and a BIRD ON JOHN'S HEAD-which, if you know me, you know pleases me to no end. She's entered the bird-on-John's-head pantheon! (See here and here and here.)


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More photos, this time from the dog walk . . .

( lots of crows! )

Every winter it’s the same story: John tries to lead them across the field, over the river, and up the hill through the forest, but the snow blankets every convenient landmark, piling in drifts over the stone walls and bushes and even the long flat path the humans have made.

Go go go read aesc's With Feathers (and the sequel, A Bird of Courage!), ( Read more... )

Meeeeeeeep steammmpunk created gorgeous gorgeous artwork (for my anotheratlantis prompt): John and Rodney and birds and there are WINGS and EQUATIONS and, oh. Go look- The Physics of Flying.

A really very random teeny bit of birdwatching au-ness that sort of precedes this:

( It's the spotting scope that gets him )

John and Rodney and a wee snippet of some kind of crazy birdwatching au, ~300 words.

Field Marks

( Rodney should be focusing on the warbler flitting in and mostly out of sight in the foliage overhead . . . )

After thinking further about anna_luna's AU drawing meme, I've decided that what would make me really happy? Would be a birdwatcher or ornithologist AU, with John and Rodney and binoculars and spotting scopes and bird guides, and John's a bird song expert, so he's always cocking his head and telling Rodney to shut up while he listens (and they argue about ( Read more... )

I saw a baltimore oriole this morning; I'm taking it as a good bird omen. Plus, orangey!

Off to Michigan!