#birdsong reads

[florencebirdsong]

The fact that Natasha canonically has a symbiote right now in the comics has me

[technofinch]

Alright y'all come get your juice <3

[fence-time]

OKAY! EXPLOSION TIME

@wireman-au - you already know this one, but i think they updated since last time

Lifeline AU - by @/slash-magpie (sorry mags, unsure if you're ok with being pinged)! Good fic based off of a video game that i enjoy greatly. Changed my life nodders. llau!imp n skizz are very important to me they're so fucked up,, every mental illness ever about this au. Main characters... well, I don't wanna give too many spoilers, but let's stick with the first three: Impulse, Tango, Pearl! also joehills and zedaphplays are amazing human beings (COUGHS LOUDLY AT JOE IN LB) and i love them

Chasing the Horizon Line - by @nine-of-diamonds and @1watermelontea! Mers :3 they're fun and i also greatly enjoy imp n skizz here though it's less centered around them and more around gem... (first book, at least. also i inspired melon to add a Thing about skizz in this fic so im proud of that fact)

wanna break all the clocks and mirrors - very cute, pretty quick one-shot about imp n skizz and limited life!

The Haunts That Bind Us - *squints* im like. 90% sure rusty courage made this. it's good. phasmo :3 lots of angst and trauma and impulsesv

Birdsongs - OHHHHHHHH MY GOD THIS FIC. THIS. FIC. ranchers slowburn but subtle enough you can ignore it if you're not into shipping, people are correctly written for once, LATE 90'S-EARLY 2000'S MUSIC FESTIVAL AU. it's amazing. scott gets into a bar fight. jimmy steals something. first chapter is tango tek waking up from drunk music playing. skizz is amazing i love him. very very vague spoilers: weed + enjoys movies = pondering arson

i believe that we will see a better day - this fic has a special place in my heart for Reasons that i will not elaborate on as i do not want to have any personal information leaked don't think about it too hard <3 good fic

Natural Satellite - You probably aren't in this fandom but the fic is good i trust you can learn by context clues!! i love gay people!! this fandom is very good at visceral descriptions of love and also just visceral descriptions in general

Traveling Thieves - LOOOOOONG series but soso good! will not elaborate

And finally, if i may suggest some of my own headcanon/rarepair propaganda:

(how does it feel?) to be an expert in a dying field - i wrote this for mcyt aro week! grayro skizz, my beloved rarepair snowangel, title from my favorite band... yea :3 quite proud of it!!

...sorry if you've read any of these already

OH MY GOODNESS I’M SORRY MATE. ITS BEEN TOO LONG AUEEHHH OOPS? tho thank you so so much :O!!!

[ornithological]

staying up past my bedtime to listen to bird recordings on ebird and xeno-canto

[swordheld]

i have been scrolling through ur page and noticed that u tend to put long, thoughtful tags underneath nearly every post u reblog & i just thought that was very endearing since the general trend is short and concise. im not sure why i felt the need to write u and let u know, but i just felt very compelled to. pls never stop being u.

this is so very sweet of you!! it's an old habit that i have held onto for the longest time, mostly due to the fact of tags being excellent for organization (my beloved) but also as a kind of extra space for whatever else you'd like to include without actually including it in the post when others share it for themselves! it's that perfect mixture of private n public.

for this blog specifically it's something that i enjoy since it's really an exercise or activity in enjoyment / enrichment? i like to think about why i was so inclined to reblog it, to pin it up to this lil space on the interwebs that's all my own. whether that's the colors, or the wording of things, or just what it makes me think about or feel, it's just a really lovely way of considering it all a little deeper!

which is not something that comes easy, or at minimal energy, sometimes! my likes are extensive (i keep attempting to clean them out and bring back my queueing system but we are up to 5k and i am very tired at the moment, lol) for that reason, and it's like a small goal to try to chip away at them over time, to see what treasure i can discover today.

alternatively, it's also a really nice near - time capsule of a thing; to be able to comb through my archive and see what has changed in my outlook, what sticks out to me now versus then, is really fascinating to see how far i've come and what's changed. there's something so lovely about time being instilled so deeply into this lil mini game of online scrapbooking that i adore; so i'm peached n overjoyed that you find some joy in it as well!!

this is all to say: thank you sm and i hope you try it out for yourself if it's something you think you might have fun with! let me know how it goes :)

[librarycard]

it’s crazy that james baldwin has already said it all

[petrichor-and-moondust]

tumblr likes are locked and ao3 acc is in no way associated with socials... can't let the people know i fw the omegaverse

[blackbloodedisabel]

accidentally got on wrong bus and ended up in the spot by the lake I used to come to every day after school in y11 between the diseased and healthy beech trees with the hanging thorns and ivy. the gulls are sitting on the netting posts I can hear the mallards and occasionally you can see the ripples on the water's surface where a carp has touched it. a moorhen and coot are circling me angling to be fed. a robin is bouncing around next to me. the gnats are swarming. the oak trees across the water are turning yellow. nobody has cut the dead trees down yet. I think she's still in here somewhere.

[beatriceportinari]

i can be outside in the sun ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[foolish-fitz]

RotE Roulette day 2: Starling Birdsong 🤩

spinner wheel got spicy on day 2. I've seen a lot of differing opinions towards Starling. I personally think she has major flaws as a person and would hate her in real life but I am absolutely obsessed with her as a character.

she's just such a mess and makes every single situation she's in a mess too!! what's not to love

yeah, she's an absolute bitch at times and can be extremely stubborn and cruel - like during the mountain journey in AQ where she spent entirely too much energy trying to stir the pot by claiming the Fool was a woman, or her whole tirade against Fitz once he learns that she's married. but I love how all her behavior is explainable and so much of it can be traced back to her fucked-up views on her own sexuality. like, her anger at Fitz after he decides he doesn't want their relationship to continue because she's cheating on her husband is so rooted in her belief that the only thing of value she has to offer, and the only way she can forge a connection with anyone, is through sex. she's so hurt when Fitz "disposes of her" (her words) and I think this quote really gets to the crux of the issue:

"... Perhaps I never mattered at all to you, save for one thing. One convenient little thing that I brought right to your door for you, one thing that I thought we shared in friendship and fondness and, yes, even love. But you decided you don’t want that from me anymore, so you throw all of me aside. You make that the whole of what we shared, and discard me with it."

to her, this validates her belief that no one could really care about her as a person (which is lowkey true to an extent bc she's a bitch and even Fitz kind of doesn't care about her that much, rip). and also this scene just is OH SHIT moment after OH SHIT moment.

ok that went long and I have so much more to say. on to the other things though. (btw if you have a suggestion you think would be fun for a new thing to add, like a headcanon or unpopular opinion or something, let me know)

🎶

tier list: A tier! I love her and I think her personality and character development are great. she has a lot of flaws which make her incredibly interesting and she plays well off the other characters

best line/moment: we all know it has to be her savage conversation with Fitz in Golden Fool. "No doubt you mouth [Molly's] name into your pillow as your Lord Golden mounts you" 🔥 🔥 🔥 (like I said above, I think this scene is really crunchy and honestly sad, but her insults are just so *good* that I had to include one)

[hijklab]

hap: I think you should tell your boy toy you’re married

Starling (actual dialogue): WELL YOUR FATHER WAS PROBABLY A RAPIST

[florencebirdsong]

He’s fr just a little guy

[technofinch]

Jack the Green with a drop of the craither Jack the Green there was none any braver Fist come down, voice beller out "I can lick any damn man here"

note: this song starts off quietly and gets significantly louder at 0:15. Wait a bit before turning up your volume!

[qqweebird]

is falin pronounced like fall-in or fail-in or something else

[grimmlinn]

i can only wish to be as zen as the old italian man sitting at the control board for the beer garden football screen smoking a cigarette and staring into the setting sun

[chloristoflora]

I do not know how long the song lasted. I came back to the Great Hall and the gathered nobles of the Six Duchies as if I had been on a long journey. Starling sat before her tall harp, her head bent forward and her brow resting on its dark wood. Her face glowed with perspiration. She breathed as if she had run over nine hills. I stared at her. She had been a stranger, a lover, a nemesis, and a betrayer to me. And now she was my historian.

When the applause came, it began as a whisper and rose to a roar. Starling lifted her head slowly and I followed her gaze as she looked around at the faces of her audience. Tears tracked down the faces of many, and anger sat on some. I saw a stony-faced woman sneer at the emotion of the lady next to her. Another noble shook his head and leaned close to whisper to his companion. Two young women were embracing each other, overcome with the romance of the story. The Duchess of Bearns hugged herself tight, her clasped hands under her chin, her head bent over her hands. The Duke of Rippon appeared to be telling the people around him, "I knew it. I always knew it," as his big hands beat against each other.

And I? How to describe that vindication? I stood among them, unknown and unseen, but feeling as if we had finally come home, my wolf and I. I felt a sharp pang that the Fool had not been here to hear this, and realized I was trembling, as if I had come in from somewhere very cold and was shaking as the warmth finally came back into my body. I was not weeping, and yet the water ran from my eyes until I could scarcely see.

Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #2)