Advanced Bird Haberdashery, Wednesday, period 2

[betterthanaplan]

"Congratulations, guys," Duke said when class was set to start. "We made it all the way through the semester without eating or getting eaten by any birds."

Sure, he may have turned into one for a day or so, but that wasn't besides the point.

"Anyway. I hope you all brought your own bird, because you're making the hat of your choice for it for your final project. I brought Polly." He gestured to a porg on the desk. "And I'm going to fold him a paper hat, because it turns out millinery is a pain in the ass. Now get to work and thanks for a not-terrible semester."

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BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[betterthanaplan]

Did you bring your bird? Is said bird already pissed at you? Is it going to let you get anywhere near it with a hat? Good luck!

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[amitragic]

Ulysses produced a slightly crumpled origami bird from one of his pockets, then proceeded to try and make it a little fiddler cap out of felt.

Anyone bringing a live bird to this class was nuts, okay? Also Ulysses had needed something to do with his hands when he'd ended up on a conspiracy theory video binge on Youtube last night, anyway.

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[legionqueen]

Juillenne did not bring a bird.

No, what she had done, was go into the Preserve and find herself an alot of birds.

So, uh. Enjoy that, everyone?

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[amitragic]

Ulysses was not enjoying it! Thanks!

"... What the fuck is that?"

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[legionqueen]

"I'm... honestly not entirely sure?" Jules admitted. It seemed vaguely quadrupedal, except, you know, for the fact that the legs were birds. And the body was birds. And the head was an exceptionally large bird.

"I went into the Preserve looking for an interesting bird and... this followed me out instead," she shrugged.

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[amitragic]

"Of course it did," Ulysses replied, with the tone of someone who suddenly felt like he'd already been in Fandom way too long. "I mean, why wouldn't this place just have --"

He gestured futilely at the alot and its generally bird-riffic everything.

"--creatures that are made of birds just roaming around the forest? That makes like perfect sense." It did not. And yet in a crazy way it did? Either way, Ulysses pulled his hand back and ran his fingers through his hair. "Jesus."

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[legionqueen]

If it helped, Ulysses, there were actually many different kinds of alots in the Preserve?

One might even say there were a lot of them.

"It? They? Are very well-behaved, at least?" Jules said with a shrug. That's because you were a naturalist, Juillenne, and there wasn't a living non-sapient creature out there that wouldn't roll over and do exactly what you asked of it.

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[amitragic]

That would not help at all, actually.

Ulysses looked the alot over, and shook his head. "I guess so?" he said. "I mean, it's no terror bird." He was still traumatized from that class.

Re: BYOBird and hat of your choice!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"My brother would not send me an ostrich," Shuri said, sounding extremely disappointed in him, "so I have a secretary bird instead because his girlfriend is much more reasonable."

For given value of reasonable. "And she will wear a fedora as she is a professional, working woman."