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Welcome to the Flightless Birds Nest :D This is a social community as part of

theaviary To be a member here you must be a member there, so co check it out!

If you are a member here, note that posting is open to every memeber & when you arrive you should make a post and introduce yourself!

mierke

We're just three points away from first place, guys! *happy dance*

Hello, my lovely penguins, and welcome to our themed reminders edition! Today's theme is:
MISCELLANEOUS

Meaning: Anything that's not writing or making graphics!

SUDOKU
Solve the sudoku puzzles!

Points: 10, 15 and 20, depending on how hard the puzzle is. That's a total of 45 points!

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 18th 9pm EST time (March 19th, 2 am UTC)

HELP ME OUT
Bring some social interaction to our Flightless Birds! And give

everythingshiny some new challenge ideas.

Points: Max of 50 points, with:
- 5 points per challenge suggestion
- 1 point per comment to a team/nest post
- 15 points for a post to your team comm

How often can you submit: Once

Due: April 24th 9pm EST time (April 25th, 2 am UTC)

FOREVER CHALLENGES

TRIVIA QUESTIONS
Create trivia questions for the trivia challenges!

Points: 1 point per question

How often can you submit: Unlimited

PROMOTIONAL CHALLENGE
Spread the word about

theaviary!

Points: 5 points for any of the following
- a link or screencap to a post made promoting the aviary
- someone says you referred them in the sign up post

How often can you submit: Unlimited

Current Emperor Penguin:

welfycat, with 120 points!

havocthecat

So, what are intro posts around here like? I'm Havoc, and I found this place via a post by

skieswideopen (and I see that

amaresu is here also!). I've been in fandom for years, though it's had to take a backseat lately to school (since I've gone back this semester). I mostly write fanfic and meta, and mostly femslash, along with some gen and het and poly fic. I've been bouncing from fandom to fandom for a few years now, including Avengers, Leverage, Vampire Diaries, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: SG-1, St. Trinian's, BtVS/Angel, Firefly, as well as some older school fandoms like Highlander, Forever Knight, Farscape, and X-Files.

Anyway, nice to meet you all! I can't wait to go through the comm and see what the challenges are.

mierke

Hello, my lovely penguins, and welcome to our themed reminders edition! Today's theme is:
WRITING

ONLY WRITING
THE TWO LIVE CREW JOB
Create a crossover fic based on two groups of people. You can involve as many people from each facet that you choose, so it could be 1 person from fandom A and 1 person from fandom B or 6 people from each. Minimum word count: 250.

Points: Every 50 words you write is worth 5 points. Maximum number of points you are able to earn is 100, however you can write over the 1000 words if you want to.

How often can you submit: More than once

Due: April 2nd, 2013, EST 9pm (April 3rd, 2 am UTC)

BOOK REVIEW
Post a review of a book you've read, what you liked and didn't like, the basic plot, books similar to it, etc.

Points: 5 per each 50 words, up to 500 words (50 points)

How often can you submit: Unlimited

Due: April 18th, 2013, EST 9pm. (April 19th, 2 am UTC)

GRAPHICS AND/OR WRITING
TECHNO WIZARD
Make things inspired by the following trope:
Techno Wizard
The Techno Wizard is the guy or girl who can make a computer or electronic device do anything.

Points: 25 points total - Options:
Recs (fic, icons, art, meta posts, fanmixes etc) 1 point each
Self made icons 5 point each
Writing (meta or fic by you) 5 points per 50 words
Something bigger made by you (eg a minifanmix, piece of art, etc) 10 points

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 9th, 2013, EST 9pm. (March 10, 2 am UTC)

CREATE A CHARACTER
Create a new regular or recurring character for your chosen canon (show, movieverse, comics, books, etc). Describe your character, cast them and create a picspam/ficlet including your character if you would like.

Points: Max of 30 points, with:
- 5 points per 50 words of description or fic
- 5 points per image used to cast, or in a picspam

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 13th 9pm (March 14th, 2 am UTC)

TOP FIVE
Pick five of your favourite characters either in general, from one specific show or top five movie characters - you can reduce it down as much as you like if top five characters is too hard.

List your Top Five Characters & create something for each character anything. You can create one picspam or fic for all five characters if you like, as long as they are all included.

Examples:
-

licklesoxy has made GIFs for her top 5 Supernatural characters
-

digitaldesigner has made icons for her top 5 female characters

Points: 25 points

How often can you submit: More than once

Due: March 16th 9pm EST time (March 17th, 2 am UTC)

HAVE YOU MET...
Pick a Fandom, and make a post celebrating it. Talk about how much you love it, why people should watch it, rec fanworks and create anything you like for it!

Need an example?

skieswideopen introduces Flashpoint.

Points: 50 points total - Options:
Recs (fic, icons, art, meta posts, fanmixes etc) 1 point each
Self made icons 5 point each
Writing (meta or fic by you) 5 points per 50 words
Something bigger made by you (eg a minifanmix, piece of art, etc) 10 points

How often can you submit: Three times (150 points total)

Due: April 30st, 2013, EST 9pm (May 1st, 2 am UTC)

Current Emperor Penguin:

welfycat, with 110 points! And March is only 7 days old - you've done a great job there! :D

mierke

Welcome my lovely penguins! A new month has dawned! We may have lost out on February, but MARCH WILL BE OURS!

A couple of challenges are close to ending...

FIVE THINGS
Write a fic based on the five things trope. Your fic should at least have 250 words.

Points: 5 points per 50 words (with a maximum of 100 points)

How often can you submit: Four times (with a maximum of 100 points)

Due: March 3rd, 2013, EST 9pm (March 4th, 2 am UTC) ONLY A FEW MORE HOURS!

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MARK SHEPPARD
Watch the video. It has 9 clips of Mark Sheppard in various shows. Guess the show that he's on!

HINTS!
Clip 1: Very popular, still airing US show. Has over 100 episodes. His character is a recurring one, who doesn't appear until the later seasons. (provided by

licklesoxy)
Clip 2: Even more popular, still airing sci-fi British show. The show is over 40 years old. His character appears in only two episodes. (provided by

licklesoxy)
Clip 3: Take a good look at the lower left corner!
Clip 4: Popular sci-fi US show, no longer airing. The show was part of one of the most popular sci-fi franchises of the past 50 years. (provided by

licklesoxy)
Clip 5: Quite popular space-westernish (according to Wiki) type US show, no longer airing. The show lasted one season, and had a film based off it. (provided by

licklesoxy)
Clip 6: An American action-comedy/spy-drama television series, no longer airing. (approved by

skieswideopen)
Clip 7: American series based on comics. It only ran for one season. (approved by

skieswideopen)
Clip 8: Try and google the quote. It helps!
Clip 9: Sci-fi series, very low ratings, but ran for two seasons anyhow. Cult favourite.

Points: 1 point per show, +1 point if you get them all

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 4th 9pm EST time (March 5th, 2 am UTC)

BULLETPROOF
Create a Fanmix based on the theme of Spies, Thieves, and the opposite of the Law. It should include a front and back cover of 400x400px, and between 6 and 10 songs.

Points: 30 points for your mix.

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 6th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 7th, 2 am UTC)

TECHNO WIZARD
Make things inspired by the following trope:
Techno Wizard
The Techno Wizard is the guy or girl who can make a computer or electronic device do anything.

Points: 25 points total - Options:
Recs (fic, icons, art, meta posts, fanmixes etc) 1 point each
Self made icons 5 point each
Writing (meta or fic by you) 5 points per 50 words
Something bigger made by you (eg a minifanmix, piece of art, etc) 10 points

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 9th, 2013, EST 9pm. (March 10, 2 am UTC)

Current Emperor Penguin: The spot is still open!

nymphadoratonks

Hello, team! I never posted here when I first joined, so I think I'll do so now! My name is Whitney, and I came here from a promo post on livejournal!

My main fandoms include: Doctor Who, Chuck, Roswell, Smallville, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, Anything with Hilary Duff, Harry Potter, Teen Wolf, and Flashpoint.

I was thinking of different things we can do for challenges and came up with something related to graphics and Monopoly! It would be like the chance/community chest cards. You'd randomly get one and depending on which one it is you'd either make/rec art or receive it. I was also thinking we could make recipe cards! You could either do actual food/dishes or make it fandom related and create the perfect dish/show. For example, the perfect appetizer could be top 4-5 opening credits that you like and make a small picture to go on a template that you make for them. I'm not that great at coming up with challenges!

I made 55 points for February and I hope to make all 150 this month! :D

How is your weekend going? Mine is going okay!

mierke

Hello, my lovely penguins! Only 2 days left in this month - these are the challenges that are ending! (Yes, this is a shameless copy/paste from my last reminder post!)

FALLEN PHRASES
Solve the Fallen Phrase puzzles. They are all Leverage Quotes found at wikiquote.

I promise you - these look a lot harder than they are. The most important parts are the names; after you've filled these in, you can easily put in one or two or three other words, and that'll give you enough to ctrl-f wikiquote!

Points: 20 points for the S1 quote, 10 points for the S2 quote, 15 points for the S3 quote (45 total)

How often can you submit: Once

Due: Feb 26th 9pm EST time (Feb 27th, 2 am UTC)

RAINBOW ICONS
Create 7 Icons based on the colours of the rainbow ; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.

Lovely examples from fellow penguins are

taxcha's sets one, two, three and the set by

sapphoatsunset

Points: 35 points per set. You need to submit all seven icons to get points.

How often can you submit: Four times (140 points total)

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

THE ZODIAC
You are tasked with creating a crime-fighting (or crime-making, or something) team of people called the Zodiac. Your team has 12 members. Pick 12 existing or original characters and accompany each character with either a graphic or 50 words describing the character. You must include at least 50 more words explaining your team.

Need some inspiration? My lovely co-mod

taxcha has completed her team, as did I!

Points: 60 points per team.

How often can you submit: Two times (120 points total)

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

SIG BANNERS
Enter the request form and request sig banners from others!

Points: 5 points for request comment - easiest points ever, and it can get you some lovely banners!
5 points per banner made by you - this includes the banner made by yourself, which you can add to your request comment

How often can you submit: Unlimited

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

Penguins at rest (filled their 150 points quota):

mierke,

skieswideopen,

taxcha. Great work, you guys! I'm proud of you! (Yes, of me too! xD)

Current Emperor Penguin:

digitaldesigner with 91 points!

mierke

Hello, my lovely penguins! Only 8 days left in this month - these are the challenges that are ending!

taxcha's sets one, two, three and the set by

Penguins at rest (filled their 150 points quota):

mierke,

skieswideopen,

taxcha. Great work, you guys! I'm proud of you! (Yes, of me too! xD)

Current Emperor Penguin:

digitaldesigner with 91 points!

mierke

Hello, my lovely penguins, and welcome to our first themed reminders edition! Today's theme is:
GRAPHICS

ONLY GRAPHICS
RAINBOW ICONS
Create 7 Icons based on the colours of the rainbow ; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.

Lovely examples from fellow penguins are

taxcha's sets one, two and the set by

sapphoatsunset

Points: 35 points per set. You need to submit all seven icons to get points.

How often can you submit: Four times (140 points total)

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

SIG BANNERS
Enter the request form and request sig banners from others!

Points: 5 points for request comment - easiest points ever, and it can get you some lovely banners!
5 points per banner made by you - this includes the banner made by yourself, which you can add to your request comment

How often can you submit: Unlimited

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

ICON TECHNIQUES
Create 6 Icons based on the following icon techniques.
- mostly negative space
- text
- borders/lines or shapes
- muted, grey or black/white colouring
- more than one image
- close crops

Need inspiration?

licklesoxy's set is a great example.

Points: 30 points per set. You need to submit all six icons to get points.

How often can you submit: Three times (90 points total)

Due: March 23rd, 2013, EST 9pm (March 24, 2 am UTC)

GRAPHICS AND/OR WRITING
THE ZODIAC
You are tasked with creating a crime-fighting (or crime-making, or something) team of people called the Zodiac. Your team has 12 members. Pick 12 existing or original characters and accompany each character with either a graphic or 50 words describing the character. You must include at least 50 more words explaining your team.

My lovely co-mod

taxcha has completed her team!

Points: 60 points per team.

How often can you submit: Two times (120 points total)

Due: February 28th, 2013, EST 9pm (March 1st, 2 am UTC)

TECHNO WIZARD
Make things inspired by the following trope:
Techno Wizard
The Techno Wizard is the guy or girl who can make a computer or electronic device do anything.

Points: 25 points total - Options:
Recs (fic, icons, art, meta posts, fanmixes etc) 1 point each
Self made icons 5 point each
Writing (meta or fic by you) 5 points per 50 words
Something bigger made by you (eg a minifanmix, piece of art, etc) 10 points

How often can you submit: Once

Due: March 9th, 2013, EST 9pm. (March 10, 2 am UTC)

HAVE YOU MET...
Pick a Fandom, and make a post celebrating it. Talk about how much you love it, why people should watch it, rec fanworks and create anything you like for it!

Need an example?

Current Emperor Penguin:

taxcha, with 115 points!

mierke

Hello my lovely Flightless Birds! How are you all doing? :D

There are a couple of challenges ending in a week - I just wanted to remind you of these.

LUCK
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS (LIZARD SPOCK)
It's one of the easy ones - just comment with one of the five options!

Points: 5 points if you enter and lose, 10 points if you enter and draw, 15 points if you enter and win.

Due: February 14th, 2013, EST 9pm (Feb 15, 2 am UTC)

WRITING/GRAPHICS
PICK TWO
Create a fic or graphic based on the following words. You need to incorporate two of the words below, of your choice:
Becoming
Effervescent
Evocative
Glamor
Leisure
Mellifluous
Opulent
Ripple
Serendipity
Summery
Woebegone

(For those of us who are like me, and don't have English as their first language: the links lead to the Free Dictionary explanations)

Your options are:
Graphics: a picspam, a tumblr graphic, a gif, 2 icons
Writing: 150+ words in fic or meta

Points: 20 points for your entry

Due: February 16th, 2013, EST 9pm (Feb 17, 2 am UTC)

KNOWLEDGE
TRIVIA TUESDAY
Try and answer the ten questions - without using google!

Points: 2 point per question, max 20 points

Due: February 20th, 2013, EST 9pm (Feb 21, 2 am UTC)

Current Emperor Penguin:

taxcha, with 110 points!

craterdweller

YOU
Name: craterdweller
Age: umm - i think my calendar app broke :P
Location: Seattle
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FAN-RELATED
Fandoms: BTVS, Angel, Merlin, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Trek, X-Files, NCIS, How I Met Your Mother .... way too many to list :D
Favourite characters: Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers, Capt Picard, Beverly Crusher, Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter, Uther Pendragon, Merlin, Monroe ...
Favourite pairings: Picard/Crusher, Buffy/Giles, Monroe/Rosalee, Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill ...
Tl;dr: Top three fandoms, characters, pairings: these probably change depending on when you ask me but ... BTVS, Trek, Stargate, Rupert Giles, Captain Picard, Jack O'Neill, Picard/Crusher, Buffy/Giles, Carter/O'Neill
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AVIARY-RELATED
How did you discover The Aviary? digitaldesigner
Favourite part of being in a land comm? variety of challenges, socializing with others
Are you a member of any other land comms? whedonland, fandomverse, landofart
Favourite flightless bird: penguin

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OTHER
Favourite quote: I must consult my books
Coffee or tea? tea
Snow: Yes or no? no
Anything else you'd like to share? member of theiconquest although not sure if that has gone dormant and have been around a lot of challenge comms. Love music, photography, reading and way too many foods that are bad for me :D

mierke

Hello my lovely Flightless Birds! How are you all doing? :D

There are a couple of challenges ending in a week - I just wanted to remind you of these.

TRADING CARD
Create a Trading Card/Character profile for a character you know or an original character.

It should at the very least include your character name, a picture & some abilities or stats.

Points: 10 points per card; this can earn you up to 30 points

Due: January 29th, 2013, EST 9pm. (Jan 30, 2 am UTC)

THE LOTTERY
Definitely the simplest challenge ever - just pick a name from the 5 listed!

Points: 5 points for picking, up to 15 points extra (depending on the pick)

Due: January 30th, 2013, EST 9pm. (Jan 31, 2 am UTC)

Current Emperor Penguin:

licklesoxy, with 91 points!

mierke

Hello, hello! Me and the lovely

taxcha will be your team captains. I thought we'd start out by getting to know each other. So here comes a...

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