annathepiper: (Emperor Fabulous)
[personal profile] annathepiper
On this, the longest night of the year, I would now like to take the opportunity to expound upon a topic that's very near and dear to my heart: to wit, the ABSOLUTE AWESOMENESS of my spouse and lifemate, [personal profile] solarbird!

Exactly how awesome is [personal profile] solarbird? Let us count the ways!


  1. She has her very own battlesuit! And she's got a heat ray too. Even if I'm not supposed to tell you about that.
  2. She is an artist!
  3. She's also a sculptor!
  4. She takes excellent photographs!
  5. She is dangerously good at Fake Internet Scrabble, a.k.a. the Lexulous app on Facebook. Playing Lexulous with her is like having to dodge lightning bolts. Made out of PURE HIGH-SCORING AWESOME.
  6. Even birdies love to dance in honor of her Awesomeness!
  7. Her Norwescon newsletters are celebrated in song and story! And I'm not kidding about the song part. Mr. Cranky actually did have a song written about him!
  8. She is an instrument-learning MONSTER. She can play flute. She can play bodhran. She can play mandolin, and in fact, she plays it better than I do, since I gave her the mandolin that used to be mine! And bouzouki? Seriously, people, can I just say how loudly Kohaku roars in her grasp?
  9. Given the slightest opportunity, she would absolutely join me in snogging Kara Thrace of Battlestar Galactica senseless. Because we do love our crazy TV girlfriend Starbuck.
  10. And for that matter, she'd totally share Alan Doyle with me too! Because ogling The Doyle is a multi-woman job, and we are JUST THE WOMEN TO DO IT.
  11. Did I mention the part where she is a self-taught musician? Because I MEAN WHOA AND DAMN, PEOPLE, SHE MADE HER VERY OWN ALBUM!


Join me, Internets, in expounding on her awesomeness!

Because like ogling The Doyle, it takes an entire Internet to sing her praises. Sing with me, people, SING!

Happy Solstice, my love! <3 <3 <3

Date: 2010-12-20 02:51 pm (UTC)
technoshaman: (schroeder)
From: [personal profile] technoshaman
She's not just a multi-talented musician, she is also a good music *instructor*... the day we recorded for the video I learned *so* much... and lo, with her help, we committed *awesome*.

And we shall again! (ARRR!)

Reasons why Dara is an Awesomebird!

Date: 2010-12-20 07:03 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: superbird (superbird)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
0. Resolved that: Awesome Solarbird is Awesome.

Why? Let me count the ways.

1. Dara has a well-developed and very cautiously-applied sense of social justice, and an abiding passion for the rule of law. She may well construe herself as being evil, but that construction stems from her conviction that the normal order of things has been overturned, and that it is only through acting-up that one is now able to live conscientiously.

2. Dara is a good singer, and getting better. I know how very much hard work this takes, having myself come from a similar starting-point.

3. Dara is an adaptive and creative musician, who is quite prepared to make and amend her own instruments and studio tools. That betokens a certain devotion to her art.

4. Dara is literate, even if her spelling is, mmm, creative at times.

5. Dara carries her own house-party around with her, and that enthusiasm for life is contagious to thems wot come in contact with her.

6. Dara has an awesome heat-ray, and her talents as a sniper are unparalleled. My auto-body mechanic is still amazed at the tight shot-groups in my car's windshield.

7. Dara has done some neat glass art, some of which is coming home with us one of these days.

8. Dara is one of the few people who not only invented her own handwriting, but still uses it.

9. Dara can cook. Dara can cook. The cake is a lie.

10. Dara taught me some nifty cuss-words, which are fapping useful at times.

11. Dara's a good friend. Good friends are rare as, well, good friends. This I do not say lightly.

Re: Reasons why Dara is an Awesomebird!

Date: 2011-01-03 01:34 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
You're quite welcome, kerasi! Dara is indeed awesomeness incarnate, and such truths are easy to tell. ^_^ (By the way, you are awesome, too, and that wants saying more often!)

Date: 2010-12-20 05:48 am (UTC)
ext_24913: (while1moo)
From: [identity profile] cow.livejournal.com
I would also add: she has always been wonderfully supportive and awesome to friends, even though the world has often been cold and not returning of such awesomeness.

HELLO DARA BY THE TIME YOU SEE THIS IT WILL BE VERY LATE HERE

Date: 2010-12-20 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sticckler.livejournal.com
That is an AMAZING battlesuit!

Date: 2010-12-20 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com
WOOHOOO!

Date: 2010-12-20 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spazzkat.livejournal.com
Dara is Buckaroo Banzai awesome. Dara is purple haired moon girl, bouncy evil weather balloon, rose princess, eva suit, green glowing hands frakin awesome. And let's face it she has better hair than all those guys.

Date: 2010-12-20 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sksouth.livejournal.com
Dara is brave.
From: [identity profile] flashfire.livejournal.com
BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK
BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK
BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAK BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKK!!!!

Date: 2010-12-20 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com
dara is creative and clever and hard-working and loving and a hell of a lot of fun. even at 3000 miles away i bask in the glow of her winged elf rage-fueled superhero AWESOMENESS!

here, have a chibi hawkgirl kicks butt icon, even though we all know chibi dara could kick hers too :)

Date: 2010-12-21 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
Dara is brave and fierce and does a lot of cool things, including play lovely instruments in a lovely way. She does things she likes and things that are new and things that are difficult and doing all of those things is good and right. She loves her friends and lets others love her back.

Dara rocks!

Date: 2010-12-21 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brombear.livejournal.com
I can't add to all that's been said, except to say WOOT! 8D

Date: 2010-12-21 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xpioti.livejournal.com
One of the many things that impress me about Solarbird is her sheer ability to apply her brain usefully. She's not just some ivory tower intellectual, she's got mad brain power and uses it! Economics, politics, music, home renovation, research, she does it all and she does it all well. I love learning her opinion about things, because she always has solid reasons backing 'em up -- and that's so rare! So she's a rare bird indeed. :)

Date: 2010-12-21 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flashfire.livejournal.com
She really does. I like to think I'm a fairly intelligent person but she could school me on so many things. ;-)

Date: 2010-12-21 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kathrynt.livejournal.com
I would spend some time listing all the arcane fields that I go to Dara with whenever I need a question answered, except that I have two kids and I need to go to the gym, BUT: they include ethics, home repair, networking, and gluing things together. And probably stuff even more widely-ranging than that. Girlfriend's a gin-yoo-wine polymath, which is all too fuckin' rare these days.

Date: 2010-12-21 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starfallz.livejournal.com
Dara's awesome and cheerful, as well as super smart and with a wicked sense of humor. :) I like her. :)

Date: 2010-12-22 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xpioti.livejournal.com
Ditto on the sense of humor, totally. I admire anybody who can employ a cutting sense of humor without bad feelings.

Date: 2010-12-21 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poodlgrl.livejournal.com
I remember when my first baby was born and I was terribly lonesome, Dara came one day and just sat with me and we talked for hours about all manner of vintage homes, home building, childhood, weirdness, and probably poodles too. XO Dara.

Date: 2010-12-21 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
Happy happy day! Here is to another year of awesome!

Date: 2010-12-22 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistwolf.livejournal.com
Dara is an awesome and inspirational woman and the world is a lucky place to have her.

Date: 2010-12-22 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loopback.livejournal.com
I am totally late to this party but I wanted to jump in and say that Dara is awesome, and is one of the people from my younger days who made me feel welcome and OK. She's been a force for real good for as long as I've known her, and there aren't many people I can say that about, and mean it.

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