Currently there are only 8 days left of this month! So remember you can only earn up to 150 points, some have you have gone over that so don't do anymore challenges til next month (you can submit them if you like, just let me know its for march)

Current Nest Totals :

Birds of Prey : 720
Flightless Birds : 634
Song Birds : 685


( trivia answers! )

Challenge 29; Fallen Phrases

Your Challenge Solve the Fallen Phrase puzzles. They are all Leverage Quotes found at wikiquote. You should be ok though, without knowing leverage

You can solve one, two or all three puzzles, and if you haven't encountered them before here is a brief tutorial - or ask your team/nest to help you!

you can print them or solve them in a graphics maker and submit the finished puzzle or just the quote, either way is fine.

Season One (20 points)
Season Two (10 points)
Season Three (15 points)

points up to 45 points.

Due Date Feb 26th 9pm EST time

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

Challenge 28; Top Five (Characters)

Your Challenge I''m probably going to do this challenge again, but with different top 5 themes, but this time it's top five characters.

Pick five of your favorite 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, be it a picspam, an icon each or a fic. (or something else! anything is fine, a gif, meta on why they are you favourite, etc)
You can create one picspam or fic for all five characters if you like, as long as they are all included.

points 25 points. You can do this challenge more than once.

Due Date March 16th 9pm EST time

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

challenge 21, the Jigsaw & challenge 23, Rock paper scissors lizard spock are both closed.

overall scores
Birds of Prey 560
Flightless Birds 330
Song Birds 530

check the spreadsheet

( participants )

Challenge 27; Trivia Tuesday

Your Challenge Answer the Trivia Questions.

Ok, I know its hard to do trivia on the inernet, but honesty is required here! There are 10 questions, worth 2 points each. Obviously i can't stop you using google, but please answer based on your knowledge only. If you can't answer a question, just leave it out.

Each week will have 1 question relating to the fandom of the month. you can give me questions here! please tell me if a question is yours, you'll get the points regardless.

( the questions for this week! )

points 2 point per question, max 20 points

Due Date February 20th 9pm EST time

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

Birds of Prey 435
Flightless Birds 245
Song Birds 335

Challenges 13, 19 & 20 are all closed now.
check the spreadsheet!

( participants for challenges 13, 19, 20 )

Challenge 26; Techno Wizard

Your Challenge 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.
— Dungeons & Dragons, The Book of Exalted Deeds

the trope page for more info

Some examples include Alec Hardison, Q from Bond, Foaly from Artemis fowl, Marshall on Alias, Mac in Veronica Mars, Penelope Garcia, Topher, Birkhoff...

Use as many fandoms as you like. Feel free to post to theoaktree or your journal and link here.

Points You can earn up to 25 points a post for this challenge. The points are calculated using the following guide:

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

Due Date March 9th, 2013, EST 9pm.

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

getting to know you
fill out the gtky texty & comment below
<B>Name</b> <B>What was the last movie you watched?</b> <B>Do you have any pets?</b> <B>Whats your favourite place around Dreamwdith?</b> <B>Any exciting plans this weekend?</b> <B>optional gif section:</b>

reminders ; closing this week
Short term Challenges
Challenge 019: Based-on February 10th, 2013, EST 9pm | 60 points
Challenge 021: Jigsaw February 13th, 2013, EST 9pm | 15 points
Challenge 023: Rock Paper Scissors (Lizard Spock) February 14th, 2013, EST 9pm | 15 points
Challenge 024: Pick Two February 16th, 2013, EST 9pm | 20 points

things happening around DW
fandom_level is a multi fandom comm similar to this one with prompts
stargateproject is also similar, multi-fandom comm based on the stargate episodes as prompts.
iconthat is an icon challenge
fridayfive is also an icon challenge :D
toodamnpretty can always use new hosts!

Hope you are having a great day, Aviary members

Challenge 25; The Two Live Crew Job

Your Challenge Create a crossover fic based on two groups of people. Tv, Movie, Music, or Orignal characters, whatever you like. 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.

Feel free to interperet crossover in which ever way suits you best.

check out crossovers if you need some inspiration! Or combine it with the crossover prompts meme at ao3!

Points every 50 words you write is worth 5 points. (rounded down to the closest 50) the minimum words for this challenge are 250, the maximum number of points you are able to earn is 100, however you can write over the 1000 words if you want to.

You can enter this challenge more than once.

Due Date April 2nd, 2013, EST 9pm.

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

Challenge 24; Pick Two

Your Challenge Create a fic or graphic based on the following words. You need to incorporate two of the words below, of your choice. It can be obviously used in both or it can just be inspired by the words.

You can make a picspam, tumblr graphic, gif or 2 icons or write 150+ words in fic or meta.

The words you choose don't have to be in your work, but include them in your comment here

Words Becoming, Effervescent, Evocative, Glamor, Leisure, Mellifluous, Opulent, Ripple, Serendipity, Summery, Woebegone

Points 20 points for your entry

Due Date February 16th, 2013, EST 9pm.

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

Challenge 23; Rock Paper Scissors (Lizard Spock)

Your Challenge Another Easy one :)!

Comment to this post with your choice of : Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard or Spock.

You will be paired up with the member above you for a game of Rock/Paper/Scissors/Lizard/Spock



Scissors cut paper
Paper covers rock
Rock crushes lizard
Lizard poisons Spock
Spock bends scissors
Scissors decapitate lizard
Lizard eats paper
Paper disproves Spock
Spock vaporizes rock
Rock crushes scissors

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

Due Date February 14th, 2013, EST 9pm.

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, birds.

Current Points
Song Birds : 160
Flightless Birds : 220
Birds of Prey : 85
spreadsheet

Closing soon
Challenge 020: Robot Unicorn Attack February 6th, 2013, EST 9pm | 15 points
Challenge 013: Trope of the Month February 9th 9pm EST time | 25 points
Challenge 019: Based-on February 10th, 2013, EST 9pm | 60 points
Challenge 021: Jigsaw February 13th, 2013, EST 9pm | 15 points

things happening around DW

fandom_level is a challenge comm relating to tropes and kinks. go check it out!
big_damn_fest is looking for whedon fans for March
iconthat is back up and running
fridayfive could use some more participants

Challenge 22; Bulletproof

Challenge Create a Fanmix based on the theme of Spies, Thieves, and the opposite of the Law. This can be based on a random, character, or the general theme. You can interpret any way you like.

Examples include; Anyone from Leverage, Nikita, Oceans Eleven, Natasha Romanoff or songs such as Stolen by Dashboard confessional, Bulletproof by La Roux.

A Fanmix should include a front and back cover of 400x400px, and between 6 and 10 songs. You don't have to include downloads, but links to youtube versions, a spotify playlist or something similar is awesome.

examples can be found at fanmix or fanmix or have a look on tumblr

Points 30 points for your mix. feel free to post elsewhere and link here

Due March 6th, 2013, EST 9pm.

Challenge 21; Jigsaw

Challenge Complete the following jigsaw.

It should load and give you a screen where you can drag and drop the pieces into the correct space. it has a black border around the picture.

Take a screenshot of your finished puzzle & submit it below :D

http://six.flash-gear.com/npuz/puz.php?c=v&id=3327133&k=74530311

Points 15 points for playing.

Due February 12th, 2013, EST 9pm.

Each month will also have an broad theme that ties into a fandom. You do not need to know the fandom, you don't even need to like the fandom, it'll be loosely related to the games & lottery challenges for the month :D

I know not everyone will always be happy about the theme, but i'll be sticking to reasonably popular fandoms to try and keep as many people as happy as i can. If you'd like to suggest a fandom, feel free!

The theme for February will be Leverage

Congrats to Song Birds, our winning Nest for January!

Song Birds : 993
Birds of Prey : 709
Flightless Birds : 693



Also a big Congrats to larmay, aryas_zehral, mithborien, colls, licklesoxy, digitaldesigner, daphnie_1, taxcha for getting well over 150 points!!

please double check the spreadsheet in case there is an error january points

if you would like a banner for being a top point earner, on the winning team or your point total for the month, please let me know and i'll get on that for you!

The Month of January has ended, and the Results post will be up tomorrow (i know, it should be up now but something came up, i'm very very sorry)

So if you enter anything from now on, it'll count for the month of February.

January Results will be up by tomorrow at the latest :D THANKS & SORRY.

I randomised the names and allocated them points based on that
Dean - 15 points
Sam - 20 points
Bobby - 5 points
Castiel - 7 points
Meg - 10 points.

remember Today is the last day before your 150 points for January will be banked. After that your score will be back at zero and you can participate in any of the open challenges. If you haven't participated in ANY challenges this month, you will be removed from your nest, but NOT from that comm.

( participants )

Challenge 20; Robot Unicorn ATTACK

Challenge Play Robot Unicorn Attack. Firstly, i must warn you that its rather addictive, so beware!

There are a couple of places to play, so hopefully everyone will get this working. (it does have loud msuic!)

here at adultswim
here at sirius arcade games

Earn at least 1000 points, and then take a screenshot. Submit that screenshot here :D

Points 15 points for playing.

Due February 6th, 2013, EST 9pm.

Challenge 19; Based-on

Your Challenge This challenge has two options :

Create a Tumblr-style picspam (or just a picspam) based on a fic, book, or au. You should have at least 6 screencaps, other than that its totally up to you.

examples
teen wolf ugly betty au based on a fic
once upon a time mob au
the avengers as a space thriller
game of thrones modern au

OR Create a short fic or description based on a tumblr style graphic/piece of artwork that you are aware of. for example, the avengers as a space thriller has a description or the reverse big bang concept. You don't have to go on tumblr for this, you could use something from deviant art or write for something you have created.

Points 30 points for either a graphic OR writing. (6 screencaps or 300 words). or do both for 60 points

Due Date February 10th, 2013, EST 9pm.

remember! you can only earn up to 150 points per month, maximum.