this post was too long to be funny on Twitter but it's probs too short for a DW post, sorry

[labellementeuse]

I just find this conversation obscurely amusing, IDK why, perhaps it's the idea of Spotted Kiwi fandom.

Moi: hey the phrase "lesser spotted kiwi fandom" is clear, right? Where it's talking about rare, nz, fandoms? & can only be hyphenated "lesser-spotted kiwi fandom"?
seemsforever: CORRECT as far as i'm concerned.
seemsforever: ps. a spotted kiwi is a thing, right? if you hyphenated it you'd have a smaller group of fans of the spotted kiwi.
seemsforever: .. as opposed to the other, huger, fandom of which spotted kiwi are the subject. RAD

I mean so like, obviously everyone ships Greater/Lesser (usually known as Little, according to Wiki, but Lesser sounds so much nicer). Angst in the fandom is all about how Lesser just can't survive the predation on the mainland! Wank in the fandom is all about how come nobody ever writes Lesser/Brown when they're obviously the closest. Rowi has waif fu. Haast and Southern Tokoeka are a smug married couple. etc.

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[hazel]

Meanwhile there's a small bunch of people who read Kakapo fic (think of the Hitchhiker's Guide crossovers!) and who get really cranky because their fandom's so teeny that every character has a name and omg why are people so into Kiwi anyway?

... yeah.

[nishatalitha]

And Black Robin/Chatham Island Tits is slowly dying out as a fandom as the species recovers. But there was a lot of hurt/comfort for a while when there was so much cross-species fostering going one.

Who do you think the last moa in the world is going to end up with?

Or, no, I know. There are two moas and they each think they're the last one in the world, and they're ever so lonely. One is in the North Island, and the other is from the South Island, in Fiordland. The one long fic is about how the rare birds of New Zealand matchmaked and schemed to get them together. Once they're actually in the same place, it's all misunderstandings and angst over the fact that they actually love each other, but each believes the other doesn't love him/her and is only with him/her out of a sense of duty, since they're each the last of their kind.

No doubt it's only sorted out with the aid of the rare birds that got them together in the first place. There are several side stories about the other rare birds plus five postscripts about their babies.