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noooo saw whet vs little and the winner vs screech? impossible!!! this is a crime, a farce! stop the steal!
And with Flammy and white faced on the other side of that bracket, the small owls are going to need to rally behind a single candidate (I hope it's Flammy!)
If it isn't challenging by this point, I'm not doing my job right! 😜
there is not much in my life that i loved and hated with this much passion at the same time. i love what you doing and hate you for it. please keep doing what you do, you beautiful human
Trust me, I feel much the same way! 😁
I spend 2 hours a day prepping the 2 posts, with my lede time getting shorter each round, for you to tell me how the one I like best sucks and instead you vote for some obscure owl that is impossible to find pics of for yet another round while I have to bite my tongue on why you so are dead wrong! Then I have to reply to everyone's comments like we're still friends after what you just did to me.
But yet I love Owl of the Year and think it's one of the greatest and most unique things on Lemmy and will gladly say let's do this again next year.
I'm seriously glad you guys have fun with this and look forward to it months ahead of time. It's a real pain in the ass, but it really amplifies the best things about this community. I can tough it out for 2 weeks or so for that. I want you to love your native birds and those around the world and to get you to care about them and their environments. They're awesome creatures, but then again, so are we sometimes!