#loulu

Day 28 of Avian August 2025, Birds of Hawaii, hosted by @cookiedoves: ʻUla-ʻai-hāwane (Ciridops anna)

ʻUla-ʻai-hāwane was a member of the Hawaiian honeycreepers but sadly disappeared in 1892. The name ʻula-ʻai-hāwane means "red bird that eats hāwane" (the fruit of the loulu palm) in Hawaiian. Its diet primarily consisted of the flowers, seeds, unripe fruits, and insects associated with several species of loulu palms (Pritchardia).

Though! My first fic 2020 is done and surprisingly it didn’t end up with Soukoku but a rare pair I start to love a lot lately! <3

I hope one or two of my followers are interested in it, too, so I share it with you! 

Title: Late Night Letters Words: 1,716 Characters: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott Shipping: Lucy/Louisa

Summary: After getting home from a study meeting, all Lucy wanted to do was giving her friend a cup of coffee while enjoying some tea herself.

She had not expected that kind of outcome.

it was for the best and she knew it. the guild is the past, louisa is win the guild, therefore she is the past too. but that kind of logical thinking was what louisa would’ve done and maybe she rubbed off more on lucy more than lucy had thought.

to rub salt in the wound, that mindset actually helped. it also showed that louisa (and her thinking) is good for lucy. even when she’s gone

(does this make sense? i’m not sure)

(being shaken) Urgghhhhh it hurts to think that in order for Lucy to move on from Louisa she had to be like her and think like her. Had to absorb parts of Louisa into herself to forget her. And she continues to carry Louisa's influence with her as she leaves her behind.

Maybe she was thinking like a romantic at first — that maybe she and Louisa would cross paths again on some fateful day, maybe Lucy could "show her the light" and bring Louisa over to her side. Because, surely, they're going to see each other again, right? Louisa was her first friend, fate wouldn't be so cruel as to split them up forever, right...?

Until she realized that of course Louisa would choose the Guild. The logical girl with hundreds of plans in her head, the strategist who prioritized the Guild's survival over anything else, she would be able to leave Lucy in the past. She would be thinking toward the future; she would be able to accept that they weren't meant to be (even if it hurt Louisa to put their history aside, even if she was so much lonelier now than she thought she could be).

So Lucy would have to do that too. But there are other traits of Louisa that Lucy may pick up over time. Maybe she'd be more open with things and people that she loved. She'd grow to care in a more gentle way (well, sometimes). She'd find a home and a pursuit that she could cling to with such resolve and devotion.

I haven’t talked about Hala’s wife on this blog before, but even if I had, I’d still love to get questions about his family!

Her name was Loulu. She was one of Hala’s rivals during his trials. They grew up, she went on a journey to other regions, they met up again in their early thirties and got married. They had four children: Niwa (Hau’s dad), Kua, Kili, and Kai.