Peristeronic: about pigeons

You’d be surprised how many people feed the birds at the Statue of Liberty.

Don’t do it.

For anyone who doesn't have an AO3 account and wants one, I am happy to send invites from my account. (Up to four people.)

Thank you @all-peristeronic!!!

Head up!

I wrote a drabble torturing Anne Elliot again. I'm sorry.

Changing my acc name btw. It used to be cameforthechaosstayedforthecheese it is now peristeronic-persiflage

What kind of man is he? - peristeronic - Twelfth Night - Shakespeare [Archive of Our Own]

My own art @peristeronic-mushroom

What does the adjective 'peristeronic' mean?

The word 'peristeronic' means of or relating to pigeons. It comes from the Ancient Greek 'peristera', meaning dove or pigeon. The earliest documented use of the word dates to the mid-1800s, which coincides with the formation of the National Peristeronic Society.

The National Peristeronic Society was formed in 1868 after two other pigeon-loving groups, the National Columbarian and the Philoperisteron, merged together. Pigeon clubs were popular in Victorian Britain, particularly in towns and cities. Among the regular attendees of such groups was Charles Darwin, the author of 'On the Origins of Species'.

Most of the pigeon clubs were fairly exclusive and required members to pay a subscription fee. A typical meeting began with the President greeting the group and the Secretary taking the minutes. After this, members took turns to exhibit different breeds of pigeon, such as Carriers, Outers Dragoons and mixed breeds. The birds would be sold, exchanged or borrowed by members for the purpose of breeding more pigeons.

The obscure word of the week is peristeronic

The obscure word of the week is peristeronic

This week’s obscure English word is peristeronic. It means something relating to pigeons. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2022

View On WordPress

this is a call-out post for @all-peristeronic for being the cutest bitch imaginable

peristeron replied to your post “Out of curiosity, for those of you that also love SDV’s mustache man,...”

Let Us Go On A Date Together !! (to the saloon or out on a walk around the valley with the farmer being the guide or... whatever! like he suggests in various dialogues)

Frankly if the next update doesn’t include the option to take NPCs out for dates, I might have to hit up the modding discord and work out how to do it.  Because DAMMIT it needs to be a thing.

∞

Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away

No more turning awayFrom the weak and the wearyNo more turning awayFrom the coldness insideJust a world that we all must shareIt's not enough just to stand and stareIs it only a dream that there'll beNo more turning away?

hey! i know you're a big fan of x6, and i'm gearing up to possibly include him in a Thing i'm planning with a partner, but i also know that canon doesn't develop him enough. i'm planning on hitting up YT vids for reference, but what are your fav fic reccs for him? and/or your fave tumblr post metas and/or headcanons in general, that'd be great too /fingerguns and slides out of here

I do in fact love the scary Courser man, I love him a lot and always love to see him in more things. Canon definitely dropped the ball on him -- the hints we got were pretty great, but that was pretty much it.

so boy let’s see

(I’ll throw it under a cut because it got long)

There are very sadly few fics, as I’m sure you know, but the body electric is one of my favorites, and it has a ton of great stuff on Coursers in general. I mean pretty much everything by @nomette is fantastic, and maybe they will also have some suggestions to add on?

most of my tag for him (which is just ‘x6′) is art and some headcanons from nomette, if you ever need some inspiration that way

Here is one post I did about him and kind of Coursers in general that I ended up really liking.Here is another that someone else did with just general meta that is A+

As for just thoughts/headcanons in general (and given how little we know, almost everything is a headcanon with that guy).....there is evidence that he’s both afraid of heights and bugs. I love that. It’s only shown in like, little bits of dialogue, but I love the seemingly mundane fears that this otherwise unshakable guy has -- fears that he, of course, will try so hard to never let show, because Coursers aren’t afraid.

He’s got such a ridiculously dry sense of humor. Something, again, vaguely hinted at, but the exchange of, “Jesus, that’s a mouthful.” “Then talk fast, ma’am.” comes to mind. Most of the time it’s suppressed, but there are some comments that he just genuinely doesn’t register as something like a joke, which tends to make it even funnier.

The guy is ridiculously loyal. To the Institute, obviously, but to the Survivor by extension, and if it’s someone that treats him like something more than a weapon, there’s a potential for that loyalty to shift if theirs does.It’s still not going to be an easy feat. The Institute is literally everything he has, they made him, they decide to keep him alive, keeping the interests of the Institute safe is the entire reason for his existence. Like, tbh, I think it would be really hard to get him to side with anyone who decided to destroy the Institute without them being undercover and earning his trust for a very long time. The simplest way to manage it is to send him away before sabotaging everything, because he can’t go down with the ship if he isn’t on the ship.Then, of course, it’d be a matter of convincing him that he’s still someone without the Institute, that he hasn’t lost all purpose in life, but y’know, it’s complicated.

In a less game-supported train of thought, he does not like most dogs. They feel too uncontrolled, they drool too much, they just kind of go everywhere.On the flip side, he finds that he really appreciates cats.

Like any gen-three, he loves Fancy Lads. But he hates that they get powder all over his coat. They leave evidence.

He’s the only Courser who wears sunglasses constantly. He thinks his eyes being so blue takes away some of the intimidation factor, and sunglasses are the perfect way to hide any stray emotions that might slip through for a second.

It’s my own personal fic headcanon, but I think he was the Courser (and the only Courser) they sent to take out the Switchboard.They didn’t need more than the one with a small battalion of gen-twos.

Part of the reason he loves it when you agree not to tell the Institute about Acadia (which is just a whole huge thing on its own) is because he remembers Chase. Not very well, but he remembers the hushed whispers that went around the synths and, to some extent, the Coursers, when she escaped.He remembers a very small part of him hoping they never found her.

Related, X6 does believe in his job. He does understand the synth’s fear of reclamation, because he understands the fear of that chair all too well himself, but he also thinks that the surface is the actual worst thing that can happen to someone. Bringing the synths back might mean they get reset, but it also saves them from facing a fate worse than death in the Commonwealth.But it’s different with Coursers.When Coursers escape, a very small part of him -- a part he tries not to consciously acknowledge -- is rooting for them. Coursers can survive the surface, whatever it throws at them, and as hellish as it may be up there, they won’t fall victim to a simple raider gang or an angry radstag. Harkness was before his time, something that is only discussed now in the middle of the night patrols, in hushed tones, spoken like a myth (and for all they know, it might be). Chase was more recent. Neither were caught.They know neither were caught, because if they had been, they know it would have been made into a huge display, a blinding example of the Institute’s control.And X6 hopes, without every acknowledging that he hopes, they never will be.

i just

i have a lot of thoughts about this scary robot man

i can’t even just say he’s a good egg because he’s terrifying, he can and has wiped out entire settlements to get one synth back, but

i love him so much and i will always rant about him if you ever want to bounce ideas