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Accents are cool as fuck, actually. Thick accents, accents that tell people exactly where you're from, accents that only come out on some words or phrases, accents that are a mix of different dialects, accents that you picked up from the people around you, all of them.
RE: your warriorpigeons response, PLEASE tell us about the pigeon luck rituals!!
There was a gambling cognition study where pigeons were given a treat machine and two levers.
One lever gave three pellets of food every time the bird pecked it.
The other gave ten the first time, but only had a 10% chance of giving 10 pellets each subsequent time it was pecked. Otherwise, it gave nothing.
The researchers expected that the birds would go for the steady pay out, especially when they got hungry.
But they went for the one that had a 10% chance per peck of giving ten pellets every single time.
Pigeons are pattern mappers.
So the birds started trying to work out what they did that made the lever give ten pellets.
They began developing a ritual of repeating the last behaviors they could remember having done before the randomized ten-pellet lever paid out.
Some would spin a certain number of times. Some would coo. Some would peck something else in a particular way...
Each had developed their own individual version of blowing on the proverbial dice for luck.
In a fictional setting with pigeons as the main characters, good luck rituals could vary by individuals, be passed along immediate family lines, or develop into religious or cultural practices unique to each flock, or to wider regions where many flocks intermingle while foraging.
that moment when you stare into the void #relatable
Pigeon lore pog 👍
Not prone to catching feelings whatsoever so maybe I can't speak on this, but I don't get the hype around being "pursued". Honestly that would put me off even if I had feelings for the other party to begin with. Even the term "pursue" is creepy tbh. Activates my fight or flight.
The longer I live, the more grateful I am that I didn't grow up with my father around. Almost every story I hear from people who grew up with a dad or stepdad is just... awful. Also I get to give myself the title of "bastard" so that's something
If you or anyone wrote a pigeon warrior cats i would read it so freaking hard. I would write it myself even except I don't know enough about pigeons. I want this to exist so bad
While I can't promise I will ever be able to write the thing, there is now a tag for pigeon facts relevant to accurately writing for fictional pigeon characters: #pigeon lore
I would LOVE to write a feral pigeon book series, but I'd hate to steal your ideas/brainstorming-- do you have any particular thoughts/boundaries on the matter?
Honestly, the #pigeon lore tag was made specifically for writers to make use of.
Who says there has to be only one book series involving pigeon characters, or characters of pigeon-based species or races?
If you want to credit my expertise as a source, that's fine, but the resources like scientific papers that I site and link to are publicly available for free.
Literally any person could have found them and drawn the same conclusions from their own experience with pigeons.
I don't have even the skeleton of a story written to plagiarize, and I would be delighted to see what different creative minds could do with fiction-relevant lore!
Go for it!
Concept for a scenario using the pigeon lore:
Pigeon: If you wanna win at the slots you have to rub your wings twice and then rub the screen thrice. Peck at the card slot exactly 7 times too, for good measure.
Other species: Does that work? Have you won using that?
Pigeon: No :')
Keep in mind that pigeons form those rituals around behaviors they remember performing before winning.
So they would absolutely swear they won doing that every single time.
Other species: "Does that work? Have you won using that?"
"Oh absolutely!"
"If I miss a step it won't work, and it doesn't seem to work for every one..."
"So it might just be my own personal majic~"
