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i dont knowwww how i want them to look but here’s a wip. ALSO. to me, their neck and tail ridges are subdermal keratinous bumps. they were originally used in the dragonet population to show off how many extra nutrients the dragonet could store and also for bludgeoning one another like tiny giraffes. in the genetic modification process, the ones along the back were greatly reduced to allow for riding.

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IMMY GUN FACT. since his white spots are lacking pigment he needs something to cover them if he's ever out on a sunny day or he'll get localized sunburns on his. wait. i just noticed my typo.

IMMY GUN FACT: where did he get that

put that down

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Oh boy.

The Tent Peg Statement, Pern's Renewable Airforce document, the discussions of whether Lessa hates all other women, the inclusion of gay men as part of the world on the surface but homophobic boxing of them up (which Nathanial Harrington talks about better here: link), Anne's stances on 'men are men and women are women' (not a direct quote but a simplification), children impressing dragons whose sex lives impact their rider's....

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Then his eyes were drawn away by a blaze of greeny gold. “Oh, a bronze,” he breathed. Not an ordinary bronze, either, but a flawless combination of gold and green and tan that looked like the dappled sun through leaves, only more perfect. “Oh! Is he coming... to me?”

Adding in case people haven't read the story because it's a lovely description – but I'm also realising I don't know if this story is by McCaffrey or Nye.

The acknowledgements/introduction specifically mentions Todd Johnson's addition of the fighting wing section and the illustrator contributions, but Anne is only thanked for answering questions and creating the world. It seems odd that she wouldn't also thank Anne for writing a story just for the book. The wiki credits Anne as the short story author, of course, but it also credits her as an author of the DLG too...I'm stumped!

I should do some specific reading into dragon patterns in pern canon. Always pictured them as mostly solid colors as that's how they're illustrated on the covers and they're not normally too overly described when it comes to patterning and color beyond, well, the color they are, iirc, but in the dlg impression short story Golanth is described as being dappled with gold and green which is interesting. Now of course I can see him being a Special Boy because Anne does love a Special Boy but having his patterning being remarked on as "perfect" and not "weird" makes me think patterning in general may be a bit more common than I was thinking.

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small immy for your troubles?

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Reusing animations for content? In the year of our lord 2025? Say it isn't so!

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wheel and turn (bleed and burn) - ch 11: Timing

She looks at Wanda, the rising sunlight illuminating her crystalline eyes. “Have you ever noticed something is wrong?”

Wanda blinks.

“You’re going to have to be more specific.” Wanda says with a shrug. “I’ve not had a lot of time to sit around and notice things.”

“Yes- and I have.” Agatha replies, nibbling her lip. “And I’m telling you- something about the world, this world, is wrong.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65680312/chapters/171719197

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i wonder if dragon color and gender have an effect on what gendered associations people have with color on pern. like. green and gold is for GIRLS. blue and brown and bronze is for BOYS. pink and red and orange are GENDER NEUTRAL.

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Why travel so far, sister, that you need to be chased...

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I still think, given Thread is described as consuming all carbon-based organic material and Pern’s life is boron-based, that it would’ve been fucking awesome for Thread to basically be a hard stop on the colonists’ focusing on using shit they brought from home rather than working on and with local crap.

There is no early warning from the firelizards, which have no reason to think that Thread is dangerous to humans until one sees their human get eaten and sounds the ‘fuckfuckfuck’ alarm. People die, animals die, crops just get wiped clean out. But all the native stuff is still there. Congratulations, you’ve had ten years to figure out what here you can eat and grow and work with, now it’s time for the crash course.

Better start turning that genetic engineering you have towards auto-domestication, because if you don’t want to get knocked back to early subsistence farming you’re gonna need it.

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Drops a Csk and a emote I did for a friend.

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Pern slang idea: using "getting Searched" for unexpectedly getting a promotion or landing an unexpected job opportunity

Alternatively, from @threadfall: as the Pernese version of "dad left to get milk"

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Off the top of my head I can only remember one direct quote from Anne that didn't come from the books or the DLG:

Q: I sorta was wondering about dragon colors, as far as detailed descriptions of a dragon.  I know they come in differant shades of blue, rown, green, etc.., but do they ever have markings of any kind?  ie. A light blue with darker blue neck, legs and tail or maybe a dark green with a lighter green patches..(sorta like a green on green pinto).  I had described a brown once as having a small cream mark between his eyes, shaped like a diamond, though it was sort of a birthmark.  I once wondered whether creatures born from eggs could have birthmarks, but once saw a red chicken with an odd white patch of feathers on its neck once and figured it might be a possibility. Anne: Dragon colors can actually mottle, but all overish - like a roan or an appie...but the same color, different shade.  You geta wing of dragons together and you would see considerable variation in color but nothing like with an underbelly a different shade...sort of like mixing watercolors and blurring them. Most fighting dragons would have thread scores/scars - even lumps of keloidal - like flesh where they didn't quite get *between* fast enough. NO stripes, no tortoise shell markings.

Interview with Anne from Sabria's Guide to Online Pern – Link (Webarchive)

This is at least post 1993 as it mentions the Chronicles collection of short stories.

I should do some specific reading into dragon patterns in pern canon. Always pictured them as mostly solid colors as that's how they're illustrated on the covers and they're not normally too overly described when it comes to patterning and color beyond, well, the color they are, iirc, but in the dlg impression short story Golanth is described as being dappled with gold and green which is interesting. Now of course I can see him being a Special Boy because Anne does love a Special Boy but having his patterning being remarked on as "perfect" and not "weird" makes me think patterning in general may be a bit more common than I was thinking.

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Any has recommendations, throw a comment Wrym's way!

oughhh i want to try pern rp so bad but i've never been on a proper rp forum before and i don't wanna fuck up... does anyone have reccomendations of weyrs that are lurker-friendly so i can hang out and see what people do for a bit without participating.... or ones with like, places where it's easy to ask questions. i've done some looking-arounding but there's kind of too many options

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Moreta/Nerilka [Dragonriders of Pern] Characters: Moreta [Dragonriders of Pern], Nerilka [Dragonriders of Pern] Additional Tags: Background Polyamory, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Pride Summary:

Last Fall is over Ruatha, so Moreta brings the official word to the Lady who has slipped into her heart.

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reading the DLG again. you can't forget that they're using dragon velcro. you can't forget it

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A variety of little heads I've drawn recently for signatures and whatnot!

Aleth and Bruxath of Réalta (played by me), Sirennoroth and Nishanth of Final Chances Weyr (played by Arielle), and all of the firelizards I've impressed over on Réalta. Yes, the Blink Cat is now a firelizard.