also it’s weird but cool rereading books you loved as a kid and finding the things that made a MASSIVE impression on you that you’ve carried for a couple decades now
good and not-so-good (there are some WEIRD class distinctions in Pern that im not sure ever get addressed? like ... wtf is the deal with drudges?)
that now crops up in your own writing like:
- disguises being revealed by careless elegance (lessa’s hand on the birthing-woman’s arm, and her quick telepathic hiding of it)
- the blissful happiness of being clean after years in hiding
- the hero whose guiding heroic trait is patience and discipline (f’lar waiting years and then springing into action after he fucked the right person to be weyrleader THIS SERiES WTF THO)
- moar stuff im sure ill find!