Pern brain-rot blog!

I love pern

their humming noises also come from there. generally happy dragon noises happen with a closed mouth and unhappy ones happen with the mouth open because they allow for showing of teeth

We have all been making fun of the society of Pern barely changing for 2500 years, but from what I could gather, especially in terms of art and culture, ancient Egyptian society also remained more or less the same for some 3000 years - apparently because unlike in our current society, change and progress wasn't seen as desirable but rather as an agent of chaos threatening the concept of divine balance of Ma'at. Life in ancient Egypt was very cyclical, centered around the regular flooding of the Nile, and disruptions to the cycle was a cause of great concern since insufficient or extreme flooding would be a cause of famines. Life on Pern is also very cyclical, though with much longer cycles of Passes and Intervals, and though deadly, burnt and drowned Thread is the strongest fertilizer. There is already a precedent laid by the colonists to resist progress to avoid war, and other people have already talked plenty about Harpers limiting the spread of information and approving/forbidding new inventions, and I'm just thinking about the potential of connecting it to the Red Star/Thread in some way. Idk.

Me: No.

And yes, I get that they all wear shoulder knots and crafters wear their craft colours, but it's not enough.

that being said i've always had a huge bone to pick with the descriptions of clothing in pern being SUPER LAZY

Tamora Pierce is one of the only other authors I can think of, though, who doesn't describe a ton but whose aesthetics have never questioned. Probably helps that the world is grounded a little bit more by notes and details on day to day life, since McCaffrey is allergic to recording proper tiny details. It also helps that Pierce assumes her audience will never have seen a specific item before – McCaffrey went 'everyone knows what military shoulder knots look like, let me just never mention this properly' and then those things changed between military branch and country.

It doesn't show people off in their underwear, but it does show variety of clothing that might help narrow down the variety of underpinnings.

*falls back asleep*

i have this headcanon that over time, they try to mimic human facial expression, especially their rider!

Pleaseeee join me!!!( It’s just a community called “Dragonriders of Pern” if you just want to look it up)

gold dragon (unnamed), designed for @dyke-yaoi

*non-canon color of Apocalypse Weyr

Thanks again to our special guests Roxie and Nazh for joining us!