[blackberrybug55]

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hi! this is my art/reblog main. my wife @herbybird also posts here occasionally! 💕

right now i've got pern brainrot, but you'll see my other interests (silm/lotr, wha, kirby, my OCs) from time to time. ❤️ i don't take requests or commissions.

@blackberrybug44 - sideblog of just art, no reblogs or word posts

@trundleberrybug - run by both of us, sideblog for all of our personal pern worldbuilding.

for all other places you can find me/my art on the web:

https://linktr.ee/blackberrybug

[travellingdragon]

Just a friendly Greyling looking for some food to steal.

[introverttraven]

Mnementh, Kanth, Tagath and Ramoth — Dragons I drew after finishing the first book of Dragonriders of Pern. With barely any description of their appearance those are like 90% my imagination

[And then right in the beginning of the second book F'nor said that his Kanth perked his ears... DOES THIS MEAN THEY HAD EARS ALL ALONG—-]

[wyrmoftheweb]

The V Siblings from my randomly generated weyr I've been working on using Excel. The Viblings, if you will

Veyeth has terrible dreams of a plot against her mother. No one believes her, including her own rider. But it turns out that she'd overheard the plot in the egg and it was all true. Her rider has let everyone continue believing the bit about her being a prophetic genius dragon, though.

she's so emo

Viszth is kind of a background character. Both he and his rider suffer from low self esteem and being easy to manipulate.

[introverttraven]

I imagined different dragons with different body types while reading so yeah

Golden — a classical european dragon, always a set of horns forming a “crown”, ideal posture makes them look almost noble

Bronze — bear-shaped, chunky, smaller head compared to other dragons, horns are rounded and rather small

Brown — somewhere between the golden and the bronze, a bit more beefy tho, bull/ram type of horns

Green — skinny and sleek, kinda snake-looking, long neck and whip-like tail, “sharp” wings

Blue — longer body, rounded horns and crest, a little thingy on the chin, holding their tails swirled at the tip

Ruth — I believe he looks like a teenage dragon even when mature, his head is a bit bigger, his paws are like... Wider? And he's such a scrunkly scrimblo maybe even a mipy (affectionately)

Also now I'm looking at them and thinking that probably they should have more space in front of their wings where the rider sits, at least a few times in the books a single dragon got three people on their back so... (Or was it only the bigger once like bronze and brown?? I'm not sure)

[fanartsofliliput]

I wanted to use this as a Symbolism day but it didn't quite fit.

So you get it just like this!! Amath and his variations. The caterpillar <33 But the original caterpillar is too greenish, so he needs to be a little bit more blue for me.

[threadfall]

Told myself I wasn't going to draw another dragon again post-hatching, and yet here I find myself again. Drawing firelizards.

[saltissalty]

Bronze Fiorulth

[razzek]

Micheal Whealan coming in with more or less proof that when Ann said tail fork she meant tail spade:

Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)

Even with Anne’s rather specific description of her dragons, I found plenty of room for individual interpretation. These preliminary drawing

[wyrmoftheweb]

my Worse Pern au featuring a weyr attempting to gain power over the entire northern continent post-thread (in a desperate last grab for the power the weyrs of old used to hold) features forced impression. locking a hatching egg, pre-checked for color (the character who does this is also an important oc in this story) in with exactly the candidate that the leaders would like that particular dragon to impress.

it works about 2/3 of the time, because most hatchlings choose to select a candidate that is mostly unsuitable rather than dying.

Caron, a particularly unlucky candidate, has sat in the hatching room through three failed impressions, and has watched three little bronze dragons whine and shuffle in the recessed sand pit, casting about desperately for someone who would never come. Someone that was not him. The first time, he tried moving towards the bronze, the biggest one in the clutch, helping him out of its shell. He had given the human boy desperate consideration, his whirling anxious eyes meeting Caron's, but had ultimately turned away, and gone between.

The second and third were not much different; although he tried different things each time, both dragons died.

The fourth attempt was finally successful, but he still carries a deep pit of sick guilt and grief deep in his chest for the first three little dragons that he was not good enough to impress.

[wyrmoftheweb]

quick sketch of his dragon, Biwith. he doesn’t have any standout markings, which is preferred, but he has a weird skinny head when usually a more blocky shape is standard.

[shmizles]

I love the Tumblr DRoP fandom so much, I read these books with very little internet access when I was an early teen and I enjoyed them, but going back and rereading but being able to look into the fandom side of it is a million times better. Everything I wanted an expansion on from the books EXISTS?!? It's like the books are guidelines and then the fandom has flourished and built around them to actually do the world building and share interpretations and art and fix plot holes.

[ranticore]

I hope Estibarith knows how much I care about her im sending her a million kisses

Anyways i drew her looking at a caterpillar that kinda looks like her to show my appreciation. ily babygirl

YOOOO HELLO........ WOW!!!! 🧡💫💥

she looks so cuuuuute thank you so much.... as a dragon lover and caterpillar appreciator this is perfect, i love her...

[grirnoires]

lessa.... ❤️

[blackberrybug55]

did a really deep dive over the weekend taking a look at the remaining Pern community we could find through discords, webrings, web searches, and socmed - mostly just by looking around at all the weyrs, MUSHes, and PBEMs (both inactive and active).

we've never been in the pern fandom online, so it's been an interesting ride.

here's some very very old art i did when i first got into pern nearly a decade and a half ago!

[grirnoires]

harperhall protagonists my darlings

[ctx-opencanvas]

Naboth's Vineyard

e-eddit, added some anotations😶

[blackberrybug55]

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