#weyr

[vanillayoteart]

What is a Group of Dragons Called?

Lesbians~ Woah the 'cule become a bunch of dragons who are girlfriends and are gay for each other n stuff :O terrev ❤️ reykreyth ❤️ kalas ❤️ arcaroo ❤️ Kip ❤️ hexdrgn.bsky.social ❤️ mountaindewdrawer

[stitchy-face]

[2022] Noonwraith 🔆

Aine, the Weyr deity of the hearth and cycles- often depicted and associated with wildfire or controlled burning.

A painting from 2022 I never shared here !

[loartacc]

Shakes my bag

For Ramora and Apocalypse Weyr :3c

Ramora First. We have Wie's weyr! Lot of little candles dotted around, a blanket thats been drawn before, big pillows fpr zath, and a cute rug! Her weyr has three areas. Zaths area, which has access to the other two. Wie's sleeping area, and then a wall that seperates the sleeping area and the storage and general area. Zath's "dip" is rather deep, and comes up to Wie's middle.

For Apocalypse Weyr

Meri! She gets a bigger Weyr because Bronze, and she has more of her craft stuff laying around. An eating area for her and her brother, a craft table with a shirt that is being repaired, herbs drying for dye, fabric that has been dyed drying on the landing, and pillows to sit on everywhere. Meri's weyr is completely open, no walls to be seen dividing rooms! A pillar helps keep some stability. Meri's part of the weyr is one bog curved room, and Kuva's dip is rather shallow. It only comes up to Meri's thighs.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern Cover Art by Michael Whelan

[artofgeist]

I guess everyone is coming back to tumblr, so here’s some recent portraits! 

I never left, but I’m terrible about keeping up with multiple social medias at once DX

[cephalopod-werecat]

https://finalchancesweyr.jcink.net/index.php?act=idx

At the start of a long Interval, a virulent disease breaks out among dragonkin. While three of every four infected whers eventually recover, the disease is fatal for dragons and flits without exception. Highly contagious and able to be carried between dragonkin by humans too, quarantine is entirely ineffective. It soon becomes clear that dragons will imminently go extinct, and a radical plan is devised to avert this. Three gravid queens will go forward in time, laying there eggs in a time when, it is hoped, the disease will have died out.

With eggs on the sands, people of all walks of life flock to Nerat to get a chance at the eggs, for better or worse. What final chance with the eggs give the world? It's just a matter of time to find out, when the eggs hatch...

Features

 Follows the revival of the dragon population from scratch

 Six non-canon dragon ranks with more to come 

Two non-canon firelizard subspecies

 No sexuality-based impression

 All female dragonkin able to clutch 

A strong emphasis on wher handlers 

Playable wild/unbonded whers

 Several upcoming dragon and wher hatchings

[harloqui]

hi! im trying to find the old phenexus weyr group managed by Lanueon? do you know where i can find it

From what I've seen and heard I think it might have been deleted? Most of their social medias seem to be privated and I don't know if they're even being updated anymore. They might have disbanded, sorry anon.

[claudiaclockwurst]

Thoughts on Moreta

So I wanted to talk about Moreta's view of herself, like, the description of herself that she first gives the readers in her POV.

"She slipped into the dress now, smoothing it over her rather too broad shoulders, over breasts firm rather than large, a waist that was trim, and buttocks flat from long hours of riding astride. The gown hid muscled thighs that she sometimes resented, but they, too, were the legacy of twenty Turns riding a dragon and little enough inconveniences for being a queen's rider."

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

SO yeah, let's talk about this a little bit. In this scene, Moreta is exemplifying the idea made popular by Margaret Atwood, that women in the patriarchy develop their own version of the male gaze that is turned inwards. In this, Moreta is her own voyeur.

She has broad shoulders, firm breasts, a trim waist, flat butt, and large muscular thighs. The accuracy of riders having flat butts notwithstanding, we can probably assume that all of the features are due to her lifestyle (riding dragons and managing a Weyr) and her genetics (propensity to build muscle, size and shape of her breasts, etc.) so why do they merit a value judgement from her own mind? She is a lead Weyrwoman at an important Weyr, one of a handful of the most important people on Pern at this time. This is, after all, so far in the future of humanity that we have colonized future planets and genetically engineered dragons to ride and befriend us. The forming of the social hierarchy was based on the realities of a planet entirely different from Earth, with a united blending of Earth cultures hundreds of years in the future. So wouldn't the physical features endemic to a Weyrwoman instead be desirable? Proof of power is sexy for a lot of humans!

We have this assumed default attitude towards human body shapes, that is based entirely on the author's upbringing in the relatively modern British/U.S./white patriarchy. This assumption colors a lot of the Pern series, and I have another quote I want to talk about in this same context:

It took a strong man to hold frantic terrified people in control during Thread attacks; it took wise administration to conserve victuals when nothing could safely be grown, and extraordinary measures to control population and keep it useful and healthy until such time as the menace had passed.

Beginning of every Pern novel, Anne McCaffrey

A strong man? There are cultures present on the Earth today that hold people together through myriad social ties. Some are reliant on the strong patriarch figure, some on a strong matriarch figure...but many are reliant not on strength of will at all. Many rely on social ties and communal help, and they are no worse the wear for it. The assumptive nature of this world building is so strongly colored by McCaffrey's upbringing. It's fascinating to me, and enlightening about some types of assumptions I tend to make in my own life.

To be clear, yes! I find these things problematic! (a magic word). But I also really love the Pern series and world-building. I relate strongly to many of the characters, and many are well drawn. I think doing this type of shallow dive into examining what the assumptions are that underpin these fantasy/sci-fi worlds we love so much is a good thing. Because when Anne McCaffrey says that Lord Holders have to be Strong, I can go...well maybe in Pern. But in the life I live, there are other ways to be successful.