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applescruff In reply to TysonLaFollette [2012-04-23 08:27:55 +0000 UTC]

I was rather happy with those wings, and I'm glad the personalities came through. Iroth always tried to show off if he thought females might be looking.

Threadscored...Time for nerd-speak. In the Dragonriders of Pern series, there is a voracious, mindless spaceborne myhoccorizoid organism that is brought into contact with Pern every 200 years as the spores are dragged in the wake of a planet with an erratic orbit as it comes close to Pern. As it falls, it looks like long silvery strands of thread, and so the natives named it Thread. It eats anything organic on contact and multiplies rapidly, but cannot survive fire. The dragons and their riders are charged with destroying Thread before it falls, but often the stuff will hit them, at best leaving hideous scars called "Threadscores" and at worst killing them horribly.

Sorry for the word-wall.

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TysonLaFollette In reply to applescruff [2012-04-23 16:51:42 +0000 UTC]

Nono. I like word-walls.

I didn't realize there was anything so scientific in the Dragonriders books. o.o I wonder what happens if they don't get to it before it lands. A new desert perhaps? XD

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applescruff In reply to TysonLaFollette [2012-04-23 20:31:00 +0000 UTC]

A lot of the scientific elements are hidden early in the series because the society lost all access to that information centuries before the books take place. Later in the series they rediscover the information and some books are placed at different points in time, so it becomes more pronounced. The only constant (even if they don't understand it) is the dragons are always powerful telepaths and telekinetics, and can use those abilities to slip into a non-space dimension to allow for teleportation.

If Thread hits the ground, it burrows and multiplies rapidly. A desert is the result if it isn't burned out immediately with flame throwers, but it eats so quickly that it kills itself. There are a very few native species that evolved to deal with the stuff, but the most effective are the genetically engineered dragons and a type of worm-analogue that's designed to eat it. At the beginning of the series, it is believed that all of the Southern Continent has been ravaged by Thread and is unlivable.

I'm likely to keep yapping if you let me, but I'll stop here for now.

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TysonLaFollette In reply to applescruff [2012-04-23 22:31:39 +0000 UTC]

lol, so the dragons are not only immensely powerful, cunning, and long-lived, but they're telepathic and telekinetic? Dang! I bet that place sucks to live in.

An entire continent? You'd think a lot of things would manage to survive.

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applescruff In reply to TysonLaFollette [2012-04-23 23:27:11 +0000 UTC]

They're actually unable to survive without a human mind partner. They've got extremely short memories and most aren't all that intelligent. They're not stupid, but for the most part they only live in the moment. They'll reflect their human's traits to some extent and pick a person they are compatible with at birth, so they probably are looking for similar traits to their own.

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TysonLaFollette In reply to applescruff [2012-04-24 07:01:35 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. That's an interesting way of doing things. I'm just so used to them being the greatest Mary-Sues under(or in control of!) the sun that I was ready to ignore the whole series, but now I'm actually interested.

Thanks for telling me all this crazy stuff!

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applescruff In reply to TysonLaFollette [2012-04-25 00:39:20 +0000 UTC]

Not a problem. Hope you enjoy it if you do try it.

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applescruff In reply to Spring-Silverfall [2012-04-20 07:09:10 +0000 UTC]

Cool. Glad ADP's journal feature connected my art to a fellow fan. (Even if this isn't what she featured.)

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Spring-Silverfall In reply to applescruff [2012-04-20 09:14:55 +0000 UTC]

But that okay. It means people look through yer gallery an not just the pieces that were featured. And it is a lovely image. With I knew what happened ta the ones I had done of my riders and their dragons.

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applescruff In reply to Spring-Silverfall [2012-04-21 08:59:12 +0000 UTC]

Draw them again, maybe? It would be fun. You know you want to!

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Spring-Silverfall In reply to applescruff [2012-04-21 17:15:25 +0000 UTC]

If I do may I draw these two as part of their wing?

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applescruff In reply to Spring-Silverfall [2012-04-21 20:29:22 +0000 UTC]

Sure, I'd be flattered!

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applescruff In reply to Goddess-of-Gales [2012-03-02 18:56:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy them when you do read them.

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Goddess-of-Gales In reply to applescruff [2012-03-04 21:45:39 +0000 UTC]

Yes, indeed!! ^^

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