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Whew!! This page almost didn't get posted this week, but! I managed to get it done! Yay~! Enjoy!All comments welcome. Shonen-ai warning.
Dragonriders of Pern is copyrighted by Anne & Todd McCaffrey
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awesome looking ^_^ can't wait at all to see who get's Zarinth!
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I caught up.....bah...last page you've submitted thus far, please tell me there will be more...It would be an interesting twist of events if a brown caught zarinth instead of a bronze -hint hint- lol, either or, I like both of em
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That would be true, but maybe I just made him a brown to suggest that something like that might happen? ^^
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teehee, who knows..wait...THE SHADOW KNOWS....(is seriously hoping that joke isn't lost on you)
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Wow, I haven't heard a Shadow reference in a few years. o_0 That takes me back to the 90s.
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Race Courting is Awesome! 
Now other dragon stories well they tend to make the guy fight for the girls and one ends up dead in the end.
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This is true, though I do have a bit of violence in mine chase scene. I figure that the males get a little carried away considering how much they want to catch that Gold.
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K'mlar: "Zarinth! No fair using the Trebuchet!"
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And thus begins the courting... if you can call that race a courting action...
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I can't wait to see what happens next, I think you've got us all on the edge of our seats with this one Cursed.
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I feel like only an OT3 could solve this. 
The last panel is just gorgeous!
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DRAMA! Three men, who will end up with whom? Find out in the next episode of "As Pern Turns!" XD
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Something like that happened at one of my first Shaula Weyr meetings, only we're set in 9th pass.
Next, on "As Pern Turns..."
Jaxom: "Sharra, I'm pregnant. And Ruth's the father."
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And they're off! Zarinth begins with a roar of challenge, a challenge quickly answered by the bronzes below. She rises and the pack is only a heartbeat behind her. Who will be the lucky dragon tonight, friends?
And remember, this mating flight is brought to you by: Bubbly Pies. 'Eat 'Em Hot!'
Sorry, couldn't resist...
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I know right? I keep thinking that this needs some snarky blue rider narrating it.
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N'rator, rider of blue Onthespoth. Your eyes in the sky reporting team!
Or maybe R'nning and Commentaryth
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Regardless... it is speculated in the books that a large enough brown could catch a queen. I refer to F'nor's brown who had plans to chase Brekke's queen. The idea was that a large brown could indeed have the stamina to catch a queen, but the resulting brood would be unlikely to be as big as a brown x Gold clutch and would not produce a queen egg.
^^ hope that helps; and sorry if it sounded stuck up... too many years of admining Pern sites
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lol yeah I know, I was just checking if I remembered right, I thought maybe I had got it wrong and he was a bronze.
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Yeah, in the Dragonlovers Guide to Pern it says the a clutch sired by a brown will produce no golds but the young will be healthy.
Browns caught golds much more when the first dragonriders were around because the dragons were much smaller and their sizes were closer together, whereas by the 9th Pass only a very large brown would be able to achieve the feat of catching a gold.
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*nod* I must admit I can't remeber exactly where in the DLG; but I'll look it up... the ultimate admin tool is on my shelf 
In first pass browns would have held a good chance. Might have even been preffered if the young were heathier. At least for some queens ^^ Personal perference and all that
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I can't remember which section it's in, either. I think it might be somewhere under Mating Flights.
I think they're just as healthy when sired by a bronze, but not producing a queen isn't too big a worry. If a queen laid a gold in every clutch the whole of Pern would have far too many dragons. More dragons is good when Thread's about, but they've all got to be fed somehow.
XD
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Lol; prolly
AHHAHAHHHAA, so true. And it happens so often in fan Weyrs... gold here, gold there to make people happy. 
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The one I'm on is pretty active. We have three queens and only one rises every three real life months, so we're not inundated with hatchings every five seconds.
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The one I run took a dive after one of my co-admins left... I had to kill two queens... we have one left but her player is a bit come and go... and the Weyrling queen no one has seen in months. We're one to one time... so we only have hatchinngs every 3-4 months.
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We're lucky that the two admins have two of the queens, the senior and a junior, and the other junior belongs to a member who's very active unless she's really ill or something. And the senior admin keeps track of it all.
One day real life is about three in character for us, so the hatchings are approximately once per Turn in character. It gives time for the admins to keep an eye on the Candidates and match a dragon's personalities to them and see who deserves what colour.
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Sounds well worked out... finding balance in a Weyr is not an easy thing
Nice
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I know...maybe a bit too curvy considering how short I've been drawing their necks...oh well...
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Seeing as some of the cover art made them look like flying T-Rex's... you're doing great
It's not too curvy, after all they have to be able to bend and get the thread, and accept firestone from their rider, so even the golds would have the same range of movement.
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Holy shit yes!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that!
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I'm not sure that artist even read the books...
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So true...they're pretty horrifying, some of those covers.
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They are! Some are great though, I love Masterharper, the blue dragon with it's tail wound around him. That's so my favorite!
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Yeah, Michael Whelan was definitely the best Pern artist. I've based all of my stuff off of this designs. The White Dragon was the first one I read, so that image always stuck in my mind. My favourite cover though is All the Weyrs of Pern.
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I agree with you on that. I also like The Dolphins of Pern cover. Though one of my favorite is The Skies of Pern. I just loved that image of the dragon.
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