Dragonsex

[klwilliams]

I spent most of the weekend hanging around the house reading The White Dragon, which I consider the third book of two trilogies, that of Dragonflight/Dragonquest, and that of the Menolly books. F'lar and Lessa have become the oldsters, and Jaxom, Menolly, and Piemur (and Ruth) are the main characters. I like this book quite a bit, though it doesn't speak to me the way it did when I first read it, since I'm now the same age as Lessa, not Jaxom. One thing that I had forgotten was the sub-theme of Ruth's sexual immaturity, and why Jaxom was relieved. Or maybe that just went over my head the first time. I'm charmed by the thought of a roomful of randy dragonriders having their way with each other while blues and browns try to mate with a green. I also suspect there are scores of fanfics titled "Ruth's First 'Flight'".

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! Besides, if Jaxom starts walking on the other side of the street, he won't be fathering any micro-lords. Tch, tch.

And I'd like to know are there any earth species which fly really high to mate and then plummet meanwhiles? It seems like a really unlikely evolutionary gambit.

[larryhammer]

Ah, you try to ignore Dragondrums too.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I like it too-- well, I did when I was younger, anyway-- but even then it annoyed the heck out me that Mirrim was such a bitch. I really liked her in Dragonsong and was thrilled that she impressed a fighting dragon, but I think that was, in retrospect, too much feminism for McCaffrey and her brain overloaded or something, because once Mirrim gets a fighting dragon, she becomes completely hateful and everyone else starts saying "Yeah, she really needs to get laid and then she'll be a good little girl again."

I also recall a bit in some book where the Weyrleader is looking for "boys with homosexual tendencies" to impress green dragons. Uh, so who are the blue and brown dragonriders having sex with, if not the green riders? Since the green dragons are female, does that mean that their riders are all bottoming, and so only the bottoms are actually being gay when everyone is having gay sex? Does being a top mean that it counts as heterosexual even if it's two men? Inquiring minds want to know.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Damn you! () If you keep this up, I'll have to reread them myself....