#greens and blues make up 80% of the dragon population. this means straights are the minority among this heroic class of ppl

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i still think it's so swag that in the 1960s ms mccaffrey said that 1. dragonriders are really respected and valued in society (first book notwithstanding) and 2. p.much 80% of them are having regular gay sex and it's just a thing that happens. i think that when people bring up representation issues they miss the point, that in pern it's so unspoken and normalised that nobody has to bring the narrative to a screeching halt just to be like "this character is gay and that's okay!!" like most modern attempts at capital R representation do. i still find it more satisfying than basically any other story with normalised gay ppl