[ SECRET POST #4109 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4109 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What did Pern fandom do? All I can think of is the Anne McCaffrey tent-peg thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Anne used to sic her lawyers on fans and hand out cease-and-desist letters. She banned fanfiction for a bit. Then she set up a website that people would write their fanfiction on but it couldn't contain any of her characters or counter the rules of her universe (so no male gold riders). There were a bunch of roleplaying weyrs but no fanfiction like we have now.

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[(Anonymous)]

I used to see a lot of Pern forum roleplays that put specific rules on what genders and sexual orientations could have what dragons, with gay men relegated to low-ranking green dragons, because “it’s canon!”

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[(Anonymous)]

As a wee child, I never noticed the gender- and color-ranking of dragons and their riders, I just thought dragons were cool (and wanted a blue one).

As an adult, knowing that McCaffrey did that shit ON PURPOSE, I'm livid (and want a blue now out of spite).

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[(Anonymous)]

I started reading them when I was about 11 and there were bits I understood and bits I didn't. Although as much as I love the books, her portrayal of female characters (past their first appearance, some of them were okay) still pisses me off and I was always disappointed with the lack of major characters that were blue or green riders.