[ SECRET POST #5169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5169 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[kaijinscendre]

Damn, this gave me a sudden memory of reading two Mercedes Lackey books as a pre-teen. It was The White Gryphon and Magic's Pawn. I never read any other books in the series (no access to them) but I remember how cool I thought talking horses were. I don't remember anything about the Gryphon book though.

[(Anonymous)]

Omg Mercedes Lackey. I recently read one of her books (about two or three years ago, well out of my teens) and while i really was digging the story WHOA on some of the shit that just went on casually in the background. I mean, I had no idea about the trafficking that went on in San Francisco in the 1880s? (Well, i could guess it was happening)...i don't recall if it was just x characters would speak about these women and children in this way or (casual racism of the time) or what the fuck...anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

Oh, The Fire Rose! It is so sad I can just know which one it is by those descriptions. She REALLY likes her fairy tale retellings. The 500 Kingdoms version was a BIT better. But not really. "These poacher girls offer their bodies to me so I don't hurt them, so it's not really rape..." not really.

[ibbity]

Yeah she doesn't shy away from showing her villains doing/saying genuinely fucked up stuff

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yup! It was exactly that one! I honestly don't remember the story very well, but man...

[feotakahari]

Back when I read Bad Roleplayers Suck, there was a giant, angry split between the Pern roleplayers who kept the weird sexism stuff and the Pern roleplayers who ditched it. Somehow the sexist roleplayers considered themselves the "authorized" ones and thought the non-sexist roleplayers were "unauthorized"? I have no idea where that came from, since my impression was that McCaffrey C&D'd anything she could find.

[(Anonymous)]

She originally C&D'd everything she found, but she mellowed out a bit in her later years and allowed some games, as long as they didn't use any of her characters and stuck to her rules for the world. Including the weird sexism and rapey shit.

So yes, the people who clung to the sexism were (usually, as long as they didn't make any other unauthorized changes) authorized, and the ones who ditched it were not. Pern is a weird fucking fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

wow you just unlocked a secret memory in me. at some point pern drama was just the best drama in the whole community

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say necessarily Pern or Valdemar specifically but I would absolutely love to see some kind of fantasy adaptation or even original fantasy TV / movie drawing from that whole vein of fantasy

[tabaqui]

I could be down for that, too. Space and dragons and stuff - cool!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the sexism is the linchpin of the world-building, so yeah, someone do it!

[(Anonymous)]

If anyone was going to spend money on so many CGI dragons, I would prefer it if they spent it on Temeraire, but I too, spent a lot of time in my teens reading both Pern and Valdemar novels, so I get the sentiment.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Sorry, just more interested in a full-on fantasy world myself then dragons in an AU of our world. I do like Temeraire okay, it just isn't an absolute favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

I would love to see an adaptation of the Last Herald Mage trilogy, but it'd be so hard to get the right cast and do the Companions justice...

[dantesspirit]

And I seriously doubt anyone could do that trilogy the justice it deserves.

[dantesspirit]

I could have sworn that at some point, someone did option the movie rights to the Dragonriders of Pern and there was going to be a movie or tv series. But I don't believe it ever went anywhere.

And yup last talk about it was in 2018, when a new book by her daughter was announced, and it appears Warner Bros bought the film rights in 2014, from Copperheart Entertainment, who optioned them in 2011.

But honestly, at this point, I doubt we'll see a film adaptation.