Jan 14, 2019, 1:56 AM
@puppybreath I haven't read any of the Pern books in a long time. Is this following the time of Moreta? I don't recall if they consolidated into just one Hold after those books, just that it was a time of pandemic.
Ruins of Pern - Discussion
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@puppybreath I haven't read any of the Pern books in a long time. Is this following the time of Moreta? I don't recall if they consolidated into just one Hold after those books, just that it was a time of pandemic.
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@tnp said in Ruins of Pern:
@puppybreath I haven't read any of the Pern books in a long time. Is this following the time of Moreta? I don't recall if they consolidated into just one Hold after those books, just that it was a time of pandemic.
No, this will be before Moreta's time, before most of the familiar Pern history, and largely in an alternate timeline where that doesn't/won't exist.
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(Screw you white dragon.)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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Since I've messed something up, and I'll probably keep messing things up for awhile, I'm going to add a discord invite just in case anyone's interested! https://discord.gg/3sNUb32
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@auspice You did not like Ruth?
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@templari said in Ruins of Pern:
@auspice You did not like Ruth?
I really didn't. Ruth was just unnecessary.
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@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
(Screw you white dragon.)
OMG!
the White Dragon was the best book of the series!
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@rnmissionrun said in Ruins of Pern:
@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
(Screw you white dragon.)
OMG!
the White Dragon was the best book of the series!
I'M SORRY DID YOU READ MASTERHARPER OF PERN?!
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@rnmissionrun incorrect. Dragonsong/Dragonsinger > White Dragon
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@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
@rnmissionrun said in Ruins of Pern:
@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
(Screw you white dragon.)
OMG!
the White Dragon was the best book of the series!
I'M SORRY DID YOU READ MASTERHARPER OF PERN?!
Yes. My opinion stands
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@rnmissionrun said in Ruins of Pern:
@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
@rnmissionrun said in Ruins of Pern:
@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:
(Screw you white dragon.)
OMG!
the White Dragon was the best book of the series!
I'M SORRY DID YOU READ MASTERHARPER OF PERN?!
Yes. My opinion stands
Your opinion is wrong.
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The White Dragon > DragonQuest > DragonFlight > All the Weyrs of Pern > All Others.
The first one that I ever read was DragonSong (my high school library had a copy of that but none of the rest of the series). I liked it so much that I had to track down the others at the public library.
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Masterharper of Pern is absolutely the best of the bunch.
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@sunny isn't Masterharper the one that introduced that like-- weirdness between Menolly and Robinton. Despite her being younger than his actual son.
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@meg She had a crush from day one, it was pretty obvious. Sebell was his age-appropriate stand-in that she was aware that he was throwing at her.
Sure, her characterisation basically became paper once her two books ended, but that dynamic was always there.
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I was always partial to Dragonsdawn, and the story of Sallah Telgar always got to me. I really enjoyed almost all of those books, really. I think they made a profound impression on me from a very young age. I don't remember when it was I started reading them. But I think it was around eleven or twelve.
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@paris Yeah, but they introduced that /he/ was like, super into her and jealous of Sebell in Masterharper. Iirc. Which, yeah, a young girl having a crush on a mentor isn't that odd, and in DragonSinger it was played pretty well with Robinton being like, look at this guy here. But the reverse is skeevy, tbh.
#FreeFarfalla
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I did not find the book (or the portrayed relationships in it) skeevy at all.
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@aerianyx said in Ruins of Pern:
I was always partial to Dragonsdawn, and the story of Sallah Telgar always got to me. I really enjoyed almost all of those books, really. I think they made a profound impression on me from a very young age. I don't remember when it was I started reading them. But I think it was around eleven or twelve.
Dragonsdawn was my favorite, as well. But I was also no older than 14 the last time I read a Pern book so I dunno how much this means.
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@sunny I might be misremembering. Or I might be remembering the wrong book. It has been a long time since I read the books.
ETA: It was The White Dragon in which they explore Robinton also having feelings in return. Different thresholds for skeevy is fair! I just wanted to confirm which book it was in.
#FreeFarfalla