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.)
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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?!
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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 :p
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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 :p
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.
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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.
