Current mood:

*sporfle!*

Ahh, Pernwank that will never die.
There's a reason I stay away from Pern fandom. The people there will not let things die.

You may or may not know that Anne McCaffrey rides herd on her fandom. (In fact, her behavior is quite wanktastic, and I'll endeavor to provide examples of same in other posts.) You can only post fanfiction on her very secure fanfiction forums. All RPG and zine clubs have strictly enforced rules which are longer than the Bible. Among these are the gender and sexuality of dragonriders.

A *year* ago, Ms. McCaffrey decided that it was really OK with her after all if women Impressed brown dragons in fandom. So someone makes A poll asking what people's thoughts are on the matter.



(I'm not sure that I can link to original posts, so I'll cut and paste.)

Anareth's Rider, who is quite active on these boards, declaims:

They'll appear in my club over my dead body, but I could honestly not care less what anyone else does in theirs. (Not to mention we're always short on guys
so I'm not giving anyone an excuse to write more females.) If you love female brown riders, go for it! Just don't expect me to allow it 'cause other people
do. That's the beauty of having fewer rules. We can pick and chose what we want.

Noemi dusts off her Old Fandom Geezer hat and pronounces:

Yet again the lions of rational thought win out in the end, and I applaud the Powers That Be for returning again to the stance of friendly tolerance which
the citizens of Perndom enjoyed years ago.

Debate continues in a more or less civil manner until The Harper pops up with this gem:

Benden skins of it in fact more skins of it and then some more please somenoe explain to me rationally why should a woman want to be a brown rider?

And another one:

Sad. :rolleyes: I will stay out of all this RPG junk definately now.

The debate continues for over a year IRL, with what I suspect is the latest incarnation of troll on that message board sticking his nose in in April of this year:

Female brownriders??? This can't be happening!!!

So, naturally, the debate goes ever onward. I'm sure I'm missing all the good wank, as I could not make myself read all of that thread. However, now you see why in most instances I'm all about the slash. :P