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ScapeBabe ([info]scapebabe) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-07-28 00:09:00
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Holy Crap! Dragonriders of Pern Wank!
I found this on one of my elsewhere fandom bboards, in their 'Pimp Your Website' section. I've included the text 'cause you can't get to the bboard directly unless you subscribe.

Morning Star Heights

On the planet Gaian, dragons have always held an awe for the people there. Though that awe died when the one thing that they were supposed to destroy forgot to show up: Spores. Spores are silver pods that fall from the sky, and will kill any organic thing. Only the fire breath of the dragons can kill it.

Its has been seven hundred years since the Spores were supposed to come. But the stars have righted their mistake, and are sending Spores Gaian's way again. People of the Heights recognize the coming threat, and with one fertile Empress to help produce dragons for the coming threat, Morning Star Heights is greatly undermanned.

They are looking for those brave souls that will dare to fly high upon their back to protect Gaian from the deadly Spores. They are looking in the Heights, Casltes, & Crafthalls alike.

Will you hear the dragons' call?

~ * Morning Star Heights * ~



Dragonriders of all colors need. As well as Crafters, at least 25 are Candidates, and Commonfolk.

A clutch is on the Sands! And what this?! Two surprises?!?!?!? We need at least 25 Candidates!

P.S. Its inspired by Pern, but takes place on a completely different planet & we have different dragon colors. Including the Purple dragon, it can be male or female.

'Inspired by'? Try snuck in, raped with a tent peg, and stole the stereo on the way out.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 07:28 am UTC (link)
Wouldn't Anne McCaffrey be really upset about that? She bitched out the fanfic writers, what about the rpg?
And dude, "raped with a tent peg" - love it.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 07:41 am UTC (link)
And dude, "raped with a tent peg" - love it.

Well, they do make you gay. Anne said so. *believes her*

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 10:58 am UTC (link)
raped with a tent peg

*sniggers*
*wanders off to make icons*

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[info]isntitironic
2004-07-28 07:36 am UTC (link)
Oh, there're Pern-ripoff RPG's all over the place.

Anyone who wants a legit Pern RP, Great Barrier Weyr needs more members.

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[info]beccastareyes
2004-07-28 08:01 am UTC (link)
Um... link doens't work.

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[info]delcj
2004-07-28 08:24 am UTC (link)
that's because it needs a .org

try http://www.greatbarrierweyr.org/

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(no subject) - [info]isntitironic, 2004-07-28 08:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delcj, 2004-07-28 12:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-07-29 02:21 am UTC

[info]elfy
2004-07-28 08:28 am UTC (link)
Great Barrier Reef Weyr? Just off the coast of Queensland, perhaps?

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(no subject) - [info]nights_mistress, 2004-07-28 02:03 pm UTC

[info]restlesshands
2004-07-28 08:12 am UTC (link)
If you're gonna rip off an idea, at least have the grace to do it with SOME subtlety, that's all I've got to say. 'cause that thing is worse than a bad Hong Kong knock-off. (I happen to be rather fan of Hong Kong knock-offs, to be honest. They're funny and cheap.)

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[info]restlesshands
2004-07-28 08:14 am UTC (link)
"rather fan?"

...Rather fond. Or a fan of.

I don't know which I was attempting. However, my brain felt they needed to be one, in a joyous union of nonsensical words. Whee and yay.

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[info]rowan
2004-07-28 08:40 am UTC (link)
Heh. Anne McCaffrey is notoriously hard-handed against RPGs... you can't just randomly start one, they have to go through her approval and all kinds of rigmarole.

So it's understandable, really, even if this particular example really freaking lacks subtlety. >_>

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[info]bastet
2004-07-28 08:47 am UTC (link)
That tent peg bit will *never* stop being funny. My little cousin was reading one of AM's books when she visited me last, and I just said, "she's nuts." Sadly, she's nuts in a way that is unsuitable for mixed company, so I wasn't able to back myself up--and she will continue to absorb the insanity.

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[info]ilpalazzo
2004-07-28 09:10 am UTC (link)
...where might one read about this beautiful homosex-inducing tent peg?

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(no subject) - [info]bastet, 2004-07-28 09:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ilpalazzo, 2004-07-28 11:28 am UTC

[info]kijikun
2004-07-28 11:56 pm UTC (link)
*hides her copes of the Harpers trilogy*

Yes she is slightly insane isn't see?

*hides copy of Guide to Pern*

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(no subject) - [info]bastet, 2004-07-29 12:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2004-07-29 12:04 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]starherd, 2004-08-01 11:22 am UTC

[info]amand_r
2004-07-28 09:00 am UTC (link)
I'm so totally going to create an original RPG about magical kids who go to a school in Scotland. On of them, a boy with a scar on his...cheek is responsible for vanquishing the...Dark Mage What's-His-Face, whos has recently risen from the dead. Now all characters have to pass their exams and defeat the Dark Mage again!

50,000 people have to join.

It's like Harry Potter, but we don't use wands; we use tree branches, and there's a House based on the Armadillo.

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[info]isntitironic
2004-07-28 09:13 am UTC (link)
An armadillo? Where can I join?!

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[info]spiderflower
2004-07-28 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Oh, BOY!

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 08:10 pm UTC (link)
JK's own Scholastic Books beat you to it -- meet Charlie Bone, magical schoolboy at Bloor's Academy (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439474299/qid=1091034557/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-3089138-5619206?v=glance&s=books)</b>.

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(no subject) - [info]amand_r, 2004-07-28 08:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]calanthe_b, 2004-07-29 05:11 am UTC

ataniell93
2004-07-28 09:02 am UTC (link)
But it can't be plaigerism if we changed all the names!!! !!12!!!111!!!!!@!!!!

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But have they really?
[info]scapebabe
2004-07-28 11:32 pm UTC (link)
But do they really?

All the male riders have contraction honorifics, ie F'lar, F'lessan, etc.

And all the dragons have names that end in TH.

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[info]ilpalazzo
2004-07-28 09:12 am UTC (link)
The purple dragon is mentioned as though it's some sort of huge draw. I know fuck-all about Pern, maybe purple dragons there have an orgasm breath weapon or something, but...purple is kind of a lame dragon color. I don't get it.

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[info]restlesshands
2004-07-28 10:04 am UTC (link)
Pernese dragons have specific colors that do sort of matter. How shiny your dragon is determines many things such as: how much ass you can kick, how cool you are, how much political weight you carry, and how attractive you are to the gender of your choice. Of course, you kind of have to watch out for the fact that some dragons make you gay. Um...sort of. *cough*

So, they're kind of like car!penises, but....dragons.

Um...yeah...

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Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]restlesshands, 2004-07-28 10:30 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-28 08:21 pm UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]pyratejenni, 2004-07-28 08:22 pm UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-28 11:23 pm UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]restlesshands, 2004-07-28 11:44 pm UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-29 12:00 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-29 12:51 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-07-29 02:16 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-29 02:23 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-07-29 02:37 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - (Anonymous), 2004-07-29 02:40 am UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]loki, 2004-07-28 11:35 pm UTC
Re: Gay dragons? Wha? - [info]sidhebastardess, 2004-07-29 03:44 pm UTC

[info]llama_treats
2004-07-28 04:19 pm UTC (link)
*Has "Dragon[insert random word here to come up with Anne McCaffrey book title]" flashbacks*

*Rapes self with tent peg*

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Honestly I don't see a single drop of wank here. It might fit under 'fannish absurdity', but barely. All I see is a slightly silly AU rpg ad. Big deal.

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[info]kindest_demon
2004-07-28 07:53 pm UTC (link)
All crazy-old-biddy wank aside, why on earth would you start an RPG that apparently just follows the storyline of a book?

I mean, why not just IM each other random passages of Dragonflight or something? It would take less time.

Maybe this is why I don't do RPGs...

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[info]blue_linnet
2004-07-28 08:35 pm UTC (link)
I guess they want to be a part of the Dragonflight experience. However, whenever I've seen (or played in) that type of RPG, it doesn't quite work because nobody wants to play a hidebound old conservative; everyone wants to espouse the ideas that they know are right.

And I just recently decided to do a reread of the Pern books, which I probably hadn't read since I was fifteen. It's..interesting to read them now.

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(no subject) - [info]kindest_demon, 2004-07-28 08:37 pm UTC

  
   
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