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- From: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:29:10 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <1992Dec22.173529.19165@news.columbia.edu> jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >In article <1h7fodINNh9s@gap.caltech.edu>
- >morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett) writes:
- >>Monkey wrench? Naw. PernMU*s don't really care that much about sticking
- >>to theme. :) (Yes, you drooling MustBeInTheme Fanatics--there's nothing
- >>in the books, after Mirrim or before it, to suggest that Path is anything
- >>other than a one-time exception to the rule. *grin* And certainly ab-
- >>solutely nothing to support females riding blues and browns.)
-
- >True enough. Of course, women riding fighting dragons isn't the only way in
- >which the MU*'s don't follow the novels (or even the DLG) perfectly. For
- >example, when did Weyrs acquire Stewards? Certainly Moreta's Fort doesn't
- >have one.
-
- There are dozens and dozens of ways in which the MU*s don't follow the
- novels or the DLG, or don't even -try- to do so in certain cases. Thus,
- it always cracks me up when I hear the cry of 'but that would violate
- theme in a minor little tiny way!' on a MUSH. :) (E.g., females with
- honorifics in their names.)
-
- >If someone were to start a strictly canon MU* set in say, the 5th Pass, I'd
- >play there. Of course, I'm one of those icky, yucky people who doesn't see
- >anything wrong with playing characters whose gender/orientation is different
- >from my own RL, so only allowing male characters to be fighting riders wouldn't
- >prevent me from playing a 'rider.
-
- Ew, yuck, icky-poo, I could never ever play someone like that!
-
- (Okay, I lie.)
-
- >>(I love doing stuff like this. Yes, I kick beehives, too.)
-
- >The real questions is: Do you kick pigeons?
-
- >-Doriana/Pandat
-
- All the time. :) I throw rice cakes at 'em, even.
-
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