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- From: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: (MUSH) Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 15:42:40 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <30199@hoptoad.uucp> ambar@cygnus.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
- >Should these violations (not the reasons behind them, even, just the
- >existence of the violations themselves) then be taken as support for
- >minor violations of theme? If so, then why bother with the theme at
- >all? We'd surely live in a lot less fear of Anne's lawyers if we simply
- >made up our own little universe of little cuddly creatures, big
- >impressive creatures, danger and derring-do, love and lust.... and
- >didn't call it Pern.
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- > AMBAR
-
- Buh?
-
- Call me stupid or something (and you have before, on similar issues),
- but you're staying that biiiiiiiiig violations are a-okay and hunky-dory,
- but little violations are bad bad bad?
-
- What's little to one person is big to another.
-
- Methinks you'd feel differently, Ambar, if your main character were
- a fighting dragonrider rather than a gold rider. Most of the female
- fighting riders I've talked on PernMUSH would like the option of taking
- an honorific just like their male counterparts.
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