Booklogging: Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

[girl_wonder]

I had an urge to reread this recently, so I checked it out from the library and OH MY GOD. I had forgotten 90% of the book, but it immediately took me back to where I was when I first read it

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[bunnymcfoo]

You know, when I was a wee Bunners of 10 or so I discovered Pern. I not only discovered Pern, I became literally obsessed with it.

See, when I tell people that I was a messed up kid, I don't think they really believe me? But I was a seriously messed up kidlet. There was a stretch of time, I don't remember how long but it was for at least several months, where I took every. single. Pern. book. to school with me every. single. day. I mean, they'd only published up to All the Weyrs, I think, and I didn't really care about most of them? But I needed them. They were my security blanket

[girl_wonder]

*hugs* Yes to what we got out of these books. I totally get it when you say that you wanted to be Lessa and you're right about people our age. People our age who read these books were like, "I can be a SPARKLE PRINCESS, just you watch me!"

Usually I re-read childhood favorite so, so carefully because re-reading always changes them. I recently reread something I thought was AMAZING when I read it and now I'm like, "oh... that... wasn't as good as I remembered." But I just had a craving for a sparkle princess story and only this would satisfy.

[dementedsiren]

Oh god, PERN.

Pern was my very first collaborative fandom experience before I knew what "fandom" was. There was a girl at school and she knew about a writing mailing list, and the fact that I could participate and actually "act out" a character and other people would act it out with me quite literally blew my mind. (I found online fanfic a year or two later, and it was all downhill from there).

As much as I loved the books, as much as Menolly and Harper Robinton and, to a lesser extent, Lessa spoke to me (and Jaxom and Ruth, can I tell you how much I loved them?) it will always be, first and foremost, the thing that taught me that what came to be known as "transformative works" were OK and there was a group of people out there who wanted to play with it the way I did.

And wow, that was a run-on sentence, wasn't it.

[girl_wonder]

Ha! YES.

OMG. I had forgotten this, but back in the day I used to participate in a weyr BY MAIL. It was online, people signed up characters and then wrote STORIES ABOUT THEM AND CREATED ZINES WHICH WERE THEN MAILED OUT TO YOU FOR A NOMINAL FEE.

You are making me reminisce!

[girl_wonder]

Hahahahaha. All things considered, she is pretty adult for someone who's 15 (i think?) and as long as you read it with rose tinted glasses, it's still fun.