The Worst Pern Site Ever (And That's Saying Something)

[sockunderasock]

The Pern fandom has outdone itself this time with a new incarnation of an old site. Things seemed like they were going reasonably well for us and then everything took a turn for the horrible. I'm placing the majority of this rant under a cut, but I'd like to preface this rant with an extra warning: this site is bad. It is very, very bad and the

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[alexiademalheur]

"We've actually added nothing new in the way of sexual content to Pern. We've simply acknowledged it."

oh. I guess I never read as far as The Elaborately Color-Coded Slave Bracelets Of Pern.

[beccastareyes]

Expensive color-coded slave bracelets. Seriously, how many miners and blacksmiths are being forced to provide jewelry for every non-rider in the Weyr, since apparently even crafters and healers are sporting some to protect them from being raped? Even making a lock and key would be some intricate work for pre-industrial craftsmen, even if the bracelets are just alloys that are colored gold/silver. (Not to mention if they are gold? Wow, what a pain in the neck, considering how malleable gold is.)

[wind_voyager]

Does not make any sense.

Where the hell is all the metal coming from to make all of these not to mention it would be rather difficult to make locks and keys like that en-mass.

[wind_voyager]

If it was just simple leather collars with D-rings and only on the slaves then I could see it. But thousands upon thousands of complex locking mechanisms turned out en-mass by pre-industrial craftsmen, no just no