Fandom no. 9 Pern

[rabidsamfan]

(n.b. Anne McCaffrey has asked nicely for fans not to play with her characters, so this drabble is more a fannish response from me than the usual sort of fanfic.)

Refuge

There was one long year, when college was balanced against family and the Air National Guard; when I spent two weeks living in tents halfway across the world, and learned what it meant to be illiterate as I stared as Turkish signs, and then came home to find out that my grandmother was dying of cancer; one long summer and fall when I failed calculus and slept listening for my grandmother's call; when I fled again and again to the Harper Hall with sore feet and a sore heart and found nine singing firelizards to go soaring through my dreams.

Comments

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Aw! I really loved the Dragonflight books, particularly the first two. What a sad drabble. Here's a belated hug. ((((RBS))))

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the hug. I finally had time to read through the chapters of Devoted that have been appearing during my patch of busyness/blues and they're amazing. Comments tomorrow, though. I really should be sleeping!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Whahoo! Here's some more hugs, because you made me happy. ((((((Rabidsamfan))))))

[elasg.livejournal.com]

Awww! I can't see how she could possibly take offense to that lovely little tribute. That's one of my 'comfort fics' too.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how much I still love it...

[shirebound]

That's lovely. (I think the fire lizards watching over Piemur when he had a concussion was one of my first exposures to literary hurt/comfort!)

Thank you for sharing this special memory with us.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I love the bit with Piemur in Dragondrums too. Of course, Piemur has been one of my favorite characters ever since he sauntered onto the page!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh!

*hugs you*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *wraps hug around*

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... that speaks so well of the kindly refuge that fandom so often offers. I'm glad that the firelizards were there to greet you during a very hard time for you.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Me too. Roller coaster years need good books to get through.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Now this? This is beautiful and heartfelt; I feel so sorry for anyone who can't find an escape from harsh reality in the inner world of books.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm always trying to corrupt the children into becoming re-readers. There's so much you find on the second time through! (and the one hundred and second time, too!)

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

O yes, so true.

I used to write Pern fanfic, in my daydreams, and never knew that "fanfic" is what it was.

But yes, it was a wonderful way to get away for a time.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Just marvelous. Oddly enough, until "The White Dragon" and the Harper Hall books I read but didn't feel any urge to fantasize. Menolly changed that though...

[danachan.livejournal.com]

This just makes me want to hug you. So. *hugs*