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‘Thread’s definitely been falling down south.’ H’rek had returned to their weyr, tired and grubby from his reconnaissance trip. ‘We’d been sent to track down herdbeasts that had escaped from the plateau and we landed close to this watering hole. There was a carcass there; well, half of one, to be precise. Looked like the poor beast had been caught by Thread but managed to get itself into the water before it was totally devoured. Strange thing was, there were quite a few bushes around the shore,
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Lovely story. What a wise old grandfather. The descriptions made it easy to visualise the house and the summer camp.
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Kevin’s YouTube Premiere
Mawgrim commented on Wombat Bill's story chapter in Kevin’s YouTube Premiere
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I remember Richmond Odeon well. It was a lovely cinema. Didn’t realize any cinemas in the UK had the sliding roof feature, although I know quite a few in warmer and sunnier climates did. I was lucky enough to visit Tooting Granada and Finsbury Park Astoria with the Cinema Theatre Association. Beautiful examples of 1930s architecture.
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‘Twenty-four hour cinema; that’s what we’ll give ‘em.’ You can imagine them at head office; those bastards who get fat on their expense account lunches and never set foot in a real cinema, and certainly never work weekends, or Bank Holidays or Christmas Day for God’s sake. ‘Great idea.’ Some little yes man or woman pipes up to endorse the idea. ‘Well, all the supermarkets are doing it these days. I’m thinking your average person; shift workers, students, insomniacs, all nipping in to
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When a cinema company piles extra work onto their long-suffering projectionists, is it any wonder some of them go totally crazy?
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What a cliffhanger!
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The secret lives of married couples...
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Is This the Man I Want to Be?
Mawgrim commented on Tallguyct's story chapter in Is This the Man I Want to Be?
Funerals or ill health of someone close often make us think about our own mortality. This is Mike's wake up call, so he doesn’t end up like his brother. An interesting beginning, with lots of backstory and the feeling that Mike's new life starts here. -
Really enjoying this story and finding out more about this quirky family.
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Rita is a real menace. Loved the plot development in this chapter and the new characters. Feel a lot of sympathy for Rick and how he is trapped in small-town life. Marta sounds like an interesting character too, trapped in her own way by parents who want her to be interested in music rather than practical things.
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I know. I feel a bit like that myself while I am writing it. However, as I've been getting further along with 'Gone Away, Gone Ahead' I kept wanting to fill in more of D'gar (and S'brin's) backstory from the character notes I'd made, so here it is.
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Dragons grew fast. In their first month, they ate, slept and expanded rapidly. It seemed to D’gar that all his waking hours were spent butchering meat, making sure Herebeth didn’t gorge and choke on it, then bathing and oiling his dragon’s hide. Everyone else was in the same boat, of course, although the two brown dragons in the clutch grew steadily larger than their blue and green siblings. ‘Bronzes are even harder work,’ the Weyrlingmaster told D’gar and G’tash cheerfully. ‘You should be g
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After D'gar and S'brin have Impressed their dragons, they move into the weyrling barracks to begin the process of becoming fully-fledged dragonriders.
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‘So, the upshot is that around half of T’bor’s Wing will be going down south with him and the rest will be distributed among the remaining Wings, filling in the gaps where we have men or dragons out with injuries.’ R’feem paused to let the news sink in. He’d only just emerged from a Wingleader’s meeting and had summoned B’lin and D’gar to his weyr for a briefing. D’gar never remembered there being so many meetings at Fort. Maybe it was another modern thing, or just the way Benden operated. W
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Unfortunately for D'gar and H'rek, the Weyrleader and Weyrwoman have a different sense of priorities than they do. Lessa's main priority is to get Kylara out of her Weyr and they are both determined to re-open Southern before anyone else has the same idea now that it's known that the southern continent is habitable. The fate of a couple of ordinary riders does not loom large in their plans. Yes, they are stretching the Weyr very thin, but they know more clutches of dragons are on the way and due to the five other Weyrs coming forward they don't now have to worry about protecting the whole of Pern from Thread, just their own area.
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Thanks to the exercise sessions, D’gar didn’t have the luxury of sleeping in the following morning. They’d arrived back late from Fort Weyr and he was still yawning as he met the rest of the Wing by the lake. When he returned to their weyr, he found H’rek still lying in bed, enjoying an impromptu breakfast selection from the food parcel Agarra had sent. ‘Your mum’s great,’ he said, taking a bite from one of the spiced buns. ‘I could eat these all day.’ ‘I think she approved of you.’ It h
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It was in Chapter 11. Hinnarek (as he was) overheard his parents arguing and discovered that his mother had slept with her husband's brother while he was away from the farm. It explained to him why his 'father' had always treated him differently, as he had obviously realised from the timing of the pregnancy that Hinnarek couldn't be his own son.
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Kylara not thinking about the consequences of her actions later on in canon has disastrous and tragic effects. She doesn't really think about anyone but herself. Poor Prideth.
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Know exactly what you mean there. I've experienced much the same in meetings. It's even more annoying when people say they will support you if you raise an issue and then stay silent.
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‘Well, that wasn’t too bad, was it?’ J’rud sounded cheerful as he slid down from Zurinth. Threadfall over Benden Hold had been light. There were just a handful of casualties and no fatalities. An air of relief hung over the Weyr; the Benden riders had recovered their confidence and even though everyone in R’feem’s Wing knew that was just how it went sometimes, they were still glad to have got through another easy one. ‘Not too bad at all,’ D’gar agreed. Any sign of Rioth yet? he asked Herebe
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Repeating what others have already written, but the build up of tension in this chapter was well crafted and the breaks between the present and the past in just the right places. The writing is also very visual. I could really see the basement and understand the layout of where all the rooms were situated. A horrible memory, beautifully written.
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They’d started running again, even though Serebrin still found himself short of breath after recovering from the fever. ‘Have to get back in shape,’ he panted as they started on their third circuit of the lake. ‘Dragons don’t care,’ Detgar said. He didn’t mind running, especially when it was with Serebrin but given the choice, he’d rather lie in bed a while longer. Particularly with Serebrin. ‘I care. And we’ll be the fittest pair of weyrlings they’ve had.’ He’d lost some weight dur
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What a truly horrible experience. Made me wince just reading about it.
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Might be a distant relative. They certainly share some personality traits!
