The Adventures of a Girl and Her Dragon

...the summaries for Todd McCaffrey's Pern novels always read like bad fanfic? (I think I am actually AFRAID of this book. Though it may be my own fault for hoping it would be about the first girl to Impress a fighting dragon that wasn't a green.)

Because this morning, I decided the best AU ever would be Power Rangers as dragonriders.

Yeah, I KNOW.

Now, I am lazy, and can't even get the stuff I want to write written, but I did go to the trouble of deciding on dragons and their riders...( Cut for those who want to retain their sanity. )

However, as someone who has shown "interest" in the Twilight Saga, Amazon.com thinks I should know there is a New Moon Jacob Barbie out now.

You do have to admit, he beats all hell out of Ken. Or Edward Barbie, who frankly looks like an extra from Thriller.

And speaking of books with creepy male/female dynamics, I was reading Dragonriders of Pern fanfic this weekend. Now, here (much as with the Heralds of Valdemar), you have a setup for no harm, no foul sex...and what we seem to GET, is a whole lot of "Oh, I hope his dragon flies mine so we can have TEH SEX", followed by a whole lot of "OH NOES, what if his dragon flies a different dragon next time and he LEAVES ME! D:" Now, I may be off base here, as I never could make it through most of the later novels, but at what point did who flew whom affect anything in the bedroom beyond the duration of the mating flight? The only ones stuck with each other are the Weyrleaders, and that's only as far as working together running the weyr; they aren't married.

(Dear fandom, I know Anne has Issues with a capital ISH, but that doesn't mean we all need to embrace them.)

There is a part of me that wants to poke at how the books and fandom decry Holder narrow mindedness while still privileging Hold-style monogamy, and how the sexism is glossed over, and another part that thinks, "You should have finished creating that female brown rider so she could have lots and lots of sex with lots of different people of lots of different genders and scandalize fandom, but mostly...fandom doesn't seem to be worth that much effort. (Here, have this discussion about rape for a fine example of why fandom isn't worth the effort.)