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| title = Thread | | title = Thread | ||
| image = thread.png | | image = thread.png | ||
− | | titletext = Since the current Twitter threadfall kicked off in early 2016, we can expect it to continue until the mid | + | | titletext = Since the current Twitter threadfall kicked off in early 2016, we can expect it to continue until the mid 2060s when the next Interval begins. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | F'nor is a character from the popular sci-fi/fantasy series "{{w|Dragonriders of Pern}}," by Anne McCaffrey. He is posting a Twitter comment (a "thread" that's only one comment long, hence "1/1") about "Thread," a massively destructive alien organism from the same series. "Pern" is a fictional human-colonized planet and the main setting of the series. | |
− | Typically, when starting a series of tweets (used to | + | Typically, when starting a series of tweets (used to have content longer than 140 characters), one will start the first tweet with "Thread: " and end it with 1/X. The second tweet will read 2/X, and so on. If X, the total number of tweets, is unknown at the start, it will be omitted: 1/ |
Here, there is a play on the Twitter thread and the actual threat to Pern. | Here, there is a play on the Twitter thread and the actual threat to Pern. | ||
− | + | "Threadfall" is the name for the beginning of 50-year cyclic periods when Thread attacks the world of Pern & its inhabitants, which occur between relatively safe "Intervals" of around 250 years. In the strip's alt text, as Threadfall occurred in 2016, it should be expected to continue for ~50 more years until 2060, when the next Interval will begin. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :[A mock-up of a | + | :[A mock-up of a "tweet" from the site twitter.com is shown. It contains a mock-up of a user photo of the fictional character F'nor resembling Hairy, including a tiny line sketch of F'nor's brown dragon Canth flying overhead. Below the tweet are several action buttons typical of a twitter post for comments, replying, likes, etc.] |
− | : | + | :F'nor |
:<span style="color:gray">@fnor</span> | :<span style="color:gray">@fnor</span> | ||
:Thread: The greatest threat to our life on Pern 1/1 | :Thread: The greatest threat to our life on Pern 1/1 | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category: Comics featuring Hairy]] | [[Category: Comics featuring Hairy]] |