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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | {{w|Characters in Dragonriders of Pern#F'nor|F'nor}} is a character from the popular | + | {{w|Characters in Dragonriders of Pern#F'nor|F'nor}} is a character from the popular sci-fi/fantasy series ''{{w|Dragonriders of Pern}}'' by {{w|Anne McCaffrey}}. He is posting a {{w|Twitter}} comment (a "{{w|Conversation threading|thread}}" that's only one comment long, hence "1/1") about "{{w|Pern#Thread|Thread}}", a massively destructive alien organism from the same series. {{w|Pern}} is a fictional human-colonized planet and the main setting of the series. |
Typically, when starting a series of tweets (used to post 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 listed or 1/many or omitted: 1/ | Typically, when starting a series of tweets (used to post 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 listed or 1/many or omitted: 1/ | ||
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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 and its inhabitants, which occur between relatively safe "Intervals" of around 200 years. In the strip's alt text, as Threadfall occurred in 2016, it should be expected to continue for ~50 more years until the mid-2060s, when the next Interval will begin. | |
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