In May of the year 2019

In alt.games.rpg

Someone is advertising their play-by-email Pern roleplay

It appears to be a new, intended-to-be-very-long-term one, and if you really want to know about it it's here

But the point is this: Usenet is mostly dead. I didn't know anyone was still doing play-by-email freeform games. And Pern is a trash fire nowhere near as visible in general-fandom as it used to be.

And yet.

And yet.

These things have come together.

Aren't humans great and weird and wonderful?

(side note: the advertisement appears to have been the first non-spam post in that group since January 2015)