First, let me thank you for writing me a story in one of the fandoms we share. I'm excited about all of them. I read a lot of detective stories and watch cop shows on TV. Casefic is one of my favourite genres; and I'm very excited to take part in an exchange where that type of story is the focus.


GENERAL POINTS:

• I love stories that explore canon more deeply, whether through backstory, or elaborating the setting/history/culture, or exploring people's motivations and personal interactions.


• I prefer gen. DNW non-canon / relationships unless requested. I'm not asking you to ignore canon relationships; but please don't make them the focus of the story. I don't care for anything more than PG-13: explicit sexual detail is definitely a DNW for me.


• In general, I like stories that are canon-compliant. Canon-divergent AUs are fine (including ignoring canonical character death). However, I don't want stories with AU settings (e.g. coffee-shop, fairy-tale, omegaverse).


• I'm okay with violence if necessary to the story; but not gore for the sake of gore. On the whole, I prefer not to have characters die in the story; but references to canonical deaths are okay. (I'm fine with having original characters murdered in casefic, and that sort of thing.)


• I enjoy comedy—being able to recognize the ridiculous when it pops up; also wit and wordplay. Having said that, I totally leave it up to you whether you write a serious or comic story—or a serious story with comic interludes.


• No second person fic, please. First person is okay, especially for book canons that were written that way by the author. However, I don't generally care for it with TV fandoms. Epistolary fic is fine.
  

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Mortal Love

The Nick and NatPack faction site. With the permission of the faction leader, now moved to https://www.foreverknight.ca/MortalLove/index.html

NOTE: archived within this site is Forever Knight - Canon & Trivia, now at https://www.foreverknight.ca/MortalLove/canon.htm


War V

Since Amparo Bertram's site has gone, the War V site (which she archived) has been moved to https://www.foreverknight.ca/WarFive/war5.html

As well as all posts, there is a drinking game and a page of quotations from the war.


Judith Freudenthal's Episode Guides

Now moved to https://www.foreverknight.ca/JudithFreudenthal/EpGuide/index.html

Before the deletion of the danaknight.com site, Judith's stories were uploaded to AO3; but the episode guides don't qualify for archiving there.

When I started this discussion of brown128.jpg variants, each page of graphics was colour themed since I was inspired by the gem prompts of the Sunshine Challenge back in 2022.  Because of the variety of colours in opals, I saved “Opal” as the prompt for my discussion of methodology.  However, that leaves truly multi-coloured examples out in the cold.  Of course, some have already appeared in earlier posts if I used them to illustrate methods of creating new graphics.  However, here in conclusion, I’m going to round up a selection of graphics with three or more distinctively different colours.  Some have appeared before; some are new.  It is a rainbow selection.

It’s hard to believe that these all derive from a pretty brown background texture that could be found in so many graphics collections twenty odd years ago!









Previous Days:
Prompts #1 and #2 (Amber and Topaz)
Prompt #2 (Rose Quartz)
Prompt #3 (Garnet)
Prompts #3 and #4 (Moonstone and Hematite)
Prompt #4 (Kyanite)
Prompt #5 (Peridot)
Prompt #5 (Bloodstone)
Prompt #6 (Aquamarine)
Prompt #6 (Amethyst)
Prompt #7 (Sunshine Jasper)
Bonus #1 (Turquoise)
Bonus #2 (Smoky Quartz and Onyx)
Bonus #3 (Rubellite)
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part One
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Two
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Two-and-a-half
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Three
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Four
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Five
Prompt #7 (Opal) - Part Six

Copped off brightknightie, and clearly going the rounds:

Meme: Share links to your fics with the most hits, second-most kudos, third-most comment threads, fourth-most bookmarks, fifth-most words, and fewest words.

Most hits:
Dick Francis's 10-lb Penalty: "Back in the Saddle" (6886 hits) (2016, 1866 words)

Second-most kudos:
Georgette Heyer's Venetia: "The Rape of the Book" (121 kudos) (2016, 6350 words)

Third-most comment threads:
Mary Renault's The Charioteer: "Exit Stage Left, a Wounded Warrior: The Lost Chapters of The Charioteer" (17 comment threads) (2012, 12,429 words)

Fourth-most bookmarks:
M*A*S*H (TV series): "Dear Sister-the-Sister" (11 bookmarks) (2011, 1400 words)

Fifth-most words:
"Exit Stage Left" again (12,429 words).

Fewest words:
I'm going to omit those with zero words. Two of these are artwork (and hence not fic). The third is a picture book whose words are with the pictures attached to the pics and hence not counted by AO3. Counted up by hand, though, it has a lot more more words than the story below:

Mary Renault's The King Must Die: "I Leap the Bull" (96 words) (2015)

Actually, I think this was supposed to be a drabble. (Maybe I was counting the title in by accident.) At any rate, I also have another fourteen drabbles or near-drabbles, given that the word count can shift when one copies from Word over to AO3.

Let me thank you right up front for whatever you are going to write. Although you've seen the tags on my sign-up, I know that most people like more than that to go on, so I hope this letter will prove helpful. I like all these fandoms equally; so I've just put them in alphabetical order.

If you're just looking for my general likes and dislikes, you'll find them at the end.

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Challenge #15: Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

When I had finished and uploaded my assignment for trickortreatex last October, I looked around to see if there were any prompts that appealed to me as possible treats. I don't usually write Original Works; but I had a vague recollection that someone had nominated the tag "Pilot POW at Stalag Luft III/Another Pilot POW at Stalag Luft III (M/M) (OW)". I once had done a lot of research into the treatment of Allied POWs in Germany in World War II; so I checked particularly for that and found that risalsoran had requested it.

You see, years ago I had missed a rerun of The Great Escape movie—and, if you've never watched it, I certainly recommend it! Very exciting! It's got OCs based more or less on the real people who were involved in a major escape from Stalag Luft III, a POW camp run by the Luftwaffe in World War II for Allied air force officers who'd been taken prisoner. Paul Brickhill, himself a POW somewhat involved in the preparations for the escape, had written the book, The Great Escape; so, having missed the movie, I borrowed the book from the library and read it. From there, I moved on to Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse (about a different escape from the same POW camp), and then started shelf-reading....

There's fanfic for The Great Escape on AO3; but, though I still enjoy the movie, I now know too much about the real escape to want to write about a fictional version of it. On the other hand, I also have no interest in writing RPF about Stalag Luft III either: it would mean getting into the heads of real people—people who actually lived, often until quite recently. Frankly, there are quite a lot of memoirs written by ex-POWs; and they're well worth reading. As for writing about the Escape itself (let alone the fifty escapers who were murdered!) ... well, sorry, but that's definitely not for me.

On the other hand, if there's one thing that most people who were there tend to avoid, it's talking about sex—or, at least, about homosexual activity in the camps. Granted, when food was desperately short at the start and end of the war, no one would have the energy. (I believe that.) However, it stands to reason that the percentage of gay men in the camp would be roughly the same as that in the population as a whole. And there are hints—no more than hints, mind you!—especially in the more recent memoirs. To a degree, therefore, one can try to guess how people might have managed, despite the lack of privacy.

So you can see why I went looking to see if anyone had requested the tag "Pilot POW at Stalag Luft III/Another Pilot POW at Stalag Luft III (M/M) (OW)". I could draw on what I knew about the historical camp, but write about OCs.

Of course, my memories of my old research weren't exactly up to date; so I had to do quite a lot of canon review. I wanted to get the details of camp life as accurate as I could manage. As a result, the story wasn't ready when the collection was opened on Halloween. However, it did get up as a late treat towards the end of the anon period.

Being late up, "Events Transpired" hasn't had a lot of attention. Still, judging by the lovely comment, risalsoran clearly enjoyed it, which is what really matters.

Challenge #13: Interact with someone in fandom you haven't talked with before.

Challenge #14: In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.

So ... I don't really feel up to creating my own fandom challenge. However, I have commented on a number of the challenges that other people have posted.

Challenge #11: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

The whole "frenemy" thing, in various ramifications! Often it's interpreted as a dynamic relationship: Ye Olde enemies > friends > lovers Thinge. However, it can go the other way, of course. Old friends who find themselves on opposite sides (for whatever reason) also qualify. Nor does it have to result in a romantic pairing, though a lot of the best fic does take it that way.

I think much of the appeal comes from the conflict between the personal/emotional relationship that pulls the characters together, and the sense of morality/duty that pulls them apart.

I'm not sure when I first encountered this trope; but certainly D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron was a great favourite in my teens. While I read Ewan's friendship with Keith as platonic, I've always been aware that Keith's feelings are rather different. That the whole thing is fated to end in tragedy just twists the knife.

More recently, this is what immediately attracted me to ColdFlash fic based on The Flash TV show on the CW: Barry Allen, CSI and superhero; Leonard Snart, costumed criminal with a cold gun. In fact, I'd seen the potential years earlier when reading comics—though, as with Ewan and Keith, I saw it as one-sided, with Len consciously or unconsciously caring for Barry in a potentially sexual way to which the hero was oblivious. In fic based on the TV show, however, fan writers definitely slash the pair, if not from the start, then definitely as the endgame.

Challenge #8: In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for a beloved character, relationship or fandom.

My favourite among Janet Kagan's handful of books is Hellspark. It's an SF mystery, thus appealing to me on both setting and plot, since I've always loved a good detective story.

Hellspark is set in some indefinite future of galactic exploration and colonization. The protagonist, Tocohl Susumo, is a polyglot trader whose ship is run by a bright, inquiring young AI, Maggy, who is unexpectedly starting to manifest sentience. They hail from the eponymous planet Hellspark, whose people are specialists in communication and therefore often serve as "Byworld Judges". So, when one of the scientists surveying the newly discovered world of Lassti is murdered, the team assume Tocohl to be a judge and ask her to find the killer.

The survey team all come from different worlds and cultures, in itself fascinating; but Lassti itself—a world whose name means "Flashfever", so dubbed because of its violent storms and exotic plant life—is a wonderfully different planet with its own mystery for Tocohl to solve. Are the silent feathered aliens sentient? If so, then the world is off limits for colonization. However, there are powerful interests who want the "sprookjes" deemed mere animals so that Lassti can be exploited.

To save the sprookjes, Tocohl is passing herself off as a Byworld Judge; but the penalty for that is being grounded for life. And what will become of Maggy then?

Challenge #10: In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!

I think it was in 2017 that I read my first Arrowverse fanfic, RedHead's "Seventy Three Seconds".

I had actually been watching Arrow since it started in the fall of 2012 (and found it impressively like the Green Arrow reboot in The Longbow Hunters comic book miniseries of 1987); and in 2014, when they'd used a guest appearance of Barry Allen to launch a sister series starring The Flash, I'd promptly tried that as well. Admittedly, I was a bit flummoxed by a brunette Barry; but the first season was extremely good. Compellingly so: I watched every episode eagerly, and rewatched the whole season as soon as it was over. Even so, I didn't bother to seek out fanfic.

It was not until a couple of years later, when I was checking out the "Recent changes" page on Fanlore, that I had a look at some alteration or other to the article on Flash fandom, spotted a link to "Seventy-Three Seconds", and clicked on in idle curiosity. So I read my first ColdFlash story. It was a stunner.

After that, I perused the AO3 collection (and there were already quite a lot of ColdFlash stories, so it took me some time). "Seventy Three Seconds" was quite an early one: actually written during the first season. Its characterization of Captain Cold is consistent with those early episodes, and very compelling. Fanfic slashing Captain Cold and the Flash quickly shifted to a softer, more romantic view of their relationship—not to mention many varied types of AUs. Some of those are also very well written. Not to mention long: quite a few are novels.

Eventually, I wrote some Flash fic of my own, as well as Legends of Tomorrow fic; and Captain Cold and the Flash certainly feature in quite a few of my stories. More & than / in terms of their relationship; but that's just the way I write.

Challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.

As if there could only be one!

This question reminds me of the tenth anniversary celebrations on maryrenaultfics, way back in 2014. Various activities were suggested by the moderators, my_cnnr and trueriver; and both my sister and I did the "Ten descriptions that have stuck with you" one—the descriptions in question being, of course, taken from any of Mary Renault's books. As I particularly like The Charioteer, I picked all ten from there. Here are a few of them:

1. Laurie's first sight of Andrew: The boy put down his floorcloth, wiped his hand on the seat of his trousers, and with the back of it pushed the hair away from his eyes. It was fairish, the colour of old gilt. He had a fair skin which was smoothly tanned, so that his grey eyes showed up very bright and clear.

2. Laurie meets Andrew in the orchard: The declining sun was ripe and warm. Hips and haws shone like polished beads in the hedgerows; the damp mats of fallen leaves had a smoky, rusty smell. […] The blackberries couldn’t have been picked over for at least a week. They tasted of frost and faint sun and smoke and purple leaves: sweet, childish and sad.

3. Laurie's reaction when seeing Bim: A young flight-lieutenant came in. He was a small man but very handsome, with a tough, steely kind of grace. The high girlish voice with which he greeted his friends was burlesqued and perfunctory, like a carnival vizard held with a flourish a foot away from the face. You felt, and were meant to feel, that he was playing at it. He was like a little fighting-cock, brave, shining and cruel.

4. A quiet moment with Ralph: The popping blue gas-fire had warmed to a spreading glow. Beyond the hooded reading-lamp’s small orbit it touched the room with dusky gold and rose. Laurie sat as he was bidden in the arm-chair; he had learned to accept such things simply, like the old. Ralph, curled easily on the old hooked-wool rug, would have looked incongruous there to no one, probably, except to Laurie, who found ancient habits of precedence still haunting his mind.

One of the people to leave a comment was my sister, who said:

Lovely all - and in an odd way, I think the difference between your choices and mine reveal the differences between us (no matter that my_cnnr often struggles with 'which Watson'). All your choices are the 'insignificant' descriptions which, for the most part (Bim being an exception) do not belong to hugely dramatic scenes (unlike the ones which stick in my memory) but nonetheless add so much to the quality of the novel, it would be much the less without them.

To which I could only reply:

At least you and I can tell each other apart. Just as well really. ;)

Which is true.

Challenge #5: Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.

First off, I've made friends: first, when I joined the Forever Knight mailing lists, particularly FORKNI-L; and then when I joined LiveJournal and Dreamwidth communities, particularly maryrenaultfics and fkficfest.

Second, I've done a lot of writing. It's true that, before I ever went on line, I wrote fannishly without an audience; but, both in the context of fandom-specific community activities and in the context of gift exchanges, I've done very much more—and more varied, in quite a range of fandoms.

Challenge #4: Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be e to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good!

This challenge is a hardy perennial. So I looked back at what I wrote each year I've done Snowflake....

Yup. Just as I thought. Goals unmet, over and over.

So what might practical goals look like? Well, I've already signed up for candyheartsex; so doing my assignment for that. If worldbuilding_exchange runs this year, then that one too. I've done fkficfest every year since it started; so that one's likely. And in the fall, there's trickortreatex and Yuletide: those, certainly. And multiple treats, at least for Yuletide. (This year I did three treats; and I've never done fewer than one. Plus my assignment.)

Yes, that's fairly doable, I think. Of course, I've got two fanfic series that are ongoing but incomplete; so I hope that maybe (maybe!) I can get another installment done on at least one of them. But longfic hopes are ... hopes and dreams, probably.

Next January, I'll have a look at this post and see what happened. I'm not crossing my fingers, though. It makes it hard to use the keyboard!

Challenge #3: In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.

When I first went on line and subscribed to the Forever Knight mailing list, I should say that most of the members—certainly well over half—used their own names. As I did: it never occurred to me to dub myself anything else. It was not until three years later, when I first joined a LiveJournal community, that I found myself in the midst of usernames. When prompted to pick one for myself, I boggled. I also had no trouble deciding that my "username" would simply be my real name, albeit glommed together as a single word.

To appreciate my disinclination towards pseuds, I should go back a fair few decades to the days of my extreme youth. Back then, people were far less familiar with the broad variety of personal names that are the norm in any big city in Canada in this century. Immigration from myriad international sources had had the effect that, if one hears even a slightly unfamiliar sounding name, one takes it in stride: asks to have it repeated, perhaps, or how it is spelled. Back when I was a kid, though, this was not so.

Now my personal name is short, and spelled according to regular English rules. So teachers at school all addressed me accurately. Strange adults who heard me say my name were another matter. If I said my name was "Greer", they almost invariably heard something else. This is more or less how the conversation would go:

"What's your name, dear?"
"Greer."
"Oh, Leah! That's a pretty name."
"No, my name isn't 'Leah'. It's Greer."
"Oh, Rhea! That's a pretty name too."
No, my name is Greer: G R E E R."
      (astonished silence)
"Oh! Um … were you named after Greer Garson?"
"No."
"Oh, I'm sure you were."

(And no, I wasn't: it's a family name.)

Now, some people after the umpteenth go-through of this sort of thing wind up hating their own name; and, quite possibly, when they grow up they change it. My reaction was different: it's my name, dammit!!!! (Granted, at that age, I wouldn't have said "dammit".)

So, as I say, I had little appreciation for the reasons why other people would want to be known by any of the weird and wonderful usernames that I've seen over the years. However, in that time, I have heard quite a few people defend the practice, especially those who live in less enlightened parts of the world and fear consequences from family, employers, and state security should their fannish interests become public. I think one of the things that brought that home to me was the realization that the maryrenaultfics community had members from such countries as Russia and China.

And, of course, even leaving that sort of peril out of it, there's the simple fact that, if I feel strongly about my own name, so do you about yours. It is, after all, your name.

First, let me thank you for writing me a story in one of the fandoms we share. I'm excited about all of them.


GENERAL POINTS:

• I love stories that explore canon more deeply, whether through backstory, or elaborating the setting/history/culture, or exploring people's motivations and personal interactions.


• I prefer gen. DNW non-canon / relationships unless requested. I'm not asking you to ignore canon relationships; but please don't make them the focus of the story. I don't care for anything more than PG-13: explicit sexual detail is definitely a DNW for me.


• I love casefic; and, more generally, I like stories that are canon-compliant. The general exception to this is ignoring canonical character death if you want. Canon-divergent AUs are also okay. (There may be other specific exceptions.)


• I'm okay with violence if necessary to the story; but not gore for the sake of gore. On the whole, I prefer not to have characters die in the story; but references to canonical deaths are okay. (I'm fine with having original characters murdered in casefic, and that sort of thing.)


• I enjoy comedy—being able to recognize the ridiculous when it pops up; also wit and wordplay. Having said that, I totally leave it up to you whether you write a serious or comic story—or a serious story with comic interludes.


• No second person fic, please. First person is okay, especially for book canons that were written that way by the author. However, I don't generally care for it with TV fandoms. Epistolary fic is fine.
  

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Challenge #2:  In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.

I suppose, in a way, this is a three-part story: discovering my fannish inclinations (though I wouldn't have put it like that at the time), learning of the existence of fandom and fannish activities, and actually joining.

Once upon a time, long long ago when I was a kid, I absolutely adored certain specific canons—different ones at different times—and did a lot of thinking about them, telling myself stories (of a self-insert sort), and then extrapolating from there to the creation of new characters and plots more or less related to the original. When I was ten or eleven, for example, I was very keen on Andre Norton's science fiction; a few years later it was the original Star Trek. I figure a lot of fans started this way in pre-internet days when—unless you had a best friend into the same things—you were pretty well on your own, in your own head.

Then I discovered that there were books about Star Trek (and other TV series); and some of these mentioned fan activities, such as conventions and fanzines. I'd never before tried writing. (No patience! When telling myself stories, I wanted to get to the exciting bits straight off.) However, reading about fans writing fiction—not to be confused with reading any actual fanfic—did inspire me to start writing my own. No one I knew was into any of this; so it was all drawerfic: never saw the light of day. I started with a Star Trek novel, went on to Next Gen scripts, and then to a full virtual season of Forever Knight.

When I got a new computer in 2004, I went on line for the first time. Of course, I made a beeline for FK fandom and discovered that there was a whole archive of fanfic. I read copiously, joined the FORKNI-L mailing list, and learned HTML so I could make a website to showcase my virtual season. That eventually led to other mailing lists and lurking around a message board or two; then I discovered LiveJournal in 2007. My first venture into gift exchanges was Yuletide in 2011; and I haven't looked back since.

I think it's fair to say that, as far as RL is concerned, this has not been my year. Mould in the back porch was tracked to a leak in next door's roof (we're semi-detached), not that the owner wants to hear about it. Also I spent an inordinate amount of time waiting around for repairmen who didn't come when they said they would. I'm glad to say that on the fannish side things have been better. If I haven't done all the things I wished, that's partly because of the whole RL business but also because I'm easily sidetracked. However, it's fair to say that joining ushobrwi was a good idea: that little bit of feedback and encouragement really does help, especially when I'm not writing to deadline.

I took belated part in the Snowflake Challenge back in January—though, as I came in quite late, I had catching up to do. Certainly not all the challenges were completed. However, looking at those posts, I realize that I started 2024 with the intention to follow up on the previous year's resolution to work on the follow-up to "Trial by Jury". Sadly, I had got sidetracked in 2023 by the need to revise and repost my website. This past year, too, it got sidetracked.

In February, I posted about the Biggles series. Yes, silly name: I think that's actually the point. He's also no more than average height, slim, rather delicate-looking (barring a firm chin), with small girlish hands. And an ace pilot and daring hero: as I say, I'm pretty sure the author was making a quiet point about readers' preconceptions. I'd heard of the series when studying children's literature in the 80s and 90s, even bought a few; but I'm pretty sure I'd never actually cracked them. By about March, I'd read almost all of them—and there are a lot!—except for a few short stories. My first post was fairly general; then I made a more analytical post, "Biggles series: Publication History of the Early Biggles Books ". Yes, I intended to write a series of follow-ups. No, I didn't. (So ... a New Year's Resolution for 2025?)

I got sidetracked from the Biggles essays by rereading some books I'd bought back in the '90s on POWs in World War II. Having revived my old interest, I then began updating myself with books on the same subject that have been published more recently. From a fannish perspective, this has at least resulted in a treat that I wrote in the Trick or Treat exchange: set in Stalag Luft III (where the Great Escape took place), "Events Transpired looks at one day in the lives of POWs sharing a room from the perspective of one of them whose lover is inexplicably late for lunch that day. So now, of course, I have a lot of ideas about their lives. Perhaps another New Year's Resolution for the coming year? If, that is, I don't get sidetracked again.


Gifts I Received:

I did fewer exchanges than usual, partly because of the RL stuff in the summer. I decided to skip Candy Hearts but did the new Worldbuilding Exchange again, and took part in FK Fic Fest (which, strictly speaking, is not an exchange any more), all in the spring. After taking the summer off, I did Trick or Treat and Yuletide, both of which I've done for quite a while now. All told, I received five gifts.

Two of these were Original Works based on a variety of superhero-related prompts: yellowmagicalgirl's short, wry "Send All Those Villains After Me (Play the Toughest Hand, Hold the Longest Stand)", and ishipallthings's "every hurt of yours", which packs in a lot of tantalizing worldbuilding.

The others were all canon-based fanworks, but only one was in a fandom I regularly request, cricketdust's "Peace and Quiet", a charming Arrowverse story about Mick Rory's career as romance writer "Rebecca Silver". Living aboard a timeship packed with sundry teammates does not make it any easier to find time to write. (What fanwriter can't sympathize?)

Since my sister introduced me to The Big Bang Theory, I've requested it a few times, and this time received a ficlet about Howard and Raj: missy's A Dish is a tasty treat set during a couple's therapy session.

I've loved Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett's Astreiant series ever since I read the second book. (Yes, I soon managed to get the first: the others had not yet been written.) It is quite a rare fandom, with only 28 stories on AO3; and I reckon myself very lucky to have received kindkit's "Puppets". It's just exactly what I hoped for! Lots of lovely worldbuilding, and some nice interaction between Nico and Philip.

A very nice haul of gifts! A good year indeed.


Stories I Wrote:

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greerwatson on AO3.

First, let me thank you for writing me a story in one of the fandoms we share. I'm excited about all of them. They're listed in alphabetical order, so as not to play favourites. (Treats are enabled and always welcome!)


GENERAL POINTS:

• I love stories that explore canon more deeply, whether through backstory, or elaborating the setting/history/culture, or exploring people's motivations and personal interactions.


• I prefer gen. DNW non-canon relationships unless requested. I'm not asking you to ignore canon relationships; but please don't make them the focus of the story. I don't care for anything more than PG-13: explicit sexual detail is definitely a DNW for me.


• I love casefic; and, more generally, I like stories that are canon-compliant. The general exception to this is ignoring canonical character death if you want. Canon-divergent AUs are also okay. (There may be other specific exceptions.)


• I'm okay with violence if necessary to the story; but not gore for the sake of gore. On the whole, I prefer not to have characters die in the story; but references to canonical deaths are okay. (I'm fine with having original characters murdered in casefic, and that sort of thing.)


• I enjoy comedy—being able to recognize the ridiculous when it pops up; also wit and wordplay. Having said that, I totally leave it up to you whether you write a serious or comic story—or a serious story with comic interludes.


• No second-person fic, please. First person is definitely okay for book canons that were written that way by the author. However, I don't generally care for it with TV fandoms. Epistolary fic is fine.
  

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First, let me thank you for writing me a story in one of the fandoms we share. I'm excited about all of them. They're listed in alphabetical order, so as not to play favourites.

I'm also greerwatson on AO3. Treats are enabled.


GENERAL POINTS:

• I love stories that explore canon more deeply, whether through backstory, or elaborating the setting/history/culture, or exploring people's motivations and personal interactions.


• I prefer gen. DNW non-canon relationships unless requested. I'm not asking you to ignore canon relationships; but please don't make them the focus of the story. I don't care for anything more than PG-13: explicit sexual detail is definitely a DNW for me.


• I love casefic; and, more generally, I like stories that are canon-compliant. The general exception to this is ignoring canonical character death if you want. Canon-divergent AUs are also fine. (There may be other specific exceptions.)


• I'm okay with violence if necessary to the story; but not gore for the sake of gore. On the whole, I prefer not to have characters die in the story; but references to canonical deaths are okay. (I'm fine with having original characters murdered in casefic, and that sort of thing.)


• I enjoy comedy—being able to recognize the ridiculous when it pops up; also wit and wordplay. Having said that, I totally leave it up to you whether you write a serious or comic story or, for that matter, a serious story with comic interludes.


• No second-person fic, please. First person is definitely okay for book canons that were written that way by the author. However, I don't generally care for it with TV fandoms. Epistolary fic is fine.
  

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Once again, it's that time of year. The annual Yuletide gift exchange has just opened nominations. (See the post.) This year is definitely the last one that Forever Knight will be eligible for it has, at this moment, 924 works in AO3 that are complete, in English, and over 1K words in length.

If there are other FK fans thinking of doing Yuletide this year, we should coordinate. When one is actually signing up for Yuletide, one is only permitted to request/offer characters in the tagset; so it's important to get in the ones you want to ask for.

One is permitted to request four fandoms, with four characters per fandom. Obviously, FK has far more than that! However, by coordinating with one another, we can ensure that we each nominate different ones, thus getting a larger tagset. If we don't coordinate, there's a high probability of duplication.

Nominations are open until 20 September 9am UTC. Note that local time for you will vary depending on your time zone.

To repeat: if you plan to request/offer Forever Knight for Yuletide, we should coordinate in order to get as many different characters as possible into the tag set.