29 January 2022 @ 07:48 pm
Fandom Snowflake 2022 Challenge #10  
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Challenge #10:   In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create.

I decided to rec Forever Knight fic; and then had a tricky question to answer, since there are a few thousand of them now. Not on AO3; but, if you go back to the old archives, then there certainly are—plus, of course, the new ones. So I decided to limit it to LK stories. And then, having read through a few (and there are more than just a few!), it seemed best to stick to a single theme. So here a a couple of stories that follow the series finale, "Last Knight", but require a measure of detective work from a lone survivor.

Angst is one thing; and I don't deny there are some good examples out there. However, I do like me some plot with my fic.

Dorothy Elggren's "All The Rest Is Silence" is, of course, the classic of the type. Set immediately after "Last Knight", a grieving Captain Reese tries to puzzle out the mystery of what exactly did happen in Nick's loft that fateful day.

On the other hand, [personal profile] brightknightie's "Corners of the Mind" is predicated on Tracy's survival with amnesia about the year she worked with Nick, until a series of odd events bring on nightmares that point to a forgotten secret.
 
 
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goddess47[personal profile] goddess47 on January 30th, 2022 03:42 am (UTC)
Forever Knight! What a blast from the past! I love when people are still writing anything in an old fandom like this one... and some of it still on non-AO3 archives, no less.

That is an amazing memory... hope it stays out there for others to find and appreciate.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

greerwatson[personal profile] greerwatson on February 1st, 2022 06:40 pm (UTC)
Oh, both these stories are oldies (but goodies!). Hence the ancient archive. However, you're quite right: there are still people writing Forever Knight. There's a little annual fest, and a few ardent fans who write even outside gift exchanges. I've added the odd fic to AO3 myself.  :)