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.

Clearly this meme is going the rounds! Copped off brightknightie, who adapted it from used_songs, who got it from shipperslist:

Of 267 fanfiction works...

Under which 3 ratings have you written most?
218 General audiences
44 Teen and up audiences
06 Not rated

In which 3 fandoms have you written most?
95 Forever Knight (TV 1992)
88 Mary Renault's The Charioteer plus RENAULT - WORKS
13 M*A*S*H (TV)

I've got 44 tagged as "The Charioteer" and another 44 tagged as RENAULT - WORKS. The latter are ITOWverse stories which were written for maryrenaultfics, and really count as having been written in relation to my interest in The Charioteer. So maybe best combined.

Which 3 characters have you tagged the most often?
52 Nick Knight
27 Natalie Lambert
24 (tie) Lucien LaCroix
24 (tie) Laurie Odell

What are your top 3 additional/free-form tags?
43 Metafiction
40 Backstory
24 Historical

The Metafiction ones are almost all ITOWverse stories.

Did any of these surprise you? If so, which?

Actually, the only thing that surprised me was the fact that I've actually got 20 stories tagged as "Christmas". And two rated Mature.

I've just finished updating the Fanlore article on FK Fic Fest. The article in the Forever Knight Wiki is also up to date.

In the latter, I've also updated the author pages for all participants and made wiki articles for each story.

This is the last day for signing up to the new Worldbuilding Exchange. (See worldbuilding_exchange. Sign up here; tag set here.)

Forever Knight is one of the fandoms that's been nominated!

Yes, I've signed up. And yes: one of my requested fandoms is FK.

What is "worldbuilding"? From the exchange profile:

For the purposes of this exchange, "worldbuilding" will be defined as any exploration of how a fictional world works beyond the information presented in canon. This includes (but is not limited to) more detailed extrapolation of information presented in canon, filling in gaps in the canon backstory, attempts to reconcile apparent contradictions in canon information, exploring the perspectives on canon events of characters implied to exist but not considered within the canon, etc.

It is absolutely fine for the gift you create to be an action-adventure story/shippy fanart/etc. (provided your recipient hasn't expressed a desire for you to avoid such things), so long as there are also worldbuilding elements present in a significant way.

Participants are expected to create one of:
Fanfiction - a complete fic of at least 1000 words
Fanart - a finished piece of art, not on lined paper
In-Universe Meta - a complete piece of in-universe meta of at least 1000 words

As far as FK is concerned, the nominated characters are:

• Feliks Twist
• Javier Vachon
• Natalie Lambert
• Nick Knight
• Screed
• Any or No Characters (Forever Knight)
• Original Character(s)

The worldbuilding concepts that have been nominated are:

• carouches
• character backstory
• complications of a nocturnal existence
• immortality
• Vachon's crew
• Vampire Physiology

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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Having recently got into the Biggles books, I keep thinking about them. So (I hope) some of these thoughts will gel into wee mini-essays here on Dreamwidth, if only so I can go on to do more thinking, hopefully about other things. Even if it's other Biggles-related things!

So here's a bit of an introduction.

With the exception of the first few stories, which were written for a general audience, Capt. W.E. Johns’ Biggles books are adventure stories marketed to boys around ten or twelve years old. His hero, James C. Bigglesworth (nicknamed “Biggles”), and his friends are pilots who travel the world foiling spies, smugglers, thieves or what have you, and locating stolen goods, lost treasure, kidnapped scientists, and top-secret documents. With over a hundred volumes, many of which are collections of short stories, the series would—at least on the face of it—seem to be about as likely to fix my interest as the Tom Swift books that fascinated me when I was ten or twelve. Which is to say enormously at that age and not at all today.

So what is the attraction of Biggles? After all, if you read enough of the books, you quickly see that Johns reuses the same handful of tropes multiple times. True, the stories tend to be well-plotted and exciting; but one would think that my interest would be quickly exhausted just as, long ago, I tired of Tom Swift. The fact is, though, that I am constitutionally inclined to organize and analyze data—whatever data!—and have been finding in the Biggles series rather more of interest than mere adventure. (Though, mind you, they are a lot of fun.) ( Fans tend to divide the series into four eras: WW1, interwar, WW2, and post-war. )

When I first decided to try reading the Biggles series, I started with a few I had picked up in the '90s, mostly ones set in the WW2 period. Then I jumped around a bit, reading the stories that got mentioned the most by other fans, since secondhand books do cost money. However, once I realized that I could get them on line, I started them in chronological order, one by one. That has its own interest, actually: you see how the series evolved.

So I keep seeing comparisons between books, relevance to contemporary history, re-use of favourite motifs, and such. I’m hoping that, now and then, I’ll get the time/energy to put some of that down in bits of meta. Or lit. crit., depending on how you want to look at it.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge's 2023 Fandom Wrapped!

Top 5 fandoms for 2023:
1. Forever Knight
2. Mary Renault's The Charioteer
3. M*A*S*H
4. Arrowverse (The Flash & Legends of Tomorrow)
5. Capt. W.E. Johns' Biggles series

Top 5 fandom spaces in 2023 were:
1. AO3
2. Dreamwidth
3. Fanlore
4. Wikia wikis, esp. FK, M*A*S*H, Biggles
5. Sudoku.org.uk (for daily sudokus)

Top 5 things contributions to fandom in 2023 were:
1. editing & reposting the Forever Knight Website Archive
2. writing fanfic
3. reading fanfic
4. reading Fanlore
5. commenting

Top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
1. editing & reposting the Forever Knight Website Archive
2. writing fanfic
3. commenting

Bonus questions:

My fandom personality in 2023:
Obsessive Reader (i.e. fell in love with a new canon)

In 2023, I discovered:
Capt. W.E. Johns' Biggles series

My fandom home in 2023 was:
glued to the computer — reading, reading, reading,....

Make a rec list of fanworks!

For Challenge No. 9, I talked about Capt. W.E. Johns' Biggles series, which I've recently got into. As my interest was piqued by fanfic, it seems reasonable to rec some of that here. The only problem is which, since I've pretty well vacuumed up everything available on line!

One of the books that has particularly been prompting fans to write fic is Biggles Buries a Hatchet. As it was published in 1958, it's one of the later books (though the author kept writing the series right up to his death a decade later). It's also a major turning point, at least with respect to one character in particular: Erich von Stalhein. He was originally introduced in one of the World War I stories, Biggles Flies East, as a German spy operating in Palestine—a sort of Lawrence of Arabia figure, but on the other side. During the 1930s, he becomes a recurrent antagonist in the years leading up to World War II; and, in the post-war books, he works for the Soviets. Biggles clearly respects him, considers him an "honourable enemy" type of figure, and keeps trying to persuade him to defect. In Biggles Buries a Hatchet, von Stalhein's nephew turns up in London to warn Biggles that his uncle has been sent to Siberia for refusing to assassinate him. Naturally, Biggles and his team go and rescue him. At which point, von Stalhein does indeed finally change sides.

Typically of Johns' books, there is a long lead-in to the main action, but the story is tied up very quickly at the end. Inevitably, the result has been fanfic. Here are a few, which I've put in more or less chronological order in terms of their relation to the action of the story.

"First Light" by philomytha is set in East Germany and sets up the events of the book: von Stalhein's arrest and the decision to send Fritz to Biggles.

After the rescue, they spend a secret night moored in their sea plane before taking off. In philomytha's "Ordinary Kindness", the man on watch, Biggles' closest friend Algy, wakes von Stalhein from a nightmare.

Their first stop is at an American air force base in Japan. There are several worthy stories filling in details of their brief stay there, but particularly notable is sholio's "A Touch of Kindness", in which Biggles brings food and medication to von Stalhein, who is under guard.

After that, they journey in stages back to England. In philomytha's "a piece of the continent", a stop-off in Singapore clarifies that von Stalhein is far from recovered from his ordeal in Siberia.

As for subsequent events in London, here are two rather different possibilities. In Akseel's "An Invitation to Dinner", von Stalhein is wary when Biggles' boss, Air Commodore Raymond, appears to accede to the pilot's wish that he not be constrained after his defection. In sholio's "Lightning in a Jar", on the other hand, he is subjected to mandatory electronic monitoring (indeed, forced to wear a shock collar), to Biggles' fury.

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.

I post my stories to my website, and usually make individual pages for them. Here are five of my favourite webpage designs. (The titles link to my site.)

• "Disconcert", Forever Knight, 519 words, 3 May 2020
  
  
• "Afterword", Alan Garner's Alderley Edge series, 1328 words, 18 December 2014
  
  
• "En Vacances", Forever Knight, 3020 words, 22 August 2015  (NOTE: scroll down!)
  
  
• "Thorn Bushes Have Roses", Capt. W.E. Johns' Biggles series, 8591 words, 25 December 2023
  
  
• "Best Laid Plans", Mary Renault's The Charioteer, 1948 words, 17 December 2022
  

Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

This past year, I got interested in a new fandom—well, new to me, that is. I'd certainly heard of the Biggles series, which is a long set of adventure stories by British author, Capt. W.E. Johns, starring James Bigglesworth (nicknamed "Biggles") from his teen years as a fighter pilot in World War I through to middle age in the 1960s. Altogether over a hundred books, very popular in its day. Biggles is a typical mid-twentieth century boys' adventure hero: honourable, brave, ingenious, and lucky. I never read any of the books when I was a kid; but, when I was studying children's fiction back in the '90s, I bought a few for my collection. Judging by the spines, I'm not sure I even opened them!

A year or so ago, a group of Biggles fans on AO3 began requesting the series in gift exchanges, writing for each other in a venue that made the fandom visible to people quite unfamiliar with the series. They're very good writers, and one of their main pairings is the sort of frenemyship that's pure catnip. So last summer I hauled out the handful of books I had and took a peek at them.

They're well plotted and lots of fun!

So I ordered more; but, as they're cheaper in Britain, I had them delivered to my sister, who brought them over to me when she came here for Christmas. In the meantime, I discovered that most of the books are actually available on line. In some countries, you see, they're out of copyright; and, as that includes Canada, I've been downloading them with a clear conscience. Of course, with so many of them, I'm nowhere near finishing the series yet.

People who read my stories know that I often write "worldbuilding" stories: not just backstory and futurefic; but also stories that fill in missing bits, or try to resolve contradictions and errors, or assemble all the tiny snippets of information we have about a supporting character and then try to fit them into a coherent whole. Any worldbuilder who sees a lacuna in canon is bound to wonder what happened. Well, the Biggles series is full of odd gaps and questions. So fanfic, obviously ... and then probably more fanfic! And maybe some meta, too.

Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)

How current is "current"? Given how little work I've done on the goal I mentioned in the Challenge #2 post, that one doesn't qualify as anything but wishful thinking! Yet, anyway.

Last year, though, I did get another installment done for the Depths of Cold series I started back in 2019. It's based on what backstory we have on the version of Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) that appeared in the Arrowverse, specifically in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Most fic about his childhood dwells hard on the abuse he suffered at his father's hands. However, it seemed to me that anyone who got half-starved and beat up as much as he does in fic would hardly grow up to look like Wentworth Miller, the actor who played him. I wanted to write something more nuanced.

There are at least a couple more installments to go; but I got Part 6 up last year. "Cold Storage" actually is about Len's meeting Mick Rory (Heat Wave) in Juvie; but, after all, that's part of the backstory too.

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Boy, this one was hard! I think it's the "favourite" plus "love it so much" that made it so tricky. I have so many things I like, albeit to varying degrees, that it was really hard to pick. Then I decided to treat this challenge as more a matter of reccing something obscure that others might not know.

Jean in the Morning is the first volume of a four-part series. The author (whose real name was apparently Elizabeth Jane Cameron) was, in the day, better known under the name "Jane Duncan". She wrote a long semi-autobiographical series of books that is usually called the "My Friend" series because their titles take the form My Friend [NAME]. In later volumes, the protagonist, Janet Sandison, now widowed, finds a publisher for some books she's been writing about a working-class girl named Jean Robertson.

Then "Jane Duncan" wrote those books for real.

Jean in the Morning was published in 1969 under the "Janet Sandison" pseudonym. Three more books followed, not all focused on Jean herself; the series has a rather wobbly overall story arc. Of the four volumes, the first is by far the best.

Written in the first person, it covers "wee Jeanie"'s story from her first day at school in 1911 till she leaves and goes to work as a housemaid, i.e. seven years or so. She's born in a slum tenement for the families of railway workers, gradually works out the social hierarchy of the commuter suburb of Glasgow in which she lives, and sees the home front of World War I from the very bottom rung of society.

She's a street-smart, canny kid. She sees a lot.

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

Assorted miscellaneous facts:

• I was born in England; but my family came to Canada when I was not yet six. So I grew up in Toronto, went to school here (except for going off to grad. school), and still live here.
  
  
• When I was in junior high, my parents allowed me to watch two extra hours TV per week provided I read a non-fiction book every day. (My choice, but duplicates didn't count.) Over a period of about five years, that adds up to an awful lot of books. It's fair to say I read pretty fast, since the non-fiction was vastly outnumbered by the fiction I also read!
  
  
• Lasting interests from back then: anthropology, archaeology, history, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, paleontology.... Alas, I don't read as much today as I used to: there are too many distractions. Still, there's always Nova. And Wikipedia: the links are the closest thing I know of to flypaper-to-catch-humans.
  
  
• I've collected superhero comics since the late '60s.
  
  
• I love sudokus, especially the "jigsaw" ones.
  
  
• I read the Toronto Star. Yes, a daily subscription to a real paper newspaper.
  
  
• I love Christmas trees, and have a large collection of glass ornaments—more than I'll ever be able to fit on the one I own. It's a 6-foot artificial tree, bought back in the late '80s. The secret to keeping glass ornaments safe is using an artificial tree, since they don't dry out, droop, and drop bells and balls as the needles go. It takes so long to dress, that I usually keep it out till the end of January.
  
  
• The first fanfic I wrote was a Star Trek K/S pon farr novel. I did it on an electric typewriter in the late '80s; and, as I wasn't in fandom back then, it's never been published. I still have it in a box somewhere; but I haven't looked at it in literally decades.
  
  

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Well, as I come a bit late to the Snowflake Challenge this year, one goal is to do some more of them. (Not all, mind you; but more than just this one!)

But seriously folks....

One big goal I have this year is to work on expanding a story that I did for ficinabox back in 2022. "Trial by Jury" was never supposed to be 38K long! I did, on the other hand, intend from the start that it should end on a cliffhanger. By Christmas, though, the darn thing had made it clear to me that it had aspirations: it considered itself no more than the first part of something bigger. So my goal is to get some work done on its goal.

I started this year with the intention of working on expanding "Trial by Jury", the oversized Original Work that I'd done for the ficinabox exchange in 2022. Well, it didn't work out that way. Even though I'd begun with ideas for various scenes dancing through my head like the sugar plums in "The Night Before Christmas", I delayed to write a ficlet for the new Candy Hearts Exchange (replacement for Chocolate Box) and then worked on a story for the Worldbuilding Exchange. At that point my website suddenly disappeared—and so did the next six months or so.

Investigating the loss of the site led me to the sad conclusion that Stephanie Kellerman must have died. Steph offered FK fandom webspace when GeoCities went down in 2009 and Nancy Taylor suggested saving as many of the old fan sites as possible, especially the archives, faction sites, hubs, and war sites. Steph had not only hosted my own particular site, but many others as well, in the Forever Knight Website Archive. Clearly, when she died, her family had no idea of contacting the mailing list—may, indeed, have been unaware of her fan activities.

I not only wanted to still have (and in time add to) my own site, but also felt a sense of responsibility to preserve the Archive for the sake of the fandom. So I decided to get a new webhost, which entailed registering a new URL, http://www.foreverknight.ca. In preparation, I updated my site. Some pages had been written long ago when I first learned how to write webpages; and I wanted to improve them. I also went through all the episodes of my virtual season, FK4. Back in the '90s, I wrote them in WordPerfect and had to zip them to save space. Unzipped and in Microsoft Word is certainly how people would expect to read them today. After that was all uploaded, I then did a lot of revision for the Forever Knight Website Archive. The job's not quite finished yet; but most of it has been done.

All this meant that—apart from doing FK Fic Fest (which I certainly wasn't going to miss!)—I did pretty well no fic writing until the fall. At that point, in rapid succession, I signed up for Trick or Treat, Fic in a Box, and Yuletide.


Gifts I Received:

Like last year, I received nine gifts in the various exchanges I did. Some of these were in fandoms I regularly request, others were Original Works based on a variety of superhero-related prompts.

In the Candy Hearts Exchange, myhaus_spaeter wrote me "On the side of human decency" based on Mary Renault's The Charioteer. It's futurefic set in the immediate postwar period, with Laurie just on his way home after a stint as a simultaneous interpreter at the Nuremberg trials. The job's been hard on him, as one might expect, and phone calls with Ralph have been a solace; but it is conversation with Sandy that proves most helpful in coping with the experience.

Much later in the year, thepersiancat gave me a story in the same fandom for Trick or Treat. "Sniffing Immortality" is a short cute story about Laurie's housemaster taking umbrage at an unauthorized Halloween celebration at the school.

In the Worldbuilding Exchange, I was given a "A New Normal", based on The Flash TV series. The point of view is unusual: that of David Singh, a senior police office in the Central City Police Departtment, who is contemplating the changes that have been brought to the job by the appearance of metahumans. A very interesting perspective, and a story that I'm very pleased to have received, for I have requested a story along these lines more than once before.

Then, in Yuletide, I got an unexpected New Tricks gift from greenet—unexpected, because this is a very rare fandom indeed. "Street lights" is a charming story, and very much "in character" with great banter around the office as the detectives mull over long-past cases that still bother them.

As for Original Works, I asked for them in three different exchanges, always with a variety of superhero related prompts; and, like last year, I got no fewer than five of them! They are: in Candy Hearts, slumber's "how to account for his rise to the top"; in Trick or Treat, elosiancandidate901's "Old Habits"; and in Fic in a Box, inarduisfidelis's Just a Cliche (But is That So Bad?)", dontstopmenow's How the Warlock Takes His Coffee", and mcbangle's Searching for the unknown crumb". A charming collection, and much appreciated. While I enjoy fanfic about canon superheroes, there are so many other possible scenarios and relationships to explore.


Stories I Wrote:

Here's what I wrote in 2023. Posting has been a bit delayed because my sister came to Toronto over Christmas and New Year; so it's only in the last week or so that I've had time to make the webpages for my Yulefic.

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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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Are there any other Forever Knight fans planning to do Yuletide this year? If so, we should coordinate on nominations. These will continue through the 27th (Wednesday) ending some time on the following day, varying depending on your time zone.

FK is eligible again this year because of changes in the rules.

One is permitted to request four fandoms this year; but only four characters per fandom. However, by coordinating with one another, fans can ensure that they each put in different nominations, thus getting a larger tagset. 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—and equally, of course, the ones you are willing to offer.

Because of the cast changes over the three seasons, FK has quite a large number of regulars, let alone occasional supporting characters and guest stars.

I plan to nominate Nick, Schanke, Vachon, and LaCroix—which makes a rather "guy-heavy" selection, I know, but I want to cover as many bases as possible, i.e. both vampire and cop plots.

If you plan to do Yuletide, you might need to get in a different set of nominations to make the requests and offers you hope for.

In checking which sites are no longer on the web so I can stick them in the archive, I have (obviously!) also found which ones are STILL out there. And yes, there are more of them than I'd thought.

So I've decided to add a good old-fashioned links page to the archive.

You can find it here: https://www.foreverknight.ca/links.htm

Happy scrolling!

 

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.


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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