brightknightie: Nick looking up. (Nick)
[community profile] trickortreatex has posted a new list of needed pinch-hits, which some of you may be interested to know includes Forever Knight (TV) and The Lost Boys (movies). Check it out.

brightknightie: Duncan and Tessa embrace on the sidewalk. (Other Fandom Highlander)
If you're planning to sign up for [community profile] hlh_shortcuts '25, you have ~10 hours from when I'm writing this. I got my sign-up in this morning.

At this time, the sign-ups summary and requests list show 15 players, with 15 requests and 14 offers for the main TV series, 4 and 5 for The Raven, and 8 and 5 for the movies. (If you're into the comics, novels, cartoon, or other subsidiary properties, just say so; someone else is likely to be, too.)

brightknightie: Duncan and Tessa embrace on the sidewalk. (Other Fandom Highlander)
Dear [community profile] hlh_shortcuts author,

Thank you for sharing your Highlander love and creativity this year!

TLDR: My personal tip-top favorites are: gen; PG-13 and below; first through third seasons; Duncan, Tessa, Richie, Darius; Duncan/Tessa; choosing the hard right over the easy wrong; choosing to care and to hope; the power of friendship; history, whether as setting or reference; grief and bereavement; fighting the good fight; and the immortality fantasy as hyperbole/metaphor for real life. I also enjoy many other things, so it's fine if none of these click for you!

No need to read on unless you really want to. This post is long. :-D

Likes, dislikes, crossovers & character-specific prompts )

Again, thank you! Whatever you love best in HL, celebrate that, and I'm sure to enjoy it.

brightknightie: With Hank and Diana in the lead, the children confront Tiamat. (Other Fandom D&D poster)
Thundarr the Barbarian (cartoon, 1980-81) will get a comic run, for the first time ever, starting in January 2026. This news broke at least as far back as June, but I saw it (at least to remember) only yesterday. Here's the CBR article. The publisher is Dynamite Entertainment, with writer Jason Aaron and artist Kewber Baal.

promo image

This cartoon re-ran for many, many years on Saturday mornings; I met it around '84, probably, and I loved it. I own a print-on-demand copy of the DVDs (its only kind of DVDs). I hope that this comic run will be all it should be; I'll probably dip my toe in with high hopes.

Yet I also feel caution. Two years or so ago when my beloved Dungeons & Dragons (cartoon, 1983-85) got its first comic run (from IDW, not Dynamite), the initial arc of stories was fun, though I had quibbles, especially with the too-obviously copy/paste-panels art, but the second arc made the sad mistake of trying to move on from what made the original series great. It casually, off-screen, gave the kids swords, breaking the prime no-offensive-weapons directive of the network censors that had forced the original series to tell stories in other ways and had shaped the characters and the audience. It also brought in a parade of name-brand guest stars from modern Forgotten Realms properties without making them really serve the D&DC story, which the original series had done with its much more occasional red-box NPCs.

brightknightie: Duncan and Tessa embrace on the sidewalk. (Other Fandom Highlander)
[community profile] hlh_shortcuts '25 sign-ups are open through this Saturday, October 11. Last year, I flat forgot to request/offer Grace, and Randi was accidentally glitched from the tagset, but I just now checked and they seem (haven't submitted yet to confirm) to both be available this year, yay! (Thank you, mods.)

I would like to not regret missing characters this year. So I'm pre-compiling a list of all my possibilities (may not use them all, but these are my candidates). If you're interested, let me know of any characters you think I might want to request or offer who are not yet here...?

List )
brightknightie: Buffy and Willow sit on a bench outdoors at Sunnydale high on a sunny day. (Other Fandom Buffyverse)
Some of you might possibly be interested to know that [community profile] trickortreatex is currently looking for pinch-hitters for The Lost Boys (movies) and "Buffyverse" (TV), among other fandoms. Due October 24. Minimum 300 words (yep, 300). Read their post.

brightknightie: Girl running into the wind with a kite in summer (Enthusiasms)

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: I'm continuing to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and (of course) loving it. I'm mid-game-ish now, facing vicious white Bokoblins but only my third red-maned Lynel, having maxed my stamina wheel but only half of my hearts, triggered all the Divine Beasts quests but freed only one, and am single-handedly juicing Hyrule's economy through the purchase of bomb arrows. Read more... )

Ficathons, fests & communities

  • Create & engage
    • [community profile] hlh_shortcuts, the annual Highlander exchange, has sign-ups through 10/11; due 12/15.
    • [community profile] yuletide_admin, the massive annual small fandoms exchange, has sign-ups through 10/24; due 12/17.
    • [community profile] smallfandombang, the small fandoms big-bang, has author sign-ups through 10/31 and author sign-ups through 11/01.
    • [community profile] ladiesbingo, a bingo challenge for relationships between women characters, runs from September through March.
    • [community profile] austenexchange is hosting a prompt-fest through 12/16 to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday.
    • [tumblr.com profile] janeuary-month is a daily-themes Jane Austen fanworks event throughout January '26.
    • [community profile] latetreatbonanza is designed to help motivate folks to finish late gifts, with a collection, deadline, and reveal. Works due 12/24.
    • [community profile] communal_creators, a community for mutual encouragement among creators, runs its current round through 10/15.
    • [community profile] pinchhits is a forum for pinch-hits in exchanges. For example, [community profile] tardis_festivities and [community profile] rarepairexchange are seeking pinch hitters.
    • [community profile] whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
  • Enjoy & share

Sidelight: I've removed Doctor Strange from my comic shop pull-list and replaced it with the upcoming Nova series. Doctor Strange's current author focuses on Stephen as a detective, which is classic and welcome, but has relocated him away from his stomping grounds and supporting cast, which isn't. I am only tangentially aware of Nova, but Jed MacKay will write this series, and his writing single-handedly brought me back to reading monthly comics, so... Fingers crossed!


brightknightie: Midna, in imp form, and Link grin at each other (Zelda)
GameStop is having quite a sale on assorted toys and toy-like accessories. I haven't been in a GameStop in forever, but when I stumbled across the news, confirmed on their website, that they had marked some TLOZ amiibo down to $5.99 (from the usual $15-40), I wrestled with myself for a few days and then let myself swing by after work on Wednesday... "swing by" in the sense that they have closed so many that the nearest was actually twenty minutes away in even good traffic.

At this particular shop, the discounted sale merchandise included shelves and shelves much taller than me jammed with a wide assortment of Funko Pops, "Buy 2, Get 1 Free."

The amiibo selection was ever so much smaller, of course, and had no TLOZ amiibo that I don't already have (not that I have that many! they had only two). They'd likely sold out days before. This is probably for the best! If they had had the Guardian amiibo for $5.99, as shown on their website (normally $35+), I would have bought it to use in BOTW for the precious ancient-tech goodies drops as I play, but then I would have had a villain toy to deal with. ;-)

On the up side, I am duly reminded not only that physical GameStop stores are a thing, but that a big part of their business model is second-hand stuff. Good to know!

brightknightie: Darius pours tea for Duncan. (Other Fandom HL Darius)
In case anyone here missed the news elsewhere, [personal profile] killabeez announced [community profile] hlh_shortcuts 2025, the annual Highlander fanfiction exchange on the AO3. I'm glad to have it to look forward to. I loved to read it for years before I began writing for it, and since I started writing for it, I've written some things that I'm very satisfied with.

Sign-ups will be October 1-11, with assignments out by October 14, and submissions due December 15. As usual, the first story will be revealed on December 20, as the winter solstice is Duncan's birthday, and subsequent stories will be revealed a few per day as long as they last, to be followed by the author guessing game.

brightknightie: Midna, in imp form, and Link grin at each other (Zelda)
[community profile] seasonsofdrabbles has revealed its creators (very short anon period for very short fics). I wrote these two:

"Even the Smallest Possibility"
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
(G, gen, 100 words; Link, Revali; Minish | Picori legend)

"Reasons to Visit the Library"
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
(G, gen, 100 words; Link, Zelda; King Rhoam's secret study)

The folks who wrote so nicely for me, as previously posted, are now known to be [archiveofourown.org profile] kay_obsessive ("Legacy") and [archiveofourown.org profile] samifer ("Refuge"). Many thanks to them! And also thanks to [personal profile] senmut for generously beta-reading for me.

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