Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Hanukah!

[brightknightie]

Happy (US) Thanksgiving! Happy Hanukah! What are your favorite Thanksgiving and Hanukah fanfictions in fandoms I may know (especially FK, HL, YB, original BSG)? Please link me!

My own favorite Hanukah fanfic is the counterintuitively named "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a Forever Knight story by Marian G. (December '93) that's not available online, but you can enjoy it if you can find the hard-copy zine Forever Net Before Christmas edited and produced by Valery K. (or if you visit me in person, you may read it from my shelf ~grin~).

Off the top of my sleep-deprived, holiday-hurried head, however, I can't think of a single Thanksgiving story. How odd!

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[kickair8p]

A few years ago (yeeesh, about a decade now) I was writing an HL one, but never finished it. But yeah, I can't remember reading a Thanksgiving fanfic either. Closest I can come is a Lammas fic (also HL).

Of course, AO3 has a Thanksgiving tag, but there's nothing familiar there.

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[pj1228]

I can't think of a FK Thanksgiving story either. After pondering on why that is I've come up with the following possible reasons/ideas:

1. A present day Thanksgiving story would naturally be set on the Canadian Thanksgiving which is in October. I don't know if that is observed in the same fashion as in the US.

2. Our characters spent a great deal of their time in Europe. I don't know about the customs in other states, in Germany Thanksgiving is no big deal. It's set on the first Sunday in October, not even a holiday. In some rural areas there are parades with floats decorated with pumpkins and hay to give thanks for the harvest. In that context, a flashback story to the origins of Thanksgiving might be interesting.

3. A good timeframe for a traditional US Thanksgiving story might be Nick's Chicago era. Might be interesting to develop a mortal Schanke-like friend who would invite him to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family.

Anyway, happy Thanksgiving to you!