I see that you found fkfic-l, with the first installment of your WIP "Corpus Aristotelicum"! Oh, it's great to see a new story starting! And Aristotle is a too-much-neglected favorite.
But I see the old email list ambushed you on formatting, turning many of your punctuation marks into raw code, as the post reached me. I'm so sorry. The listserve seems to still expect ASCII. Depending what email application you use, the solution might be to strip out all formatting before sending to the list, either by turning on a setting in your application, or by saving the post as a plain TXT file before pasting it into an email (that's what I do). If you're put off by how the first one went through, you can ask Don or Lisa for permission to re-post it; they usually give permission readily with such cause. Please don't let it put you off posting future parts of the story.
>"I really love Professor Girard stories; it's one of my favorite incarnations of Nick from the show."
Do you have some to recommend? I remember reading many Nick-as-professor stories, but none specifically in that slice of his history from "Spin Doctor." That would be a lot of fun to see -- especially now that I'm on the other side of my own attempt at it.
(Thank you very much for reading "Fearful Symmetry," and thank you for letting me know you did! I'm glad it fit into an incarnation you enjoy.)
>"Someone should do an Indiana Jones/Professor Girard crossover, as they were both investigated by HAUAC,"
That would be incredible. :-) So many possibilities! Ordinary exchanges where both are on their chosen academic/normal ground and not their involuntary hero/extraordinary ground, or discussions of the unpublishable/no-one-will-believe mystical side of certain artifacts, or Jones blundering into a cure for vampirism ... and where did Nick first hear of the Abbarrat, the "book of miracles," anyway? That sounds like something Jones would be involved in. :-)
I love that Nick loves archaeology and anthropology. It's another expression of his love for humanity, of course, and this hunger for knowledge is something in common with his sister, discovered late, long after her death, but it's also a rich layer of accomplishment that has nothing whatsoever to do with his vampirism -- it cannot be helped or hurt by what makes him different, so I imagine it is a refuge to Nick and a puzzle to Lacroix.
>"Question: I'm kinda new to this fandom. Where am I supposed to post stuff other than FFnet?"
First, welcome!
Second, as you discovered, the primary forum for FK fanfiction is still the fkfic-l listserve. There were 273 recipients when I posted "Fearful Symmetry" there (I have my subscription set "ACK," and that trivia is part of the automated return post). That's so very much smaller than it was twelve years ago at cancellation, but as far as I know, it is still the largest gathering of FK-reading fans.
I do not know of any self-archiving forums for FK; sorry. I guess we're pretty old-fashioned. (We were cutting-edge back when the show was still on the air, but as people moved on to other things over the years, I guess we stagnated technologically.)
The Former FTP Site (http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/) archive (the original fkfic-l archive; hasn't been FTP in years) is atill active. Please let me know if you would like the email address (by private message) of the proprietor of that archive. I'm afraid I can't speak for any of the other general archives; I'm just not in touch with their proprietors, and many have been abandoned.
I would recommend asking this question on the forkni-l discussion list! Someone there will know more than I do. With fkfic-l, forkni-l is still the heart of the fandom, though much smaller, slower and quieter at this end of history.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer. But again, welcome!
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But I see the old email list ambushed you on formatting, turning many of your punctuation marks into raw code, as the post reached me. I'm so sorry. The listserve seems to still expect ASCII. Depending what email application you use, the solution might be to strip out all formatting before sending to the list, either by turning on a setting in your application, or by saving the post as a plain TXT file before pasting it into an email (that's what I do). If you're put off by how the first one went through, you can ask Don or Lisa for permission to re-post it; they usually give permission readily with such cause. Please don't let it put you off posting future parts of the story.
>"I really love Professor Girard stories; it's one of my favorite incarnations of Nick from the show."
Do you have some to recommend? I remember reading many Nick-as-professor stories, but none specifically in that slice of his history from "Spin Doctor." That would be a lot of fun to see -- especially now that I'm on the other side of my own attempt at it.
(Thank you very much for reading "Fearful Symmetry," and thank you for letting me know you did! I'm glad it fit into an incarnation you enjoy.)
>"Someone should do an Indiana Jones/Professor Girard crossover, as they were both investigated by HAUAC,"
That would be incredible. :-) So many possibilities! Ordinary exchanges where both are on their chosen academic/normal ground and not their involuntary hero/extraordinary ground, or discussions of the unpublishable/no-one-will-believe mystical side of certain artifacts, or Jones blundering into a cure for vampirism ... and where did Nick first hear of the Abbarrat, the "book of miracles," anyway? That sounds like something Jones would be involved in. :-)
I love that Nick loves archaeology and anthropology. It's another expression of his love for humanity, of course, and this hunger for knowledge is something in common with his sister, discovered late, long after her death, but it's also a rich layer of accomplishment that has nothing whatsoever to do with his vampirism -- it cannot be helped or hurt by what makes him different, so I imagine it is a refuge to Nick and a puzzle to Lacroix.
>"Question: I'm kinda new to this fandom. Where am I supposed to post stuff other than FFnet?"
First, welcome!
Second, as you discovered, the primary forum for FK fanfiction is still the fkfic-l listserve. There were 273 recipients when I posted "Fearful Symmetry" there (I have my subscription set "ACK," and that trivia is part of the automated return post). That's so very much smaller than it was twelve years ago at cancellation, but as far as I know, it is still the largest gathering of FK-reading fans.
I do not know of any self-archiving forums for FK; sorry. I guess we're pretty old-fashioned. (We were cutting-edge back when the show was still on the air, but as people moved on to other things over the years, I guess we stagnated technologically.)
The Former FTP Site (http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/) archive (the original fkfic-l archive; hasn't been FTP in years) is atill active. Please let me know if you would like the email address (by private message) of the proprietor of that archive. I'm afraid I can't speak for any of the other general archives; I'm just not in touch with their proprietors, and many have been abandoned.
I would recommend asking this question on the forkni-l discussion list! Someone there will know more than I do. With fkfic-l, forkni-l is still the heart of the fandom, though much smaller, slower and quieter at this end of history.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer. But again, welcome!