brightknightie | 90s-channel-tv-exchange sign-ups have opened

90s_channel_tv_exchange sign-ups have opened earlier than expected. They close on Friday, February 10. Stories come due on Sunday, May 21. For myself, I still haven't decided whether to play, but am leaning toward not signing up and watching the pinch-hits instead. I will surely read widely in this fest and can help beta.

The instructions again say: "Requests are 3-10 fandoms with 1-10 character tags" while "Offers are 3-10 offers and 1-10 relationship field tags." This still confuses me; my brain is relentlessly literal with instructions. But I understand from you all now what it should actually say is: Requests and offers alike are 3-10 fandoms with 1-10 relationship-field tags; solo characters appear in the relationship-field tags with the prefix "Solo."

Core fandoms:

Highlander got 19 nominations. Of them, I could write Ceirdwyn, Darius, Joe, Randi, Rebecca, Richie, Tessa, Duncan/Tessa, Tessa & Michelle, and Duncan & Tessa & Richie.

Forever Knight clocked in with 21 nominations. Of them, I could write Schanke, Feliks, Janette, Reese, Stonetree, Nat, Nick, Urs, Nick/Urs, Nick & Natalie, Nick & Urs, Grace & Nat, Janette & Nat, Nick & Vachon & Tracy.

Some other fandoms I know you all love:

For Malinaldarose, Earth: Final Conflict is nominated (Da'an & Liam, Ha'gel & Ma'el, Liam & Original Liam, Siobhan & Liam & Sandoval, Boone & Da'an).

For Lightbird, Hey Arnold! is nominated (Gerald & Arnold or Helga/Arnold) and also the original Quantum Leap (Sam & Al, Sam/Al, Sam, Al).

For Malinaldarose and ArgentumLS, The Tomorrow People (1992) is in with all gen (Ami & Lisa & Jade, Bill & Hasana & Penny, Bill & Megabyte, Megabyte & Adam, Megabyte & Ami & Adam & Jade).

For several of you, SG-1 is in with 30 nominations!

A few miscellaneous canons that I checked:

I could write Angel: The Series gen. Looks like AtS would have to be my third offer, if I decide to play. (Unless I go with Pride and Prejudice, but as much as I love and reqatch the A&E '90s P&P, I don't see how fanfic of it differs from fanfic of Austen...?)

The Pokemon anime nominations do include Misty & Ash & Brock and Ash & Ash's Pikachu. But the rest are ships. Firmly Indigo League-era, appropriate to the '90s theme.

Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman got nominated with solid canon ships! No gen or solo.

Darkwing Duck nominations include solo Goslyn.

All the Sailor Moon nominations are ships, and only one canon ship among them (maybe two if you stretch to count Luna/Artemis (the cats)). No gen or solo.

Dark Shadows (1991) got nominated! Wait, how can that have been 1991? Really? That was then? Well, that's a short canon to rewatch, technically, if one completely ignores its older sibling.

I really need to watch Babylon 5 one of these days. Maybe after Earth: Final Conflict. Also this 1990 Zorro that I somehow missed entirely (probably not aired in my area).

What are you thinking about this new fest? What will be fun for you?

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I am going to put my sign-up together over the next few days, probably. And cobble together a new author letter.

Yay! I'll look forward to reading what you write, in whatever fandom, and I so very much hope that someone else will request and write E:FC for you!

I watched another E:FC episode last night, or at least tried to. I completely lost the plot thread because I got so distracted by thinking about the temporal balance. :-D That is, when this was produced, it was showing The Future, but is actually set roughly in what is now My Present; but all the cars are terribly, terribly early to mid-'90s; and while they successfully invented the internet, streaming, and Google Assistant/Siri, they call websites "netsites," and, most of all ... at least at the point of this episode... they completely failed to invent smartphones or tablets or even small laptops... and while the offices of folks who work for the Taelons have large flat-screen(ish) monitors, ordinary folks, like the police, have tiny terminal monitors, and so much paper... Anyway, my brain started cataloguing everything as "this is '90s" versus "this is supposed to be sci-fi," because some of it had not been registering on me as actually sci-fi, though it was at the time. :-)

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