brightknightie | What You Guys Have Been Up To

(Aside: Is something weird with icons on LJ today? My Schanke userpic is displaying as someone's fairy userpic.)

Recently, in FK on my LJ Friends List:

Ficathons

Celebrating Female Characters. The femme_fic ficathon, on 02/01, began accepting sign-ups. They're unscreened this year, so take a look! A wide variety of fandoms are offered. Only one FK request is up so far, and while it's a very nice request, it would be outstanding if there were more. (I'm hesitating over my sign-up because of Real Life obligations, or there would be two already. But, you know, seduce me with more FK prompts and offers, right? ~g~) Sign-ups are open through 02/28.
Celebrating Claire Rankin Characters. falcon_horus, from 01/23 through 01/28, collected prompts for her Claire Rankin-characters drabble-a-thon. The prompts went up on 02/01, and there was a dash of conversation about Fleur and Natalie on 02/07. All the drabbles posted so far are about Rankin's non-FK characters; I intend to produce at least one for Fleur.
Female Characters, and also NC-17. abby82, on 01/23, promoted two separate ficathon-style events, "Porn Battle VII" and halfamoon, for which FK is eligible. The halfamoon community celebrates female characters, and their event runs 02/01-02/14.

Individuals

Icons. ithildyn, on 02/03, pointed us to her freshly updated icons-to-share page, which includes FK icons, among many others.
Meme. The "extras to order" fanfiction meme drew FK responses from hearts_blood here and from amilyn here. And ithildyn here and havocthecat here offered, but no one asked them about FK.
Actors. pj1228, on 01/30, reviewed Just Buried, newly released on DVD (Region 1 only), which co-stars Nigel Bennett.
Conventions. Someone who posted under a lock on 01/29 announced the "Breakout Before Moonlight" con this summer in London, and noted that while it's mainly a Moonlight con, some longtime FK fans will be there.
Nostalgia. Someone who posted under a lock reminisced on 01/28 about a wacky multi-fandom round-robin story (including FK) that we participated in long ago. Thanks for the memories!
Wiki. susanmgarrett, on 01/19, mentioned that she has been putting story listings on the Forever Knight Wiki, and invited authors to drop by and list their stories, or clean up entries. Separately, apparently someone had mislisted her as a Perk. Egad.
Fiction and Actors. abby82, on 02/01, posted a new story, "Illusions of Mortality," written for, um, "Porn Battle VII." On 01/21, she shared scads of GWD photos from American Psycho 2 (2002), which she says was an intentionally campy movie costarring William Shatner. Ger plays a psychiatrist.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

>"Was Stonetree Native American as a character, but they just never mentioned it?"

That's the standard assumption. Because Gary Farmer is Native American, we've presumed that Joe Stonetree is. However, there doesn't seem to be an expectation that Stonetree necessarily comes from the same Native American nation that Farmer does; because of the scorpion story in "Dark Knight," some people like to give Stonetree roots in Arizona.

Naturally, "never said aloud" = "not canon." ~shrug~ But it makes the same amount of sense as assuming Tracy has European ancestors because Lisa Ryder does. Schanke and Natalie both had bits of their ethnic backgrounds mentioned on screen, but, perhaps curiously, neither Stonetree nor Cohen ever did. (I'd include Reese for the captain trifecta, but I'd have to rewatch "Jane Doe" to be certain it went unsaid aloud there, too.)

I like to imagine that if we'd gotten to keep a captain for more than a season, we would have learned than that Stonetree plays accordion and Cohen has personal photos on her desk.

And sometimes I think that television, film and stage have it easier on the diversity front than prose fiction. A television show can cast people and let their presence speak wordlessly; prose fiction must mention the trait in so many words to establish it, and that's so often awkward.

Having a Native American character and just not having it come up is WAY better than season 3's stereotypical magic-having Indians.

Also in season 3: incest and making fun of retards. How did they get away with this stuff?

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