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brightknightie) wrote2025-02-15 09:23 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-02-15 09:23 am
I was recommended in Halfamoon! (FK "Kindred Spirits")
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halfamoon comes to a close, lightbird did me the honor of remembering and recommending one of my old -- 2001! -- Forever Knight stories for the theme "One-hit Wonders." Read her kind rec.
"Kindred Spirits" (T, gen, ~13K words) is from Nick's perspective, but features Urs and Jacqueline (Ellen-Monika-Jacqueline of "Hearts of Darkness," the theme's "One-hit Wonder"), with cameos by Natalie and Lacroix, and "off-screen" actions by others.
This is one of my personal favorites of my own FK fanfic (it's even tagged "author's favorite" from back when that was a thing). I love these characters and the questions I think they raise. I hadn't re-read it in so long that I had literally forgotten just how it ends, and I made myself cry, if that's not too silly to admit. I now feel that (a) I should be daring like that more often in the present, so yay! '01 me and the beta-readers who helped me, and (b) wow, did I ever use oodles of unnecessary words and overlong sentences, so hey! '25 me take warning and never backslide. ;-) I was also surprised that the story was this long; in my memory, it was much shorter... because, in proportion to the norm then, it was indeed shorter.
Thank you,lightbird! You absolutely made my day.
(halfamoon has many assorted recs across fandom. If you haven't, consider taking a look?)
halfamoon comes to a close, lightbird did me the honor of remembering and recommending one of my old -- 2001! -- Forever Knight stories for the theme "One-hit Wonders." Read her kind rec."Kindred Spirits" (T, gen, ~13K words) is from Nick's perspective, but features Urs and Jacqueline (Ellen-Monika-Jacqueline of "Hearts of Darkness," the theme's "One-hit Wonder"), with cameos by Natalie and Lacroix, and "off-screen" actions by others.
This is one of my personal favorites of my own FK fanfic (it's even tagged "author's favorite" from back when that was a thing). I love these characters and the questions I think they raise. I hadn't re-read it in so long that I had literally forgotten just how it ends, and I made myself cry, if that's not too silly to admit. I now feel that (a) I should be daring like that more often in the present, so yay! '01 me and the beta-readers who helped me, and (b) wow, did I ever use oodles of unnecessary words and overlong sentences, so hey! '25 me take warning and never backslide. ;-) I was also surprised that the story was this long; in my memory, it was much shorter... because, in proportion to the norm then, it was indeed shorter.
Thank you,
lightbird! You absolutely made my day.(
halfamoon has many assorted recs across fandom. If you haven't, consider taking a look?)
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As I recall, this was the story that propelled me into examining Urs’ character more closely. So glad it’s getting some special recognition!
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I believe that the Urs character could have contributed much more than the show chose to use. If third season had had a stronger vision, and had not been such a mad scramble to put the pieces back together after new studio executives re-envisioned it for advertising, not for storytelling...
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That's awesome, I'm happy for you. :) I think I haven't read this one, it will go right on my reading list.
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(And please trust that I hope I am a better, tighter writer now. 2001 was ... yikes! Time flies.)