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#10. Recommend a fannish reference resource.

In Dungeons & Dragons (the '80s cartoon!), I heartily recommend the astounding Dungeons & Dragons cartoon encyclopedia! It's everything I ever wanted to do for FK non-fiction, and more and better. If you ever loved this show, it's easy to get lost in delight there, link to link, script to script.

In Battlestar Galactica (the original series!), I rely on The Battlestar Wiki for anything I can't remember where to find in canon (and for what's beyond canon). It has a few blind spots, connected (I presume) to certain Real Life situations (e.g. Serina isn't in the recurring character list, though several less-frequent characters are).

As you probably know, in Forever Knight, I assembled my own reference materials back in the day, including a script-based flashback timeline (a variation on wiliqueen's phenomenal costume-based flashback timeline, and building also on Dorothy's version), a Crusades/FK chronology alignment, and 7 character FAQs (mainly the S3 characters). I started, but never completed, lists of all named FK places and things and FK characters, and an FK quotation concordance. To this day, I keep print-outs of my timeline and aired-order episode list on a bulletin board above my desk at home.

#8. Interact with someone new.

Yesterday, I posted a brief reply to the anonymous moderator of the brand-new myoldfandom ficathon, which is gearing up for its first event. ("Old" = no new canon after 2005.) So far, it sounds like an update of oldschoolfic, which I enjoyed a lot. But I really know nothing at all about myoldfandom or the people behind it (and I'm just a little nonplussed by the modly anonymity).

All my own dearest fanficly fandoms qualify, of course. FK, HL, YB, BSG78, D&DC. Probably even the Buffyverse qualifies, although the comics do purport to be canon. It's not that I don't watch and enjoy new series! I'm all over Agent Carter, Once Upon a Time, Person of Interest, Poldark, Call the Midwife, etc. I loved Forever while it lasted, and Grimm and Sleepy Hollow before they jumped their sharks. But of course they aren't — for better and for worse — the same as stories loved long and long and long.

I wonder whether rarelywritten is planning a round this year. If so, I wonder whether the schedules will conflict or complement.

#6. Issue a challenge.

This #6 stymied me for a while. I've given it much thought. Really, fkficfest/fkficfest is in and of itself all the challenge I can handle issuing each year! (The annual pre-game planning poll will come in February.) But I do want to fulfill the spirit of the Snowflake event.

( Musing on fanwork challenges )

In the end, I decided to launch an Out-of-production Rewatch Project, and to challenge you to join me! Once a week, I'll re-watch one episode from an out-of-production TV fandom and post a few thoughts about it. I'll go in order through a season, so that you can easily join in the re-watching if you like! (I won't necessarily go through a whole series, though; I'll probably switch series between seasons. So many beloved out-of-production fandoms!)

You can play along by re-watching, and/or commenting on my posts, and/or posting yourself! You can join in my re-watch choices, or you can choose an entirely difference season or series.

I'll start with first-season Forever Knight, my favorite! And because it came up in conversation recently, I'll back up all the way into the original pilot Nick Knight for kick-off. I'll plan to watch and post this weekend; I'll promise no later than next Friday night.

Inspired by lightbird, I've decided to participate in snowflake_challenge this year. Anyone else in?

#1. Why are you participating in Snowflake?

( I hope to participate fannishly more this year than last )

#2. What's your fannish wish list?

( From TPTB )
( From fandom )

#3. Recommend at least 3 of your own fanworks.

( My most popular story is a BtVS story )
( My favorite story is an FK story )
( The story of which I'm most proud is in a literature fandom )
( My least-popular story is an FK story )

A meme is going around in which authors list their ten most popular — that is, most hit — stories on the AO3.  (Click My Home > Works > Hits to sort by hit count.)  That's a fine game, and while we might learn only what everyone already knows (that big fandoms and popular characters get more hits than small and rarely-beloved ones), we might also learn startling, befuddling things (for example, my Sailor Moon "Prologue to Revolution" topped 100 hits without earning a single comment).

However, I'm more curious about neglected stories!  Popularity does not equal quality.  I propose a new meme!  Tell me your three least-hit AO3 stories of which you are nevertheless proud.  That is, if a story sits among your least-hit and you feel that it deserves to, skip it.  It doesn't count.  We're seeking good works that have been overlooked, whether because the fandom is small, the character unpopular, or the subject matter trying.  (Caveat: I do not promise to personally read all such stories, especially if they are out of my fandoms or beyond my content boundaries.)

In my case, my least-read story on the AO3 is "Not the Mothering Type" (FK; '01, ~4K, PG-13; Janette, Sofia, Nick, Lacroix).  Readers generously nominated it for the FK Fanfic Awards in '01, but on the AO3, it has earned just three (3) hits, putting it even below my poems (speaking of unpopular genres ~grin~).  Then there are "Responses" (FK; '09, ~3K, PG-13; Fleur, Erica, Lacroix, Nick) and "What It's Like" (FK; '03, ~2K, PG; Natalie, Nick).