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The

everywoman exchange has revealed its authors. (Check out the collection.)

I shared last week that I was so lucky as to receive both a match gift and a treat. Now I know which is which (via a post by Greer), as well as by whom:

Match: "Dreams and Fears" (D&DC: Diana) by Desertvixen (803 words, Gen)
Treat: "Sunny Days, Sunny Ways" (FK: Tracy) by Greerwatson (1.5K words, Gen)

I couldn't share before -- though I forgot to abridge the footnotes for the anonymous period, so it wasn't disguised -- that my own contribution was:

"For the Living" (FK: Natalie & Grace) by me for Greerwatson
(2.3K words, Gen)
In the background of "Cherry Blossoms," from Natalie's perspective, to celebrate Natalie and Grace at work...

Beta contributions: Many thanks to

malinaldarose for cheerleading and

skieswideopen for consulting! I'm grateful for your kind help.

During dinner tonight, I was re-reading some of Susan G.'s FK fanfic that I have on my Kindle. (I have most of her FK fanfic on my Kindle, and on a hard-drive, and in the Cloud. Susan G.'s FK fanfic is not just my favorite, it's nigh unto deutero-canon.)

By chance, I came across a little story called "Moving On" of which I had no conscious memory. Oh. My. Goodness. It was very nearly like getting to read a new Susan G. story.

I can't seem to find it online to link to it for you. Her family kept her site up for years after she died, but... not forever. She died before the AO3 came along. And many of the FK-specific archives have now closed.

So: Spoilers. ( Read more... )

It's so early-second-season. So classic. So ... refreshing.

Susan, we were so lucky to have you while we did. I trust you know now how much good you did, in all the ways, all your life.

Back in September,

sholio dove into a certain meme about how people (real and fictional) may habitually express and accept love (all kinds) in very different ways. For example: touch, words, deeds, gifts, time, etc. (The meme originator also went over how not all "love languages" are compatible for all people, leading to mistranslations, as it were, and also noting that while many individuals give and accept love in the same language, not all do.)

Sholio wrote that it's "an interesting tool to have in your characterization toolbox, especially for characters who come down really hard in one category or another... or absolutely suck at certain categories."

Ever since, I've wanted to try this paradigm on my favorite fandoms. Yet FK could be the worst fit for this. A fictional character with a single creator, or a solid "story bible," could well be as consistent as — or more than! — a real person. But FK? Different writers, directors, editors, networks? Seasonal reality adjustments? No more of a show "bible" than the opening-credits voice-over? Not to mention the differences in acceptable interactions and their interpretations across eras and around the world? Eeek.

Let's try anyway. :-D

( Nick: Touch )
( Natalie: Time )
( Schanke: Gifts & Deeds )
( Janette: Deeds )
( Lacroix: Words )
( The 3rd-Season Characters: Hard to Say )

I've left off the Captains, and many other characters. What are your readings of them? And what do you think of my constructions for the main characters — do you have telling examples I missed that would support or redirect...?

The story written for me in the

hlh_shortcuts exchange has revealed. I think that many of you may enjoy it! Take a look? It's a first-season HL/FK crossover starring Tessa and Natalie. The plot depends on each acting with professional passion and authority. A clever conceit amusingly finesses the crossover.

"Bag of Bolts" by [currently Anonymous]
G, gen, 7K words
Natalie, Tessa, Duncan, OCs
Summary: Natalie attends an ME convention at a hotel where Tessa is installing a sculpture. Danger. Bonding. Pie.

More like Yuletide than FKFicFest, the HLH_Shortcuts prompt slates seem to be pretty loose suggestions. I didn't specifically request (or imagine) this scenario. All credit to the author for the happy surprise.

Of both series, I do dearly love their first seasons, when motivations were clear and rich, and triumphant possibilities endless. Their first seasons, I rewatch just for fun, just for joy.

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/249835.html

The story that I wrote for the 2015 fkficfest/fkficfest released very early in the game. (Thanks to lastscorpion for the lightning beta!) I'd love it if you read it! If you do, please consider letting me know what I should learn from this one to make the next more interesting and satisfying.

First, though, please check out all the other stories! There's something to tempt every FK taste.

On the AO3:	"Wake the Morning After"
Length:	14,995 words
Date:	August 2015
Rating:	PG-13
Characters:	Natalie, Nick, Schanke, Urs, Lacroix, Lili; original characters; "off screen" Serena, Feliks, Enforcers
Setting:	~2015; divergent reality; branched from canon in the hiatus between the first and second seasons
Summary:	Back in the day, Natalie cured Nick's vampirism; they got married. Two decades later, something has gone terribly wrong.
Quotation:	"Yet Nick had never stopped looking over his shoulder, never stopped expecting an ambush by the existence he’d left behind. Nick had told Natalie about many such dangers — his resentful surviving converts; hunters of vampires; cronies of Nick’s deceased “master,” Lacroix; and, first, foremost and always, the Enforcers, who kept the vampires’ secrets."

( Reflections on writing this story, with spoilers )

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/216065.html

We're 5 stories into this year's

fkficfest/

fkficfest/FKFicFest, with 4 to go!

From the bottom of my heart, I thank first our 9 writers, and then all the wonderful readers who found time to dive into an FK story during this busy work-week. Some people plan to dig into the ficathon over the weekend. I wish them very happy reading! The stories to date have collectively referenced (at least!) every one of the opening-credits cast of characters, and they cross several genres and span all the ratings.

For when you're happily caught up on the fest stories, here are 3 items that happened to cross my radar this week, all of which struck me as FK-related:

A book about Natalie. I read an engaging, intriguing excerpt on Slate from the new memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, MD, and immediately added the book to my Amazon cart, visions of better-informed Natalie fanfic dancing in my head.

An analysis about Nick. Also on Slate, I read a Quora answer: "Could Modern Troops Defeat Medieval Knights in Hand-to-Hand Combat?" by Jon Davis, Marine sergeant, Iraq vet, weapons instructor. If I may spoil the ending, he concludes that, all else being equal, a medieval knight would surely defeat a modern Marine in solo hand-to-hand combat; his reasoning covers both culture and technology.

An essay about all of us. Over in the NYT, columnist Timothy Egan wrote a reflection on Robin Williams's death, and concluded: "My plea here is for people to give the needed space to artists and performers to fail every now and then, and to understand how exposed someone feels when trying something new." That's a profound consideration for everyone, and I'm trying to take it to heart and become better, myself. With my mind full of FKFicFest this week, though, I couldn't help also hearing it specifically in terms of this year's players; with only 9 writers and all FK's diverse perspectives, some of the matches invited bold moves outside of comfort zones. That's hard! And everyone rose to the occasion! There's a lot of "trying something new" in this year's game. I hope we can give each author just the right space.

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/187004.html

This past week, I scraped up enough time to watch two Forever Knight episodes, one of them "Fallen Idol." FI is the pro-wrestling murder case with the vampire-blood injection of the developmentally-impaired witness and the flashback to Nick's nephew Andre (played by Hayden Christensen). It includes the notorious "teen night at the Raven" and the infamous "pit of condemned bimbos." It happens only two episodes after Janette's return and departure in "The Human Factor," and just five episodes before the finale, "Last Knight."

( Now )

( Then )

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/175597.html

I've previously posted about the nice things that I received in my own Fandom Stocking this year, and about the neat things that I spotted in other people's Fandom Stockings, so tonight I thought I'd point out the items that I stuffed into some Fandom Stockings myself. I didn't create as widely or well as I'd have liked, but I did have fun writing:

Highlander: "Lazarus Heart" (Methos/Alexa, 918 words, G) (beta-read by celli!) for beccadg's wish
I'd never tried Methos/Alexa before, but the attempt turned out surprisingly satisfying for me. I hope that it works as well for readers, and doesn't bog down when I poke around inside Methos's head for a bit in the middle.

Forever Knight: "In Pursuit of the Paladin" (Lacroix & Natalie with Nick implied, 991 words, PG) (beta-read by skieswideopen!) for pj1228's wish
This led me to a new approach to the ever-vexing problem of how to write for fellow FK fans who personally prefer "dark" takes that I can't support, myself. Here, I imagined a "bright" scenario that I'd love, but told it from Lacroix's perspective. It worked better for me than some past, straining attempts to approach "dark" prompts, but I don't know whether it really bridges the problem of sufficient respect for preferences I can't share. Maybe it's better not to try? There are so few of us! Are mismatches better than no matches, or not?

A handful of fanfiction "gift certificates" in FK and HL for stories to be posted to the AO3 sometime in 2014
(Four have been redeemed/accepted so far. Coincidentally, that's the same number I still owe from the last time I tried this — you know who you are. ~grin~)

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/170370.html

I conceived this fairly light gen piece for the fkcommentfic/fkcommentfic "Bloor Mistletoe Challenge" (open through January 6), but it grew all out of commentfic proportions. I considered bonsai-ing it. However, after very generous betareading from batdina and pj1228 on New Year's Day itself, I concluded that a short story fit the idea best.

Available:	The AO3 \| I'll put it on my fansite soon.
Length:	2,408 words
Date:	FKFic-L and AO3 01/01/13
Rating:	G
Characters:	Nick, Schanke, Natalie; cameo by Stonetree; passing mentions of Myra, Jenny, Janette, Lacroix, Norma, Grace, Fleur, Patrice, Dietrich, Lipinski
Summary:	Schanke has Christmas cookies for almost everyone.
Quotation:	"I feel lousy resorting to this for my own partner, but— go on, open it."

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/149991.html

hearts_blood generously wrote my prompt in her "Cuddle/Kiss/Sex" meme, producing a very pleasant gen rumination on Nick's relationship with the Caddy, framed by Schanke interaction, and sporting three (count 'em! three!) mini-flashbacks (two historical, one within canon). A boy and his car...

I prompted "cuddle, FK, Nick & his car, parking lot." She replied with "Mementos" (G, gen, ~2K words; Nick, Schanke, Natalie, Sydney, Others) on LJ and AO3. I appreciate her tackling my off-the-wall suggestion!

Crosspost http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/129307.html

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Entries tagged with character:foreverknight:natalie

Everywoman '21 authors reveal

"Moving On" by Susan G.

Meme: Show-not-tell love languages (FK Edition)

"Bag of Bolts" HL/FK crossover in HLH_Shortcuts

FK Fanfic: "Wake the Morning After" (my 2015 FKFicFest story!)

5 Stories Released; 4 To Go (with 3 thought-provoking links)

"Fallen Idol," then and now

My Fandom Stocking Stories: FK "In Pursuit of the Paladin" and HL "Lazarus Heart"

FK Fanfic: "Fair Shares" (a Christmas Cookies and Mistletoe story)

FK Fanfic For Me: "Mementos" by Hearts_blood (G, gen, ~2K)

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