I love good guys

Today, Friday, February 10, is the last day to answer fkficfest's 2023 pre-game poll. (Well, you know I won't actually close it until sometime Saturday morning in my time zone, but why cut it that close?) Check out the poll.


Separately, coincidentally, it's also the last day to sign up for 90s_channel_tv_exchange. Visit their sign-ups post and sign-ups summary. At this moment, which is still early in the day, it looks like no one has requested or offered FK or AtS, while 1 has requested and 3 have offered HL. I was leaning to only reading or pinch-hitting instead of signing up, anyway, for several reasons. One is that there are so many fondly-remembered shows here for me, but so few well-remembered-enough to write without full-scale canon review, and most of these shows lasted many, many years. Possibly, '90s movies and TV should have been in the same one exchange together? Or for TV only, '80s-'90s or '90s-'00s? We'll see how it goes!

(I feel especially for the person with the lone ReBoot (Cartoon) request, because I've been meaning to watch that award-winning cartoon and expecting to appreciate it; if only I'd gotten around to it before. Similarly, the Zorro (TV 1990) request/offer: I didn't realize until nominations here that this show had aired in North America or even in English.)

I still haven't yet decided about 90s_channel_tv_exchange for myself. I'm leaning toward not signing up, and instead watching the pinch hits in case I can help. I did draw up a list of nominations I could make from those missing in their current tag set, if I now understand nominations correctly, and if it's okay to nominate when I may well not play. ( List of nominations I could make )

Separately, I drafted the 2023 fkficfest survey and will try to post it on Monday. I'd planned to wait another week, but the emergence of the new fest makes me feel I've fallen behind. We shall see!

I just learned from senmut's post that there is a 90s_channel_tv_exchange! It looks like perhaps the latest successor to myoldfandom and retrotvexchange...?

Here's how 90s_channel_tv_exchange describes itself:

Timeline:

• Nominations: 25 Jan - 01 Feb
• Sign-ups: 03 Feb - 10 Feb
• Due: 21 May
• Reveals: 28 May

Requirements:

• Minimum 1K words or equivalent art
• Live-action or cartoon fiction TV series that aired at least 1 new episode in any country in the '90s, or were dubbed into English for the first time in the '90s
• Matching is "or" on one medium (art or fic), one fandom, and one relationship field tag
• Nominate 1-4 fandoms and 1-5 single characters or relationship groups per fandom
• "You may request the same fandom multiple times, but a gift is guaranteed only if your requests and offers each have 3 unique fandoms." See the rules for anthology shows and crossovers.
• "Requests are 3-10 fandoms with 1-10 character tags, and Offers are 4-10 offers and 1-10 relationship field tags."

I don't understand this "relationship field tags" system and feel like I'd end up assigned a romance that I can't write, so I'm thinking I won't play, but I will look at the nominations and consider!

Some eligible series: FK, HL, BaTB, TNG, DS9, VOY, XF, BtVS, AtS, QL, E:FC, SG1, DS, Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman, Sailor Moon, Babylon 5, Farscape, Lois and Clark, Gargoyles, Darkwing Duck, Pinky and the Brain, Batman Beyond, ReBoot and many more...