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I won't start reading Yuletide until tomorrow, but I've opened tabs and wanted to share:

Yuletide brings us:

2 new Forever Knight stories, one Nick/Natalie and one Nick/Lacroix. Take your pick.
4 new works for assorted The Legend of Zelda games (the newest one and the least popular old ones were eligible). I am all agog to read the crossover between Majora's Mask and Columbo. See the list.
1 new work for the Doctor Strange comics, this one starring Zelma Stanton, hero librarian! Check it out.
0 new D&DC, BSG78, JttW, YB, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish or Dead Poets Society stories. But of course there are other fandoms to check over time, and treats to come.

Plus, HLH_Shortcuts continues to reveal 2 new Highlander stories per day. With 20 total works in this year's collection, we're at exactly 10 revealed and 10 to go, with a wide diversity of lengths, characters, and approaches ... though not a lot of Duncan, curiously, in those I've read so far. Find your favorite.

(A very merry Christmas to everyone celebrating! And warm wishes to everyone, period!)

Highlander Holiday Shortcuts sign-ups remain open through 11:59pm Pacific Time, 22 October (which is about 38.5 hours away as I post this). I'll both write and read in this annual HL exchange. There are 13 sign-ups so far; here's mine. As always, reveals begin on Duncan's birthday, the winter solstice. See

hlh_shortcuts.

(If you end up as my match, and my sign-up doesn't quickly, happily click for you, please have the mod, or any of our common connections, nudge me to write an all-new Dear Author letter instead of merely linking to past ones! It's just that I have so many past ones. And I never run out of wanting more of what I love best? ~grin~)

Yuletide sign-ups remain open and editable through 9pm UTC, Saturday, 21 October (which is about 5.5 hours away as I post this). I'm not playing Yuletide; I do look for stories to read there every year, especially in D&DC and other very sleepy beloved fandoms. Indeed, many fandoms, I read only during Yuletide, skimming the lists, seeing what's there, and remembering fondly what I might not otherwise have thought of. See

yuletide_admin.

Yesterday, the annual Yuletide small-fandoms exchange announced that it has adjusted its calculation to exclude FFnet. Read the post.

Eligible Yuletide fandoms must still have under 1,000 works that are in English, complete, and at least 1,000 words long. (Crossovers and fusions do count toward the total, their post says.) But only on the AO3.

Forever Knight is again eligible for Yuletide. If I searched and mathed correctly, then FK currently has 848 such works, with 151 to go before again becoming ineligible. At our current rate, considering both new stories and folks moving their own old works to the AO3, I feel that eligibility would likely last ~4 years. We shall see!

I think that I've read all the Yuletide '22 stories that I'll read on my own; from here on, I'll be following others' recs. Share 'em if you've got 'em!

Here are mine: ( 2 A Christmas Carol, 2 Dracula, 3 Quantum Leap, 1 Scarlet Pimpernel, 1 Equalizer )

We've had a week now with the prompts for this year's

fkficfest. I hope at least one of the three will click with everyone interested!

It's too early for me to know which prompt I'll use or what story I'll discover, myself, but thinking on the options:

I looked up the "You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday..." prompt and learned that the person who said it is a historical public figure with a legacy in automotive, weaponry, and environmental unintended consequences. So a run-in with that person's work could be one way of addressing that prompt (alongside the clear call-out to Nick's lines to Alyce in DK1, and subtler call-outs throughout the series).
Pondering the "When everything changed" prompt, it occurred to me that it could suggest an AU or time-travel of some kind, as well as a turning point known from canon in the characters' pasts or deduced or invented new. Or it could be played smaller-scale or for comedy with the change being something like a new haircut or a glasses prescription, rather than something more obviously world-shaking, like the AMPH asteroid or Vesuvius, or someone dying or being born, or becoming a vampire or being cured of vampirism, or learning a deep truth. And of course the change could be for one of our recurring characters or for a suspect, victim, neck-of-the-week, etc.
While the "hidden witness" prompt can readily speak to a witness for a police investigation, whether a human witness or an animal, plant, or inanimate one, or a witness to vampirism (a la an Enforcers incident), the word "witness" can be either noun or verb, and as a noun can be either the possessor of evidence or the evidence itself, and it has specific legal and religious uses as well as its common use.

What do you think?

I plan to start posting about the fest to the usual places throughout this coming week. No more posting on

yuletide for us, as FK finally outgrew Yuletide last year* and is officially no longer a "small" fandom, but:

fandom_on_dw,

fandomcalendar,

fksquee,

last_writes, and

femme_fic. Any others?

* That FK outgrew Yuletide only just last year and BSG78 is still fully eligible witnesses to the voluminous loss of fanfic through the years. Library of Alexandria...

Of my core fandoms, 2 won new stories in this year's main Yuletide collection:

D&DC: "Kennig's Ransom"
(G, gen, ~9K words; stars Eric; all the kids play roles; neither DM nor Venger appear) ( chatter )

BSG78: "The Wandering Prince"
(G, gen, ~6K words; stars Starbuck; almost all recurring characters appear or are referenced, plus Chameleon) ( chatter )

greerwatson just clued me in that Forever Knight will (if just barely) qualify for Yuletide again this year! With 976 stories over 1K words in English across AO3 and FFnet, this will surely be FK's last Yuletide year, unless rules change. (Just one old-time fan uploading her corpus in the year could push us over. And we do plan to play FKFicFest.)

Nominations end on October 1, 2020 at 4:00am Eastern Time (1:00am Pacific Time). Nominate in their tagset.

Greer has nominated Nick, Schanke, Lacroix, and Vachon. [Addendum:

senmut has now nominated Natalie, Janette, Cohen, and Grace!] Would others like to nominate ~~Natalie, Janette~~, and Tracy? Stonetree, ~~Cohen~~, and Reese? ~~Grace~~, Urs, Fleur, Screed, Miklos, Alma, Norma? Lisa, Alyssa, Alexandra, Hans, Bernice, Lily, Merlin, Matthew, Myra, the Inca...?

I have never yet played Yuletide. (Reasons.) But! For FK's definite last year, maybe I should make it happen. I can't make any commitments at this time, but I am thinking about it.

(Read Greer's original post.)

There are 2 (2!) Fleur stories in Yuletide this year, and I am not in any way involved. How unexpected!

Yuletide fandoms look a bit thin for me, personally, this year, with not even any D&DC (which is usually reliable). But there are 3 FK stories and 1 BSG78 story, plus over 1K fandoms total, so: to read and see! And the '19 HL fanfic exchange is up to 17 of 20 queued stories revealed.

Merry Christmas!

In October's "FK Recently" bulletin yesterday, I noted that we've passed the milestone of 1,000 total FK fanworks on the AO3. (Right now: 1,007.)

In reply,

greerwatson pointed out, and asked me to signal-boost:

We now have over 900 FK stories of 1K or more words across the AO3 and FFnet.
Therefore, 2019 could be the last year that FK is eligible for Yuletide.

Indeed, one more big corpus upload like Jean G.'s, plus our typical annual output, would come close to ensuring that '20, if not '19, will be FK's last in the game.

If you're playing this year, you might want to weigh a last Yuletide hurrah for FK...? Nominations close at 9am UTC on 10/11. Learn how to nominate.

I see no FK, BSG78, YB, or even D&DC in Yuletide this year. Also nothing for books by George Eliot or Walter Scott. I'll take that as a pointed reminder to make time to write what I want to read.

However, there are 2 stories for The Age of Adelaide, 2 for Dead Poet's Society, 2 for The Lion in Winter, and 1 for The Princess Bride.

You can find your favorite fandoms in this year's Yuletide. Very good luck to all!

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