To those with FK fansites and fanfic archives: please consider posting your new URL to your blog as well as to forkni-l whenever you relocate.  I want to know, and I bet many others do, too.  Please help us follow you around the Web!

Seriously and sincerely.  Thank you!

Icons.  My FK activity this week was creating a small flock of NatPack icons for wiliqueen.  I hope at least one strikes her fancy; any that do not catch her eye, I will recycle for general "up for grabs" consumption for any other icon-deprived NatPackers.  (I'll mark them so, when the time comes.)  I hope I'm building my icon-making skills as I go; it's a new craft, and I have a lot to learn!  In and around the new icons for wiliqueen, I also created just a few more for myself, including this (Gratuitous Icon Post!) one with Natalie, Nick and the Caddie from "The Fix."

Fanfiction.  Writing "Starwort" (that long Fleur story) for the ficathon was a bit of a "high," and I'm experiencing a low in its wake.  A friend who did not have time to beta before the ficathon is taking a look at the story now, and will let me know what I can fix in her areas of expertise before taking the story home to fkfic-l.  Trying to figure out where to begin a completely different new story, and not succumb to the morass of not writing for fun (only work), I'm playing with hearts_blood's request for a NCIS/FK crossover for her birthday; we'll see.

Analysis.  The last forkni-l digest I read came on March 22.  That's not far behind, by my standards these days, but there was this one post that week to which I would really like to respond -- at length, citing a whole alphabet soup of episodes, in the good old way -- but I can't well do so until I catch up on all the digests since, to see if someone has beaten me to the punch.  Ah, well.  Key thought?  The thing the poster assumed is true, well, it appears only in Lacroix's dialogue, and only after first season.  This leaves the very strong interpretive possibility that, as Nick and Janette's dialogue in the first season explicitly contradicts Lacroix on this point, Lacroix is either mistaken or lying, and either way, most probably trying to manipulate Nick!  Ah, well. :-)

Did the list ever generate serious couple faction designations for Lacroix/Janette and Lacroix/Urs?  I think someone wanted to use "Dark Hearts" for Lacroix/Janette for a while, but I don't know whether it caught on.  And was "Lonely Hearts" supposed to be Lacroix/Urs or Vachon/Urs, and what's the name for the other?  It's just something that's been tickling the back of my brain, not quite breaking through.  Lacroix/Janette is rare, but Lacroix/Urs had a period of common assumption.

( List of Established Couple Faction Terms )

For the purposes of tagging this LJ, I've been using the couple factions to designate any significant intersection of the two characters.  For example, I'm using the "UF" tag for both Unnamed Faction (Nick/Lacroix) and Cousins of the Knight (Nick-Lacroix) content, and "N&N" for both friendship and romance.

Given the new classification system, in which every LiveJournal defaulted to "No Adult Content" today, I've chosen to re-set this LiveJournal to "Adult Concepts."  Of the three options available, this seemed the one appropriate to Forever Knight, which is my topic here.

There is no adult content on this LJ at this time, and I have no present intention of putting any here.  But for various reasons this seems the prudent course.

(I had thought of playing, "So how would the FK characters set their LiveJournals?"  But perhaps another time.)

On Second Thought, January 11, 2008: I've set the journal back to a "No Adult Content" default.  There hasn't been any "adult" content here, so it's all a moot point.  Isn't it?

My initial plan for this LJ is to make it primarily an annex of my Bright Knight fansite.  I've noticed that many people now use LJs instead of "mailto" links as ways to invite readers to interact with their sites (especially fanfiction), and I like this idea.  It's years past the point the transition could save me any spam, but "mailto" links were always an obstacle for many people -- they made for missed connections.

To do this, I will create a "comment collecting" LJ post for each "subject line" of the site (the references, recommendations, fanfiction, etc.) and redirect the "mailto" links on the site to those LJ posts.  This may take a little time -- or, rather, it had better take time, so I don't flood those of you who have already been kind enough to friend this LJ!  I will try to space things out, and employ reasonable backdating and other strategies.

I have not yet decided what discussion belongs here; the existence of this LJ should in no way imply a diminishment of my forkni-l allegiance.  But, you know, I've been pondering whether and how to write this certain story idea, in which Natalie loses her memory and Lacroix gloats and Schanke discovers Nick's a vampire, and that's never been quite the sort of thing to be developed on the discussion list.  And then there's this Tracy story idea set between "Fever" and "Francesca" . . .  We'll see.

Thanks for playing! :-)

This is a brand-new LiveJournal, intended for my home fandom, Forever Knight.  Please give me a little while to figure things out, and then visit again!

Note: This was the first post in this LiveJournal. All previous posts are backdated.

If you find any typos, broken links or other errors on the Bright Knight fansite, please leave a comment here to let me know.  I want to fix them!  Thank you very much.