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
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. :-)