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I'll be traveling this week, but I doubt if it'll make a difference to my online time, because a) I haven't been online that much lately anyway, and b) I'm going with my husband on a business trip to Anchorage, so I'll be spending most of my time in coffee shops with my laptop anyway (and I'm fine with that; mostly I'm just along for the trip and to see family). So I might actually be online more, who knows.
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fkficfest (Forever Knight fic exchange). Signups close May 20. I've never written FK before, and maybe it's just the similarities with Highlander that are making me think about ye olde vampires lately, but ... I'm tempted! Even though I didn't want to get involved in any fic commitments for a while. *muses*
Highlander has a kink meme:hl_kink. Lots of prompts, not many fills so far. (Master list of fills is here.) *pokes flist in that direction ... if that is your cup of tea*
I think it's funny that I'm normally GEN GEN CANONPAIRING GEN GEN in every fandom, especially when I'm first getting into it, but ... not so much with HL, really. I still love the gen too (and perhaps, yes, I still love it the best) but I'm also very interested in seeking out and, more unusually for me, writing a wide variety of pairings. Some of it is just that I've changed a bit over the last few years, become more interested in exploring different pairing options in fic, but it's not just that, because I was all GEN GEN CANONPAIRING GEN CANONPAIRING in A:tLA too. I suppose with HL it has more to do with the nature of canon and the fact that I can so easily, so plausibly, see the characters trying on different sexual roles with each other -- actually, given their long lives and the fluidity of their approach to life in canon, I think it's actually harder for me to believe that they wouldn't have that kind of fluidity and ambiguity in their personal relationships as well. (I love Duncan/Amanda, for example, and it's totally canon, but I can't buy them settling down with a white picket fence and being exclusive and happy with each other. That's just not what their relationship is all about. And it's one of the reasons I love it so much.)
Anyway! Off to finish writing up instructions for the petsitter and washing dishes, and then time to hit the road. Why do I always feel compelled to clean the house right before I leave? I'm embarrassed for the housesitter to see my house this way, so I always go on a mad cleaning spree right before leaving; I think it's the cleanest the house ever gets ...
Anyway, I'm currently on the fence about signing up for
fkficfest/fkficfest (Forever Knight fic exchange). Signups close May 20. I've never written FK before, and maybe it's just the similarities with Highlander that are making me think about ye olde vampires lately, but ... I'm tempted! Even though I didn't want to get involved in any fic commitments for a while. *muses*Highlander has a kink meme:
hl_kink. Lots of prompts, not many fills so far. (Master list of fills is here.) *pokes flist in that direction ... if that is your cup of tea*I think it's funny that I'm normally GEN GEN CANONPAIRING GEN GEN in every fandom, especially when I'm first getting into it, but ... not so much with HL, really. I still love the gen too (and perhaps, yes, I still love it the best) but I'm also very interested in seeking out and, more unusually for me, writing a wide variety of pairings. Some of it is just that I've changed a bit over the last few years, become more interested in exploring different pairing options in fic, but it's not just that, because I was all GEN GEN CANONPAIRING GEN CANONPAIRING in A:tLA too. I suppose with HL it has more to do with the nature of canon and the fact that I can so easily, so plausibly, see the characters trying on different sexual roles with each other -- actually, given their long lives and the fluidity of their approach to life in canon, I think it's actually harder for me to believe that they wouldn't have that kind of fluidity and ambiguity in their personal relationships as well. (I love Duncan/Amanda, for example, and it's totally canon, but I can't buy them settling down with a white picket fence and being exclusive and happy with each other. That's just not what their relationship is all about. And it's one of the reasons I love it so much.)
Anyway! Off to finish writing up instructions for the petsitter and washing dishes, and then time to hit the road. Why do I always feel compelled to clean the house right before I leave? I'm embarrassed for the housesitter to see my house this way, so I always go on a mad cleaning spree right before leaving; I think it's the cleanest the house ever gets ...
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Have a good trip! :-D
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I went through a pretty big FK fannish period when I got the DVDs (right before SGA ate my brain back in 2006) but I was never moved to write it for some reason. I was kinda tempted by fkficfest last year, but had WAY too much going on to even try. This year, though, it's even more tempting.