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FORKNI-L Digest - 10 May 2005 to 11 May 2005 (#2005-126)

Wed, 11 May 2005

There are 10 messages totalling 231 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. plot bunny up for adoption (6)
  2. FORKNI-L Digest - 8 May 2005 to 9 May 2005 (#2005-124)
  3. Ger wins Helen Hayes award
  4. FK Moments
  5. Self Reference

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Date:    Tue, 10 May 2005 18:30:28 -0700
From:    Aviva Blumenthal <viv11374@y......>
Subject: plot bunny up for adoption

Here's the deal: over Passover, I was walking with my friend past
several houses and buildings in our neighborhood that are doing
some kind of renovation, which she attributes to the existence of
the Home Depot that opened a few blocks from me a couple of years
ago. I mentioned that it's one of the few that's open 24/7, and
said, "who needs a 24-hour Home Depot? Vampire contractors?"
Thus was born the baby plot bunny that I must give up for
adoption because I have too many works in progress and may never
finish all of them as it is. Somebody give it a good home.



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Date:    Tue, 10 May 2005 22:11:39 -0500
From:    Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......>
Subject: Re: FORKNI-L Digest - 8 May 2005 to 9 May 2005 (#2005-124)

> Naia Zifu wrote:

     I have to wonder how LaCroix would go on without Nick. .
> . which would be a really good spinoff in itself. . . like an FK sequel
> that gets into LC's head and explores his life, emotions, and motives the
> way FK did for Nick.

The absolute best take I've seen on this, fanfic-wise, is Dorothy
Elggren's series "All The Rest Is Silence"---available on her website,
www.loftworks.com.

Read it! Read it right now! These three stories are absolutely
wonderful.

Nancy Kaminski

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Date:    Tue, 10 May 2005 20:25:30 -0700
From:    Michele C <mobody_62@y......>
Subject: Re: plot bunny up for adoption

--- Aviva Blumenthal <viv11374@y......> wrote:
> the Home Depot that opened a few blocks from me a
> couple of years ago. I mentioned that it's one of
the few that's  open 24/7, and said, "who needs a
24-hour Home Depot? Vampire contractors?"
>

You never know when the shutters on the windows are
gonna break.

This is something I have wondered about myself.  When
I was in North Hollywood for a convention there was a
24/7 Home Depot about 3 blocks away from Paramount
Studios.  Its need I think, was self expanatory.

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Date:    Tue, 10 May 2005 23:02:42 -0500
From:    Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......>
Subject: Re: plot bunny up for adoption

> Michele C wrote:

> You never know when the shutters on the windows are
> gonna break.

<shameless self-promotion>

I wrote a story which featured a vampire contractor crew fixed Nick's
broken motorized shutters. See "Good Help is Hard To Find" by me. :-)

Nancy Kaminski

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Date:    Tue, 10 May 2005 11:10:57 -0400
From:    Cheryl P <fknight420@c.......>
Subject: Re: Ger wins Helen Hayes award

Express all our gratitude to him for us.
Cheryl / fknight420@c.......

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Date:    Wed, 11 May 2005 01:29:07 -0400
From:    Arletta Asbury <g4akl@c.......>
Subject: Re: plot bunny up for adoption

At 11:02 PM 5/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> Michele C wrote:
>> You never know when the shutters on the windows are gonna break.
>Nancy Kaminski wrote:
>I wrote a story which featured a vampire contractor crew fixed Nick's
>broken motorized shutters. See "Good Help is Hard To Find" by me. :-)

This reminds me of a story I read years ago where Nick chartered a small
plane from a vampire run flight service in order to pick up a prisoner
along with Schanke somewhere in the Canadian countryside.

And then there was a Vampire run courier service that delivered some items
that Natalie forgot to take along with her when she was going out of town
to a seminar where she was going to be speaking.

I think these were in two seperate pieces of fanfic. However, I'm sure
there must be other instances of vampire run businesses (besides the Raven).

Arletta
Light Cousin, N&NPacker, Urchin, FoSiL, HNLCAHW
Survivor of FKwars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Light Cousin leader in FKwars 9 & 10
1/3 Cerberus in FKwar 12

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Date:    Wed, 11 May 2005 08:11:32 -0500
From:    Christy Stillman <cstillma@u.......>
Subject: Re: plot bunny up for adoption

<< I mentioned that it's one of the few that's open 24/7, and said, "who
needs a 24-hour Home Depot? Vampire contractors?">>

Nunkies Anonymous has employed a vampire contracting company in two
different Wars now for renovations/rebuilding of the Shrine.  It's a pain
having to hear hammers and saws at night, but on the upside, they DO work
quickly.  <BG>

Christy
cstillma@u.......

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Date:    Wed, 11 May 2005 07:14:58 -0700
From:    Amanda Berendt <debrabant_foundation@y......>
Subject: FK Moments

Well I have two...
First, last night I was watching 'House' on tv and one of the guest actors was
the lady who played Joan (and the cop that gave Schanke the ticket for parking
the caddy in front of the Raven in Close Call) was on.  I said to my dad that
she was one of the 42 Canadian actors.  She's been in a couple of Due South eps
too.

Second, last night while I was watching tv, our big huge kitten (13 pounds at
10 months) was running all over the place.  He wound up jumping onto my shoulder
then onto the back of the couch.  In the process, his claws snagged my neck.
This produced 2 little holes that began to bleed.  Now because it is right at my
collar line, I have a bandaid on my neck to keep my shirt from rubbing, people
keep asking if a vampire attacked me.  :)

-Amanda


"This thing... man... whatever it is...evil may have created it, left its mark
on it, but evil does not rule it.  So I cannot kill it."  - Gabriel Van Helsing
http://www.darksideoftheglass.com


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Date:    Wed, 11 May 2005 13:17:22 -0400
From:    Gaelin Wade <gaelinwade@a.......>
Subject: Self Reference

I was reading a fic today and in it LC  tells another character he
would make a good vampire. For some reason this struck me as odd. It
made me think, would LC refer to himself as a "Vampire."

For the life of me, I can't specifically remember his referring to
himself or the others directly as vampires. Yes, it's fine is someone
else describes them that way, ie Schanke in Close Call.  But when he's
talking about them or "thier nature" it's always euphemistic, like "our
kind" or, "one of us." Something like that.

Logic tells me he must have at some point, but I don't recall it. Can
anyone else remember anywhere where LC  specifically used "vampire" to
describe himself or the others?

Gaelin

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Date:    Wed, 11 May 2005 17:54:40 +0000
From:    Elena Gwynne <elena_gwynne@h.......>
Subject: Re: plot bunny up for adoption

Think you could give titles and authors (perhaps locations as well)? I'd
like to read these stories.

Finduilas
http://www.go.wifl.at.org/fin/index.htm
Updated on April 29
http://p211.ezboard.com/bfinduilasstolkiendiscussion
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/761957/

>I think these were in two seperate pieces of fanfic. However, I'm sure
>there must be other instances of vampire run businesses (besides the Raven).

Arletta

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