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Digest - 21 Jan 2008 to 22 Jan 2008 (#2008-20)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008

There are 2 messages totalling 87 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. FK in Multi-Fandom "Women are Awesome" Ficathon
  2. Gary Farmer sighting

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Date:    Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:15:48 -0800
From:    "Amy R." <akr@l.......>
Subject: FK in Multi-Fandom "Women are Awesome" Ficathon

         Natpacker Havoc-the-Cat is one of the moderators running the
new "femme_fic" LiveJournal community
(http://community.livejournal.com/femme_fic/), which they are
inaugurating with a multi-fandom "women are awesome" ficathon -- that
is, centering on the female characters in a positive manner, whether
the story be gen or romance or whatever.  (A "ficathon," by the way,
is a lot like a fiction list challenge, except 1) there is a hard
deadline, 2) there is no kick-off/sample story by the challenger, and
3) you submit multiple prompts of your own, and you receive multiple
prompts submitted by your fellow writers, so you pick one to write
from those you're given, and someone else picks one to write from
those you give, so you "get a story in return" for the one you write.)

         Unfortunately, FK is not one of the official fandoms for the
ficathon (they held a vote; we didn't win).  So although there is a
"wildcard" slot for unlisted fandoms like FK, there's no telling
whether you'll really get the opportunity to write FK.  Of course,
the more who sign up with FK as their wildcard, the better the FK
odds ... which is why I'm posting here, of course!  :-)  If anyone
wants to play in this ficathon, please consider bestowing your
wildcard slot on FK?

         I haven't signed up.  Yet.  I'm thinking about it.  Of
course our FK female characters are among the most awesome
anywhere.  FK blows most other series entirely out of the water on
that score.  It's not just Natalie and Janette and Tracy, or Cohen
and Urs and Grace, or Marian and Emily and Denise, or Fleur and Erica
and Mai, but just about every female character canon ever sent our
way!  FK can pride itself on strong, idiosyncratic, well-rounded
female characters.  (And I believe the stories can be posted to
fkfic-l after the ficathon is over, or I wouldn't even be considering
it.  All FK fic should come home to fkfic-l!)

         But ... it is a multi-fandom game, not an FK game, and I'm
definitely hesitating over that, personally.  Also, I've never done a
ficathon before.  And the most recent story I've written is out for
beta-reading, and at this rate might end up bumping into the
ficathon.  We'll see.  But I wanted to share the opportunity to play
with all of you; they're taking sign-ups through January 30.

         (By the way, for those unfamiliar with LiveJournal, you
don't have to have an account to read there, or to post
replies.  Some ficathon moderators require you to have an account to
submit stories, but others don't and will take them by email; this
community doesn't seem to say, so we could certainly ask, if that
turns out to be relevant to someone.)

         Anyway, just a thought.  After that wonderful flurry of
fiction on fkfic-l in late December, I haven't seen anything posted
in January yet, and I generally support anything that might spark
more FK stories for us all.  :-)

Amy R.

akr@l.......
FK Site: http://users.LMI.net/akr/fk/
FK LiveJournal: http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/

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Date:    Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:41:00 -0500
From:    "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......>
Subject: Gary Farmer sighting

Gary Farmer had a nice large guest-star role on last week's episode of
CBC's new program The Border.

Amusingly, his character spent the better part of the show with
Catherine Disher's character (and the two characters got along
famously).

Given the role (chief of police for a Mohawk reservation on the border)
I think it possible he may popup from time to time.

	Tim

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