There are 2 messages totalling 78 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Meeting fans randomly at con 2. Joke factions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:16:58 -0600 From: Jayekitty <phoenix@s.......> Subject: Meeting fans randomly at con Ran into former listee Darlene here at MarsCon. Yep, she was wearing a show shirt. Yay random meetings! Jaye, List Founder and Elder Stateskitty Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:03:12 -0500 From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......> Subject: Joke factions In the heyday of FK fandom, there were a lot of factions--I mean a *lot* of factions!. On the Forever Knight Wiki, we try to be comprehensive. <g> That means that I originally listed every name I could find. You can find a sort of master list of them here: http://foreverknight.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fan_Factions. Since doing that, I've made a few passes through the masses, trying to create order out of chaos by making subdivisions. Some of them are obvious: factions affiliated with a character (e.g. Knighties, Cousins, Perks), couple factions (e.g. NNatPack, UF), other types of factions (e.g. Mercenaries, Cross-Stitchers of the Knight, Knights of the Cross). In the last couple of days, I've been pulling out two more subdivisions. One of them is for *proposed* factions names: http://foreverknight.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Proposed_faction_names. I guess that is sort of self-explanatory. When factions were first being created, especially for major characters, quite a number of names were initially suggested; but, in the end, only one became accepted. (It is possible, though, that I may have missed something out.) The other subdivision I've been making is for joke factions: http://foreverknight.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Joke_Factions. I've always known that some factions are more seriously intended than others! However, recent discussion with April French and Melissa Treglia has made me realize that there are a lot more than I'd known. So I've started to put them in a separate category. The problem is that there are a number of different ways in which an affliliation can be taken tongue in cheek. So many, in fact, that I wound up making a special page just to discuss this: http://foreverknight.wikia.com/wiki/Joke_Factions. So.... What have I missed? What factions should be considered jokes, only I haven't yet spotted the funny? Where have I goofed? How well have I peeled apart the different kinds of jokes? Have I listed as a joke something that actually should be treated seriously? Would folks take a look and let me know? Greer gwatson2@r....... http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/ ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 4 Mar 2011 to 5 Mar 2011 (#2011-28) ************************************************************
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