FORKNI-L
Digest - 19 Oct 2006 to 20 Oct 2006 (#2006-29)
Fri, 20 Oct 2006
There are 5 messages totalling 181 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Discussion of Season 3?
2. Question on Black Budha (2)
3. Black Buddha
4. Happy 10th Birthday, www.fkfanfic.com!
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:27:35 -0700
From: Libby Singleton <libratsie@s.......>
Subject: Re: Discussion of Season 3?
Although I think the "organized" discussions are great fun, there's nothing to
stop anyone from starting a discussion on any episode. Prior to the organized
discussions, that's what often happened.
For example, take "Fever" and that wonderful short but revealing scene where
you can tell just from the look in their eyes how much Screed luvs his
NatsieRatsie and vice versa. Such feeling! Such connection! Such chemistry!
--Libs
**Ratpackers stir up trouble with an electric mixer**
"English, Darlene" <denglish@s.......> wrote:
I know we are working our way through season 1 now, but since many
people are now watching their new season 3 DVDs, why not run a third
season discussion while everyone is so enthusiastic?
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:13:12 -0400
From: Debbie Clarke <dittany121@h.......>
Subject: Re: Question on Black Budha
I never could figure that out either. Sometimes I think he did and other
times I think he brought her across. Then every one in a while I ask
myself if he killed her because he needed her blood to get to shore.
Debbie
>From: phylis sullivan <phylis_s_2000_2001@y.......>
> SPOILER in case anyone needs it!
>
Does he actually kill her because she doesn't want to be immortal now or
did she go down with the ship?
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:27:24 +0930
From: Dorothy <jennii35@i.......>
Subject: Black Buddha
<<< if he killed her because he needed her blood to get to shore.>>>
I was under the impression, that she wanted to die, because she
thought the reason
the "unsinkable " sank was because of the Black Buddha. He killed
her to save her
drowning I guess. No doubt the blood gave him the necessary energy
to fly to shore.
Dot
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:09:43 -0400
From: Mel Moser <fkfanfic@g.......>
Subject: Happy 10th Birthday, www.fkfanfic.com!
Posted with the permission of Lisa. Forgive me if this is a bit long, but I
figured some old and new people would like to know the story.
It was over 10 years ago today that I launched www.fkfanfic.com. In the
beginning, I started hosting stories when I noticed that the original
archive was no longer updating. This was when the web was still young and
new and we didn't have fancy HTML generators or PHP etc. I first hosted
stories on my own personal webspace but after a while and some guidance from
my good friends, including Jamie Randell and TJ Goldstein, I obtained my own
domain name in October, 1996 and www.fkfanfic.com was born.
The web design changed over time. I got better about organizing stories
(again thanks to Jamie who designed most everything) and used an excel
database to track everything. HTML for the story listings was generated
from the database. It was a ton of work back then, assembling and
reformatting stories, adding them to the database, generating new pages, and
uploading them all to the website. Updates could take hours and hours of
work. But I loved doing it.
Then somewhere in there, Real Life intervened several times, and I confess I
lost interest a bit when I got involved in MMPORGs and I had a number of
health and RL issues that really limited the amount of time I could devote
to FK. Then I lost my pc hard drive and the database and was overwhelmed by
the amount of work it would take to recreate everything (over 2500
stories?!!). I also was majorly broke for several times in there due to job
layoffs but I kept the site up as best as I could, with the moral and
financial support of Stephanie Babbitt. You can ask Stephanie, when we
went over my budget together, the fanfic site was never negotiable. Well,
the past few years have been better finally.
And this past year, I have been working on fixing things up again. I was
forced to find a new web provider last year, but this was a blessing as I
was able to find a much better one that provides all kinds of bells and
whistles that I can and have now put to work improving the site to something
better. It's amazing what wonderful things you can easily get for websites
nowadays. Fortunately, I was able to recover an old copy of the database
and spent many hours rebuilding the database to make it current again. I
am also in the process of implementing a new auto-archival system for
authors, Efiction. I am just waiting for the new release to come out before
I make this available. I do plan on regenerating the old pages here in the
near future, to allow for updates/changes. No new stories will be added to
the old archive, however, in lieu of the new archive, where you will be able
to add your own stories. Stay tuned on this.
I have also been implementing a new front end for www.fkfanfic.com. You can
see it up and running now. I'm still ironing out some of the kinks and
making changes, but it should be working (feel free to test and comment on
things). The site is also available via RSS, and will have an RSS feed
from the new story archive so that you will be able to see new stories on
the front page. The old archive will always be available via a link on the
main page. If you have any suggestions, submissions for articles, links,
quotes, etc., feel free to use the Contact page or email me. I am hoping
to put together some pages of reference of the many great sites people still
are keeping up and running about Forever Knight as well. If you'd like for
me to host any material, let me know too, as I know there's alot of
scattered information out there still and some outdated sites and I'd be
glad to host things in a central site..
Anyway, thank you to all of you out there for all your moral support and
visiting the site over the years. And thank you to the many authors who
shared their wonderful stories that have kept Forever Knight alive and well
in our hearts. It's hard to believe it's been 10+ years.
Feel free to forward this to other lists if you wish, or post on your
sites. And a big hello again to old friends, sorry for losing touch and
disappearing there for a while. I'm better now and I'm back.
Thanks and hugs to all,
Mel Moser
http://www.fkfanfic.com/
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:12:59 -0300
From: TF <tfloyd@n.......>
Subject: Re: Question on Black Budha
> SPOILER in case anyone needs it!
>
>
>
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> ...Does he actually kill her because she doesn't want to be immortal now
or did she go down with the ship? ... Phylis
There's always the possibility that he tried and failed, since has such a
horrible track record.
(My DVDs are in Mississauga - I can't wait.)
--
LapLor
tfloyd@n.......
"The person sitting next to you is weirder than you can possibly imagine."
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