FORKNI-L
Digest - 28 Dec 2006 to 29 Dec 2006 (#2006-90)
Fri, 29 Dec 2006
There are 3 messages totalling 81 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Yuletide Awards (2)
2. Another Yuletide--FK and S&L stories
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:19:10 GMT
From: KC Smith <tigrlady2u@j.......>
Subject: Re: Yuletide Awards
We didn't receive a single entry for this year's Yuletide Awards.
Honestly, although I'm disappointed, I'm somehow not surprised. It
seems as if the FK fandom, as far as fanfic goes, is waning. I know
there are lots of people still on the list, but few have the time
and/or motivation to write. My whole world has become my job and my
husband's illness, so this includes me (I'm sad to say).
Needless to say, I will no longer be hosting the Yuletide Awards.
Hope you all had a terrific Christmas. God bless.
KC Smith
tigrlady2u@j.......
Nick/Natpacker with dark tendencies.
"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like."
http://kc.descentintodarkness.net
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:05:53 +0000
From: Amy Hull <amilynh@c.......>
Subject: Re: Yuletide Awards
KC wrote:
> We didn't receive a single entry for this year's Yuletide Awards.
> Honestly, although I'm disappointed, I'm somehow not surprised.
> Needless to say, I will no longer be hosting the Yuletide Awards.
> Hope you all had a terrific Christmas. God bless.
Thanks for all the work you've done over the years on this.
I did want to let everyone know that Yuletide Treasure at
http://www.yuletidetreasure.org the Rare Fandoms Secret Santa Exchange,
produced a LOVELY Natalie story set about 10 years after LK. Very believable, sad but
not tragic, nicely done extrapolation on character development. Definitely
worth a read:
Afterimage: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/22/afterimage.html
Enjoy,
Amy
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:36:00 +0000
From: Amy Hull <amilynh@c.......>
Subject: Re: Another Yuletide--FK and S&L stories
I wrote:
> I did want to let everyone know that Yuletide Treasure at
> http://www.yuletidetreasure.org the Rare Fandoms Secret Santa Exchange,
Someone asked me privately what this was, so I thought I'd clarify here for
everyone. "While We Tell of Yuletide Treasure" is not a strictly FK thing (and,
in fact, the archive has only two FK stories). It was conceived in 2003 and was
based on the idea of a Secret Santa Story Gift Exchange like was done in
PopSlash's "Don We Now Our Gay Apparel" at http://www.juppy.org/santa/ but was geared
to fandoms that receive less fanfic traffic--a place for fen to ask for a story
from "that show that no one else probably remembers." (Originally it was "rare
pairings" even in well-written-for fandoms but that was only the first year.)
Since FK fandom is not producing large amounts of fic anymore, it re-qualified
to be part of Yuletide Treasure this year, along with Narnia, Remington Steele,
Hunt for Red October, Early Edition, and, literally, 500 other sources (some
literary, some historical, some print, some TV, some film, etc.).
There are also two FANTASTIC stories for Catherine Disher's short-run series
"Snakes and Ladders":
http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/29/causeand.html
http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/17/allthe.html
Even if you've only seen one episode, they're worth reading.
I hope anyone so predisposed has fun going through the archive and reading the
thousands of fantastic stories (there were 1,052 stories this year alone) for
sources you may have encountered and loved years ago or recently. If you read,
do please leave feedback--especially for the less-read FK and Snakes and
Ladders stuff!
Enjoy!
Amy
Afterimage: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/22/afterimage.html
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