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fkficfest is currently in the writing phase.

We've elected 5 prompts as a common pool. Each story must use at least 1 of:
- found among the second-hand books
- I'm going to tell you something that you don't want to hear.
- keeping secrets
- The antique hairbrush still held tangles of fine golden hair.
- a lucky break, a chance meeting, and a friend in need

If you want to play, check out the Gameplay Post.

How is everyone doing?

I picked a prompt and have a vague idea of where it might be going.

Unfortunately, I find myself in the dilemma of too much going on at the moment. A mix of family birthdays, soccer games and culture events keeps me busy on weekends, which leaves only weeknights for writing. Since all this is happening in my home town and not in the town where I live, I'm currently heading back and fourth each week. However, I've discovered that taking the train instead of the car is a wonderful way to create a time window for writing. Thanks to the reliability of Deutsche Bahn, one can be certain that the trip takes longer than originally scheduled. Like last Monday, we stopped in the middle of nowhere for one hour because there were people on the tracks ahead. Great opportunity to start my story. I managed to write almost 500 words.

Happy New Year everyone!

It's time to review what I accomplished in 2024 ficwise.

In 2024 I completed and posted three stories. That's two more than in 2023.

1. A Shared Void is a Valentine story. With Nick temporarily out of town, Natalie is bored. So is Lacroix it seems.
Natalie/Lacroix, Adult, 13,000 words

2. By Any Other Name is the story I wrote for FKFicFest using the prompt “Finding out the truth”. While finishing the report on the decapitated corpse case, Tracy makes some connections.
Gen, PG13, 5,000 words

3. Breakthrough is an UF story. An announcement on the radio leaves Nick more distracted than he expected.
Nick/Lacroix, Adult, 2,700 words

Progress on works in progress:

1. A third part of the Lacroix/Myra romance set in Rome. Current status: progressed from 11,800 to 12,500 words.

2. A casefic involving Lacroix. Current status: progressed from 1600 to 2,500 words.

3. A sequel to A Shared Void (Lacroix/Natalie). Current status: 750 words

4. A Nick/Janette story with a 15th century flashback to my hometown. Current status: still 1000 words (no progress since 2019).

5. A casefic involving Janette. Current status: still 1000 words (no progress since 2020).

6. The 5th installment of the Relationship series. Current status: still 4 words (just the title - LOL)

It's been 4 months since I wrote anything. I hope to devote more time to it soon.

I've finished a new UF fic! It's another take on "Nick gets jealous".
Thanks so much to switchbladeeyes for beta reading and pointing out gaps.

Breakthrough
2,700 words; rated adult (but nothing explicit);
Relationship: Nick/Lacroix
Characters: Nick, Lacroix, Natalie, Miklos

Summary: An announcement on the radio leaves Nick more distracted than he expected.

Enjoy!

I saw this on greerwatson's and brightknightie's journals and thought I'd give it a try. It took me a while to figure out where to find all those stats. In case you're wondering about that, too, go to all your fics and check out the filters on the right side.

So here we go:

Of 88 fanfiction works...

Under which 3 ratings have you written most?
39 Teen and up audiences
23 Mature
14 General audiences

In which 3 fandoms have you written most?
88 Forever Knight (TV 1992)
Nothing else - LOL

Which 3 characters have you tagged the most often?
79 Nicholas Knight
77 Lucien LaCroix
69 Natalie Lambert

What are your top 3 additional/free-form tags?
32 Romance
21 Case fic
5 Dark Nicholas Knight and Natalie Lambert

Did any of these surprise you? If so, which?
No, not really. Maybe that there are apparently 9 stories not featuring Nick. And I had forgotten about the Dark Nicholas Knight and Natalie Lambert tag. What an odd name for a tag. The proper tag should probably be DarkNN.

This year's round of fkficfest has gifted us with 16 new FK stories. A big thank you to all authors and to brightknightie for the organisation.

I highly recommend reading all stories.

My own contribution this year is a Tracy-centered story set after Ashes to Ashes. While finishing the report on the decapitated corpse case, Tracy makes some connections.

By Any Other Name
PG-13, gen, 5000 words

Apparently Toronto got its own spin-off of Law & Order now. Catherine Disher was in episode 3. She played an attourney. It was a brief appearance, but she had some good pointed lines. It was nice to see her on TV again.

So I watched the first 4 episodes of the German dubbed version of FK's season 3. Here's what I noticed so far:

The most outstanding difference is of course that we get to hear Schanke's voice talking back during the phone call in Black Buddha - Part 1". I think of it as a nice additon.

Then there are some rather slight and some rather obvious changes in the translated text. Some of it is nice, others make me wonder, why did they do that.
Part of the Nightcrawler monologue from Black Buddha - Part 2 (What a piece of work is a man...), in which he is originally quoting from Hamlet, he's quoting Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust in the dubbed version. While I find the text equally fitting, I wonder why did they do it? Is it because Faust is more familiar to German audiences than Shakespeare? They did the same change in season 2's Father's Day by the way.

A really strange translation is also in Black Buddha - Part 1 when Nick enters the Raven in search for Janette. Lacroix tells him originally that he now broadcasts from "a little booth in the back". In German he says that he now broadcasts from Janette's bedroom. Either he must have done some major renovations or Janette's bedroom was poorly furnished - LOL. There's no mention of the rather uncomfortable "strip on Friday Night", which makes the whole take-over of the Raven less sleazy and sets a total different atmosphere I think.

When Nick asks Lacroix about Vachon in Black Buddha - Part 2, in the dubbed version Lacroix mentions something about a famous typewriter by the name and mocks Nick about not paying attention to TV quiz shows.

Other than the Schanke part, these are all differences I didn't notice when I watched the dubbed version the first time over 25 years ago, when I wasn't so familiar with the original text yet. They become quite obvious now.

My German season 3 DVDs arrived today. Yay!

Yay, I just got word that FK's season 3 will finally be released in Germany on DVD on February 8, 2024.

This is the company that re-released seasons 1 and 2 earlier this year. When they were first released, we never got season 3. I had given up hope because season 3 disappeared from the reruns since the pay TV channel who owned it went broke.

This is wonderful!

fkficfest released 13 new stories. Here's an index list and here's the link to the AO3 subcollection. Check them out. They were all wonderful!

My own contribution was Prime Suspect written for the prompt "This experiment went horribly wrong".

Now I have to figure out which of my works in progress I focus on next to get it finished.