A Sign Of Things To Come

[ithildin]

See? I make my first rec post to hl_recs and I screw it up. I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to go back and edit the tags because it's a moderated community, so my first post is missing tags altogether [sighs]

I'm sure this is like breaking a virtual mirror or something.

BTW, did I mention? I'm the reccer for the month of April. Something of an April Fools joke on myself, I'm beginning to think :)

Comments

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Hey!! Glad to hear you've been on the 'net as long as I have. You were a FK fan? what was your afiliation? Were you involved in any of the Wars?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I was a Cousin and a Ravenette, and actually had my own 'title' -- the Cousinly Ravenette :) Yes, I was in two, my first, I was part of the group that got Cherri out of the cow suit.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

cool!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Dude, I think I might have known you!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

[peers] Wouldn't that be something? [g]

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was a massive lurker in those days. I didn't start to actually post to the net until about 1997?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Did you do any of the wars? Ever hang out on the FK IRC channel? I sometimes I think I spent most of my life there at the time :)

I still am in contact with some people from the FK days. ninjababe obviously, since she lives with me [g] Red/Mel who runs the FK fic archive, Tina, I think she went by Bast then (?) Evil Tammy, Margie, Shirl, Idalia. I'm probably forgetting somebody. Advance apologies!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

God, I don't remember. Mel I think. I used to be on the PITT LISTSERV for fanfic.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I was on the FKFIC listserv, PSU, I think. Mel runs this archive: http://www.fkfanfic.com/ She started it in 1996

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OH GOD IT WAS PSU. Geez. I always run back to my alma mater.

Yeah, I read many a fic on that site.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Dang! I see Mel has archived an email digest (http://www.fkfanfic.com/fkmisc/lastknight.txt) from the the old FKspoiler list. The subject was 'Last Knight'. Rereading it is a trip. I'd almost forgotten how passionate we all were about our show. I don't think I'll ever be that involved in a fandom again.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I had to watch Last Knight from a hotel tv, because my parents just happened to be visiting me when I worked at Cedar Point, and I didn't have cable in the work dorms. I didn't even know it would be on. It was like a gift. Aaaaaand then I saw the ending.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Do you remember for-kni-l? I did everything by mailing list then. I remember an in person get together in NYC about FK. I think I went by emily d in those days. A friend of mine took me away for the weekend because I was so heavily into fandom those days.

"Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end!"

and then the Bujold list, Sentinel fandom, B5. Ah dear sweet B5. I remember it well.

Cue Maurice Chevalier.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I was a member of Forkni till about a year and a half ago actually.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

it's still around? Mel the Redcap still around?

[elycia.livejournal.com]

*butts in*

FORKNI-L is definitely still around. Don Fasig and Lisa McDavid are still the admins, and they still make everybody play nice, which is singularly unique among the mailing lists I've participated in.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I do remember for-kni-l. I called it forknil

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

LOL! I remember a thread on the list about how you pronounced the list name. I always called it forknee, which I believed led to a whole silly thing about Knights that say nee!

[havocthecat]

Oh, jeez. Ith had to bring up my old FK fandom nick. I'm so embarrassed by that! Because, you know, Havoc is less pretentious than Bast. ;)

Nah, I remember you mostly from Highlander fandom. You did the Lyric Wheel stuff, right? I was pretty much out of FK by the time you stopped lurking, but I was a NatPacker back in the day.

[miyeko.livejournal.com]

You're "Bast"? Wow! I didn't know. I might've guessed with the cat part.

I met you in person once and stayed in your dorm and we went to someone's FK party. Some big name fan went and had her expensive "GWD wore this shirt" souvenir she brought that had fake bullet holes and everything.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

[snorfle] This is like 'This Is Your Life' -- though I'm sure I'm dating myself with that reference :)

[havocthecat]

OMG! I remember you! You went by Idalia then, didn't you? I had such fun that weekend, but I kind of cut ties with FK fandom after some debacles during it's slow, painful implosion.

(Do you mind terribly if I friend you? Though I'm afraid half my posts these days are either RL boring or My Not So Amazing Adventures In Gateverse Fandom.)

[miyeko.livejournal.com]

No, friend away! ^_^

I still go by Idalia on some mailing lists I'm on, oddly enough, but then I started using Miyeko on other online things a few years ago.

[elycia.livejournal.com]

*butts in and waves like a maniac at Bast and Idalia (and Ith, of course). Y'all know me by a different name; I used to use my real name in FK fandom, and I keep it stringently separate from this ID so somebody doesn't Google one of my professional papers and end up finding my hobbit slash instead. :-) But I was an IRC regular, an ardent Vaquera (and secondary N&N-er), and a V4S author, and I still pimp FK to anybody who'll listen, any chance I get!

Mel (Red, Cyberred) is here on LJ, as are Jamie Melody Randell, Susan Garrett, Laurie Salopek, Kristen Fife, and probably half the rest of the old FORKNI list, if I only knew the nicknames.

If you want to know my real name, email me, and I'll tell you. And if you haven't already, join fk_freaks!

[havocthecat]

Oh, dear. Hi! I sent you a PM instead of an e-mail.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

The FKers (that I know about)I have on my f'list are Mel, Evil Tammy, Shirl, Margie, Bast, Idalia, Laurie, you, and Ninjababe. And there a couple like you who I know I knew, but don't recall what they went by on list.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the lyric wheel was me.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

And Laurie! I knew I'd remember after the fact.

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

* grins and waves *