11 Bookmarks by Brightknightie
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Jacqueline finds herself having a series of conversations with the Queen, who may know more than she lets on about her newest musketeer.
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
5 May 2013
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Look! Look! Fresh Young Blades! With canon awareness and sensitivity, this piece offers a progression of "unseen scene" episode tags in which Jacqueline encounters the Queen, dancing delicately around the secret of Jacqueline's identity and the secret of the Queen's insight.
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Urs has a question for Nick.
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
18 Feb 2013
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In 1995, Susan G. issued a challenge called "Forever Not." How would you bring Forever Knight to a close? Many daring, powerful stories came in response, turning "Forever Not" into more of a subgenre than a game. But when TPTB ended the series the following year, that particular creative well dried up; new stories fought or accepted canon's ending, but no longer boldly imagined what no fan had imagined before, blithely uninfluenced by that ending.
"Approaching Dawn" strikes me as a good old-fashioned "Forever Not," tragic and triumphant and unexpected, heedless of the final episodes.
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For the FKFicFest 2011, for Celli. Her gen prompt was "from Grace's pov". A million thanks to RoxyMissRose for the beta!
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
15 Jan 2012
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"Full of Grace" is an epistolary tale that sweeps across all three seasons before exploding the finale. It builds a richly rounded life for Grace while exposing key canon events from her side and shaping an arc for her relationship with Natalie -- from early misapprehensions, through holding at arm's length, to adopting Natalie's peril as her responsibility. Invoking FK's multiple canonical psychics and shamans, this story cleverly makes Grace a Gullah herb doctor, a twist that both dramatizes lost opportunities and enables a stunning climax.
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"I thought it would be a good time to get to know someone who's so very--" Janette paused and let herself focus on Natalie. "Who's so very close to Nicholas."
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
27 Nov 2011
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Janette's whim to take a closer look at Nick's mortal life triggers a miniature comedy of manners when she turns up, unexpected, in Natalie's domain. Character-appropriate banter bobs on the ocean of how much they all have yet to learn about each other at this early canonical point. Interestingly (and unusually for a first-season meeting between Janette and Natalie), "Could They Choose Between" builds its motivations up from Schanke taking refuge at the Raven in "Hunters," rather than from the "Cherry Blossoms" tag.
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A Christmas story with sappiness and vampires.
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
27 Nov 2011
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"Darkness Shall Have No Dominion" resonates with Nick's perspective. It weighs hope and despair, connection and alienation, through brisk action in the professional case of a missing child and the personal concerns of Nick's human friends. The story builds angst as well as suspense on references to flight, hunger, freezing night and burning day. At the last, as the lost boy is saved, the seasonal setting offers a flourish on what might or might not be a miracle. The story renews Nick's commitment in a manner not only satisfying, but triumphant.
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I awoke to the scratch of wool and the scent of someone who was mine.
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
27 Oct 2011
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[Warning: violence.] This chilling interlude of villain-on-villain carnage characterizes Lacroix with thorough canonical resonance — cruel, possessive, territorial, clever — in a third-season context, out of Nick's sight, untethered by the agreement about "mindless killing" invading Nick's life. Lacroix's retaliation is elegantly repulsive. "Drowning" responds to a "worst-case survival scenario" challenge of "how to escape from a sinking car," and the use of Nick's beloved Caddy twists a knife; additionally, a passing mention of Tracy intrigues. This ruthless action drama celebrates the conundrum of Lacroix as Nick's antithesis and ally.
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Territories That Had Become Stone by Jai (lordessrenegade) for Delwyn
Dead Poets Society (1989)
20 Dec 2009
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He set out to tell a story, and in the process of editing, he decided to stop trying to tell anything at all. He asked instead, and found that the questions came easier.
Bookmarked by Brightknightie
16 Sep 2011
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This story beautifully projects a taut, canon-compliant future, with exquisite mood, tone and characterization. It may be happily read as gen (its author intends pre-slash).
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A short piece written for the Fifteen Minute Challenge: I miss you most of all...
Bookmarked by Brightknightie
20 Aug 2011
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I discovered this piece through a remix of it. The remix is nice, but the original turned out to appeal much more to me, personally. It is slow, gentle, seasonal, only subtly futuristic, and satisfying in both separation and reunion.
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A short AU written for the Fifteen Minute Challenge: "Duncan and a 68-year-old Tessa..."
Bookmarked by Brightknightie
15 Aug 2011
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To this, other AUs should aspire. It entirely satisfies, and it makes me cry.
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Growing up immortal sure isn't easy.
Bookmarked by Brightknightie
15 Aug 2011
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When Amanda returned in "Finale," I wanted a mention of Michelle from "Rite of Passage." This story happily supplies what canon neglects.
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Because loneliness and beauty are inseparable, one is often mistaken for the other.
Bookmarked by Amy R (Brightknightie)
13 Aug 2011
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I think that no 'ship story in FK has ever suited me so well as this one. In-character choices break canon free of its doomed third-season slide, restoring hope and lifting horizons.