What You Guys Have Been Up To

[brightknightie]

(Aside: Is something weird with icons on LJ today?  My Schanke userpic is displaying as someone's fairy userpic.)

Recently, in FK on my LJ Friends List:

Ficathons

• Celebrating Female Characters.  The femme-fic ficathon, on 02/01, began accepting sign-ups.  They're unscreened this year, so take a look!  A wide variety of fandoms are offered.  Only one

Comments

[dj_clawson]

I don't think Aristotle fans have a designation.

[greerwatson]

"I don't think Aristotle fans have a designation."

Not that I know of. Nor fans of Felix, either. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily have to stop you declaring a faction affiliation.

Philosophers?

As for Felix's fans: Feliksities? Happy Twisters?

Mind you, I'm flabbergasted by the pedestrian names of one or two of the factions. Why on earth are fans of Stonetree called "Stonetree-ites", when they could have called themselves "Stoners" or "Tree-huggers"?

[brightknightie]

>"Why on earth are fans of Stonetree called "Stonetree-ites","

Actually, I learned from lastscorpion a year or two ago -- and it was news to me, but made perfect sense -- that the original name of Stonetree's faction was the "Scorpions," from that scene in "Dark Knight" in which Stonetree warns Schanke off the vampire angle by recounting a Southwestern legend about scorpions. lastscorpion, who was a first-season fan, was the only person ever to take up Stonetree's mantle as her primary faction, and so her faction got forgotten.

I need a "Captains" icon... :-)

[dj_clawson]

OK, settle this for me: Was Stonetree Native American as a character, but they just never mentioned it?

Think about it.

[brightknightie]

>"Was Stonetree Native American as a character, but they just never mentioned it?That's the standard assumption. Because Gary Farmer is Native American, we've presumed that Joe Stonetree is. However, there doesn't seem to be an expectation that Stonetree necessarily comes from the same Native American nation that Farmer does; because of the scorpion story in "Dark Knight," some people like to give Stonetree roots in Arizona

[dj_clawson]

Having a Native American character and just not having it come up is WAY better than season 3's stereotypical magic-having Indians.

Also in season 3: incest and making fun of retards. How did they get away with this stuff?

[brightknightie]

I thought that "Philosophers" had been suggested for them, but that no one ever took it up as a primary designation. However, it's not on the old Affiliations List created by the founder of the Natpack (last updated 1996) so I may well be misremembering. I'll post the question.

[greerwatson]

"I thought that "Philosophers" had been suggested for them,"

Since I just came up with Philosophers (not to mention Feliksities and Happy Twisters) off the top of my head, this rather suggests that that's the incredibly obvious choice for a faction name for Aristotle, doesn't it? Whether it was ever official, or not.

[dj_clawson]

There was some fanlisting site that listed Aristotle fans under the heading "the Academy." I get the joke, but I can't exactly say I'm an Academian. Besides Lyceum makes more sense, even if it's more obscure.