Yays! Continuing my "Fannish 50 Streak" of having done fifty Fannish 50 posts per year for each year that Fannish 50 has been running, and also now completing the thematic responses to the due South 30th anniversary celebration's 30 Below Fest created by and run by flownwrong (there were seven thematic prompts of which I already did six and now ( Read more... )

For Canon Appreciation Week of the due South 30th Anniversary "30 Below Fest," one of the suggestions was to rec some meta of canon.

Earlier this month, shade_nightwalker wrote a sweet bit of meta called "You Must Remember This". Read it at DW's due South Virtual Bar.fox did a time-and-labor-intensive gift of love to due South fandom by creating ( Read more... )

How did I come to due South fandom? Well, to take a phrase from Ray Kowalski: "I took this bus, I drove this car, I got on this train, I walked down this street, I turned this corner, I opened this door, and I stepped into...."The year was 2009. The setting was a Thanksgiving dinner in Chicago to which I was invited by a casual acquaintance who ( Read more... )

This week in the due South 30th Anniversary "30 Below Fest" one of the things being highlighted is headcanons. I'm sharing two of my Ray Kowalski headcanons here ( Read more... )

I consider this a hat-trick, the general definition being "a series of three achievements"...as I wrote this fic for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW and for the story-works comm on DW and for the "30 Below" due South 30th anniversary fest. (Those DW comms are hyperlinked in the Author Notes on AO3.)

Title: Ice Queen, Dragon Lady
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due ( Read more... )

One of the suggestions for week one of the due South 30th Anniversary "30 Below Fest" is to do a themed recs list. The theme I'm making here is based on the rhyme "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue".

For "something old" I'm reccing a 2011 fic on AO3 by Tatau, the first fic writer for whom I ever did beta back when I ( Read more... )

Today is March 10th, which means that tomorrow is the annual Eleventh of March due South holiday...and this year that date is also the start of the due South 30th Anniversary Fest "30 Below" being run from March 11th through April by the wonderful flownwrong.

Here is the link to flownwrong's Fest Intro post .

Here is the link to flownwrong's 30 Below ( Read more... )