The "Everything Changes" 2014 TGW Ficathon
The "Everything Changes" 2014 TGW Ficathon has come to a close! Thank you to all who participated. This post will remain unlocked so that readers may continue to comment on posted fics. Also feel free to post links to belatedly filled prompts. Hope to see you next year!
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I found out about the ficathon through AO3, actually. That is, I saw fics that people had posted as part of one of the previous ficathons and I was interested in playing this time around. I think I may have seen it announced on Tumblr too, though. (I'm lemonsoranges over there too.) I have not been part of the LJ fandom subset but I would like to be when the show starts up again! (Or, you know, now. :) Things are just slower in the offseason, I assume)
Random question about fandom and Tumblr: do people frequently post their fics to Tumblr as well as to AO3/LJ/ff.net/whatever? I haven't been sure whether to post my fics there on the Good Wife tag. I'm a Tumblr newbie so I'm trying to figure out how to navigate the site.
I'm fairly certain that the end of the Nick sl should have been him figuring out that Alicia was the one Kalinda stayed in Chicago for. That would have led to a showdown
Yeah, that would have been better! The actual reason Kalinda got rid of him seemed a trifle thin, at least compared to that.
Firstly, Kalinda would choose Alicia over Nick (maybe even kill him directly.)
So do we know that she didn't? I've been so mixed up on that. (Enough so that I'm planning a ficlet about it just to straighten out my own headcanon. :P)
Secondly, Alicia would find out in a way that she couldn't deny that Kalinda was in love with her.
THAT WOULD BE NICE. Although I can't even tell if the writers mean to have written, well, exactly what they freaking wrote wrt Kalicia -- that seems like a weird sentence, and then you think of the 5x22 Cary situation, the *actual text* of that conversation, and realize it's amazing that they can write things and then have no idea what they were. But with Kalinda's love for Alicia, I can't tell if they think they are just writing a really really strong friendship love. Which would be, uh, okay, sure, guys.
At any rate, I wonder if the Kings pitched and JM baulked and just said "No way! Nothing more! Never!" How she had the power to shut it down, I don't get.
Yeah, I assume that as both the star and a producer she wields a big stick, but even so, it's ridiculous how much she's getting away with.
Just thinking about the timeline, Nick should still have been around when Alicia and Kalinda shared their hotel room. Maybe finding out that they "spent the night together" was what set him off.
SO MUCH MORE SENSE-MAKING.
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Ah, thanks for answering. We pimped on Tumblr for the first time this year, and I was curious if that was your route here.
Random question about fandom and Tumblr: do people frequently post their fics to Tumblr as well as to AO3/LJ/ff.net/whatever? I haven't been sure whether to post my fics there on the Good Wife tag. I'm a Tumblr newbie so I'm trying to figure out how to navigate the site.
Not many people do, but Tumblr seems to be the place where there are more fan eyes than anywhere else now. So I've started posting a link back to AO3 and tagging it for TGW, the ship, characters, etc. I dunno if anyone clicks and reads fic that wouldn't have gone looking on an archive. But I do want our little fandom to keep attracting new readers who might turn into writers.
So do we know that she didn't? I've been so mixed up on that. (Enough so that I'm planning a ficlet about it just to straighten out my own headcanon. :P)
*shrugs* I personally found that last scene and Kalinda's enigmatic look such a fucking copout on the part of the Kings. I think they've played the "we know what happened, but you'll have to guess" trick several times too often. The only good part was the lovely bar scene with Alicia.
THAT WOULD BE NICE. Although I can't even tell if the writers mean to have written, well, exactly what they freaking wrote wrt Kalicia -- that seems like a weird sentence, and then you think of the 5x22 Cary situation, the *actual text* of that conversation, and realize it's amazing that they can write things and then have no idea what they were. But with Kalinda's love for Alicia, I can't tell if they think they are just writing a really really strong friendship love. Which would be, uh, okay, sure, guys.
I know... one increasingly wonders how much Kalinda is in the writing, and how much is Archie. But actually I do think the Kings wrote the love. I think they were all in for it, but now that Archie "can't" have scenes with JM, they have no idea what to do with her.
The whole thing is infuriating. Fanfic, apply more fanfic! If you have any ideas you want to workshop I'm here for you! :D
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Wrt fanfic I'm actually just doing a final proofread that fic that I wrote to answer my own question about whether or not K killed Nick. :P And actually, workshopping some ideas for the wider/longer-ago Kalinda backstory fic I'm percolating would be fun if you're ever up for it! But I know you're super busy, so no pressure. Just email me, I guess? I'll PM you my email address.
And I seem to remember some quotes I read awhile back from the Kings (I *read* them "awhile back"; I think they were much older than that) where they said something about Kalinda's "perfect chivalric love" for Alicia (which I loved) and said that their relationship was the primary one on the show??? And just... WHY DO YOU HATE GOOD THINGS, JM
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Your first quote I think is New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum:
"But I assume it will always come back to the essential romance of the show: Kalinda's hidden almost Medieval chivalric love for Alicia."
Which back in the mid-Season 3 *did* seem like the perfect 140 character summary of TGW :-( Emily's said a lot of great things about Kalinda and Alicia. She still really likes the show even with the disappearance of it though.
And the Kings called A/K the "core relationship of the show" said that A/K were "soulmates on a friendship level" and that they talked about A/K for "two hours a day" back during the Season 3/4 hiatus. I know Willicia shippers will always be able to top us since Kalinda isn't dead, but man did we get let down....
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TOTALLY UNRELATED: do you happen to know what kind of gun(s) Kalinda carries? I need to know for this one tiny line in my fic and it's driving me nuts!
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She's changed a lot. In S1 she used a Desert Eagle. The gun she gets out of the wall and waits with for Nick at the end of S3 is a Glock subcompact. The one she shoots at Bill in S4 is a Beretta 92FS shortframe, and by S5 when she's in bed with Jenna she has a Bersa.
In case you're now backing away and thinking "strange chick on internet knows a lot about guns..." I got all this info from Fluffy/BadFluffy/Gefling on Fan Forum. She's the weaponry expert. :D (Shady but, with all those different usernames!)
Our discussion is here (although fanforum links are often weird, so apologies if it doesn't work.)
http://www.fanforum.com/f108/kalinda-sharma%7Carchie-panjabi-%7Bsexy-bad-ass-ninja%7D-21-feeling-you-get-when-you-figure-something-out-you-live-63119616/index5.html
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