Happy 20th Anniversary to one of my fave Canadian Six Degrees TV shows: Corner Gas. It premiered on this day -- January 22 -- in the year 2004.
Read about Corner Gas on Wikipedia.
Read about Corner Gas on Wikipedia.
I wrote this for the 2023 Con*Strict eZine. The icon of RayK undercover as Zero was made for me by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amedia.
Title: Zero-Sum Gambit
Fandoms: due South, Tin Man, Canadian Six Degrees
Rating: Teen & Up
Category: Gen, M/M
Relationship: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Robert "Bob" Fraser, Wyatt Cain, Zero, Azkadellia, Mystic Man
Word count: 1,149
Summary: Azkadellia, Queen of the Outer Zone, possessed by the spirit of an evil witch, aims to have complete control of all that is Light and all that is Dark in the OZ. Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, and Wyatt Cain -- with some guidance by Mystic Man -- team up to thwart her.
Fic on AO3.
amedia.Title: Zero-Sum Gambit
Fandoms: due South, Tin Man, Canadian Six Degrees
Rating: Teen & Up
Category: Gen, M/M
Relationship: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Robert "Bob" Fraser, Wyatt Cain, Zero, Azkadellia, Mystic Man
Word count: 1,149
Summary: Azkadellia, Queen of the Outer Zone, possessed by the spirit of an evil witch, aims to have complete control of all that is Light and all that is Dark in the OZ. Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, and Wyatt Cain -- with some guidance by Mystic Man -- team up to thwart her.
Fic on AO3.
getting my DW up-to-date
Sep. 18th, 2012 10:48 pmInfo posted at LJ prior to DW crossposting set-up :
My dS and C6D fic is all archived at http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ride_Forever/pseuds/Ride_Forever/works .
My dS and C6D fic is all archived at http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ride_Forever/pseuds/Ride_Forever/works .
(text below as it appeared in "RA For All" blog)
I write short stories and poetry in the mainstream, and also in fan fiction (or -- as the writers and readers thereof call it – fanfic, or simply fic). No one asks me why I write the former; for whatever reason, I am often asked why I write the latter.
There is no monetary reason involved in the desire to write fanfic…in fact, fic writers know that monetary gain from fic would actually be illegal, as it would constitute copyright infringement (without the involvement of money, it can come under the heading of what is known as “transformative works”allowed under certain circumstances by the U.S. “Fair Use Doctrine” and the Canadian “Fair Dealings Doctrine”). The reasons I write fic have to do with gains of a non-monetary nature : the pleasure of giving an ongoing existence to specific much-loved characters of a television show or movie, the lively interactive readership, the supportive community of fellow fic writers and fic vidders, and the arena for polishing writerly skills. Another very great gain, one which with the passage of time becomes evident, is how writing fic may lead to some deep and lasting friendships, including international friendships, between people who otherwise would never have known each other : I have correspondences and invitations to visit fic writers from around the world who are in my fandom.
There are, then, a number of connected reasons why I write fanfic…and there is the overarching reason that connects them all. That reason is summed up in a famous line from the penultimate scene of a movie in my fandom (my primary fandom being the Canadian TV show “due South” [sic lower-case “d”] and my secondary fandom being that which radiates out from “due South,” variously called either “Canadian Six Degrees,” “Six Degrees of due South,” or simply “C6D”) : in the “C6D” movie “Hard Core Logo,” there is famously the line “and in the end, it’s love”. So,why do I write fanfic, and why does any writer write fanfic : there are a number of reasons, and in the end, it’s love.
I write short stories and poetry in the mainstream, and also in fan fiction (or -- as the writers and readers thereof call it – fanfic, or simply fic). No one asks me why I write the former; for whatever reason, I am often asked why I write the latter.
There is no monetary reason involved in the desire to write fanfic…in fact, fic writers know that monetary gain from fic would actually be illegal, as it would constitute copyright infringement (without the involvement of money, it can come under the heading of what is known as “transformative works”allowed under certain circumstances by the U.S. “Fair Use Doctrine” and the Canadian “Fair Dealings Doctrine”). The reasons I write fic have to do with gains of a non-monetary nature : the pleasure of giving an ongoing existence to specific much-loved characters of a television show or movie, the lively interactive readership, the supportive community of fellow fic writers and fic vidders, and the arena for polishing writerly skills. Another very great gain, one which with the passage of time becomes evident, is how writing fic may lead to some deep and lasting friendships, including international friendships, between people who otherwise would never have known each other : I have correspondences and invitations to visit fic writers from around the world who are in my fandom.
There are, then, a number of connected reasons why I write fanfic…and there is the overarching reason that connects them all. That reason is summed up in a famous line from the penultimate scene of a movie in my fandom (my primary fandom being the Canadian TV show “due South” [sic lower-case “d”] and my secondary fandom being that which radiates out from “due South,” variously called either “Canadian Six Degrees,” “Six Degrees of due South,” or simply “C6D”) : in the “C6D” movie “Hard Core Logo,” there is famously the line “and in the end, it’s love”. So,why do I write fanfic, and why does any writer write fanfic : there are a number of reasons, and in the end, it’s love.
