ride_4ever

Title: For I Will Consider My Half-Wolf Diefenbaker
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Relationship: Benton Fraser & Diefenbaker
Characters: Benton Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker, mention of Ray Vecchio, mention of Ray Kowalski
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 151 words

Summary: Fraser considers aspects of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the 13th Canadian Prime Minister).

AN: Inspired by “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy” by Mary Oliver, which in turn was inspired by “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry” by Christopher Smart. No copyright infringement intended.

Fic on AO3.

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 here's the seventh).

That final prompt of the 30 Below Fest was called "Go Wild Week" and the meaning of that was left open to interpretation. I'm choosing to do it as reccing in two categories that I wouldn't ordinarily rec: reccing a WIP and reccing a tagged "unfinished and discontinued". (Coincidentally, both of these dS fics are science fiction AUs and are F/K.)

For one, there's the series Real Life on AO3, currently comprised of two completed parts ("Real Boys" and "Real Worlds") and with a third part ("Real Girls") that's an active WIP posting snippet-by-snippet on Dreamwidth. On AO3 the author's pseud is MSSalieri and on Dreamwidth it's troyswann (also, in some other fannish spaces, simply "salieri").

The other is The Xenobiology Service on AO3 by luzula. She is still very much active in writing fic, but has been writing in a fandom other than dS for some time now. While I'm sad that she doesn't plan to continue this fic, what there is of it I <3 so much that I've read it and reread it multiple times over the course of years.

Title: That Dream Again & That Awakening
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker
Word count: 139

Summary: Ray dreams that dream again, then he awakens.

Fic on AO3.

September 21 is considered to be Ray Vecchio's birthday and is celebrated annually by due South fandom as "Ray Vecchio Day". I did write a RayV-centric fic on September 21, but I was away from home at the Con*Strict Slashcon at the time and it's taken me a little while after returning home to get back up to speed about posting for Fannish Fifty.

Here's what I wrote and posted on September 21 for "Ray Vecchio Day":

Title: September 21 in Las Vegas
Fandom: due South
Category: Gen
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Armando Langoustini
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 139

Summary: September 21 in Las Vegas and it's Ray Vecchio's birthday.

AN: Written for Ray Vecchio Day 2024, and for the RCW 139 Ficlets Collection, and for the dSC6D snippets comm on Dreamwidth.

Fic on AO3.

The RCW 139 Ficlets Collection is in a format inspired by the ubiquitous license plate number in due South. The format: write a 139-word 3-paragraph fic where the first paragraph starts with "R," the second paragraph starts with "C," and the third paragraph starts with "W". The collection is on AO3 -- open, unmoderated, and no deadline. Write and post your fic for due South or for any of the Canadian Six Degrees fandoms!

RCW 139 Ficlets Collection profile on AO3

RCW 139 Ficlets page on Tumblr

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 an annotated transcript of every episode of the show. See fox's "Return to due South: index of annotated transcripts" at fox's DW.

dS meta by truepenny was originally on LJ. That account has been deleted and now appears on DW as truepenny: entries tagged with due south. It covers the pilot episode through the second episode of the last season. (Do note that truepenny stopped short of going to the end of the final season. And perhaps new comments on those posts might inspire her to complete the meta for that season?)

For a meta-specific dS comm on LJ, there's ds_meta.

Additionally, somewhere you'll have to hunt around a bit because they contain meta but also contain other dS topics, are these two LJ comms: ds_discourse and ds_workshop.

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 South
Character: Inspector Margaret Thatcher
Rating: Gen
Length: 82-word poem

Fic on AO3.

It's the Eleventh of March, dS fen! You know I gotta do this:

Title: When You Walk Through the Fire with a Wolf
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Characters: Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker
Rating: General Audience
Length: 212 words
AN: Written for two challenges -- a dSC6D snippets prompt challenge and a prompt challenge for the 10th Anniversary of International Fanworks Day. Challenge details are posted with the fic.

Summary: AU where Benton Fraser is a rabbi at a Reconstructionist Congregation in Chicago.

Fic on AO3.

Reposting this post from yesterday made by flamingoslim:

I have a stash of due South slash zines I'd like to rehome. The creator, Rosemary (AKA tiranog) published this Fraser/Vecchio zine -- title "Thank You, Kindly" -- in 2000. Rosemary was my housemate and passed away in 2018. I found 8 copies of this zine, originals, that she never sold, and would love to find homes for them. I'm only asking for postage. If anyone is interested in a copy, please write me directly at flamingoslim at ourlakehouse dot net.