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My Flight of the Heron fic on Squidgeworld.org
I think I've mentioned my frustration with AO3's canonical tag for Flight of the Heron before, but a bit of backstory for anyone unaware of it: the canonical tag at the time I got into the fandom was 'Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster', which was the fandom tag which people had used on works posted over the previous several years; it was changed to 'The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster' shortly afterwards, which I believe is bad for various practical and sentimental fannish reasons. There seems little prospect of it being changed back fully, although many thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
isis for your recent help with efforts to get it fixed as far as is possible.
Well, I will never acknowledgethe Hanoverian usurper as the rightful king the current canonical as an appropriate way to categorise FotH fanworks, and so I will continue to raise my glass over the water bowl when I toast 'the King' at the dinner table tag my own fics 'Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster'—this is still synned to the canonical tag, so works using it will show up in the fandom list as normal. Again a note for those unaware, you can do this too if you like.
(Silliness aside—for what might seem like a fairly unimportant and pedantic bit of stubbornness, I love this fandom and it genuinely does make me sad to see it categorised wrongly!)
However, I've recently found another way to have my fics listed correctly. I was vaguely aware of Squidgeworld/WWOMB as an older, pre-AO3 fanfiction archive which switched to using AO3's (open source) code and site format a few years ago but which does some things differently; it turns out one of the things it does differently is still categorising Flight of the Heron correctly, as 'The Flight of the Heron [Public Domain]' (following the site's usual system for book fandom tags). Thus I've decided to copy my fics over there, where they can now be found here—along withhyarrowen's fics, which are excellent and always worth a re-read. Look at them all nice there :D :D
Hopefully some day in the future,the rightful King James will return and there will be peace and joy in the land the AO3 tag will be properly fixed. But it's nice to have an alternative in the meantime; and nice in any case to be able to evade problems with any one site by having multiple options.
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isis for your recent help with efforts to get it fixed as far as is possible.Well, I will never acknowledge
(Silliness aside—for what might seem like a fairly unimportant and pedantic bit of stubbornness, I love this fandom and it genuinely does make me sad to see it categorised wrongly!)
However, I've recently found another way to have my fics listed correctly. I was vaguely aware of Squidgeworld/WWOMB as an older, pre-AO3 fanfiction archive which switched to using AO3's (open source) code and site format a few years ago but which does some things differently; it turns out one of the things it does differently is still categorising Flight of the Heron correctly, as 'The Flight of the Heron [Public Domain]' (following the site's usual system for book fandom tags). Thus I've decided to copy my fics over there, where they can now be found here—along with
hyarrowen's fics, which are excellent and always worth a re-read. Look at them all nice there :D :DHopefully some day in the future,
:)
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The Dark Mile: For post-canon everybody-lives AUs, I tend to place Keith as Ewen's factor at Ardroy; the bit where the villain publicly embarrasses Ewen by planting some "stolen" cattle among his herd would be particularly interesting for their relationship, I think, if it had been Keith's job to know how many cattle are in the herd and where they came from, and thus it had been Keith's alleged negligence that had led to Ewen's embarrassment.
Of course, when it comes out that the whole thing had been a frame-up, Keith, who up to now had been somewhat contemptuous of inter-clan politics, will be MORE than happy to break some skulls over it...
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Oh, I see! I like that analogy, then :D
And ooh, that is a very interesting idea! I love the thought of Keith with an established role at Ardroy being drawn into the clan conflicts of the post-Archie's-betrayal situation—yes, there's a lot of potential there...
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