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A fun list of meta/resource recs below the cut. Some of them have been shared before, all of them bear citing again. Personally, I am deep into backreading ds_workshop, which is extremely fun and helpful when it comes to writing.

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"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 knew that no family member of mine would be inviting me to Thanksgiving dinner. Seated next to me at the dinner table was the MIL of my casual acquaintance, who said to me “I hear that you appreciate Shakespeare. There’s a Canadian TV show you should see -- it’s called Slings & Arrows....” And there it was, the moment that began the sealing of my fandom fate -- OH CANADA! -- I would soon be learning that “Canada is the country that is a fandom”. Slings & Arrows totally grabbed me, and my first exposure to Paul Gross was nothing short of experiencing a paradigm shift, and then I felt that I had to go in search of his other shows. So I went from Slings & Arrows in 2009 to due South in 2010 to discovering online fandom community (via stumbling onto a slash fic) in 2011.

And here's how due South led me to slash. I had finished watching the show, and having been introduced in the final episode to the notion of "the hand of Franklin, reaching for the Beaufort Sea" I did a Google search on the phrase "the hand of Franklin". Well! The top hit I got in my search did not go to a history website -- it went to a fic entitled "The Hand of Franklin" and the reference was to Sam Franklin. It was Sam Franklin/Ray Kowalski dubcon with eventual Fraser/Kowalski.

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"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 was new to fandom. It's titled "Paper Heart," it's F/K, and Tatau's summary is "AU in which Vecchio never got replaced by Kowalski. Instead, Fraser tries to cope with loneliness and happens to make the acquaintance of RayK anyway. But there’s something about Ray that makes Fraser wonder if he can trust his senses…or if he has to trust his heart instead. Taking the magical realism to the next level." Click here for "Paper Heart" on AO3.

For "something new" here's the newest thing to be posted as dS to AO3. Posted today by TheGirlAnachronism specifically made for the "30 Below Fest" is this vid called "Fraser & Vecchio, You & Me". Click here for "Fraser & Vecchio, You & Me" on AO3.

For "something borrowed" I'm considering a remix to qualify as borrowed. "Akuttujuuk: Two Placed Far Apart (the Orion Dying Remix)" is my F/K remix of "Orion Dying" by nic (link for that fic and that author are posted with my remix). Warnings for my remix: apocalypse, pandemic, potentially fatal illness, ambiguous ending. Click here for "Akuttujuuk: Two Placed Far Apart (the Orion Dying Remix)" on AO3.

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"For this week in the due South 30th Anniversary "30 Below Fest": headcanons. I'm sharing two of my Ray Kowalski headcanons here.

There are Kowalskis in my RL family and those Kowalskis are Jewish, so I headcanon that there are Jewish Kowalskis in RayK's family.

If you want to know my headcanon for how it is that Chicagoan Ray Kowalski can go undercover in Chicago as Ray Vecchio without any Chicagoans recognizing him as Ray Kowalski from an earlier life, you will find that in @feroxargentea's 2019 dSC6D Big Bang fic "Long Way Down" on AO3. (BTW, this is one of my fave fics for about a bazillion reasons, the headcanon aspect being just one of those reasons.)

Title: Ice Queen, Dragon Lady Author: ride_4ever Fandom: due South Character: Inspector Margaret Thatcher Rating: General Audiences Length: 82-word poem

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