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Roy has a new English language movie called "Pointe Noire" that is slowly being rolled out to regional festivals. He plays a Louisiana based documentary filmmaker and crawfish fisherman who gets involved in helping an attorney get a stay of execution for a death row inmate. It's semiautobiographical for the filmmaker. Roy does so few English language films, but he's been on a roll with the English language projects. It won't be long before he retreats back to French language jobs so it's nice to highlight these projects when they come. He filmed this movie back in 2023 and rather than fly down to Louisiana, he chose to make a road trip out of it and drove a Tesla down from Montreal.

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Title: tfw you cuddle so hard you swap bodies
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types
Pairing/Characters: Gali/Takua | Takanuva
Rating/Category: Teen, Het
Prompt: Bionicle - All Media Types, Takua | Takanuva/Gali, waking up in each other's minds/bodies
Spoilers: Spoils some of the major twist of the Ignition arc (second to last arc in the series)
Summary: I think this one is fairly self-explanatory from the title. (that's verbatim from the Ao3 summary)
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it here on Ao3!

mific posting in

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Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America, The Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Nick Fury, Phil Coulsen, various MCU characters
Rating: Mature
Length: 04:21:03 (41,322 words)
Content Notes: Graphic depictions of violence, abuse of children by the Red Room, recollection of past pet death
Creator Links: Quietnight on the Audiofic Archive, Quietnight on AO3, notcaycepollard on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Families of choice, Time travel, Fix-it

Summary: The fall is longer than Natasha expects.

It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of my favourite podfics by one of my favourite podficcers, and it's a tour de force. It's a long story by notcaycepollard that puts right Natasha's death with the soul stone - instead of dying she's sent back in time to the moment in her Red Room training she most regrets, and from that moment lives her life anew and, with her knowledge of the first time around, is able to fix the worst, most tragic disasters and losses of canon. It starts with Natasha rescuing her sister trainee black widows from the Red Room, plus Bucky the Winter Soldier who's there as well. There's a lovely, slow-burn relationship with Maria Hill in the story, but the key relationships for Natasha are with her sisters, aged from a four-year-old to teenagers when they escape, and the podfic's centre is the found family they create. The fix-it aspects are enormously satisfying and Quietnight's reading is, as ever, nuanced and fluent, beautifully performed - including all the Russian names and words, and a pleasure to listen to. An epic story and a wonderful podfic, stirring and heartwarming, and infinitely better than canon.

Fanwork Links: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) on the Audiofic Archive, and on AO3
(the fic is the first in a series of three stories)

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periru3 and I have posted the first two vids in our ongoing vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette:

Title: All I Really Want
Character/Pairing: Buffy-centric, minor Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Faith, Buffy/Spike
Summary: Here, can you handle this?
Notes: Premiered at VidUKon 2025.

AO3 | DW | Tumblr

Title: Hand in My Pocket
Character/Pairing: Scoobies gen
Summary: Everything's gonna be quite alright.

AO3 | DW | Tumblr

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Length: 1866 words
Creator Links:

danahid
Theme: Female relationships

Summary:

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.

There are rules of diplomacy that you have been trained to follow. There are realities that you have been educated to expect. You are poised and dedicated and intelligent and professional, and there are horrors in the universe that you don’t want your sisters to know. There are false maps to terrible places that you don’t want your sisters to follow. You know that you can’t protect them from everything, but this you can protect them from for a little while longer.

Reccer's Notes: I am partial to stories that explore why people join Starfleet, and this is an excellent example. While the story talks about Uhura's motivations, it also explores her relationship with her younger sisters. She is both inspiration and protector to them, and she's very aware of her role.

This story takes on both the promise and sacrifice of going beyond traditional roles. Yes, Uhura accomplishes so much, but those accomplishments come at a cost, a cost she doesn't want her sisters to know about because she wants them to find their own way.

Danahid's writing is always exact and meticulous and beautiful, and this story is no exception. There's so much in these 1800 words, including a beautiful ending.

Fanwork Links: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters

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Title: Root Cause
Author: Tarlan (

tarlanx)
Fandom: Traders (TV 1995)
Pairing/Characters: Jack Larkin/Grant Jansky
Rating/Category: PG13 Slash
Prompt: Grant's mental breakdown draws Jack out of hiding after his faked death.
Word Count: 921
Spoilers: None
Summary: Grant's mental breakdown draws Jack out of hiding after his faked death.

Content Notes: None

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66534064

pj1228

fkficfest released 12 new Forever Knight stories. I enjoyed them all. It was interesting to see how different people approached 5 different prompts. Despite the differences in preferences that the fandom entails, it was amazing how sometimes stories addressed the same issues.
We got new insights into the bond related vampires share. New cures were explored. Lacroix had quite a bit of cleaning up to do. Crimes needed to be solved. Friendships were put to the test.

My own contribution was a case-fic called Too Old and Powerful, in which Nick gets another chance at a cure.

misura posting in

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Title: tell me lies (tell me sweet little lies)
Author: misura
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Pairing/Characters: Edgin/Xenk
Rating/Category: PG/slash
Prompt: fake relationship
Spoilers: not really
Summary: Edgin asks Xenk to be his fake boyfriend. For Reasons.
Notes/Warnings: posted to the AO3

mific posting in

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Rating: Teen
Length: 8824
Content Notes: canon-typical violence, minor character death
Creator Links: Rachel500 on AO3, ArwenLune on AO3, ArwenLune on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Friendship, Women being awesome

Summary: When a diplomatic mission is interrupted by the Wraith, Sam and Teyla wrestle their personal demons to work together and find a way back to Atlantis.

Reccer's Notes:
This is set soon after Sam Carter comes to Atlantis to replace Elizabeth, and both she and Teyla initially grapple with her new role. Teyla, unlike John and Rodney, had no prior knowledge of Sam Carter and can't help missing Elizabeth and not fully trusting Carter. Then a mission goes badly wrong and they're thrown together, and have to find a way through their feelings as they deal with the dangerous situation. It's a gripping read with interesting character explorations and a satisfying ending. There's also a podfic version, excellently read by ArwenLune.

Fanwork Links: Walk Beside Me on AO3
And the Podfic, read by ArwenLune

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Fandom: Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Fixing a Flat (Norman Rockwell illustration)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda; three Norman Rockwell characters, two female and one male.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,356
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, women solving their own problems
Creator Tags: magazine illustrations, Norman Rockwell - Freeform, Fluff, Plot
Creator Links: (AO3)

moon_custafer; (DeviantArt)

mooncustafer; (Dreamwidth)

moon_custafer; (Instagram)

mooncustafer; (LiveJournal)

moon_custafer; (Tumblr)

mooncustafer
Theme: Female Relationships, Crossovers/Fusions, Female Friendship, Gen, Heists & Capers, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms, Stranded

Summary: Hilda’s fishing trip is struck by rain and then by two new acquaintances in need of assistance.

Author’s Notes: For moonlight69.

I needed to introduce a few additional characters to Hilda’s mainly single-panel world, so I did a mash-up with Norman Rockwell’s “Fixing a Flat.” Think of it as the Illustrationverse.

Reccer's Notes: A rec posted in honor of the U.S. Full Strawberry Moon, for reasons that will be apparent in the fic.

Moon Custafer constructs a story from several Hilda panels (plus a special guest Norman Rockwell work), in which Duane Bryers’ zaftig hillbilly wood nymph comes to the aid of two travelers stranded in the boondocks—a predicament complicated by a less friendly local. (A temporary problem-solving alliance (particularly against a common enemy) can count as a relationship, right?)

Hilda as portrayed in Bryers’ artworks seems to embrace solitude, and the scant fanfic I’ve seen doesn’t tend to show her interacting face-to-face with much of anyone but her animal friends and the odd Authorial Proxy; it’s fun to watch her socializing, and to see her given family, friends, enemies, and a history. (As well as actual clothing that she presumably wears now and then to pick up her crackers, trashy novels, and repurposable-as-clothing floursacks.)

Fanwork Links: Fixing a Flat by

moon_custafer for

moonlight69, for Yuletide 2018.

bluerosekatie posting in

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Title: Birthplace of Stars
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Hoshi no Kaabii | Kirby: Right Back At Ya! (anime)
Pairing/Characters: Meta Knight & Kirby & Fumu | Tiff & Bun | Tuff
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: Kirby: Right Back At Ya! | Hoshi no Kaabii (anime), Meta Knight & Kirby & Tiff & Tuff, "Where did Kirby come from?"
Spoilers: Implied/references to canon only, no concrete spoilers.
Summary: The question had to come up at some point. Tiff and Tuff get curious, and who better to ask about Star Warriors than Meta Knight?

Notes/Warnings: Fic is archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!

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Title: One Good Hoax Deserves Another
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/V (1983) (tv)
Rating: PG13/Gen
Pairing/Characters: Jessica Fletcher & Juliet Parrish (appearances by Mike Donovan and Elias Taylor)
Length: 3,380 words
Spoilers: Takes place during ep 1.04 Hooray for Homicide of Murder, She Wrote and during the first V (1983) mini-series.
Summary: Jessica Fletcher’s trip to Los Angeles turns out very differently than she’d expected.
Author’s Notes: Written for Round 37 of

smallfandomfest for the prompt: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/V (1983), Jessica & Writer's Choice, Jessica happens to be in LA when the truth about the Visitors is revealed.
Feedback: Would be greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Posted: June 10, 2025

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66375037

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Title: One Good Hoax Deserves Another
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/V (1983) (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Jessica Fletcher & Juliet Parrish (appearances by Mike Donovan and Elias Taylor)
Rating/Category: PG13/Gen
Prompt: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/V (1983), Jessica & Writer's Choice, Jessica happens to be in LA when the truth about the Visitors is revealed
Spoilers: Takes place during ep 1.04 Hooray for Homicide of Murder, She Wrote and during the first V (1983) mini-series.
Summary: Jessica Fletcher's trip to Los Angeles turns out very differently than she'd expected.
Notes/Warnings: n/a

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66375037

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brightknightie

fkficfest '25 has concluded! We had lovely, diverse stories, and lovely, kind interactions, all around. Forever Knight fandom has always been such a jumble of approaches, with its mishmash of genres and themes attracting wildly dissimilar approaches and interpretations. It's touching and heartening that we can play together at all, much less this successfully. Thank you.

Some years, I feel that being the game's moderator should block me from making story recommendations, and I hold my peace. This year, I feel that it's okay to go ahead and point out a few stories that happened to offer particularly distinct elements to me, personally, subjectively, as a reader and not moderator.

"A Duty to Serve" by Calliope24 (G, gen, ~2K words): Set during the tumult of "A More Permanent Hell," a uniformed Tracy tries to serve while her father orders her off the streets, and Stonetree steps in. I found the efforts of all the characters to endure and serve the common good during this civilizational collapse powerful, and Stonetree's measured optimism -- not just about the ultimate end, but faith in people -- invigorating. I also admire the imagination and depiction of this canon bubble; of course the third-season characters lived second-season, and of course Stonetree knew Commissioner Vetter.

"Unpacking" by SwitchbladeEyes (T, gen, ~11K words): Set immediately after "Sons of Belial," Nick's reaction to the demon incident brings all of Natalie's undealt-with feelings about Richard's death in "I Will Repay" roaring to the surface. I found this story's cadence, tone, and voice so resonantly third-season that it felt -- for better and for worse, for familiarity and for discomfort -- like it could indeed have been the next canonical episode after "Sons of Belial," if such continuity had been a thing in those days, and also that it could then have broken third-season's fall and climbed back up onto a more promising path by dealing with pain and not only piling it up.

"Daylight" by Nicholas_Lucien (T, gen, ~2K words): This songfic goes around and around, like the verses of a song with a refrain, in a way that made my brain react to it more like poetry than prose. It makes an interesting choice, to call Nick/Nicolas/Nicholas by those different names as it shifts through Nick's, Janette's, and Lacroix's perspectives regardless of the historical era, creating prism-like views on each situation. The reader may interpret the cyclical structure to indicate that Nick will never win. I choose to interpret it, for myself, instead to indicate that Nick will never stop striving.

Separately, the story that I contributed myself is "Reconcilable Differences" (T, gen, ~5K words). Thank you,

batdina, for beta-reading! Set early in the long hiatus between the first and second seasons, it pokes at the trope of Natalie treating a badly injured Nick by dosing him with the blood that she otherwise insists is the barrier to all his hopes. Both Nick and Natalie, of course, want Nick to both live and become human, but when something happens to make Nick believe that he can have only one or the other, he and Natalie are not necessarily in harmony on which and why and how. The story addresses the game prompt "I’m going to tell you something you don’t want to hear;" I think that it goes both ways between them. I definitely found it easier to put Nick and Natalie into this mess than to get them out again, but I like to think that I did so in the end.

misura posting in

smallfandomfest

Title: Water of Life
Author: misura
Fandom: The Following
Pairing/Characters: Joe Carroll/Ryan Hardy
Rating/Category: PG13/slash
Prompt: I've tasted hell and it tastes just like you
Spoilers: vaguely, up to S2?
Summary: “Problem?” Joe sounds like he hopes the answer is ‘yes’.
Notes/Warnings: posted to the AO3. Joe should probably be his own warning.

misura posting in

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Title: Lie or Dare
Author: misura
Fandom: NCIS: New Orleans (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Sonja Percy/Chris LaSalle
Rating/Category: PG/het
Prompt: undercover as a couple
Spoilers: nah
Summary: “Look,” Chris said. “Last - what, six times we went in undercover, it took people less than five minutes to ask if we were a couple.”
Notes/Warnings: posted to the AO3

abby82 posting in

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pick up your sword
by abby82

category: Post Series
rating: General
word count: 4,800
warnings: None
author’s note: This story came together in less than a week when I hit a brick wall on another story I was working on. It's based on the screen grab for the title card from Roy's 2013 movie, "L'Autre Maison". He plays a photojournalist whose goes to Afghanistan and the NATO convoy he was riding in gets hit by a roadside bomb. The sequence in the film inspired the mission that Michael wants to participate in.

story began and finished: June 2025

links: DW | AO3 | Tumblr

summary: Nikita pulls rank when Michael proposes going out into the field for a Section One mission.

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Roy was in attendance at the recently held Canadian Screen Awards with his girlfriend Christine. Both of them were nominated but neither won their category. Roy presented one of the final awards of the night, Best Lead Performer--Drama Series. He wore the same suit he wore at last year's Cannes premiere of Rumours.

I think it's a fun coincidence that the category Roy presented is the equivalent to the one Peta Wilson was nominated for several times during the run of LFN when it was called the Gemini Awards.

There's a little banter about Toronto and the Maple Leaf's NHL payoffs performance. Roy offered the winner announcement to his co-presenter but he declined and told Roy that the honor was supposed to be his. Roy quipped that he didn't have his glasses and proceeded to stare pretty intently at the envelope while trying to read the winning name. The entire ceremony is available on YouTube. Roy's segment is near the end, at the 1 hour, 50 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyPl8ZbUHM

Christine also reposted on her Instagram a photo the Canadian Academy had of her and Roy on the Red Carpet.

https://www.7jours.ca/2025/06/02/tout-de-noir-vetus-roy-dupuis-et-christine-beaulieu-font-tourner-les-tetes-sur-un-tapis-rouge

( More photos here )

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Fandom: Trails of Cold Steel
Pairings/Characters:
Laura S. Arseid/Duvalie, Ines/Ennea, Victor S. Arseid/McBurn
appearances by other assorted Cold Steel characters and hints of other ships Rating: M
Length: 22442 words
Creator Links: Rosie_Rues
Theme:
Grief/Mourning, Dreamsharing, Recovery, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, changing roles in life, loss of limb
Summary: With the Great Twilight over, Duvalie follows Laura home to Legram. She's not entirely sure why she's here, or when she's going to leave, but she can't bring herself to regret her choice.

Meanwhile, Victor's dreaming of the only man in the universe still willing to offer him a challenge...

Reccer's Notes: While I have read this fic several times, the most recent was some time ago, I always remember it as being roughly half of one ship and half of another- I note this here because one of those ships is M/M. In my rereading, I see the balance is more 2/3 to 1/3, with the bulk of it being the theme-compliant Laura/Duvalie, who begins as something of a lost and reluctant guest in Laura's home in the wake of the loss of the woman who saved her. The emotional metamorphosis of Duvalie's canonical hostility towards Laura- already very much blunted as the story opens, turn to friendship and later towards attraction is an absolute treasure. There are many smaller moments of many relationships of varying sorts between her and otter female characters throughout the story, some of which absolutely beg for stories of their own.

The M/M ships is Victor/McBurn, and they are a prominent part of the story- really a story occurring in parallel, but separately- until it suddenly isn't. While I don't want to dwell on them in this post as they are not germane to the theme, it bears mentioning that they are there in case they would turn anyone off from reading. But I will say that their development is quite astounding, a sword master who has lost an arm, a god who has lost his world and any connection to it and what they become to each other.

This fic deals with grief in many forms, over many different kinds of loss, from loss of friends, comrades in arms, loss of a limb, loss of connection to oneself and an entire world. It's all very sensitively written, and even the absolutely fantastical loss of a god from another dimension with his entire world somehow becomes much less fantastical than one might expect.

There are also themes of many different changes in life that come with time passing and with dealing with these griefs. Oh, and the very cracky-sounding, but utterly sincerely dealt with coping with the shock of learning that your father is banging the demon god from another dimension. (that needs to be a tag, ok)

This is just one of my favorite ever fics, by one of my favorite authors.
Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45897169

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abby82 in lafemmenikita_fans - New Roy Movie: "Pointe Noire" by Pat Mire
bluerosekatie in smallfandomfest - Fanfic, Bionicle - All Media Types, Takanuva/Gali, waking up in each other's minds/bodies
mific in fancake - MCU: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) - podfic by Quietnight
tafadhali in vidding - Two New Vids (BtVS)
garryowen in fancake - Star Trek AOS: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters by Danahid
tarlanx in smallfandomfest - Fanfic, Traders, Jack/Grant, Grant's mental breakdown draws Jack out of hiding after his faked death
pj1228 - FKFicFest released 12 new FK stories
misura in smallfandomfest - fanfic, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Edgin/Xenk, Fake relationship
mific in fancake - SGA: Walk Beside Me by Rachel500
full_metal_ox in fancake - Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Norman Rockwell: Fixing a Flat, by moon_custafer.
bluerosekatie in smallfandomfest - Fanfic, Hoshi no Kaabii (anime), Meta Knight & Kirby & Tiff & Tuff, "Where did Kirby come from?"
spikedluv in smallfandom_nb - Fic: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/V (1983) (tv): One Good Hoax Deserves Another (Jessica & Julie; PG13)
spikedluv in smallfandomfest - Fic, Murder She Wrote (tv)/V (1983) (tv), Jessica & Julie, the truth about the Vistors is revealed
iddybangmod in fandom_on_dw - Multifandom: Iddy Iddy Bang Bang! 2025 - Signups open July 10!
brightknightie - My FKFicFest '25 recommendations + what I wrote
misura in smallfandomfest - fanfic, The Following, Ryan/Joe, I’ve tasted hell and it tastes just like you.
misura in smallfandomfest - fanfic, NCIS: New Orleans (tv), Sonja/Chris, Undercover as a couple
abby82 in lafemmenikita_fans - Fic: pick up your sword
abby82 in lafemmenikita_fans - Roy at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards
eratoschild in fancake - Trails of Cold Steel: Moon Door IV: Beyond