switchbladeeyes

I've mentioned my "box of FK stuff" that has somehow survived many, many moves across the decades. I've finished combing through it and:

So many random things lol. Like why did I keep the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce's guide to dining in the area from "Bridging the Knight"?? And my con registration form? Flyers advertising cons I never went to? What for? Hahaha! There are certainly things I'm glad I kept like the con/auction program (with some autographs!) and auction catalogue. But who cares where you could get a bite to eat in San Ramon in 1997?

Turns out, I have a fuck ton more photos from "Bridging the Knight" than I previously thought. They were mixed in with photos from an unrelated, non-FK con so I had overlooked them. The new photos must have been from a different day because people are wearing different clothes. I also must have picked up film with a higher film speed because a number of the photos are much better quality/better lit than the earlier ones. At some point, I will figure out how to use my scanner and scan the ones of the actors and auction items. (I've been taking pictures of my other "finds" with my phone but, for some reason, phone photos of print photos don't turn out that well.)

I'm wearing a faction pin in some of the photos. I thiiiink it was a Cousin pin (it's small and faint in pictures so a little hard to make out). The pin was not among the stuff that has survived, unfortunately.

I have a couple print zines. Remember when that was a thing? One is full of funny stories and has very funny illustrations. I'll have to share those eventually. The other is a collection of LaCroix's quotes organized topically.

There's just a bunch of miscellaneous papers. Some must have been mailed to me and others I must have picked up at the con. Examples include an FK "fortune teller" (it's like a folded paper thing, also sometimes know as a "cootie catcher"), a pamphlet explaining the factions and faction wars (through war 7) along with faction symbols, a Caddy that you color in and cut out then tape into a 3 dimensional object, Kickstart the Knight stuff, various fan club flyers... it's quite a varied assortment.

There's a fan fic from 1996 that I printed out lol. I'll have to read it.

I'm sure I had more than this at one point, but not everything survived. Most particularly a bummer for me are most letters (postal mail) exchanged with other fans. I tossed a lot of old letters (not just these) about 5 years ago. I was purging stuff, re-read a bunch of letters, and didn't keep them. I'm kind of kicking my past self for it, but it was a moving situation and I had to get rid of a lot of things. Also not found was a playbill and newspaper clipping about a play I saw Ger in (it's funny that I distinctly remember clipping the paper). Maybe that will turn up somewhere else, but I think it unlikely.

I got a little misty-eyed going through the rest of this stuff!! FK was my first fandom, discovered not long after I got the internet in summer 1996. I was eventually involved in others and moved away from the FK fandom after a few years, but I have a real soft spot in my heart for it and that particular point in time.

Also occupying space in the box is some Highlander stuff, but that's a whole other fandom and a whole other fannish story...