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due South 30th anniversary celebration fest
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30 Below: Go Wild! (April 22-∞)

And finally we arrive at the actual anniversary date!

This week's only goal is to do whatever your heart desires. There are no prompts. 

Think of it as amnesty period, if you'd like. Only there's still no deadline and no pressure! The whole year is anniversary year. You're never too late. The AO3 collection is open indefinitely and I will be sharing everything tagged #ds30below or mentioning @ds30below.

Your mod herself is going to catch up on participation after fest proper ends, feel free to follow her example :)

❗Note that if you're reblogging something as a contribution (e.g. responding to meta), you'll need to mention @ds30below in your reblog, since it won't show up in the tag search.

Happy anniversary, my friends!

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#due south#ds30below#benton fraser#ray kowalski#ray vecchio#mod post
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HAPPY RAY VECCHIO DAY 2025!

It's September 21st, which means Ray Vecchio Day is officially here. But don't forget the party keeps going through the 28th, so keep the Ray V appreciation coming!
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Late reblog, but not too late to go and enjoy all the beautiful fan creations for Ray Vecchio Day 2025 <3

#ray vecchio day 2025#due south
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Happy Flower Crown Day! I hope you've enjoyed festooning your favorite characters with flowers - now it's time to show that hard work off!

The AO3 collection is now live; for folks who are posting somewhere other than AO3, drop a link to wherever you've posted your work in the comments on this dw post.

You can add works for the next week, so if you (like me) aren't quiiiittee past the finish line, no worries - just because we're live doesn't mean we're done celebrating!

#flower crown day#flower crown day 2025
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I had the idea earlier this year to write 30 fics for 30 years of due South, unfortunately, I didn't quite get there. Still, it was a very prolific year for me, having posted 20 fics in total to ao3, 17 of them being dS fics. I'm pretty proud of that number, especially given that 2024 was a very tough year. Writing for these characters was a bright spot for me, and I loved being able to contribute something to this wonderful show/fandom that has been going strong for 30 years.

So, here is my due South fic round up for 2024! I hope to keep writing even more of these characters in the new year!

(*) indicates the fic is a personal fave

#fic#fraser/kowalski#fraser/vecchio#fraser/vecchio/kowalski#gen#due south#gayvecchio
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Happy Holidays!

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to say a quick thank you kindly for celebrating the 30th anniversary of due South with such enthusiasm and commitment. Your creations, discussion and squee were a joy to behold and a credit to the long history of this fandom, and seeing how active the community has become I won't be surprised if we keep going for 30 years more.

I hope 2025 will be better for you than just—

Much love and Happy New Year! —flownwrong

#ds30below#due south#canadian 6 degrees
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"There's red cats and green cats but there's no cats like partner cats."

Knitted Constable Kitten Fraser, RCMP, with his partner Detective Stray Kowalski and their companion Diefenbaker (wolf).

(Kitten Fraser wears the regulation RCMP tail uniform. Stray Kowalski has chosen a daring short sleeve + jewellery for his tail.)

Greetings from Canada!

(This is the simplest toy cat pattern I've ever seen: just a tube of 24 stitches knitted in the round, stuffed and then shaped with a few stitches, details embroidered on. Endlessly variable for making little character creatures like these!)

#art#crafts#benton fraser#ray kowalski#diefenbaker#due south#mortmere
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In Burning Down The House, Ray says that he's not an outdoors kind of guy. His exact words are "Me personally, I leave the city, I come down with this skin condition." This in itself is not a big deal - what makes it an interesting statement is the fact that in I Coulda Been A Defendant, we see him and Fraser in his apartment, packing for moving Bruce to a safe location for the night. We see them bring two sleeping bags and what appears to be a small cooler or thermos out of the bedroom, then go back in for more things we do not see. This of course leads me to ask:

Why does Ray have all this camping gear? Was the line about leaving the city an undercover thing? Is he actually more outdoorsy than we realize long before going off on an arctic adventure with Fraser?

Remember, kids: there are no wrong answers except "bad writing lol" and "You should call him Stanley actually". At least one person (me) will find your idea interesting, though I'm willing to gamble (not with money, mind you) that I won't be the only one. If you're shy, try sending your response as an anonymous ask for me to publish!

#meta#ray kowalski#due south#ds-headcanons-accepted
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It's common knowledge that Paul Gross's wife Martha Burns plays the Russian spy Nadia in "Spy vs. Spy", but there's another married couple in that episode that at least I hadn't heard of before: Mort and Ruth! Here are some photos of Jan Rubeš (1920-2009) and Susan Douglas Rubeš (1925-2013).

The above pics are from the 1980s - here are a couple of much older photos: Jan perhaps in the 1950s/60s and Susan probably in the late 1940s or early 1950s. They got married in 1950.

Also, Jan Rubes was an opera singer, so no wonder Mort was singing all the time in the morgue - even when we first meet him in "Mountie and Soul", we hear his singing before we even see the guy!

I leave you with this photo of Jan from 1971 when he was directing a children's play, because, you know: "Fishing is ridiculous!" I so wish there had been more episodes with Mort, he's one of the absolute best recurring minor characters in the entire show.

#meta#extras#mort gustafson#ruth henry#due south#jan rubes#susan rubes#c6d#mortmere
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If you're like me, you love the magical realism that sets Due South apart from so many other shows. Ghosts are real! The wolf reads maps! In the spirit of this, and with Halloween coming up, this week I have a slightly out there question for you to ponder. While it's implied that Diefenbaker's not-wolf half is dog, can we be sure it is? I don't recall Fraser ever saying Dief is half dog. In fact, upon seeing the "No Dogs" sign on the door in Chinatown, Fraser has to explain to Dief that that policy includes him as well! Which of course begs the question:

If Diefenbaker is half wolf, what is his other half?

Remember, kids: there are no wrong answers except "Dief doesn't actually read maps" and "Bob Fraser's ghost is only in Benton's head". At least one person (me) will find your idea interesting, though I'm willing to gamble (not with money, mind you) that I won't be the only one. If you're shy, try sending your response as an anonymous ask for me to publish!

#diefenbaker#due south#ds-headcanons-accepted