FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (08/01/14-08/31/14)

For the month of August, in Forever Knight, in my corners of social journaling, here are the items that I spotted:

Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• fkficfest/fkficfest released 9 all-new FK stories!
• spook_me, a multifandom horror ficathon, has sign-ups through 9/15, with stories due 10/26. FK is eligible.
• "Big Bang" games in progress include journeystory, screenplaystory and polybigbang. FK is eligible for all.
• femslashex is an annual multifandom f/f exchange game. FK is eligible, but it looks like nobody requested it.
• fancake, the multifandom fanwork recommendation community, is currently focused on the theme "pining." FK is eligible.
• genprompt_bingo is a multifandom challenge game with gen prompts (fills may or may not be gen). FK is eligible.
• ladiesbingo is a multifandom challenge game for all kinds of relationships between female characters. FK is eligible.

Fanfiction

• FKFicFest 2014:
  • "Preserve Your Memories" by Batdina (~2K words, Teen)
  • "Missing Persons" by Brightknightie (~8K words, Teen)
  • "Rock Bottom" by MelissaTreglia (~2K words, Explicit)
  • "Janette in Love(?)" by WaltD (~2K words, Teen)
  • "How to Disappear Completely" by PJ1228 (~14K words, Teen)
  • "The Long Way Home" by Twilight2000 (~5K words, General)
  • "To Live Forever" by Leela (~3K words, Explicit)
  • "A Twinge in an Old Wound" by GreerWatson (~7K words, Teen)
  • "Never What it Seems" by LastScorpion (~2K words, General)
• 11 FK works on the AO3 currently show August 2014 as their publication date. 9 are from FKFicFest. The other 2, "Chance Encounters of the Impossible Kind" (400 words) and "Pick Me Up" (275 words), are by Merfilly.

Meta (Discussion, Essays, Etc.)

• 8/23: pj1228 pointed to FKFicFest and linked to the fest story that LastScorpion wrote for her prompt, and the story that she wrote for Twilight2000's prompt.
• 8/24: pj1228 noted Lacroix's "Conversion Day" and linked to two commemorative stories she'd written for that anniversary in past years.
• 9/02: greerwatson described her busy summer holiday at FKFicFest time and mentioned the fest story that I wrote for her prompt.
• 9/06: greerwatson is looking to coordinate on Yuletide character nominations with anyone else planning to nominate FK.

Fannish Vocabulary Trivia

(aka What do you call a gen story that sets the stage for a future romance? Anything?)

Is "pre-slash" still a significant genre label, or has it been subsumed into the orientation-agnostic "UST" label? If "pre-slash" is still in wide, active use, did it ever develop a het-specific equivalent? The nuances would be wrong for a precisely mirror term, I realize, as "pre-slash" often applied when building realizations or admissions from subtext rather than text, and het rarely requires foundation-up construction from subtext, but the precise use of words always interests me, and I've seen "pre-relationship" popping up more, too. How similar and how different are all these terms in today's general expectations? Has the emphasis shifted in recent years? Is it still "pre-slash" when the slash is canon?

(I've been reading OuaT, mainly Mulan/Aurora and Hook/Emma, so the question is primarily f/f-inspired now, though past experience with the term was primarily m/m from the sidelines of assorted other fandoms. The term never had wide utility in FK.)

Just curious!