FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (1/01/16-1/31/16)

For the month of January, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• halfamoon, an annual fest celebrating women characters, runs 2/01-2/14, including a fanwork request meme, daily prompt challenges, and more. FK's women are eligible!
• fandomweekly, a new weekly fanfic challenge community, invites >1K words fanfics on a theme, with voting for reader favorites. (Opening theme: "New beginnings.") FK is eligible!
• fandom_stocking revealed on 1/08. Here's a list of the FK wishes fulfilled.
• Recommendation communities that would welcome you posting about your FK favorites include: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf and fancake. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

Fanfiction
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary
5 of the 638 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in this period:

• "Girl With A Book by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665)" by FalconHorus (~1K words, T)
• "Nick's Caddy turns out to be a Transformer" by Merfilly (~100 words, G)
• "Untitled" by Merfilly (~100 words, not rated)
• "Crema of the Jest" by Gryphonrhi (~200 words, G)
• "Across the Ages" by mific (graphic)

Actors
1/10: pj1228 reported that Nigel Bennett was nominated for an ACTRA Award for his work as Chief Constable Giles in Murdoch Mysteries.

Meta (essays, discussion, etc.)

• 1/09: pj1228's 2015 fanfic retrospective included 7 FK stories.
• 1/08: lightbird mentioned receiving some FK Fandom Stocking stuffers.
• 1/05: havocthecat's 2012-2015 fanfic retrospective included 1 FK story.
• 1/01: skieswideopen's 2015 fanfic review included 1 FK story.

new default userpic icon

My new default userpic icon is a variation on the banner graphic on my journals, a stylized blue-and-black-and-white Toronto skyline (circa 1992-1996), plus the moon that somehow seems always to hang full over FK. I've had this icon on my hard-drive since at least 2011, I see, in my giant file of miscellaneous attempts at crafting userpics.

Until just now, I'd used the same default userpic icon on DW, LJ and AO3 since at least 2007. That previous, long-familiar, blue-and-black image of a sun's corona around a mounted knight came from the logo graphic on my FK fansite, which I must admit to not having updated at all in several years now.

It's occurred to me that I might clean up and reformat my old FK fansite for today's browsers and uses, if only I can find the time (which is always the rub!). And with that came the realization that the site's aging pseudo-3D design would have to go, but that the banner graphic on my journals might yet lend itself to a fresh look, compatible with today's design standards.