FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (8/01/17-8/31/17)

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

Fannish charity fundraisers

• harvey_fanaid is fundraising via fanwork creation/sponsorships, including auctions, buy-it-nows, and custom requests, through the end of September. (senmut's are the only offers I recognize so far.)
• RevelCon, an annual fan-run Houston zine/fic convention, is fundraising for ConvoyOfHope.

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• trickortreatex, a Halloween exchange, has nominations through 9/09, sign-ups 9/11-18, due-date 10/24, and reveals on Halloween. FK is nominated.
• yuletide time has come again. Check out the Master Index Post or Fandoms Brainstorming.
• ladiesbingo, a challenge featuring relationships (all kinds) between women, runs September-March. (I've recognized chelseagirl, lightbird, senmut, and muccamukk among the sign-ups so far.)
• fffc, a weekly "flash fiction" community, is holding a special September event with daily (rather than weekly) prompts.
• picture_prompt_fun is a weekly picture-prompt fiction community.
• Recommendation communities recap: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf, underheard, and fancake. (More FK-friendly rec forums? Let me know!)

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 4 of the 787 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in August.

• "Balancing Desire" by Nicholas_Lucien (~25K words) (X, multi) (Part 3 of "Myths & Art")
• "On the Eve of Totality" by Nicholas_Lucien (~2K words) (G, gen)
• "One Death Too Many" by PJ1228 (~10K words) (R, multi) (Part 2 of "Relationships")
• "In Sickness and in Health" by TonksForever36 (>1K words) (G, gen)

News & conversation:

• 8/05: abby82 proposed and illustrated actress Caroline Dhavernas to play Janette in a more faithful series reboot than the currently-in-production movie.
• 8/10: nicholas_lucien updated us on the filming of the upcoming movie. (Why they paid to use the FK title and character names to apparently reincarnate Angel: The Series remains unknown.)
• 8/15: nicholas_lucien wished Ben Bass a (belated) happy birthday.
• 8/19: pj1228 announced the sequel ("One Death Too Many") to the story she wrote for this year's FKFicFest ("One Loss Too Many"), and promised a concluding third installment.

Susan's birthday is a time for FK fanfic

I haven't yet tidied up the traces of my LJ years. I will. For now, though, my account's still active. So when Susan's birthday came, LJ reminded me. I meant to post this in August. I ran out of time.

In case you've found FK fandom only recently, let me share that Susan M. Garrett was a kind and generous person, magnificent fan, and wonderful storyteller. FK fandom was blessed in her. Not alone, she tried so hard to do so much for all of us. But above all fanwriters whom I dearly love to read, I love to re-read Susan as none other. Her stories come so close, so nearly there, to the FK of my heart.

Check out Susan's FK stories. Here are just a few of my personal favorites:

• "False Heart" (April 1994) & "Kind Soul" (January 1995)
• "Peerless Pressure" (May 1995)
• "Knight in Hell" (May 1994)

What are your favorite Susan stories?