FK Recently: What you all have been up to (5/01/23-6/03/23)

From May, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest, an FK fanwork challenge, is in progress, with stories due June 24.
• everywoman, a female-characters fanwork exchange, has nominations through June 9, sign-ups through June 21, and stories due July 25. (I've nominated FK with the usual characters, though my nom is not yet approved.)
• story_works is holding a "pillow talk" fanwork challenge through August 31.
• justmarriedexchange, an exchange for marriage tropes, has nominations through June 11, sign-ups through June 18, and stories due August 20.
• kalloway is hosting a drabble exchange on Squidgeworld, with nominations through June 8 and drabbles due June 17.
• julybreakbingo is a customizable bingo challenge with sign-ups through July 13 and posting through July 31.
• whatif_au's June/July theme is "radio/podcast AU."
• fancake's June theme is "cultural differences."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 12 of the 1,268 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Not Strong, Not Independent" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "What She Smells Like" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 300 words)
• "An Era Passes" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)
• "What They Had" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "S4E10: Bad News" by ErebusBeck (part 10 of a series) (T, gen, ~12K words)
• "First Times" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, 9K words)
• "Nothing Like a Corny Line" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)
• "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~82K words)
• "Bring Me Back To Life" by ErebusBeck (T, gen, ~3K words)
• "First Times - Bonus Chapter" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, 5K words)
• "Snow White, Rose Red" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "Hey, Coz" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)

FK news & conversation
I saw 3 locked/filtered posts specifically mentioning FK in May (nothing public).

FK & _The Rookie: Feds_?

My best friend — who has seen only ~3 Forever Knight episodes ever, but who has let me prattle at her about the show for decades — tells me that The Rookie: Feds (TV, 2022), has what she suspects is a rich vein of FK tribute/parody.

Apparently, The Rookie: Feds is a US police procedural spun off from The Rookie with a similar "dramady" tone. It follows the oldest rookie ever to graduate from the FBI Academy, a woman character named Simone Clark.

Where FK comes in, my friend says, is with a regular male character, Brandon Acres, now an FBI agent, but whose first career was as an actor best known for playing a vampire cop on a TV show that, she thinks, sounds way too much like FK to be an accident. Wikipedia puts it like this: "Before joining the Bureau, he was an award-winning actor who starred on the popular young-adult television series Vampire Cop for six years." My friend says that the character's past work as an actor on that specific fictional show keeps coming up in present plots of The Rookie: Feds in various ways.

I have not seen any episodes of this series, myself; I can't validate any of this. The show could as easily be referencing Huff's "Blood" novels and their TV incarnation, or Angel, or all the assorted vampire shows, movies, and books of all kinds mixed together. But... gotta admit, "Vampire Cop" hits close to home. And the target audience for The Rookie: Feds is surely folks old enough to remember FK on the air.