FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (3/01/15-7/05/15)

[brightknightie]

It's been far too many months since I posted an "FK Recently" bulletin. Sorry! Better late than never? For the months of March to July, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I spotted:

Ficathons, fests and communities

• fkficfest/fkficfest held sign-ups and is now in the writing stage with 13 players! Stories come due on 8/22.
• rarelywritten's annual event won 3 FK stories! (See below.)
• Recommendation communities that would welcome your FK favorites include:
  fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion and recshelf.
• Communities that permitted promo posts for FKFicFest:
  ForKni-L, last_writes, fandomcalendar, oldschoolfic, femme_fic, fk_fanfiction, femme_fic, fandom_on_dw, yuletide and yuletide.

Fanfiction

• Gensplosion recs
  lightbird recommended "Scrubbed Clean" by brightknightie (~2K)
• RarelyWritten 2015
  • "An Interlude in the Family" by merfilly (~1.2K)
  • "Out of the Night that Covers Me" by greerwatson (~4.7K)
  • "Echoes" by coralysendria (~9K)
• Just because
  "Unusual Allies" by pj1228 (~12K)
• Archive of our Own (AO3)
  15 of the 609 FK stories on the AO3 show March-June 2015 posting dates. 2 are crossovers. 5 are by rhodrymavelyne, 3 by melissatreglia, 2 by greerwatson, 1 by pj1228, 1 by saphicwitch, 1 by chains_archivist, 1 by merfilly, 1 by Raduzhok.

Actors

• 6/16: pj1228 announced that Nigel Bennett appears in Orphan Black S03E09.
• 6/02: batdina pointed me to this lengthy May 30 interview with John Kapelos: "John Kapelos on John Hughes, Jackie Gleason, and his explosive arc on Justified." (The FK content comes a little past the halfway point.)
• 5/25: pj1228 listed the Stratford 2015 roles of Geraint Wyn Davies, Nigel Bennett, Joseph Ziegler and Lucy Peacock.

Discussion, essays, etc.

• 6/26: havocthecat lamented the dearth of options for streaming FK. (Only Amazon has it, and only the first two seasons, and not for free.)
• 6/16: melissatreglia discussed picking an FKFicFest prompt to write.
• 6/16: havocthecat mused on plotting her FKFicFest 2015 story.
• 6/15: melissatreglia compared current and past FKFicFest player counts.
• 6/13: greerwatson posted a "Dear Author" letter for FKFicFest.
• 6/11: havocthecat proposed crossing Bitten with FK (and also promoted FKFicFest).
• 6/06: melissatreglia promoted FKFicFest.
• 6/05: havocthecat promoted FKFicFest.
• 6/04: pj1228 promoted FKFicFest.
• 6/03: lastscorpion promoted FKFicFest.
• 6/02: sholio promoted FKFicFest.
• 6/02: greerwatson shared an icon celebrating the idea of a Tracy/Inca faction called "Trinkets."
• 5/28: vorpalblades promoted FKFicFest.
• 5/12: melissatreglia described various works in progress, two of which are FK.
• 4/07: [Locked] discussed watching "Ashes to Ashes" and "Last Knight."
• 4/01: melissatreglia mentioned putting FK fanfic on hold for Camp NaNo.