FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (6/01/17-6/30/17)

[brightknightie]

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

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest finished releasing in June!
• fksquee had 6 posts.
• serendipityclaims is a new panfandom, "prompt table" community.
• genex, a panfandom gen, relationships exchange, has signups to 7/16.
• porn_tree, a panfandom, "prompt tree" community, has a new round to 7/31.
• iddyiddybangbang, a panfandom, 5K+ words challenge, has signups and prompting to 7/17.
• fandomgiftbox is a gifting fest a la Fandom Stocking (for summer).
• auexchange, a panfandom, alternate-universe exchange, has signups to 7/19.
• unconventionalcourtship, a panfandom, romance challenge, releases from 8/18 to 9/17 (signups seem open yet).
• scribblemyname, a traditional (100 words) drabble exchange, opens its collection on 7/16.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 11 of the 781 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in June.

• FKFicFest stories
  • "Flicker of a Memory" by Merfilly (~1K words) (G, gen)
  • "Five Things that Didn't Happen: Litovuterine-B Edition" by LastScorpion (~4K words) (G, gen)
  • "An Orphan's Choice" by Nicholas_Lucien (~9K words) (G, gen)
  • "Die & Rise" by MelissaTreglia (~2K words) (PG, m/f)
  • "All That's Left You" by Batdina (~3K words) (unstated, gen)
• Other stories
  • "Goodnight, Sweet Prince" by Mary44 (~8K words) (G, gen)
  • "New Life" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (R, multi) (xover w/Highlander)
  • "Almost Like a Quickening" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (R, multi) (xover w/Highlander)
  • "It Was Vampires, Eddie" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (unstated, multi) (xover w/First Wave)
  • "Amy's Story" by Dlyt (~2K words) (G, gen)
  • "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Sanguisuga (~62K words) (R, m/m) (WIP) (xover w/Sherlock)

News & conversation:

• Upcoming new movie
  • 6/22: nicholas_lucien discussed the starring/featured characters announcement for the upcoming movie.
  • 6/22: melissatreglia expressed enthusiasm for Nick/Natalie promo photos from the upcoming movie.
  • 6/10: nicholas_lucien reported the announcement that a Natalie will be in the upcoming movie, and that the Vachon runs a bar.
• Miscellaneous
  • 6/25: melissatreglia commented on ending her virtual fourth season.
  • 6/22: nicholas_lucien marked Catherine Disher's birthday.
  • 6/20: melissatreglia noted plans to write a lot of Nick/Natalie romance this summer.
  • 6/11: pj1228 shared what she gave and received in this year's FKFicFest.
  • 6/01: senmut pointed readers to FKFicFest, including the story she gave this year.

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Thank you for posting all this!

What I'm up to that's FK-related is trying to find a playable-in-the-US-region DVD copy of "Dice," the TV mini-series which featured FK actors Gary Farmer and Callum Keith Rennie.

[brightknightie]

Good luck! I presume you've tried all the usual sources, like eBay and Amazon; I'm afraid that I don't personally happen to know of any unusual sources.

[ride_4ever]

All the commercial sources like Amazon and eBay are all offering PAL format, the one that does not play on US regional players. I'm trying to find someone who has a home-made shareable copy.

[brightknightie]

I'm not sure that PAL and NTSC are precisely the same as numbered regional DVD differences, but if they are...

You probably know this, of course, but if you have an older DVD player of certain brands, you may be able to turn on the ability to play DVDs of all regions. The major mass-market DVD players are -- or at least used to be -- region-agnostic when manufactured, and only locked down later. Some brands are easier than others to return to those factory settings, or QA settings, under which they can play any regions' discs. Other brands are all but impossible.

(Of course this would void all warranties and such, and could go terribly wrong and make the device unusable. But. FWIW.)

[greerwatson]

I love your phrasing: "a Natalie". I doubt if she'll come close to the Natalie. Nor "the Vachon" to the Vachon.

Oh, okay, okay. I know I should add that this movie may turn out to be all right on its own terms. It's not really fair to pre-judge it. (Though I do. Of course.)

[brightknightie]

Your comment on the phrasing reminded me of "Cinderella's War." :-) I forget its ordinal number, but it was the summer of '97, I think, the one where all the AU characters flooded into FKFic-L War Toronto. There was a lot of "a Natalie" and "another Vachon" and "that Nick," "no, the other Nick," "wait, that's a Nick?" :-)