FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (6/01/20-7/05/20)

[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 & communities that welcome FK

• juletide is a rare-fandoms exchange with a 600-word minimum and a 2.5-week writing period. Sign-ups close July 5. (Everything that was eligible for the last Yuletide is eligible for Juletide, plus others.)
• hetswap is a het-pairings exchange with nominations through July 15, sign-ups through July 23, and stories due September 12.
• iddyiddybangbang is a 5K-words "idfic" challenge with sign-ups through July 17, and stories due September 12.
• auexchange is an AU-fic exchange with sign-ups through July 12, and stories due August 29.
• pine4pine is a pining-themed exchange with nominations through July 13, signups through July 22, and stories due September 11.
• fffc, the flash-fic community, has started a "100 prompts" challenge, to run through December 31.
• sunshine_challenge, the shorter July counterpart to January’s Snowflake Challenge, is in progress.
• fancake's July round features "Regency AUs."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 10 of the 1,076 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "In the Grand Way" by Nicholas_Lucien (M, m/f, ~1K words)
• "Adventures of a She-Wolf: Triple Threads" by HypatiaTheGunslinger (WIP) (x-over) (M, multi, ~86K words)
• "Forever Knight Reboot Novel" by toezofasupermodel (T, m/f, ~66K words)
• "Five Things Nick Changed for Natalie (and One Thing He Didn't)" by MelissaTreglia (G, m/f, ~3K words)
• "On the grill" by greerwatson (G, gen, ~1K words)
• "The Mad Queens Game" by Nicholas_Lucien (G, gen, ~3K words)
• "A Blonde for Father" by greerwatson (G, gen, ~500K words)
• "The Ballroom Blitz" by Nicholas_Lucien (T, gen, ~3K words)
• "Judgment Night" by JeanGraham (G, gen, ~5K words)
• "Doff the Serge" by greerwatson (G, gen, ~700 words)

FK news & conversation

• 6/17-19: greerwatson discussed her ‘18, ‘19, and ‘20 FKFicFest stories and presentations of them on her website. Read the posts: 2018, 2019, 2020.
• 6/22: pj1228 reminded us not to miss GWD as the uncle and ghost in the free streaming of Stratford’s Hamlet (expired July 2), and linked to a post-show discussion with several of the actors, including GWD. Read the post.
• 7/01: greerwatson chatted about FK in several ways while replying to the first Sunshine Challenge prompt. Read the post.