FK Recently: What you all have been up to (6/1/22-7/4/22)

[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

• fkficfest released 7 stories in June (following 2 in May).
• senmut is hosting "July Jewels," a prompt/fill fest, through 7/31.
• vocab_drabbles is a new prompting community for fills of no more than 500 words, with 2 prompt words per week.
• iddyiddybangbang, the challenge for idfic of 5K+ words, has sign-ups 7/10-17, works due 7/12.
• pine4pine, the pining-themed exchange with minimim 1K words, has nominations through 7/13, sign-ups 7/16-23, and comes due 9/10.
• rarestofpairs, a fest/prompt meme for couples with <500 works on the AO3, has nominations through 7/14, with sign-ups/claiming through the end of the year.
• fandomgiftbasket is a gifting fest with sign-ups through 7/21, posting through 9/12, and reveals 9/13.
• allbingo's July events are "Body parts" and "Winterfest in July."
• fancake's July theme is "series," defined as 3 or more interconnected works.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 13 of the 1,189 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• FKFicFest '22
  • "Food for the Soul" by PJ1228 (T, gen, ~6K words)
  • "Amaranth (love-lies-bleeding)" by Brightknightie (M, m/f, ~5K words)
  • "Paper Trail" by Nicholas_Lucien (T, gen, ~4K words)
  • "Guilt and Atonement" by TheFruitBat (M, m/m, ~10K words)
  • "Limner" by greerwatson (G, gen, ~2K words)
  • "Urs in Time" by dlyt (G, gen, ~7K words)
  • "Any Regrets?" by merfilly (G, other, 500 words)
• More
  • "Beyond the horizon, the end is only the beginning" by MinaGermany (T, gen, ~46K words) (crossover)
  • "What Next" by ErebusBeck (E, m/m, ~12K words)
  • "Talking In Your Sleep" by ErebusBeck (E, m/m, ~1K words)
  • "All Roads Lead to Rome" by ErebusBeck (E, m/m, ~15K words)
  • "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (E, multi, ~15K words) (WIP) (crossover)
  • "Home to Paris" by ErebusBeck (M, m/m, ~16K words)
  • "More Careful" by Merfilly (G, gen, 100 words)
  • "Forever More" by ErebusBeck (M, multi, ~16K words)
  • "Doubt" by ErebusBeck (G, m/m, ~1K words)

FK news & conversation

• 6/01: senmut signal-boosted FKFicFest '22 and pointed out their contribution. Read the post.
• 6/07: pj1228 shared a Toronto Guardian review of The Righteous, a now-in-theaters film in which Nigel Bennett appears. Read the post.
• 6/12: thefruitbat had kind words for FKFicFest '22 and linked their contribution.
• 6/21: senmut announced a new FK drabble. Read the post.
• 6/26: pj1228 noted the 9 FKFicFest '22 stories and pointed out her contribution. Read the post.
• 6/27: greerwatson discussed her FKFicFest '22 story and her archival design for it on her website. Read the post.