FK Recently: What you all have been up to (2/01/23-3/04/23)

[brightknightie]

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

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest elected June 25 as a due date. Expect a calendar and prompt nomination steps soon.
• marchmetamatterschallenge is a challenge for both creating new meta and preserving and disseminating old meta.
• elasticella is hosting a "Marginal March" ficathon for minor charachers.
• comment_bingo is a bingo challenge community where you win by commenting on fanworks. The current round runs through June.
• monstersmashexchange is a ship exchange in which at least one half of the ship must be a monster. Nominations through March 8.
• nexticon is an icon challenge community.
• sweetandshort is a prompt challenge community for works <300 words.
• fandomweekly is a weekly challenge community for works <1K words, with voting on favorites.
• allbingo's March theme is "March is..." (for example, Women's History Month and St. Patrick's Day).
• fancake's March theme is "pre-canon."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 9 of the 1,250 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Fall from Grace" by TheFruitBat (T, multi, ~9K words)
• "S4E03: One Step Back" by ErebusBeck (part 3 of a series) (T, gen, ~16K words)
• "Valentine's Fool" by TheFruitBat (G, gen, ~2K words)
• "S4E04: Sudden Death" by ErebusBeck (part 4 of a series) (T, gen, ~13K)
• "Last Chapter" by ErebusBeck (part 16 of a series) (M, multi, ~17K words)
• "One Drink or Two" by taibhrigh (G, gen, 13 words)
• "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~73K words)
• "S4E05: Perfect Murder" by ErebusBeck (part 5 of a series) (M, gen, ~14K words)
• "Respice Finem" by TheFruitBat (WIP) (G, multi, ~23K words)

FK news & conversation

• 3/03: nicholas_lucien invited thoughts on an in-progress eBay auction which appears to be Catherine Disher selling a unique piece of FK memorabilia. Read the post.
• I saw 6 locked/filtered posts mentioning FK in February.

Comments

[brightknightie]

As you note, "pre-canon" customarily means "before the first episode" (or issue, volume, etc.), regardless of flashbacks or time-travel, and seems usually to focus on the time somewhat recently before the present-day canon, not flashbacks, history, or time-travel. This may be because people generally consider the unfolding present-day of the story to be the core, most important, part of the series.

If one chooses to go with a definition of "pre-canon" that means only Lacroix and Divia stories can be pre-canon in Forever Knight, that same definition would mean that only Methos stories (in 3000 BC or earlier, early Bronze Age) can be pre-canon in Highlander, and no stories at all can be pre-canon in Doctor Who or Hitchhiker's Guide. It would mean that WandaVision pre-canon allows only Agatha's youth in the 1600s. Granted that flashbacks are not in most series, I've personally never yet seen someone define pre-canon in this exclusive, flashback-focused way...?

Perhaps what one might want instead of restricting the definition of pre-canon to this extent is to invent a second, new category with a new, different name for this narrower, stricter slice of pre-canon content?