FK Recently: What you all have been up to (5/01/23-6/03/23)

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

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest, an FK fanwork challenge, is in progress, with stories due June 24.
• everywoman, a female-characters fanwork exchange, has nominations through June 9, sign-ups through June 21, and stories due July 25. (I've nominated FK with the usual characters, though my nom is not yet approved.)
• story_works is holding a "pillow talk" fanwork challenge through August 31.
• justmarriedexchange, an exchange for marriage tropes, has nominations through June 11, sign-ups through June 18, and stories due August 20.
• kalloway is hosting a drabble exchange on Squidgeworld, with nominations through June 8 and drabbles due June 17.
• julybreakbingo is a customizable bingo challenge with sign-ups through July 13 and posting through July 31.
• whatif_au's June/July theme is "radio/podcast AU."
• fancake's June theme is "cultural differences."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 12 of the 1,268 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Not Strong, Not Independent" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "What She Smells Like" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 300 words)
• "An Era Passes" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)
• "What They Had" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "S4E10: Bad News" by ErebusBeck (part 10 of a series) (T, gen, ~12K words)
• "First Times" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, 9K words)
• "Nothing Like a Corny Line" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)
• "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~82K words)
• "Bring Me Back To Life" by ErebusBeck (T, gen, ~3K words)
• "First Times - Bonus Chapter" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, 5K words)
• "Snow White, Rose Red" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 400 words)
• "Hey, Coz" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, 1K words)

FK news & conversation
I saw 3 locked/filtered posts specifically mentioning FK in May (nothing public).