FK Recently: What you all have been up to (6/1/23-7/2/23)

[brightknightie]

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

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest, an FK fanwork challenge, is currently releasing stories daily.
• sunshine_challenge, a posting challenge a la Fandom Snowflake, has 7 prompts throughout July.
• fandomgiftbasket, a gifting fest a la Fandom Stocking, has sign-ups through July 20, fills through Steptember 9, and reveals on September 10.
• rational_fiction_comm, a prompt meme for investigation and problem-solving tropes, has prompting through July 9, stories due September 16, and reveals on September 17.
• iddyiddybangbang, an idfic challenge, has sign-ups through July 17 with works due September 12.
• 1loulu5 is sponsoring an "Obscure Sorrows" challenge, with stories due July 29.
• allbingo's July theme is "fireworks."
• whatif_au's July theme is "radio/podcast AU."
• fancake's July theme is "spies & assassins."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 23 of the 1,290 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• FKFicFest stories:
  • "Masquerade" by Calliope24 (G, gen, ~13K words)
  • "A Conversation" by WaltD (G, gen, ~2K words)
  • "A Raven Tale" by dlyt (Unrated, gen, ~5K words)
  • "Prime Suspect" by PJ1228 (T, gen, ~8K words)
  • "Experiment 1260" by Nicholas_Lucien (T, gen, ~3K words)
  • "And that’s why drugs are bad, hmkay?" by TheFruitBat (G, gen, ~2K words)
  • "Life Imitating Art Imitating Life, or The Making of an Urban Legend" by dlyt (T, m/f, ~8K words)
• More FK stories:
  • "Summer Samba" by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified, ~2K words)
  • "Deja Vu" by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified, ~18K words)
  • "Sticky Wickets" by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified, ~7K words)
  • "Suburban Life" by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified, ~3K words)
  • "Passing Time" by Merfilly (G, gen, 361K words)
  • "Night Returns" by Flame_of_Anor86 (WIP) (G, multi, 2K words)
  • "A Simple Letter" by Merfilly (G, gen, 313 words)
  • "Doomed by Conviction" by rhodrymavelyne (unspecified, gen, 856 words)
  • "Are You Afraid of Me?" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, ~4K words)
  • "Unsteady" by sarah1228 (E, m/f, ~6K words)
  • "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~85K words)
  • "What We Share" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, ~2K words)
  • "Entanglements" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, gen, ~1K words)
  • "Death's Song" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, multi, 499K words)
  • "Dreams, Warnings, and Dubious Prizes" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (unspecified, multi, 712K words)
  • "Remembrances and Rebound Ribbing" by rhodrymavelyne (xover) (M, multi, ~1K words)

FK news & conversation

• I saw 2 locked/filtered posts specifically mentioning FK in June (nothing public).
• I had hopes that a flash of FK might sneak its way into the new Overly Sarcastic Productions "Trope talk" episode exploring "Pinocchio plots" -- that is, stories where a non-human character wants to become human. It unfortunately didn't, but I'm going to mention the episode as FK-adjacent, anyway. Watch the video.

Comments

[elistaire]

A pretty good haul, by FK standards!

[brightknightie]

Yes, very much so! I can't remember the last time I've seen this many in a single month that were not all one author importing her corpus to the AO3.