FK Recently: What you all have been up to (8/1/23-9/4/23)

[brightknightie]

Happy Labor Day, US and Canada! From August, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• yuletide_admin announced a rule change that makes FK again eligible for Yuletide, the giant, annual, small-fandoms exchange.
• trickortreatex, an exchange of a "trick" or a "treat" story, not necessarily Halloween-themed, has nominations through September 8. Reveals October 31.
• spook_me, a spooky story challenge with images of creatures as prompts, hasn't yet announced for this year, but I expect it to soon.
• launchtheship is a challenge to write the first fic on the AO3 for any pairing. Closes October 20.
• screen_icons is an icon challenge community with bimonthly challenges.
• inspiredby is a monthly collection of curated prompt lists.
• trope_of_the_month's September theme is "first times."
• allbingo's September theme is "story sparks."
• fancake's September theme is "unusual jobs."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 3 of the 1,299 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Knighty-Night, Nick" by [orphan_account] (xover) (G, multi, ~1K words)
• "Respice Finem" by TheFruitBat (WIP) (T, multi, ~40K words)
• "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~90K words)

FK news & conversation

• 8/01: switchbladeeyes chatted about intending to read FKFicFest, starting to write new stories, and rewatching season two. Read the post.
• 8/04: pj1228 announced that she's seeking a beta-reader for a Lacroix/Natalie story. (I believe she's still looking!) Read the post.
• 8/13: switchbladeeyes discussed significantly revising and improving an older fanfic, "Poison in Their Blood," as well approaches to tagging. Read the post.
• 8/24: switchbladeeyes marked the anniversary of Pompeii's explosion with a chat about Lacroix's Romanness. Read the post.
• 8/08-8/24: greerwatson continues uploading content that had been removed from the internet. Read posts about uploading SOSFK and KtK, Crusader, Faction sites, and Faction "war" pages.
• 8/06-27: switchbladeeyes has been rewatching FK with a spouse who has never seen it before. Read posts about watching season-three episodes: HF, DoN and GVP, Fever, Strings, SoB, NiQ, MBIAV, BF, BB1&2 and OtLi and BW.
• 8/29: switchbladeeyes recommended Bonnie R.'s "Quiet, Cold Heart." Read the post.
• 8/29: switchbladeeyes discussed Nick's track record in converting people to vampirism. Read the post.