Life! (not immortality)

For the month of September, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Fandom PSAs

• Any known Mexico City earthquake fan efforts?
• fandomlovespuertorico is fundraising via fanwork auction to help Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. The designated charity is ConPRmetidos. Creator sign-ups go through 10/15, with the auction starting 10/21 (closing TBA).
• harvey_fanaid closed on 9/30. (I was able to donate to a charity, and a fellow fan is writing a new story! I hope lots of others could, too.)

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• yuletide, the massive annual small-fandoms exchange, is going strong. You know the drill!
• smallfandombang, a 10K+ words challenge for small fandoms, has sign-ups through 10/31.
• spook_me, a Halloween challenge, will release on 10/26.
• trickortreatex, a Halloween exchange, will reveal on 10/31.
• Recommendation communities recap: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf, underheard, and fancake. (More FK-friendly rec comms? Let me know!)

FK fanfiction & other fanworks

• Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary:
  4 of the 789 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in September.
  • "Blood of Me" by deaniebtvs (~1K words) (PG, multi)
  • "Hungry Like The Wolf" by sanguisuga (WIP) (~63K words) (X, m/m) (crossover w/Sherlock)
  • "Ancient History" by Charena (759 words) (PG, gen) (German)
  • "Balancing Desire" by Nicholas_Lucien (~25K words) (X, multi) (Part 3 of "Myths & Art")
• Other:
  "Twenty-Five Minutes" by abby82 (810 words) (G)

News & conversation:

• 9/14: nicholas_lucien summarized and linked to another live Q&A by some of the in-production movie actors and directors. Rights issues are blamed for the movie being so fundamentally unlike our FK that their Nick doesn't even want to be human.
• 9/07: nicholas_lucien shared a look at the in-production movie's new title logo, and summarized an earlier live Q&A by some of the movie's PTB.

For the month of August, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Fannish charity fundraisers

• harvey_fanaid is fundraising via fanwork creation/sponsorships, including auctions, buy-it-nows, and custom requests, through the end of September. (sharpest_asp's are the only offers I recognize so far.)
• RevelCon, an annual fan-run Houston zine/fic convention, is fundraising for ConvoyOfHope.

• trickortreatex, a Halloween exchange, has nominations through 9/09, sign-ups 9/11-18, due-date 10/24, and reveals on Halloween. FK is nominated.
• yuletide time has come again. Check out the Master Index Post or Fandoms Brainstorming.
• ladiesbingo, a challenge featuring relationships (all kinds) between women, runs September-March. (I've recognized chelseagirl, lightbird, sharpest_asp, and muccamukk among the sign-ups so far.)
• fffc, a weekly "flash fiction" community, is holding a special September event with daily (rather than weekly) prompts.
• picture_prompt_fun is a weekly picture-prompt fiction community.
• Recommendation communities recap: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf, underheard, and fancake. (More FK-friendly rec forums? Let me know!)

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 4 of the 787 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in August.

• "Balancing Desire" by Nicholas_Lucien (~25K words) (X, multi) (Part 3 of "Myths & Art")
• "On the Eve of Totality" by Nicholas_Lucien (~2K words) (G, gen)
• "One Death Too Many" by PJ1228 (~10K words) (R, multi) (Part 2 of "Relationships")
• "In Sickness and in Health" by TonksForever36 (>1K words) (G, gen)

News & conversation:

• 8/05: abby82 proposed and illustrated actress Caroline Dhavernas to play Janette in a more faithful series reboot than the currently-in-production movie.
• 8/10: nicholas_lucien updated us on the filming of the upcoming movie. (Why they paid to use the FK title and character names to apparently reincarnate Angel: The Series remains unknown.)
• 8/15: nicholas_lucien wished Ben Bass a (belated) happy birthday.
• 8/19: pj1228 announced the sequel ("One Death Too Many") to the story she wrote for this year's FKFicFest ("One Loss Too Many"), and promised a concluding third installment.

For the month of June, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest finished releasing in June!
• fksquee had 6 posts.
• serendipityclaims is a new panfandom, "prompt table" community.
• genex, a panfandom gen, relationships exchange, has signups to 7/16.
• porn_tree, a panfandom, "prompt tree" community, has a new round to 7/31.
• iddyiddybangbang, a panfandom, 5K+ words challenge, has signups and prompting to 7/17.
• fandomgiftbox is a gifting fest a la Fandom Stocking (for summer).
• auexchange, a panfandom, alternate-universe exchange, has signups to 7/19.
• unconventionalcourtship, a panfandom, romance challenge, releases from 8/18 to 9/17 (signups seem open yet).
• scribblemyname, a traditional (100 words) drabble exchange, opens its collection on 7/16.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 11 of the 781 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in June.

• FKFicFest stories
  • "Flicker of a Memory" by Merfilly (~1K words) (G, gen)
  • "Five Things that Didn't Happen: Litovuterine-B Edition" by LastScorpion (~4K words) (G, gen)
  • "An Orphan's Choice" by Nicholas_Lucien (~9K words) (G, gen)
  • "Die & Rise" by MelissaTreglia (~2K words) (PG, m/f)
  • "All That's Left You" by Batdina (~3K words) (unstated, gen)
• Other stories
  • "Goodnight, Sweet Prince" by Mary44 (~8K words) (G, gen)
  • "New Life" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (R, multi) (xover w/Highlander)
  • "Almost Like a Quickening" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (R, multi) (xover w/Highlander)
  • "It Was Vampires, Eddie" by Rhodrymavelyne (<1K words) (unstated, multi) (xover w/First Wave)
  • "Amy's Story" by Dlyt (~2K words) (G, gen)
  • "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Sanguisuga (~62K words) (R, m/m) (WIP) (xover w/Sherlock)

News & conversation:

• Upcoming new movie
  • 6/22: nicholas_lucien discussed the starring/featured characters announcement for the upcoming movie.
  • 6/22: melissatreglia expressed enthusiasm for Nick/Natalie promo photos from the upcoming movie.
  • 6/10: nicholas_lucien reported the announcement that a Natalie will be in the upcoming movie, and that the Vachon runs a bar.
• Miscellaneous
  • 6/25: melissatreglia commented on ending her virtual fourth season.
  • 6/22: nicholas_lucien marked Catherine Disher's birthday.
  • 6/20: melissatreglia noted plans to write a lot of Nick/Natalie romance this summer.
  • 6/11: pj1228 shared what she gave and received in this year's FKFicFest.
  • 6/01: sharpest_asp pointed readers to FKFicFest, including the story she gave this year.

For the month of April, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest is in progress. Stories come due May 27!
• fksquee had 3 new posts.
• tic_tac_woe is a new all-fandoms mini-bingo challenge game with apocalyptic prompts.
• tv_talk is rebooting as an all-fandoms discussion community.
• memekink wishes to compile an all-fandoms list of all kink memes on DW only.
• fandomcomm is a new all-fandoms meta (discussion, friending, etc.) community.
• fffc, "Froday [sic] Flash Fiction Challenge," is a new all-fandoms weekly prompt community.
• fandomweekly is an all-fandoms weekly writing challenge community, with voting for winners per round.
• Recommendation communities recap: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf, and fancake. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 6 of the 756 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in April.

• "differences of nature" by spoke (~1K words, G, gen)
• "The Vampire Strikes Back" by dlyt (3rd in "Pranks and Pastimes" series) (~2K words, G, gen)
• "Hungry like the Wolf" by sanguisuga (crossover w/Sherlock) (WIP) (~51K words, R, m/m)
• "Die Konkubine - 1. Teil" by LucySummerlove (German) (WIP) (~27K words, R, m/f)
• "Ein Mädchen von edlem Geblüt" by LucySummerlove (German) (WIP) (~60K words, R, m/f)
• "Schmetterling und Nachtfalter" by LucySummerlove (German) (WIP) (~29K words, R, m/f)

News & conversation:

• The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the nice people behind the Archive Of Our Own (AO3), held an April membership drive. But there's no deadline! You can come aboard and help all year round.
• 4/06: melissatreglia relayed from HorrorSociety.com news of an in-pre-production FK movie, by CurseBorne Films.
• 4/12: abby82 shared that Indiwire placed FK #6 on its list of top vampire television shows.
• 4/14: nicholas_lucien marked Natalie's birthday (per "Last Knight;" yes, "Only the Lonely" disagrees; FK is FK ~grin~).
• 4/20: nicholas_lucien marked GWD's birthday.