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From the harvey_fanaid fundraiser for hurricane relief, I made a donation and merfilly kindly wrote a new Battlestar Galactica (1978) story for us all to enjoy:

"Acknowledging the Problem" (~1K words) (gen, G) (Cassiopeia, Starbuck, Apollo, glimpse of Adama)

I supplied a prompt about the redevelopment of civil society. We received a two-layered look at the shape of things: up close, a not-entirely-successful party, and at a distance, a road toward renewed civilization.

Thank you, merfilly!

As mentioned in the last monthly bulletin, fandomlovespuertorico is fundraising via fanwork auction to help Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. Creator sign-ups remain open through tomorrow (10/15). The auction is now scheduled to start on Tuesday 10/17 and close on Monday 10/23.

• Master "Auction Indexed Offerings List" (by offered-item type) (includes list of creators)
• Fanfic-only "Auction Indexed Offering List - Fan Fic"
• Post-with-replies buy-it-now offers

Skimming, I see such fandoms as Agent Carter, Wynonna Earp, Teen Wolf, Supernatural, Stargate, all the Treks, MCU, DCU, HP, BtVS, XF, PoI, Star Wars, and many, many more. (I don't see FK, HL, D&DC, or YB, or any creator names I recognize. Yet?)

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Has anyone seen a fan-sponsored effort for the California wildfires? I know that we're all feeling disaster-fatigue at this point! But I'm breathing that air. This latest disaster is no less real than the first. ♥

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.

Some years ago, when there was a natural disaster or the like, various corners of fandom would organize fundraisers in which people with more time and talent than money would create a new fannish work in "exchange" for a donation to the cause by someone else, often in auction format.

Have you seen any of those for the flooding in Texas?

I have no time recently, but I do have the wherewithal to donate just now, and I haven't yet donated to a charity for this disaster, so I thought that I might join forces with someone and sponsor a fanwork as well and direct my donation to that person's preferred charity, if that sort of thing is still done...?

Due to both connectivity issues and personal issues, I haven't been reading here since mid-October.  (I hope to be back to normal on both fronts starting... now!) Thus, this list is merely what I found tonight, with a heavy reliance on tags (e.g. "fk," "forever knight") to locate relevant material; if I've missed something, please hook me up! It looks to have been a fairly quiet month, FK-wise.

For October, in Forever Knight, in my corners of social journaling, here's what I spotted:

Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• fandomaid is raising funds in support of victims of Superstorm Sandy.
• festivids assignments went out on 10/16.
• I still can't believe that FK is not eligible for smallfandomfest. But fic_promptly will accept us for commentfic!
• Many people posted Yuletide "Dear Author" letters. FK appears in only Greer's, as far as I saw [Addendum: Also in Twilight2000's]. (BTW, thanks to sholio for confirming that you don't have to be signed up for Yuletide to give treats or pick up pinch-hits. Anyone can still play through those avenues!)

Fanfiction
3 FK works on AO3 currently show October 2012 as their publication dates. All three are new-to-me crossovers; two are by the same author.

Meta (Essays, Analysis, Discussion)

• 10/27: pj1228 described her future FK-related fanfic and website plans.
• 10/26: greerwatson announced a page of her website dedicated to her FK faction userpic icons.
• 10/17: [Locked] listed "10 Things to Do in Toronto" (which is totally unrelated to FK, unless you're an FK fan).
• 10/15: greerwatson discussed posting five FK ficlets (from the final days of fkcommentfic 2012) to her website.
• 10/13: melissatreglia noted that 36 of her 64 AO3 stories are FK.
• 10/05: automaton11 invoked Lacroix in a post about plagiarism.
• greerwatson continued sharing faction userpic icons, and brought her long-running project to a close: 10/22, 10/17 and 10/16.

Actors:
10/16: [Locked] shared that in 2013, the Stratford Festival (which has apparently dropped the "Shakespeare" from its name) will boast GWD in Measure for Measure and Mary Stuart, plus NB in Thrill (official press release PDF).

Airings:
Chiller will next air FK on Friday 11/23 (6AM-5PM, DK-FIHS). In the US, that's "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving; if you'll have that day off work, tune in!