Life! (not immortality)

Recently in FK on my LJ F-List and DW R-Page:

FKFicFest

• fkficfest/fkficfest announced its 2011 schedule and opened sign-ups.
• havocthecat recommended stories from last year's game and invited people to come play.
• FKFicFest has been announced in last_writes (canceled vampire series), femme_fic (female characters) and oldschoolfic (canceled series).
• Four people have mused on whether/how to play in FKFicFest this year.

Other Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• On 04/25, last_writes opened a friending meme.
• On 04/25, the "Female Character Trope Fest" prompts included one for FK ("Janette/Natalie, time travel").

Fanfiction

• On 04/26, pj1228 posted "Dark Undercurrents" (PG, gen, ~11K words), mentioning it in her own LJ and on fk_fanfiction.
• On 04/16, under lock, someone mentioned "A Family's Bond," a new story in a series by foxy11814.
• 2 FK stories were uploaded to the AO3 in April 2011.

Meta (Discussion and Essays)

• On 04/23, gnosticdiva surveyed on interest in her writing N&N "deleted scenes."
• On 04/15, someone under lock said she is nearly done writing a new FK story, and betaing one for someone else.
• On 04/07, gnosticdiva remarked on disparities between history and canon in the Brabant family tree.

Actors

• On 04/26, under lock, someone noted that GWD's latest fanclub newsletter includes articles on last year's Stratford performances and on the "real" Black Harbour.
• On 04/23, under lock, someone related a dream of visiting Stratford and meeting GWD and NB.
• On 04/20, under lock, someone noted that it was GWD's birthday.
• On 04/13, under lock, someone said that GWD as King Arthur from Camelot will be on the cover of all the 2011 Stratford Shakespeare Festival's paper promotional materials. Also, the DVD release of last year's performance of The Tempest with GWD will come in July, not April; the change is due to a typo'd shipping date, not a delay.
• On 04/09, pj1228 recounted, with photos, how the boatyard from Black Harbor, which featured GWD, has been demolished.
• On 04/06, endaewen mentioned Ben Bass's guest turn on SG1.

Airings & Releases: Chiller is not showing FK in May.

Today, Monday 08/23, is the final day to claim an initial prompt on the 2010 femme_fic / femme_fic game, according to the posted timeline.  I forgot about the deadline; I just went and staked a claim myself at lunchtime.  I hope it's not too late to remind others interested in playing.

There are three remaining unclaimed FK prompts (Natpacker and Nanette on LJ, Urchin on DW), one HL (Tessa on LJ), and of course many prompts in a multitude of other fandoms.

The 2010 femme_fic / femme_fic game is on!  As always, that community celebrates female characters (gen, m/f, f/f).  However, several rules have changed.  Most significantly: (1) there are no longer limits on eligible fandoms, and (2) it is no longer an exchange/assignment approach, but instead takes a prompt-claiming approach.  This means that instead of receiving a slate of prompts assigned individually, players pick prompts for themselves (up to two) from the full list available to everyone.

Rules and Prompts on LJ / Rules and Prompts on DW

Submit Prompts: 08/10/10-08/16/10 Claim Prompts: 08/17/10-08/23/10 Stories Due: 10/15/10

Anyone may submit up to three prompts.  Submitting a prompt is not a commitment to contribute a story, so this is a good opportunity to request a story that you've always wanted to read (starring a female character) but can't write yourself, and then see if someone else's request strikes a chord with you as a writer.  (Please put the fandom in the subject line, and post only one prompt per comment.)

For myself, I plan to submit prompts, and to write if there's a prompt that I can do justice to.  Something gen in FK or HL would be my first instinct.  But in this format, you never know what idea might raise its hand.

The femme_fic queue is released!  This is the "We Love Female Characters" ficathon, with a wide mix of fandoms and genres.  There are unfortunately no FK stories this time (only falcon_horus and I submitted FK prompts), but there are over fifty stories celebrating female characters!  Take a glance at the catalogue post, and you're likely to see something in one of your fandoms.

I received a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jenny Calendar prompt imagined by havocthecat, and wrote "Fortune Prove" in response.  Of the prompts I submitted, pervyficgirl picked my Marvel Comics Scarlet Witch prompt, and wrote "Magic Mirrors Looking at People Who Belong to Us," which indulges me by crawling into the canon space after issue #12 of the second V&SW limited series (which they should reissue now).

It will take me weeks to read my way through the ficathon, but I want to note up front that there are new stories by havocthecat, amilyn and falcon_horus from my DW Circle (did I miss anyone?), and that I had the privilege of beta-reading for amilyn and seshat_maat.  I'd also like to thank my own generous beta-readers: amilyn, batdina, much_madness and wiliqueen.

Today, the last day of February, is the last day to sign up for the femme_fic 2009 ficathon event (I've signed up) or to contribute to falcon_horus's Fleur Mini-Ficathon (I'll post today). 

An exchange-style ficathon can be a great opportunity to ask for a story that you've always wanted to read, but perhaps can't quite manage yourself; perhaps your ficathon match will have just the right background or inspiration to bring it to life!  (butterflykiki wrote me an outstanding HL story starring Methos and Tessa in that line last year.)  Okay, okay, enough with the nudging... :-)