• 2 new Forever Knight stories, one Nick/Natalie and one Nick/Lacroix. Take your pick.
• 4 new works for assorted The Legend of Zelda games (the newest one and the least popular old ones were eligible). I am all agog to read the crossover between Majora's Mask and Columbo. See the list.
• 1 new work for the Doctor Strange comics, this one starring Zelma Stanton, hero librarian! Check it out.
• 0 new D&DC, BSG78, JttW, YB, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish or Dead Poets Society stories. But of course there are other fandoms to check over time, and treats to come.

fkficfest

• I looked up the "You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday..." prompt and learned that the person who said it is a historical public figure with a legacy in automotive, weaponry, and environmental unintended consequences. So a run-in with that person's work could be one way of addressing that prompt (alongside the clear call-out to Nick's lines to Alyce in DK1, and subtler call-outs throughout the series).
• Pondering the "When everything changed" prompt, it occurred to me that it could suggest an AU or time-travel of some kind, as well as a turning point known from canon in the characters' pasts or deduced or invented new. Or it could be played smaller-scale or for comedy with the change being something like a new haircut or a glasses prescription, rather than something more obviously world-shaking, like the AMPH asteroid or Vesuvius, or someone dying or being born, or becoming a vampire or being cured of vampirism, or learning a deep truth. And of course the change could be for one of our recurring characters or for a suspect, victim, neck-of-the-week, etc.
• While the "hidden witness" prompt can readily speak to a witness for a police investigation, whether a human witness or an animal, plant, or inanimate one, or a witness to vampirism (a la an Enforcers incident), the word "witness" can be either noun or verb, and as a noun can be either the possessor of evidence or the evidence itself, and it has specific legal and religious uses as well as its common use.

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• We now have over 900 FK stories of 1K or more words across the AO3 and FFnet.
• Therefore, 2019 could be the last year that FK is eligible for Yuletide.

• "A Tale of Cain and Abel" (G, gen, ~2K words) (Vachon, the Inca)
• "A Rat's Eye View of the World" (G, gen, ~1K words) (Screed, Vachon)
• "reckoning" (G, gen, ~3K words) (Tracy, Vachon, Nick, Schanke)
• "Gold in the Light" (PG, gen, ~1K words) (Urs, Vachon, Screed, Bourbon)

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For the month of August, 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/fkficfest stories are due 9/24 for release starting 9/26.
• artfeverfest, a fest and exchange for visual fanart, has nominations through 9/11, sign-ups through 9/28, due 11/06.
• fancake features "slow-burn romance" recommendations this month.
• crossover_prompt is a new, fortnightly-prompt community for crossovers.
• ladiesbingo, a bingo challenge for female characters' relationships, is open through 3/31/17.
• femslashex, an f/f exchange, has sign-ups through 9/07, with assignments out 9/10, due 10/22, releasing 10/28.
• yuletide_admin announced that 2016 nominations are 9/09-9/16, sign-ups 10/01-10/10, with assignments out 11/01.
• Members of yuletide announced a nominations trading spreadsheet and a brainstorming/fandom-promoting post for Yuletide 2016.
• Recommendation communities that would welcome you posting about your FK favorites include: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf and fancake. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

Fanfiction
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 0 of the 714 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in this period (but that's 2 more works than showed at this time last month, so I presume backdating).

Chat & meta

• 8/24: greerwatson shared news of FK fan Arletta Asbury's death.
• 8/16: [Locked] commented on the accuracy and objectivity of assorted fandom wikis, including an FK resource.
• 8/11: lastscorpion observed Natalie's mad-scientist tendencies.

A happy St. Nicholas Day (Nick's name day) to all, and a happy Hanuka starting soon! This reminds me to set out my beloved Forever Net Before Christmas zine so that I can reread its holiday FK stories as part of my Advent joys. (If you don't have the zine, try my "trope:holidays" tag? Over the years, I've linked to as many of its stories as I've found online, and many other FK holiday tales besides).

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

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• All the various yuletide/yuletide activities and efforts continue!
• fandom_stocking, the annual no-commitment, multifandom, treat fest, is taking sign-ups through 12/14 and fills through 1/05/16. (There's a "Characters" field in the template, to go with the "'Ships" field, for the first time this year!) Here're the stockings wishing for FK.
• genprompt_bingo, a multifandom fic bingo challenge with gen prompts (but not necessarily gen fills), has opened a new round, lasting through March 2016.
• galentinesday, a multifandom exchange ficathon for female characters' relationships, is taking sign-ups through 12/09. The submission deadline is 2/06/16.
• Recommendation communities that would welcome you posting about your FK favorites include: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion and recshelf. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

Fanfiction
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary
2 of the 631 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in this period:

• "The Address of a Myth" by andveryginger (crossover with Forever) (5,709 words; Teen)
• "New King of the Vampires" by Dragonsteamfan (crossover with Subspecies) (WIP, 15K+ words; Teen)