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

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• trickortreatex, a Halloween exchange, got 2 FK stories (both anonymous at this time).
• holiday_prompts is a new prompt-challenge community for holidays throughout the year.
• mystery_mansion is a new community for fictional mystery, crime, and detective fandoms.
• smallfandomfest, a biennial prompt-claim fest, has prompting through 11/21. Claiming and posting run 11/23-1/31.
• fandomlovespuertorico ran through 10/29. But it's not too late to help.
• yuletide, the massive annual small-fandoms exchange, is in progress.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 4 of the 793 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in October.

• "Halloween Night" by Nicholas_Lucien (~2K words) (G, gen) (Part 3 of "Calendar Days")
• "in typical poor taste by Anonymous (201 words) (unrated, gen)
• "However Bright the Night" by Anonymous (~1K words) (PG, gen)
• "Callings" by Merfilly (~2K words) (G, gen)

FK news & conversation:

• FK actors
  • 10/03: pj1228 announced that Nigel Bennett and John Kapelos are both in a movie called The Shape of Water, premiering this December in the US and Canada, and also that Nigel Bennett is nominated for the Winnipeg Theatre Awards.
  • 10/18: nicholas_lucien promoted Geraint Wyn Davies's part in an upcoming 12/01 charity dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol.
  • 10/26: nicholas_lucien wished a happy birthday to Lisa Ryder, and remembered both of her FK roles.
  • 10/31: abby82 uncovered a shout-out to Geraint Wyn Davies in a feature about Canadian actors and Halloween costumes.
  • 10/31: abby82 excerpted a reference to FK from an interview with Catherine Disher about her work on X-Men: The Animated Series.
• The movie that calls itself FK
  • 10/05: nicholas_lucien relayed a teaser promo video from the in-production movie.
  • 10/11: nicholas_lucien shared more updates, including promo stills, from the in-production movie.
• Miscellaneous
  10/23: nicholas_lucien chatted about her approach to an FK story series she's writing, and perhaps starting a rewatch and posting about it.

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. (senmut's are the only offers I recognize so far.)
• RevelCon, an annual fan-run Houston zine/fic convention, is fundraising for ConvoyOfHope.

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• 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, senmut, 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 May, 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 started releasing in May (and finished in June)!
• fksquee had 1 post.
• slowburnbigbang, a panfandom big-bang challenge, has sign-ups through 6/30.
• smallfandomfest, a panfandom prompt-claiming game, is posting through 7/31.
• treatyoselfcomm matches "cheerleaders" with writers to complete a backlogged WIP. Sign-ups for cheerleaders are through 6/10.
• rarepairfest, a panfandom rare relationships exchange, has nominations through 6/14.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 7 of the 776 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in May.

• FKFicFest stories
• "One Loss Too Many" by PJ1228 (~9K words) (PG13, m/f)
• "The Decline and Fall of the Murphy Case" by Brightknightie
• "The Advantages of Age" by dlyt (~4K words) (G, gen)
• "The Siege of Hastingues" by greerwatson (~4K words) (PG13, gen)
• "Feint of Heart" by WaltD (~1K words) (G, gen)
• Other stories
• "The One" by macgyvershe (~25K words) (G, gen) (crossover with HL)
• "A Vampiric Sonnet" by mary44 (112 words) (G, gen)

FK news & conversation:

• Cast & crew
• 5/04: nicholas_lucien let us know that JK will perform in London, Ontario in support of the William Singeris Centre for Myotonic Dystrophy.
• 5/15: nicholas_lucien announced that GWD will play Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Stratford Festival this year.
• Upcoming new movie
• 5/18: nicholas_lucien reported the leads casting for the upcoming new FK movie from Horror Society.
• 5/26: melissatreglia discussed the available information about the upcoming new FK movie.
• 5/24: nicholas_lucien relayed the premise and backstory of the upcoming new FK movie from the movie's Facebook page.
• Miscellaneous
• 5/07: abby82 pointed out a 4-part FK video review on Movie Nights (YouTube).
• 5/16: melissatreglia talked about her writing for FKFicFest.
• 5/20: abby82 related that all but one of her FK DVDs have somehow gone missing.
• 5/21: gaslightgallows suggested a connection between FK and October Project.

It seems that the rumors of a Forever Knight movie in development have been confirmed as true.

If you'd like information or conversation about it, I recommend trying greerwatson, who posted about it on ForKni-L, or melissatreglia, who posted about it on her blog. Source: "CurseBorne Films To Develop Forever Knight Movie" by Mitchell Wells on HorrorSociety.com. And the production company is of course on Facebook.

The hopeful bit, to me, is that although this Nick is planned to be "a freelance detective [who] only takes on cases that deal with the supernatural or occult" (for me, personally, that sounds weak and hollow next to the thematic richness of the reformed killer fighting killing, the one who won't die yet is dead surrounded by true death and true life), nevertheless, and although the production company has previously made only horror, this would be a "departure from strictly horror-based projects" (the FK I love isn't horror).

It took me several minutes to figure out that the giant red "V" in their current project logo probably means to suggest "vampire," which could be disheartening, undermining hopes that they understand that FK is about more than that. It took me less time to identify the serif font; I've actually used it (or one like it) in many FK projects over the years (I'm not the only one).

I'd rather not debate this possible movie just right now, so I've turned off comments. The news feels... a little bit pained, you know? Old injuries. Please forgive any inconvenience. I'm sure there will be plenty of time yet, and future posts.