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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.

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

Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• Many people chatted, publicly and locked, about their fkficfest/fkficfest stories! Good luck to all! Stories come due July 16. Check out the beta-reading post (LJ and/or DW). Having trouble? Please contact the mods!
• Current open-to-FK (all fandoms) fests you may wish to know about include fanbingo, hc_bingo, femgenficathon and kink_bingo.

Fanfiction

2 FK stories were uploaded to the AO3 in June 2011.

Meta (Discussion and Essays)

• On 06/30, gnosticdiva shared that the DarkNN site is down; she's working on retrieving the files.
• On 06/29, [Locked] shared that she is receiving positive feedback on her current FK fanfiction series.
• On 06/29, gnosticdiva referenced FK in answering a writer's-block prompt.
• On 06/13, havocthecat asked when Vachon and Tracy discussed the scent of blood.

Actors

• On 06/22, [Locked] shared another Stratford interview with GWD.
• On 06/21, waltd shared on forkni-l that the Ion cable channel will begin airing The Border (with CD and NB) in July. (Nobody has posted this news on LJ or DW yet. Odd.)
• On 06/04, [Locked] shared another Stratford review mentioning GWD.
• On 05/31, [Locked] discussed early Stratford reviews and linked to this one praising GWD.

Airings & Releases

• On 06/04, pj1228 shared that she had received the second half of the German season-two DVD set, and that its booklet has biographical information on the actors and an explanation of syndicated airing.
• On 05/31, pj1228 announced that she had received the first half of the German season-two DVD set, and described how it has more extras than the North American DVDs, including the blooper reel!
• Chiller is not showing FK in July or August. ~sigh~