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“What Remains To Be Done” by Dlyt (T, gen)

Title: “What Remains To Be Done”
Author:

Dlyt
Length: 2,211 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. Creator chose not to use archive warnings.
Summary: “Loose ends need to be tied up at the end of the third-season episode 'Ashes to Ashes.'”

“What Remains To Be Done”

FKFicFest 2025 (annual Forever Knight fanfiction game)

FK Fic Fest 2025

fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

fkficfest '25 is releasing!

We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfiction stories this year. We're revealing one per day as long as they last. So far, 9 are available to read! We're looking forward to 3 more!

Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.

Come celebrate FK with us!

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Bridging the Knight Auction Catalog

thefruitbat found an ebay listing where someone is selling a marked up copy of the Bridging the Knight auction catalog for $150. Bananas.

Bridging the Knight was a Forever Knight auction and convention held in California in 1997. Many costume pieces, props, scripts, and other miscellaneous items were auctioned off for charity at the event. I was there and still have things from it, including the auction catalog.

I had scanned my own marked up copy of the auction catalog over a year ago. I thought I had shared it, but looking at the number of album page views... I guess I didn't. Oops.

Early last year, I embarked on a scanning project that I have yet to complete. I know I shared a link to some of the photos from the event, but I guess I didn't share the link to the catalog scans. I think I probably meant to finish scanning the photos and then share the links to everything, including the catalog. But I didn't actually finish scanning the photos sooooooo... yeah.

Anyway, if you're like, I want to see the auction catalog, but I don't want to spend $150 to do it, here you go: https://www.flickr.com/gp/199526413@N07/7htbF7r0r4

This is marked up with the prices things sold for. I scanned all the pages except for the list of scripts just because those pages didn't seem that interesting. They have no pictures or funny little descriptions. Scripts averaged around $200-$250. Though the "Curiouser and Curiouser" script went for $675. Those pages also have my annotation "Coke Can, $150." The story behind that is detailed in the Forever Knight wiki here.

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“Reconcilable Differences” by Brightknightie (T, gen)

Title: “Reconcilable Differences”
Author:

Brightknightie
Beta-reader: Batdina
Length: 5,272 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “When Nick is gravely injured in the line of duty, he and Natalie disagree about how far to go to save his life.”

“Reconcilable Differences”

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A reminder that the default deadline is this month!

Hello, detectives! I hope you've been having a lot of fun compiling your very creative cases with the lists of suspects and evidence your requesters have given you!

➡️ The default deadline is this month!
This is a reminder that we have a default deadline in this exchange, which is Friday 27 June at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone ].

If you cannot finish your gift, please default so this can be assigned as a pinch hit and a pinch hitter can claim the assignment. Our defaulting rules are available in our rules and guidelines.

We do not have an official mandatory check-in with this exchange (I did not build it into the schedule for this round), but the default deadline week will act as one for those who find such check-ins useful.

Assignments are due on Friday 11 July at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown ]

➡️ If you need a little help/inspiration!
Please remember we do have resources at your disposal if you're struggling!

Tips on creating case-centric work contains lists of resources that may be of use to you as a writer, artist, and podficcer.

Find a beta if you need assistance! If you'd like to be a beta, please take the time to drop your details so our participants can reach out to you.

If you're on the pinch hit list, or if you're someone who'd like to see treats for a canon you feel might be on the rare side, please consider creating a promo post for your canon.

➡️ Pinch hits!
If you're interested in picking up a pinch hit, you can see our list of available pinch hits.

We will have a treats post for pinch hitters coming later this month.

➡️ Questions, concerns, etc.!
Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with any questions, queries, and concerns, and be sure to include the necessary details (your AO3 and your recipient's AO3) so your email can be actioned.

Good luck, and happy investigating!

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2025,
treats

Treats for Pinch Hitters

We're grateful to all our pinch hitters! 5,000 words or 5 pages is a big commitment without any guarantee of a gift in return.

A number of people are writing pinch hits but didn’t sign up for the exchange, and we’d like to give them the opportunity to leave prompts for treats. Treats for pinch hitters go in the same location as treats for anyone else, in the main collection.

If you picked up a pinch hit, aren’t signed up for the exchange, and would appreciate treats, please leave your AO3 name in a comment here along with the fandoms you’re interested in. You can specify characters/relationships, fic or comics, genres, prompts, and DNWs--as much detail as you'd like. Linking to past letters is also fine.

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“Daylight” by Nicholas_Lucien (T, gen)

Title: “Daylight”
Author:

Nicholas_Lucien
Length: 1,853 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Through multiple points in Nick's life, he is trying to change, but maybe he is not changing as much as he thinks.”

“Daylight”

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Fannish options & enthusiasms | June 2025

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: With strict scrutiny and nervous caution, wary that perhaps it was only nostalgia and rose-tinted goggles after all, Overly Sarcastic Productions brilliantly examined "The Lost Art of Marvel's Phase 1." ( Spoiler: Phase 1 really is as good as we thought it was! Yes, even that one! )

Ficathons, fests & communities

Create & engage
- fkficfest, the Forever Knight challenge, is in progress revealing its stories (one per day).
- justmarriedexchange is an exchange for marriage tropes. Nominations through June 10; sign-ups through June 22; due August 17.
- epidemfic is an exchange for illness themes and depictions. Sign-ups through June 8; due July 6.
- beauty-beast-week is a week-long open celebration of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Posting is August 18-24.
- trope_of_the_month's June theme is "time loops."
- pinchhits is a forum for pinch-hits in exchanges. For example, whumpex is seeking pinch hitters.
- whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
Enjoy & share
- fancake (themed fanfic recs); June theme: "female relationships"
- gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
- het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
- fanart_recs (fanart recs)
- recthething (fanwork recs)

Sidelight: This spring, I posted one recommendation in recthething (for "the gears of time turn on" by LadyHoneydee (TLOZ:BOTW)). I used to have a recommendation-of-the-month project for FK fanfiction, long, long ago. I've been thinking of getting back into recommendations, via such communities, perhaps with mirroring in my AO3 account, definitely no longer limited by fandom. I'm wondering whether and how people really use recs these days. Would it be a good use of my time for others?

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Works have been revealed!

Thank you all for your patience as we secured the last pinch hits. Works have now been revealed!!

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“Oh, Captain, my Captain” by WaltD (T, gen)

Title: “Oh, Captain, my Captain”
Author:

WaltD
Length: 875 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Stonetree and Reese have another discussion.”

“Oh, Captain, my Captain”

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FKFicFest '25 halfway point

We're at the halfway point of

fkficfest 2025. Six stories are available to read; six remain to be revealed. You may have noticed that the cadence is (very roughly) short-short-long this year.

I've posted promos to

fandomcalendar and

fandom_on_dw. I'm posting a promo with the new reveals to forkni-l every third day.

Please feel free to promote the event in any appropriate forum! Or of course on your own journal.

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New FK Fic "Unpacking" (for FKFicFest)

Today's

fkficfest release is my story!

Grief has a way of resurfacing when you're not expecting it.

In the aftermath of "Sons of Belial" and the arrival of a new homicide case, Natalie finds herself confronting long-avoided feelings about what happened to her brother, feelings that have haunted her for years.

Natalie's grief and guilt intertwine with growing worry for and uncertainty about Nick. But she finds that she is not alone, and that for both of them, the only way forward is through.

Check it out on AO3:

Unpacking

And as I am wont to do from time-to-time...

( Some navel-gazing meta about the story. )

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“Unpacking” by SwitchbladeEyes (T, gen)

Title: “Unpacking”
Author:

SwitchbladeEyes
Beta-reader: TheFruitBat
Length: 11,107 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Natalie Lambert has kept her grief and guilt neatly packed away for years, only for recent events to bring everything back.”

“Unpacking”