Brightknightie

Fan
Name:	Amy R.
Alias(es):	Brightknightie (AO3), brightknightie (DW/LJ)
Type:	fan writer, essayist, moderator, webmistress
Fandoms:	Forever Knight, Highlander
Communities:	FORKNI-L, FK Fic Fest (moderator)
Other:
URL:	Bright Knight (personal website), AO3, LJ, DW
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Brightknightie is an author of fan fiction, poetry, and essays, especially for Forever Knight and Highlander. In FK fandom, she was originally known by her full personal name and then as "Amy R."; but on journaling sites she is best known by her username. She belongs to the Knighties fan faction (i.e. fans of the vampire protagonist, Nick Knight). Her user name reflects her preference for stories that focus on his "lighter" side; and she favours his succeeding in his quest to return to mortality.

Monthly from May 1999 to March 2012, on both her personal website and her LJ/DW journals ( "Life (Not Immortality)"), she ran "Amy's Forever Knight Fanfiction Recommendation of the Month". For the benefit of journal readers not subscribed to the mailing lists, she also added a summary of the stories that had been posted to FKFIC-L that month. In addition, Brightknightie provides a monthly round-up of Forever Knight-related activity on social journaling sites ("FK Recently") for the benefit of journal-based fans.

Brightknightie is the moderator of FK Fic Fest, run annually since 2010.

I've been a member of Forever Knight's online fandom since shortly after "The Human Factor" aired in early 1996, when I so wanted to discuss that episode that I braved the wilds of the unfamiliar Internet, and discovered the haven of ForKni-L. Back then, it was all about discussion for me. With time, it's become mostly about fanfiction (my fanfic on the AO3, my FK fanfic recommendations). I'm a Knightie: a follower of Nick in the FKFic-L "War" round-robin game, and a Nick partisan in most interpretations. The "bright" in my handle is telling. That is, while I love serious and sad stories, I side with humanity, hope and salvation, never vampirism, despair or destruction. First season is far and away my favorite.

Why am I still in love with Forever Knight two decades and more after cancellation? It was an outstanding show with a magnificent metaphor. I met the most wonderful and compelling people along the way. It's my home fandom. It still makes me happy.

-- from Brightknightie's Profile page on DW[1]

Forever Knight Fan Fiction

Listed chronologically:

1996

• "Quid Pro Quo, Doctor Lambert"[2][3][4] (1 April)
• "Guitars and Roses"[5][6][7] (1 May)
• "Happiness Is"[8][9][10] (1 June)
• "Billets Doux"[11][12] (13 December)

1997

• "Twice in One Lifetime" (January) - appeared in the fanzine,For the Good of the Knight
• "And So It Goes[13][14][15] (16 February)
• "Renovations"[16][17][18][19] (20 February)
• "As We Forgive"[20][21] (1 March)
• "Corners of the Mind"[22][23][24] (1 June)
• "Someday My Knight Will Come" - chapter of the fanzine, My Parental Units Invaded the Earth, and All I Got was this Lousy T-Shirt
• "Golden Age of Fandom"- chapter of the fanzine, My Parental Units Invaded the Earth, and All I Got was this Lousy T-Shirt
• "England's Rose"[25][26][27] (1 September) - a/k/a "England's Rose (an interlude)"

1998

• "Whence the Truce"[28][29] (15 July)
• "Fireweed"[30][31][32] (1 December)

1999

• "That Ain't Love"[33][34][35] (21 May)

2000

• "Time Out for the Living"[36][37] (28 February)

2001

• "Kindred Spirits"[38][39] (23 January)
• "Grievances"[40][41] (5 July)
• "Not the Mothering Type"[42][43] (31 August)

2002

• "Puzzles"[44][45] (1 May)
• "A Matter of Time"[46][47] (24 June)
• "Another Officer Vetter"[48][49] (30 September)

2003

• "What It's Like"[50][51] (30 April)
• "In the Light of Day"[52][53] (30 October)

2005

• "An Appointment Unkept"[54][55] (31 December)

2006

• "How He Loves"[56][57] (18 May)
• "Send My Love"[58][59] (4 July)
• "By Expectation Beguiled"[60][61] (29 July)
• "A Little Salsa Picante"[62][63] (23 October)
• "Nice to Remember"[64][65] (5 November)

2007

• "Better Late"[66][67] (30 July)
• "Professor When"[68][69] (30 August) - crossover with Dcotor Who
• "Last Minutes"[70][71] (August)

2008

• "Steamer Trunk Space"[72][73] (7 February)
• "Pro Terra Sancta"[74][75] (21 March)
• "Starwort"[76][77] (23 April)
• "Clearing the Air"[78][79] (3 May)
• "A Delicate Balance"[80][81] (6 July)
• "Fearful Symmetry"[82][83] (30 September)
• "Milepost"[84][85] (16 November)

2009

• "Three Fireweed Seeds":[86]
  • "Reconnection"[87] (26 February)
  • "Responses"[88] (27 February)
  • "Recoil"[89] (28 February)
• "When Donut Met Button"[90][91] (18 May)
• "In a Family Way"[92][93] (26 December)

2010

• Party Favors (assorted):[94][95] (30 May)
  • "The Hard Way"
  • "Conditional Love"
  • "Full House"
  • "Old Scars"
  • "Mnemonic"
  • "If You Love, Let Go"
  • "Just Desserts"
• "True to Life"[96][97] (31 May)
• "Heart's Ease"[98][99] (25 November)

2011

• "Before"[100][101] (6 January)
• "Method in Her Madness"[102][103] (6 January)
• "Metamorphosis"[104][105] (6 January)
• "Getting Involved"[106] (6 January)
• "For a Song"[107] (6 January)
• "Cuts Deep"[108][109] (2 February)
• "The Book Club Auxiliary"[110][111] (March)
• "Malicious Mischief"[112][113] (31 July)
• Party Favors 2011[114][115] (31 July)
  • "While the Other Survives"
  • "No Place Like"
  • "Rapprochement"
  • "Only the Medium"
  • "As Many Facets"
  • "Red in Tooth and Claw"
  • "Catharsis"
  • "Not Strangers"

2012

• "Thirty-One, Level 1"[116][117] (6 January)
• "A Hunt By Any Other Name"[118][119] (7 January)
• "Scrubbed Clean"[120][121] (7 January)
• "Informed Consent"[122] (2 May)
• "Chante à Nouveau"[123] (29 July)
• Party Favours:[124] (7 August)
  • "The Fix is In"
  • "Entropy"
  • "Unsinkable"
  • "Allotted Span"
• "Our Nature to Possess"[125] (10 August)
• "Waiting on Perfect"[126] (11 August)
• "At That End of History"[127] (12 August)
• "Conflict of Interest"[128] (15 August)

2013

• "Fair Shares"[129] (1 January)
• "Relocation Therapy"[130] (7 January)
• "Closer to the Renaissance"[131] (28 July)

2014

• "In Pursuit of the Paladin"[132] (5 January)
• "Wake and Remember"[133] (5 May)
• "Missing Persons"[134] (10 August)

2015

• "Ad Festivum Ignem"[135] (6 January)
• "When the Nat's Away"[136] (6 January)
• "The Real Thing"[137] (6 January)
• "Designed to be Seen"[138] (6 January)
• "Wake the Morning After"[139] (25 August)

2016

• "The Time Will Come"[140] (28 September)

2017

• "The Decline and Fall of the Murphy Case"[141] (28 May)

2018

• "The European Occultists"[142] (2 July)

2019

• "Fill in the Blanks"[143] (18 July)

2020

• "Still Breathing"[144] (25 April)

2021

• "Bright with Anticipation"[145] (3 April)
• "Say Otherwise"[146] (24 May)

Forever Knight Poems

The following fan poetry is listed chronologically by the date posted or published.

1999

• "Longer Than The Medicis"[147][148][149] (30 August)

2000

• "At Issue"[150][151] (June)

2002

• "Someone Like Me"[152][153] (25 August)

2003

• "The Coming Choice"[154][155] (2 August)

2005

• "Mai's Little Boy"[156][157] (29 December)

2006

• "He Never Blames Her"[158][159] (4 June)

2011

• "Solace"[160][161] (18 May)

Fan Essays

• "At Azure, was Natalie Hypnotized or Drugged?"[162]
• "Coming Across? Let Me Count the Ways"[163]
• "Nick's First Epiphany"[164]
• "On the Ending of Series"[165]
• "What is "fanfiction"?"[166]
• "What is Forever Knight?"[167]

Other Forever Knight Writing

• 1228 Concordance[168]
• Amy's Forever Knight Canon/Crusades Alignment[169]
• Amy's Forever Knight Fanfiction Recommendation of the Month[]
• Amy's Forever Knight "Stuff" List[170]
• Amy's Script-Based Forever Knight Timeline[171]