December at CI5hq

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's that question-y time of year...

There's something about Pros and Christmas that seems to go together - there are dozens and dozens of Pros-y Christmas fics out there, and it used to be that Nell Howell, who runs The Hatstand would post a wonderful advent calendar of Pros fic through December - at first it was just a story recommendation for each day, then she added a picture of the lads, and finally she added a piece of Christmas music to accompany it all - it was a lovely thing to find in your flist each day! Sadly she hasn't done this for a few years now, but eventually we decided to have our own version here at ci5hq.

In 2010 we had a Christmas Reading Room review/discussion post for each day - start at the link and click forward through the days to see.
In 2011 we had a simpler Advent Calendar of Stories, a quick rec posted by a volunteer each day - again click your way through the days to see more! And in 2012 we again had a quick rec posted by a volunteer each day - here are all the days!

So of course I've been wondering - would anyone like to see and/or take part in an Advent of Christmas Story Recommendations again this year? Basically, we'd be looking for volunteers to choose a day to make a quick post reccing a Pros Christmas-ish story of their choosing, from 1st - 24th December. The posts can be as simple or fancy as you choose, but it's always nice to have a link handy in our flist to a gorgeous story about our lads, and that's all we're trying to give people in December. (Here's last year's organising post to give you an idea of how it works, if you've not seen it before.)

Please do the click-y thing for the poll... *g*

[Poll #1942549]

Comments

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Clicked no to REC but probably can do - can't change answer in poll

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent! (And yes, it'd be good if we could edit our answers to polls, wouldn't it...)

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

Ohh. I assume you're very busy with preparing your moving and you're also planing Christmas Prosy things! I'm amazed. I'd like to see Christmas Pros fic rec calendar but I'm afraid I can't be a recommender unfortunately. Because I think I haven't read so many fics to recommend! Really looking forward to see all recommended fics!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No worries - thanks for commenting! *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I hate saying 'yes please' and then 'no I can't' - but we won't be back till 16th Dec at which point I'll be frantically catching up with everything, online and off. But after Christmas it would be good to see a list... however, that's maybe a tad selfish!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - well, when life means we need to do other things, that's just how it is... We'll see how enthusiastic the potential reccers are about doing more than one rec!

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say - bur my vote was 'no', though I'm always happy about more Pros in my life...
But for me 'a story each day' just adds to the usual bustle of that time of the year.
Because I want to read them all - but find it impossible.
(I really try to avoid any Christmas-stress and enjoy the time! :-))

Anyway - I like to go back to recs here in CI5HQ, and would love if there would be a tag 'christmas fic' so that I could read two or three(!) Christmas stories when I'm in the right mood.

Sorry!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No worries - everyone has different times of year when they're hectically busy, we can't do everything all the time... *g* And it's definitely not meant to make anyone feel more stressed at Christmas time - as you say, it should be a time for enjoying things!

I think there is a tag for the Christmas advent stories - storylist - christmas. But I see that I've only used it for the 2011 Advent calendar recs, so it's limited right now! If/when I have a chance some time I'll catch up on tagging...