Are you reading Pros this weekend...?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've just picked up another old Pros favourite to re-read, Veils of Morning by Irene, and I thought about how I've been neglecting the lads recently, and that got me to wondering what other people are reading... are you reading Pros at the moment? Whatcha reading...?

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I've been going through all my zines, so I'm reading in all my fandoms. Coincidentally, I just finished "Guilty Pleasures," last night, so, yes, I am reading Pros at the moment. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

My zines are all in storage now of course, though I was able to pull out a few the other day. Guilty Pleasures has "These Things Do Not Remember You", doesn't it - oddly enough that's one I seem to keep coming across recently, so I must go back and re-read it. I seem to remember it as lovely and serious and tragic and worth reading... *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does. And I love that story. It's one I never tire of, no matter that it's so tragic and gut wrenching. I suppose that's part of its charm. *g* But it has a sort of happy ending, in a very dark way.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

That is part of its charm - just like our lads! *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

I'm re-reading Sineala's Arcadia :-D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice - it's been ages since I read that! *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I'm mainlining Pros at the moment... I've got Halotolerant's 'This Week It Rained' (again!) on the iPad, and I'm working my way through fajrdrako's works on AO3. I'd be reading more, but I keep running out of hours in each day. It must be a design fault.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Sounds a bit good to me! I must go over and see what Fayrdrako's put up on A03 actually - is Forever True there? It's my favourite of hers... *g*

And hee - yes, the lack of eternal hours to read is definitely a design fault! I'm going to take it back one day, demand they fix it...

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

I've just picked up another old Pros favourite to re-read, Veils of Morning by Irene

By a strange coincidence I'm currently re-reading Rhiannon's version of the same story and loving it just as much as ever. It couldn't fail really, seeing as it's based on one of my favourite films and Rhiannon is one of my favourite Pros writers.

I've had an overwhelming urge recently to start working my way through my long-neglected zine collection, it's many years since I looked at some of them. It'll be interesting to see whether my tastes have changed since reading them the first time.

(Oh and btw, 'Veils of Morning' is the Rhiannon story, Irene's version is 'Wings of Morning')

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes - teach me to have both stories out at once. Not only is Veils of Morning the Rhiannon story, it's that one I'm reading! I keep them together though, cos I'm rather fond of them both... *g* Rhiannon really is a brilliant Pros author, isn't she... *sighs happily* And the film! I'd completely forgotten it was based on a film, even though I know I've been told countless times... If you remind me which one, I shall make sure to go and look for it this time... *g*

I hope you'll post about your zine-collection re-read - I'd be interested to hear what you make of them now too. I know my tastes changed after quite a short time really - or perhaps not my tastes, but my tolerance within those tastes... Let us know though, eh?

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

If you remind me which one, I shall make sure to go and look for it this time

It's 'Random Harvest', made in 1942. I first saw it when I was about 14 and cried buckets... I haven't seen it since reading Rhiannon's story though, so next time I'll probably be sitting there thinking "Noooo, it should be our lads!" *g* Funny to think that the movie itself was based on a book, so that's at least three sequels it's spawned!

I know my tastes changed after quite a short time really - or perhaps not my tastes, but my tolerance within those tastes...

Yeah, I suspect my tolerence levels regarding soppiness and lovey-doveyness have changed quite a bit since the early days. It'll be interesting to put it to the test.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember! I haven't seen the film, but I did find the book at Project Gutenburg - I must download it to my Kobo! And then I shall find the movie... *g*

[bodiecuddle.livejournal.com]

As always,.... when I go to this site, I have no access :(. all fictions are not for me ) *cry!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Erm - d'you mean to the link above which was a link to the palelyloitering page (http://www.palelyloitering.com/zines/rhiannon.html) which doesn't actually have the stories on it? Palelyloitering is just a list/link site for Pros stories, it hosts very few, and only for special reasons. Rhiannon's stories are all zine-only, except for a couple which found their way onto the ProsLib disk, I'm afraid... Do you have the ProsLib CD? If not, you should! *g*

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thanks to a friend (a big THANKS!) I'll be reading Jane's "Flesh and Steel". Judging by the size of it, it will occupy more than the weekend!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember that story - yes, it might well take a while to get through... *g* Enjoy!

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading several e-books about how to write stories and...finish them. No much result so far.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Finishing is pretty key, isn't it - starting is always good, but finishing... Good luck with it!

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

I'm just returned from gallivanting, and around the weekend you posted this, I read a lot of Pros fic while travelling - HG's The Peerless Pair (now I have to dig out O Yardley's The Highwayman for comparison!); Brenda Antrim's long cross with Sentinel, which I don't think I can ever have read completely before; AnythingButPink's For Queen And Country, the Neverwhere cross, a lot of Oblique PDFs, somebody's Two On A Treasure Island; and at the con, there was a zine library, so I read a Pros short story in a multimedia zine which I had not read before (and I can't remember it now, argh!) And I bought old zines but have not had time to look at them yet.

Oh, and I have been experimenting with formatting Proslib stories for ereaders by feeding them to a nice program someone wrote for me (*strokes nice program*) and putting my own covers on them, so I tested this on a pile of Rhiannon stories, The Set-Up (anon) and the long-ish 'But Many Of My Friends Are' (erm... forget the author, both on the CD!) and read those on the plane. Now I have to go and request changes to the nice program, and test some more!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well welcome home from gallivanting - I'm guessing a fine time was had... unsurprising with so much Prosfic to hand... *g*

Interesting to hear about the ereaders - in general, or just as .mobi files? And when you say Rhiannon, do you mean Rhianne, or has Rhiannon changed her mind about her stories being on ProsLib/electronic format (obviously HG posted one to A03, so...)? Actually it raises an interesting question - does permission for Circuit/ProsLib/Hatstand count as blanket permission for future technology such as e-readers... from previous similar discussions, I suspect opinions will vary... Do you have a plan for dealing with that (presumably there's been consultation with the ProsLib archivists?), or are you sticking to known extant authors anyway and getting new permission? Or is permission considered passe, these days?