CI5hq Christmas Prosfic Advent Calendar 2015

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks everyone who took part in the polls the other week - the results are in!

Shall we run the Christmas Prosfic Advent Calendar again?
Yes - 18 (11 of whom can volunteer)
No - 1

Or - shall we turn the daily Advent fic recs into a game (a treasure hunt or guessing game) for a change?
Yes - 8 (3 of whom could volunteer)
No - 9

Shall we continue with Reading Room Thursday in December?
Yes - 8 (7 along with Christmas calendar)
No - 11

So we shall indeed run the CI5hq Prosfic Advent Calendar again, but not as a game (by a margin of 1 vote!) - and we'll take a break from the ordinary Thursday calendar. *g*

So - are there any volunteers out there to rec/suggest/review/discuss/anything-you-like-as-long-as-you-at-least-post-the-name-of-a-fic-for-us-to-go-and-read-that-day Pros Christmas/winter/solstice/December/etc./ seasonal fics? *g*

All you need to do to join in is choose a day and comment below to let me know. If you want to nominate the fic you'll post about, particularly if you're up for discussing it so that people can read it ahead of time, then let me know its name (and link please, so I don't have to go hunting!) And if you don't know yet, but you're happy just to say that you'll post a link to a fic on that day, then that's fine too. I've volunteered to do the first day, just so you can see it's started... *g*

On your chosen day, you can do as much or as little as you'd rather. If you just want to say "Here's a Christmas fic I love!" and provide the link, then that's cool. If you want to write a review of it and stop comments, then that's fine. If you want to invite discussion, then go for it. And if you want to make it an all-singing all-dancing celebration of a particular fic, complete with pictures and associated music and videos, then that also works... *g* It's completely up to you! The only thing we're looking for is at least one Pros fic posted to the comm every day, so that there's a daily fic in our flists.

Please stick to lads' time (GMT) as closely as you can, just to avoid clashing dates (two fics posted on the same day, which might happen if someone was posting from Toronto and someone from Sydney, for instance). That said - there's also no reason we can't have more than one fic each day, so if the only day that you can post is the same as someone else's posting date, feel free to volunteer it and I'll slot that in. And if you want to volunteer for more than one day, that's excellent too. And finally - please keep an eye on the empty dates, and help us fill them in too! Now - without further ado...

ETA - ooh, I can use spoiler cuts for the Advent calendar doors!

The Pros Advent Story Calendar
1st December - byslantedlight - The Mistletoe Fairy by Jojo
2nd December - hagsrus - Wearing Away Stone by O. Yardley
3rd December - krisserci5 - Boxing Day by The Hag
4th December - macklingirl - Winter by Krisser
5th December - boothros - Not a Very Silent Silent Night by Alexandra
6th December -
7th December - snailbones - Christmas Wishes by Merentha
8th December - krisserci5 - Resolutions and Temptations by PFL
9th December - fiorenza_a - The Path Not Taken by Rhianne
10th December -
11th December -
12th December - msmoat
13th December - paris7am - Of Trees and Needles by Magenta Blue
14th December - jessebee - Discovered in a Hatstand by The Hag
15th December - kiwisue - I Saw Three Ships by M. Fae Glasgow
16th December - siskiou - Do You Know What I Know by PR Zed
17th December -
18th December -
19th December - dawnebeth - Christmas Wishes by PR Zed
20th December - franciskerst
21st December - macklingirl - Bodie's Christmas Wish by Ann Higgins
22nd December - airelle1
23rd December -
24th December - byslantedlight

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Yay! Christmas reading - just what I'm going to need to calm me down *g*

Can I have either the 7th or 8th, please? And 'Christmas Wishes' by merentha13, here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/599380

Smack me if I'm doing this wrong - I don't seem to read instructions terribly well!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay - a volunteer! *g* And you did it pretty right that I could see (except for making me choose... *g* So I chose the 7th for you. *g*)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The 7th is great for me, ta ever so. And you mean, I actually followed the instructions for once? Wait while I run out and buy some Ikea furniture, while the going's good *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! ... *thinks*... okay, now go and post lots of Pros to your lj.

*waits*

*g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'll post a rec on the 12th of December, if I may. No idea what, but there is plenty to choose from!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - the 12th is all yours! I wonder how many Pros-Christmas stories there are...!

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I'll take the 4th please. My story would be 'Winter' from KrisserCI5 http://archiveofourown.org/works/952172?view_adult=true

And the 21th for 'Bodie's Christmas Wish' from Anne Higgins http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/bodieschristmas.html

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay, all yours! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

I'll take the 16th and will post a link, once I've picked a story! :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The 16th is all yours! *g* No rush about the link - even if you only post it to your post!

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I browsed the Christmas list at the Hatstand and have made my choice:
http://hatstand.slashcity.net/zed/doyouknow.html (http://hatstand.slashcity.net/zed/doyouknow.html)

Do You Know What I Know by P. R. Zed

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Done! *g* Thank you!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I'll gladly post 2 recs. . . .early in the month . . . .like the 4th and the 8th. . . am I suppose to say what I choose?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - you seem to have a habit of picking the most popular dates! The 4th is already gone I'm afraid - would you like the 3rd? Or the 5th?

ETA - the 8th is all yours though!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

for the 3rd - Boxing Day by The Hag http://archiveofourown.org/works/45957

for the 8th - Resolutions and Temptations by PFL http://archiveofourown.org/works/475234

I liked how you hid the titles.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you - all yours!

All my best ideas come when I'm in the shower... *g* I realised I could hide the story titles with the new(ish!) spoiler-cuts and then people who wanted to know could look, and people who liked being surprised like an advent calendar could be surprised!

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I'll take the 19th, please. Story to be decided later. ;-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The 19th is all yours! No rush to decide about the story - you don't have to announce it at all until the day, if you don't want to!

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Found the story: Christmas Wishes by PR Zed

http://archiveofourown.org/works/187191

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Great, thanks!

Décember 22d

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

If it's still available, I'd love to get December 22d

Airelle

RE: Décember 22d

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

All yours! *g*

Mmmm

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

it's me hoping I'm doing this right

9th please (or nearest next available - so easily pleased :0))

The Path Not Taken Rhianne http://archiveofourown.org/works/422639

Imperfect and corny - difficult to see how it could be more Christmassy, if you look at it like that, and recalling one of the more recent Christmas traditions (i.e. less than 2000 years old).

RE: Mmmm

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Great - the 9th is yours!

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

December 2nd (any day ok if more convenient)

http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/7/wearingaway.html
Wearing Away Stone by O Yardley

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The 2nd is yours!

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Why don't you tuck me in for the 14th, with Discovered In A Hatstand by The Hag
http://hatstand.slashcity.net/hag/hat.html

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

All tucked in!

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I volunteer for the 20th December. Thanks.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you - all yours! *g*

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Hello, if it's not gone, can I please have the 5th with 'Not A Very Silent Night' by Alexandra.

http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/nota.html

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You certainly can - the 5th is all yours! *g*

[anna060957.livejournal.com]

Shamelessly taking advantage of you all I've downloaded all the posted stories and will try to join in the discussion. RL currently hideous on a number of levels! Looking forward to January.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - you shameless one, you! *g* Hope RL stops being hideous on any and every level very soon, and that we see you around here again!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I can do the 15th - I Saw Three Ships by Gael X. Ile: http://www.oblique-publications.net/archives/1note/6_1qthreeships.pdf

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

So sorry late reply - the 15th is all yours!

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

I was going to request this one, too! Makes me doubly happy! :)

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

I would like the 13th if it is still open. It has been so hard to pick a story. The first two I decided on were already taken! Thank goodness we have an amazing pool to choose from... I'll do Magenta Blue's "Of Trees and Needles." If it hasn't been taken.

I cannot figure out how to paste a link on granny kindle sorry!
http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/13562.html?style=mine
Maybe it worked?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It is still open, and your granny kindle link worked beautifully! It's all yours! *g*

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Looking at the line-up, there is a bit where we have authors and recc'ers in great order - like a daisy chain where the author of a story on one day is the recc'er on the next, and so on? wouldn't that be incredible? Of course, I wouldn't be able to join in, not having any stories to my name, but you see what I mean?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see the bit you mean - fun! And hee - that would be quite a fun challenge. I'm almost tempted to suggest it for next year, but you'd have to know that authors were willing to post here, which might make it difficult... I like idea though! *g*