All quiet on the Pros-y front...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

...and then I posted a fic review on my lj this morning, and boothros posted a BB prompt, and they both - coincidentally, I presume! - featured the art of Suzan Lovett, and that got me thinking about the various things we said we might play over here at CI5hq, so... - a poll!

We paused the Pros Reading Room way back in December last year for the Christmas Prosfic Advent Calendar, but we said we'd be back, and we also thought about Dear Author Discussions, and of course there was also Friday Night Cinema, all of which have rather fallen by the wayside. Is this just cos I've not prompted them, as comm mod, or is lj truly dead as a forum (as I've seen people claim) and we really are just fandom-ghosts wafting around without purpose...? Do we have some life in us yet? *g*

[Poll #2051588]

And as ever, all comments welcome!

Comments

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

"No - don't you get it? Lj is dead!"
Phhhh! There's life in the old dog yet! *grrrrrrrrr*

So, what do we have?
*g* 4x100% for "YES!"

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

No no no! LJ is not dead! It's just sleeping off a really good lunch.

I'm guessing I'm typical of loads of people - still enthusiastic and loving the Pros-y stuff that shows up on LJ, still reading and writing... but OMG blooming RL keeps popping up and needing to be dealt with urgently. I'm almost scared of posting to my own journal these days, because I know the second I do, something will happen and I'll never get back to chat to people. Which drives me nuts. More nuts *g*

I'd love to see more, have regular/semi-regular things to join in with - I just have a horror of saying I'll play, and then having to bail. (This comment was started an hour ago... I rest my case, m'lud! *g*)

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

The last question--don't actually know anything that could be revived, but I adore episode discussions and watches. My DVDs are unavailable right now, but I've had good success finding eps on youtube!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Episode discussions and watches are fun! I've not really thought of doing them here, cos I've always thought of them as the_safehouse things, but there's no reason we couldn't do them here instead. Maybe we could designate a day as ProsWatch day (which would last a week... *g*), and invite anyone to randomly suggest an ep the night before in a post - whoever does it first is the one we all watch when we can, and then the post-er posts about their watching, or opens discussion or posts by anyone, or something...

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Well, I like to play and to join. :-)

And I like the idea of episode discussions.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

Episode discussions are always quite fun - I've not really suggested them here, cos I've always associated them with the_safehouse, where we used to do them alot, but there's no reason we couldn't do them here...

ETA - sorry, I keep buggering up the code for the Safehouse!
ETA- one more try...

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I have posted some random vids, honest m'lud!

I'm still scribbling away at various Bingo things - now I'm starting to feel better I'm trying to fit in other stuff - off line stuff - so can't always be about. And some of my Lj stuff isn't Pros - am working on a bit of errant nonsense now - case in point.

And some of my online time I spend reading not doing, 'cos really other people's stuff is so good - and I'm doing viddy/arty things too. And then I've gone and signed my Thursdays up for something - so even less time soon.

And then I've spent some time going to see fandommy things - New Star Trek Movie - and watching other fascinating things like the Rabbits of Skomer



And I still haven't replied as I should/would like to, to some folk. I find this business of earning a living really gets in the way of the important stuff...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, work gets in the way of all the good stuff - it's not fair!

From your various responses in the past, I tend to assume that you won't join in anything unless you happen to be there and fancy it (like the Bingo and vids), so not to worry, just enjoy doing what you're doing!

[murphybabe]

Cheer up! All these gloomy choices - down with 'em!

I've ticky-ed all the yes boxes (it's a Pavlovian reaction) but the caveat is, if I'm around and not snowed under. I will do my best, it's just not a very good best at times :(

A very long time ago, MoonlightMead, solosundance and I were talking about an idea we had but never put into practice. It was something to do with Guess the Author - we all wrote 500 words (or submitted 500 words we had lying around) and people had a go at guessing who wrote which text. It's so long ago I don't remember the details - I think it got complicated around anonymity and polls and such, which is probably why it never came to anything, and the other reason none of us kicked it off is most likely because we wanted to play too! But that's an option, if I can remember how it was supposed to work, or if anyone can think of a good way to make it work, and if anyone was interested again.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Nice to see lots of down with 'ems for the gloomy options! *g*

And yeay for yeses. I tend to assume the caveat of "when I'm not snowed under" for everyone (me too *g*), so that's cool. It's just that if everyone is always snowed under, then it'd get a bit difficult.

I think I vaguely remember your Guess the Author conversation (or else one of you mentioned it elsewhere) - sounds like a fun idea to me! It shouldn't be that hard to do, either... *puts on think-y hat*... I quite like the idea of everyone writing 500 words, maybe around a specific theme for the challenge. Plus - more Pros words in the world! And... *thinks*... so, you could have a (perhaps small!) team of mods and each one take it in turn to be the mod for that particular game (and do it maybe once a month until all mods have had a go?) so that they could all join in the guessing (cos yes! Fun!) So the One Mod Who Knows would accept and post all the 500-wordses, and they'd make the poll results not-visible, so that only the mod could see the answers, and the authors who wanted to guess too would just guess their own as well, and then the mod would just not count those guesses when they were adding up for a winner, and... yeah, that sounds fun!

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I'd go for that!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Like snail, I have a bit of a terror of Things Coming Up and stopping me from joining a discussion/activity in time, but I did join in a bit with the Reading Room and Dear Author (tricky one though that is!) and loved them both, so I'd be happy to see them popping up on my screen again!
My ancient creaking steam-driven system (with no speakers) plus constant interruptions are not great for vids, but I usually manage to watch them after a fashion ... though all-too-often it's days later :-(
No bright ideas at the moment, but typically of me I've been meaning to respond and say yay, great idea!!! for three days now - you posted on the 10th and it's the 13th today! ::headdesk:: - which is pretty representative of my abject failure to do what I wanted to do! But nevertheless, belatedly, yay! Great idea!!!! :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'm sorry - I'm just as bad, cos I've not replied to you yet, either! But yeay. I think most of us have a terror of life jumping up and getting in the way when we've said we'll try and do something, and I guess the hope is just that enough people each individual time will be around that something happens! It's tricky though, cos if no one wants to say they'll take part ever, cos they're worried, then no one gets to play/read at all... I don't know how to fix it! Maybe I should request crowdfunding to fund a full-time Pros fandom person-type-person. *g* Mind you, then everyone would want to do it... *g* Bloody money!

Let's cross fingers!