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The mods over at ljbookbingo have started a fun new game this year - Alpha-book bingo, which I decided to play in my lj as I read this year. And then as I was reading a Pros fic the other day, I suddenly thought... can you guess? *g*



Stamp out the squares for every fic you read beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, and give a link to it in a post in your lj (or here in ci5hq if you'd rather). It might be a nice way of getting some more Pros into our flists, and reminding everyone of the different Pros stories out there, if anyone else would like to play, just as a personal kind of game?

And a thousand thanks and kudos to keli, who made the Alpha-book Bingo board, and then tailored it especially for Pros! *vbg*

Would anyone like to join me in playing?

Yeay jat_sapphire and macklingirl! *g*

Case-based	Doyle pov	Hurt/Comfort	Women of CI5	Comedy
A winter story	Relationship-based	Bodie pov	Other agents	Lads doing other jobs
Injury/illness	Alternative Universe	WILD CARD	Other character pov	Older lads
First Time	Curtain fic	Based on a specific episode	Post-canon	Set mostly at night
Something Fanon	Crossover (with another show/fandom)	A celebration!	Cowley pov	Featuring an animal

Somewhat changed from a meme posted by dimity_blue... *g* Anyone else want to have a go?

A Place: There's an Old Mill by O. Yardly
A Food: The High Up Singing and Alive Fruit by Slantedlight
A Drink: Tea for Two by Alexandra
Animal: Werewolves of London by Rimy
A Number: Four Days and Five Nights by Gloria Lancaster
Colour: Blue Skies by Maggie Hall
Boy's Name: The Devil and George Cowley by Anne Carr
Girl's Name: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Sebastian
Profession: The Good Morning Soldiers by Madelein Lee
A Vehicle: I Saw Three Ships by Gael X. Ile

Is anyone reading Pros fic at the moment? It's quiet here - and there, and there, too! It's nearly the end of August, and it's the late August bank holiday here in lads' land, so let's have a reading challenge this week! This is how to join in:

1 - Read a Pros fic!
2 - Post here to let us know what it was and whether you enjoyed it!
3 - Repeat, repeat, repeat until the end of the week! *g*

There - easy one, right? I know it's been a wee while since I read a Pros fic last - if it's the same for you, then let's see if we can get back into the habit for a wee while, because it's one of those good habits, isn't it... *g*

Technically it's Friday here now, and what I really want to be doing is reading Pros stories - what I'll mostly be doing is working on Job 2 (once I've finished Job 1) but it occurred to me - maybe a quick press of the Random button at the Circuit Archive might be do-able, and then if I posted quickly about it... more Pros in my flist too!

And then of course I wondered if anyone else might like to play! So - a challenge! Between now and midnight at the end of Monday (your time), head over to The Circuit Archive, hit the Random button, and read whatever fic comes up! (If it's really long and you don't have time then feel free to go back and random until you get a length that fits your free time) Then... nip over here and tell us about it? Wouldn't it be nice to have a wee string of Pros story posts all through the weekend? Go on - how many can we get...? *g*

It's been aaaaaaages since there was much Pros in my flist, other than (lovely) Pros pictures, and I'm definitely as guilty as anyone of this. In particular, just now, I've not had a day off work for over a month and I must admit I'm flagging. I need some good things back in my world!

Almost always, Pros posts and chat and stories count as a good thing - so... a wee Pros challenge for anyone out there who still loves our lads, no matter how busy the world is getting!

There are two ways to take part:

1. If you're reading a Pros story right now, or if you've just read one, then post a quick resume of it on your lj, or here in ci5hq, with a link to the story for anyone else who might want to read and comment.

or

2. Nip over to The Circuit Archive which has a brilliant "Random Story" button, and click it! Read the story that appears, and post to your lj or to ci5hq to let us know what it is, and what you think of it! (Cheating is okay if it offers you a very long story that you don't have time to read - feel free to random until you get one that fits with your day!)

They don't have to be long stories - wee ficlets and drabbles are Pros writing too - and if there are other places where you can "random", then that's cool too. *g*


Would anyone like to play? *g* Let's see how many we can post, and make our fannish world just a bit brighter!

It's quiet again (though there'll be a new Reading Room soon) so I thought we might try a CI5hq-type challenge, just as something a bit different...

Are you reading Prosfic at the moment? Are you enjoying it, or hating it, or just thinking it's okay? Either way - post a mini-review here to CI5hq to let other people know! It need be no more than the title, the author and whether or not you like it particularly - or it could include a quote from the story, something that made you think, something that made you cry (or with laughter... *g*) Whether the story's been reviewed before or not, we'd like to know what you think of it!

How many reviews can we get up by the end of the week? And what new stories might we discover...? *g*

Can you tell I'm back at work...? *g*

Thinking about what I said in my last post - that I've not been reading much Prosfic lately - and remembering that sometimes all it takes is reading a few of the best Pros stories to get me back into it, I was thinking... would anyone like to play a wee Prosfic game to a) help me choose stories to read; b) add to our list of fic recs here at CI5hq; c) give us something Pros-y to do on a Monday (and/or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs...? *g*)

How about creating a Web of Prosfic Recs - rec me a Pros story to read, in a comment below, and I will rec you one back. We'll both post brief reviews/opinions/recs of the story back to CI5hq (or your lj if you prefer, or wherever), and at the end add this paragraph so that someone else can rec us a fic to read and post it too... If even just a few people play then we'll have a shiny string of Prosfic Recs popping up in people's flists! And, depending on how much time we've got, we can do as many or as few as we like... maybe starting with shorter stories, to get going, but longer ones might work too, for people with time on their hands... *g*

So... would anyone like to play?

So, there've been some requests floating around for Pros fic recs, and one of the things I've heard requested is slash Prosfic that's not particularly romantic... which sounds a bit odd in some ways, because our lads being together at all is pretty romantic by some definitions... okay, by mine. *g* But thinking about it made me curious, and since it's been quiet over here as much as anywhere... anyone up for a challenge?

Could we have some recs for non-romantic Pros slash stories posted, please? And if nothing else it'll be interesting to see all the different definitions of non-romantic too! Cos we know the lads are truly, madly, deeply... *g*

One request - please use the header that's on the User page! It looks rather alot like this:

Title:
Author:
Link to story: (if it's online)
Zine: (if it's in a zine)
Short review: (1 to 3 sentences)

Thanks!

I keep meaning and meaning to write reviews of Pros stories here at ci5hq, because I remember that's what I was desperate for when I first knew Pros - with the plethora of fic out there - ideas about where to start, what I might and might not like and so on. And people are always asking for thoughts and opinions about what to read. Trouble is, time gets away from me, and writing a whole review seems like it needs so much thoughtfulness that it ends up at the end of my list of things to do.

So, I was wondering... game for the long weekend, anyone? *g*

What if we all chipped in to reviews with those single, quick comments that are so much simpler to write, but that, with lots of people contributing, would add up to much more information about an individual story or zine? That way we could have all sorts of opinions gathered together in a single place, too, make it easier for people to compare thoughts/likes/dislikes etc? And if a review post turned into a discussion, then that'd be fab too, because that's all the more information, and if no one posted at first, they could always come back a few weeks later and post then - no time limits or anything, although a concentrated weekend of it might be fun?

'course it all depends what people have read/are reading, but I've thought of that too... *g* What if anyone who fancies playing simply posts the title and author of whatever they're currently reading in the subject header - and if they can fill in the review info from the user page that'd be fab too, this bit I mean:

Title:
Author:
Link to story:
Zine:
Short review: See comments below!

... and then anyone who's read it recently/remembers it etc, makes a little comment below - long or short as you like, but it'd all add up to a bigger review?

Anyone fancy playing? And we could do them all at once too - in fact the more going at once the better, because we could use it as an excuse to re-read whatever fic from the posts grabs our attention, and then comment ourselves - a sort of fannish reading/reviewing circle!

So... if you've been reading Prosfic lately, then make a post with the title and author in the subject line, and if you can fill in the Review Info thingie in the post below, with just a commment to invite comments from anyone else who's read it then that's your lot - unless you want to write a more in depth review as a comment yourself, or join in any discussion etc that ensues... I'll post up a couple of examples, and hope that people might join in (otherwise I'll look very silly, won't I?! Plus, I really hope that this makes sense!)