Discovered in the Fairylights - all packed away...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This is the post that I never, ever want to make... properly closing down the Christmas challenge, and posting the final calendar and saying thank you so much to everyone who took part in whatever way you did it - even if it was just by being out there and reading!

The calendar posts are now all tagged and archived - click on one of the days in the calendar, and it will take you to that person's Fairylight post - or posts. *g* Once you're there, click on the tags and you can find either all the fairylights entries together in one place, or all discoveredinalj posts made by a particular author/artist/vidder (well, I'm still working on the last one, but you can find lots of them already, and one day you'll find them all that way!) And finally, the challenge will be added to the User Info page, and all entries can be found by clicking on the challenge banner - and the Discoveredinalj Christmas Special zine can be found over there too...

1st Gold	2nd Green	3rd Pink	4th Red	5th Blue
6th Orange	7th Blue	8th Purple	9th Yellow	10th Red
11th Red	12th Gold	13th Green	14th Orange	15th Purple
16th Pink	17th Green	18th Red	19th Blue	20th Pink
21st Blue	22nd Orange	23rd Yellow	24th Purple	25th
26th Red	27th Purple	28th Green	29th Yellow	30th Blue
31st Gold				1st Purple
2nd Pink	3rd Blue	4th Red	5th Yellow	6th Green

If you've not already done it, do send your fic-type offerings to proslibat gmaildotcom for extra archiving, or think about archiving them yourself to the Automated Hatstand...

And I guess that's all... though... we might manage another idea or two, for 2011 - what d'you think, shall we have another challenge? Anyone up for it? *g*

Comments

Discovered

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for organising and encouraging and urging (and even helping the terminally disorganised to post ;-) )

It was really great that we had an advent calendar again this year (plus the extra one you did!) - that people posted such fun stuff, and that you made it happen {{{thank you bsl!}}}

Re: Discovered

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This time of year always makes me sad... It was fun, wasn't it! And thank you! *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're welcome - thank you! *g*

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

And thanks again for organising this seasonal treat!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're welcome - thank you for all your fab archiving work! *g*

[smirra.livejournal.com]

Thank you for organising The calendar! Always something to look forward to at Christmas time!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

People always do such gorgeous things for it, don't they, and it's such fun! *g* You're very welcome - and thank you! *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thanks for prodding and poking us into action. With all the insanity of Christmas time, it makes something special to look forward to.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It is summat nice to look forward to around Christmas, isn't it... and thank you! *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the hard work of organizing it! It was great to have something to look forward to every day.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It really is nice seeing the lads up there every day, isn't it... And thank you! *g*

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Christmastime activity.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you so, so much for all your hard work. You bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. Obviously thanks are also due to the writers, vidders, artists, etc. but without your organising skills there wouldn't be quite the same sense of excitement. (Or the same ease of reference!) ::hugs::

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that's a lovely thing to say! And so much yeay for a sense of excitement! *g*

[cornishcat.livejournal.com]

Many, many thanks to you, and all the contributors, for a fabulous calendar ... I have really enjoyed the wide variety of daily posts.

I still have a few to comment on and, interestingly, I've only just been able to link to Ailcia's fic (when I couldn't before) but I continue to be denied access to RecyleMedia's. Is it just me? Have I been a bad girl? *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hmmn - are you a member of the comm? I did notice this morning when I was going through that she'd locked her post - some vidders do, as using the music can be a touchy subject with some bands etc. Ah - I've just checked! And you're not a member of the comm! No wonder you can't see it! Just... well... get thee hence and join, Cat! (Also, then when you read your Friends Page, you'll see lots of gorgeous Dialj posts when they're posted... you do read your lj friends page, right...? *g*)

Again - Ailcia's was a locked post, but I asked her to unlock it (there's not usually any reason to lock posts to a community, unless someone has specific individual issues with being online etc, but lj has arranged things so that people who have locked their own livejournals default to locking anything they post to a community too - it's sooooo annoying, cos most people don't want them locked to the community, but it's so easy to forget to check - I spend lots of time running around going erm... did you mean to lock your post to Dialj/CI5hq...? *headdesk* But anyway - joining the community will mean that you can see any post made to the community, locked or not! Go join, bad Cat! *g*

[cornishcat.livejournal.com]

Aha!

I had assumed that I would have to join the comm if/when I decided to contribute something myself but as I had been able to comment then I thought it wasn't yet essential. Silly, bad me!

I'll see if I'm permitted to join. *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the comm is an open comm, we did that on purpose so that even people who don't have ljs can read and comment. It's just this stoopid procedure of ljs, automatically locking all posts made by people who've chosen to lock their own personal ljs... It's a pain...

I always assume that everyone reads lj through their Friends Page, you see, so I always assume people will join comms that they want to watch/follow, but I know some people do just go to the pages when they want to, and of course then it makes no difference (except for the above!) whether you're a member or not. The only thing you can't do, normally, is post - and that's another lj rule actually, and not one we can do anything about. I can see the reasoning behind that one, mind - but not behind automatic locking!

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Awww *sniffles sadly* But also *yay* for such gorgeousness and yay for us having such a well organised gal running it *g* It was, as usual, fabulous and I even managed a wee offering.

And *cough* Valentine's is coming up...

*coughcough*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I know! *sniffles sadly too*

And Valentine's Day? Eeeeep! Although I guess it might tie in with and idea that I had... and I guess we've not had a Valentine's Day one for a while... cos we tended to have anti-Valentines... *g*

[roven75.livejournal.com]

December really was special. It's a bit sad it's over, but I'm sure 2011 will bring many new and interesting challenges!

Thanks for all the work you put into things! :D

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for making this possible! It was so much fun, looking forward to sth Pros style every day!

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I loved having something Pros-y on my flist every day. Thanks so much for organising it, as always :)

What sort of challenge are you thinking of? I might be up for a little one *g*