It's time! Discovered in the Wrapping Paper

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It's November again, which means its time to get organised for our December/January/Winter/Christmas/Solstice/Bacchanalia/Let-There-Be-Light type Pros festival. This year we're sweet sixteen - or as sweet as the lads get *g*! Let's see if there are enough of us still to fill the calendar for one more year. *g*

I'm afraid I borrowed art for the banner from our talented crimson_37 without asking, and I'd love to think she'll see this and know that her gorgeous work is still inspiring Pros fans - and not mind that I tucked her lads under some wrapping paper! The original drawing can be seen and adored here, and here's a link to her Pros website if you've not already been. The art! The vids! Our lads! Thank you crimson_37 for being so brilliant and keeping it up for us to all still enjoy!

Our Pros December-Christmas-Winter-Solstice-festival-of-light-of-all-kinds challenge is something for everyone to join in (please do!) You simply need to choose a free date from the calendar and let me know in the comments. That day is then yours to post something Pros-y and somehow seasonal to the comm. It doesn't have to be Christmas-y, it could just be winter-ish, or it could be related to another seasonal celebration or festival - Divali or Hanukkah, or Bodie Bodhi Day, or even to celebrate the long summer (cos you're in the southern half of the world...) It might even be completely anti-Christmas (although a passing reference to fit into the challenge would be nice), and just be a present offered to any Pros fans passing through the com. You can post as often as you like on that day - just once, half a dozen times, every hour on the hour - it's entirely yours to be as Pros-y as you'd like to be.

The hope is that people will receive something Pros in their flist (or by visiting the comm) every day leading up to Christmas, and even through and into the New Year.

It doesn't have to be fic that's posted, of course - although that's always brilliant, obviously - it could be art, or icons or other graphics, or it could be something completely different. Your own Pros trivia quiz? Macklin's letter to Santa? Cowley's Christmas card list? Start a discussion about why Bodie adores winter and Doyle hates it? Make up a Pros wordsearch puzzle, or colouring-in page! Post that scan you have of a pic no one else would see otherwise! Anything connected to our lads and CI5 is welcome. *g*

As ever, I'm happy to post for you, if you'd rather not do it yourself for any reason (such as Christmas being a hugely busy time for many people), or if you don't have a livejournal - just drop me an email to my email on the User Info page. If you'd like to offer "extra content" that can be slotted into days nobody has claimed, or if someone has a disaster and can't fill their day after all, that would be greatly appreciated as well!

Please sign up as soon as possible (so that I can organise for whatever days appear to be empty etc.) but feel free to sign up any time the comm is running – if you're suddenly inspired on 16th December to post on the 17th, and it's still an empty day, then comment below and go for it (please let me know in the comments though, because otherwise I will try to fill it with extra content!)

If you'd like more than one day then that's almost certainly do-able these days - but I'll give you one to start with, let everyone else have a chance at their first choice of day, and then allocate second (third, fourth... *g*) dates.

To sign up, please comment below with the date/s you would like to post or have your work/creation posted. I will then snag the icon you've used (please make it a Pros icon, because this is Pros, and not an animated one, otherwise the calendar makes me dizzy... *g*) to block off those day/s for you on the calendar. Then all you need to do is post to discoveredinalj on that day! The icons on the calendar will then also become links to your post.

Please use GMT (lads' time) when you post, and post between midnight and midnight lads' time on your day - this is just because, with people all over the world posting, times and posts can get tangled otherwise. Someone posting late can end up crossing over with someone posting early - and it's happened before! This time converter is helpful if you're not sure.

If you'd like to see how it's worked in previous years, you can find links to all the comm challenges on the user info page (all up to date now!) - simply click on the banner and you will be taken to all the entries with the challenge tag. If you find the challenge calendar, you'll be able to click on any day to see what was posted. *g* And there are fifteen other Christmas/Solstice/Winter challenges to explore and be inspired by!

If I've missed out anything vital, or you have any questions, then do let me know in the comments - and sign-ups are now open, for the sixteenth Pros Christmas/Solstice/Winter discoveredinalj challenge!

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