Discovered in the Tinsel and Glitter

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Well, here we are November again, and I think alot of us could use some cheering up around now, so I think it's time to post the nineteenth Pros December-Christmas-Winter-Solstice-festival-of-light-of-all-kinds challenge! I keep wondering if we'll have enough people playing each year - and now I'm thinking that if only we can make it twice more, we'll have managed twenty Dialj December/Winter/Solstice/etc challenges! So I'm crossing fingers...

Yet again, however, being poorly organised (and rushed off my bottom), I've not had a chance to ask a proper artist to make us a banner, and so yet again I've thrown something together to try and tide us over. If anyone would like to make us a proper gorgeous beautiful magical banner, then that would be great!

So - would anyone like to come and join in with our Pros December-Christmas-Winter-Solstice-festival-of-light-of-all-kinds challenge? 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 your day to be as Pros-y as you'd like to be as often 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 - very much crossing fingers - even through and into the New Year.

Despite it always being a bit uncertain these days whether we'll be able to fill the calendar, I've gone ahead and posted the entire 1st December to 6th January version, so crossing fingers and holding thumbs - if we don't manage to fill it, then we may need to shrink a bit later.

It doesn't have to be fic that's posted - although that's always brilliant, obviously - it could be art, or icons or other graphics, or it could be something completely different. A Pros trivia quiz? Cowley's letter to Santa? Macklin's Christmas card list? Start a discussion about why Doyle adores winter and Bodie 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* There is a word-prompt on each date, if you'd like some inspiration (okay, or an extra challenge in some cases!) but again it's entirely optional, it's only there for anyone who fancies. *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 myself, as the comm mod!)

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 ask who'd like 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 - simply click on the challenge 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 eighteen 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 nineteenth Pros Christmas/Solstice/Winter/Let-There-Be-Light discoveredinalj challenge!

1st Glitter	2nd Twinkle	3rd Shine	4th Sparkle	5th Shine
6th Twinkle	7th Glitter	8th Shine	9th Twinkle	10th Sparkle
11th Shine	12th Twinkle	13th Sparkle	14th Twinkle	15th Glitter
16th Twinkle	17th Shine	18th Sparkle	19th Glitter	20th Twinkle
21st Sparkle	22nd Shine	23rd Glitter	24th Twinkle	25th Happy Christmas!
26th Shine	27th Glitter	28th Twinkle	29th Sparkle	30th Shine
31st Glitter				1st Twinkle