Discovered In A Drabble

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well that went down well! *g* A big thank you, again, to loyseofverlaine and moth2fic, who between them set the ball rolling - there were more than fifty Pros drabbles in the end, from writers old and new! So thank you everyone who drabbled, too! It was absolutely fantastic to see so much Pros through my flist this weekend, just... stunning.

Speaking of people who drabbled - Circuit archivist justacat wonders if anyone would like their drabbles archived, since most people didn't include our usual trailer - see the User Info page!

If you would like your drabbles archived either online at Circuit or at ProsLib, then please complete this trailer, and post it in a reply to this comment below (you don't need to re-post the drabble, just the trailer):
Title:
Author:
Slash or Gen:
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit:
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above):
Disclaimer:
Notes: If you wrote more than one drabble, please let the archivists know if it's okay to include them all in a single document, or if you have any other instructions.

I expect a link to your drabble would be handy for the archivists too, if you can manage it, to save them scrolling through the posts, but if not don't worry!

And do remember that [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] isn't archiving automatically any more, so any time you would like your fic archived at The Hatstand (and personally I love that there are different formats to choose from when reading!), please email her at hatstander @ yahoo.ca with a link to your drabble.

empty_mirrors has been hard at work tagging all the drabbles, so they will as ever be accessible through the User Info page. I rather think that we'll also include them in the pdf version of Dialj Bound: Discovered In 1977, perhaps as a sort of interlude chapter... *g* If you'd rather your drabble wasn't included, then do let me know below as well!

And finally - keep your eyes on discoveredinalj tomorrow... It's the end of September, there's a new challenge just around the corner... *g*

Comments

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Title: Untitled
Author: beledibabe
Slash or Gen: slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: sure
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above):
Disclaimer: Feh.

here (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/52758.html#cutid1)

[justacat.livejournal.com]

I can't archive without a title - I need to call it something in order to put it in the database and have it accessible! (Title and author are absolutely required for archiving; most other things are optional.) I can make something up myself, if you'd like ("Pros Drabble," perhaps??), but then you're stuck with what I come up with ... *g* I'd prefer to have a bit of guidance from you! :-D

Apologies!

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I forgot you need a title...

Okay.

Title: Want

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

Title(s):

Armistice (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/50412.html) (slash)
Culture Clash (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/48630.html) (gen)
Elaborate (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/54804.html) (slash)
Overnight (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/59433.html) (slash)

In the Driver's Seat, slash drabble series

Alternate Route (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/56739.html)
Journey (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/54734.html)
Switching Drivers (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/55722.html)

Author: Rebelcat
Slash or Gen: Assorted, see above
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes, please!
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nothing!

Thank you so much for organizing all this!

[justacat.livejournal.com]

So can I put the first four together (under the title "Drabbles," or alternatively, all four titles - "Armistice, Culture Clash, Elaborate, and Overnight") and the second three together? Just want to make sure I'm clear...

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

The first four are completely unconnected to each other. The second three are a series (kinda - they also stand alone). I thought "In the Driver's Seat" might be a good title for those three together, though they also each have their own titles, so you don't have to use it.

Does that make sense? :-)

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

Oh wait! I think I get what you're asking - you mean, can you archive them all on one page?

I have no issues with that, if it's easier. Throw in a note about them all having been written for the DIALJ 2-day challenge and I'm good.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to say thanks to everyone, including our fearless leaders. I think the drabble challenge was a rousing success. I was entertained all weekend.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Definitely big thank you to everyone - much fabness! *g*

[melanieathene.livejournal.com]

Title: Under the Weather
Author: melanieathene
Slash or Gen: slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: sure
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above): Melanie Athene
Disclaimer: Bodie and Doyle are not mine, alas...

[przed.livejournal.com]

Adrift (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/55933.html)
Safe Harbour (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/58655.html)

Undone (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/58955.html)

Author: P.R. Zed
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes.
Disclaimer: Someone else owns Bodie and Doyle. I just use them for my own nefarious purposes.
Notes: Adrift and Safe Harbour should be archived together. Undone goes by itself.

[elizabethhelena.livejournal.com]

Yes, please to archiving. As I have no where currently to put Cowley fic, and he's refusing to stay in the closet.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work. This was fun!

Link:
The Naked Civil Servant (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/58293.html)

Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Author: Elizabeth Helena
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Please and thank you.
Disclaimer: George Cowley owns everything. This is clearly spelled out in CI5's brief.
Notes: All Rebelcat's fault, bless her heart. Also, profound apologies to the late Quentin Crisp for nicking his title.

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Hi - you're new to the Archive; would you like me to include your email address? If so, you can post it here or email it to me - archivist at thecircuitarchive dot com, or justacat66 at yahoo dot com. (And email addresses are encrypted on the Archive to prevent spambots.)

[elizabethhelena.livejournal.com]

Yes please. You can include the e-mail address elizabethlovesherthesaurus at hotmail dot com. Thanks so much.

Love your icon BTW. I'm tempted to think that yours is 'before' and mine is 'after'.

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

Safe Haven (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/48820.html)

Gotta be Love (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/53675.html)

Close Call (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/55195.html)

Title: See above
Author: Schnuffi
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes, pleaes
Disclaimer: I don't own the lads but I do love to play with them.
Notes: Please archive them separately. Thanks!

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Is it okay to put them in one document if it's made clear that they are unrelated (I do this often with drabbles, because as Josey says below, it's a lot to ask people to click for 100 words - they're more likely to go to the document if it has a bit more - but it's up to you)? Or must they be in three separate documents?

And also - would you like me to include email addy for you on the Archive? (They're encoded to prevent spambots.)

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

One document is ok if it shows that the drabbles are unrelated.

Please include my e-mail addy harmageddon at t-online dot de.

Thanks!

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Titles:Tamper (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/56500.html), Ineffable (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/54457.html), Hairdryer (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/53278.html), Hunger (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/51479.html)
Author:Josey
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Both
Disclaimer:Don’t own them, just adore them.

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Thanks... can I archive them together (I can include all four names in the title if you want - "Tamper, Ineffable, Hairdryer, and Hunger," or just call them Drabbles, or whatever you want), or do you want them separate?

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Together is fine with the names in the title. Asking people to click for just 100 words always seems a bit much. I'd appreciate it if you could make it clear that they're seperate though. Not a drabble series.

Thanks.

[bistokids.livejournal.com]

Title: Interruptus (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/49624.html)
Author: bistokids
Slash/Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: either or both
Disclaimer: It breaks my heart, but they're not mine - yet!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

*wishes she had time to work out this tagging business*

*has only just discovered that writers are allowed to offer their own fic for archiving (in any fandom)*

I thoroughly enjoyed the avalanche we set off! I think drabbles are a fascinating form! I just wish I hadn't been away all weekend and had to catch up on Monday morning - some of my comments were a bit brief as a result but I read everything and loved it all! I could have written more myself, given time, so maybe we should make it an annual event of some kind? Perhaps with themed prompts next time?

[justacat.livejournal.com]

If you want your drabble(s) archived, if you could link me to them here, or email them to me (archivist at thecircuitarchive dot com or justacat66 at yahoo dot com) - also let me know what name you want to be listed under on the Archive, and if you want an email address listed there (I encode them to prevent spambots). That's all you have to do!

These trailers are just to let me (and hagsrus, for the Proslib CD) know whether you want your stories archived. We are willing to undertake the effort of keeping track of these communities and archiving anything the authors want archived - the authors just have to confirm for us that it's okay and give us some basic info! Tagging is something you don't have to worry about - the community mods do that.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Am emailing as I can't work out how to link...
I'll appear as Harlequin - just so you know it isn't spam!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Circuit online and Proslib (both slash/het/gen) archive "automatically" from trailers, which means that if they see a story etc with a trailer that says "yes please" they pick up the story/drabble for the archive without the author having to do anything else. You can also send an email to The Hatstand, letting her know you've posted and you'd like the story to be included in that online archive (purely Pros slash), and she'll post your story to Hatstand.

The trailers include information for the archivists, but also any "spoiler" information for readers that the author might want to put in (not compulsory), and an individual disclaimer, although we have one on the User Info page too, to hopefully cover the whole site.

We'll definitely do it again some time, it did make a nice break from the longer challenges, didn't it! Nice idea, you! Hmmn - themed prompts - could do! Might depend when we do another one - was quite nice this time (well, for me anyway!) to break away from having the 1977 theme, briefly! But Discovered In 1977 will be over in January, and we probably won't do another one before then, so yeah, why not!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't need to be one of the main themes - you could just set a drabble theme e.g. cars or guns or hairstyles and every response would have to be to do with that theme, however vaguely. That way you'd get your 'break'!

I've emailed justacat. I couldn't work out how to link from the comm so I just sent her the drabbles from my hard drive - I didn't post them on my LJ. Maybe I should. I've had too much to do, writing-wise, recently. So why I set off a cascade of drabbles I have no idea - but I enjoyed them!

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Hey - you didn't respond here, so I'm assuming not - but just to be sure - do you want your drabbles archived? I'm gathering them up and want to make sure not to miss any!

(And to answer your question from somewhere else - yes, I *will* be archiving some of those older stories, I promise!)

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

Justacat - will reply here to you so as hopefully you'll see it, sorry I was a little late in seeing this post.

Title: Longing
Author: Magenta Blue
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes please
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above):
Disclaimer: Purely for pleasure, son. Purely for pleasure.
Notes: Ignore the comment 'takes the plunge' - the drabble starts from The briefing is long... Thank you!
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/51246.html#cutid1

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I did respond, but you've presumably not seen it yet. Was in London all day Monday, I'm afraid, and in bed all Monday night (*g*) so it wasn't until early yesterday morning! Scroll down to the very last (so far!) comment... (There's another reply from someone else down there too).

Glad to hear that there's older stories to come, it's good to have the new ones archived, but of course it's the un-read stories that we're jonesing for... *g*

[justacat.livejournal.com]

You're right, I did miss it; thanks for giving me the heads up!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Title: Stupid Bastard
Author: Heliophile
Slash or Gen: slash (always)
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: I'd be honoured
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above):
Disclaimer: Mine? Mine? I should be so bloody lucky.
Notes: There are three parts and they all go together - might as well share the one title between the three of them (don't even like the title much, but I can't think of anything else!)

sorry am crap at links, but they are here

http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/48946.html?view=1460274#t1460274

http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/57041.html?view=1520593#t1520593

http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/57408.html?view=1513536#t1513536

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

... and I wanted to say thanks to the intrepid organisers and instigators - this was a great idea and a lot of fun!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you for playing! *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I have so much admiration for everyone who took part in the drabble weekend. Thank you all for filling my weekend with so many tasty little bites!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just totally fabulous?! Hear hear!

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Title: Bridle Sweet; Sanity; Still of the Night; Memories
Author: Probodie
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above): Zoe
Disclaimer: Sadly not mine, I just enjoy playing with them.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

I'm crap at links and tags, so I've sent them all off as an email attachment instead.

Thanks again for an invigorating, wonderful weekend in Prosville!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Any time! *g*

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Title: I didn't have one, but how about... Perseverance?
http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/59877.html
Author: KWS
Slash/Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes
Disclaimer: yadda

Thank you to the mods for their hard work facilitating/ organising/ encouraging and the instigators for a bloody good idea! Also all my fellow drabblers - you rock, ladies!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you for playing too! Pros fandom is just... *happy sigh*...

[crimson-37.livejournal.com]

Title: A Throw Away Moment (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/53999.html#cutid1) Deep Water (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/57685.html#cutid1)
Author: Crimson
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit:
Disclaimer: Bodie and Doyle are sadly not mine. I just play with them every so often but put them back in much the condition as I found them, mostly.

Justacat, just a thought, while I am here and you are here. My pic for PFL's 'Sunday Morning Off' story. Here is the link is case you have misplaced the email I sent you a while ago.
Sunday Morning Off (http://archive.nu/crimson/cgi-bin/dir/art/Sunday_Morning_Off.jpg)
Thank you!

And thanks everyone it's been great fun. :)

[crimson-37.livejournal.com]

Ooh forgot to add, please could I have them separate. And for some reason, Deep Water and A Throw Away Moment, look like they are as one here, but they are two - just LJ wacking them together for some reaon.

Thank you!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Title: Achievement (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/52385.html) and Fright (http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/52052.html)
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes if you'd like to
Disclaimer: As on user info page!
Notes: I'd prefer these on two separate pages, please, since they're not connected at all.

[loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com]

Title: Pens and Brushes
consists of 3 drabbles: A Thousand Words, Euclid and Military Surplus
Author: loyseofverlaine
Slash or Gen: slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes, please
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above): Verlaine
Disclaimer: Not mine. No money. Sigh.


NOTE TO ARCHIVIST: My apologies, but I haven't spent enough time on lj to figure out how to make proper connecting links. Sorry. Hope you can find all three drabbles, and shove them into one document.

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Hi! You're new to the Archive...do you want me to include an email address? (I do encode them to prevent spybots.)

[loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com]

Yes, thanks.

loyse_of_verlaine@yahoo.ca