Community Profile

Although there are other places to post Prosfic, art and general homage to the boys, we thought it would be nice to have a community where people could play with challenges and post their own work to those challenges, resulting in occasional little flurries of Pros-goodness to flists across lj. The idea is to have fun, to be inspired and inspiring to others, and to bring a little more Pros into the world - can't be bad, right?

We will post challenges as ideas and celebrations arise (and with a decent space of time for people to respond properly) and for most of these it will simply be a case of commenting to say that you would like to join in, and then posting your fic/art/commentary/creation/whatever! on the appropriate day. Specifics will always be explained in the Challenge Post. Ideas for new challenges are happily received - do email either of the mods at the email addresses below.

Although you don't need to be a member to comment at the comm, in order to post you do need to join the community. If you don't have a livejournal and would like to post, then please send your submissions to either of the mods at the email addresses below.

Posting, Submissions and General Community Rules/Guidelines
Community rules and guidelines are basically to help with organisation, and in the hope that people will treat each other well. They are meant to be neither intrusive nor prescriptive.

1. Please include the following "trailer" to help with archiving at the end of your post (rather than as a header at the beginning):
Title:
Author:
Slash or Gen:
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit:
Author's Name for Archiving (if different to above):
Disclaimer:
Notes: (including warnings if you really wish to - these are not compulsory. Readers note: these will be included at the end of a story so as not to spoiler it for people who prefer their fic unadulterated!)

We use "trailers" rather than "headers" for a very specific reason. There's a long history in Pros of fans preferring not to be spoiled for a story by being warned ahead of time what is going to happen. If warnings etc are at the top of a story, then readers have no choice but to see them and be spoiled - but if we put them at the end of a story, readers have a choice: they can scroll quickly to the bottom of the post and find out whether there's anything to which they might be sensitive, or they can just read happily, and without being spoilered, from the top of the story. Please respect this compromise!

Please note that although we have left the archivist information in this trailer, the Pros archivists are currently (Feb 2009) not archiving stories automatically - you need to send your story to the archives individually, or archive it yourself at the new Automated Hatstand. Circuit Archive does not seem to be archiving at all, currently.

2. This is a slash community, although it is gen-friendly. We'd prefer not to go the way of het, thank you very much. We're just like that *g*

3. We're not prudish, and we adore the slash, but please be reasonably tasteful with images.

4. Debate and concrit is encouraged, flaming, personal crit and other forms of being unpleasant are not. In extreme cases the mods will step in.

5. Please post anything over 200 words or graphics heavy (more than 5 icons-worth-ish!) under an lj-cut, so we don't upset people's flists!

6. Please post fic/creations for a challenge only while that challenge is running. For various reasons to do with the running of the comm, archiving and creating the Dialj Challenge zines, it makes it a bit awkward for us if stories for one challenge are posted in the middle of another challenge - that's why we have the deadlines... Everyone will be very happy if you post your creation to one of the other Pros communities though, explaining that it was written for the Dialj challenge - and if we've not yet created the Challenge zine we can still include it with the other stories there! It might sound strange, and perhaps not how other comms do it, but thanks in advance for being understanding!

7. Basically, apart from that - if it harms none, follow the challenge, and do what you will. And have fun doing it. *g*

Links to Previous Challenges
Clicking the banner/icon will take you to the uppermost entry in the Challenge, which will include the Challenge banner. Scroll down to entries below this for fic and icons and whatever other goodies were contributed.

International Talk Like A Pirate Day, 2006.	Halloween, 2006.
Bonfire Night, 2006.	Winter, 2006.
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Round Robin, 2007.	Temptations, 2007
May Day, 2007.
Discovered in 1977 Challenges In celebration of 30 years of The Professionals
Jubilee June, 2007.	Discovered in a Newspaper July 2007
Discovered in Graceland, August 2007.	Discovered in a Sketchbook, September 2007
Discovered in the Anarchist Cookbook, October 2007.	Discovered in Fallen Leaves, November 2007
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Two Day Drabble Challenge, February 2008.	Thirty Years Time, March 2008.
April Drabbles, April 2008.	May Round Robin, May 2008.
Out of Context, June 2008.	Summer Holiday, July 2008.
Fanon/Canon October 2008.	Remembrance November 2008
Discovered Whist A-Carolling, December 2008.
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Burns Night January 2009.	Valentines February 2009
Hard Drive March-June 2009.	Wedding June-July 2009
Test Series August 2009.	Bank Holiday September 2009
Halloween October 2009	Discovered in a Stocking December 2009
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Snow January 2010	Chinese New Year February 2010
Nightmare March 2010	Camping June 2010
Scraps from the Past September 2010	A Haunting October 2010
Discovered in the Fairylights, December 2010.
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Poetry January 2011	Easter Time March 2011
First Met May 2011	Reporter's Notebook July 2011
When You See This September 2011	Christmas Tree December 2011
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...in the Style of... January 2012	Two Day Drabbles March 2012
On the Thames June 2012	Cracker December 2012
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On Pancake Day February 2013	Round Robin 2013 May 2013
Discovered in the Christmas Pud December 2013.
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Discovered in 3.1415926535897932384... March 2014	Discovered on a Silent Night December 2014
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In a Marathon February 2015	Round Robin 2015 May 2015
Discovered in the Holly and the Ivy December 2015.
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DIALj Bound Zines
Click on the individual links below to access the online version of these zines. The zines are also usually available in hardcopy, at the cost of production and postage only. To request a hardcopy version please email community mod byslantedlight (contact details below).

DiaLJ Bound I: Discovered on a Gangplank.	DiaLJ Bound II: Discovered on All Hallow's Eve.	DiaLJ Bound III: Discovered in a Skyrocket.
DiaLj Christmas Special 2007	DiaLj Christmas Special 2008	Dialj Christmas Special 2009	Dialj Christmas Special 2010