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Happy New Year everyone - here's to a much improved 2023 for the whole world, and to our lads always.

I thought this could be another everyone-post-if-they'd-like-to day, because last year that worked really well on Christmas day, but it seems to have quietened down even more this year, so I shall send this invitation with crossed fingers and held thumbs, because it would be lovely to start 2023 as we mean to go on - with lots of Pros posts! *g*

But maybe I shall also ask some New Year questions too - you could reply here, or you could make a post to the comm yourself in reply!

What would you like to see the lads doing this year?
What kind of Prosfic would you like Pros writers to write this year?
If someone was to find a lost Pros episode in 2023, what and who would you desperately like to see in it?
Tell us your Pros desires and wishes for 2023! *vbg*

Boxing Day is one of those almost-days, where there's almost nothing that actually has to be done if you're lucky enough to be on holiday to start with. The perfect day for messing around with wordgames and puzzles, right...? *g* Here are some from the Pros annuals, and if anyone else has puzzles or wordgames or the like to share, then please feel free to join in with me and post them today!

These ones are made for printing out - and you can of course click through to make them bigger, too. *g*

( Pros 1982 annual - Reverse Wordsearch and Wordsearch )

( Pros 1983 annual - Wordsearch )

( Pros 1984 annual - Crossword )

( And the crossword answers with extra spoiler cut )

And just because we need something fun to look at too - here's our lads playing a different sort of game - from the 1984 annual. *g*

It's past midnight here in the lads' world - Happy Christmas, everyone!

Christmas day (lads' time) is free-posting-day again this year! Do feel free to post extra Pros-y treats to Discovered in a Snowglobe today.

And may your day be Pros-y and bright!

...with a reminder for everyone who posts to the comm.

For some reason I'm having to remind more and more people individually after they post this year, so I'm pinching a bit of Krisser's day to try and save time by reminding everyone at once.

Please post your story information as a trailer, not a header, and put it under the cut!

If your story is only short and doesn't need a cut, then please make a special one for the trailer so that it can't be seen.

(Please don't try and use fancy spoiler cuts that make words invisible until highlighted, because they only work if someone's lj has a white background on all pages - I can still see them on mine, for instance, because my background is blue/grey).

We've had this policy at Dialj since the comm began, about seventeen years ago, and we've been through multiple explanations and hassles about it over the years, but our original reasons for doing it still stand - and they're over on the User Info page, where they've always been, but I'll copy them here again for clarity.

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!

(I'm also aware that I might have inadvertantly encouraged people to forget to hide their trailers by forgetting to add an lj-cut when I posted Felicity M. Parkinson's story - but please don't do as I do, do as the comm says! (Especially since it also says "trailer"!) And also feel free to come in and kick me if I ever forget something myself *g*!)

(Posting on behalf of f_m_parkinson)

And Nothing Else Matters
by Felicity M. Parkinson

It was that dead week in between Christmas and New Year, the time that Bodie regarded as ‘the dog days’, having moved them on from summer by some four months. Several Christmas cards still adorned the bookshelves of the living room – one from Cowley, another from Jax and his wife, a third from Murphy, and one from a gun shop that he patronised on occasion. They all looked a little wilted now that the immediacy of three days of Christmas excess had passed. Even the mistletoe that he had hung so thoughtfully from the kitchen light had shrivelled a little.

They were in a week with a festival at each end, a bit like bookends, he thought, and not a lot in between except to recover from one in order to celebrate the other with equal or even greater fervour.

( Not that he'd had the chance... )