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If you've hovered over the Discovered in a Christmas Card Calendar, you may have seen that today is listed as Old Friends Day. There are four of our old Pros friends missing from this year's calendar, taverymate, probodie, minori_k and moonlightmead would all contribute to our Pros fandom, either with stories or pictures (and sometimes both!), or by commenting on Pros posts, and encouraging us all along, and I thought it might be nice this year to remember them.

minori_k
I was going to post Minori's calendar post from last year, which she made for discoveredinalj for our 10th anniversary, but someone has beaten me to it at another comm (!), so I shall post her pic from the year before, and there will two gorgeous memories of her in our flists today. *g* Minori's post from 2014 full of her gorgeous art, can be found here. She first posted to a Christmas challenge in 2008, and you can find more of her posts by wandering around the comm. She made banners for our Christmas challenges too, of course, and if you nip into the closing posts, you'll see them re-posted up.

moonlightmead
Moonlightmead first posted to the Pros Christmas calendar in 2011, full of enthusiasm, as she always was, and chatting away about Pros zines. I had met her not long before, when she very bravely not only agreed to meet two holidaying Pros fans, but invited us to stay for the night! Her first ever fic for Discoveredinalj was Raid, for the Discovered When You See This challenge, and of course she wrote many more stories for Pros, which I'm sure many of us know!

probodie
Probodie was another of the very first people I "met" in Pros, way back in 2005 - and then one of the very first people I met in Pros! I came across her first at the the_safehouse, where she had been posting since this post in 2004. She wrote stories and drabbles, made icons and banners, and generally joined in everything that was going on - including the very first Pros Christmas calendar - a feast for our eyes and icon collections. Her fic is to be found in various Pros comms, over at the Circuit and Hatstand archives (under "Zoe"), and of course here.

taverymate
Taverymate was one of the first people I got to know in Pros fandom, in 2005. She saw me asking about zines, and talking about stories, and fandom history, and she emailed saying she had some duplicate zines that she was getting rid of, and a few that she was selling, and was I interested...? From there we had some fab chats, and when a box arrived at my wee cabin in Alaska from her, not only was it full of zines and loose-leaf Pros stories, but she had sent me these three lads... - Cowley bear (with his tartan scarf, of course), Bodie bear (with his smart tie) and Angelfish! I've still got them, looking after my zines and fic, and reminding me of how generous taverymate was with her enthusiasm and memories and time for Pros. She didn't post much herself, but she posted to our Christmas Tree in 2012, and you can see the fantastic things she was doing. It was also partly thanks to Taverymate that www.palelyloitering was founded, and a great deal of the original information there came from her.

I thought it might be nice, this Friday evening, if anyone who wanted to join in remembering our much-missed Pros friends made a post here, perhaps with your favourite fic or pic or memory (or if you see this after midnight GMT tonight, then do leave a comment, of course). Re-posting other people's pictures and stories a la Tumblr and so on was never a Livejournal thing (though worlds change, of course), and we usually include links, but perhaps just for today, it might be nice to see the imaginings of taverymate, probodie, moonlightmead and minori_k re-posted here, if anyone has a moment. And for people who never had the joy of meeting our Pros friends, I hope that my introduction might take you off to explore new old corners of Pros. *g*

Sweet dreams and new worlds to you all, old friends - your hearts are still with us here in Pros, thank you for lending them to us!

Hi, LJ,

Wasn't sure what to post this year, so I shall start with fic.

It's on AO3 as well, if you prefer e-readers: All Mod Cons

Or it is below the cut:

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(I am having trouble posting atm. I do have more - I get all day! - so fingers crossed. Sorry about the lack of Christmas icon - LJ doesn't want to change my icon atm, so shall edit when it is playing more nicely. *peers at LJ, has a showerhead ready to aim at that goat*)

Revolution is a zine novel by Madelein Lee. It is a four-way crossover between Star Trek, S&H, Pros and a fandom known as Tris and Alex: Tris and Alex are two rock gods with a remarkable resemblance to Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, a resemblance I know about because the covers have very lush art by Suzan Lovett :)

I borrowed this zine off a friend some time ago, and when I saw a copy for sale on zinelist, I jumped for it. It's got 191 pages and just under 500 words to a page, so it's 90,000 or more words. Whee!

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Liaisons II is a multi-media slash zine published by Up The Rebels Press in 1993. I presume it is out of print. It has 210 pages. There are four Pros stories, totalling 32 of those pages. Three of them are online: the remaining one is only six pages.

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Full Circle is a multi-media slash zine published by The Nut Hatch Press in 1992. The Nut Hatch is gone now, so I presume this zine is out of print. I bought it second-hand via zine-list. None of the stories are (as far as I know) online. It has 164 pages. There are two Pros stories, totalling 25 pages, and three crossovers featuring Pros or an AU Bodie and Doyle, totalling 29 pages. So that's 54 of the 164 pages, or a little less than a third. Still, that's a lot of words...

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Okay. Hope I can pull this off.

I have participated in DIALJ Christmasses twice before, and both times I have posted reviews of zines, specifically of multi-media zines with Pros stories in them. I did this because I thought that there was likely to be more discussion of Pros-specific zines and so I'd fill in some gaps.

But in fact there has not been that much zine discussion of any nature since then after all. Not that I can find, anyway. This is sad, because there are some cracking zines out there, and some of them are pretty easy to get hold of, whether you borrow or buy them. Some, alas, are trickier. And it's nice to know something about them so that you know whether you want particular ones, or how much of an effort you might be willing to go to for particular zines.

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Just looking for something else in my journal and found these, from some time ago, friends-locked. With apologies to my friends list who may have seen them already, but here they are. Three drabbles.

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Ooh, it is my day. I have another day for some other stuff, but today is a story day. Please don't look at the calendar too closely. Ahem.

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So it occurs to me that not a single one of today's offerings has been purely Pros. It is perhaps time to remedy that. Another review, and this one is a Pros zine proper: D-Notice.

D-Notice was published in 1995 and is, as far as I know, out of print. I bought it second-hand. It is 156 pages long and contains five stories which total about 87,000 words. Three of the stories have been online for some years; a fourth only arrived online earlier this year. So if you are looking for fiction you can't get on the net, this is not the zine you should put at the top of your list.

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Bah, having some delays here today. Okay. Last year I inflicted my thoughts about a variety of multi-media zines on people. Clearly I liked them because now I have a few more. Last year, I had acquired Concupiscence and Concupiscence 3. This year, I am filling in the gaps, so here is Concupiscence 2.

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