Newsletter for Tuesday, September 26
Let's just say that your co-moderator is a total idiot and apologizes for the extreme lateness of this newsletter. Wanna know why exactly she IS such an idiot? Scroll down to the mod's note at the end. But until we get there, on with the news...
Challenges
The WINNERS were announced and their banners posted over at
kibbs_awards--congrats everyone! Now go claim your shinies!
Pinch Hit Writer needed for story prompts over atncis_ficathon
ncis_tinsel was such a hit last year that the 
twoweevils M and K are at it again! Go and take the poll so it can get going!
rinkle has now contacted everyone whose stories have not been written and received over at ncis_ficathon
nakeisha has started handing out the assignments for the Gibbs/Ducky Yuletide Exchange over at ncis_gibbsducky
ncis_banner has a brand spanking new layout!
The Tarot Challenge Closes while the Relativity Challenge Opens over atncis_flashfic (Closes Tuesday, 10/10, 12AM EST)
Fiction
Reunion written bytwoweevils (NCIS/Homicide Crossover-DiNozzo/Kellerman)--written as part of the 2006 Porn Battle and follows The Cooler King and Training Day
Verification and Affirmation written bynakeisha (Gibbs/Ducky) SPOILERS FOR HIATUS 1&2 AND SHALOM
Guardians written bybjjones (NCIS/CSI:Miami Crossover;Gibbs/DiNozzo) WARNING: CHARACTER DEATH and SPOILERS FOR HIATUS 1&2--part of her Speed and Kate as Angels series and follows: Angels, Learning to Live, and Divine Intervention
Gone Away Again written byneverbelonged (Gibbs/DiNozzo) SPOILERS FOR UNTOUCHABLES AND SHALOM
Episode Discussion SPOILERS FOR ESCAPED
kate98 opens up the Escaped discussion over at ncis_haven
nilahasi posts her thoughts about Escaped
Recs
hermitsoul recs Worth Talking written by voleuse (Gen)
Pics/Screencaps
3 Pics of Rudolf Martin and Pancho Demmings from NCIS Fan Fest posted bywiccagirl24
Other
Ducky as a Profiler?
drakefn wants to know what ep involved a school shooting--can you figure out the answer?
abby_forever offers up her skills as a beta for ficcies
Editor's Choice
So last nite I did an EC for one of the TWO NCIS icontests I co-mod,ncis_stills. Tonite I shall do one for ncishush. I recently became a co-mod over there with one of my fellow editors, meredith44. We join the lovely and talented tallihensia in running the community :) Now if you know me, I have never been too big a fan of HUSH icons. Well I never used to be anyways. I always used to prefer icons with text, mainly because I used them for when I posted in my LJ and needed them to say certain things to fit my posts and my moods. Well, I never thought I'd say this but sometimes an icon is better left alone WITHOUT the text. Which is why I actually participate regularly at ncishush and stargatehush. It's also sometimes a helluva lot more challenging BECAUSE the icons have to be made WITHOUT text so you really have to rely on the screencaps or ways in which you crop or color or texturize an icon to make it evoke emotions and such. That said, we have 87 members and we would love it if we could get some more to come play! Much like ncis_stills, there is a wide variety of challenges and almost always something to please everyone. We just went back to the old style of challenges with two parts each week: theme and cap so there's lots more for you guys to play with. That said, check out Challenge 35 which is my very first challenge over there as a new co-mod. I promise you won't be disappointed! :)
Mod's Note
So well if anyone cares, this is why I am a class a-1 idiot. *facedesk* I stupidly askednilahasi to take and turn ncis_watcher into a community so that I would be able to friend journals for it and such on my own instead of having to relay the messages to her and whatnot. Brilliant plan right? Well I didn't realize that by doing that it would completely WIPE OUT THE ENTIRE FRIENDS LIST! And I only discovered it oh about five minutes before I went to start compiling the newsletter! So I had to go and create ncis_watcher2, another dummy watcher journal, and add back all the communities that I could think of that had NCIS listed as an interest. This took about an HOUR because my laptop first decided to crash and then my desktop decided that it wanted IE to crash. *facedesk* So that's what I've been doing. And I'm stupid for trying to make things easier in the first place. So NOTE TO MY FELLOW EDITORS: if you used to use ncis_watcher for your news, DON'T until we get it straightened out. Use ncis_watcher2's friends list INSTEAD. And now that that is all said and done, I'm gonna go finish finding Wondertwins screencaps for sf_incandescent and bang my head on my laptop some more. Or better yet I will give myself one of those Gibbsian style headslaps! *slap!*
Did we miss something? Let us know. You can either comment here or e-mail us: ncis.newsletter@gmail.com
ETA: BTW, can you fine folks please take a look at the profile forncis_watcher2 and tell me if there's any NCIS related communities out there that I missed? And I mean crucial ones. I even tried to catch some of the art and fic journals of our members. So if you wanna be on that list, please lemme know! Thanks!
Challenges
The WINNERS were announced and their banners posted over at
kibbs_awards--congrats everyone! Now go claim your shinies! Pinch Hit Writer needed for story prompts over at
ncis_ficathonncis_tinsel was such a hit last year that the twoweevils M and K are at it again! Go and take the poll so it can get going!rinkle has now contacted everyone whose stories have not been written and received over at ncis_ficathonncis_gibbsduckyncis_banner has a brand spanking new layout!The Tarot Challenge Closes while the Relativity Challenge Opens over at
ncis_flashfic (Closes Tuesday, 10/10, 12AM EST)Fiction
Reunion written by
twoweevils (NCIS/Homicide Crossover-DiNozzo/Kellerman)--written as part of the 2006 Porn Battle and follows The Cooler King and Training DayVerification and Affirmation written by
Guardians written by
bjjones (NCIS/CSI:Miami Crossover;Gibbs/DiNozzo) WARNING: CHARACTER DEATH and SPOILERS FOR HIATUS 1&2--part of her Speed and Kate as Angels series and follows: Angels, Learning to Live, and Divine Intervention Gone Away Again written by
neverbelonged (Gibbs/DiNozzo) SPOILERS FOR UNTOUCHABLES AND SHALOMEpisode Discussion SPOILERS FOR ESCAPED
kate98 opens up the Escaped discussion over at ncis_havennilahasi posts her thoughts about EscapedRecs
hermitsoul recs Worth Talking written by voleuse (Gen)Pics/Screencaps
3 Pics of Rudolf Martin and Pancho Demmings from NCIS Fan Fest posted by
wiccagirl24Other
Ducky as a Profiler?
drakefn wants to know what ep involved a school shooting--can you figure out the answer?abby_forever offers up her skills as a beta for ficciesEditor's Choice
So last nite I did an EC for one of the TWO NCIS icontests I co-mod,
ncis_stills. Tonite I shall do one for ncishush. I recently became a co-mod over there with one of my fellow editors, meredith44. We join the lovely and talented tallihensia in running the community :) Now if you know me, I have never been too big a fan of HUSH icons. Well I never used to be anyways. I always used to prefer icons with text, mainly because I used them for when I posted in my LJ and needed them to say certain things to fit my posts and my moods. Well, I never thought I'd say this but sometimes an icon is better left alone WITHOUT the text. Which is why I actually participate regularly at ncishush and stargatehush. It's also sometimes a helluva lot more challenging BECAUSE the icons have to be made WITHOUT text so you really have to rely on the screencaps or ways in which you crop or color or texturize an icon to make it evoke emotions and such. That said, we have 87 members and we would love it if we could get some more to come play! Much like ncis_stills, there is a wide variety of challenges and almost always something to please everyone. We just went back to the old style of challenges with two parts each week: theme and cap so there's lots more for you guys to play with. That said, check out Challenge 35 which is my very first challenge over there as a new co-mod. I promise you won't be disappointed! :)Mod's Note
So well if anyone cares, this is why I am a class a-1 idiot. *facedesk* I stupidly asked
nilahasi to take and turn ncis_watcher into a community so that I would be able to friend journals for it and such on my own instead of having to relay the messages to her and whatnot. Brilliant plan right? Well I didn't realize that by doing that it would completely WIPE OUT THE ENTIRE FRIENDS LIST! And I only discovered it oh about five minutes before I went to start compiling the newsletter! So I had to go and create ncis_watcher2, another dummy watcher journal, and add back all the communities that I could think of that had NCIS listed as an interest. This took about an HOUR because my laptop first decided to crash and then my desktop decided that it wanted IE to crash. *facedesk* So that's what I've been doing. And I'm stupid for trying to make things easier in the first place. So NOTE TO MY FELLOW EDITORS: if you used to use ncis_watcher for your news, DON'T until we get it straightened out. Use ncis_watcher2's friends list INSTEAD. And now that that is all said and done, I'm gonna go finish finding Wondertwins screencaps for sf_incandescent and bang my head on my laptop some more. Or better yet I will give myself one of those Gibbsian style headslaps! *slap!* Did we miss something? Let us know. You can either comment here or e-mail us: ncis.newsletter@gmail.com
ETA: BTW, can you fine folks please take a look at the profile for
ncis_watcher2 and tell me if there's any NCIS related communities out there that I missed? And I mean crucial ones. I even tried to catch some of the art and fic journals of our members. So if you wanna be on that list, please lemme know! Thanks!