Thank you!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

The fifth annual Professionals Big Bang is over, and we'd like to thank you all for making it a success! Whether you wrote a story, made art, served as a beta or cheerleader, or just read and enjoyed, thank you so much for participating!

Once again, we'd also like to thank callistosh65 and przed, without whom there would have been no Pros Big Bang!

This year there were 16 stories, for a grand total of 492,416 words of brand-new Pros fic.

Shortest story: 15,578 words
Longest story: 51,732 words
Average: 30,776 words

Thanks again!

Your mods,
draycevixen, norfolkdumpling, saintvic, sc_fossil, sineala

Comments

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to everyone who posted! I must confess to being way behind in my reading because a number of real life reasons but I will work my way through them! I love having stories waiting for me, it's like Christmas! :)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I am always behind on my reading, but I know there's more good stuff to read soon!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Many thanks to our mods who are willing and able to herd cats. We are not a dead fandom!!!!! Yeah us:)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay! I mean, look at that total wordcount!

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing this year BB with a great success!!! I'm so glad that I could participate this wonderful challenge!! I'm now enjoying brand new Pros stories!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hooray! We're glad you participated too!

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

thankyou for everything ... i enjoyed reading each and every story that was posted with some wonderful artwork also. i think i'm up to date with all the stories x

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'm not up to date myself, but I've enjoyed the ones I've read.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

It's been nail-biting, getting to the posting date, but the hard work was all worth it. I've so enjoyed my first Pros Big Bang, and it's wonderful now being surrounded by all these excellent stories of such high quality. Some I've managed to read so far and they have been fab, with the most marvellous art. The others are waiting, like presents to be opened! This is a wonderful challenge to be involved in, as both writer and reader. Much gratitude to the Mods for everything, and YAY! for our fandom, so full of talented and lovely people!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Thank you for participating! Glad you had a good time. :)

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone involved for all their hard work, it really is appreciated.

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Hooray! We did it again! And bloody hell. Nearly half a million words? I really enjoyed taking part this year - it's definitely easier the second time round - and I am glad and grateful that you ran it.

And yes: thanks to the other writers, and to all the artists - awesome, such abilities - and to betas within and without the fandom. And to everyone who commented on the check in posts and my journal updates. And to the people who read it all. It is true, I would want to write stories anyway, but it is still a delight to me that people want to read them. Thanks, all!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Glad you could make it again this year! I've got your story open to read in a tab right now, actually. :)

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you to everyone: writers, artists, betas, readers, commenters, and cheerleaders! But, especially, thank you to the mods. You make it all look easy, but I know it isn't. You manage to be both flexible and firm, which is a pretty neat trick. *g* I am so grateful that you all allowed me to participate when I didn't have the full rough draft, um, even started on time. *g* I promise next year to start earlier! Cheers all around!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hey, we're glad to have you as a participant. :) Yay!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for organising it all! It makes October really special. And every year there are lots of new fics to read and some to keep and re-read and art to drool over! I noticed that this year more artists are creating actual 'covers' which we can use for e.g. Calibre. I wonder if they've been following the conversation about that elsewhere?

I'm way behind on reading - I did mean to keep up but I've been involved in another challenge in another fandom - pity it was also October but it was a Halloween challenge. Also, I've been having huge amounts of work on AO3 stuff - I'm quite impressed that Pros, as a fandom, is never involved in harassment, plagiarism, or any other violations of the terms of service. Well done us!! :)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear you've been having problems on AO3, but glad you're having a good time here!

We're going to have a post going up in a week or two for overall feedback about this round -- if you want to bring up cover art again then, maybe we can all talk about it. :)

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Thank you Mods, writers and artists! I'm having a lovely time with all the BB 2014 goodies. :D

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am too, actually.

[redgloria.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone for all the hard work and for sharing it with the rest of us! I haven't managed to catch up with all of the stories & their matching artwork yet, but what I have seen and read was highly enjoyable! :-)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am nowhere near caught up, either, but there's so much good stuff!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Thank you mods for bringing it all together *g* And well done to all of the other participants and thank you so so much to the people who do the cheerleading and encouragement ♥ I'm not up to date with reading through the collection, but I'm looking forward to all the lovely stuff still in store! *g*

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hey, you can have all the cheerleading you want, and thanks for playing again!

I am so behind at reading these -- man, getting involved in an other-fandom BB that posts starting this month was maybe not a good idea...

[anna060957.livejournal.com]

Yes, to all the comments above. Huge thanks to all involved. I'm about to download the last two stories and have been amazed yet again by the talent of our wonderful writers. The art has been pretty incredible too - even better I think than previous years.

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you've enjoyed all the stories and the art!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Thanks to all of the Pros community for joining in the Big Bang. It was yet again a rousing success. This all comes down to all the writers, artists, editors, commentors and cheerleaders. It takes all of us to do this.

[sineala.livejournal.com]

*high-fives you* :)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

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My pompoms have never been happier *g*

Hasn't it been brilliant? Thank you so much to everyone, including the tea lady; you've all made October amazing... I can't wait to do it all again. :D

Huge thanks to our incredible mods - understated, classy, and smooth as oil on water, with just a hint of steel beneath the soft leather gloves... you ladies are perfect, thank you ♥

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. :)

Also those are some great pompoms.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Another terrific BB! (I'm a bit sad that we're done for the year...) Thanks to everyone - writers, betas artists, cheerleaders, readers and commenters. It was great fun. And thanks to the mods for another well-run round. See you all next year. right??!! *g*

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm up for another round! :)

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Hearty congratulations to all!

Is there a final master post links page I could send to Proslib?

(I already sent the posting schedule.)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

It should be up at some point today.

[sagittas.livejournal.com]

Congratulation to all partecipants, authors, artists and the mods for their impressive professionalism. I enjoyed the works I menaged to read and look at till now and there's still so much reading ahead to do.
This fandom is awesome and highly professional as always.

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Heh, well, it's in the name, isn't it? ;)

[murphybabe]

Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved! I am still downloading and reading, and when that's done I am going to go back and re-read and comment on all the glorious fic and art, because I don't want this year's BB to end yet :)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Aww. Sounds like a good idea!

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and massive thanks to everyone who wrote, arted, vidded, cheer-led, read and was just generally awesome! :)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

\o/

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much to all the BB writers and artists for giving us all these wonderful goodies! Massive thanks to the mods too for organising everything and making it all run so smoothly!

All the stories are sitting waiting on my Kindle and I can't wait to get started on them!

PS I can only find 16 stories, not 17 as you've said in your post. Am I going crazy? (Don't answer that...)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Good catch, there were 16 stories. *edits post quietly* This was, uh, me misreading the mod spreadsheet -- one of the stories had two pieces of art. Mea culpa.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

It has been great seeing all the stories and art hasn't it, now I just need to catch up on my reading :)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. Me too!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

*wearing AO3 staffer hat*

A technical point for next year. People using lyrics to introduce their fics, or anywhere in their post to AO3, must not post whole lyrics or large parts of lyrics. If they do, and anyone reports them - and believe me, there are people lurking just looking for things to report - the work has to be hidden till the lyrics are removed and a warning note is placed on the poster's file. They can use short quotations - a couple of lines are safe. They can also, oddly enough, link to places on the net where the full lyrics are available provided the link is not to a commercial promotion. The same applies to poems, articles, etc. Obviously, only to things that are still in copyright.

I found one this year and have contacted the poster directly so that she doesn't get into trouble but thought maybe next year you should mention it when talking about upload to the collection? Get back to me if you have any questions!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Huh, I had absolutely no idea that this was a problem; thanks for letting me know.