Thank You, Everyone!

[przed.livejournal.com]

On behalf of your mod squad, callistosh65, draycevixen, norfolkdumpling, saintvic, sc_fossil,sineala and myself, I'd like to thank everyone for helping make the third annual Pros Big Bang so much fun to participate in.

To the writers, artists, and vidders, thank you for so generously sharing your talent and creativity with the fandom.

A big thank you is due to callistosh65 for not running away screaming when we started talking about setting up a Pros Big Bang in the first place. And to draycevixen, norfolkdumpling, saintvic, sc_fossil, and sineala for responding with enthusiasm last year when I asked them if they might want to help out. (These days they all do far more than I do.)

To the Pros fandom in general, thank you for cheerleading, supporting, and providing encouragement to everyone involved.

Here's hoping we'll all be ready to do it again next year. ♥

This Year's Stats
Our writers produced 19 new stories, a remarkable 678,220 words of new Pros fic, nearly 100,000 words more than last year.

Shortest story: 15,027 words
Longest story: 89,908 words
Average length: 35,696 words

Well done, everyone!

Comments

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Thank you all for making this happen!!!!!!!!!!!11

[przed.livejournal.com]

It was definitely our pleasure!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful BB this was! Thanks to everyone for sharing terrific stories and beautiful art and vids! And thanks to the mods for all the hard work and making all this possible. Like przed said:

WELL DONE, EVERYONE!

[przed.livejournal.com]

And thank you for participating! It was lovely to have your story as part of the BB.

[pin-gal.livejournal.com]

As a relative newbie to this fandom, I have LOVED this month and the whole Big Bang concept... thank you to everyone who has made this happen from a deepy appreciative fan.

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's lovely to hear that you enjoyed the Big Bang. That definitely makes it all worthwhile.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Big thanks to all the mods for being so supportive and encouraging throughout the whole process. It can't have been easy, particularly as some of you were also doing your own stories and art!

With a bit of luck, I'll actually be able to start reading in a couple more weeks!

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's our pleasure to be encouraging to everyone participating. It's all part of the process. You definitely have some lovely reading ahead of you. (As do I. I only managed to keep up with the first few stories, and now I'm looking forward to working my way through them all.)

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Thank you everyone for making this such an amazing thing to be part of - roll on next year!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you for participating, ILWB! It was lovely to have you on board.

[murphybabe]

This has been fantabulous - thanks to everyone who made it happen, contributed and waved pompoms. Last year was wonderful, because I was very new to the fandom and suddenly I had all this great stuff to read. This year has been a bit different - exciting and scary, then relieved and apprehensive at the same time, and now I have all this great stuff to read!

Well done everyone, and thank you.

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful that you've come back for a second year. And that you've enjoyed yourself both times. That definitely makes it all worthwhile to hear that!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

It was such fun even when we were gnashing our teeth! thanks to all the participants, writers, readers, artists, vidders, cheerleaders, editors, betas, friends and family, who all worked together to get this accomplished.

[przed.livejournal.com]

There was no gnashing of teeth! It was all roses and lavender! But seriously, everyone did a bang up job, and it's lovely having you on the mod squad.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much to all of you for making it happen, keeping most of us on the strait and narrow, and ensuring that the technical aspects were comparatively painless! It's wonderful having things on AO3 and being able to download them ready for my Kindle - what a luxurious month you've given us!! I started reading the first few almost as they came out but of course have fallen behind, so there will be pleasure in November, too.

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's an honour to keep the Big Bang rolling for such a lovely fandom. And it's fab to see everything up on AO3, already for download. (I've got my reader all loaded up too, ready for when things finally calm down.)

[nickygabriel]

Thank you :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It was lovely to have you participate!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Huge, huge thanks and hats-off to all those wonderful people who made this Big Bang happen.

Now just another couple of weeks or so till I finish this VERY BADLY TIMED bit of work (dammit) and I should actually be able to enjoy some lovely reading!

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!!!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely thing to see the Big Bang happen. Here's hoping the work is over sooner rather than later, and you can get to all the lovely stories.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

And a massive thanks from me as well, as always it has been huge amounts of fun and I still have lots of stories to read and art to admire as well *happy dance*.

*hugs everyone*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Vic, for being our chief organizer and Gal Who Gets Thing Done. We couldn't do it without you.

[bodiecuddle.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!!! For all your work. You did a brilliant job.

hugs hugs xx

Now I`m looking forward to next years BB LOL!!! ( but I`m still far behind reading all these excellent storys :O !!! )

[przed.livejournal.com]

Nooo, don't mention next year's BB yet! Let's savour this year's for at least a few days more. *g*

[roven75.livejournal.com]

Thank you mods for all the work you put into this, for the third year running, it's such a great thing!

I've been very distracted this year and look forward to start tackling all the wonderful stories and artwork now :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It's lovely to see it all come together after everyone's hard work.

Hope you get to start enjoying the stories soon.

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Hurray for such a great year! I'm looking forward to getting round to all the delicious fic that's now loaded onto my Kindle :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

A huge hurray to you for being our lovely graphics maven! And I'm with you on looking forward to finally getting to all the fic waiting on my Kobo.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Hey, you mods are all amazing. Thank you for your organization and enthusiasm! Oh, and your amazing patience as well. *g* *Big round of applause and cheers*

It was great fun (yes, fun, angst is fun) to participate, thanks to you and all the other participants and cheerer-oners and readers!

Thank you, too, to all my fellow participants! I have only read one story so far (arrgh) but look forward to reading the others in the coming weeks. Ooooh, lovely stuff!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Angst is fun! And a good thing, too. ;-)

Hope you have time to start reading soon. I've not quite read half the stories, but there's definitely some lovely stuff there.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much to everyone involved, up to and including the tea lady - but especially to our mods. You make it all happen with incredible grace and lack of fuss. You're all stars. ♥

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's our pleasure making sure it all comes off well and everyone has fun.

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm really proud of finishing my story, and I love the way everyone pulled together to finish theirs, too. I think it takes a lot of guts to do something like this, and you guys have done it several years now. So... good for you, I think it's really well organized and amazing, and I'm glad I got to play along. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Guts, or sheer bloody-mindedness, we're not sure which. *g* But seriously, it's lovely to put together the BB for such a lovely fandom.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Thanks, all. I have thoroughly enjoyed the reading and the art and expectation and diving onto new stories. I have very nearly kept pace with the posting as well.

Hope it runs next year. I really want to have a go at it, too, one day.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Very happy you have enjoyed the Big Bang. And have nearly kept up with the posting!

I'm sure we'lll run it again next year, and it would be fab to have you sign up.

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Thank you everybody for all the fun, the heartbreak, the love and the wonderfullness of our fandom!!

It´s so lovely to be here!!

Thank you to the mods for all the time and work you put into this!! It´s well appreciated! *hugs*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I hope there was more fun than heartbreak. And I'm so glad you contributed your fantastic artistic skills to the mix!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Thank you mods for making it happen ♥ And *hugs* to all this lovely, fabulous fandom that keeps going and keeps producing all this marvellous stuff *g* Some time, I will do a Big Bang and not fit it round major surgery, but until that time, I've found it's a brilliant distraction - cheers guys! *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you for somehow managing to produce such a lovely story around a major surgery. And yes, let's hope next year there's no medical stuff in sight except for your patients!

Cheers!

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Gosh, those are some lovely stats!

Congrats and thanks to *everyone* involved!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Lovely stats indeed. It's definitely been a banner year!