One last pressie from me... When I made the banners, I cropped out some icon bases wherever I could. Please feel free to use these as bases and add text if you want. Enjoy!


( Icons are under the cut... )

I'd like to thank blktauna for her screen caps, which I used in this project!

Well, after all this waiting and wondering, here's the reveal! A little later than planned but still Sunday my time, at least ;)

This fest has had some serious ups and downs from the beginning, from people dropping out at the last minute to plotlines kidnapping writers, not to mention RL interfering for myself and participants. So I'd like to start by apologising to people for the delay and explaining some of what happened.

As with santa_pros the year before, I was led on by a couple of first time participants to the very last minute, then both bailed on me. I had to organise pinch-hitters, chase late stories and I've shifted from one computer which died to a totally new one in the meantime with only half of my data. Sadly, that half did not include my participant table (the only copy at the time of who was writing for who) which was lost after the first few posts, leaving me to reconstruct it from some saved emails and some very silly notes to participants and several fics which had already been sent to me and which I discovered were hopelessly garbled when I opened the files. All of this coupled with some serious RL struggles have made it next to impossible to run this fest at all, let alone on time.

Thankfully, you're a lovely bunch of folks and you were all very generous with your time resending those emails and reminding me who you'd written for.

(Also, a little side note on the art because I know people are curious. enednoviel asked me in the sign-up stage if she could be allowed to participate and she and blktauna knew who they were drawing/writing for right from the start. blktauna received two pieces of art simply because that was what enednoviel decided to give her. It was her choice from the beginning how much or how little she drew. And a spectacular job she did, too.)

Secondly, I'd like to thank the two pinch-hitters (faramir_boromir and llamabitchyo) for stepping in at the last minute to save my skin. They did a fantastic job with the time constraints. I'd also like to thank blktauna, watteaux and amazonqueenkate (a lady not in the Pros fandom, but one who offered when I was desperate) for hosting both fiction and art.

And talking about art, thank you to the wonderful agentxpndble who provided the banners for this fest. You're a doll!

There are some pieces of media which didn't make it into the fest. That's purely because I want to wrap this up as it's unfair for people to keep waiting. Please feel free to post these elsewhere, I know there's some juicy stuff out there! ;)

There are three new fics up tonight, so please take the time to have a little looksee. Tomorrow morning I'll go through and edit the posts, adding both the writer's name and their headers so keep an eye out if you're a beta looking for a shout out.

Finally, those of you who have fiction hosted outside of the summer_of_78 livejournal comm and on someone else's webspace, please provide an alternative link when you reclaim your fics and post them to your hosting space or your livejournals. This is so that in a few months time when the fics have been removed from the webspace, the people stumbling over the community will be able to find the fics regardless.

Thanks for your patience, folks, the fics have been amazing :)

( THE REVEAL! )

The last of the content will be up this week and the reveal will be on Sunday, folks! I'm sorry to have kept you all waiting so long. The good news is that there will be an icon for everyone who participated which goes with the banner over your fics. Shiny with squee ;)

Just a quick note...

The last two stories have been quite long so I'm going to wait until Monday to post the next one to give people time to read them and leave some more of the lovely feedback we've been getting for the authors.