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Of interest to my Pros fellow fans..

Mr. Shaw's stalker gets sentence

And it's not the first time Martin gets stalked, I remember there was a woman some years ago, who managed to get Martin's mail re-redirected to her address, or some such. The burden of celebrity, I suppose...although non-celebs get stalkers too (only usually it's men, and they end up killing, but that's a rant for another day).

Off to do stuff. :D

Can't conceive of not having it as mobile ringtone...anyone willing to point me at a downloadable file of The Pros theme?
pretty please?

ETA: Got it, o'wonderful flist! Thank you! :)

Lots of Pros goodies in discoveredinalj  for a very Pros Christmas and New Year, and to celebrate 30 years of The Professionals, crimson_37 has made a songvid!

Thirty Years of Sunshine, by crimson_37, HERE.
Go look :D

ZebraCon 18 will probably be the last ZebraCon for the time being (the organizers say never say never, but this is ZebraCon 18...18 years of convention organizing take a toll out of one, I bet).

ZebraCon will be held on September 14-16, 2007.

website for the convention
ZebraCon at LJ: zebracon16

Last Huggy Awards:
nominate anyone that in your opinion has contributed in a major way to a specific fandom, who has helped keep a fandom alive

For all the US Pros fans out there (or, well, anyone willing to travel) a The Professionals convention in the US!

Organized by justacat, you'll find all relevant info on the website. just click:
CLOSE QUARTERS

And there's also a LJ comm: cqcon

Martin Shaw's new role: George Gently on BBC1 on Sunday, April 8 at 9pm.

More details HERE.

FIRST OFFERING
From: Suitable Gravity, by DVS - one of my most favourite Pros novels, SCI-FI AU

Bodie picked up a shrimp-shaped bit of vegiform. "Open wide, my petal," he teased, and brought it towards Doyle's mouth.
"Only," Doyle told him, sotto voce, "if you want me to bite off your fingers."( Read more... )

SECOND OFFERING
I was hit by a fancy, and I'm writing a drabble (or double drabble) for each day, with the aim of covering each day a different genre in the fandom; possibly/hopefully some of those I've never written before.

( Pros double drabble here )

Remastered and uploaded to the Circuit Archive (link in the sidebar):
Detachable Penis

by the Media Cannibals (Sandy, Alex, gwyn_r, Tina, & Rache)
song by King Missile
originally made in 1997
remastered by justacat

This is a fandom masterpiece. Cracktastic, intelligent, and so very Pros.

As always, thank you SO much to gwyn_r and justacat for working on moving these (classic) songvids into digital format.

The Hatstand, a Professionals archive and resource website (and what resources, there's everything, there, from characters sheets to wav files!) has uploaded today SUITABLE GRAVITY, which I would like you all to go and read when you have the time.
It doesn't really matter whether you're Pros fans or not; the story is an AU and it reads by itself, you don't need to know anything about Pros in order to read it. Why Im STRONGLY advising you to read it? Because I love it. It's decent sci-fi, it's got plot, it's got damn hot sex, and two characters made for each other. There's romance, adventure, contrast, passion, righteousness...what have you.
I'm probably pimping it too much, which is something I rarely do because it could create too much expectation - rarely reality comes close to expectations, which is why, imo, usually internet dating and spoilers alike rarely work ;)
BUT...it's a good solid slash story.
I hope you'll read it :D

SUITABLE GRAVITY

Note: no, I didn't write it, nor I know the author. In fact, Suitable Gravity seems so compact to be fanfiction that I always wondered whether it wasn't inspired to some film or another - there's a whole bunch of stories in Pros that are inspired to films/romance novels, etc: fanfiction remakes, if you like. In case you read it and think that you may know a possible source, do let me know! But really...it's a damn good story :)

Finally updated the crack_van The Professionals Overview.
I wrote that in 2003 :) ohmy.

Added the new Circuit Archive url, Ali's Recs site new URL, and also added the LJ Pros communities I'm aware of.
ETA: also edited the recs I did with the old Circuit Archive addy.

The rest seems to be okay. If there's anything else to add/change, let me know.
Ta ta :)