The Pros Fic Index

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Updated - 14th October 2020

Welcome to the Pros Fic Index - an ambitious project to help us keep track of those Pros stories with titles and authors we can't quite remember, but where we know full-well that it was the one with the parrot. Or the one in Scotland. Or the one where Doyle wears a bowler hat. *g* Now we have somewhere to come and search for those little words that we do remember - and just maybe find that fic!

The index will grow and be most useful the more help we have - please join in by adding Pros stories in comments to the various key word posts - just click on the key words in this post, below. If there's no key word here, then make a post with the key word in the subject, and a list of any stories that match the key word. Hopefully other people will add to your list in the comments, and your key word will be added to the master list.

Happy reading! (And forgive glitches in the layout - hopefully it'll get better!) - oh! And do feel free to ask any questions etc, here in the comments to this post (if you ask them in comments to the keyword posts, we'll answer them there, but then delete the comments, to keep the keyword posts/comments as clear as possible).

Frequently Asked Questions if there's anything else you'd like to know (well, questions people might ask alot... *g*)

The Pros Fic Index

A

aardvark
aeroplane
Africa
AIDS/HIV
amnesia (memory loss)
amnesia - Bodie
amnesia - Doyle
Apparitions
apocalypse
art school
avalanche

B

bait
the Bastille
bathtub
bdsm
beach
believed dead
Betty
blackmail
blind
boat
Bonfire Night
brainwashed
bridge
brother
bus

C

car accident
cat burglar
cat burglar - Doyle
church
circus
cliffhanger
Coogan
competition
cottage
crossover - Apparitions
crossover - The Chief
crossover - George Gently
crossover - Jack the Ripper
crossover - Judge John Deed
crossover - Ladder of Swords
crossover - New Professionals
crossover - Operation Daybreak
crossover - Robin Hood
crossover - Who Dares Wins
cruise ship
crutches
cupid

D

dead - Bodie (when story begins)
dead - Doyle (when story begins)
dead - not really
death - Bodie
death - Doyle
depression
diamond
Discovered in a Graveyard (episode)
dodgems
Don DeMarco
dressing gown
drowning
drugs
drunk

E

earring
Easter
Elizabeth Walsh
elves
elves - Bodie as elf
elves - Doyle as elf

F

fairground
Father Jacob
fanfiction (read by characters in Pros etc.)
fever
Fifth of November
fireworks
first meetings
first times
flowers

G

games
gardening
gay bar
ghosts
glove
growing up
Guy Fawkes Night

H

haircut
head injury
hiccups/hiccoughs
HIV/AIDS
horses
hospital
hotel
hotel - Bodie as owner
hurt/comfort - Bodie

I

insanity
insect

J

Jennifer Black
jewellery

K

Kate Ross
knives

L

leather
lightbulbs

M

Macklin
magician
Marty Martell
masturbation
memory loss
mermaid
miss you
models/modelling

N

nightclub

O

old friends
outer space

P

partner rape
parrot
pear tree
photoshoots
picture - of Cowley
piercings
pirates
pov - Cowley
pov - other
prison
pub - lads as owners

Q

Queen (royal family)
Queen Mother

R

rape - partner
recovery
refresher course
reincarnation
rescue
retired - Cowley
revenge
Russia

S

Scotland
seaside
separated
slavery
sleepy
snow
space
steampunk
supernatural
Susan
Susan Fischer
Susan Grant

T

teddy bears
thought dead
tiger
time travel
torture
tower
Towser
trains
trapeze

U

unconscious
undercover
undercover as a couple

V

vampires

W

water
wedding
werewolves
wingfic
wives

X

Y

Z

zombies
zoo


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Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

It's growing fast! Once my vacation is over, I really want to start adding to the list, too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - you're welcome to make keyword posts whenever you have the time! *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Arrgghhh! I can't get links into the comments where I could change the name.

When I try to put the link to No Options into a comment it always is like this http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html . I'm not able to make it work that it only says #
No Option and than jumps to the story.

Would is it I do wrong? Please help me!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello - what a coincidence, I was just looking at the comm before going back to work!

Hmmn, sounds odd - you made links perfectly yesterday. Are you doing it the same way?

(I'm not sure how much coding you usually do, so I'm going to assume that you click buttons rather than work with the actual code - so sorry if you do know what you're doing, I'm not trying to be patronising! Also, it might be useful if anyone else has the same problem, or isn't sure how to do it.)

I'm going to test the link button and see if it works for me...
http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html (http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html)
Okay, I see what you mean - same thing! And the good news is that I can see what's going wrong, too! It must be an lj glitch.

Right - what we needed was a place not just to paste the link, but also to paste what we want the link to be called (No Option). Lj didn't give us that second space, and I can see from the code that what it's done is fill that place with a copy of the URL again.

if I slip in an asterisk we can see what the code looks like (because the asterisk stops it doing what it's told *g*)
<*a href="http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html">http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html
See how it's just repeated the URL twice?

This is what it should look like - <*a href="http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html">No Option
Which without the asterisk comes out like this - No Option (http://thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/nooption.html). Perfect!

So - when you're making your comment, can you see the code that lj uses to make the link (starting with <a href=)? If so, then it's a simple fix - just replace the second URL in the code with the name of the story! This is actually what set me off learning simple lj code about ten years ago - I couldn't get the link button to work, and I didn't know that you could write links in as code yourself. Luckily someone told me, and I decided to always use the code myself, so that I could always work out what was going wrong and fix it! This was back when lj was completely different, mind... *g* But even now with all the buttons I usually just type <a href="... etc. *g* I'm here for the next half an hour if you want to try it - then I'll be back from about 5.30pm!

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Yippi! It works! Thank you very, very much. I thought I'm going crazy.

In the posts it is easy, because there is the possibility to change the line when I start behind the first letter. And than I delet everything I don't need. And that wasn't possible in the comments. But now I know how it shoult go and after a while it will be easier and easier for me. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay, so glad it works! And hee - I remember that thinking-I'm-going-crazy feeling! *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

And I have another question. I think it would be nice to devide the amnesia section into amnesia Bodie and amnesia Doyle. Because there are lots of amnesia storys and sometimes you know it was Bodie who has amnesia and than it would be easier to find the story.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea to me! Yes, let's have two separate posts: "amnesia - Bodie" and "amnesia - Doyle". We can keep the general post too perhaps, cos some people might just want to read all the amnesia stories (*g*) - and maybe siskiou would be kind and edit her post to include something like "See also amnesia - Bodie and amnesia - Doyle", and link to the separate keywords too. Cool. *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like the idea. And later I will searche the amnesialist in prosfinder ;-)

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! :)

Though now I have to reseach who has amnesia in the stories I added! *g*

Give me a day or two...

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

So, I just checked into my original post, and one story is Doyle-amnesia, the other Bodie.
And there a several comments with more stories, and I'll have to check to see who has amnesia in those.

How do I best sort this out, to separate them into Doyle and Bodie categories?

Just start over, with a separate post for each character, incorporate the stories from the comments, and delete the original?
And use both the amnesia, and for example Doyle-amnesia tags?
Will the "just" amnesia tag lead to all amnesia stories that way?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Um... You know, I think this might be one of the things that could up being way more time-consuming than it should be. I know it would be useful to have the separate lists, but on the other hand you shouldn't have to invest time in researching which stories are which!

My suggestion would be to stick with just the "amnesia" post for now, and put all the suggestions under that.

But - we could also create "amnesia - Doyle" and an "amnesia - Bodie" posts, and then when people do know which is which (when they've just read the fic for instance) they might choose one or the other, or the general post. And if we tag all three posts "amnesia" then they'll all come up when people are looking, and hopefully they'll find what they want on one of the lists.

If you/we know any of the stories now, then we could split them, but not if it's tons of research work for you. Not that it's horrid to have to read the fics, but it's time consuming... *g*

So, for instance, I remember that
- Saints and Miracles = amnesia - Doyle
- The Gemini Factor = amnesia - Bodie
- Professional Dreamer = amnesia - Doyle

Does that make sense?

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Yes, thanks!

I'll create the two posts now, and add what I know. :)

Parrot

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Hot Chocolate Bodie by The Hag (http://archiveofourown.org/works/112710)
In the Pumpkin Interest by The Hag (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/8/inthe.html)

Did I do this right?

RE: Parrot

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Beautifully - except that rather than commenting with a new keyword here, you can actually make the keyword post yourself!

- post to the community
- Use "parrot" in the subject line, as you've done here
- post your links, just as you've done here (I tend to put "by author" outside the link, just to make it easier to read)
- hit post! *g*
- other people might then comment to your post with other stories that use that keyword, and if you can it would be brilliant if you could edit them into your post. If not, then we're trying to keep the keyword comments clean of everything else so that storylinks are easy to find there too.

And that's it! *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if the tags will be visible down the side of main page rather than scrolling through the alphabet in the main post. Or some other method of seeing the tags right off and clicking on it to get to that particular post. Does that question make sense? :)

Thanks!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No, sadly the theme doesn't allow the tags list. Either way it would be scrolling, in any case! But you can come to the comm and add /tag/ after the url, which will take you to the tags list, if you prefer to do it that way.

And yeah, it made sense... *g* (I like having the tag list on my own lj, as an index - when I keep up with them!)

Don't you see the tags right off with them up there as the sticky post though? It's only one click to de-collapse the post!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Sure. I thought I'd ask.

Thanks!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No worries, it's a good idea, cos it would've helped if anything happened to the index-post author too, but sadly... And ask away - all ideas welcome! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Would a different theme allow it?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that - presumably one of the free ones available to communities would. The only problem is finding one that then also lets us have our own Pros banner, and keep a reasonably clean-looking comm. I trawled through lots before going back to this one (which I've used with various comms!), just cos it's tidy and a little bit flexible. Lots of them seem to have pictures of cats and other fluffy things, or else... other stuff. *g* Unless you're able to play around and edit other theme bases to force things like a tags list, banners etc? I can only do it to a certain level, and it's not that one... *g*

Oh - actually what we could do is what I did at Ci5hq - add the tags list as a link to the sidebar - and make it really obvious, like "tags list"! *g* That way people have a quick way of getting to them, if they'd rather search that way. They'd still have to click to get to it, but.... I think we may be getting a wee bit lazy if we can't manage one click... *vbg*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me! :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hey fellow-mods, hope you're tracking.

I thought this sounded like a good idea (http://byslantedlight.livejournal.com/590384.html?thread=9041456#t9041456), cos it'd be helpful to match the eps! At first I thought a separate ep-keyword index, and we could still do that one day, but we could perhaps list them here too - "roses" would bring up a few, for instance, so if someone writing a fic wanted to know what episodes the roses were in... *g*

What d'you think?

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, it might be very usefull. I think for the beginning it is the easiest to put them under a normal keyword we could also use for the links to the stories.

I think the episodes are still online at youtube, so maybe it is possible to make a link like this one Episode A Hiding To Nothing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-nuajerMxw)

What do you think?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm not really here - I'm desperately trying to finish work so I can pack and leave tomorrow, but...

To be honest I don't think we need any kind of link for the episode titles - everyone on the comm is going to be a Pros fan, so they'll know where to find them (mostly on their own dvds *g*). And it would be a pain to have to fix links every time a vid was taken down.

I've actually already included one of the episodes as a keyword in the index - for DiaG - and just put the title (in Title Case *g*) and "(episode)" afterwards. I'd suggest something as simple as that, to be honest. Maybe use italics for the title, to distinguish it. I reckon we should try and keep things as simple as we can, otherwise we'll end up making an awful lot of work...!

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right. Every Pros fan should have the dvds or blue rays by now. So let's look how it will work.

And I wish you a wonderful time for the next days!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true that some people might not have the dvds - but I think we're a) on dodgy ground if we're providing links to illegal uploads, and b) making work for ourselves in making sure the links are all live!

And thank you! If I can just proofread another 5k tonight... eeep! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true that some people might not have the dvds - but I think we're a) on dodgy ground if we're providing links to illegal uploads, and b) making work for ourselves in making sure the links are all live!

And thank you! If I can just proofread another 5k tonight... eeep! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm not sure I understand exactly?

Do you mean, for example, listing all the episodes involving a hospital would be listed under that keyword?
Would it be in the same post, along with the stories, or a separate one?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Originally I thought of doing a separate index, like the non-English stories index that macklingirl is thinking about (was it further up this post? I hope you saw it too!), that was a link in the main post (like the FAQs) and also in the links list.

But then I thought why not combine it with the story keywords, if only to start with (cos making more than one index will be more time-consuming!). And they're useful for people writing fic, so not entirely unrelated... *g*

So yeah, for instance if the keyword was "hospital" then there'd be perhaps the eps with a hospital at the top of the list (or in a second column, if I can work out the code without making a table - do you know how to do that? I think it's summat to do with span... *g*), just in italics so that they stand out as not-fics, and then the stories with hospitals.

Does that make sense?

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

It would be very useful, and no, I'm an absolute dolt when it comes to setting up things like that.
But I can take a look around and see if there are any tutorials out there.

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Sorry, just been through the comments and can't find the one about the non-english stories. Could it be under a different post? Or am I overlooking it?
It's getting pretty crowded down here? *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

It is under the "Hotel" post.
I think we should create a "mods-only" post where we could discuss all questions and ideas hat cross our minds. What do you think? I could create it in the evening.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's where it was. For some reason I thought you'd seen it/been there too, S - not sure why. Maybe I was just thinking of you as I thought about it!

A mod-organsing post is perhaps an idea, to save us deleting comments here to keep the thread tidy for people using the comm. Though I think it's good to discuss ideas in public too, in case other people want to contribute thoughts. But for the more organise-y things, then yeah. *g*

I may or may not be on line this evening. I'm hoping so cos I'll have work to send, and I should at least be able to get on with my phone, but if I'm not here around it's hopefully just cos I'm travelling!

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I thougt about discussing things here but delet them after a while and put them in different comments in a mod-discussion post. Because maybe sometime later there will be the need to remember why we didn't do one thing and did the other.

Or there a things we will do in a few month, when prosficindex is established. :-)

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've been to both the hotel, and the hotel-Bodie owner, and still can't see anything about the non-english stories. :)
Will check again, after work.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to compress it into a comment at the mods-discussion-post.

Frustration

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Can someone tell me why my links comments come out with the whole line underlined - title and author. This is the code I'm using...

<*a href="http://hatstandfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=839"> Calibre by JGL [without the astrisks, of course!]

and this is what shows up:

Calibre by JGL

Thanks!

and now everything is underlined aauuughhh!!! (http://hatstandfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=839)

RE: Frustration

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's okay, it's connected with the journal style - they're links. Check out other posts, the links are all underlined too.

That said, your code is missing the closing anchor, which is why the words after are underlined too. It thinks you've told it to make a link, which it has done, but you didn't tell it when to stop. I'm guessing you used lj's link button to make the links, and it seems to have a glitch. And since this happened to one of the mods not long ago, I can point you to our handy-dandy FAQs, this time... *g* Basically all you need to do is edit your post to add at the end of each link. That should do the trick (make sure they look like the links in the FAQ examples and you should be good!)

RE: Frustration

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thanks!