Subtext is everything

Only four days to go until Wednesday! If you haven't voted for your favorite new banner yet, do it NOW. Look at all those wonderful designs by our fandom's artists! The chosen banner will be used for our Season 13 Discussion posts, starting September 26.

Besides this challenge for artists, we also asked our authors to help us get ready for a new season of Nick & Greg. karachilovaa14 wrote us three wonderful follow up/missing scene stories for season 12 episodes and one especially for the finale, which you should definitely read before the season's premiere:)

FIC
S12Ep05 CSI Down: Outburst
S12Ep11 Ms Willows Regrets: Please Don't Regret Me
S12Ep22 Homecoming: Lead Me Home

So: vote and read and be ready to join us on Wednesday after the nightshift!

The mods

P.S. Don't worry if you can't watch CSI right away; the discussion will surely continue over the weekend:)

Look at what the wonderful artists in our fandom have made for us! They created a whopping eight (8!) new banners to choose from. You have one week to vote for the design you like best. The favorite banner will be revealed in the first episode discussion post of Season 13 on Wednesday September 26. As they say on CSI: ( Check this out )

Reminder: there is still time to prompt or write a little drabble yourself for our S13-reader/author-challenge. See more information here.

The countdown just got serious \o/ See you all next week?

The mods

Hello everybody,

in order to get ready for a new season of Curious Stokes & Sanders' Investigations we have some challenges for all of you! We will countdown together to Wednesday, September 26 \o/

LURKERS & READERS
Let's get this place thriving with fanfic, fanart and as much Nick/Greg love as we can and leave a prompt in the comments. This could be one word, a quote, lyrics, an image, an old scene from CSI that's missing something or is in need of a follow up, a kink or anything else you can come up with as inspiration for our authors and artists:)

AUTHORS
We want stories to link S12 to S13! You can use the prompts in the comments or the scenes down below as inspiration to write a drabble (0-100 words), a ficlet (100-500 words) or a short story (up to a 1000 words).
You can share your story in response to the prompt you chose or post it in the community. Please add the tag countdownS13 so we can put it on our masterlist of fics on Sunday September 23.

ARTISTS
Last but definitely not least: we need a new banner for the Season 13 discussion posts and we want YOU to design it! Behind the cut you find technical information, screencapsites and previous banners as examples.
Requirements for the banner
Size = 400 x 200 pixels | Format = jpg or png
Text = CSI: Season 13 Nick & Greg scenes + subtext

Below we offer a couple of screencaps from Season 12 that you can use. Of course you are allowed to capture other recent Nick/Greg moments if you want. To avoid spoilers we ask you NOT to use promo-pictures from season 13.
Example banners



(Yes, it is allowed to manipulate images to focus the scene on just Nick and Greg;)



You are free to use whatever font you want, but these were used in the banners above: Impact & Christopherhand

Screencaps: Geekromance.com / Lights Turned On (HighRes downloads)

Do NOT share or post your banner! Mail your designs and questions to nickngreglj@gmail.com and we'll contact you! Your deadline is Wednesday September 19 in your timezone:)

A week before the new season starts we'll present all the entrees anonymously in a poll, so the community can vote for their favorite. The winning banner will be used in all the discussion posts for season 13!


Screencaps from S12
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[Scene S12Ep22 Homecoming]


[Interaction Lockerroom S12Ep22]


[Interaction Breakroom S12Ep22]


[Nick S12 Ep22]


[Greg S12Ep5 CSI Down]


[Nick S12Ep3 Bittersweet / Greg S12Ep5 CSI Down]


[Scene S12Ep11 Ms Willows Regrets]


[Interaction S12Ep11 Ms Willows Regrets]


[Omnomnom]


Have fun! We can't wait to see your prompts, stories and artwork!

Next week we'll continue our countdown with a Blast From The Past selection.

The mods

P.S. We are screening the comments for mod-purposes. All prompts, stories and questions will be made public as soon as possible:)