Remus/Sirius Small Gifts

What communities do you watch on LJ, specifically?

Also, I love the fact that you have a recs list! (I'm going to go have a look at it.) I'd started off reading off of recs lists and somehow had the idea that folks weren't keeping them as often as they used to, but perhaps that's not true. M.

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abbyvonnormal

Oh, umm, not much really. Just R/S ones:

remusxsirius (obviously), RS Games, RS Big Bang, and the fest I co-mod, (

black_circle_dj).

Now, with Steve/Tony and Natasha/Pepper:

cap_ironman and

marvel_fic.

Also, I used to watch

harrydraco and

dracotops_harry. I just kinda got out of that pairing.

And thanks! I just finished a bit of editing, which I always seem to be doing... tweaking something or another :-/ I don't think I'll ever stop updating my recs, there's so much out there and I've got quite the pairings to read, so I'm pretty sure I won't be stopping any time soon.

Edited Date: 2012-11-27 07:03 pm (UTC)

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mutuisanimis.livejournal.com

R/S have indeed made it to tumblr! In a small way, if you follow the right people. And/or track the Wolfstar tag. Also last year in December they started a Shoebox Reread Project where everyone reads one chapter a day until, well I guess, the 23. I didn't participate, but hopefully I will this year?

I watch

accio_rs_fics here, and the

rs_games. Many of my old favorites are/were at FictionAlley, though that site is quite slow anymore. When I actively seek out new fic, I usually hit ff.net and hope there's some decent new things, and I'm moving slowly toward AO3, having been introduced to it recently.

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rewrites24.livejournal.com

I too find fic on

accio_rs_fics a lot. Either by searching the tags or seeing a fic someone is looking for that catches my fancy.

Otherwise, I'm mostly on

remusxsirius and fanfiction.net but most anything worth reading on fanfiction.net is x-posted to LJ anyway so...

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Wolfstar tag, okay!

Wow, SBP is now a classic itself, isn't it? :) M.

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mutuisanimis.livejournal.com

Haha, yeah, it really is.

If you want to x-post this stuff on tumblr, I would suggest making a separate blog for it (rs-small-gifts.tumblr.com or something) and tagging every post with Wolfstar, at least. Then they would all be in one spot, and they would all show up in the tag where people go to look for stuff. (I have no idea if you're on tumblr already or know what I'm talking about ^_^;;)

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smallgiftsmods.livejournal.com

Thanks for the advice, M. I'm going to give it a try, see if we can't get some following from tumblr and AO3 this year. M.

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I have yet to figure tumblr out, but guess I will have to now : ) Any suggestions other than tracking the Wolfstar tag? Thanks for the info!

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themessrs.livejournal.com

For tumblr, you might also check out the Wolfstar-specific blogs, such as: hms-wolfstar (http://hms-wolfstar.tumblr.com) [self-pimp], ofwerewolvesandmen (http://ofwerewolvesandmen.tumblr.com) [run by dama], everythings-wolfstar (http://everythings-wolfstar.tumblr.com), and a few others I can't remember right now. We often post in the Wolfstar tag and dama is especially good at fic recs.

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themessrs.livejournal.com

Whoops, looks like that's already covered! Definitely good reasons to get involved in tumblr now, yes? ;]

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mutuisanimis.livejournal.com

Depends what other sorts of stuff you like. And if there are people you see post in the Wolfstar tag frequently, follow their blogs. If you have other fandoms you're in, I can try to point you in the direction of good blogs from those fandoms, if I know any. Happy tumbling :)

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Okay, I signed up to follow the 3 you mentioned--can't wait to explore further!

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rewrites24.livejournal.com

I'm like you, I can't seem to make heads or tails of tumblr but EVERYONE talks about it it seems like. I'm young, this shouldn't be so daunting...maybe over the weekend...

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Remus/Sirius happens on Tumblr, just not as often as I'd like!

The individual character tags (also James, Peter, Lily, and Regulus) are kind of cluttered with chatter and role-play stuff, but the wolfstar tag (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/wolfstar) is pretty solid.

everythings-wolfstar (http://everythings-wolfstar.tumblr.com/) and ofwerewolvesandmen (http://ofwerewolvesandmen.tumblr.com/) are both awesome blogs. They reblog tons of fanart and do fic recs and headcanon discussions.

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Oh, excellent, thanks, X. I *knew* R/S was out there somewhere on tumblr, but I had no idea how to find it. (My tumblr skills are still pretty rudimentary.) Both those blogs had a lot of great art, too. M.

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You're welcome!

I spend a lot of time on Tumblr because my other two fandoms (Game of Thrones and Teen Wolf) are super active over there, and the lack of MWPP stuff is frustrating. HP is still fairly popular over there on the whole, but mostly for Trio-era stuff. I'm really glad Wolfstar has its own tag, because the amount of RP stuff in the character tags is overwhelming.

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Thanks for the info--will definitely check these out!

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You're welcome!

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adistantsun

Seconding those two blogs so hard! Also

bluepeony, who's been posting a lot of good R/S AUs over the past year, has her tumblr at biriusslack. Most of what she blogs there is R/S-related ^_^

Edited Date: 2012-11-28 02:19 am (UTC)

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sambethe.livejournal.com

Aha! A reason to dust off the tumblr log in, huh?

*Adds to the weekend procrastination list*

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There isn't as much R/S as I'd like on Tumblr, what is there is pretty awesome.

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Like others have mentioned, I mainly stalk

remusxsirius and

accio_rs_fics and keep an eye on the big R/S fests like this one and

rs_games. That has often led me to seek out additional work by authors or artists, and to "meet" some cool people too.

When I first joined the fandom, I was watching Immeritus: The Sirius Black Fan Club (http://immeritus.org/index.php) and found quite a few things there, though I've pretty much stuck to LJ for the last couple of years. I came across

imochan's Love Post (http://imochan.livejournal.com/297961.html) a couple of summers ago and spent days on end reading and converting my favorites to read on my Kindle (including a couple of great short pieces by

mindabbles if I remember correctly). I've found that overall quality of stories in LJ, at least in my experience, has been higher than on places like fanfiction.net.

Edited Date: 2012-11-28 01:38 am (UTC)

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rewrites24.livejournal.com

YES! The Love Post (http://imochan.livejournal.com/297961.html) is amazing!!!

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onehundredmoons.livejournal.com

Honestly at this point - posts like this. I rely primarily on recs from friends as I do very little internet trawling for fic nowadays. I'm not reading a ton of new R/S, so will refer back to the LJ archives of my favorite authors when I have a hankering. And I know I can always count on this fest for some great stories. :)

Sometimes I do miss the days of fics being posted to the SBRL yahoo list!

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Yahoo lists! :) Lately I forget you were already an old-timer when I joined the scene. :) M.

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adistantsun

The Remus/Sirius tag feed at AO3 is wonderful. I won't go near ff.net on principle, so that is the main place I go browsing randomly for fics. Tag filtering has just been restored, which makes browsing individual author profiles a LOT easier.

In terms of LJ comms,

remusxsirius and

accio_rs_fics are the mainstays, and I tend to friend every author or fic journal I find whose work I like. I have most of the fest comms friended as well, both active and non. Sentimental favourites are the old seasonal fic-a-day comms:

dogdaysofsummer,

scarvesnhats,

blanketforts, and

wellymuck. Old rec lists are wonderful for finding gems that have been forgotten, even if half the links don't work anymore and most haven't been updated for several years -

spacefragments' epic R/S AU rec list was invaluable when I was first delving into R/S fic, not only for the recs but also for finding good authors and their masterlists.

The wolfstar tag on Tumblr is where I see a lot of the everyday R/S-related discussion these days. Not so much in the way of creation aside from roleplays, though it does get a lovely lot of art and fic recs, plus the occasional cosplay shoot. The Shoebox Project re-read happens there (this is the best link I could find). Also, the Wolfstar Winter Wank challenge/fest will be running on tumblr from 30th Dec to 5th Jan - two teams, a week of prompts, points for I believe the number of fanworks created - I'm overjoyed because they're allowing any kind of fanwork, not just fic and art.

And speaking of other fanworks, the best place to find R/S podfic is the Audio Archive's Remus/Sirius filter.

amplificathon is where all the podficcers post, and they have an HP fandom tag (also on DW here). My favourite cosplay troupe, Parle Productions, have put together some hilarious Marauders vids in the past (all gen), their Marauders playlist is here. The two R/S cosplayers I see most active on Tumblr have their Youtube feed here.

Reminds me, I need to go scouring Pinboard to see if any R/S reclists have been set up there... ;D

Edited Date: 2012-11-28 02:21 am (UTC)

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adistantsun

ps. If you like, you could set up an RS Small Gifts 2012 Collection at AO3, so if/when people repost their fanworks there, they can add it to the fest collection as well ^_^

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sambethe.livejournal.com

I believe

magnetic_pole did create a collection for this year and added some for the past years. I'll let her pipe up with links. I believe the plan is for us to invite folks to repost to A03 and add it to the collection once they go live.

I did see, though, that she posted some of her older small gifts for prior year collections.

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I did! I'll announce this again, so folks know. Folks should know about the Audio Archive and amplification, too--thanks for that. I think I need to follow up on this discussion tomorrow... M.

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nerakrose

i'm actually kinda surprised that the R/S tag on AO3 is so alive. i had the impression nothing was happening in it at all - though that might've been way back when i joined AO3, which is over a year ago... i'm glad to see AO3 is getting more popular with HP-dom. ♥

oh and to answer some of the questions in the post:
- i do archive my fic both here and on AO3. when i want to find new fic to read, i rely mostly on reclists and i have a tendency to look at accio_rs_fics to see what people are reccing/looking for, and sometimes i look at the wolfstar tag on tumblr.
speaking of reclists, mine needs updating. i made it to 'too late', as in, i'd lost all the links to most of the good stuff i'd been reading, and i've not managed to re-find everything yet. and it gets only slowly updated these days, too, as i've not done a lot of R/S reading this year...

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themessrs.livejournal.com

I'm late to this party! Tumblr is really where it's at right now, and of course AO3. Seems like everyone's got the big names covered there.

For the smuttier things, here's also the new and currently running

rlupin_kinkmeme [they really need some fills!], as well as

rs_kink, a new R/S kink comm opening up in January.

Edited Date: 2012-11-28 04:43 am (UTC)

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