Welcome to Small Gifts 2007

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Small Gifts is a year-end Remus/Sirius exchange community. Think of "small gifts" as stocking stuffers--the gifts can be short fic (500 to 3,000 words), art, icons, or whatever people can give. It's the thought that counts, really. Celebrating the season of lights, the solstice, birth and new beginnings, the promise of renewal. Snow and cheery fires, tinsel and mistletoe. Draw up a chair by that fire, settle in, and read....

How it works:

1. NOVEMBER 1 (Thursday) to NOVEMBER 9 (Friday): Participants leave prompts.

At any time between November 1 and November 9, you can join the exchange by responding to this post with a comment giving the following information:

Name
Age statement One of the following: "I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country (note here if you have a preference for rating)" OR "I am under 18 or the legal age in my country, and will neither ask for nor read anything with a rating over R." No age statement, or a falsified age statement, and you're out. Coal in the stocking and all that.
Three wishes Please give three prompts consisting of: one word; one sentence; one quote; one LINK to an image (no hotlinking!); see below for suggestions
Do not want to receive insert squicks and pet peeves here: "songfic", "deathfic", "Tonks", etc.
Am fond of insert favourite things here: "sexually-confident!Remus", "Lying-low-at-Lupin's", etc.

A text box, if you like that sort of thing:
<b>Name:</b> <b>Age statement:</b> <b>Three wishes:</b> <b>Do not want to receive:</b> <b>Am fond of:</b>

Please do not suggest too much detail, give a plot outline, or ask for a novel -- these are small gifts!

Bad example: "Sirius and James have a Clever Plan, and there is pudding, and somehow the Prank happens, and I'd love to have Lily there too, and also it should all be a flashback during the Grimmauld Christmas party, with sex." You will get... coal. For true.

Good examples: "trimming the tree"; "first kiss"; "warming hands by a fire"; "umbrellas"; "Dawn, New Year's Day"; "art for anything I've written"; "a remix for something of mine"; "story or art - Splendid Wings (song by David Brown)"; "cute MWPP-era icons". Please do not ask only for art: in general, there are more writers than artists.

Note to writers and artists: please, no sexually explicit fic or art involving underage characters.

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2. NOVEMBER 10 (Saturday): Prompts open to claims at 10:00a Eastern Time. Please claim by responding to the comment with the request that you want ("I, busaikko, do hereby claim marysue's request #2"). Please, one claimant per request/participant. We would like everyone to get something! If you finish your first small gift, you are more than welcome to come back and claim again.

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3. DECEMBER 10 (Monday): Final submission deadline. Please submit your work BETA'D as a post to this community (you'll need to join, if you've not already). It will go into the moderation queue. We will post two or three gifts per day from mid-December on. Hopefully we'll have enough to post through the end of the year!

Thanks for participating, everyone!

Happy, happy holidays all around!

busaikko and magnetic_pole

Comments

[gollisd.livejournal.com]

Name: gollisd
Age statement: I am 18.
Three wishes: AU (muggles...), Impressionism (the art movement), dancing (I would like to see these combined... no pressure or anything)
Do not want to receive: Pure porn, a whimpy Remus, a coming out that goes well
Am fond of: First kisses, biting, a man in a well-cut suit

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

I, Beth, aka ekaterin24, am claiming this one. Will do dancing, and probably a man in a well-cut suit, will include other elements as they fit.

I promise, no wimpy Remus!

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

Name: glass_icarus
Age statement: I am 21. :)
Three wishes:
1) don't know the right words to say
2) it goes like this
3) laws of gravity
Do not want to receive: angst-fests, stupid!James or Peter, Tonks (at least not a whiny one), nicknames you would be ashamed of if they ever came out of your mouth.
Am fond of: banter, wistful Remus and/or Sirius, a bit of pining, certain degrees of oblivious, sweet boys, funny teenage awkward, Marauder-era.

[isolde-101.livejournal.com]

I hereby claim glass_icarus' prompt on behalf
of kyasuriin.

[sleeper6.livejournal.com]

Name: sleeper6
Age statement: "I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country." (all ratings ok with me)

Three wishes:
1. Regulus discovers the R/S relationship.
2. The boys talking in bed after sex about anything.
3. James and/or Peter teasing Sirius about the R/S relationship.

Do not want to receive: Anything with Tonks (not even a mention of her, please), slutty!Sirius or slutty!Remus, any mention of an attraction to girls (past or present), unrequited love
Am fond of: MWPP era, pre-Azkaban, interactions with other characters (in any era), sarcastic!Remus, banter, lots of dialogue, fluff!

[http://users.livejournal.com/lucid_dreamer_/]

I, lucid_dreamer_, hereby claim sleeper6's wish #1.

[quartetship.livejournal.com]

Name: Christina (quartetship)
Age Statement- "I am over the age of 18 or over the legal age in my country", and all ratings are fine with me :)

Three Wishes:
1. "All I Want for Christmas is You"
2. *ART* for any of my work
3. Kissing (or whatever else) in the SNOW :)

Do not want to recieve: Severe angst, Tonks, pure porn or the whole "being walked in on" thing...
Am fond of: Sirius as the one who's doing the chasing, MWPP-era, mentioning or incorporating Lily Evans, and CHRISTMAS :)

[justaidan.livejournal.com]

I, justaidan, do hereby claim quartetship's request #1.

[quipped.livejournal.com]

Name: Alyson / quipped
Age statement:I am under 18, so none of that stuff, please.

Three wishes:
1. Sirius and Lily baking things together
2. Lots of Christmas spirit! :)
3. The First Kiss

Do not want to receive: Please, no "Remi, Siri" business because it makes me cringe. And no m-preg either, I suppose.
Am fond of: Cigarettes, comfortable dialogue, involving Peter in the story without abusing his character, post-Hogwarts, scarves. Oh, and a bit of banter is always very nice.

Bonus points if you can make me both cry and giggle. :]]

[busaikko]

Name: busaikko
Age statement: Y'all, I am twice 18 and not getting any younger....
Three wishes: any of these can be for art or fic, I'm easy!
@ AU (non-magic): first meeting. There should probably be knitting. And possibly fruitcake.
@ Wait for the year to drown, Spring forward, fall back down. I'm trying not to wonder where you are.
All this time lingers, undefined. Someone choose who's left and who's leaving. (Left and Leaving by The Weakerthans)
@ coming out
Do not want to receive: Tonks, cute nicknames, songfic
Am fond of: pre-Azkaban and post-Azkaban. AUs. Both heartrending pain and laughing so hard I cry. I don't mind character death, torture, or any of those things if you can make me believe it. Love the use of foreign languages. Remus not being as innocent as everyone thinks he is. Sirius being more innocent than everyone thinks he is *g* ...Must... stop... now....

[oddsbobs.livejournal.com]

"I, oddsbobs, claim busaikko's prompt number 1 on behalf of orngsnapdragon, since she is unavailable to do so."


(She's away from her computer all weekend- hope this is okay)

[chaperoned.livejournal.com]

Name: Fin
Age statement: Exactly 18, actually.
Three wishes:
1. "There was only one time in my life when I was happy to find a hair in my milk." - Anita Locke
2. Refrigerator. What's inside it, on it, etc.
3. Going to diners at 3AM.
Do not want to receive: Anything after/during Azkaban.
Am fond of: Weird ass kinks. 'Philosophical' psycho-babbles about life, the universe, and everything. The Cars' 'Just What I Needed'.

[ladyblack888.livejournal.com]

I, ladyblack888, do hereby claim chaperoned's request #3.

[gwathhenation.livejournal.com]

b>Name: Gwathh
Age statement: 19

Three wishes: (Art or Fic being fine)
1. This song (http://www.sendspace.com/file/g31kr3), Ballad of a Comeback Kid (lyrics) (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858505175) (but not as a song!fic)
2. enchantment(s)
3. divine intervention

Do not want to receive: porn, het, lost years/post OotP fic (basically just some actual R/S somewhere in it) and sap
Am fond of: wild AU, not happy nor totally unhappy fic, nice-but-not-cumbersome vocabulary?

[paddy-wolfstar.livejournal.com]

I, Paddy_Wolfstar, do hereby claim gwathhenation's request #1.

(Be warned, 'wild AU' put some weird-ass ideas in my head... ;D)

[ladyblack888.livejournal.com]

Name: Joana/Jo/ladyblack888
Age statement: My 18th birthday was ALMOST(!) 10 years ago...
Three wishes:
1. Art for or a remix of any of my fics (unlocked at my LJ).
2. First-time (realistically), preferably after a fight.
3. A list of facts about them.
Do not want to receive: Bottom!Remus - for real *misses the old-times*; any form of Tonks-bashing; Girly!boys, AUs; fluff; the word 'love' (unless they're not actualling saying it); technical words or euphemisms - a cock is a cock, not a Gallus gallus or the brave, brightly-coloured husband of the hen ;)
Am fond of: In this order:
1. First war
2. Miscommunication
3. Character-sketch
4. Angry!sex
5. Wall!sex
6. Bitterness
7. Andromeda
8. My icon *points up*

[lorax.livejournal.com]

I, sullensiren, hereby claim ladyblack88's #2 request with a possibility of combining #3 as well!

[carmine-ink.livejournal.com]

Name: Carmine/ carmine_ink
Age statement: "I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country"

Three wishes:
1) Historical AU!
2) Remus and Sirius decide to share a flat as friends, but it turns into something more
3) First time (not necessarily sex, but that's great too) with indenial!Sirius and experienced!Remus around Christmas time/New Year's

Do not want to receive: Nicknames other than the ones in canon, pure angst, PWP
Am fond of: Quirky details, creative use of magic, references to literature, pre-1981, little affectionate gestures, generally happy endings (although flangst is fine as well)

[westwardlee.livejournal.com]

I, westwardlee claim carmine_ink's prompts 2 and 3, combined.

[cherrybrandy370.livejournal.com]

Name: cherrybrandy370

Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country

Three wishes: (1) Christmas lights!
(2) Family (blood or friends)
(3) this quote "i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i needed to be" by douglas adams (wrote hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)

Do not want to receive: PWP, fluff, mprep, girly boys, coming out, stupid!peter, songfic

Am fond of: post hogwarts, pre azkaban era; AU; beautiful angst (think "butterfly, dreaming"); literary references; baby harry; realistic writing

[llpotter.livejournal.com]

I, LLPotter, do hereby claim cherrybrandy370's request #3. (And I'll try to work in as many of the other requested/am fond of elements as well.) :)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Name: mysid
Age statement: I am definitely over the legal age in my country, and any rating is fine.
Three wishes:
1. jealousy of James (interpret as you wish)
2. Remus's parent(s) interacting with Sirius
3. Sirius dislikes muggle clothing
Do not want to receive: unrealistic (for the time period) acceptance of homosexuality, syrupy sweet mushiness of any sort, boys behaving like girls, alcohol or drug use, bookworm-Remus, songfic
Am fond of: pre-Azkaban era, insecure-Sirius, first kisses

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

mindabbles claims mysid's prompt 2 (and I'd kind of like to combine them all).

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

Name:Beth/ekaterin24
Age statement:I was born in 1963. I am waaaaay over 18. Any rating is fine
Three wishes: tub or shower, spell gone hilariously wrong, special food/meal
Do not want to receive: S&M, more than light bondage, heavy angst
Am fond of: top!Remus, pre-Azkaban, foreplay, love, humor, clever remarks, good spelling and grammar

[ex-britty23.livejournal.com]

I the ever so lovely britty claims ekaterin24 oh so wonderful #2 wish. ♥

[justaidan.livejournal.com]

Name: Aidan
Age statement: I am 18, and live in the U.S.
Three wishes:
1. Sirius runs away from home but goes to Remus's instead of James's house.
2. "Is there something you wish to tell me?" - Dumbledore
3. Attempted Suicide
Do not want to receive: PWP, pure angst with no fluff or comic relief, stupid!Sirius, tragedy, noncon, Complete OOC-fics.
Am fond of: bottom!Remus, hurt/comfort, protective!Sirius, protective!Remus.

[lotrwariorgodss.livejournal.com]

I, lotrwariorgodss claim justaidan's request #1.

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

Name: Hannah (penhaligonblue)
Age statement: I am over 18 and over the legal age in my country, but would prefer nothing above an R rating

Three wishes:
1. Illustration of any scene from rosemaryandrue's Winter of Discontent (http://rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com/tag/blanketforts)
2. Medieval/university town (esp. Cambridge)
3. Apologist fic: Remus/Tonks as a marriage of convenience, with a little Tonks/Charlie on the side

Do not want to receive: AU (but feel free to disregard interviews); sheer fluff (affection is fine, but give me some banter as well, please); non-canon nicknames; passive/feminine Remus; oversexed/brainless Sirius; Tonks-bashing
Am fond of: Marauder era; emphasis on wartime setting; hints of Sirius's aristocratic upbringing; ensemble/friendship fics; witty dialogue

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

I, magnetic_pole, claim penhaligonblue's request #2 Medieval/university town and...and will also try to tackle #3 Apologist fic: Remus/Tonks as a marriage of convenience, with a little Tonks/Charlie on the side

[lykoi.livejournal.com]

I can't tell you how happy I am to see this return~ ♥

Name: Devon
Age statement: I am 20, so anything is good with me~
Three wishes: I'd prefer fic, but art is good too.
1. First Christmas away from home and Hogwarts.
2. A Christmas right after a full moon- Sirius taking care of Remus, anyone? (Muchly appreciated if this would be set in their earlier years, maybe just out of school?)
3. Remus attempting to cheer Sirius up around Grimmauld Place during the holiday season.
Do not want to receive: Tonks, deathfic, anyone acting "the girl part", overly aggressive Remus.
Am fond of: Fluff, boys being boys, banter, James & Lily being involved/mentioned/anywhere, all Marauders included and accounted for, awkward!Remus and clueless/possibly in denial!Sirius.

[midnight-birth.livejournal.com]

I, midnight_birth, do hereby claim mysticlykoi's request #3. :)

[passakiss.livejournal.com]

Name: Melissa
Age statement: I am under 18 or the legal age in my country, and will neither ask for nor read anything with a rating over R. (Until December 29th, fools.)
Three wishes: Fic or art, both are great with me. (:
1. Sleepy winter mornings
2. The worst/best Christmas present ever
3. Playing in the snow
Do not want to receive: Remus/Tonks, Obnoxious!Sirius, Shoebox rip-offs, too much fluff
Am fond of: Oblivious!Sirius, mild angst, get-together fics, drunkenness

...Who needs college applications?

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

nk_aoede claiming passakiss's request #1.



(er, haha, am i doing this right? :D)

[maraudersaffair.livejournal.com]

Name: maraudersaffair
Age statement: I'm 18 in the US.
Three wishes:

1. An AU inspired by the song Mr. Bojangles by Bob Dylan -- lyrics Here (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/mrbojangles.html)

2. Remus likes Snape and Sirius.

3. Sirius and Remus arrested by Muggle police.

Do not want to receive: Perfect or easy-going Sirius. Bookworm or Timid Remus. Talk of Lily and James' relationship. No plot, acceptance of sexuality in a quick fashion, sexually promiscuous characters, unrealistic situations/personalities, OOCs

Am fond of: Experimenting with drugs, all characters at the beginning of the fic be 17 or older, denial, self hatred, suppressed lust, social discrimination, secret romance, pubs, alleyways, cigarettes, drinking, cigars, past heterosexual relationships, wandless magic in casual situations as in "lighting a cigarette with a swish of your hand", fighting -- punching jaws and kicks to the groin, helplessness, OCs that give the fic more realism.

[l-stone.livejournal.com]

I, l_stone, do hereby claim maraudersaffair's prompt #3.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

Name: rufus, _rufus_ at IJ, though that journal is mostly empty.
Age statement: I am (way!) over 18, but any rating is fine. Also, I tend to prefer that which is implied to that which is explicitly stated.
Three wishes:

1. Art for anything I've written, but most especially January 1972 (http://community.livejournal.com/blanketforts/127672.html) (pretty much all G/PG) or Shenanigans/April 1975. (http://community.livejournal.com/wellymuck/82890.html) (might make it up to PG-13) *makes big puppy eyes*

2. caroling, someone has the sniffles -- MWPP era.

3. I'm intrigued by the remix idea, as I've never had anything remixed before. Or you could do some deleted scenes! In addition to the series noted above, there's also July 1977 (http://community.livejournal.com/dogdaysofsummer/226492.html), the last couple of episodes of which are NC-17.

Do not want to receive: angst, death!fic, song!fic, Tonks-bashing of any kind, excessive weeping by anybody, Remus minus his spine, horrible!Sirius, or homophobic!James. And no doofy nicknames (Remy, Siri)!

Am fond of: warm, fuzzy, funny canon-compliant stories with happy endings that are not *too* schmoopy.

[busaikko]

*does that funky Pokemon leaping-in-the-air thing*

I claim you, Rufus! Feel fear....

[tailoredshirt.livejournal.com]

Name: midnightblue88
Age statement: I am over 18 and therefore of legal age in my country.
Three wishes: 1. Fic - Remus and Sirius becoming friends first year 2. Fic - getting caught snogging/having sex at Hogwarts, with maybe some non-hilarious consequences 3. Fic - The two of them at James and Lily's wedding
Do not want to receive: Tonks/Remus; any squicks like bloodplay, necrophilia, incest, etc.; infidelity; BDSM; non or dub-con; biting; Mpreg; anything really, really sappy; songfic.
Am fond of: mentions of or interaction with James and/or Harry (not sexually); AUs; kissing; blowjobs; angst; messy and/or awkward sex; realism.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

I, cindergal, do hereby claim midnightblue88's request #3.

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

Name: remeciel
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country.
Three wishes:
1) A very angsty re-Azkaban fic.
2) A fic related to the wonderful song by Muse 'Glorious", you can find it
here.
3) MWPP era where the Marauders are planning a trip in London.
Do not want to receive:
Remus/Tonks, MPreg, BDSM.
Am fond of: architecture descriptions and hints of hope in an angst fic.

[inksheddings.livejournal.com]

I, inksheddings, hereby claim remeciel's prompt # 2! :D

[llpotter.livejournal.com]

Name: Laura/ LLPotter
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country.
Three wishes: 1) A quiet evening by the fire 2) AU raising Harry Christmas 1982 3) Remus wants a kitten
Do not want to receive: Heavy angst (bittersweet is ok, as long as there's some fluff as well), nicknames other than Moony and Padfoot, adult Tonks, an unequal relationship
Am fond of: Moderate fluff, moments of peace during the war, post-Hogwarts era, Hogwarts era, hot chocolate, blankets, Christmas carols, art

[sostrata.livejournal.com]

I, sostrata, do hereby claim llpotter's request #2.

[sablier-bloque.livejournal.com]

Name: Rebekah, rebekahfair
Age statement: I am 19 years old and over the legal age of my country.
Three wishes:
1. Use of"St. Patrick's Day" (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/John-Mayer/St-Patrick-s-Day.html) lyrics for inspiration, but not a songfic, please.
2. Decorating the Christmas tree
3. “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” - Oscar Wilde
Do not want to receive: Mpreg, songfic, feminine Remus, bondage, sugary-sweet fluff (fluff in moderation is just fine)
Am fond of: Marauder era (preferably during seventh year), pre-Azkaban, UST

[starkdependant]

I do batmanboxers do hereby claim rebekahfair's request number 3.
I love Wilde so bad.

Question, what does UST mean?

[starkdependant]

Name: Sarah
Age statement: I am 20 years of age
Three wishes: 1. Being snowed in
2. "A contract of eternal bond of love confirm'd by mutual joinder of hands"
Twelfth N, Act v, Sc.1
3. Remus has a certain fondness towards Morrissey, Sirius is jealous.
Do not want to receive: Petnames, Remus/Tonks, Angst
Am fond of:fluff, banter, pre-Azkaban era, OoTP era, banter, witticism, teasing, general happy giddy boyness.

[paddy-wolfstar.livejournal.com]

I, Paddy_Wolfstar, do hereby claim batmanboxers request #2.

[lotrwariorgodss.livejournal.com]

Name: lotrwariorgodss / Megan
Age statement: I'm an oldie at 20 years.
Three wishes:
-- Lily and James must miss Harry's first Christmas - how do the boys celebrate with him?
-- Sirius accidentally outs Remus during Christmas hols at the Potter's - how does he fix things?
-- Sirius learns of the Muggle phrase "Christmas in July" and feels the need to spruce up their living quarters...in the middle of summer. (Bonus if all his plans go awry and Remus must make it better)
Do not want to receive: Boys acting like girls; non-canon nicknames; innocent!Remus; lots of angst; either the boys with someone other than the other boy
Am fond of: Baby!Harry, Marauder/pre-Azkaban era, an "up there" rating (at least some kisses =))

[colourlesshade.livejournal.com]

I, colourlesshade claim lotrwariorgodss' request #3.

Pre-Azkaban/marauder era, "up there" rating, and Christmas in July... I am all over this one. :-D