ext_25631 ([identity profile] magnetic-pole.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] small_gifts2007-10-30 06:26 pm
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Welcome to Small Gifts 2007

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:


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!

[livejournal.com profile] busaikko and [livejournal.com profile] magnetic_pole

[identity profile] lotrwariorgodss.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I, [livejournal.com profile] lotrwariorgodss claim [livejournal.com profile] justaidan's request #1.
Edited 2007-11-10 18:02 (UTC)

[identity profile] tailoredshirt.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! :)

[identity profile] tailoredshirt.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I, [livejournal.com profile] midnightblue88, do hereby claim [livejournal.com profile] cursedininsanity's request #3.

[identity profile] learningtolove8.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so excited to write it. I saw it and was like, "That's the one I want!" :)

Re: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

[identity profile] maraudersaffair.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I, MaraudersAffair, claim this prompt. :]

[identity profile] kittehkat.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I, [livejournal.com profile] kittehkat, fangirl of all things slashy and filled with boys, do hereby claim [livejournal.com profile] such_heights's third prompt with much squeeage and glee. :3

[identity profile] ex-britty23.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I the ever so lovely [livejournal.com profile] britty claims [livejournal.com profile] ekaterin24 oh so wonderful #2 wish. ♥

[identity profile] anothersaturday.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I, [livejournal.com profile] saraannette, claim [livejournal.com profile] buckle_berry's prompt #3. (Fitzgerald FTW!)

[identity profile] llpotter.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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.) :)

[identity profile] rufus.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine!

er, I mean, I, [livejournal.com profile] rufus, do hereby claim request #1 with the intention of probably also incorporating #2 and #3.
Edited 2007-11-10 20:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] feed-me-bug.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha, thanks but I may go search if I need to. I just hope I can pull this off for you!

[personal profile] starkdependant 2007-11-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay cool :)
I'm really pleased. I hope you like what I shall do ♥

[identity profile] peskywhistpaw.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah! ♥

[identity profile] peskywhistpaw.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I, peskywhistpaw, do hereby claim yaukira's request #1. :D

[identity profile] lyras.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I, Lyras, am hereby claiming sambethe's third prompt, "Found Letters", possibly with a bit of the second mixed in. :)

[identity profile] lyras.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hurray! I look forward to it. :)

[identity profile] enderxenocide.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I, [livejournal.com profile] enderxenocide would like to claim [livejournal.com profile] lyras request #3.

[identity profile] enderxenocide.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry! I just realised this and was trying to delete the comment but you responded too quickly! I apolgize--I misunderstood the rules! I would be more than happy to select another recipient and prompt. Again, I'm so sorry!

[identity profile] enderxenocide.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. I am so sorry about all of this, [livejournal.com profile] magnetic_pole. I read through all of the rules and thought I understood everything but apparently I should not attempt to sign up for exchanges on a lack of sleep. I'm so sorry for causing you so much trouble!

[identity profile] l-stone.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I, l_stone, do hereby claim maraudersaffair's prompt #3.

[identity profile] lyras.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry you didn't get this one, but good luck in claiming something later on!

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