Welcome to Small Gifts 2007
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small_giftsSmall 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!
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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.
*
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
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Date: 2007-11-01 03:39 pm (UTC)Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country (and don't mind receiving adult-rated fic)
Three Wishes: (a) Post-Marauders/Pre-Azkaban era getting-together fic with slight (or major, whatever) angst that resolves itself
(b) something involving used bookstores or libraries (ie. Remus working in one, the boys visiting one, an AU in which they meet in one, etc.)
(c) someone teaching someone else to dance for James and Lily's wedding (bonus points if they're not together before the lesson but end up kissing during or after)
Do not want to receive: Would rather not receive anything post-Azkaban eras (incl. GoF/OotP/etc) and so this should eliminate Remus/Tonks but if not, I don't want that either. Also would like to avoid ridiculously flowery descriptions of sex organs (you know the ones) & non-canon nicknames.
Am fond of: In-character writing; seemingly-silly details; UST; AUs; mittens; realistic writing (in terms of situations, dialogue, characterisations, etc.)
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Date: 2007-11-10 03:02 pm (UTC)