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

[buckle-berry.livejournal.com]

name: buckle_berry
age statement: i am over 18 and of legal age in my country. any rating is fine.
three wishes:

either fic or art for any of my wishes would be wonderful.

1. wingfic. in the interests of full disclosure, i should say that i requested wingfic in this fest last year, and was lucky enough to receive this wonderful story (http://community.livejournal.com/rs_small_gifts/7117.html) by rosemaryandrue which i love and have read many, many times since. but there can never be enough wingfic, so i'm wishing for it once again.

2. stand inside an empty tuxedo with grapes in my mouth - ada, by the national. (i can upload.)

3. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others...in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. - the great gatsby, f scott fitzgerald

do not want to receive: non-canon nicknames, explicit sex when they're at school, sirius and remus bringing up baby harry (or any other babies, including teddy), aus where they're both alive post-canon (although afterlife fic is fine).

am fond of: good banter, slagging each other off, the other marauders, tonks, mundungus, mad-eye, hints of remus/lily, general silliness, UST, angst (but with a happy ending, since it's christmas).

hurray for rs_small_gifts!

[anothersaturday.livejournal.com]

I, saraannette, claim buckle_berry's prompt #3. (Fitzgerald FTW!)

[buckle-berry.livejournal.com]

haha i've just realised i've totally claimed your prompt. a christmas gift exchange for us! *jingles your bells*

[anothersaturday.livejournal.com]

lol, that's so funny. I just now saw that my prompt had been claimed and I was like, 'Wait a minute... don't I know that username from somewhere?' Hehe. :D