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Welcome, folks! Every year at small gifts, we start off the holiday season with a week's worth of discussion posts. It's a chance to get to know other participants (or say hi again), meet our readers (hi, readers! we love you!), and while away the hours before December 1. We'll have one topic per day until November 30.
Today: introductions!
1) Leave a comment letting us know who you are as a fan. (Leave your Tumblr name/AO3 name as well as your DW name, if they're different.) How long have you shipped R/S? Are you a reader? Writer? Artist? Crafter? Do you participate in any other parts of Harry Potter fandom? Are you active in any other fandoms right now?
2) Say hi to someone else!
Today: introductions!
1) Leave a comment letting us know who you are as a fan. (Leave your Tumblr name/AO3 name as well as your DW name, if they're different.) How long have you shipped R/S? Are you a reader? Writer? Artist? Crafter? Do you participate in any other parts of Harry Potter fandom? Are you active in any other fandoms right now?
2) Say hi to someone else!
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Date: 2017-11-26 09:22 am (UTC)What made you come back?
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Date: 2017-11-26 09:34 am (UTC)I came back because no one in rl knows anything about my fandom activities, and I needed something that was just mine to cheer me up a bit. Which it has!
In the days of old what I remember is that everything was on lj, and now everything seems to be a bit more spread out. It has also meant having to get my head round tumblr, I feel like such a dinosaur sometimes. AO3 is a wonderful place, I don’t ever remember interacting much with ffn before, everything was just on lj and I chatted with people on aim or msn. But yes, change is good :)
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Date: 2017-11-26 10:34 am (UTC)joining fandom at that age meant i suddenly had access to all kinds of queer stories, made friends (all of whom turned out to be queer), unlearned a lot of toxic bullshit (not all at once, mind), and also, over time, managed to slot the pieces of my identity together in a way that made sense, and that i'm comfortable with. so yeah, i'm about to turn 30 so i have spent half my life as an active participant in fandom at this point, and i honestly wouldn't trade it for the world. it's given me SO much.
puremuslin sounds like something a dedicated housewife whose favourite novels are jane austen might choose as a username :'D they wear a lot of muslin dresses in those novels, is my impression :'''D i like your meaning for it! though my brain still can't let go of the impossibility of a plumage of ruins... XD
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Date: 2017-11-26 10:42 am (UTC)volstovic cycle is just small enough that i think most of us know each other :'D though i wouldn't mind if the fandom got a renaissance and an influx of active participants. :)
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Date: 2017-11-26 10:54 am (UTC)TY! ♥ Although, ten years, eep! ;D
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Date: 2017-11-26 11:12 am (UTC)Yeah, definitely. AO3 is better for long fic than LJ was, which probably helps.
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Date: 2017-11-26 11:23 am (UTC)I honestly identify with "shaggy" more strongly than my own given name!
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Date: 2017-11-26 05:27 pm (UTC)Nice to meet you too!
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Date: 2017-11-26 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-26 06:30 pm (UTC)shaggy is a great nickname. are you shaggy (haircut-wise) in person?
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Date: 2017-11-26 07:07 pm (UTC)Sadly, my hair is not shaggy. This is a grave disappointment to me, but we all have our cross to bear.
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Date: 2017-11-26 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-26 07:49 pm (UTC)It totally feels like fandom is having a renaissance lolol . . . especially on Tumblr
You should do Big Bang as well! They give you months and months.
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Date: 2017-11-26 07:53 pm (UTC)For me, I think the problem was that so many m/m shippers just didn't care about f/f, like it wasn't even on their radar, which is kinda understandable in the HP fandom bc men got most of the attention in the books
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Date: 2017-11-26 07:56 pm (UTC)I dunno if fics are a lot longer. I remember a lot of entries to holiday fic exchanges were pretty long . . .