Countdown to small gifts 1/7: Introductions!

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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!

Comments

[museinabsentia]

Oh my god, I relate to this sooooo hard. Fandom helped me work myself out, too. Finding my way into fandom and finding out there were so many more options than I had originally thought there were. It took me until I was 30 years old to figure out that you could be asexual without needing to also be aromantic and that's why I was so damned uncomfortable with myself... because I was in fact one and not the other. Fandom and the people I met through it (as well as a lot of fic exposure) helped me come to terms with that about myself and I am much healthier mentally for it.

[nerakrose]

I'm glad fandom has been such a positive experience for you as well :) I consider myself demi on both the sexual and romantic spectrums, but lately I've been thinking I'm probably actually ace. Writing a bunch of fics about demi and ace characters (as well as reading them!) has definitely helped me figure that out.

[museinabsentia]

I honestly had a fandom friend mention the ace spectrum in a fic I was doing beta work for and didn't want to look unaccepting by not even understanding, so I went and looked it up and then read the article like six more times like, holy fuck there's something that explains me!

Of course, now I totally headcanon Harry as ace.

[nerakrose]

!! I'm glad it worked out :D

I'm writing Harry as ace in my H/D Big Bang fic. :)