Countdown to Small Gifts 1/5: Introductions

[smallgiftsmods]

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 the fest begins. We'll have one topic per day everyday until Friday, November 30. Posting begins Saturday, December 1.

Discussion is not limited to participants! Please introduce yourself if you're a reader, too.

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! We're friendly around here like that.

Comments

Aaaaaaaah!!! Hi Small Gifters!!!!!

[museinabsentia]

I'm Muse. Museinabsentia pretty much everywhere... here, tumblr (as of last week, damn you all for sucking me in :P ) and AO3... well, okay, AO3 is muse_in_absentia. I've shipped R/S since I read PoA, but I didn't actually decide to come out of the closet as it were and join in the fandom until about 2014. I'm a late bloomer. I'm an avid reader and I'm writing more these days than ever before. R/S is definitely my only ship in this armada, but I am in a few other fandoms, to varying degrees of participation.

I'm so excited to be back! I adore this fest every year!!! HI EVERYONE!

Heyyyyy!!

[blanketed_in_stars]

I'm Nicole (blanketed_in_stars on AO3, blanketed-in-stars on tumblr). I've only shipped R/S since about 2015 because I did a write-a-oneshot-every-month challenge with my friend and kind of randomly picked a pairing to write for. I definitely didn't foresee how important R/S (and the fandom!) would become to me! I'm mostly a writer nowadays, but I still read when I find the time :) I'm pretty active in the Marvel fandom as well, and in the POTC fandom (which is tiny) because of one fic I wrote years ago.

Re: Aaaaaaaah!!! Hi Small Gifters!!!!!

[blanketed_in_stars]

Hi there! I'm so excited you're participating this year, I love your work!!! Condolences on giving in to tumblr lmao :D

Re: Heyyyyy!!

[museinabsentia]

Well hello there yourself!!! I know, R/S sort of takes over your heart, don't they???

POTC? I'm clearly out of the loop, I don't even know what this one is!

I'm fairly sure we have at least a FEW Marvel people hanging around here. It seems to be the other fandom these days. :)

Glad to see you back as well!

Re: Heyyyyy!!

[blanketed_in_stars]

POTC is Pirates of the Caribbean and I'm still surprised I'm involved at all tbh

Re: Heyyyyy!!

[museinabsentia]

I feel like I should have known that. :)

[wild_flame]

Hi everyone! I'm wildflame and actually quite new to fandom - I started reading fanfiction about 4 years ago and then inevitably began writing my own a couple of years later!

I'm on AO3 as wildflame and Tumblr @wild-and-flammable. Harry Potter is my only real fandom, and RS my main ship although I have also dabbled in Jily and remadora... I also lurk in the Snape fandom from time to time but have never really participated.

Re: Aaaaaaaah!!! Hi Small Gifters!!!!!

[wild_flame]

High five for late bloomers! Thanks so much for persuading me into this fest again muse- I actually had so much fun working with my prompt! Who cares about all the others I haven't even started haha!

Re: Heyyyyy!!

[wild_flame]

Hi Nicole!! Haha randomly falling into ships is the best- I only ever read my first rs because I liked lupin as a character and figured why not?... And now here I am...

Hi :)

[lanna]

Hello everyone :)
I'm lanna here on DW, but I'm on Tumblr as aryastark-valarmorghulis, and on Ao3 as aryastark_valarmorghulis. (I like Arya Stark from the Asoiaf books, what can I say?)
I occasionally read in the Marvel Fandom - mostly Stucky - but the HP fandom is the only one I'm active; I started shipping R/S in the early days, but I'm quite new to the English language fandom. I started reading a year ago and then this summer I started writing too. I occasionally read Jeddy, but R/S is my one true love.
I'm excited to be a part of Small Gifts! :)

Re: Aaaaaaaah!!! Hi Small Gifters!!!!!

[museinabsentia]

Wouldn't be the same without you!

[museinabsentia]

WILD!!!! Welcome back!!!

Re: Hi :)

[museinabsentia]

Hi there!!!! Glad to see you here!

Re: Hi :)

[lanna]

Fancy seeing you here, Muse :D

[shaggydogstail]

Hi, I'm Shaggy and I'm shaggydogstail everywhere (AO3, tumblr, pillowfort etc) I've been in fandom, on and off, for about 13 years, though it was Small Gifts which lured me back into created after a lengthy hiatus three years ago. I'm a writer. Not really active in any other fandoms currently, though I'm slightly involved in Doctor Who fandom.

[museinabsentia]

OMG, Shaggy, I ADORE your icon!!! And glad to see you here. You always produce such good stuff!

[shaggydogstail]

Aw, thank you Muse! And yeah, CelestialSoda's Sirius is still my favourite Sirius.

[magnetic_pole]

Hi, I'm Magnetic_Pole (or Mag or Maggie) here and on AO3. I've been a co-mod of this fest since 2006, which is starting to sound like a long time ago, with Mindabbles (and earlier with Sambethe, and much, much easier with Busaikko). I think I've written something or created some art every year, and I love the fact both you and I keep coming up with new stories about these two.

I've been in HP fandom since first discovering fandom and fanfic in general back in 2006, and while I love a lot of the characters, especially the older, professor-age ones, I've shipped R/S since I first realized I wasn't the only one who saw that pairing in the books. In addition to R/S I love gen fic and femslash.

I'm a life-long fan of the Sherlock Homes stories and sometimes dabble in the various SH fandoms. Right now I'm also deep into the cute puppy fandom, since it's the only thing that makes me feel better after reading the news. (Their cute little furry faces! Their tails! Their enthusiasm!)

Glad to see some familiar face and some new folks here! Looking forward to hanging out with you this month. M.

[magnetic_pole]

Shaggy! So glad to see you here again. Speaking of DW, I actually thought of you when they announced the new Doctor and have been meaning to mention it. Are you happy with Jodie Whittaker and the new show runners so far?

I think you and Liseuse might be the old-timers here--anyone else writing/reading/drawing R/S back in 2005, 2006? M.

Re: Hi :)

[magnetic_pole]

Hi, hi! Always so excited to meet new R/S folks.

I'm not familiar with Stucky fic, but just from seeing Stucky posts over on Tumblr I can tell they have the same through-thick-and-thin, good-times-and-bad, epic history.

What language fandom were you involved in before, do you mind if I ask? M.

[magnetic_pole]

Hi, hi, and welcome back!

I'm a big Snape fan, too. It used to be that the R/S and Snape folks didn't mix at *all*, but now that fandom's smaller we're less tribal. I hope. :) M.

Re: Heyyyyy!!

[magnetic_pole]

Welcome back, N! I definitely didn't see how important R/S would become to me, either. :) It's one of the nice things about fandom--you can just follow your heart.

I think there are a lot of Marvel folks around--perhaps we'll see a crossover? M.

Re: Aaaaaaaah!!! Hi Small Gifters!!!!!

[magnetic_pole]

Hi, hi, and welcome back! Great to see you here again this year! M.

[maraudersaffair]

I'm Linsey! My username is Maraudersaffair on Tumblr/AO3/LJ. I just realized that I wrote for this exchange back in its first year (2006 through 2009)! My requests were very teenager lolol

I've shipped R/S since joining fandom in like 2005, but I never liked the shoebox project. Sorry! lol

I'm a writer and I write for so many different HP ships. I have a soft spot for Remus/Severus, though. A lot of my recent stuff is Drarry, but just because that part of fandom is so popular right now. I wouldn't say Drarry is my OTP.

I'm also sensitive about how much femslash is overlooked. I'm really into Ginny/Pansy and Ginny/Millicent atm.

Also, I'm not really active in any other fandoms. I left the HP fandom for a few years when I got really obsessed with the soccer USWNT, but I consider that time my dark ages lmaoooo. I just wrote a fic for the tv show Killing Eve, though!

[maraudersaffair]

Which femslash pairings do you like? :D

Also, there's a fandom for strictly cute puppies??? lol

Thank you for organizing this fest again!!