Countdown to Small Gifts 1/3: Introductions

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Welcome, folks! Every year at small gifts, we start off the holiday season with a series of discussion posts. It's a chance to get to know other participants (or say hi to old friends), meet our readers (hi, readers! we love you!), and while away the hours before the fest begins. We'll have three topics this week, posted Monday, November 25; Wednesday, November 27; and Friday, November 29. Posting begins Sunday, 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 been in HP fandom? How long have you shipped R/S? Are you a reader? Writer? Artist? Crafter? Do you participate in any other parts of HP fandom? Are you active in any other fandoms right now?

2) Say hi to someone else! We're friendly around here like that.

Comments

[chromat1cs]

Hello hello! I'm Isa, Chromat1cs on AO3 and Tumblr (and, clearly here) ^^ I've been in the HP fandom since finding my go-to chat forums in 2003, and I've been tangled up in R/S since 2008 or so — first just casually as a sort of "oh, that could be really sweet" and then full-tilt adoration set in as I started reading fic pretty soon after then.

I'm a reader, writer, one-time (but hopefully much more often in the future!) podficcer, and in a addition to R/S I hold a couple HP rarepairs very close to my heart: Dorcas/Marlene, Percy/Oliver, and the indomitable Lily/James. I've circled in a couple other fandoms over the years (ACoTaR, Good Omens, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Star Wars, LotR — Gimli/Legolas and Arwen/Aragorn forever, cries my adolescent heart)

I absolutely love the vibe with this fest and community so far, I'm so happy to have decided on taking part this year <3

[paulamcg]

Hello, Isa! Lovely to meet you! Particularly after I didn’t expect to meet anyone who’s come to the fandom just as early as I have.

I haven’t written much James/Lily – except as a side-pairing in R/S centric fics, just a couple of James-pov and Lily-pov fics. Your favourite rarepairs remind me of how I’ve preferred slash as well as gen to het, and I used to enjoy reading about characters who are very minor in canon. If I ever read or wrote in LotR fandon, I guess I’d prefer Gimli/Legolas to Arwen/Aragorn.

I hope to meet your Remus and Sirius soon, too!

[magnetic_pole]

Welcome, Isa!

You and PaulaMcG are such old hands in this fandom!

first just casually as a sort of "oh, that could be really sweet" and then full-tilt adoration set in as I started reading fic pretty soon after then

Funny how that happens, isn't it? One day the whole world seems open, lots of characters, so many options for pairings, and then suddenly you're down an OTP hole that takes more than a decade to come out of.

Dorcas/Marlene ftw! M.

[mindabbles]

Hi! Very nice to meet you! :) That ‘oh, that’s sweet’ feeling is the gateway. I am also really impressed that you were involved in and could follow so many different fandoms. I was never able to really hold more than one in my head at once! I’m glad you joined us this year, too.