Countdown to Small Gifts 1/3: Introductions

[smallgiftsmods]

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

[mindabbles]

Hi! I’m Min, or mindabbles, everywhere. I was dragged into HP fandom, and specifically R/S by a friend in about 2006. I lurked for a while and then I felt like a new come for ten years. I remember reading the seasonal fests and so many wonderful writers who pulled me in even more (Maggie and paulamcg and liseuse and shaggydogstail, all here this year, among them). They made me want to try writing too and I discovered a hobby I never imagined I’d have — certainly not this long! I don’t write as much as I used to because life has changed in ways that make my time to write very limited, but I love popping back in here and seeing old friends and meeting new.

Goodness, more than a decade?? It’s hard to believe. I love this fest that Maggie and busaikko created because it’s always friendly and supportive and it’s always low-stress. And because I get to work with Maggie, who is too modest and is the best co-mod ever. It humbles me and makes me happy that people still want to join us.

[coriaria]

It's awesome to see people with such a long connection to these fests (and, Merlin help me, your post has made me realise I'm writing for someone who has been doing this stuff for more than a decade).

Thank you for being a mod for this fest and allowing it to happen (and accomodating my time zone issue when it came to the claiming).

[paulamcg]

Thank you for mentioning me, too, here. It feels good to be remembered – and to see old friends as well as to meet new ones. Above all, thank you for your work on keeping this fest running. Since I’d already got to know you as an excellently active and caring HP fan, I wasn’t surprised when I first saw that you’d become one of the mods.

Yes, goodness! I share that feeling. I never imagined I’d write fic for so many years, and that I’d still come back after the break and after all the changes in life. Now I can’t resist replying to almost every post, as the fandom interaction is such a pleasure.