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

[starfishstar]

Thank you so much for checking out that fic! That one, and the characters in it, are dear to my heart. Thank you for all your kind words!

And yes, I absolutely want to read some of your fic. I'm just trying not to make any promises about how soon/quickly I'll be able to do the things I want to do, because my available time is so unpredictable right now. (As you can probably see from how sporadically I'm answering or not answering these comments...) In November I was writing a lot to meet a writing goal, and as a result getting particularly excited about a lot of fandom things, including re-finding this fest...and now it's December and I really ought to be turning my attention back elsewhere, but meanwhile both this fest and another one I care about a lot are posting simultaneously, and I feel I should be reading and commenting on everything but in reality don't have time for anything. Yikes! The perils of loving too many things. :D

But BTW meanwile I'm going to add you as a friend here on DW – we clearly have a lot in common. :-)

[paulamcg]

Thank you for adding! I’ve added you back – and today on live journal, too, although I understand you don’t use it much, and I’ve now decided to post my fic to AO3, starting with the recent ones. Oh, a mention in your lj profile made me think you might like to start (whenever you do that) from a fic by me about Luna and Remus, Challenges Like These (set in December 1993, and only 1350 words), if not from my Small Gift.

I’m happy to get to know characters dear to your heart – because when a writer doesn’t just play with characters (those who were originally Rowling’s, or OCs) but treats them with compassion and lets them have dignity, they can live in my mind and reach my heart, too.

I suppose I’m also happy with not too many promises. It’s been fun to say hi to everyone here and to comment on gift fic and some other stories by people I’ve met, but I must persevere and continue to love my own writing myself, even though I believe that fiction and all art should be interaction.

[starfishstar]

Excellent, thank you! I was actually going to ask if you wanted to link to a short story, since unfortunately I just don't have time to tackle a novel-length fic right now. (I haven't yet read a SINGLE thing in Small Gifts OR in the other fest I love that's posting right now, argh! Things that I love and want to shower enthusiastic comments all over, but life just isn't allowing for it right now.)

Added you back on LJ too! (Though it's true that at this point I pretty much only use it to automatically mirror all my posts from Dreamwidth. And that mostly out of nostalgia, because LJ is where I started in fandom, so I just couldn't bring myself to delete it even when everyone else was switching to DW and deleting LJ.)