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

[magnetic_pole]

Aha! There's nothing that endears you more to a mod than the suggestion you might be up for a pinch hit. Hurrah! I'll mention to Min you might be interested.

How had you discovered fanfic? I'd run across by accident a few years earlier--I'd had no idea fandom existed, much less this whole thing. Talk about a lucky coincidence.

I was thinking recently that if I had to be stuck on a desert island and could only write one pairing for the rest of my life (if somehow that were a thing?)

That's such an interesting question! Different pairings and different fandoms really address different themes and different part of you, don't they? M.

[mindabbles]

I see those words ‘pinch hit...” :)

[starfishstar]

Oh, whoops! I'd actually signed up as a potential pinch hitter already (wrote to the mod account & talked to Min – didn't realize that channel didn't necessarily reach both of you). So yes, already wrote one treat and tentatively offered pinch hitting as well. :D

Believe it or not: I found fanfic because a friend sent me an *academic article* about it. And I thought, that sounds interesting, I should look it up. And so I started seeking out Harry Potter fanfic, including a lot of excellent R/S fic (much of it from fests that had already closed their doors before I even found them... which is the story of my life in fandom, basically – I'm forever discovering a new fandom when it's already on the wane!)