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

[pteropoda]

Thank you!

I love canon compliant stuff, but once I've read other people's versions of it I have a hard time separating it from canon in my head, and it scratches any itch I've had to write it. So I'm glad other people do that for me! It means I can start doing speculative stuff for myself.

I was only just getting into fandom when the mass exodus from LJ started, though I remember the community I was in at the time making a mass decision to migrate comms over to dreamwidth. Tumblr was a hub for a while, but since tumblr has begun a slow decline of its own, fandom's started getting pretty scattered again. I know a lot of people use tumblr and twitter, and there's stuff on instagram, dreamwidth, pillowfort.social, mastodon... it's lucky we have AO3, honestly. Otherwise it'd be really hard to figure out where to find people.