Sign Ups!

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

Small Gifts begins today! Follow these three easy steps to celebrating the end of the year with Remus, Sirius, and your friends:

1. NOVEMBER 1 (Saturday) to NOVEMBER 7 (Friday): Participants leave prompts.

At any time between November 1 and November 7, you can join the exchange by responding to this post with a comment giving the following information:

Name:
Age statement: One of the following: "I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country (note here if you have a preference for rating)" OR "I am under 18 or the legal age in my country, and will neither ask for nor read anything with a rating over R." No age statement, or a falsified age statement, and you're out. Coal in the stocking and all that.
Three wishes: Please give three prompts consisting of: one word; one sentence; one quote; or one LINK to an image (no hotlinking!); see below for suggestions
Do not want to receive: insert squicks and pet peeves here: "songfic", "deathfic", "Tonks", etc.
Am fond of: insert favourite things here: "sexually-confident!Remus", "Lying-low-at-Lupin's", etc.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes/No

A text box, if you like that sort of thing:
<b>Name:</b> <b>Age statement:</b> <b>Three wishes:</b> <b>Do not want to receive:</b> <b>Am fond of:</b> <b>I am new to Small Gifts this year:</b>

Please do not suggest too much detail, give a plot outline, or ask for a novel -- these are small gifts!

Bad example: "Sirius and James have a Clever Plan, and there is pudding, and somehow the Prank happens, and I'd love to have Lily there too, and also it should all be a flashback during the Grimmauld Christmas party, with sex." You will get... coal. For true.

Good examples: "trimming the tree"; "first kiss"; "warming hands by a fire"; "umbrellas"; "Dawn, New Year's Day"; "art for anything I've written"; "a remix for something of mine"; "story or art – Splendid Wings (song by David Brown)"; "cute MWPP-era icons". Please do not ask only for art: in general, there are more writers than artists.

Note to writers and artists: please, no sexually explicit fic or art involving underage characters.

2. NOVEMBER 8 (Saturday): Prompts open to claims at 11:00a Eastern Time.
Please claim by responding to the comment with the request that you want ("I claim marysue's request #2"). One claimant per request/participant, please. We would like everyone to get something!

If you finish your first small gift, you are more than welcome to come back and claim again.

Remember, "small gifts" are stocking stuffers--short fic (1,000 to 3,000 words), art, icons, whatever people can give. It's the thought that counts!

3. NOVEMBER 30 (Sunday): Final submission deadline for first-time participants.

DECEMBER 7 (Sunday): Final submission deadline for returning participants.

Please submit your work BETA'D as a post to this community (you'll need to join, if you've not already). It will go into the moderation queue, and we'll reveal one or two gifts per day until the end of the year.

Celebrate the season of lights, the solstice, birth and new beginnings, the promise of renewal. Snow and cheery fires, tinsel and mistletoe. Draw up a chair by that fire, settle in, and read....

Happy, happy holidays all around!

Comments

[anothersaturday.livejournal.com]

Name: Sara/saraannette
Age statement: I am over 18, and fine with all ratings.
Three wishes:
1. Christmas celebrations/traditions disrupted by the war
2. Cheeks all flushed by the cold
3. Inspired by this quote, but not songfic: "So come on up-- wasn't it you who said life was like a plastic cup, to be used and then disposed of?" --The Kooks, "See the Sun"
Do not want to receive: mpreg, raising baby Harry/Teddy/any baby ever together, extreme AUs, extreme fluff, non-canon nicknames, songfic, chocoholic!Remus, Gryffinwhore!Sirius
Am fond of: First War-era (or flashbacks to same), banter, bittersweetness, the other Marauders, Sirius's familial angst, canon compliance, wry!Remus, aristocratic!Sirius, graphic depictions of snogging. Hah.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No

Nowai, am I the first to sign up? Insomnia pays off at last!

[stompe.livejournal.com]

I, stompe, hereby claim saraannette's promt #2

[starkdependant]

Name: Sarah/ batmanboxers / dalekdisaster
Age statement: I am 21 years of age and more than fine with all ratings.
Three wishes:1. A debate about Morrissey and/or David Bowie.
2. Christmas Shopping.
3. A fondness for Doctor Who! I'll love anyone who writes this one
Do not want to receive: Mpreg, Remus/Tonks, Lie Low At, Non-canon nicknames, extreme fluff (some fluff is good, just not vomit worthy fluff).
Am fond of: Snogging, boyishness, teasing, flirting, more snogging, Christmassy shenanigans, music, Lily/James, Hogwarts era or Pre-Azkaban. Sirius denying the family name for Remus a-la Romeo and Juliet, superheroes, fondness of sci-fi, sweets, film and television, snuggling.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No sir.

[theatresweety.livejournal.com]

I would like to claim batmanboxers / dalekdisaster's prompt #3.

[such_heights]

Name: Amy // such_heights
Age statement: I am over 18, but would prefer something R-rated or lower.
Three wishes:
1. A Christmastime romance with any of the usual tropes - mistletoe, festive parties, snow and so on - that you might care to include.
2. Art for any of my stories.
3. The start of new traditions.
Do not want to receive: unequal relationships, the characterisation cliches of excessively-introverted!Remus and bastard!Sirius etc, full-on sex scenes.
Am fond of: James/Lily, Peter being there too, close friendships with secret pining, banter, fluff, unspoken understandings.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No. (Third time now, hurray!)

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

I'd like to claim such_heights' request number two, please.

[minnow-53.livejournal.com]

Name: Minnow (minnow_53)
Age statement: Still over eighteen! But I prefer ratings of R and under.
Three wishes:
1. Art: Christmas-themed Remus/Sirius comic strip.
2. Fic or art (not songfic) based on this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmwDy6wr8Y), ideally substituting ‘boy’ for ‘girl’. Lyrics here (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/him/injoyandsorrow.html).
3. He wasn’t quite ready to accept the fact that if he was going to have a lover it wouldn’t be...any other drunk straight boy hopping the fence, it would be a gay lover.
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
Do not want to receive: Graphic sex, clichés, inconsistent tense-changes, R/S calling each other ‘love’.
Am fond of: AU, Marauder-era fic, new twists on an old theme, tear-jerkers, crack and humour.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No.

[kasche.livejournal.com]

I claim minnow_53's prompts number 2. Maybe three as well? I'll have to think about it...

[roterhimmel.livejournal.com]

Name: roterhimmel
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country and would like to receive something rated up to R.
Three wishes:
1. First kiss
2. Hiding shaking hands in mittens
3. and we stumble into love with perfect, awkward grace
the moon is gone and the sun has took its place - Bright Eyes, 'A Celebration Upon Completion
Do not want to receive: cliches; no jokes (rather bad jokes than none!); too much fluff; too much angst
Am fond of: all Marauders appearing; snowballfights; flushed cheeks from the cold; warm cocoa and cookies; overlarge, fuzzy jumpers; them being boyish all around; long, long, long sessions of snogging & snuggling; Peter with a personality; boyish!fluff/boyish!romance
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yep

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

i, nk_aoede, claim roterhimmel's prompts 1 and 2. and possibly 3 if i can work it in.

[solidbaby.livejournal.com]

(Ooo excited!)
Name: Laura
Age statement: Unfortunately, I'm still under 18... *sigh*
Three wishes:
1) Star Trek references
2) Shopping for decorations
3) First snow of the season
Do not want to receive: Extreme angst, girly!Remus
Am fond of: Lots and lots of UST, Hogwarts years, Remus with more of a past than 'omg! werewolf!'
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Nope

[laroseminuit.livejournal.com]

I, laroseminuit, claim solidbaby's prompt #1, which will likely be incorporated into prompt #2.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

I, magnetic_pole, would love to claim last_radio's prompt #1 "It's a Wonderful Li(f)e." Whoohooo!

[sablier-bloque.livejournal.com]

Name: rebekahfair
Age statement:I'm 20. Write me porn if you want.
Three wishes:
1) Walk in the snow, looking at Muggle Christmas lights
2) Arguing over Christmas decorations
3) Hogwarts era: Christmas with the Potters (James' parents)
Do not want to receive: Songfic, mpreg, sugary sweet fluff (fluff in moderation is just fine)
Am fond of: Hot boy-on-boy action (but not at all necessary), being boyish
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No

[wopt70.livejournal.com]

i'd like to claim rebekahfair's third prompt

[crypticmadness.livejournal.com]

Name: Annie;;crypticmadness
Age statement: I am under 18 or the legal age in my country, and will neither ask for nor read anything with a rating over R.
Three wishes:
1. Angsty!Remus finding comfort in Tonks after Sirius dies.
2. Christmas with Lily and James and Harry.
3. No looking back, no second chances.

Do not want to receive: Mpreg, sickeningly sweet fluff
Am fond of: Bittersweet, memories, banter, all Marauders (even Peter), silly Marauder-ness
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yessir. :D

[captainpookey.livejournal.com]

I claim crypticmadness's prompt number 1, and maybe 3. :]

[rev02a.livejournal.com]

Name: Becca/ rev02a

Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in the USA... the UK... and a few other nations to bat. I don't care about rating. Bring it on.

Three wishes: snow!, bittersweet, and slippers

Do not want to receive: Snape in leggings, woe-is-me!Remus, asshole!Sirius

Am fond of: banter, puppies as friends & lovers, MWPP/post-Hogwarts

I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes

[fullmoon-dreams.livejournal.com]

I would like to claim Becca/rev02a's first wish (snow!) please.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

Name: Lia/thescarletwoman
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country (and am fine with all ratings)
Three wishes: [art or fic for any of these. I'm not picky!]
1. Unique Christmas celebrations
2. Pranks involving mistletoe or other holiday traditions
3. snowball fights and the warming up thereafter.
Do not want to receive: mpreg, non-canon nicknames, extreme!darkfic or extreme!kink fic or extreme!fluf (some of any of the above is fine, just not overboard.) and clichés.
Am fond of: Anything really. Eras don't bother me, nor does AU. Witty dialogue is always a plus.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes. *g*

[lorax.livejournal.com]

I hereby claim thescarletwoman's prompt #2, with an eye to including one or two of the others. :)

[lotrwariorgodss.livejournal.com]

Name: Megan/lotrwariorgodss
Age statement: I am over 18 and will gladly read any rating.
Three wishes:
- Christmastime before that Halloween - the boys decide a get-away is the best way to repair their floundering relationship.

- Messy-yet-successful cookie-baking.

- Redefining family.

Do not want to receive: only angst (some is okay), post-Azkaban era, weak!Remus/total-asshole!Sirius
Am fond of: Hurt/Comfort, baby!Harry, realistic relationships, some melancholy, boys being boyish (not girlish), Remus-centric, banter between R&S, snogging etc.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Nope

[rev02a.livejournal.com]

I want lotrwariorgodss's #2.... and maybe 3!

[leafyaki.livejournal.com]

Name: leafyaki
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country and any rating is fine for me (:
Three wishes:
1. "One imparts an intimate smile, /One chews a grass, one lowers his eyes, bashful, /One is ridiculous with cocky pride – /Six months after this picture they were all dead." - Ted Hughes, 'Six Young Men'
2. Anything to do with winter clothing and the cold
3. Anything to do with artistic boys
Do not want to receive: Excessive angst, mpreg, excessive violence, bastard!Sirius or Remus.
Am fond of: Love, bittersweetness, AUs, snuggles, Winter wonders, Christmas sights and sounds, ruffling hairs, hugging, touching foreheads together.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Nope!

Yay!

[paulamcg.livejournal.com]

I claim leafyaki’s request # 3 (while what I’m going to write will probably be inspired by the other two prompts as well).

[sambethe.livejournal.com]

Name: Kris, sambethe
Age statement: I'm well over 18.
Three wishes:
1. Boys in love without being saccharine
2. Life during wartime
3. This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8rUW7klDkA&feature=related), lyrics here (http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/ok_go_lyrics_4848/ok_go_lyrics_15881/1000_miles_per_hour_lyrics_183871.html).
Do not want to receive: mpreg, songfic
Am fond of: AUs, banter, subverting the usual tropes, Peter, sneaky and devious (in a good way)Remus, boys who are in love without the needing to say it outright, and angst (as always)
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Nope.

[crooked.livejournal.com]

i claim sambethe's prompt #3! prompts #1 & 2 may make cameo appearances, if i can manage it.

[liseuse.livejournal.com]

Name: Hannah | liseuse
Age statement: I am over eighteen and will read any rating happily.
Three wishes:
- This song (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hushsound/hurricane.html), which I have also uploaded (http://www.sendspace.com/file/lird33).
- This image (http://www.turas-troimh-alba.com/photos/images/S89_2_17.jpg).
- Confrontations on the tube.
Do not want to receive: Songfic, mpreg, anything overly fluffy.
Am fond of: The boys being boys, misunderstandings, Remus swearing.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: No. I am a veteran. (Do I get a medal?)

[chrliii.livejournal.com]

I would like to claim liseuse's wishes # 2 and 3!

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

Name: Aoede/nk_aoede
Age statement: I'm over 18. Bring on the porn!

Three wishes: (all fic)
(a) Uncommon ways to say "I love you"
(b) An AU where one of the boys is in a different house and they have to work together in detention/on a project/etc. attraction ensues!
(c) Naughty fun with cameras.

Do not want to receive: OOC, cliches (i.e. bookworm/girly/chocoholic!Remus, hyperactive/asshole!Sirius, etc), both boys paired with other people, purple prose, cutesy nicknames, heavy fluff or angst, mpreg, weird kinks.

Am fond of: banter, teenage awkwardness, sexual tension (unresolved and resolved), touching, hands, kissing, smitten!Sirius, small gestures, happy endings, good imagery, hurt/comfort, AUs.

I am new to Small Gifts this year: No

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

I claim nk_aoede's prompt (b).

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

Name: Brighty18 (Michelle)
Age statement: Well, over 18... so bring it on! Any rating is fine!

Three wishes:
1. Snow storm/being snowed in
2. Gift giving/deliberations over presents
3. Art for something I've written or anything at all

Do not want to receive: Anything angsty, cruel/mean Sirius or Remus, anyone being het, cheating/adultery, idiot!Sirius, Gryffinwhore!Sirius, etc.

Am fond of: Happy endings (in every sense...), the characters being in love, Post-Azkaban hurt/comfort, parodies of things, humor, sex, boys being boys, Sirius as godfather, etc.

I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes. And I am excited.

[leafyaki.livejournal.com]

I, leafyaki, would love to claim brighty18's request #2, please (:

I'll do my best!

[maraudersaffair.livejournal.com]

I claim kathleen_hp's first prompt, "drunken flirting."

[sugaredarsenic.livejournal.com]

Name:
sugaredarsenic

Age statement:
I am of age in my country

Three wishes:
1. AU. As in fantasy AU, or historical AU, or hell, even cyberpunk AU... Well, any kind of AU will make me squee with happiness.
2. Something involving the making of the Marauder's Map.
3. MWPP inventing/carrying out their own festive traditions.

Do not want to receive:
Remus/Tonks, MPreg, PWP, crack fic.

Am fond of:
Angst (though not a saturation of it), initial hesitance on either boys part for going into a relationship with each other, hair fetish.

I am new to Small Gifts this year:
Yes

[l-stone.livejournal.com]

I claim sugaredarsenic's wish #1, though my idea now kind of includes 2 and possibly 3 as well.

[beeinmybonnet.livejournal.com]

Name: Anna/anna_bm
Age statement: I am over 18 or over the legal age in my country, and I am fine with all ratings.
Three wishes: 1) Remus and Padfoot interaction (not beastiality); 2) Sirius and/or Remus being a fan of punk rock; 3) Hand-kink and/or oral fixation
Do not want to receive: Gryffinwhore!Sirius, shy/timid/weak!Remus, angst/dark!fic, girly!Remus and/or !Sirius, rimming, BDSM, the epithets "boyfriend" and "lover", homophobia, "I love you"s, nicknames such as "Rem/Remy" and "Siri", Auror!Sirius, milksop!Peter, Americanizing ("ass" instead of "arse" and so forth), Remus/James and Sirius/James and Remus/Sirius/James and any other combination you can come up with, infidelity, Sirius hating books, amber eyes!Remus (no, I'm not kidding about this. Remus having brown eyes puts me off immensely; I want him to have plain blue ones).
Am fond of: MWPP-era, fluff, humour, banter, prat!James (the nice kind), sneaky/devious/mischievous!Remus, smoking!Remus, wanting to be a Healer/Healer in training/Healer!Sirius, Remus loving affection and touch, gangliness, craziness, snuggling, Britishness, hopelessly in love!Sirius, low self-esteem!Sirius (though he acts like he's the king of the world), Lily/Remus friendship.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes

[tiger-flame.livejournal.com]

I, tiger_flame, would like to claim anna_bm's wish #1.

[lorax.livejournal.com]

Name: SullenSiren
Age statement: I am well over 18 and am good with any rating!
Three wishes: An unexpected road trip, Remus learning to dance for James' wedding, art for any of my stories (http://dream-country.insanejournal.com/tag/harry+potter)!
Do not want to receive: mpreg, songfic (inspired by songs is fine though), extreme AU, or nicknames that aren't canon.
Am fond of: First kisses, school-era, Lily and James being awesome, snark, humor, pranks.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Nope!

[sablier-bloque.livejournal.com]

I claim sullensiren's prompt #1 - An unexpected road trip

[dear-tiger.livejournal.com]

Name: Alex/ dear_tiger
Age statement: 24, any rating is good
Three wishes: 1. Post-Azkaban first time
2. Remus and silver
3. Lost years: Remus travelling
Do not want to receive: mpreg, songfic, high school style drama, word "boyfriend", religious themes, extreme angst, coming out together and modern gay issues transplanted into 1970s, PWP
Am fond of: 1970s music, Peter with a brain, playing piano, Sirius playing Beater, Sirius as Auror, exotic southern countries, Indian carry-out, dark creatures, Latin, flying motorbike, First War era, post-Azkaban, UST, smoking, kisses, James
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes

[taigne.livejournal.com]

I, taigne, would like to claim dear_tiger's prompt #2 (probably with bits of #3)

[silver-apples.livejournal.com]

Name: silver_apples
Age statement: I am over 18 and fine with any rating
Three wishes:
1. Sharing body heat
2. Sirius' and Remus' first Christmas together post-Azkaban
3. Skiing or ice skating lessons
Do not want to receive: mpreg, death-fic, unhappy endings
Am fond of: pranks and mischief, all the Marauders, AUs, Harry looking up to Sirus and Remus, Fred and George admiring the Marauders, snuggling, Moony and Padfoot interacting on the full moon
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes

[solidbaby.livejournal.com]

I claim silver_apples' claim number 3 (with a dash of number one)

[woldy]

Name: Woldy
Age statement: I am way over 18 & fine with any rating.
Three wishes: 1) From Adrienne Rich's "Dream of a Common Language":
"Silence can be a plan
rigorously executed
the blueprint to a life.
It is a presence
it has a history, a form.
Do not confuse it
with any kind of absence."
2) bonfires (maybe Guy Fawkes Night, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night#United_Kingdom )
3) Art for anything I've written (though I'd especially love the final scene in Of Comets & Counter-Examples)
Do not want to receive: AU, religious themes, mpreg or childcare, total fluff, extreme angst, songfic, noncon or dubcon, cheesy or premature declarations of love.
Am Fond Of: bittersweet, interestingly flawed characters, sexual tension, realistic relationships, smut, scarves, mulled wine, era of the first war, co-habitation in Grimmauld Place.
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yes!

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I apparently fail at formatting. Let's try this again:

I would like to claim woldy's prompt #1.

[mysecretashes.livejournal.com]

Name: Ashleigh/dreamdustmama
Age Statement: I am definately over 18 and more than fine with any rating!
Three wishes:
1. Kissing (or more!) in the snow.
2. Sirius trying to tell Remus "I love you" without being girly about it, or him trying to say it without actually saying it.
3. Sneaky!Remus
Do not want to recieve: angst, girly!Remus, bastard!Sirius, Gryffinwhore!Sirius, crying, mpreg, non-canon nicknames, unaccepting!James, stupid!Peter, Post-Azkaban, Tonks in any form, songfic
Am fond of: MWPP at Hogwarts, sneaky!Remus, the motorbike, boys being boys, humor, fluff (but not enough to give me cavities), smut
I am new to Small Gifts this year: Yep!

[roterhimmel.livejournal.com]

I, roterhimmel, hereby happily claim dreamdustmama's #1. (Can I actually link that with #2, or is that forbidden?)