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I'll start! :)

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shimotsuki
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:

Christmas crackers from Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes
Warming up by the fire after coming in from the cold (interpret this literally or metaphorically!)
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
...
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.

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Ooh! I would like to claim Prompt #1 above. :)

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SWEET, you claiming precisely that prompt is precisely what I was hoping would happen as soon as I saw it! :-)

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LOL, I have about seven Wheeze ideas at the moment. There will definitely be Umbridge-bashing involved.

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I'd like to claim shimotsuki's prompt #2. (In fact, um, I spent all afternoon on a train with time to kill, so...I already wrote it.) I'm coming at it from quite a slant, though, so please don't let that stop anyone else from claiming it as well!

Also, I'll be back to officially sign up and post prompts just as soon as I can manage to whittle my ridiculous list of prompt ideas down to just three, argggh.

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merryb87.livejournal.com

Name:Merryb87
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Reader, but I will attempt to write if the mood strikes me.
Up to 3 prompts:

1. Christmas Lights

2. Let it Snow

3. Crazy hair day.

Sorry for the lack of creativity of the prompts...but have fun! And I'm really happy that this event is happening, so excited.

Edited Date: 2013-12-22 09:33 pm (UTC)

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Claiming #3! :)

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huldrejenta.livejournal.com

Name:

huldrejenta
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer (and reader ;))
Up to 3 prompts:
1. New Year's resolutions... Stupid New Year's resolutions...

2. This song: Feeling Good (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzGzGvlKZn4)

3. Jonatan: You know I can't kill another man.
Orvar: Oh Jonatan, if everyone thought like you, Evil would have prevailed a long time ago.
Skorpan: If everyone thought like Jonatan there wouldn't be no evil.

From Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

- interpreted any way you like

Edited Date: 2013-12-23 08:35 am (UTC)

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Claiming #3! It's such a lovely quote that I'm not sure I can do it justice, but I've decided to try.

Edited Date: 2013-12-24 01:10 pm (UTC)

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Alright, I'm coming back for another round. Claiming huldrejenta's prompt #1 above!

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solochan.livejournal.com

Name: solochan
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer and Artist (Whatever the mood may take me...)
Up to 3 prompts:
1. Smitten

2. The Big Bad Wolf

3. True Colours - Cyndi Lauper
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness there inside you
Makes you feel so small

But I see your true colours
Shining through
I see your true colours
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colours
True colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

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arctic-comet.livejournal.com

Claiming #2 :)

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merryb87.livejournal.com

Here to clam prompt number one!

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Name: stereolightning (http://stereolightning.livejournal.com/)
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:
1. Tonks gets a box of Sirius' old personal effects out of storage as part of her ongoing "investigation" of this "escaped convict." She brings it to Grimmauld Place. She ends up with a little more information than she bargained for...

2. This picture (http://aberry89.deviantart.com/art/Breakfast-128573453) - safe for work - of the Lupins and a cat.

3. This song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_NSWwdnGU) - Angel by Gavin Friday - (link is safe for work)

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Claiming #3!

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Okay, I'm tentatively claiming your prompt #1. I've been eyeing this for a while, but held off because a) I wasn't quite sure what you meant by it, b) I wasn't even quite sure what I meant by it, and c) I'm not sure I can do it properly in the time left for this exchange! So, tentative claim, but no promises...

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Ha, I made that one way too vague, in retrospect. What I was thinking was, maybe, as an Auror, Tonks has access to some interesting stuff - files? personal belongings that were confiscated from Sirius en route to Azkaban? - and it might be fun if she somehow, in the course of doing her work, stumbles across some interesting dirt about Sirius or Remus or both. Maybe something funny?

But re-reading it, you could totally interpret that as something naughty, which I didn't think it necessarily had to be. Just something to get her talking to the two of them, and to get them talking about their colorful past.

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Okay, cool, that's all pretty much what I'm thinking! I'll see what I can do...

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arctic-comet.livejournal.com

Name:

arctic_comet
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:

1) Magic is created by life, and most of all by the awareness, intelligence, emotions of a human being.

(From Storm Front by Jim Butcher)

2) Once you’ve arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

(From Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion)

3) Cursed Christmas decorations

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solochan.livejournal.com

Claiming Prompt 2!

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sspring92.livejournal.com

reader for this event?
Up to 3 prompts:

Prompts: 1. Christmas lights (fairy lights)
2. Christmas Cards
3. Fuzzy Socks

Hope I did this right!

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Looks great! (We were on the same wavelength -- I almost did something with socks, too!)

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Claiming #3! Since I didn't submit a sock prompt, now I have the urge to come up with a sock fic. ;)

Edited Date: 2013-12-24 03:21 am (UTC)

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Name:

gilpin25
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:

1. "Listen, no bloke in his right mind's going to fancy Tonks when Fleur's around." (Ron, HBP, Ch.5)

2. If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
(Song For A Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan)

3. Lupin's place.

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huldrejenta.livejournal.com

Tentatively claiming prompt number three - with a slightly odd interpretation, maybe..?

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solochan.livejournal.com

Prompt 1! I need to prove Ron wrong :D

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All right, I'm back to claim your #1 as well. There are either one or two stories in me for this prompt, time will tell...!

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Name: starfishstar
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:

1. Remus and Tonks on a mission/task/adventure for the Order – preferably something lighthearted and fun (we must solve all these clues in order to find this important thing!) as opposed to something dark/dangerous

2. Remus in teacher/wise mentor role (not being a teacher *to* Tonks, though she gets to observe him in action and admire him for it) – maybe one of his former students turns up and needs help or advice?

3. The two of them and Sirius being good friends all together, during OotP

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author-by-night.livejournal.com

I'd like to take you up on #2 - I already know where I'm going with it. :)

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I'm going to have a go at #2 as well, though I don't think this person can in any way be classed as a former student!

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author-by-night.livejournal.com

Name: author_by_night
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer and reader
Up to 3 prompts:

1. Three to five times Remus and Tonks encountered one another before they started dating.

2. Sirius finding out Remus and Tonks are dating.

3. Christmas Carol: The Holly and the Ivy.

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katyscarlett76.livejournal.com

Name:

katyscarlett76 Katy
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Definitely Reader and hopefully Writer (not written anything fanficcy in a year so we'll see if I can still do this!)
Up to 3 prompts:
1. Tinsel
2. Mistletoe (yes I want RT kisses, so sue me ;)
3. Twas the night before Christmas (take inspiration from whichever part of the poem you want)

Edited Date: 2013-12-24 10:34 pm (UTC)

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arctic-comet.livejournal.com

#2! That piece practically wrote itself this afternoon. Should be all polished up and posted before New Year's :)

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wildmagelet.livejournal.com

I'll take #3. :)

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Back to leave more prompts.

Name:

gilpin25
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? Writer
Up to 3 prompts:

4. Teddy hears tales of his parents from those who knew them.

5. Tonks's relationship with her parents when she talks to them about Remus at some point. 'Some point' might be when they're friends, more than friends, at deadlock in HBP, getting/have married or even when she's pregnant...etc. ;)

6. Potterwatch.

Edited Date: 2014-01-10 11:01 am (UTC)

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Claiming your #6!

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Shoot, I thought I was done, but apparently I'm not ;-)

Claiming your prompt #4!

But, here I really do need to ask: How far is it okay for this to be Remus-centric, and this time I really do mean mostly just about Remus (Harry and Teddy talking about the kind of person he was, though of course Tonks, and their relationship, are also mentioned)? I know the guidelines say Teddy-centric fic welcome, but to what extent is a fic relevant simply because it's about Teddy, and to what extent does it need to have Remus and Tonks' relationship as its central subject matter?

If the story I'm thinking of for this isn't relevant to this community, I'm perfectly fine with posting it elsewhere and just pointing you to it separately :-)

(ps. I love your prompt #5, too, and have plenty of thoughts about that, but I don't have enough time left within this exchange to do it justice. Those thoughts are going to come out eventually in other stories, though!)

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I'm glad you're not done, though I'd have put odds on you going for #5! I have your Andromeda fics on my reading list. :)

It's probably easiest if I give you an example of a fic that came up when we were chatting about the kind of stories that we hoped people might be encouraged to write? Which is

stereolightning's Werewolf Birthday (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9573984/1/Werewolf-Birthday/). Where Tonks is only mentioned in the last line, but the story has a bearing on their future relationship and it's pretty much Remus-centric. So as long as your fic touches on their relationship in some aspect, which it sounds as though it will, it doesn't have to be the central point to the story. Does that help?

We wanted to encourage a wider range of ideas - if I could have had a seventh prompt, I'd have gone with something Tonks'-centric again, like her early years - so it's been great to see that happening.

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I'd have put odds on you going for #5

Aw, you know me so well already! :-) Yes, I definitely have thoughts about both Andromeda and Ted's interactions with Tonks concerning Remus, but mostly they're woven in in bits in my enormous R/T OotP/HBP fic that I'm still working on writing...

Okay, the Teddy-and-Harry story I'm doing now does touch on Remus and Tonks' relationship enough that it should be fine, I think.

Just out of curiosity (and sorry if this is getting off-topic for a prompts post?), would Werewolf Birthday still count if it didn't have that little flash-forward mention of Tonks? i.e., if it were simply a Remus-centric story from his earlier years, definitely providing "more love" for Remus as a character, but without explicitly relating to their relationship? You mentioned the idea of a Tonks-centric story from her early years – would that count, even if it's before she meets Remus?

Edited Date: 2014-01-12 09:24 pm (UTC)

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I haven't forgotten this, just trying to catch up with the other mods. One of the occasional disadvantages to us all being in different countries!

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Oh, no worries, and no hurry at all! I'm just wondering in a sort of open-ended way, as it might apply to other story ideas that might come up in the future. Nothing urgent!

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Just out of curiosity (and sorry if this is getting off-topic for a prompts post?), would Werewolf Birthday still count if it didn't have that little flash-forward mention of Tonks? i.e., if it were simply a Remus-centric story from his earlier years, definitely providing "more love" for Remus as a character, but without explicitly relating to their relationship? You mentioned the idea of a Tonks-centric story from her early years – would that count, even if it's before she meets Remus?

If I'd gone with the Tonks-centric prompt, I was intending to slant it towards whether she'd had any dealings with werewolves/thoughts on Dark creatures pre-Remus, which would obviously have enabled a tie-in with future events. Our original thinking was, as I said, that the stories would in some way touch on some aspect of their relationship, if they weren't wholly about that, but that was intended as a guideline, really.

We very much wanted to keep this on the side of informal fun over the hols, and so we're all happy to squint a bit. ;)

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Okay, makes sense! So the boundaries are pretty loose (as in, doesn't need to be *just* romantic scenes *just* between the two of them), but stories that mostly focus on one character or the other should still reflect in some way on Remus-and-Tonks, not just Remus-as-a-character or Tonks-as-a-character. (And I assume the same applies to Teddy – stories about him should relate in some way to his parents and his experience of them, as opposed to being assumed relevant simply because he's their son.)

Cool, thanks for putting the extra thought into this!

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That's it: loose boundaries, we'll happily squint if things are implied rather than stated outright, but obviously it's an R/T comm and people are here as they like both characters. Whether that's when they're together, or before they were together, or even afterwards... That all comes under the loose boundaries!

And yes regarding Teddy. The stories (or art) only have to touch on his parents in some aspect, but then nearly all that I've read do without really trying. ;)

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Name: stereolightning
Writer, artist, or reader for this event? writer (and reader!)
Up to 3 prompts:

4. “Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.”
― (Tonks) Order of the Phoenix

5. "There will be NO chapter called 'Lupin's Papers' in book six, nor will there be chapters entitled 'Pettigrew's Pamphlets,' 'Sirius's Circulars' or 'the Pocket Crosswords of Severus Snape'." - JKR

6. "Remus married Tonks quietly in the north of Scotland, with witnesses taken from the local wizarding tavern." (Pottermore)

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