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[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the R/T Stocking Filler Exchange 2013! For all the details about this event, including guidelines and rules, please have a look at the Wotcher! post. That post is also your place to leave comments if you have questions about anything at all for the event.

This post is the place for you to sign up for the event, leave prompts for writers and artists to fill, and claim a prompt for the fic or art post you'd like to create. (See the Wotcher! post for more about what kinds of prompts you can leave; please remember to keep any images work-safe.)

To sign up for the event and leave up to three prompts, please copy the following into a comment on this post and add your information. (You're welcome to be both a "writer" and an "artist" if you like. "Reader" means you don't plan to post fic or art, but you're welcome to change your mind, claim a prompt, and post something if the muses strike you.)

<b>Name:</b> <b>Writer, artist, or reader for this event?</b> <b>Up to 3 prompts:</b>

To claim a prompt, just reply directly to the sign-up comment that contains that prompt. (More than one person can claim the same prompt.)

Posting for fic and art will open on 24 December — watch for a "posting open" announcement (with posting instructions) that day. Posting will remain open through 20 January, so do feel free to come back for another prompt once you've posted your first piece!

Thanks for joining in, and for helping to put a little more R/T love (fic and art) in the world.
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Comments

[starfishstar]

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!)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

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.

[starfishstar]

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?

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

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!

[starfishstar]

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!

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

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. ;)

[starfishstar]

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!

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

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. ;)