All right, you've all had a day to recover. Time for some reminders and joyous tidings of what's to come!
Stuff the Stockings - It's not too late to jump into this contest! Remember, the grand prize is a physical copy of
Chocolate & Asphodel, v. 2. You earn points by leaving comments on
snupin_santa 2009 gifts, making recommendations of 2009 gifts, and promoting the exchange.
I'll take exchange promotions through December 31, and recs and comments through 11:59 pm EST on January 6. Remember, recs earn 3 points for each gift recommended, and comments on gifts posted after December 15 earn 2 points. There's still time to catch up! Please read the original
Stuff the Stockings post for more details if you need them.
Recommendations - Linking us to your recommendations is not just important for
Stuff the Stockings competitors. If a story or piece of art receives three recommendations, McKay can send the recommendation links to the
daily_snitch and
snapenews, which, between IJ and LJ, has well over 5000 readers. Not too shabby an audience to try and reach, so please do let us know when you're recommending any Snape/Lupin story from the holiday exchanges, including and especially
snupin_santa!
You can leave your recommendations
here on LJ and
here on IJ. I will also be using these posts to count up Stuff the Stockings.
Crack_Broom Free Flying - LJ's
Crack_Broom is having a month when
anyone watching the community can leave one recommendation for a story or art. If you are already a watcher of the community, you should have temporary member status, and if not, a request can be made for membership on the linked information post. Sadly, there's been no Snape/Lupin recommendations yet this month....
Recs should be non-anonymous Snape/Lupin fics or art that haven't already appeared on the Crack_Broom before. The very helpful and lovely
bronze_ribbons (whom I can't thank enough for keeping up) has been maintaining a masterlist of
all SS/RL Crack Broom recs here, if you'd like to check before making a recommendation. Did I mention the
reccing queue at the CB is getting short as well?
Snape's Birthday (Jan. 9) - Ha! He's not sneaking up on me this year, but 50 is closing in on our favourite Potions master! Starting January 1 and continuing through January 9, please feel free to post any sort of creative or non-creative tributes you might have for Severus as he turns 50. If you didn't participate in the
severusbigbang, which will open January 9, by the way, there's still time to offer here a drabble, icons, drawings, lists, essays, humour, etc. for Severus as endures us celebrating his 50th!
Lupin Big Bang -
Speaking of turning 50, Remus does this year as well (on March 10), and he also is getting his own Big Bang for it! While we'll be trying to come up with our own special challenge for Remus this year, there is a
LupinBigBang underway that I encourage you to check out and possibly join.
The LupinBB appears to be running similar to our
BLU, with the first draft deadline also being the final sign-up deadline - February 7. There's still plenty of time to write! It looks like artists will be needed between February 7 and the posting date of March 10. The minimum word count for a LupinBB story is 20,000 - that's 5000 less than the BLU minimum, in case anyone had wished to try doing the Snupin BB, but felt the story length was too long to manage.
Reposting Month -
After January 9, Lupin_Snape will be open for Reposting Month! This will include Snape/Lupin gifts you might have given in holidays past from exchanges other than
snupin_santa, as well as works from other challenges, fests or out of just plain shyness that never appeared on the community. More details to come after we finish celebrating Snupin Santa and Severus's birthday.
The year ahead looks exciting to me (because, heh, I know what I have planned for you). I am hoping it will be a time of renewal and refocus of works on the community. As the year winds down, I hope you all will enjoy cuddling up to
snupin_santa,
Stuffing the Stockings and sharing in the warm glow that comes from you all being such fabulous community members!
*warm hugs and hot cocoa by the fire*
love, lore