The Lupin/Snape Lurve Community

If you want to get in on our Year-Long Challenge honoring a decade of Snape/Lupin, time is growing short because you have to make your first post to the community by the end of the month (tag is project: A Decade of SSRL).

In summary, for every person who completes the challenge with 12 posts, one each month, from now until the end of October, 2011, I will make a donation to the charity of her or his choice (within reason, see original post for details). Depending on how many "starts" I see this month, I will up the amount (originally $10) I will donate for your contributions.

This challenge is perfect for lurkers and those who would like to give back not only to fandom, but to a good cause. If you're looking for ideas for monthly posting, I suggest the following:

Discussion topic - post one topic each month
Poll - Something fun and Snape/Lupin-y
Rec - Focus on stories, drabbles, art, an era or plot, or leave yourself wide open to whatever catches your eye
Thematic lists - a list of stories or art built around a new theme each month - list does not have to be exhaustive.
Pictures - places, objects, scenes you create with action figures - whatever reminds you of Snape/Lupin
Icons - Text only or images.
Drabbles - 100 words for 12 months, not too hard!
1-sentence fics - Even less than a drabble
Memes - a set of questions for everyone to answer each month
Videos - There's many Snape/Lupin videos out there if you look, and if you run short, Snape-only or Remus-only could fill out your month.
Music - No need to offer downloads, just links to videos or online plays or just the name and title of a song and why it reminds you of SSRL
Candid Captions - Can feature both men or Snape and Lupin alone
Recipes - Foods that remind you of Snape/Lupin
Audio - If you can record it and post it, we'll listen
Puzzles - Our Funtime project proved that there's a host of puzzle you can create and post or link on the comm.
Fic Search - This would be like a game where you know the fic and describe it and we see who can find it first; a fun way to rec!
Essay - Your thoughts, brief or not, on any Snape, Lupin or Snupin subject
Random - Choose one of each of these or any other ideas that you might have and just post once a month!

Need help brainstorming an idea of your own? Post here or check out the community side bar and visit our Chat Room in the evenings. There's usually a few people there that would be glad to talk ideas with you. Just remember, your first post needs to be up by November 30.

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If anyone is inclined to offer a Snape/Lupin image for snupin_santa icons, please contact me at the mod mail. You could offer existing art or new pieces. The same goes for any 2011 Desktop calendar images! Speaking of....


This lovely November calendar is brought to you by the letters chazpure. Please be sure to leave her comments here!

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Finally, as I will keep reminding, we are moving forward with a BLU2: Art Big Bang. While details will be fleshed out in January, we will be accepting multiple images from Artists. Writers will then volunteer to create a story for the submitted images. Artists will have about 1.5 months to work if they wait until the official announcement in January. Or, hint, hint, they could get started now.... ^_^

I hope everyone is getting excited for snupin_santa! I know I am! Come on, December!

love, lore

Lore's post reminded me that I've meant to give this project a try, so I'm starting off simple by tossing a discussion topic into the ring.

Topic: If you're planning to see the last two HP movies (in the theater or not; place doesn't matter), how do you think you'll react to seeing Snape and possibly Lupin, depending on how they film it, die on screen? Do you think watching it happen will be different in some way from reading about it?