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dragojustine) wrote2008-11-24 03:21 pm
dragojustine) wrote2008-11-24 03:21 pm
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The Christmas list meme
Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
My list:
1. Send me a card! And let me send you one. I adore them.
2. Upload your favorite Christmas song for me. I prefer religious Christmas music (yes, I'm a weird atheist with an emotional attachment), but I'll try anything.
3. For that matter, upload ANY song I'll like. The main criteria here is "things that can be sung by a horrible but enthusiastic singer driving very fast." My collection tips toward 70s divas and Bruce Springsteen (with that criteria, how could it not?) and I don't think I have more than five songs recorded after 2003. So, educate me!
4. I would love graphics for any fic I've written. People who get cover graphics for their fic are so special.
5. I am trying to coerce somebody into making me a journal header. In particular, a header with the TARDIS, the Stargate (SG1 version), a puddle jumper, and the metallicar. I think this would be the best header ever. Something like the Enterprise or a Viper optional... whatever, really. Isn't that an awesome idea? But I can't make it.
6. Tell me your favorite EASY recipes. Not holiday themed ones, as I have all my holiday traditions firmly sorted. No, just year-round EASY things I can make in my poorly-stocked kitchen to improve my few cooking skills. Things that make good leftovers/are easy to bring in to work for lunches are a plus.
7. I would love links/recs for original fiction. There are so many mind-blowingly good fic authors out there, and I'm sure some of them must be bending their energy toward original fic online with the same strengths, but I don't know where to find the good stuff.
8. Gift certificates for restaurants, because eating out is the main casualty of my budget, and I miss it. I mean, just stuff like Subway or Chili's, not the Ritz.
9. I would KILL for seasons of SG1, SGA, or the third season of SPN on DVD. Just KILL.
10. And lastly, for Christmas I want the TV networks to stop killing all the big shows. Somebody attend to that, please.
My address is in this filtered post. Just drop a comment and I'll get it to you, if you want.
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
My list:
1. Send me a card! And let me send you one. I adore them.
2. Upload your favorite Christmas song for me. I prefer religious Christmas music (yes, I'm a weird atheist with an emotional attachment), but I'll try anything.
3. For that matter, upload ANY song I'll like. The main criteria here is "things that can be sung by a horrible but enthusiastic singer driving very fast." My collection tips toward 70s divas and Bruce Springsteen (with that criteria, how could it not?) and I don't think I have more than five songs recorded after 2003. So, educate me!
4. I would love graphics for any fic I've written. People who get cover graphics for their fic are so special.
5. I am trying to coerce somebody into making me a journal header. In particular, a header with the TARDIS, the Stargate (SG1 version), a puddle jumper, and the metallicar. I think this would be the best header ever. Something like the Enterprise or a Viper optional... whatever, really. Isn't that an awesome idea? But I can't make it.
6. Tell me your favorite EASY recipes. Not holiday themed ones, as I have all my holiday traditions firmly sorted. No, just year-round EASY things I can make in my poorly-stocked kitchen to improve my few cooking skills. Things that make good leftovers/are easy to bring in to work for lunches are a plus.
7. I would love links/recs for original fiction. There are so many mind-blowingly good fic authors out there, and I'm sure some of them must be bending their energy toward original fic online with the same strengths, but I don't know where to find the good stuff.
8. Gift certificates for restaurants, because eating out is the main casualty of my budget, and I miss it. I mean, just stuff like Subway or Chili's, not the Ritz.
9. I would KILL for seasons of SG1, SGA, or the third season of SPN on DVD. Just KILL.
10. And lastly, for Christmas I want the TV networks to stop killing all the big shows. Somebody attend to that, please.
My address is in this filtered post. Just drop a comment and I'll get it to you, if you want.