Wish List Memery
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danabren, if rather belatedly.
The Rules:
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.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. See above for one option. There's also a LJ group "holiday_wishes" where folks post lists like this) 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.
1) Some good smutty Jack/Norrington fic. It's been far, far too long.
2) Give to your local animal shelter. Time, spare blankets, money, toys, whatever you can manage. Adopt an animal if you can (though you might want to wait until the holiday excitement is over). Do something -- they're strained right now, with lots of people giving up animals they can't afford. And let me know about it.
3) Firefly fic. Again, it's been far too long.
4) Give to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Again, whatever little you can manage. I supported these folks back in October and really felt good about it. And again, let me know.
5) Cute critter pics. With links. I loves me cute critters.
6) This is for the local folks: Plant cuttings. Especially hanging plants. So I can keep them away from Horrible Planteater Child. Who I love.
And the big two...
7) A handmade blanket. Knitted, crocheted, quilted, woven, made from frogs, whatever. I come from a family of quilters who gave it up in the generation before mine and somehow I have none. Nope, I've never had a blanket made for me.
8) Is this tacky? Oh well. Buy something from Om Shanti Handcrafts for someone on your list. And if you don't, buy handmade. From someone. Somewhere. Please.
I can't even think of two more, so I'm gonna stop there.
danabren, if rather belatedly.The Rules:
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.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. See above for one option. There's also a LJ group "holiday_wishes" where folks post lists like this) 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.
1) Some good smutty Jack/Norrington fic. It's been far, far too long.
2) Give to your local animal shelter. Time, spare blankets, money, toys, whatever you can manage. Adopt an animal if you can (though you might want to wait until the holiday excitement is over). Do something -- they're strained right now, with lots of people giving up animals they can't afford. And let me know about it.
3) Firefly fic. Again, it's been far too long.
4) Give to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Again, whatever little you can manage. I supported these folks back in October and really felt good about it. And again, let me know.
5) Cute critter pics. With links. I loves me cute critters.
6) This is for the local folks: Plant cuttings. Especially hanging plants. So I can keep them away from Horrible Planteater Child. Who I love.
And the big two...
7) A handmade blanket. Knitted, crocheted, quilted, woven, made from frogs, whatever. I come from a family of quilters who gave it up in the generation before mine and somehow I have none. Nope, I've never had a blanket made for me.
8) Is this tacky? Oh well. Buy something from Om Shanti Handcrafts for someone on your list. And if you don't, buy handmade. From someone. Somewhere. Please.
I can't even think of two more, so I'm gonna stop there.
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Date: 2008-12-02 05:43 am (UTC)Thank you for the Not-so-Tinycat video the other day. He makes me squishy.
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Date: 2008-12-02 05:49 am (UTC)3) Oddly enough, I kinda tend to go for gen when it comes to Firefly fic. Not that I object to het or slash, but they don't tend to grab me as much in this verse.
That said, follow your bunny.
And...no problem. Gonna be at Midwinter? Word is, so will the boy. :)
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Date: 2008-12-02 06:09 am (UTC)Don't know about Midwinter--hope to be there, but much is dependent on how the rest of this week goes. Not going to have Russian clothes, though.
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Date: 2008-12-02 06:10 am (UTC)Also, yay DINOSAURS!
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Date: 2008-12-02 06:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 06:15 am (UTC)Also, mad mad love.
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 09:14 pm (UTC)*offers aspirin for the balancing act*
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Date: 2008-12-08 05:06 am (UTC)but you will be getting socks! just.. umm. late... like... january.... or maybe february....
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Date: 2008-12-08 11:26 pm (UTC)Also, needink addy. Pls email to geffroi@gmail.com.