2012 Wish List
Dec. 3rd, 2012 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficStep 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.
1. Yeah, I have an Amazon Wish List, but I'd rather not take the chance of having someone play Connect The Dots with my IRL self on the slim chance that y'all'd like to buy something for someone who writes smut on the internet. But, you know, if you've got money to burn, PM me and I'll send you a link, or just, fucking, work out something in your price range? I have a lot of cheap books I'd like to get, if that helps.
2. I could use an icon for my account at AO3, but have no idea what it should be. So if someone has anything appropriate, I'd appreciate it.
3. I guess what I'd really like are betas. Not for fics, but for manuscripts I'm writing that need a lot more work than your average fanfiction. They're longer, the structures are different, all sorts of things. So I'm going to go into that.
4. There's one story I'm writing with a pretty major black character, so I'd be interested in some perspective on that. There's a lot of stuff that has the potential to come off badly, with how the character is someone who grows up poor, joins a gang, end up in the army, but I think handled properly, he'd be great.
5. Another story I'm writing is urban fantasy, so I'd be really interested in having it betaed by actual urban fantasy fans and people who are otherwise familiar with the genre. I'm adding a Japanese character in the next draft, so if someone out there were a weeaboo, or actually from Japan, I could use some help there.
6. I'm working on a YA thing, centering around a high school in Texas, so I'd love to hear from teenagers or Texans. If you're a teenager, comment with where you live, an isolated place where we can meet, and a list of people who would miss you. Ha ha, just kidding. I already know where you live.
7. There's also this fantasy story I've 99% written. I don't know.
8. I'm starting two projects now. The first is an urban fantasy spy novel which also does a lot of commenting on tropes from high fantasy, so if you're into those things dot dot dot...
9. And a glorified Legend of the Seeker uber which also satirizes cheesy fantasy, the publishing industry, and fandom. So it'd be cool if I had someone to IM with about that as I'm writing it. For some reason, it keeps me from procrastinating to be writing about something as I write about something. Must be the fact that I'm the illegitimate child of Xzibit.
10. I guess... adopt a puppy or something
ETA: Da doy! I know my crippling social anxiety makes me seem all blase, but I really do love hearing from you about my work, so if there's a fic of mine you liked and you never got around to commenting on it, but you did now, then you could totally be part of my militia in the zombie apocalyse. It's gonna be awesome, guys. We're taking over Bikini Atoll and making Spongebob Squarepants jokes all day.
ETA2: Also, I didn't get a chance to put this in my Yuletide ask because for some reason it wasn't nominated, but after watching The Final Break--a Prison Break fic where Sara gets over Michael's death by shacking up with Gretchen, because I'm pretty sure that was the point of the whole film. You know, soften the blow from the series finale. Because, seriously, there was a scene where the prison lesbian looks at Sara and Gretchen and makes a face like "even for me, DAS GAY".
- 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.
1. Yeah, I have an Amazon Wish List, but I'd rather not take the chance of having someone play Connect The Dots with my IRL self on the slim chance that y'all'd like to buy something for someone who writes smut on the internet. But, you know, if you've got money to burn, PM me and I'll send you a link, or just, fucking, work out something in your price range? I have a lot of cheap books I'd like to get, if that helps.
2. I could use an icon for my account at AO3, but have no idea what it should be. So if someone has anything appropriate, I'd appreciate it.
3. I guess what I'd really like are betas. Not for fics, but for manuscripts I'm writing that need a lot more work than your average fanfiction. They're longer, the structures are different, all sorts of things. So I'm going to go into that.
4. There's one story I'm writing with a pretty major black character, so I'd be interested in some perspective on that. There's a lot of stuff that has the potential to come off badly, with how the character is someone who grows up poor, joins a gang, end up in the army, but I think handled properly, he'd be great.
5. Another story I'm writing is urban fantasy, so I'd be really interested in having it betaed by actual urban fantasy fans and people who are otherwise familiar with the genre. I'm adding a Japanese character in the next draft, so if someone out there were a weeaboo, or actually from Japan, I could use some help there.
6. I'm working on a YA thing, centering around a high school in Texas, so I'd love to hear from teenagers or Texans. If you're a teenager, comment with where you live, an isolated place where we can meet, and a list of people who would miss you. Ha ha, just kidding. I already know where you live.
7. There's also this fantasy story I've 99% written. I don't know.
8. I'm starting two projects now. The first is an urban fantasy spy novel which also does a lot of commenting on tropes from high fantasy, so if you're into those things dot dot dot...
9. And a glorified Legend of the Seeker uber which also satirizes cheesy fantasy, the publishing industry, and fandom. So it'd be cool if I had someone to IM with about that as I'm writing it. For some reason, it keeps me from procrastinating to be writing about something as I write about something. Must be the fact that I'm the illegitimate child of Xzibit.
10. I guess... adopt a puppy or something
ETA: Da doy! I know my crippling social anxiety makes me seem all blase, but I really do love hearing from you about my work, so if there's a fic of mine you liked and you never got around to commenting on it, but you did now, then you could totally be part of my militia in the zombie apocalyse. It's gonna be awesome, guys. We're taking over Bikini Atoll and making Spongebob Squarepants jokes all day.
ETA2: Also, I didn't get a chance to put this in my Yuletide ask because for some reason it wasn't nominated, but after watching The Final Break--a Prison Break fic where Sara gets over Michael's death by shacking up with Gretchen, because I'm pretty sure that was the point of the whole film. You know, soften the blow from the series finale. Because, seriously, there was a scene where the prison lesbian looks at Sara and Gretchen and makes a face like "even for me, DAS GAY".
