2009 wish list
I haven't seen anyone else put up a wishlist yet, but it's nearing the end of the calendrical year, so I figured I may as well start. And then you can continue it :)
This is modified from my wish list of last year. I've decided to drop the physical things because it seems silly to spend money on shipping when it could go to better things. I may update it if I think of more things in the next few weeks (updates will be marked).
Wishlist Instructions:
Step One
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 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 tangible things, 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.
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.
This entry was originally posted at http://fish-echo.dreamwidth.org/37210.html.
This is modified from my wish list of last year. I've decided to drop the physical things because it seems silly to spend money on shipping when it could go to better things. I may update it if I think of more things in the next few weeks (updates will be marked).
Wishlist Instructions:
Step One
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 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 tangible things, 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.
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.
- Happy random acts of generosity. And then tell me about it, so I can smile too!
- Donations to one of your local charities. Because the big ones have the big bucks to spend on advertising. There'll be something local that matches your interests - cancer, children, animals etc - and they're the ones that struggle for money. Any amount is fine-- remember, whatever you give them is more than they had before you. Finding them and helping them out would make their Christmas. And then tell me about it! You don't have to say the amount (I know many of us have tight finances) or the specific charity (if you'd rather not), but let me know-- so I can smile too!
- Or! If money is a bit tight right now... put a note on your calendar in three or six or nine months' time and donate then. Lots of charities have issues with people forgetting about them during non-holiday times.
- Take up a new craft that you've been wanting to. I love craft-things soooo much. But I have much less time to do them than I wish. So! Let me live vicariously through you :) And then, of course, tell me about it! Even if it is 'I tried learning woodworking, but then I got ten million splinters and my day sucked and I'm never ever doing it again.'
- Recommendations! I'd love to be told books, TV shows, movies, fanfic, comic books that you think I might like. I haven't ever written a Yuletide letter or any other manifesto of fic likes/dislikes, but you can get something of a sense of what I like from perusing my fic recs comm (fish-recs). Or here's what I wrote last year: I'm a fan of sci-fi a lot (but other genres are good too!), good tight plots, silly silly stories (When I found the crack!fic of SGA fandom I about did handstands I was so happy), fun characters, characters with believable motivations, snark, amusement, vaguely happy endings, solid world-building, tension between characters, strong friendships... Blah blah blah! Obviously, no one story can have all of those. I am willing to read stuff in new fandoms (including RPF) provided that the stories do not require knowledge of the fandom. Things that are quite likely to be deal-breakers: cheating/adultery, attempted/completed suicide, zombies, depressing apocalyptic stories, incest.
- Recipes! I love food, I love cooking, and I love eating! Give me recipes or links to good recipes! Tasty, tasty food!
- Give me suggestions for things to crochet or knit Because I can do these things, I just usually run out of ideas of what to do. Suggestions of things (without a pattern) are fine, or you can link to a pattern.
- Picture(s) of narwhals suitable for turning into an icon (it'll say something along the lines of 'narwhal: the unicorn of the sea'). You needn't make the icon yourself, autumn-lilacs has already offered but neither of us have been successful at finding an appropriate image.
- Clean up the coding at my fanfic masterlist I feel silly asking for this, but evidently it's just not high up on my personal priority list and yet it's something that should be done. [My fannish masterlist] looks really sloppy right now. I have at least some idea of what I want it to look like and I could give you the html that I've done so far. (Evidently I'd rather be reading or writing fic than standardising headers. *sigh*)claimed by the very kind
hl! Now I just need to remember to send an email....
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