wishes on a list
‘tis the season!
(i’m not actually excited about the holidays themselves, but i am excited about the commercial aspect: presents!)
who doesn’t like making wishlists in the hopes that it will just start raining gifts?
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/Harry drabble 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 friends' friends, 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.
If you read my wishes, and know of anything that can fulfill them - another user, a community, or even a relevant link - I would love to hear about them. Recommendations fulfill my wishes just as much as anything else.
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so i’ve whittled it down to nine. (okay, i’m not a very good whittler.) ahaha, who am i kidding. if you’re not planning to post your own holiday wishlist, and instead want to do an exchange of sorts, please let me know what you’d like! (either on here or through thefieldsofelysium@yahoo.com.) i can’t code or make graphics for the life of me, but i can - um - write, beta, rec, and buy things. i’m especially good at that last bit, and have had a good year, so don’t be shy! i love giving presents to people. however, as i am currently in Shenzhen and won’t be back to the States until the end of February, tangible gifts that cannot be bought online will have to wait until then. <3 (i’m wary of sending things via China post, since it’s a much bigger hassle to deal with if packages get lost.)
1. a new layout.
minimalistic, black-white-grey aesthetic. something with a Rick Owens-esque feel to it.
2. general iPhone 4 tips / recs.
despite working for a contract electronics manufacturing company, i’m really not all that technologically advanced. (this could be because i spent most of my college years writing papers about protogeometric Greek pottery, instead of paying attention to the real world, like my Google-employed friends.) i typically just buy pretty things and play around with them without extracting maximum usage, which is - all in all - bad practice.
3. moar books / book recs.
anything/anyone you are ultra-passionate about is always welcome. :) to give you some idea of my reading preferences: favorite authors include Hermann Hesse (surprise, surprise), Hubert Selby, Jr., Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Evelyn Waugh, Leo Tolstoy, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, bits of Franz Kafka, Shakespeare (tragedies only), and Richard Dawkins. other authors whom i like based on reading only one work thus far: Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar) and Virginia Woolf (Orlando). and authors i avoid at all costs (because stylistic nightmares): Henry James, Tennessee Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, and William Faulkner. i don’t really read sci-fi, horror, poetry, or biographies, but if you feel that i would maybe like a particular author/book from any of those genres, i am all for trying him/her/it.
4. drinks / drink recs.
and not just of the alcoholic variety, either. (though that is also always welcome.) i have a pretty unrefined palate with taste buds that are kind of dumb (go, genetics), so i have weird variations in tendencies. i like my coffee in the middle (not too mild, not too bold), with more sugar in it than is probably good for me. my teas: light, fragrant, unsweetened, and with nice names like “lady grey” or “magnolia oolong.” my wines: light, crisp, and sweet for whites (Riesling!); medium and minimally-tannic for reds (Sangiovese!). my beers: Newcastle. (sometimes Corona.) and my cocktails: uh, no idea, because i rarely venture outside my gin-and-tonic bubble. 8\
5. clothes that are, or in the style of, Alexander Wang.
this will make a lot more sense if you see my wardrobe and shoe collection, each of which is essentially what a barcode would look like, if it were made of wearable things. i have a few pieces, but only from his T line (because haha, affordability). but perhaps i shall gift to myself a runway sweater, depending (entirely) on what the year-end bonus looks like. (what am i talking about. i’ve gotten myself, like, five ‘holiday’ presents already.)
6. silver rings.
ever since i eschewed the commercial sites (because size 4 is never available….size-ists) and started ordering relentlessly from Etsy, i’ve been acquiring these like crazy. i’m materialistic (no shame) and like showing off my darlings, so exhibit A:
7. these $40 candles.
because ridiculously expensive candles must smell ridiculously good, right? right.
8. Inception fic / mini-fic / drabble.
preferably something that involves a character death and would make me cry. a lot. (i like my holidays sad, apparently.) what i kind of have in mind is: Arthur rendered lost and catatonic because Eames went and got himself killed, and Cobb finally taking care of him for a change. (huh, that was a lot of ‘and’s.) but other pairings / plots / what-have-you are very okay. i am easily pleased, really. :D
9. charity recs.
i like spreading out donations throughout the year to multiple organizations. i have a few select causes, but exclusivity seems kind of unfair. so rec to me any established group (not affiliated with politics/political agendas, because those are decidedly not holiday-happy) that you strongly feel needs some monetary love! (also, tax deductions FTW.)
[edit] 10. SOCK MONKEY SLIPPERS.
because i'm a five-year-old at heart.
(i’m not actually excited about the holidays themselves, but i am excited about the commercial aspect: presents!)
who doesn’t like making wishlists in the hopes that it will just start raining gifts?
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/Harry drabble 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 friends' friends, 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.
If you read my wishes, and know of anything that can fulfill them - another user, a community, or even a relevant link - I would love to hear about them. Recommendations fulfill my wishes just as much as anything else.
+
so i’ve whittled it down to nine. (okay, i’m not a very good whittler.) ahaha, who am i kidding. if you’re not planning to post your own holiday wishlist, and instead want to do an exchange of sorts, please let me know what you’d like! (either on here or through thefieldsofelysium@yahoo.com.) i can’t code or make graphics for the life of me, but i can - um - write, beta, rec, and buy things. i’m especially good at that last bit, and have had a good year, so don’t be shy! i love giving presents to people. however, as i am currently in Shenzhen and won’t be back to the States until the end of February, tangible gifts that cannot be bought online will have to wait until then. <3 (i’m wary of sending things via China post, since it’s a much bigger hassle to deal with if packages get lost.)
1. a new layout.
minimalistic, black-white-grey aesthetic. something with a Rick Owens-esque feel to it.
2. general iPhone 4 tips / recs.
despite working for a contract electronics manufacturing company, i’m really not all that technologically advanced. (this could be because i spent most of my college years writing papers about protogeometric Greek pottery, instead of paying attention to the real world, like my Google-employed friends.) i typically just buy pretty things and play around with them without extracting maximum usage, which is - all in all - bad practice.
3. moar books / book recs.
anything/anyone you are ultra-passionate about is always welcome. :) to give you some idea of my reading preferences: favorite authors include Hermann Hesse (surprise, surprise), Hubert Selby, Jr., Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Evelyn Waugh, Leo Tolstoy, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, bits of Franz Kafka, Shakespeare (tragedies only), and Richard Dawkins. other authors whom i like based on reading only one work thus far: Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar) and Virginia Woolf (Orlando). and authors i avoid at all costs (because stylistic nightmares): Henry James, Tennessee Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, and William Faulkner. i don’t really read sci-fi, horror, poetry, or biographies, but if you feel that i would maybe like a particular author/book from any of those genres, i am all for trying him/her/it.
4. drinks / drink recs.
and not just of the alcoholic variety, either. (though that is also always welcome.) i have a pretty unrefined palate with taste buds that are kind of dumb (go, genetics), so i have weird variations in tendencies. i like my coffee in the middle (not too mild, not too bold), with more sugar in it than is probably good for me. my teas: light, fragrant, unsweetened, and with nice names like “lady grey” or “magnolia oolong.” my wines: light, crisp, and sweet for whites (Riesling!); medium and minimally-tannic for reds (Sangiovese!). my beers: Newcastle. (sometimes Corona.) and my cocktails: uh, no idea, because i rarely venture outside my gin-and-tonic bubble. 8\
5. clothes that are, or in the style of, Alexander Wang.
this will make a lot more sense if you see my wardrobe and shoe collection, each of which is essentially what a barcode would look like, if it were made of wearable things. i have a few pieces, but only from his T line (because haha, affordability). but perhaps i shall gift to myself a runway sweater, depending (entirely) on what the year-end bonus looks like. (what am i talking about. i’ve gotten myself, like, five ‘holiday’ presents already.)
6. silver rings.
ever since i eschewed the commercial sites (because size 4 is never available….size-ists) and started ordering relentlessly from Etsy, i’ve been acquiring these like crazy. i’m materialistic (no shame) and like showing off my darlings, so exhibit A:
7. these $40 candles.
because ridiculously expensive candles must smell ridiculously good, right? right.
8. Inception fic / mini-fic / drabble.
preferably something that involves a character death and would make me cry. a lot. (i like my holidays sad, apparently.) what i kind of have in mind is: Arthur rendered lost and catatonic because Eames went and got himself killed, and Cobb finally taking care of him for a change. (huh, that was a lot of ‘and’s.) but other pairings / plots / what-have-you are very okay. i am easily pleased, really. :D
9. charity recs.
i like spreading out donations throughout the year to multiple organizations. i have a few select causes, but exclusivity seems kind of unfair. so rec to me any established group (not affiliated with politics/political agendas, because those are decidedly not holiday-happy) that you strongly feel needs some monetary love! (also, tax deductions FTW.)
[edit] 10. SOCK MONKEY SLIPPERS.
because i'm a five-year-old at heart.