winterhol wishlist
Dec. 2nd, 2010 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalmnThe rules:
Step One
- Make a post (public, locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. 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 journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your reading list/friendslist (or network, or friends' friends, or just random journals, or [community profile] holiday_wishes/[profile] wish_list) 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. pointers to rap or hiphop that is more rather than less friendly to women. bonus points if the artists are poc, super bonus points if they're woc. i know that rap/hiphop is not any more sexist than metal or alternative, but i am now at the point where i can no longer listen to matchbox twenty[1] without screaming at the radio and changing the station, and if i squint i can pretend that nickelback's "i like your pants around your feet/i like the dirt that's on your knees/i like the way you still say please/when you're looking up at me/you're my favorite damn disease" (yes i typed that from memory) i can pretend it's about a bdsm relationship that's having some trouble, but i can't do their new song "i only find you attractive when i pretend you're giving me a blowjob". so, any artists, any songs, any subgenres, point me at them.
2. good pictures of me with long hair like i have now. i have some, but most of them are from my phone, and in many of them, the rest of the things in the picture are more important, so i am keeping them even though they are not the best pictures of me.
3. an icon of blond garcia in front of a computer. it could say something, but i'm not sure what. i need a geektastic icon.
um, that's what i got.
eta: contact info! my account is still paid at lj, so kalmn @ lj reaches me, as does my last name at gmail.
[1] Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You can turn yourself around and come on home
ugh.
Step One
- Make a post (public, locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. 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 journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your reading list/friendslist (or network, or friends' friends, or just random journals, or [community profile] holiday_wishes/[profile] wish_list) 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. pointers to rap or hiphop that is more rather than less friendly to women. bonus points if the artists are poc, super bonus points if they're woc. i know that rap/hiphop is not any more sexist than metal or alternative, but i am now at the point where i can no longer listen to matchbox twenty[1] without screaming at the radio and changing the station, and if i squint i can pretend that nickelback's "i like your pants around your feet/i like the dirt that's on your knees/i like the way you still say please/when you're looking up at me/you're my favorite damn disease" (yes i typed that from memory) i can pretend it's about a bdsm relationship that's having some trouble, but i can't do their new song "i only find you attractive when i pretend you're giving me a blowjob". so, any artists, any songs, any subgenres, point me at them.
2. good pictures of me with long hair like i have now. i have some, but most of them are from my phone, and in many of them, the rest of the things in the picture are more important, so i am keeping them even though they are not the best pictures of me.
3. an icon of blond garcia in front of a computer. it could say something, but i'm not sure what. i need a geektastic icon.
um, that's what i got.
eta: contact info! my account is still paid at lj, so kalmn @ lj reaches me, as does my last name at gmail.
[1] Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You can turn yourself around and come on home
ugh.
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Date: 2010-12-03 01:41 am (UTC)