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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, 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.
And I wish for...
1.A power pritt. These are like pritt sticks, but in silver tubes not white. They're really good for paper crafts. And zine construction. I get through them really fast.
2.second hand zines that you don't want anymore
3.this is my biggest wish: an out of print zine called "coffee shop crushes" I think it's quarter-sized US zine and I cannot find a copy anywhere. It's a compilation zine of different people's anecdotes about coffee shop crushes.
4.make me a mixtape. I like rilo kiley alot at the moment.
5.a leeds a-z. mine always go missing
6.the latest issue of bust magazine (dec/january). borders had already sold out when I got there :(
7.proof of existence of a tangerine. and I don't mean satsuma/clementine/mandarin/orange/any of these. it has to be a tangerine. it's to settle a long running investigation that started over four years ago when a boy said they didn't actually exist, and I set out to prove him wrong.
8.recommendations for reading on the history of feminism.
9.surprise postcards.
if you wanna get in touch, comment, or write to me: Emily Jane Graves, 17 Well Close Rise, Leeds, LS7 1HT