Skyeward Secret Santa

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 25TH

[skyewardsecretsanta]

a little psa

i’m gonna be away until wednesday in a place with no wifi, so if you message me it might take a little longer for me to get back at you, but i will still be checking if i have messages :)

[skyewardsecretsanta]

We’re finally sending off the urls! We’re so excited for you to finally start to talk to your assigned shipmate during December! A few guidelines of what you have to do from now on:

Shower your assigned shipmate with love! Become their friend! Please please try to talk to them everyday or at least every other day :) 

Remember to keep your identity secret by sending anonymous messages.

Ask them what they would like as a gift from you. As usual, the gift can be a - graphic edit (pic spam, general graphic, icon set, etc.) - gif set - fan mix (at least 8 songs) - fan fiction (try to make it at least 500 words) - fan video - fan art - poem

The number of gifts you’ll make to your assigned shipmate is up to you.

Please use the “skyeward secret santa” tag to tag your asks so that your secret santa can find your replies easily, and the use it as well when you’ll post your gifts.

You’ll reveal your identity on Christmas Eve night or Christmas Day.

Other important infos:

If you don’t hear from your secret santa or the person you’ve been assigned to in two days from today, please message us so that we can check with them and see what’s going on and eventually reassign you to someone else.

I will do a first check in with everyone on December 9th to see if everyone is making progress with their gifts in order to avoid having people left giftless by Christmas. The second check in will be on December 18th.

Remember that this is a Skyeward project and we’re gonna bond over this beautiful ship, so please be friendly to whoever you get assigned to even if at first it seems like you’re two complete opposites: we still all love Skyeward a lot!  Again, if something is not going the way it should with you, please don’t hesitate to message us! The only way for us to help is if you tell us about any issue you encounter. 

Remember to send anonymous messages throughout December! Lastly, have fun and enjoy!

[skyewardsecretsanta]

ATTENTION Remember guys that you need the ask box and anonymous options enabled to participate, I did a quick check today and some of you don’t have them functioning, so please check if that’s your case and turn it on :) 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Just a little fyi, cause we’re getting a lot of follows but most of these people are not applying, if you want to participate you have to reblog this post and then fill in this application.

Applications are closed in theory, but you can still send it in today cause I’m starting just now to match people up :) I hope this clarified a little

[skyewardsecretsanta]

UPDATE #2

Today it’s the last day you have to apply! If you still haven’t signed up, here’s how you do it:

reblog this post (likes count just as bookmarking - we want people to reblog it to spread the word; that means that you can reblog the post how many times you want if you’re considering helping us spread the word :3)

fill in this form

If you have applied already, please check if your name is on the participants list, in case it isn’t either message me (I might have forgot somebody!) or send in your application again :) 

If you have any question or suggestion, you can send an ask here or DM me on my personal blog.

Thank you again for participating ♥︎

[skyewardsecretsanta]

We’re back! After last year’s success, we decided to bring back the Skyeward Secret Santa project to spread some love and positivity in the Skyeward fandom since canon is not giving us many reasons to rejoice. Our gift exchange will be a fun way to get to know other people who are just as crazy and probably bitter about Skyeward as you while enjoying with them the days that lead up to Christmas. Are you exited yet?

A little, but how does it work?

If you decide to join, we will send you an ask with the URL of a blog, and you’ll be the Secret Santa of that shipmate. Once you get assigned someone, you will have to send anonymous messages to this person so that you can get to know them better and possibly build a friendship and make them happy showering them with love during December! You’ll reveal yourself and give them your gift on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day and everyone will be happy, because you’ll also get your own Secret Santa who will do just the same for you.

That sounds nice, but what exact do you mean by gift?

You can make one or more gifts for the person who has been assigned to you, just be sure to have at least one ready by the deadline (Dec. 24th). Your gift can be one of these: fanfiction, fanvideo, fanmix, fanart, graphic edit, gifset, other: poems, songs, etc.

Alright, you’ve convinced me. Can you tell me the exact guidelines?

- reblog this post (so that you can help spread the word) - fil in this form to apply. You have until November 25th to send in your application. - you will be assigned a shipmate on December 1st - make sure your ask box is open and the anonymous option is enabled (we will check) - try to send as many anonymous messages to the person who’s been assigned to you as you can - really, don’t forget the anonymous - overall, be nice to your assigned shipmate and please apply only if you’re sure you’ll be able to make a gift in time for the deadline.

Check this blog for further announcements, the “skyeward secret santa“ tag, and if you have any questions or you need any kind of clarification don’t be afraid to send an ask.

I’m alone organizing the gift exchange this year so I made the deadline a little earlier than last year in order to have a couple of days in case there are latecomers (though please try not to wake up at the last minute) who want to join. You can also reach me at my private blog if you need anything. That being said, thank you for reading and make sure you apply!

[skyewardsecretsanta]

UPDATE #1

Hey guys! Just a few words since the deadline to apply is approaching.

The participants list is updated, so if you have sent your application I ask you to please check if your url is on there to make sure we received your form. In case you don’t see your url either message us (I might have overlooked) or send your application again. 

Currently, we have a little over 50 participants signed up, but we hope to increase the number by the deadline day. That being said, applications are still open! If you still haven’t signed up, here’s how you do it:

reblog this post (likes count just as bookmarking - we want people to reblog it to spread the word; that means that you can reblog the post how many times you want if you’re considering helping us spread the word :3)

fill in this form

If you have any question or suggestion, you can send an ask here or DM me on my personal blog if you prefer :) 

I also wanted to publicly thank @dailyskyeward for the great support ♥︎ Thanks again, and sign up you guys!

[skyewardsecretsanta]

We’re back! After last year’s success, we decided to bring back the Skyeward Secret Santa project to spread some love and positivity in the Skyeward fandom since canon is not giving us many reasons to rejoice. Our gift exchange will be a fun way to get to know other people who are just as crazy and probably bitter about Skyeward as you while enjoying with them the days that lead up to Christmas. Are you exited yet?

A little, but how does it work?

If you decide to join, we will send you an ask with the URL of a blog, and you’ll be the Secret Santa of that shipmate. Once you get assigned someone, you will have to send anonymous messages to this person so that you can get to know them better and possibly build a friendship and make them happy showering them with love during December! You’ll reveal yourself and give them your gift on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day and everyone will be happy, because you’ll also get your own Secret Santa who will do just the same for you.

That sounds nice, but what exact do you mean by gift?

You can make one or more gifts for the person who has been assigned to you, just be sure to have at least one ready by the deadline (Dec. 24th). Your gift can be one of these: fanfiction, fanvideo, fanmix, fanart, graphic edit, gifset, other: poems, songs, etc.

Alright, you’ve convinced me. Can you tell me the exact guidelines?

- reblog this post (so that you can help spread the word) - fil in this form to apply. You have until November 25th to send in your application. - you will be assigned a shipmate on December 1st - make sure your ask box is open and the anonymous option is enabled (we will check) - try to send as many anonymous messages to the person who’s been assigned to you as you can - really, don’t forget the anonymous - overall, be nice to your assigned shipmate and please apply only if you’re sure you’ll be able to make a gift in time for the deadline.

Check this blog for further announcements, the “skyeward secret santa“ tag, and if you have any questions or you need any kind of clarification don’t be afraid to send an ask.

I’m alone organizing the gift exchange this year so I made the deadline a little earlier than last year in order to have a couple of days in case there are latecomers (though please try not to wake up at the last minute) who want to join. You can also reach me at my private blog if you need anything. That being said, thank you for reading and make sure you apply!

[dianaagron]

Hi! I just wanted say/ask something about the Skyeward secret Santa (btw I'm so excited to be participating this year, thank you for organizing it again)--one of my friends who was part of it last year, never got her gift and apparently a few others didn't as well. so I was just wondering if you're going to have some kind of check ins, to make sure everyone gets their gifts?

Hi! You’re welcome, I’m happy so many people decided to apply. 

I will do check ins, but I also need people to come to me in the case their secret santa is not turning up. Last year we had some people telling us they hadn’t heard from their secret santa in a while (or never) and we were able to assign them another secret santa. After that, when it came to the deadline we didn’t hear about anomalies so, it being the first time we organized something like this, we didn’t check in with everyone. 

Now I didn’t write down on the rules in this first application post what it’s gonna happen in detail once I’m sending out the names, because I didn’t want to make the post extra long and it wasn’t necessary, but rest assured there will be more details once I’ll make the guideline post for when the names will be sent out. 

The key here other than me checking in with everyone is that first and foremost who decided to participate comes to me and tells me if something is not going the way it’s supposed to, because that way I can help to solve the problem :) 

Hopefully this was clear enough! Tell me if you still have questions (and maybe directly send an ask on the skyeward secret santa blog) :) 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Other than this, I wanted to address what @vesperass-anuna said in the other post (I didn’t want to reblog the application post to avoid long threads on the official post, hopefully you won’t mind). 

The point of our project, and I’m pretty sure a lot of people were satisfied by it last year, was to first and foremost enjoy the days that lead up to Christmas with the person you were assigned to and with your own Secret Santa and consequently to make new friends. That’s why I’m never going to tell people to give their wishlist to their secret santa and then expect them to make a gift they’ll deliver on the 25th without even knowing who is this person who was their santa. That way the matching process would just be useless because I could match people with the first random name I see instead of actively trying to find someone who share some interest with you. 

Is this better or worse? It depends on what you’re looking after. If your only desire is to get a present on Christmas, then probably this project is not what you need. I (and others with me) like the idea of waking up with a new nice message every day / other day, and that was what made the 80% of the experience good. A lot of people built lasting friendships after last year (I personally did, and by looking at the tags on the other post many others did as well), and again I don’t want to take the messages exchange part away.  I’ve participated to other gift exchanges in the previous years, and all of them included the daily messages exchange, so maybe it’s because of this that I can’t even imagine being completely focused on making a gift instead of caring about the person you’ve been assigned to and doing your best to try to make their December even slightly better. 

In the application we ask what people are able to make and what they’d like to receive, so when we match people up we also take into account what kind of gifts they’ll eventually want. Then everyone knows that one of the first things the participants have to do is to tell their secret santa what kind of gifts they’d like to receive. Again, this is how we organize it. I don’t want people to only focus on their gifts, especially because personally I’d feel like I’m “using” this person only to fulfill a wish I have. But this is my personal opinion and you can easily toss it in the trash. 

Again, last year we had people coming to us and telling us that their secret santa were nowhere to be seen and we replaced them. Being the first time we organized something like this we didn’t think about checking in with everyone (especially because we weren’t exactly ten people in total), but I will do that this time around in order to assure everyone someone to talk to for the whole month and a gift at the end. I’m genuinely sorry that some people like you were left without a gift last year, but please understand that it was the first time we organized this; again now knowing what didn’t work last year I will do my best to fix those problems in order for everyone to have the best experience possible.

I hope this makes sense and that you’ll understand my reasonings to not make everyone focus solely on the gift making. 

[vesperass-anuna]

I have a few years of organizing these kinds of events under my belt so i’m not just criticizing without any base here. i wasn’t aware i was the one who was supposed to keep track of my secret santa because i was always in exchanges where organizers did that. (and yes iirc my secret santa went poof after two weeks). yes i like friendships that come out of fandom exchanges, but in order for them to work (gift exchanges), they need to be organized well. especially in the time of holidays. several people will always run into some kind of impossible to predict RL situation and will fold out of challenge. if that happens, organizers need a mechanism to know about that, whether it’s several check ins or by participants letting the organizers know. in my experience, you can never check too many times when these things are concerned, and some people just won’t remember to let the organizer know they’ll be delayed or won’t make it (in fact i am guilty of being late with my gift but i didn’t know i was supposed to notify anyone. there was no instruction in the rules of the exchange about what i should do. and i relied on you guys who organized the exchange. so i let my recipient know that they’ll get a belated present myself.)

yes, i did want a gift last year. and should i participate this year i would like to receive one (does that make me a bad person?) is that not a part of why everyone enters these exchanges? so that at the end you’d find a nice surprise waiting for you under fannish christmas tree? as for the nice anon messages every morning, i received about three. so i didn’t have much to look forward to during that wait until christmas, i hoped i would at least get a fic. you can’t make people write to their santa every day especially if they’re busy. some of my followers had entire chats with their santas. I could only watch and wonder where did my santa go and why they don’t message me.  i busted my ass off while working on the gift for my own recipient too. i hoped i’d get something. it turned out i got nothing (and after that happened few friends created few gifts to make me feel better), and frankly when i think about that it still makes me feel down. 

like i said, if you’d like some help i’m here. i’d love to participate too, because i love christmas and secret santa exchanges, but i don’t want to get a fandom equivalent of bag of coal like last year. 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Again, I’m sorry you had such a bad experience last year, but I can’t go back in time and change what happened to you. As I’ve said, we made some mistakes because it was the first time we organized this, thus we should’ve made more clear to everyone that if something wasn’t going the way it was supposed to then you guys should’ve come to us and tell us right after, but at the same time we did have people coming to tell us and we did fix the situation, more than once reassigning Santas.

Most of us are adults, and everyone before applying should really realize if they’re going to be able to commit to a project like this, in which you get something but also give in return. Yes, I will check in with people in December to avoid having someone left without a gift, but I’m not going to be a nanny breathing down people’s neck and making them feel anxious about something that’s supposed to be fun and pleasant. Personally, last year I made two gifts for the person I was assigned to because I wanted to make her happy and I felt like only one gift wasn’t enough, I surely didn’t make two because she asked for more. 

I will do my best to improve what didn’t go well last year, but I stand by my choice of making this project interaction-oriented. I don’t want people to turn this into a job where you have to make a gift and then give it to a person without getting to know that person. It should be about having fun, not about being stressed out about making a gift in time thinking that’s the only thing people expect from this. And if that’s the only thing they want and not to make new friends, than probably this project isn’t what you’re looking for. 

[vesperass-anuna]

I don’t think i said it should be a work to make everyone stressed. Nor did i say a challenge can’t work with interaction. Is there a place i said that? But i did say the challenge needs check ins. As for the part about adults, you’d be surprised. Not because people are bad, but because they tend to overestimate themselves and what they can do and how fast.

I can step down if you want me to. I did apply in good faith again, but i can step down. What i want is to feel included and last year certainly didn’t make ne feel like that (btw i didn’t ask for that to be fixed either) and i am telling you that too in good faith. If you’re organizing this kind of an event you should be able to check if everyone feels included and having fun like they should be and that can ge done without “breathing down people’s necks”. And, you know, not everyone was so lucky in making new friends. My supposed new friend bailed on me. So both things that were supposed to work in my case have failed. You can’t fix that but you can prevent it from happening again.

[skyewardsecretsanta]

I feel like this is going nowhere. I said multiple times in every reply that I am going to check in with people some time in December to prevent what happened last year to happen again, I really don’t know what you want me to say here.

[dianaagron]

Hi! I just wanted say/ask something about the Skyeward secret Santa (btw I'm so excited to be participating this year, thank you for organizing it again)--one of my friends who was part of it last year, never got her gift and apparently a few others didn't as well. so I was just wondering if you're going to have some kind of check ins, to make sure everyone gets their gifts?

Hi! You’re welcome, I’m happy so many people decided to apply. 

I will do check ins, but I also need people to come to me in the case their secret santa is not turning up. Last year we had some people telling us they hadn’t heard from their secret santa in a while (or never) and we were able to assign them another secret santa. After that, when it came to the deadline we didn’t hear about anomalies so, it being the first time we organized something like this, we didn’t check in with everyone. 

Now I didn’t write down on the rules in this first application post what it’s gonna happen in detail once I’m sending out the names, because I didn’t want to make the post extra long and it wasn’t necessary, but rest assured there will be more details once I’ll make the guideline post for when the names will be sent out. 

The key here other than me checking in with everyone is that first and foremost who decided to participate comes to me and tells me if something is not going the way it’s supposed to, because that way I can help to solve the problem :) 

Hopefully this was clear enough! Tell me if you still have questions (and maybe directly send an ask on the skyeward secret santa blog) :) 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Other than this, I wanted to address what @vesperass-anuna said in the other post (I didn’t want to reblog the application post to avoid long threads on the official post, hopefully you won’t mind). 

The point of our project, and I’m pretty sure a lot of people were satisfied by it last year, was to first and foremost enjoy the days that lead up to Christmas with the person you were assigned to and with your own Secret Santa and consequently to make new friends. That’s why I’m never going to tell people to give their wishlist to their secret santa and then expect them to make a gift they’ll deliver on the 25th without even knowing who is this person who was their santa. That way the matching process would just be useless because I could match people with the first random name I see instead of actively trying to find someone who share some interest with you. 

Is this better or worse? It depends on what you’re looking after. If your only desire is to get a present on Christmas, then probably this project is not what you need. I (and others with me) like the idea of waking up with a new nice message every day / other day, and that was what made the 80% of the experience good. A lot of people built lasting friendships after last year (I personally did, and by looking at the tags on the other post many others did as well), and again I don’t want to take the messages exchange part away.  I’ve participated to other gift exchanges in the previous years, and all of them included the daily messages exchange, so maybe it’s because of this that I can’t even imagine being completely focused on making a gift instead of caring about the person you’ve been assigned to and doing your best to try to make their December even slightly better. 

In the application we ask what people are able to make and what they’d like to receive, so when we match people up we also take into account what kind of gifts they’ll eventually want. Then everyone knows that one of the first things the participants have to do is to tell their secret santa what kind of gifts they’d like to receive. Again, this is how we organize it. I don’t want people to only focus on their gifts, especially because personally I’d feel like I’m “using” this person only to fulfill a wish I have. But this is my personal opinion and you can easily toss it in the trash. 

Again, last year we had people coming to us and telling us that their secret santa were nowhere to be seen and we replaced them. Being the first time we organized something like this we didn’t think about checking in with everyone (especially because we weren’t exactly ten people in total), but I will do that this time around in order to assure everyone someone to talk to for the whole month and a gift at the end. I’m genuinely sorry that some people like you were left without a gift last year, but please understand that it was the first time we organized this; again now knowing what didn’t work last year I will do my best to fix those problems in order for everyone to have the best experience possible.

I hope this makes sense and that you’ll understand my reasonings to not make everyone focus solely on the gift making. 

[vesperass-anuna]

I have a few years of organizing these kinds of events under my belt so i’m not just criticizing without any base here. i wasn’t aware i was the one who was supposed to keep track of my secret santa because i was always in exchanges where organizers did that. (and yes iirc my secret santa went poof after two weeks). yes i like friendships that come out of fandom exchanges, but in order for them to work (gift exchanges), they need to be organized well. especially in the time of holidays. several people will always run into some kind of impossible to predict RL situation and will fold out of challenge. if that happens, organizers need a mechanism to know about that, whether it’s several check ins or by participants letting the organizers know. in my experience, you can never check too many times when these things are concerned, and some people just won’t remember to let the organizer know they’ll be delayed or won’t make it (in fact i am guilty of being late with my gift but i didn’t know i was supposed to notify anyone. there was no instruction in the rules of the exchange about what i should do. and i relied on you guys who organized the exchange. so i let my recipient know that they’ll get a belated present myself.)

yes, i did want a gift last year. and should i participate this year i would like to receive one (does that make me a bad person?) is that not a part of why everyone enters these exchanges? so that at the end you’d find a nice surprise waiting for you under fannish christmas tree? as for the nice anon messages every morning, i received about three. so i didn’t have much to look forward to during that wait until christmas, i hoped i would at least get a fic. you can’t make people write to their santa every day especially if they’re busy. some of my followers had entire chats with their santas. I could only watch and wonder where did my santa go and why they don’t message me.  i busted my ass off while working on the gift for my own recipient too. i hoped i’d get something. it turned out i got nothing (and after that happened few friends created few gifts to make me feel better), and frankly when i think about that it still makes me feel down. 

like i said, if you’d like some help i’m here. i’d love to participate too, because i love christmas and secret santa exchanges, but i don’t want to get a fandom equivalent of bag of coal like last year. 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Again, I’m sorry you had such a bad experience last year, but I can’t go back in time and change what happened to you. As I’ve said, we made some mistakes because it was the first time we organized this, thus we should’ve made more clear to everyone that if something wasn’t going the way it was supposed to then you guys should’ve come to us and tell us right after, but at the same time we did have people coming to tell us and we did fix the situation, more than once reassigning Santas.

Most of us are adults, and everyone before applying should really realize if they’re going to be able to commit to a project like this, in which you get something but also give in return. Yes, I will check in with people in December to avoid having someone left without a gift, but I’m not going to be a nanny breathing down people’s neck and making them feel anxious about something that’s supposed to be fun and pleasant. Personally, last year I made two gifts for the person I was assigned to because I wanted to make her happy and I felt like only one gift wasn’t enough, I surely didn’t make two because she asked for more. 

I will do my best to improve what didn’t go well last year, but I stand by my choice of making this project interaction-oriented. I don’t want people to turn this into a job where you have to make a gift and then give it to a person without getting to know that person. It should be about having fun, not about being stressed out about making a gift in time thinking that’s the only thing people expect from this. And if that’s the only thing they want and not to make new friends, than probably this project isn’t what you’re looking for. 

[dianaagron]

Hi! I just wanted say/ask something about the Skyeward secret Santa (btw I'm so excited to be participating this year, thank you for organizing it again)--one of my friends who was part of it last year, never got her gift and apparently a few others didn't as well. so I was just wondering if you're going to have some kind of check ins, to make sure everyone gets their gifts?

Hi! You’re welcome, I’m happy so many people decided to apply. 

I will do check ins, but I also need people to come to me in the case their secret santa is not turning up. Last year we had some people telling us they hadn’t heard from their secret santa in a while (or never) and we were able to assign them another secret santa. After that, when it came to the deadline we didn’t hear about anomalies so, it being the first time we organized something like this, we didn’t check in with everyone. 

Now I didn’t write down on the rules in this first application post what it’s gonna happen in detail once I’m sending out the names, because I didn’t want to make the post extra long and it wasn’t necessary, but rest assured there will be more details once I’ll make the guideline post for when the names will be sent out. 

The key here other than me checking in with everyone is that first and foremost who decided to participate comes to me and tells me if something is not going the way it’s supposed to, because that way I can help to solve the problem :) 

Hopefully this was clear enough! Tell me if you still have questions (and maybe directly send an ask on the skyeward secret santa blog) :) 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Other than this, I wanted to address what @vesperass-anuna said in the other post (I didn’t want to reblog the application post to avoid long threads on the official post, hopefully you won’t mind). 

The point of our project, and I’m pretty sure a lot of people were satisfied by it last year, was to first and foremost enjoy the days that lead up to Christmas with the person you were assigned to and with your own Secret Santa and consequently to make new friends. That’s why I’m never going to tell people to give their wishlist to their secret santa and then expect them to make a gift they’ll deliver on the 25th without even knowing who is this person who was their santa. That way the matching process would just be useless because I could match people with the first random name I see instead of actively trying to find someone who share some interest with you. 

Is this better or worse? It depends on what you’re looking after. If your only desire is to get a present on Christmas, then probably this project is not what you need. I (and others with me) like the idea of waking up with a new nice message every day / other day, and that was what made the 80% of the experience good. A lot of people built lasting friendships after last year (I personally did, and by looking at the tags on the other post many others did as well), and again I don’t want to take the messages exchange part away.  I’ve participated to other gift exchanges in the previous years, and all of them included the daily messages exchange, so maybe it’s because of this that I can’t even imagine being completely focused on making a gift instead of caring about the person you’ve been assigned to and doing your best to try to make their December even slightly better. 

In the application we ask what people are able to make and what they’d like to receive, so when we match people up we also take into account what kind of gifts they’ll eventually want. Then everyone knows that one of the first things the participants have to do is to tell their secret santa what kind of gifts they’d like to receive. Again, this is how we organize it. I don’t want people to only focus on their gifts, especially because personally I’d feel like I’m “using” this person only to fulfill a wish I have. But this is my personal opinion and you can easily toss it in the trash. 

Again, last year we had people coming to us and telling us that their secret santa were nowhere to be seen and we replaced them. Being the first time we organized something like this we didn’t think about checking in with everyone (especially because we weren’t exactly ten people in total), but I will do that this time around in order to assure everyone someone to talk to for the whole month and a gift at the end. I’m genuinely sorry that some people like you were left without a gift last year, but please understand that it was the first time we organized this; again now knowing what didn’t work last year I will do my best to fix those problems in order for everyone to have the best experience possible.

I hope this makes sense and that you’ll understand my reasonings to not make everyone focus solely on the gift making. 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

Just a small suggestion, you should make it so people turn in the gifts to the blog that way you know if anyone is missing a gift =]

Hi! So the thing is that I want people to post their gifts on their own blogs because of crediting issues and so that way they’re the ones getting notes and not our blog. I’m going to check in with people as we’re in december though to see if everything is going smoothly. Hopefully this makes sense :) 

[skyewardsecretsanta]

We’re back! After last year’s success, we decided to bring back the Skyeward Secret Santa project to spread some love and positivity in the Skyeward fandom since canon is not giving us many reasons to rejoice. Our gift exchange will be a fun way to get to know other people who are just as crazy and probably bitter about Skyeward as you while enjoying with them the days that lead up to Christmas. Are you exited yet?

A little, but how does it work?

If you decide to join, we will send you an ask with the URL of a blog, and you’ll be the Secret Santa of that shipmate. Once you get assigned someone, you will have to send anonymous messages to this person so that you can get to know them better and possibly build a friendship and make them happy showering them with love during December! You’ll reveal yourself and give them your gift on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day and everyone will be happy, because you’ll also get your own Secret Santa who will do just the same for you.

That sounds nice, but what exact do you mean by gift?

You can make one or more gifts for the person who has been assigned to you, just be sure to have at least one ready by the deadline (Dec. 24th). Your gift can be one of these: fanfiction, fanvideo, fanmix, fanart, graphic edit, gifset, other: poems, songs, etc.

Alright, you’ve convinced me. Can you tell me the exact guidelines?

- reblog this post (so that you can help spread the word) - fil in this form to apply. You have until November 25th to send in your application. - you will be assigned a shipmate on December 1st - make sure your ask box is open and the anonymous option is enabled (we will check) - try to send as many anonymous messages to the person who’s been assigned to you as you can - really, don’t forget the anonymous - overall, be nice to your assigned shipmate and please apply only if you’re sure you’ll be able to make a gift in time for the deadline.

Check this blog for further announcements, the “skyeward secret santa“ tag, and if you have any questions or you need any kind of clarification don’t be afraid to send an ask.

I’m alone organizing the gift exchange this year so I made the deadline a little earlier than last year in order to have a couple of days in case there are latecomers (though please try not to wake up at the last minute) who want to join. You can also reach me at my private blog if you need anything. That being said, thank you for reading and make sure you apply!

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News are coming soon ~

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Hi! Is it too late to join :c

Hi, it actually is. We closed the applications on the 28th and sent off all the assignments today, so I'm afraid we can't anything anymore :(I'm so sorry!

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Hi! Could you please remind the participants to allow anonymous asks? :) I actually encountered problems already and it would be sad if my assigned person can't receive my love :(

People please enable the anonymous option in your asks! 

I actually checked everyone and i thought they all had it enable though? Because I messaged the people who didn't have it on but they were all really nice and they fixed it already!

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We’re finally sending off the urls! We’re so excited about finally starting to talk to our assigned shipmates during December! A few guidelines of what you have to do from now on:

Shower your assigned shipmate with love! Become their friend, please please try to talk to them everyday or at least every other day!

Remember to keep your identity secret by sending anonymous messages!

Ask them what they would like as a gift from you. As usual, the gift can be a - graphic edit (pic spam, general graphic, icon set, etc.) - gif set - fan mix (at least 8 songs) - fan fiction (try to make it at least 500 words) - fan video - fan art - poem

The number of gifts you’ll make to your shipmate is up to you.

You can use the “skyeward secret santa” tag to tag your asks and the eventual gifts 

You’ll reveal your identity on Christmas Eve night or Christmas day

We tried our best to match up people with shared interests, but you guys were a lot and in some cases we couldn’t do much. Just remember that this is a Skyeward project and we’re gonna bond over this beautiful ship, so please be friendly to whoever you get assigned to even if at first it seems like you’re two complete opposites: we still all love Skyeward a lot :D

Again, please remember to send anonymous messages throughout December! We don’t want to spoil the fun part! (me and giada also don’t know who our secret santas are because i took care of her assignment and she did the same for me, so we're basically gonna enjoy this as much as you are :D).

Have fun during December!

for further questions, contact us here: x (singularly: clara | giada)