ITS OCTOBER Y’ALL YOU KNOW WHAT’S UP
For the fifth year running, fasten your seatbelts and extract your pens and pencils from under the sofa/behind your ears/from your pencil cases like civilized human beings !
As always, even if you can’t join in, we’d be really grateful if you could signal boost by re-blogging! I’ll also be cross-posting to my Twitter *here* if that’s more your jam, please like and RT~
(gratuitously copypasta’d from last year’s post) For those who have never done a Secret Santa before, the way it works is you submit a gift request, which goes into a pool which is then randomised. The randomised requests are then handed out to the participants.
So basically, its Mystery Gift! Everyone draws/writes a Dota-themed gift for someone. You won’t know who it’s for, and you won’t know who is doing yours! Then at Christmas we hand out the completed gifts anonymously to whomever they belong, via email.
Sounds good, where do I sign?
What do I write in my application email?
1. Your name / tumblr tag - a link to your blog would also be helpful so we know who you are and can contact you if emails not working or something.
2. Preferred gift rating. NSFW requests are totally okay as long as they are not offensive/racist/sexist but if you’d like something NSFW, please also provide a SFW alternative request as not everyone is comfortable drawing such content. If you don’t mind receiving NSFW but would prefer not to submit it, please tell us and vice versa.
3. Your actual request! If you prefer shipping/non shipping, please tell me.
- “Invoker eating cake whilst wearing a santa hat”
- “(character X) and (character Y) frickin’ the dang frack like there’s no tomorrow…. while wearing santa hats! SFW Alternative: they’re not fricking the frack they’re just playing Twister at a party”
(Disclaimer: Santa hats are optional)
4. Whether you would be able to fill an extra gift if needed. Hopefully I won’t need to call on anyone, but in case of emergency this would be very much appreciated.
Applications: 27th November 2017, 00:00 GMT
Gift submission: 21st December 2017, 22:00 GMT
GIFT EXCHANGE WILL TAKE PLACE ON 25th December 2017 (time TBC)
- Don’t be a butt. (generally the best rule to live by)
- Complete the gift using your MAD SKILLS, be it drawing or writing fanfic! If you have other cool magic abilities like animating, you’re welcome to use those too!
- Please submit completed works only. Your gift should be fully coloured if it’s art, and properly formatted and spell-checked if it’s a written piece.
- Please don’t post any completed gifts on your blog before the gifts are exchanged on Christmas Day!
- if the deadline is approaching and you know you won’t be able to submit in time, please tell me as soon as possible so I can arrange for someone else to fill it.
- if you’d like to remain anonymous, please tell us (there will be masterposts of all the submissions a couple of days after exchange)
- I’ll be tracking the tumblr tag ‘dota secret santa 2017’. If you have any issues, inbox me or hmu on Twitter! (link above)
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