Yay Christmas! Wishlist meme.

[cruiscin_lan]

There is nothing like Christmas to make me realize what a greedy greedy bitch I truly am at heart. Here's the meme to prove it!

The Rules

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 an 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.

My wishlist:

1. Totally cribbing this from speccygeekgrrl, but I too would like feedback on any of my fic. Concrit is totally acceptable; you don't have to be nice.
   
2. Someone to start reccing Glee fic at crack_van. I would sign up myself, but I'm far too lazy to do the fandom overview.
   
3. I'd really like a personalized layout, if anyone's talented like that! Header, a semi-friends-only banner, so on and so forth...
   
4. If a layout's too much to ask for, I'd like a personalized icon that I could use as a new default. I love Angela Petrelli and her badassness, but I'm looking for something more personal I could use in more fandoms now that Heroes is no longer my one and only. If it could say something appropriately bitchy, that'd be awesome!
   
5. Speaking of graphics, I could use a tutorial on how to color in GIMP. I like to draw with my tablet but coloring is beyond me.
   
6. Book recs! I've been reading a ton lately. Any fiction or nonfiction, especially short stories and essays, would be great!
   
7. Music recs, mixes, fanmixes - anything like that!
   
8. Non-shippy Glee recs or fics, especially those that could feature characters like Mercedes and Tina, who don't get much love in fic as far as I can tell.
   
9. Anyone want to be an email penpal? My address is cruiscin_lan@yahoo.com. It's my S/N too, but I'm not signed on all that often.
   
10. Paid account time is always appreciated, as are any add-ons!
    
    Anyone on my flist who posts a wishlist, I am going to try my damndest to get at least one of your wishes to come true.

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