The Second Annual CWCki Forums Secret Santa *CLOSED*

[Surtur]

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Basically, you will be assigned a member, you look at their likes and dislikes and use that and what you know of them to make something for them, like last year Champ drew a picture of me as a viking slaying an idiot, and I wrote a short story/poem for Hunger about how she, Odin and some weird ass gnome saved Christmas in Tamrial.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

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Sure, sounds cool. Warning: I get wordy when tired, and I've been marking essays, so I am crazy tired.

Likes: RPGs on paper, especially 1st ed AD&D and Call of Cthulhu; Renaissance Faires/SCA/other reenactment costuming (nothing much more recent than Jacobite Rebellions); bagpipe-and-drum music, whether regimental bands or modern bands like Albannach (rrrr, Jamesie Johnston); cooking; almost all animals, especially birds -- faves are crows, ravens, the whole corvid family; dinosaurs; the Lord of the Rings universe (and LOTR Online-- my user name is a LOTRO thing you were briefly able to get via Steam); Elder Scrolls games; Dragon Age games; poetry; a few anime (Ghost in the Shell, Read or Die, Haibane no renmei); Snoopy and Woodstock (and I ship Peppermint Patty/Marcie); fantasy and SF; Celtic mythology; original Star Wars; RHPS; Breaking Bad; Mythbusters; MST3K (if you can entertainingly riff a bad fanfic chapter or draw Tom Servo, you're amazing); learning tin whistle (favorite key is D major for nostalgic reasons); learning Scottish Gaelic/Gaidhlig (flashcards? Actually useful phrases or swear words?); the Grateful Dead; Doc Martens; teddy bears (although that movie "Ted" makes me stabby); really good makeup tutorials with drugstore-budget products; tattoos and piercings.

Dislikes: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan, that whole genre of dudebro/toilet humor; Jeff Dunham; rom-coms; Twilight; ICP/Juggalos; Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, etc.; most horror movies, especially franchises that are past their sell-by date; guro; most FPS vidya; onions, tomatoes, bell peppers due to legit allergies; tobacco, same reason; most loli fashion, ruffles attached to my body, Pixyteri kawaii shit; bronies, loveshies, MRAs; Nick Bate; most US sports, although I have a soft spot for the Baltimore Ravens; math; most of the "Greek" (fraternity/sorority) system -- if you know much about Penn State, where I did undergrad, you'll understand this; people who make a point of telling me they hate reading when they find out I teach in the English department, including my own students.

Emergency gift: OK if the recipient is open to written gifts

 

[Dork Of Ages]

Re: The Second Annual CWCki Forums Secret Santa

Basically, you will be assigned a member, you look at their likes and dislikes and use that and what you know of them to make something for them, like last year Champ drew a picture of me as a viking slaying an idiot, and I wrote a short story/poem for Hunger about how she, Odin and some weird ass gnome saved Christmas in Tamrial.

Thanks! Now I get it!

 

[Surtur]

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Not a problem, like I said it just has to be fun and from the heart. Whatever you think works,

 

[Fialovy]

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Likes: D&D, Final Fantasy (the older ones like IV), Dragon Quest,Sailor Moon, Lovecraft, A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones), Pokemon (old and new), Masked Rider (the Saban adaptation of Kamen Rider)
Dislikes: dwarves named Thogar (long story), idiot extremists, 50 Shades of Grey and pretty much most romance novels unless there is a lot of fighting and action and stuff.
Will you be able to make an emergency gift? No

 

[spaps]

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Likes: POSTAL, Evil Dead, Saints Row, DOOM, Jet Set Radio, Archer, Hot Fuzz, They Live, Terminator, James Bond, Team Fortress 2, Duke Nukem, The Blues Brothers, Dupstep Gun, shotguns, Sonichu, SammyClassicSonicFan.
Dislikes: Call of Duty, Scary Movie, Blues Brothers 2000, country music, Rob Schneider.
Will you be able to make an emergency gift: No.

 

[TheIncredibleLioness]

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I tend to like a lot of options, and I'm going to try and give others/whoever my matchup is a lot of options, in no particular order. Apologies if it's wordy.

Likes: Art (the little art I receive is typically characters from my own stuff, but I like any art, whether it be HAND ARTERY or BLOCKY AND LOW RESOLUTION digital); Art Nouveau; old books/handwriting; books in general; writing; Neverwhere (read the book first but have a fondness for the original BBC series); Sailor Moon (anime and live-action); Harry Potter; the original Pokémon games; libraries; historical fashion (not fussy as to time period, though I have a fondness for eighteenth century and early Regency); astronomy (despite being terrible at it, but space is friggin' awesome and beautiful); sci-fi and fantasy; The Hunger Games; Stoker's Dracula; costume dramas; Supernatural; paranormal stuff (more of a preference for ghosts/apparitions/demons/stuff like that); Nightwish; Lacuna Coil; The Phantom of the Opera (both book and various musicals, though I'm most familiar with the ALW version); some lolita fashion (it varies -- some of it I hate but there are some simpler pieces I like, even if I wouldn't wear it); Kate Beaton's work; coffee; tea; cats (despite being terribly allergic); blueberries; Greek mythology; cardigans; the colour blue; short hair.

Dislikes: Idiots; people who tell me, "you need a DEGREE to be a librarian/shelve books? lololol"; Nick Bate; spiders; millipedes; 50 Shades of Grey; extremists; sports; dirtiness/filthiness (Casa de Chandler would make me jump out of my skin); math; statistics; Eragon/the Inheritance Cycle; gory movies/gore; this trend of mashing up historical figures and/or novels with some ~*~new twist~*~ (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I AM LOOKING AT YOU); Chris' stupidity; Nick Bate; loveshies/MRAs; reality TV (I have a fondness for Say Yes to the Dress, more for the dresses than the drama); excessive noise; Microsoft Access; weeners; peanuts (due to being allergic -- I don't even like the smell, though that's not enough to set off a reaction); obnoxious frat guys/culture, though you don't see too many of those in my graduate program; "sexy ____" Halloween costumes; denim skirts.

Will you be able to make an emergency gift? Sadly, no.

...yeah, that's wordy all right.

 

[Saney]

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Likes: Halo, Star Wars, Firefly, Supernatural, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Saints Row, General Grievous, The Dresden Files, Stpehen King, Alien/Predator, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Overlord
Dislikes: Loveshies, Wizards, Karen Traviss, Boba Fett (you're not a badass if all you do is stand around and get eaten by a sand vagina), Twilight, FRED/ANYTHING by Lucas Cruikshank, iJustine, my brother
Emergency gift: No, sorry

 

[Sakamoto]

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Sure, I need one more project on the pile of things to do.

Likes: Art, cute anime girls (Lucky Star, Azumanga, Nichijou, Pokemon, others), comics, funny stuff, bunnies, history.

Dislikes: MLP, McDonalds, screaming kids, censorship, working hard to survive while other people do nothing and get

Emergency gift: No, I'll probably stress enough trying to come up with a good idea when I have plenty of time.

 

[PvtRichardCranium]

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Likes: Command and Conquer, Doom, Crysis, Predator, Wayne's World, Slayer, UHF
Dislikes: Wizardchan, Posers
Emergency Gift: Yes

 

[José Mourinho]

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Spoiler

I didn't get a present last year. Hope to get one this year.

 

[Watcher]

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Likes: Zorak from the brak show, good stories, a nice conversation, horror movies, Alice in Wonderland, John Carpenter movies
Dislikes: Anything pretentious
Will you be able to make an emergency gift? nah

I have a question. It's stated you have til December the 10th to present your gift, how early can we present our gift?

 

[darkhorse816]

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I'm game.

Likes: Writing, The Beatles (John and George are my favorites), Super Sentai (Gokaiger), various TV shows and movies (It's Always Sunny, That 70s Show, South Park, Mad Men, The L Word, Freaks and Geeks, Breathless--the Godard one, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Enter The Dragon, Battle Royale, Pacific Rim, A Clockwork Orange, Harold and Kumar, Easy Rider, A Hard Day's Night, Help, Boogie Nights), wire haired fox terriers, sleeping.

Dislikes: Glee, the color pink, gifts with zero effort behind them, Twilight, MLP, Lisa Simpson, Lois Griffin, Ann Coulter, Kristen Stewart.

Would I be able to do an emergency gift: Maybe...

 

[Surtur]

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Updated! Let me know if I forgot you.

Spoiler

I didn't get a present last year. Hope to get one this year.

What happened? I remember someone didn't, its why I am doing this a bit more in advance this year.

 

[champthom]

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If it's supposed to be something personalized then my idea won't work. What I was getting at was I had noticed a lot of people had D&D on their list of likes and I write third party Pathfinder stuff and can likely finagle free copies of .pdf products from the company I work for. But that seems to be the direct opposite of the spirit of the thing so... nevermind.

As the TRUE and HONEST creator of the Secret Santa Exchange (though I let Surtur run it because I'm a lazy asshole admin), I'll chime in. The idea is pretty much to make something from the heart that doesn't really cost money. It's a way so people can participate without worrying about spending money on an Internet stranger.

Just as a few more examples, I stol- I MEAN WAS INSPIRED the idea from the same sort of exchange we do on PVCC. One year, I got a lovely comic about Santa visiting Chris and how I come in at the last minute to stop Santa from giving Chris the gifts he wants. Last year, I got pictures of a Champ the Crab puppet (like, it was a very lovely drawing glued to a popsicle stick) in front of a Christmas tree and one with the person's dog.

The idea isn't so much about the gift itself, it's about the gesture and the thought.

 

[Stalin]

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I'm game!

Likes: The arts, anything to do with WW2, SNK, and Quentin Tarantino movies (especially Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds).
Dislikes: the color pink? Crappy TV shows?
Emergency gift: Sure

 

[Fibonacci]

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Spoiler

I didn't get a present last year. Hope to get one this year.

What happened? I remember someone didn't, its why I am doing this a bit more in advance this year.

A few participants forgot/neglected to make a gift and I was unable to get enough people willing to do an emergency and didn't have the time to fulfill the gifts myself.

I'm taking extra precautions to ensure that everyone gets a gift this year...

Earlier today, I had an extra $200,000 worth of bitcoins that I would have loved dearly to give in the Secret Santa. Instead, I gave it to the best two hit men this side of the internet. Now, whatever happens after the 10th, they'll still be out there keeping tabs. And if, for any reason, that a participant does not get a gift from their Secret Santa, a kind of... countdown will begin. Maybe a day or so later, maybe a week or a year, when you're going for a scroll on encyclopaedia dramatica, /cow/ or Fark - where ever - and you're talking about your LOLcows... without a worry in the world. And then - suddenly - you'll hear the scrape of a footstep behind you, but before you can even turn around...

*POP*​

... darkness.

Cheer up, beautiful people.

This is where you get to make it right.

 

[Surtur]

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In other words, if you do not get your gift by the 10th, let me know. I am starting early to make sure everyone has time to make something.

 

[CatParty]

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when do we know who we get?

 

[Surtur]

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Ill need to work that out with Fib, but by the weekend of November 9th is what I am shooting for. So we have a month to make something awesome.