#h50 Secret Santa

[hawaiifiveohana]

How to participate in Hawai’i Five 0’s Secret Santa!

->Send a private message to @goneahead with six things:

🎄1. Your tumblr name

🎄2. Your A03 name

🎄3. Your email address

🎄4. Tell us if you are willing to pinch hit for a second giftee (in case somebody cannot make a gift for their Secret Santa)

🎄 5. A wish list of 4 things you would like to receive!

What kind of things should you include? Well—do you love whump? Want domestic fluff art? Love gif posts with lyrics? Do you like certain AUs, like merman or sentinel? Want some McDanno artwork? Would you love to see ace McDanno fic? Or maybe you love enemies to friends stories? Your Secret Santa will choose one of these four things as your gift—so be specific!

🎄6. A list of what you'd love to give!

It helps if you give several alternatives of things you like to write or draw. Maybe you love writing AUs or whump. Or you don’t feel comfortable writing/drawing explicit porn. Or you love to make gifs, but you don’t write fic. The more we know, the better we can match you up with your giftee!

->The proverbial fine print:

-All fic gifts should be at least 500 words.

-Art gifts should be colored.

-Gif gifts should include at least four gifs.

Schedule!

🎁Secret Santa opens Oct. 1st, closes Oct. 18th. Secret Santas will be assigned Oct. 20th.

🎁You will get a wish list of four things your giftee would like. Choose one of those as your gift.

🎁 @goneahead be checking in with you: Nov 1, Nov 15, Nov 30

🎁Gifts should be posted on both Tumblr (a link to A03 is fine) and A03 between Dec. 15th and Dec. 21st.

->More fine print!

We will try to match people up the best we can, but if you look at your giftee’s list and it’s just not gonna work, please let @goneahead know! That happens with gift exchanges—and it’s totally OK to ask for a different giftee. That’s why we have pinch hitters!

Sometimes real life happens and you just can’t make a gift. Again, that’s OK! H50 is a low-pressure fandom, and we know how things can suddenly goes pear-shaped. Just let @goneahead know as soon as possible, so we can give one of the pinch hitters plenty of time to make a gift for your Secret Santa giftee!

[mayberrycryptid]

🍰🥳🍰Tomorrow is H50’s 14th birthday!!!🍰🥳🍰

🧁@adreamersince1996 made two great gif posts for the pilot here and here

🧁@meelopee did a fic rec post here

🧁and if you missed it, @alea-gifs did several posts about the pilot: click for first post click for tag instead

🧁and @alea-says recently posted a great promo vid

🧁There are also many other posts about the pilot on the H50 community because we are obsessed totally rational fans😏

🎄Secret Santa is up!!!🎄

🎃and finally, the October calendar is up! We will be doing Inktober and Whumptober and watching the Halloween episodes!

🎃fyi! some people are preferring to the AI-less Whumptober and you can find that list here!

🤙We may be a small fandom, but we are the bestest small fandom on tumblr!!!!!🤙

[lynne-monstr]

I found my nook e-reader from way back when and charged it up for this weekend trip and holy crap I am looking at the books I put on it like 8 years ago and it is a treasure trove. It has:

all the star wars obi wan and qui gon official prequel novels

a bunch of random h50 fic

my 2013 germancest secret santa draft that I got stuck on

a bunch of the sherlock holmes stories

the count of monte cristo

also several leverage fics

wow what a find. I feel like I just opened a mini time capsule

[aceofwhump]

Hi there! I feel like every year I just end up watching the same handful of Christmas movies, so decided it's finally time for me to broaden my horizons this year. I see that you appear to be quite a fan of Christmas movies & was wondering if by any chance you may have seen any of the following & can vouch for whether any of them are any good & worth a watch: Wish Upon a Christmas and Santa's Squad both starring Aaron Ashmore, Buttons: A Christmas Tale starring Ioan Gruffud 1/2

Home for the Holidays starring RDJ & A Princess for Christmas starring Sam Heughan. I like those four actors so those are ones I've kind of stumbled across whilst scouring for things to watch but I'm also open to any suggestions if you have any other recs😉? I realize that the majority of festive/Christmas movies are unlikely to feature any significant whump in them but if you happen to know of any that do that would also be a bonus! Thank you❤! 2/2

You have come to the right place my friend!! I LOVE Christmas movies so much!! 

So I’ve seen 3 out of the 5 of those films. Unfortunately none of them really have any whump to them. Such is the way of Christmas/Holiday/Hallmark movies. 

A Princess for Christmas with Sam Heughan and Katie McGrath is SO GOOD!! I love it a lot. I watch it every year. It’s so cute and it’s really funny watching Sam play the harsh, badass, unpolished Jamie Fraser and then watching him playing the super posh clean cut royalty type. And Katie is SO funny and amazing like usual. Highly recommend.

Wish Upon a Christmas with Aaron Ashmore is also good! He plays a dad in the film and runs a Christmas ornament making business and he’s super handsome and cute in it. It also stars  Larisa Oleynik who plays Jenna Kaye in H50 if you’ve seen that. I think it’s super charming and cute and has a nice touch of Christmas magic in it.

I have not yet watched Santa's Squad but I have it in my dvr to watch soon.

Home for the Holidays I’ve only seen once a long time ago and it was purely because of RDJ lol. It’s kind of a crazy film but I think it's so good. Naturally RDJ was phenominal in it. 

I have not seen Buttons but GOD I WANT TO!!! It looks amazing and definitely look to be up my alley with it’s historical aspect, musical aspect, and Ioan Gruffdd!! I’m totally putting it on my watch list. 

There's a ton of holiday movies I love but here are some of my favs that I don't see often (Most are Hallmark/Lifetime:

The Spirit of Christmas

Love Under the Christmas Table

Nine Lives of Christmas

Nutcracker Christmas

Christmas Truce

One Royal Holiday

Noelle

The Christmas Chronicles

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Holiday in the Wild

Operation Christmas Drop

The Grinch 2018

Christmas Cottage

Christmas Lodge

A Gift to Remember

Christmas Waltz

A Timeless Christmas

Christmas Secret

I can honestly go on forever lol. It's hard to find holiday movies with whump though and sadly these dont really have whump in them. Sorry. We need more

[the-itzy-bitzy-spider]

@icoulddthisallday @chibisquirt @bennettmp339 

just in case any of my h50 pals are interested

McDanno Holiday Gift Exchange

I wanted to do something fun this year, so I will be running a McDanno Holiday Gift Exchange on A03.  Any media type (art, fics, etc.) that can be posted on AO3 is allowed for both requests and offers.  

If you’d like to participate, click on the link above for the collection dashboard.  Please make sure to read the FAQs and Rules.  Sign-ups are open now and will close on November 30th.  

I’d love for a ton of people to participate to spread some McDanno holiday cheer, so please sign up and have fun!

[thekristen999]

So, @narkito tagged me for a writing meme and I had some time tonight to play around with it :)

1. How many works in progress do you have?

I have a Daredevil/Jessica Jones/The Punisher crossover that is in the beta phase right now.

I’m mulling over my Daredevil Secret Santa due in a few weeks.

I have an unfinished McDanno story that I might use for my H50 Big Bang story. I have around 20k written for it and I’m not sure how much more it’ll need. It requires quite  a bit of revision.

2. Do you/would you write fan fiction?

Yes.

3. Do you prefer paper books or e-books?

I prefer paperback books. I love graphic novels, and I tend to read fanfic on my laptop.

4. When did you start writing?

I started reading fanfic when I discovered the X-Files. But I first started writing in the ER fandom which was mostly hosted on yahoo groups then ff.net. Most of the authors on those groups were people in the medical field which is where I learned how to write emergency room and other trauma situations in a more realistic way. The resource page for the yahoo groups was a researcher’s dream come to true!

I moved to the CSI fandom then Stargate Atlantis and I’m currently in the Hawaii Five-O and Marvel fandom.

5. Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

Oh, yes!  I have a few beta and alpha readers that I trust a lot!

I don’t write WIPs and it’s a very lonely process, especially when a story takes months to write. But I feel writing to completion benefits the process when it comes to story flow and plot development. And I’ve never had a story that didn’t need changes in earlier sections. So, alpha readers help cheer me on when I’ve been writing for weeks/months and I need that emotional lift or if I need someone to gently tell me that I have a gaping plot hole :)

I have several go-to beta readers depending on the fandom. They really push me to be a better writer.

6. Where is your favorite place to write?

On my living room sofa with my headphones listening to music.

7. Favorite book as a child?

I’m not sure I have one. Maybe A Wrinkle in Time

8. Writing for fun or publication?

For fun.  My goal is publication one day.

9. Have you taken any writing classes?

I took a screen writing class in college, but nothing else.

10. What inspired you to write?

It’s always been for creative outlet. I’m an introvert and while I have a nice small circle of friends that I hang out with, I prefer writing at home than going out.  For a long period of time I bounced from crisis to crisis and writing provided catharsis. Now it’s more for enjoyment.

I’ll leave this for anyone else to grab :)

[hawaiifiveohana]

Halloween

🚎 FYI - I will be traveling to my winter campground Oct 1st through Oct 20th. I may or may not have internet so things may get posted late!😜

🎄H50 Secret Santa Sign-Ups are Oct 1st through Oct 17th!

🎄Art, fic, gifs are all welcome as gifts!

🎄Pinch hitters are also needed in case someone can’t make a gift for some reason.

🎄Secret Santas wll be assigned Oct 19th

🎄Secret Santa Check In: Nov 1st, Nov 15th, Nov 30th

🎄Secret Santas need to be posted Dec 15th - 21st. Please post your gift to both Tumblr and A03)

🎃I have reblogged Whumptober 2024’s list to @hawaiifiveohana We’ll have Thurs check-ins if you are doing whumptober!

👻Hawaii Five-0 Halloween Episode List:

🎃Ka lwi Kapu (Sacred Bones) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Two, Episode Seven (2011)

🎃Mohai (Offering) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Three, Episode Five (2012)

🎃Kupouli ‘la (Broken) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Four, Episode Six (2013)

🎃Ho’oma’ike (Unmasked) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Five, Episode Six (2014)

🎃Na Pilikua Nui (Monsters) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Six, Episode Six (2015)

🎃Ka hale ho’okauweli (House of Horrors) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Seven, Episode Six (2016)

🎃Kama’oma’o, ka ‘aina huli hana (At Kama’oma’o, the Land of Activities) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Eight, Episode Five (2017)

🎃A’ohe mea ‘imi a ka maka (Nothing More the Eyes to Search For) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Nine, Episode Five (2018)

🎃He ‘oi’o kuhihewa; he kaka ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaula (Don’t Blame Ghosts and Spirits for One’s Troubles) – Hawaii Five-0: Season Ten, Episode Five (2019)

[hawaiifiveohana]

November Calendar!!!

🌈November we will be focusing on AUs (alternative universes)!!! World building, AU recs, AU prompts, etc.

📚We're doing a H50 bookclub on Fridays! We'll be reading the fic that got the most votes: Sympathy for the Werewolf We will read two chapters a week!!!

🌈Thurs check-in is for Napowrimo, Secret Santa, and any other project(s) you are working on!

🎄Secret Santa Check ins are Nov. 1st, Nov. 15, and Nov. 30!

[mayberrycryptid]

Pix by A0L blog

header art by @gatorasmus

Places to find Hawaii Five-0:

🌸H50 Tumblr Community

🎄H50 Secret Santa!

🌸November Calendar for the Community

🌸calendars & links to current writing/art challenges: @hawaiifiveohana

🌸tumblr tag: #H50

🌸tumblr blogs: @five-wow @h50europe @cowandcalf @stephmcx @ellena-asg @shakapuffin @stormychick34 @stellagioia @bgharison @tissueoflies @hi808h50 @teruel-a-witch  @alea-says @bennyokelly @trickster-archangel @alea-gifs

🌸Steve’s awards and ribbons are here There is another post with even more info here.

🌸H50 headquarters info and layout is here

🌸 List of known birthdays is here.

🌸@stephmcx has a rec list tag here

🌸and also has A03 bookmarks here

🌸@piratefalls has two rec lists: here and here

🌸 Discord Server Link

🌸Fandom wiki

🌸wattpad

🌸ffnet

🌸A03

🌸A03 tag for 10x22 codas