#secret santa 2024

[yurionice-secretsanta]

5 days left to sign up in!

Welcome to the Yuri!!! on Ice Secret Santa 2024 edition! This upcoming Holiday season you can join the YOI Secret Santa gift exchange, to make Christmas a little extra special for all your following YOI fans! It will of course results in a lot of wonderful new YOI stories, art and other creations that’ll will enrich the fandom even more ;)

SIGN UPS ARE NOW OPEN!

How it works:

You MUST have a Tumblr or AO3

Sign up with what you want to make ( e.g. fic or fanvideo)

Also list what you’d like to receive (e.g. gifsets, drawings)

Add which characters and pairings you like to receive (e.g. Victuuri, Otayuri)

List some of your likes (e.g. Soulmate AU, Fantasy AU)

List which dislikes and you don’t want to receive or make (e.g. Daddy kink, Angst)

Sign ups are done via a google form

SIGN UP DEADLINE: Friday NOVEMBER 8TH After that assignments will be send out to everyone by email on November 9th/10th, and then you’ll have around three weeks to make gifts for the person assigned to you ^_^

»» Read the guidelines here ««

»» Sign Up here! ««

GIFT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 1TH (no specific time, just submit on that Sunday or any day prior to that!)

On Christmas Eve/Day (24th/25th) all the gifts will be posted for everyone! Then on the 28th and after you’re are of course free to post the gifts you made to your own Tumblr or any other site ^_^

If you still have questions, don’t hesitate to send an ask!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!

Also please help signal boost this post, by re-blogging it, would be much appreciated <3

[secret-third-thing]

If you were given $50,000 to spend and it could only be on something frivolous (nothing practical or something you could use to make money from), what would you spend your money on?

Hire an interior decorator and let them pick out shit for me. Normally I hire folks for designs and then I figure out the rest, but this time I'd just let them go ham.

Also a new wardrobe and PC upgrades.

Now for you: Please go look up the dragon age veilguard romancable characters and tell me who you'd bone. (NO SPOILERS TO THEIR STORIES THO)

[animaniacssecretsanta]

It's almost that time again! Time to learn the day's lesson? No! Time to sign up for the 2024 Animaniacs Secret Santa! It was so fun last year and we got many requests to hold it again, so here we are! We hope to see you celebrate with us again this year!

[2024 SIGN UP FORM]

sign ups close SEPTEMBER 30th! (reblogs are appreciated to reach more people!)

[spnfanficpond]

Secret Santa 2024 Edition

It’s the season for giving and receiving! Join the SpnFanFicPond's Secret Santa Fic Exchange between Monday, October 28th, and Friday, November 15th, to be paired up with another writer based on your interests. You write for them, and they write for you.

Fill Out This Form

Deadline: December 25th 

Frequently Asked Questions

When can I post my fic?

Post any time up until December 25!

What do you do once you finish writing your fic:

Once you complete your usual process, post it with a tag for your Secret Santa partner, and then send us the link here or in Discord DMs.

Can I mix with other bingos and challenges I'm doing?

Yes, as long as you are filling your exchange partner's request!

Some handy but not required prompts if you're looking for inspiration: 

Trying to surprise your partner for a date

baking/cooking for your partner

going on a hunt 

stuck in a snowstorm/stuck at home because of a snowstorm

possessed turkey, haunted stuffing

Santa is real

winter sports gone wrong

Santa’s bag is actually full of naughty children

[Character of choice]’s cooking lands someone in the hospital

Rowena enchants everyone’s gifts for lols

[shadowsandlint]

Azriel, having a feeling™: ........

Rhysand: *smirking knowingly*

Azriel, still having a feeling™, but now flavored in pumpkin spice: Oh, nooo

[be-compromised]

Secret Santa 2024 Sign Ups Explained

Hi All and welcome to Secret Santa 2024! 

This is a Clint Barton and/or Natasha Romanoff end of year fic exchange where matching is based on prompts and everything is anonymous until the author reveals at the end. You don't need to be a member of the be_compromised community to take part, however almost all of the exchange will be taking place on AO3, so you will need an AO3 account; if you don't have one and would like an invite code please contact a mod. Prompt Choices is the one element that will be done on dreamwidth.

Whilst this is labelled a 'Secret Santa' as it takes place in the run up to Christmas, fics do NOT have to be related to Christmas, New Year, winter etc. We welcome celebrations of other holidays and no theme at all. However we understand if you would rather not take part due to the labelling. We wish you all a happy holiday season <3

TIMELINE

SIGN UP: from now until 16:00 GMT Monday 14 October. CHOICES POST: will go up as soon as possible and be available until 16:00 GMT Sunday 20 October. ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: we aim to have these to you within the following few days. (If all participants make their choices earlier, then we'll aim to get assignments out earlier!) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 16:00 GMT Monday 9 December. (This is to allow time for pinch hitting if/where needed.) GIFT POSTING/REVEALS: Dependent on if participants submit on time / any pinch hit requirements, we aim to reveal gifts somewhere between 16 to 19 December. AUTHOR REVEALS: We aim to reveal authors 22 to 24 December, giving readers some time to read gifts before we do this.

Read on for information on how to take part, or go to AO3.

HOW TO TAKE PART IN THE EXCHANGE:

1) SIGN UP HERE AT AO3.

In the REQUEST section in 'Details/Description' you must include: at least 4 prompts and no more than 6. These can be anything! From a one word prompt like 'kisses' to a specific AU idea. Past Secret Santa prompts (such as 2023 here) or promptathon prompts (2024 here) may be helpful if you get stuck. If you really don't mind what gift you receive then please feel free to say so, but you MUST leave at least 4 prompts for your giftee to have something to work with.

You are also welcome to include in the 'Details/Description' section: - a Yes Please note: a brief list of things you like that aren't as specific as a prompt, such as a preference for the comics or film, sexy times, female friendships, hurt/comfort etc. Your gift giver isn’t obliged to use them, but it can help give them some ideas. - a No Thank You note: anything that you really do not want, such as character death, angst, fluff, anything that might be triggering for you etc. Feel free to specify if some things are just a rather not and some are no-way, not-ever.

Matching will be based on the information from the 'Details/Description' section ONLY. Optional: you can use 'Ratings', 'Archive Warnings' and 'Categories' to list all those that you would be comfortable receiving. You can use 'Characters', 'Relationships', and 'Tags' to select things that you like (from all canonical AO3 tags). As above, your gift giver is not obliged to consider or use these, but it may help them with ideas.

In the OFFER section the only thing you need to complete is the 'Details/Description' with: - I'd Rather Not: things that you don’t really like to create or feel uncomfortable with, anything you don’t feel confident in writing or a genre that isn’t your strength. As we have also been running this exchange for a while, also if there are any people you've written for a lot of times before that you'd rather not write for again this year. - Absolutely Not: Things that are an absolute no for you, such as anything triggering, character death, things that you will not do.

2) The prompts and any additional notes you included in the 'Details/Description' section for your REQUEST will be anonymised and posted to the community dreamwidth. You MUST reply in a comment to that Choices Post (comments will only be visible to the mods) with your top three picks of which requests you’d like to create for. You don't need a dreamwidth account to do this; you can comment using OpenID or anonymously, however please remember to include your AO3 handle in your comment so we know who you are! (More information will be available in the Choices Post.) This will be available as soon as possible following the closing of sign ups until 16:00 GMT Sunday 20 October. (If all participants comment earlier we will try to get matching and assignments out faster.)

3) Your prompt choices will be used by the mods to do manually match participants in the exchange. We can't guarantee that you’ll get your choices, but we’ll do our best keep to your choices as much as possible! Where there are any issues with matching or where participants have not commented to the prompt choices post as in (2) we will use your OFFER notes to help with matching and avoid your 'Absolutely Nots'. (In rare cases you may get a request that has something it in from your ‘rather not’ section that you can ignore, because the request has other prompts in it or because it’s not a deal breaker for the requester, but these are things that we will make sure you don’t get in your assignment if we can absolutely help it.)

4) Assignments will be sent out and you'll have until 16:00 GMT Monday 9 Decemberto submit your gifts (which aims to cover our usual 'midnight on the Sunday whatever your timezone).

5) We will reveal gifts in the week leading up to Christmas (aiming for 16 to 19 December; exact dates to be confirmed depending on any pinch hit requirements) and authors will be revealed the weekend before Christmas (aiming for 22 to 24 December).

You can also sign up as a pinch hitter for this event as well as or instead of taking part in the main exchange on dreamwidth here.

And/or you can volunteer to be a beta reader in the community discord Writing Help channel, create clintasha graphics and art to inspire and keep us going, and cheerlead - what would fandom be without cheerleaders?! We LOVE comments and encouragement and all the great stuff that makes this comm the place it is <3

RULES:

1) We're a community for fans of Clint Barton aka Hawkeye and Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, individually as well as paired together as friends, partners, lovers, spouses, or any combination. We welcome all things Marvel, including other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes). For this exchange, at least ONE of your prompts MUST focus on Clint/Natasha or Clint & Natasha, OR be a generic prompt to enable everyone who takes part to have a prompt they know that they can fill. All gifts should include Clint and/or Natasha in some capacity.

2) Fics must be a MINIMUM of 1,000 words and should be no more than 10,000 words.

3) Please treat everyone with respect. This includes no character bashing or ship wars. (Saying what you like: yes. Disparaging what other people like: no.) Bigotry will not be tolerated. Our community is a positive fandom space.

4) No plagarism. For the purposes of this exchange, we also ask that you do not use AI or chatbots to create fics. We are interested in what YOU create, and in what YOU put your time and effort into.

5) As we're a community primarily focussed on fictional characters, we ask you please not to post any Real Person Fanfiction.

6) All fics must include a rating and either appropriate AO3 warnings OR choose not to warn if/as applicable.

7) This is an anonymous exchange, so don’t reveal who your giftee is until after the reveals! Please feel free to let people know that you're taking part, however please don't link to a gift letter, share your prompts, post your gift elsewhere, identify yourself in an author note, or otherwise reveal yourself until the author reveals at the end of the exchange. For people who have taken part in our annual exchange before, a reminder to please make sure your request/prompts are different to in previous years to keep things anonymous!

ANY QUESTIONS?

We will maintain an FAQ on AO3 for this exchange. If you would like to ask any questions we've not already thought of or to contact a mod you have a few options:

1) For anonymous queries: reply to this post. All comments will be screened to keep you and your question anonymous. Mods will not be able to reply to your comment without unscreening it, so please include how you would prefer us to reply and the relevant contact information. This could be as a dreamwidth private message, a message on discord, or an email address. We will keep an eye on comments to this post throughout the exchange.

2) For general queries that wouldn't reveal your offer/request information and that you're comfortable sharing: reply to the general Questions/Comments/Chat thread at the top of the comments in this post. All comments in this thread will be unscreened. (This needs to be done manually by the mods, so bear with us.)

3) To contact a mod directly: the best place to find a mod for Secret Santa is in a reply to this post or to @ or private message one of us on the community discord. You can also message the be_compromised tumblr account or message one of us on any platform that you spot us, although that may take a little longer for us to see. Your mods are @inkvoices @cloud--atlas (aka franztastsich on dreamwidth) and @quidnunc-life (aka gsparkle on dreamwidth and discord).

Happy writing!

[iftheshoef1tz]

No naughty list for you. Mail is running slow this holiday season and delayed responses and replies are perfectly understandable.

Tragedy with a side of sadness got it. Perhaps some hand brushing of longing and lips parted in permanent farewell.

Baby name preferences noted.

What are your favourite traits of our males of shadow and flame?

🎄Your Festive Shadowsinger and Heir of Fire Enthusiast

You had me at “some hand brushing of longing” UGH that sounds tasty

Favorite traits…hm. I think I admire Azriel’s persistence, even when he’s too persistent for too long LOL. I also imagine he’s stubbornly loyal, which opens up some excellent angst for when that loyalty isn’t rewarded in the way it should be. (Thinking of @queercontrarian and the way she has written about Azriel being so loyal to Rhysand and his father simply because they didn’t beat him while he was down.)

For Eris, I love that he’s smart. He’s frequently mean and rude, but he’s very pragmatic. Every time we see him in canon, he’s got a plan within a plan, back-ups for his back-ups. He’s only at a loss when his control is taken from him by Briallyn via the mask. I think, in his own way, he too is fiercely loyal, though he doesn’t cling to it in the same way as Azriel does.

I’m excited all over again for whatever you’ve got cooking, Santa!!

[scottsummersevents]

Halloween has come and gone and now we're rapidly approaching the holiday season ahead of us. Here at Scott Summers Events we're hosting a Secret Santa Event that kicks off into full gear for the holiday season where participants were tasked with gifting other participants with fanfic, art, fan works and more. Our holiday gift exchange is happening now until the end of December when all the anonymous gifts will be for revealed but for now we'd like to kick off the season with our first holiday gift for @sivan325 posted in the holiday archive :)

The first gift is a story featuring the rare pairing of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) with the information below:

Guilty Indulgence by Anonymous for Sivan325

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse), Iron Man (Movies), Iron Man (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tony Stark/Scott Summers Characters: Scott Summers, Tony Stark, Emma Frost, Steve Rogers Additional Tags: Stark Industries Holiday Party (Marvel), Ugly Holiday Sweaters, socially awkward Scott Summers, Minor Emma Frost/Steve Rogers, Flirting, Sexual Content, Scott Summers-centric Summary:

Scott Summers has never been a big fan of holiday parties, which is why he decides to cut out early on a cross-team holiday party hosted by Stark Industries. However, on Scott's way out his impending exit gets thwarted by Tony, who offers up his own version of holiday spirit to sway Scott into reconsidering his decision to leave.

[chunkypossum]

Chunkypossum!

Popping in to say hello, I hope you are having a delightful week! I am here to inquire after your favorite tropes and themes. We all love a nice enemies to lovers story. What else? Which ones do you have the most fun reading? Which are the most enjoyable for you to write? I hope to create something you love as much as the azris community loves you! (Impossible, but I will strive for it nonetheless)

I am also excited to inform you that your gift is officially a work in progress! I fear it's running away from me. The elves and I might need to put in some overtime.

-🎅❤️

Santa I'm blushing. Let those legs grow Santa! I think that means you're having fun with it so I know that I will love it! Enemies to lovers is certainly a classic as is reluctant allies. I think if these two just fumbled their way through one trope right after another I would find myself kicking and screaming into my pillow the entire time lol.

Basically my view on tropes in fic is ...

HOWEVER, some of my favorites to read and to write include:

forced proximity

whump

injuries/injury care

proper groveling or really intense chasing arc

I love sexy and smut as much as anyone else but what realllly gets me going are those accidental brushes or stares that last too long. The almost kisses or the barely there touches

I hope that is helpful!

[scoganbingo]

Ho Ho How's it already time for the Secret Santa?

How are we already in September in the year of our Lord Loki 2024? Does not seem possible, and yet...here we are.

And that means signing up for the Scogan Secret Santa Event 2024. However, we're doing things a bit (a lot!) differently this year. First off, for you to be able to sign up for this event, you HAVE to be in our Discord group. It makes it easier for us this year to keep in touch with everyone for the mandatory check-ins and making sure that if pitch hitters have to be brought in that we can contact all the participants much much easier.

Second, we're starting sign-ups earlier this year and ending the sign-ups by a specific time so that everyone can get started much sooner, and this is because

Third, we are having our "must post by" date in December, and we're holding firm to that. Our extensions last year went a little crazy so that we didn't have our Secret Santa reveal until almost February. Yikes! So, just to give everyone the run-down of dates:

Sign up start date: September 12, 2024. Sign up end date: October 1, 2024. Gifts should be finished and posted by Sunday, December 22, 2024. Reveal Tuesday, December 31, 2024.

[marvelrarepairbingo]

Ho Ho How's it already time for the Secret Santa Event????

How are we already in September in the year of our Lord Loki 2024? Does not seem possible, and yet...here we are.

And that means signing up for the MRP Secret Santa Event 2024. However, we're doing things a bit (a lot!) differently this year. First off, for you to be able to sign up for this event, you HAVE to be in our Discord group. It makes it easier for us this year to keep in touch with everyone for the mandatory check-ins and making sure that if pitch hitters have to be brought in that we can contact all the participants much much easier.

Second, we're starting sign-ups earlier this year and ending the sign-ups by a specific time so that everyone can get started much sooner, and this is because

Third, we are having our "must post by" date in December, and we're holding firm to that. Our extensions last year went a little crazy so that we didn't have our Secret Santa reveal until almost February. Yikes! So, just to give everyone the run-down of dates:

Sign up start date: September 12, 2024. Sign up end date: October 1, 2024. Gifts should be finished and posted by Sunday, December 22, 2024. Reveal Tuesday, December 31, 2024.

[cratch-art]

Our Secret Santa is here!!

As a crafting elf, you are tasked with the very important duty to make the gifts which will be received on the night of the Winter Celebration.

➡️ To participate, nothing easier!

✨️ Fill out the Google form (in bio) before November 5th, 12:00 PM (UTC +2) to submit your OCs and tell us what you feel comfortable drawing!

✨️ You'll be invited to the discord and assigned another artist, for who you'll be able to draw their OC(s) as a gift!

✨️ Draw your gift up until December 20th, and gift your piece to its receiver on posting date!

➡️ More info on the Google Form

https://forms.gle/G17cJM7GTue8oEPN6

Link to the Discord Server

This collab is organised by me and @ewilansoleil

[secret-third-thing]

You are most definitely the friend at the sleepover when everyone is about to fall asleep who says the most unsettling thing imaginable before turning over and falling asleep leaving everyone else to stare at the ceiling and have an existential crisis

I mean this in the best way possible.

And what brought you to this conclusion, Santa? 🤣

[timebombficexchange]

4!days left to sign-up for our Secret Santa!

Exchange Info - AO3 Collection | Sign-up Form | FAQ | Rules

[born-to-riot]

Would my naughty little gremlin like an additional rare pair since Graysen/Tamlin could represent *gremlin?* I digress, since it would be a lot to shoehorn that disaster into the rich world you and I are about to enter. But I won’t discard the idea entirely.

Thank you, sweet thing, for answering my questions. In return, you may ask four of your own. I can’t promise that I’ll be truthful or transparent in my answers. I can’t even promise that I won’t lie. But I’ll play this game with you, little one, because I love to see you squirm (rating redacted).

Of course we are friends! *Special friends*! Yap on as much as you like. I will be watching you. It’s been quite enjoyable.

- 🎅🏽

Hi Santa! Can I just say the vibes are immaculate. Seriously as soon as I know who you are, I will not let you go. Sorry not sorry.

I’m happy you enjoy my yappage. I am unable to stop.

NOW if you somehow find a way to make Tamlin and Grayson(?) work I would be VERY IMPRESSED but don’t worry your head about it Santa

if you left hints of past or present Tamsand I would die tho (not a requirement at all) (#ifyousquint) (I’m just chatting) if we’re on the topic of non-canon ships The threesome of Jurian, Lucien and Vassa are 👌

Berlain was some of the hottest smut I’ve read

Question 1: what ships (other than our precious Azris) catch your fancy?

I’m excited for our rich world, I trust you completely

Question 2: have you listened to EPIC the musical ? (if not, you should)

But just so you know when I receive a message from you I always have “I am the prophet, with the answers you seek” running in the background of my noggin

Question 3: what are your favorite tropes to WRITE?

(I want to make sure you are happy with what you’re making for me or I’ll be sad)

Question 4: if you were stranded on a deserted island, what character would you want to have with you?

(If character is not from ACOTAR please name book/series they are from)

I don’t know what you were expecting me to ask but I am not trying to get too revealing, if you must fib a little I understand

👁️👄👁️

(You watching me)

(Me waiting for you)

WE ARE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN (or hell 😏)

Until next time, my friend!

[neciebee]

Your faith in me is quite flattering! Making It Worse is certainly fun. But, IF one wanted to make it better - would it be

Buddy-cop comedy

Or

Sappy hallmark Christmas movie

This may seem a little out of left field… but I’m still in the ballpark, I promise.

I’ve got some ideas, but I want to check the vibes before we get into the details.

While we’re here, do you prefer your cocoa with peppermint schnapps or marshmallow vodka? Or do you avoid alcohol?

Wow. The ballpark has mutated its shape and there are bees in the dugouts. Ok. Let’s go hallmark. If we’re going to tear the boys apart, we may as well throw some sugar on it.

If it’s going into cocoa, I’d probably pick peppermint schnapps. Marshmallow vodka I’d just shoot straight. I have a very unhealthy relationship with vodka, just like all my relationships.