Christmas wishlist
Nov. 28th, 2004 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirLowell House, on the Feast of St. James of the Marche
Meme taken from just about everyone.
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 a Snape/Hermione 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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. 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.
Materialistic side!
1. A 20 GB iPod -- I know, I sound like a broken record
2. The Two Towers extended DVD set -- I have FotR already and plan to buy RotK when it comes out, but still don't have tTT yet
3. A paid LJ account
Wishful thinking!
4.Magical ability to understand organic chemistry
5. An iron-clad convincing argument to persuade my parents to let me go to Gasshuku next summer
6. Cure for procrastination
Fandom requests!
7. A Death Note/Bleach/Gankutsuou/Ravages of Time Winamp skin or wallpaper
8. Fanfiction on any of the following characters: pre-Tachibana and/or post-graduation Fudoumine (Prince of Tennis), L and Raito in AU incarnations (Death Note), anyone from Host Club, post-series Mizuki and Sano (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e) -- alternatively, any multipart Bleach/Shaman King/One Piece epic
9. Fanfiction on any of the following quotes (taken from my "currently reading" booklist):
10. The last dream you remember in detail
The reason for number 10 is because last night I dreamed that I was a powerful fugitive sorceror who had been hiding for years and upon being nearly found by the people searching for him/her, promptly decided to die by some arcane magical spell. I felt my body being paralyzed inch by inch and becoming deathly cold, at which point I kept waiting and waiting for that moment of total oblivion to descend upon me (obviously, the sorceror was not religious and did not believe in an afterlife), but after what seemed like hours of agonizing suspense, I found myself bodiless and somehow transported to a realm that was partly like the Dreaming from The Sandman, partly like a standard fantasy multiplayer RPG and partly like an enormous library. Apparently in this realm, dead souls mingled with dreaming minds, but the dreamers could not perceive the dead spirits, which nevertheless were corporeal--or not so much corporeal as made of the same substance as the rest of this alternate dimension. In other words, the dreamers were the incorporeal visitors while the dead belonged. Er, yes, and a senior dead person provided me with a lengthy explanation of all the details, but I unfortunately forgot most of it once I woke up. The dreamers lined up to form groups that would undertake quests (hence the multiplayer RPG) while dead people like me stood around and watched.
It sounds cheerful and interesting, but actually I was terrified the entire time. Or not so much terrified as overwhelmed by a sense of creeping dread--that this was simply a temporary state of soul hallucination before the total oblivion would descend. I suspect that may be due to the fact that I read Sartre's "The Wall" just before I went to sleep.
I think I preferred the dream where I was five different antisocial superheroes who lived on an isolated island. They all possessed different superpowers, and each of them could fly--but in a different way, as justified by their power. For example, one of them had the power to amplify electromagnetic forces and she flew by using electrostatic repulsion from buildings and other objects around her to propel her into the air. Another had the ability to morph his body and he turned his body into a pair of gliding wings. Et cetera, I'm sure you get the picture. I rather liked that dream--it was fun coming up with pseudoscientific explanations for each superhero's mechanism of flight.
Yours &c.
Meme taken from just about everyone.
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 a Snape/Hermione 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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. 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.
Materialistic side!
1. A 20 GB iPod -- I know, I sound like a broken record
2. The Two Towers extended DVD set -- I have FotR already and plan to buy RotK when it comes out, but still don't have tTT yet
3. A paid LJ account
Wishful thinking!
4.
5. An iron-clad convincing argument to persuade my parents to let me go to Gasshuku next summer
6. Cure for procrastination
Fandom requests!
7. A Death Note/Bleach/Gankutsuou/Ravages of Time Winamp skin or wallpaper
8. Fanfiction on any of the following characters: pre-Tachibana and/or post-graduation Fudoumine (Prince of Tennis), L and Raito in AU incarnations (Death Note), anyone from Host Club, post-series Mizuki and Sano (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e) -- alternatively, any multipart Bleach/Shaman King/One Piece epic
9. Fanfiction on any of the following quotes (taken from my "currently reading" booklist):
- "A roshi is a person who has actualized that perfect freedom which is the potentiality for all human beings ... But in the end it is not the extraordinariness of the teacher which perplexes, intrigues and deepens the student, it is the teacher's utter ordinariness." -- Trudy Dixon, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, as quoted in The Genesee Diary by Henri Nouwen
- "Ultimately the worms will not be cheated, for there is no permanence in history, even for cathedrals." -- Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- "All of existence encompassed at a card-table; there's a comfort for those of us who thought we had wasted the hours of our youth!" -- Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity
- "This body, then, which hovered before him, this individual and living I, was a monstrous multiplicity of breathing and self-nourishing individuals, which, through organic conformation and adaptation to special ends, had parted to such an extent with their essential individuality, their freedom and living immediacy, had so much become anatomic elements that the functions of some had become limited to sensibility toward light, sound, contact, warmth ..." -- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
10. The last dream you remember in detail
The reason for number 10 is because last night I dreamed that I was a powerful fugitive sorceror who had been hiding for years and upon being nearly found by the people searching for him/her, promptly decided to die by some arcane magical spell. I felt my body being paralyzed inch by inch and becoming deathly cold, at which point I kept waiting and waiting for that moment of total oblivion to descend upon me (obviously, the sorceror was not religious and did not believe in an afterlife), but after what seemed like hours of agonizing suspense, I found myself bodiless and somehow transported to a realm that was partly like the Dreaming from The Sandman, partly like a standard fantasy multiplayer RPG and partly like an enormous library. Apparently in this realm, dead souls mingled with dreaming minds, but the dreamers could not perceive the dead spirits, which nevertheless were corporeal--or not so much corporeal as made of the same substance as the rest of this alternate dimension. In other words, the dreamers were the incorporeal visitors while the dead belonged. Er, yes, and a senior dead person provided me with a lengthy explanation of all the details, but I unfortunately forgot most of it once I woke up. The dreamers lined up to form groups that would undertake quests (hence the multiplayer RPG) while dead people like me stood around and watched.
It sounds cheerful and interesting, but actually I was terrified the entire time. Or not so much terrified as overwhelmed by a sense of creeping dread--that this was simply a temporary state of soul hallucination before the total oblivion would descend. I suspect that may be due to the fact that I read Sartre's "The Wall" just before I went to sleep.
I think I preferred the dream where I was five different antisocial superheroes who lived on an isolated island. They all possessed different superpowers, and each of them could fly--but in a different way, as justified by their power. For example, one of them had the power to amplify electromagnetic forces and she flew by using electrostatic repulsion from buildings and other objects around her to propel her into the air. Another had the ability to morph his body and he turned his body into a pair of gliding wings. Et cetera, I'm sure you get the picture. I rather liked that dream--it was fun coming up with pseudoscientific explanations for each superhero's mechanism of flight.
Yours &c.
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Date: 2004-11-28 05:33 pm (UTC)And I need to get you a b-day present, huh?
And I like #6 and would want it for myself! BWhahahha!
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Date: 2004-11-28 07:11 pm (UTC)Or if you don't want to spend any money whatsoever...number 7! XD XD XD
Oui, oui, je suis folle, mais quoi es-tu?
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Date: 2004-11-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 09:34 pm (UTC)