theterriblezodin

I’m a little late this year, being away until 1 December.  Now I’m here, and I intend to participate!

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How to make the list is easy:
CHRISTMAS WISHES!

Step 1.

Make a post in your dA journal (please include this manual - I won’t grant any wishes, if I see no manual). 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.

Step 2.

Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, 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.

Step 3.

The List

    1.       Donate to a charity of your choice and let me know which one it was.  I never have enough money to go around to all the charities I’d like to support.  Help someone less fortunate than yourself as the year is coming to a close.

    2.       Like many people, I love art featuring my OCs. Eeren and SeiAni fulfilled this wish in 2014, eeeee!  See theterriblezodin.deviantart.co…

    3.       As in years past, a holiday card.  I always reciprocate with my own.  E-mail me, I’ll e-mail you one in return!

    4.       Like last year, anything Grumpy Cat!  Last year, bloodrose83 sent me a book of stickers!

    5.       I need to buy a microphone for recording on location sounds (nature, urban) and potentially audio drama.  If you have any recommendations, they would be gratefully received.

    6.       I’d really really like to crack the BBC and get a radio drama produced.  I’ve been trying for nearly 10 years!

    7.       I need someone to help me revamp my academic Vitae and Academia.edu profiles.  I’d appreciate any advice because I just feel totally hopeless at marketing myself as an academic.  

    8.       I’ve been working on a historical short story collection for six years and have written 9 of 13 stories.  I need motivation to finish it so I can try to find a publisher, but I also need a shrewd editor/reader to help me whip it into shape.

    9.       Copic markers.  I have a small but growing collection.  I’m not very good yet, but practice makes perfect.

    10.   No one can grant this, but I hope 2017 is a good year!

Please link back to the motherpost, give chance to others to find other wishlists in the comments

Drop a link with your wishlists in the comments under this journal - more people will see your wishlist.
when someone grants you a wish from your wishlist, you can update it with some indication it was granted so doubles are avoided
when you grant a wish from someone's wishlist, you can mark it in some way in your wishlist journal entry
The Elves can reach me here on DA via note or e-mail at fatoprofugus17 (at) yahoo.com

I will be granting wishes between now and 12 January.  Extended time due to being away from my desk frequently during this period.  I’ll try to grant as many wishes as I can in that time.

Wishes I granted

Wishes others granted for me

I was tagged by in a meme about OCs—I love these things!

Rules:

1) Post these rules.
2) Post 8 facts about your character.
3) Tag 8 other characters. (Post their names along with their creators' avatars.)

Dorinda Carter

    1.      Dorinda’s favorite memory is when she and her cousin Charles were children and visited the Welsh sea resort of Rhyll with their families.

    2.      Dorinda’s husband was a northern industrialist and from him she has inherited an inherent distrust of strikes and working “troublemakers.”

    3.      Dorinda is naturally clumsy and is poorly suited to the fashion of the day, wide crinoline skirts.

    4.      Dorinda once met the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones without knowing it. 

    5.      Dorinda and her husband never had children.

    6.      Dorinda enjoys train travel, despite the fact her cousin Charles assures her “the Devil travels by rail.”

    7.      Dorinda was quite a bit younger than her husband and when she married him and moved to Manchester, she sought solace in books to cure her loneliness.  This was mostly the poetry of the Graveyard Poets even though they were somewhat unfashionable by the 1840s. 

    8.      Dorinda is also a fan of J S Bach even though his music is somewhat unfashionable too. 

I tag:

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Nauxene by

Yana by

Sridar by

Sarah Locke by

Calico Jack Rackham by

Ed Chauncey by

Dr Marino by

Knock yourselves out!!