Snowin' and Blowin'

burnitbackwards:
Dear participants and lurkers,

Thank you so much for helping us make this challenge such a success! We've really enjoyed all of the fic, vids, and graphics that we've gotten as a result of this project, and we hope you all have too. Participants, please don't forget to post your submission to your own website/livejournal over the next few days and send us the link.

Also, please forgive us for not linking to each submission here; you can find them all, authors included, at our website. Thanks again!

Lovelovelove,

burnitbackwards and reinabelle

( The Big Fat List of Givers and Recipients )

burnitbackwards:
http://www.geocities.com/snowinandblowin/

Happy holidays, everybody!

Love,

BIBW and Reinabelle

PS. There may still be some lingering errors on the website. If you see something, please comment here, and we'll fix it. Comments are screened.

ETA: to the best of my knowledge, all errors have been fixed. Thanks to everyone for being so patient and letting me know when something was wrong. If you find anything else, please comment here.

reinabelle:
We received an email today that indicates that some people may not have received their assignments. We sent out assignments on November 21 so if you have not received yours yet, please let us know immediately.

You can reply here or email us at snowinandblowin [at] gmail [dot] com.

We hope the rest of you are having fun with your assignments. Remember to comment in this post if you are not participating and you are able to beta, and remember to email us if you need a beta and we'll do our best to match you up!

burnitbackwards:
Dearest lurkers, AKA people who are watching/are members of this community but aren't participating in the Secret Santa--

We've had some requests from participants for betas, and we figured that all of you, since you're obviously interested in what goes on here, might be potential candidates! If you're willing to beta a story for a snowinandblowin participant, please comment here and let us know! Then, when somebody asks us for beta advice, we'll send them your way. Be sure to let us know if there are any scenarios or pairings that you're uncomfortable betaing.

Thanks so much!

PS -- Comments are screened. Please leave us an e-mail address so that we can give that to the person who needs a beta, too.

burnitbackwards:
Thanks to everybody who signed up! reinabelle and I have made the assignments, and we are v.v.v. excited about everybody who's participating! You should each be receiving an e-mail within the next hour or so from snowinandblowin at gmail dot com, so keep your eyes peeled for that. It has a lot of Very Important Info about the challenge.

If you don't receive said e-mail within the next 24 hours, please comment here (comments are screened) and let us know, because it may mean that we have the wrong e-mail address for you. If this is the case, please also post your e-mail address again. Again, this is really important, because e-mail is our only means for giving you your assignment!

Finally, here's our ( list of participants )

We weren't sure that we should post this (you know, for the sake of the surprise and all), but then we realized that we don't want anybody to go asking other participants to beta or preview their submissions. If you need a beta and you can't think of one who's not taking part in the challenge, ask us and we'll either help you out or refer you to someone who can! Also, if you're lurking and are willing to offer yourself up as a beta, please comment here and let us know!

Again, thanks for participating; we're really looking forward to all of your fabulous submissions!

burnitbackwards:
Hey, folks. As of right now, we have forty-five people signed up to participate in the Secret Santa! Because this is way more than we ever imagined, we're going to cut off sign-ups when we get to fifty. That means there are only five spots left! Don't wait until Sunday to sign up, because it might be too late by then -- click here to participate!

Thanks to everyone who's signed up so far; we'll post a full list of participants as soon as Sunday night arrives or we reach our quota, whichever comes first!

ETA: Four spots left as of 6:50 PM EST on Friday.
ETA2: 8:15 PM EST Friday, two spots left!
ETA3: 8:45 PM EST on Friday -- ZERO SPOTS LEFT! Thanks to everyone who signed up to participate. Keep your eye on the community; reinabelle and i will be sending out an update soon!

burnitbackwards:
Welcome to the home of the Queer as Folk Secret Santa! Here's the way the challenge will work:

1. Each participant will act as "pitcher" and "catcher," so to speak. That means everyone who signs up agrees not only to be a recipient of a story/vid/layout/whatever, but to give one as well. Please don't sign up if you don't have time to fully participate!

2. Once we receive all of the requests, BIBW will assign everybody to someone else. This is slightly different from how we'd originally intended, but we figure that it'll be more fun if everybody's requests are surprises, and we've added a new dimension to make sure that nobody has to do anything that makes them uncomfortable.

3. The deadline for submission is December 19, 2004 at 9 PM EST. If you don't submit by that time, we'll be forced to send out our team of supersecret spies, and they will steal all your presents and piss on your life-sized Brian Kinney cut out. For real, people.

4. We'll unveil everything on December 23. Why not Christmas Day, you ask? Because it's Christmas, that's why, and we patently refuse to stop stuffing our faces with food long enough to get on the computer and upload the gifts. Feel free not to look at yours ahead of time, though!

5. When it's all said and done, and everyone has had a chance to look at the submissions, we'll give people a chance to guess at who contributed each creation, and then when the guessing stops (we'll give you about a week, we figure), we'll announce who all of the contributors were.

If you've made it through all of this and you're ready to submit your requests, click here!

burnitbackwards:
The deadline to sign up to participate in the Queer as Folk Secret Santa is midnight Eastern Standard Time on Monday, November 21! (That's the one between Sunday and Monday, folks.) Don't come crying to us if you miss the cut-off!

To sign up, comment in this entry in this format:

Comment Subject: Request

[e-mail address]
[livejournal address, or if you don't have a livejournal, your website address]

What I Want:

[genre: fic/vid/layout/icons or any combination of these]
EDIT: we have a lot of people requesting fic only but offering in another genre, so please make sure you list everything you would be willing to get!
[pairing(s) that you will accept]
[scenario(s) that you would like to see]
[pairing(s) and scenario(s) that you absolutely do not want]

What I Can Give:

[genre: fic/vid/layout/icons or any combination of these]
[pairing(s) that you will give]
[pairing(s) or scenario(s) that you absolutely will not give]


Here's an example:

Request

burnitbackwards at livejournal.com
http://www.livejournal.com/burnitbackwards/

What I Want:

fic
brian/justin
i would love to see brian and justin jump on a trampoline.
please do not give me any sexual situation between justin and a banana.

What I Can Give:

icons
any characters or pairing except brian and michael kissing in 110
i will not icon brian and michael kissing in 110.

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All comments will be screened, so nobody will be able to see anyone else's comment. You may request as many scenarios/genres as you want, but please be forewarned that if you ask for something that no one will give, we'll have to e-mail you and ask you for a new request. So, with that in mind, it can't hurt to make several different types of requests!