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Back in the heyday of Livejournal this went around -- my friend nyyki is revivifying it here. It’s Elf Meme II: Son of Elf Meme! Okay, maybe not that, but we could all use some connection and holiday cheer, right?

Step One:
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered ... whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. 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 an 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/living space/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 to ping your DMs, or your bare-faced email address if that’s how you roll - where a Holiday Elf could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy can spread.

Step Two:
Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, 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, which is a great feeling.

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1. I could use some books to help me think differently about other peoples headspaces. If there’s a book that explained a different type of person to you, I’d like to hear about it. Possibly also to borrow the book?

2. Tea recommendations? Tell me what teas you like, and why. If you are getting rid of a tea that you wanted to like but can’t really deal with, you can send it here, I’m basically a bottomless pit of plant-flavored hydration. *sips tea*

3. When I downsized to move here, I gave away my soul the stencils for messing with my bullet journal and I am now wishing I had not. If you have bujo stuff you don’t use, I am in the market for all of that stuff.

4. I want to start getting rid of some of the Japanese EGL fashion dresses that I have, most of them are an Asian XL or XXL in size. I need an accountability buddy for listing them on LaceMarket or someone to give them to who will love them and take them out of my closet. If you can help with either thing, give me a DM.

5. I could use someone’s brain to pick about how to do website stuff for modern HTML and Wordpress, and especially if you know how to do this for any blind/vision impaired folks. People who can help my friend nyyki navigate doing this for herself.

6. I want That MotherFucker Over There to not be president, so light a candle or whatever that looks like for you. Please.

7. I really need someone to talk to about doing Shadow work who knows their own emotional safety limits. I don’t know how to talk about the wack shit that happened to us when we were kids that made us think we were better off cutting off whole parts of ourselves, while also having to deal with looking out for someone else’s distress and feeling like I have to manage their feelings. The task switching is way harder in that state, and I want people to be safe, but I also need to stay on task with an accountability buddy or something. Idk. Something along those lines.

8. A multitude, a plethora, a veritable cornucopia of different colors of blue paint. I want to do something new to my painting, bc I am bored of it looking like this.

9. I want links to pet pictures. Do you have a pet? I want to see them, and tell you why they look like a good pet.

10. I want you to have good end-of-2025 holidays, and I want to help spread that love around.

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So, when you see this post a wish list? And let me see what I might be able to help you with.

Hit my DMs for anything, or I’m on Discord as @.flamingsword - yes there is a period before my name.

[Edit: there’s a blank copy to use in the comments]