Your scarf waves in the wind like northern lights above, cloaking the night in cool green and blue. Snow falls like sugar from the shaker, but you can see the distant orange windows, casting warm glows on the white below. Chimney smoke bellows against the blanketed conifers. Your foot slips on an ice patch, but you catch yourself and lean on the familiar door. You turn the knob. You're home. It's time for…
The 10th Annual SCP Holiday Art Exchange!!!
(hosted by Elenee FishTruck, with their assistant
DarkStuff)
The Overview
Just wait a minute. What is this?
A Secret Santa event wherein users get paired with other users and make gifts for their assigned person, according to their giftee's requests. The giftee, meanwhile, does not know their gifter's identity until days after receiving their gift. Anonymous holiday fun for the whole wiki.
What exactly do we "exchange" here?
Anything, really, provided a.) you created it, and b.) you can send it over the internet. Exchanged gifts have ranged from writing, art, and music to interpretive dance, profile pictures, and games!
Well, crikey, Mikey, how do I sign up?
Simply make a new post on this thread following the format below:
> **What I Can Give:** [What you can give]
>
> **What I Am Looking For:** [What you are looking for]Do not put "I can receive anything!", or something to that effect, under "What I Am Looking For". While it may seem courteous to your prospective gifter, it actually leaves them with no direction for their gift, making the process inadvertently more difficult. Please be at least a little specific with your requests (while also being reasonable). Also, one cannot stress this enough:
Don't sign up if you are iffy on making the deadlines, laid out below!
If you know you're busy or something's coming up that interferes with your gift-making, you should probably abstain. However, we understand if something unexpected emerges in your personal life that you could not have planned for and disrupts your Art Exchange intentions. We're reasonable. Provided that occurs:
1) Send an unfinished product at the deadline with the intention to finish it later, or…
2) Contact Elenee FishTruck or
DarkStuff ASAP about your situation, and we'll get a pinch-hitter on the case right away. More on that later!
The Schedule
First, have a brief overview:
Nov. 15th - Nov. 28th — Signing up.
Nov. 30th - Dec. 22nd — Making the gifts.
Dec. 22rd - Dec. 24th — Pinch-hitting.
Dec. 25th - Dec. 28th — Receiving gifts, wondering who made them.
Dec. 29th — Revealing the Secret Santas.
Anytime after Dec. 29th — Optionally posting gifts to the wiki.
For a more in-depth run-down…
Pinch-Hitting and Friendly Reminders
Pinch-Hitters will make a gift for someone when the original gifter cannot follow through. This will mostly come into play between gift submissions and distributions, though we'll call a Pinch-Hitter in anytime a gifter says they cannot fulfill their request, giving the Pinch-Hitter more time to fill in. However, a Pinch-Hitter must be prepared to work under very restrictive timelines, down to 48 hours.
Only sign up as a Pinch-Hitter if you're very confident in your skills under pressure. We may turn down your application as a Pinch-Hitter if we do not share your confidences. It's a bit harsh, but necessary to ensure everyone gets their gift in full-confidence. If you have interest in the position, simply state so on your sign-up post here.
Reminders:
- Don't ghost the exchange. Please, if you can't make it, send a PM beforehand.
- It's called Secret Santa! Don't reveal yourself to your giftee, and if you know something, don't let anyone in on it! Secrecy is part of the fun!
- Keep it jolly and festive! Don't intentionally make a gift that goes against the giftee's wishes, or otherwise knowingly make something bad.
- Oh, and no smut please. The content on this site can definitely end up in the NSFW zone, but very few people are here for erotica, and two years ago there was an issue with that, so we're making it a rule!
With all that out of the way…
HAVE A HOLLY JOLLY ART EXCHANGE!
Mm Mm Good
