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Back in the heyday of Livejournal this went around - nyyki is reviving 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. If people could send good thoughts, light candles, petition their gods etc to make my Dad well, that would obviously be the best Christmas present I could get.

2. Because I am incredibly wishful today, I would love someone (not AI!) to write new BBC Merlin Merlin/Arthur fics which are over 20k (the longer the better, tbh: there’s nothing more exciting than a new, good, long fic that I know will keep me going at least a day). HEA a must.

3. I would love Christmas decorations if anyone wanted to send me any. A lot of ours are old and tatty, apart from a few I’ve been gifted through this through the years. It’s a sort of Christmas wishlist tradition. (Please dm me for address if you don’t know it)

4. I’d love comments on my non-Harry Potter fics on AO3, if anyone felt like reading any of the things I’ve written there as iamisaac.

5. Anything from my Amazon wish list https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1WPQ37WC4CXCI/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2

6. Help and advice on setting up a trans website and meeting group for people local to me, bearing in mind that we have no money and I can’t get out much (there are further complications which make it sound like I’m being as difficult as possible and I’m not, life is).

7. Buy books by Penelope Friday (Petticoats and Promises, The Sisterhood - lesbian historical fiction) or PA Friday (the Maths series: Love Plus One, One Plus One, Three’s The Charm - contemporary gay ménage fiction), available at Bella/Nine Star Press (Penelope/PA) or Amazon and various others.

8. Anyone want to buy me an electric wheelchair which works in the rain, can manage difficult terrain, and has a headrest?.

(Can’t think of anything else right now, may add if I ever get a brain back. If you can magically mend my body, go for it.)
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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.