Hey guys guess what?

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Just about finishing up my prompt, should be ready by tomorrow afternoon.

I'm tired. It is done. It is sent. I am going the fuck back to bed

I hope my giftee is okay with what I got here for them. I wish I would've colored it though like I promised!! Hmm...

Checking in to say that I should have mine sent in by the afternoon. Please let me know if you need it sooner, though.

Hey Kilo, Did ya get my email? I sent it late last night so I don't have any clue if it went threw or not. (Was Half asleep.)

>>11004

Same thing for me :3 I only really need to scan it and toy with it in photoshop a little bit.

>>11005
Yup, it was received.

Oh God... I just sent mine. URGHH.

Ah well. I can't wait 'till tomorrow!

>>11007
I hope you got my picture, too.
I had to leave in a rush, sadly, and so I don't know if I copied you the link correctly. Please say yes!

It's Christmas Day for me, and I'm impatiently waiting for you non-Australians.

I am still working out the minor things on my story, but the big lines are finished.

30 minutes until my deadline!

I am having some wifi issues (posting from my phone now) and might cross the deadline before finding a decent connection for my laptop. I'll have my story to you before the 12-hour extension, Kilo! I apologise for the inconvenience.

Done and dusted.

I hope you like it, Giftee. We'll see tomorrow.

My beta is still reading over my fic, but once I get it back, I'll give it one final look over before sending it in. I just hope it doesn't suck too much. Bah.

Despite so many complications it's not even funny, got mine sent it at 7:40pm Christmas eve. Pretty sure that makes me a boss. 1754 words. Merry Christmas, giftee!

So close. Finishing touches have been taking quite a bit longer than expected. But SO CLOSE.

As an aside note, accurate feathers are a bitch to do.

Aaaand sent. Please let me know if you don't get it for some reason, Kilo.

My beta just e-mailed me. She liked it, so I'm gonna take this as a good omen and look over her changes now. Give or take two hours, I'll send it in.

I hope my giftee diesn't hate it.

Mine is done and sent!

e-mail sent and ready to receive this year's giftee!

I had a blast working on this, hope everyone who participated got some enjoyment out of it (also liked how we managed to get a month out of this instead of a week, but regardless, the fun is in the creation!)

There are 4 people who have failed to correspond with me regarding their gifts. If I don't get e-mails from these people in the next 12 hours, I may have to resort to some disciplinary action such as temp bans for failure to follow the activity rules.

Those of you that have told me you are working the midnight oil on your gifts are fine. Also those who have had technical difficulties with submitting your files. You guys are okay too. Just try to get them in as soon as possible.

I gotta get some sleep, and I'm sure my family will hold a lot of my attention during the day, but I will do my best to get all your gifts up within the next 12 hours or so.

It's six thirty seven in the morning where I live, and I just finished reading through my story. All twenty-one fucking pages of it. Fuck, I need to sleep. I'm sending it now as it is. It should be fine, but I know I'm still going to find errors once I go back to edit and post it to my fanfiction.net account. I just hope my giftee likes it. A lot of hard work went into this bugger.

I feel like my intro is really strong and that I ended it really weak, but screw it. I'll fix it after Christmas and give my giftee a link to a revised version if they want it.

Good morning, and good night.

>>11027
Regarding my technical difficulties, I can't resolve them at the moment because I have to stay at my mom's until the 27th at the earliest. I don't have access to my PC and internet is sporadic so there's nothing I can do earlier.

Shit, I'm so sorry, but there's honestly nothing I can do from here. Jesus Christ ... Poor giftee has to wait for my subpar art. I really can't apologize enough!
Giftee, whoever you are, you rock and would deserve your present earlier. I hope you will like it a bit once you get it and that you still have an awesome Christmas!

I can't wait for the gifts to be posted... how is this typically done? Kilo, are you going to need help putting them up, or... ?

I don't know about you guys, but I'm more excited about my giftee liking their present than receiving one myself. 'Tis the season I suppose.

Ooooh, I'm so excited! I know the thread is up but Kilo is still posting in it. I'm probably more excited to have mine posted and find out if my gift was okay. I know Kilo said to be nice to the gift-givers in the first post and that makes perfect sense but I still worry. I really hope I didn't disappoint them, considering my prompt was so open-ended. :Oc

I won't lie; I am also excited to see if I got something. But I think I could deal with not getting anything more easily than if I ruined someone's Christmas by not quite giving them what they expected.

>>11064

Oh, gosh, I'm worried about whether my giftee likes what I put together, too. I'm totally okay with going back and fiddling around with my submission some more; after viewing it again, I'm pretty sure I could still do a bunch to improve it. Aaack!

Hey, I sent my gift in last night, I'm hoping it was received by you, Kilo. :)

There hasn't been a notice yet (I think) but I was planning to throw a celebratory party sometime tomorrow because you all rock. It will be on either the mantrain or the caboose and there shall be MANY PRESENTS GIVEN! Hopefully you guys can make it!

I hope I lived up to your expectations, Banimal, and I hope you enjoy it.

Okay, dunno who did my SS, but I just want you all to know that I flailed with delight, and I yearn for more. Your Scouts are very well-written. Took me a bit to get past the 'Youse guys' accent, but once I did, I absolutely loved it.

It's taking longer to get these fics posted than I anticipated. Taking another break for now guys. I'd send files to someone else to take care of if I wasn't getting some conflicting info that needs sorted out before I proceed. I'm sorry for the delay.

I hope I did well on your gift Anna The Cat Detective.

>>11084
Aw, just what I asked for!

Man, there is a lot of CUTE stuff in both the fic and art threads already! I'm on tenterhooks waiting for my efforts to be posted/seen by my giftee, but in the meantime, I sure am loving getting to see my gift, not to mention the other things that have already gone up!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

AH! I just read my gift and.. oh god.

PERFECT.

They were completely in character and Demo was just done so well. But now I want to read more...gah. SS I have no idea who you are but I think I love you.

Seriously guys, best Christmas ever for me.

Whoever did my gift, I just want you to know that you totally made my evening.
I literally grinned when I saw which prompt you did. I didn't think anyone would actually do that one due to how obscure and far-fetched the idea was, but you managed to make it work beautifully. Thank you so much!
Brb, fangirling forever.

>11096
I feel really stupid, because i'm sure its very obvious, but where is the secret santa art thread? I've looked in both boards and I haven't found it.

Yep. Disregard this. I am a moron.

Holy Hell!! Whoever created mine, sir, you deserve medals! It was perfect. It was everything I wanted. You made my night! I giggled the whole time. No, seriously, your characters were perfect. It was everything I asked for and more! I feel like I need to bake you something now. Or have your babies, depending on whatever the postal service will accept these days.

>>11081

Iz, you are a champion. You went above and beyond the call of duty. I read it twice. I'm so happy you went to the effort you did, because I was worried that my gift giver wouldn't want to make it sexual. But hurray! It's %100 sexy awesome. Unf! It's just a shame we never got to see what happened to Engie.

It's funny, because I asked for exactly the opposite what I had to write. It was still fun though.

Lady Shockbox, I hope you enjoyed the fic. If I can change it in any way please let me know.

Thank you so much, my fic person. You made me something I wouldn't expect. And as such, I would like ro say that I adored it, and shower more praise on you. Thank you so much!

And to Kino and Cheese, I hope I fufilled your prompts to your satisfaction. If you want me to do it again, didn't get what you wanted or whatever, please drop me a line. I am happy to revisit these again so you get the most ultimate Christmas.

Typed on phone. Sorry for mistakes

>>11107
You are welcome. Glad to hear you enjoyed it! It was new territory for me, so it was a fun and interesting prompt. (Sorry about the mystery--forgot to sign it.)

Make yourself a batch of cookies and enjoy them. Kids are expensive, so I wouldn't worry about producing them.

>>11108
I'm so happy you liked it, really I am. I had a lot of fun writing this. I only cut it where I did simply because I felt like I had drawn it out too much already.

I definitely think I'm gonna write more smut, now, though. It's a lot of fun!

I am the most happy ever with my present. So happy that writing sentences that make sense stopped happening a long time ago. Now I feel really guilty about how bad my gift was, I really hope giftee likes it at least a bit, I haven't seen it posted yet.

>>11110

I just want to say that the mental images your fic gave me are some of the cutest things ever. I never even thought of a pillow fort, but now I can't see Kid Fortress anything without one.

Sending you an email with the rest of my thoughts, but basically, thank you SO much all that you put into my prompt! I really like it. :)

ARGH these past two days have been the WORST! I couldn’t get online to send Kilo my gift and I’ve felt just awful! I’m so, so sorry, giftee! It’s sent now, though, so I hope you’ll get my bit of (belated) Christmas angst cheer soon.

Also, I wanted to send a big hug and a THANK YOU to the person who made this day the BEST by writing me ‘Home Sick’, my delicious Medic/Scout fluff. I was so happy to read it! I love the characterisations and the dialogue, and even though I make all my own posts in /afanfic/ I LOVE that it stays un-porny. I can tell that Medic cares for Scout, but it’s perfect to me that he stays professional and puts Scout’s well-being first for as long as he’s sick. And Scout is just spot-on too. This is just the kind of story that I love to read but never get around to write, and that makes this the perfect gift for me. Excuse me age-baiting for a moment, but I really need to - *Happy sigh.*

Also, the rectal thermometer joke? I’ve pulled that one myself. You have no idea how much I laughed when I read it! I’m so glad you put that one in.

I really, really wish emoticons were allowed so I could shower you in hearts and smileys, but I’m already tempting fate so my undying gratitude will have to do. Thank you so much! I hope you’re willing to reveal yourself; I’d love to know who to thank for this.

I hereby want to leave my sincere thank to the one who wrote my present! I am very happy with my present! Thank you whoever-wrote-it!!

......(Should I have saged? )

>>11124

Hey Cyan. I'm a bit sheepish about admitting it, but I'm your Secret Santa. I'm glad you like it. At one point I didn't think I was going to get it done in time, but I dug deep and made it happen. Getting two hardened mercenaries with very little in common to act tenderly towards each other is surprisingly challenging.

Fortunately I love writing Scout, so I was able to have fun with it. I read yours too, and it just blew me away. Goddamn it. Y U so good?

>>11143
Afskljklzdjkhzkjg!

Banimal wrote my amazing, lovely Medic/Scout fluff!

I’m experiencing an acute need for age-bait emoticons, damn it! THANK YOU! I don’t know why you’d feel sheepish about admitting to being my Secret Santa? I already commented above (and on tumblr, which I now realise you must’ve seen too—oh the embarrassment) on how much I loved your fic. It was perfect to me! I’m so glad you stuck with it and finished it, because the result is everything I could’ve hoped for and more. I realise my request was very open-ended, maybe too much so; I’ll remember that for next time. But you gave me exactly what I wanted and I’m very, very happy!

>Getting two hardened mercenaries with very little in common to act tenderly towards each other is surprisingly challenging.

Haha, yeah, I know! No wonder my Scout always ends up in bad ways, poor guy. It wasn’t an easy pairing either; Medic/Scout is just begging for weird kinks, but it’s my favourite pairing and I’m a total sucker for fluff. And I have to say you pulled it off amazingly. I kept smiling when I read it. And laughing too. I didn’t want to add a huge list of copy-pasted quotes to my post above, but there were so many paragraphs that really stood out to me as excellent. Their dialogues too. And the jokes, which I mentioned. Perfect in every way.

>Fortunately I love writing Scout, so I was able to have fun with it.

I’m really glad to hear that! And there are not too many of us Scout-fans out there, which makes me extra happy you were the one who got my prompt.

>Y U so good?

Y U so good?!

Seriously, though—I think I’ve mentioned this before, so please bear with my silly fangirling—but your fics have been a huge inspiration to me. I read your Muscle Management series and that fantastic Sniper/Scout piece you did, and then TeratoMarty’s In From The Cold, and I thought, this is what I want to write and that’s how I want to write it! And I’ve been trying to since. I still track down your thread here on the ‘chan every so often to read through it again and go ‘...damn it, not there yet.’ Your style, pacing, and dialogue are all just top-notch and the characterisations spot-on, as I’ve said above. So I’ve totally been trying to emulate your writing. There you have it, my embarrassing fandom secret.

Knowing you read and liked my Secret Santa fic too just totally made my day.

tl;dr: Best Christmas gift this year. Thank you!