>>13506

It’s fine to ask when in doubt! And I understand not wanting to share your personal e-mail address on a public forum. If you like, you can send the high-resolution file to me and I will forward it to your giftee on the 25th after posting your gift here on TF2chan for everyone to enjoy. That way your e-mail address will stay private.

So between moving and album work, I'm going to be able to do this. Is all right if I sent you a beta of my accompaniment writing?

>>13508
That would be great, thanks!

>>13511

Of course! Please do.

Just sent mine in.

I almost thought I wouldn't have it done in time.

I'm finishing mine today, now that my classwork is finally done.

Proofreading right now. Gotta go fast.

Is it Christmas yet?

Is it Christmas yet?

Is it Christmas yet?

I think mine's done, but I'm so nervous about handing it in! I'm afraid as soon as I send it, I'll spot a major glaring error or forgotten detail. I think I'll wait and see how it looks in the morning, just to be safe.

So excited!

I just finished my fic. I can't wait until I can see all the gifts!

I might turn mine in a bit (like at most an hour or two) late because I've been kicked in the ass by life but so far it looks pretty good. On the upside for my giftee, since it's a traditional media piece, I can send them both a high-res version or the physical copy if they want to.

Hi guys! Only an hour remaining until the official deadline. Are you excited? I am!

Some of you are aiming for a photo finish and that’s alright with me. I haven’t had time yet to reply to everyone who’s submitted their gift within the last days and a half (around 35 of you did), but I will be e-mailing those who haven’t in an hour, so if you don’t hear from me your gift has been received.

For those of you who’ll be needing an extra couple of hours to finish the last details, don’t despair. It’s past midnight in my time zone and I’m slightly tipsy on mulled wine, so I won’t be posting the gifts until noon (Central European Time) tomorrow. That’ll give you some extra time to get your gift in. If you can’t finish your gift within the next 12 hours, though, please let me know!

I will be available on my e-mail for the next couple of hours and again from mid-morning tomorrow (CET), so if you’ve got any questions or need a hand with last-minute problems, feel free to e-mail me.

Merry Christmas Eve!

>>13528
Ah shit, sorry, it's only 6 pm here, so I thought I had more time! I'll finish the secret santa I'm doing for another site's trade in a bit and then upload them together.

For those on Eastern Standard Time, 12 noon CET is 6AM.

WOOT! Christmas breakfast with a side order of TF2

Captcha: garnishing allstsi- Garnishing All Stsi? That's not how you spell tree captcha, you're drunk.

So since Cyan's in that weird Europe-y time zone, and I've yet to lay this down, my song's going to be a little late. Check your email in about an hour for my backup gift.

Fröhliche Weihnachten everyone! And I got mine in a whole 24 hours ahead of the deadline, for a procrastinator like me that was amazing, haha! I can't wait to see all the gifts tomorrow night. Excitement!

I must be a glutton for self punishment after procrastinating for half the month then finally getting it done in time the night before the deadline. But in some sort of crazy look about it, this helps me actually sit down and write more since whenever I try to start a fanfic, I never continue on it and either lose interest in it or loss of motivation. Having a time limit really helps me in working in something I used to do a lot years ago in other fandoms. Glad that TF2chan has these events to aid in getting me to sit down and be creative without any issue.

Can not wait to see these year's gifts, being this is my 3rd year attending the Secret Santa event. Hell, I even would agree to a Summer Santa event mentioned earlier on here. Anything to get me and others more involved with the chan !

I'm not saying I'm looking forward to seeing all the Secret Santa stuff as much as I'm looking forward to Christmas with my family, but I am definitely looking forward to it quite a lot more than I could explain *to* my family.

I’m glad to hear you’re all looking forward to the gifts being revealed – I am too! Two months of work on my part are coming to a close.

I will be posting the gifts a little later than previously announced, though, since a few participants are running late, but they will be up later today (those of you who are Americans probably won’t notice the delay; I apologise to the Australians, though!).

Unfortunately, there are also a couple of participants who haven’t submitted gifts or been in contact with me during the last 48 hours. I’ll have to presume they won’t be sending in gifts. This means I’ll have to call on kind-hearted souls to volunteer for helping out their fellow TF2 fans. If any of you out there can find the time in your holiday schedules for an extra drawing or drabble, please let me know. I’d hate to disappoint any of you hardworking people!

>>13536
Oh goodness that's awful D: I hope you got the email with the prompt and extra prompt I sent you yesterday.

A friend of mine who isn't in the secret Santa offered to help, I sent you her info via email.

>>13536
If you give me enough notice (within the next couple of hours), Cyan, I can help out with a leftover prompt. The artwork may be a little rushed, and most likely in greyscale, but better something than nothing, right?

I can't believe Christmas in Oz is nearly over when it's just starting in the US. Grarrrrr! Oh well, I'll have some great stories to read on boxing day.

Sorry. I fell asleep on my drawing around three in the morning ( which was roughly Nine am your time I think?) and it's now nine over here. It shall be done, hopefully within the next hour or so. Markers kicked my ass, so there's still a bit of background left to do. But it shall be done.

Volunteers have stepped forward to claim all the orphaned prompts! Somewhere, Soldier is shedding a single manly, American tear at this display of honest Christmas team spirit. Well done, guys!

I’m still holding out for a couple of late-comers, but I’ve been in touch with everyone and am confident it won’t be too long until I can start posting the gifts – it will definitely happen later today. Thank you for your patience! I promise you it’ll be worth the wait.

Cyan: I just sent mine to you! Sorry for the tardiness there. I hope it's gonna be worth it and my giftee will like it.

Refresh. Refresh. Refresh

>>13543
same here

Cyan: I just sent mine. I'm sorry it took so long. :(

And BAM! Song is in! It's a little simple. but it goes with the piece.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

It's already so late over here :O I hope I get to read some and see some before I go to bed!

>>13548
Same here dood

You've been in touch with everyone who's sent gifts in? I haven't gotten an email back from you. Hopefully you got my email and the attached/dropboxed gift. I sent it in about 1-2 hours after the deadline.

>>13550 No, Cyan hasn't emailed me since a reminder a few days ago. (Or weeks, all blurs together for me)

That terrible feeling when you're reading your fic after it was submitted and, even after proofreading and a beta, there's typos. Oh lawd. I hope they're not too glaring.

Totally excited to read all of these though! HNGH

>>13550
>>13551

I haven’t e-mailed most of the participants who submitted their gifts right before the deadline; within the last 24 hours of the deadline I received 52 gift submissions and another two dozen messages asking for various kinds of assistance, coinciding with the single largest family event of the year in my country, the Christmas Eve dinner. Out of necessity, I prioritised replying to the requests for help and posted a notice to this thread (13528) saying I’d e-mail the people whose gifts I hadn’t received at the time of the deadline, which I did.

I am, at this moment, down four gifts out of 66. Two of those are no-shows, which have been delegated to two team-spirited volunteers and will be completed in a couple of days. I will be e-mailing the recipients of those gifts to let them know beforehand so they won’t be disappointed when I post the gifts. The other two I’ve been promised before the end of the day; I e-mailed both participants an hour ago to ask for an ETA, so hopefully I’ll hear from them soon.

I am organising the gifts now and will be posting them tonight! I’m sorry for the delay and hope you’ll be patient with me a little while longer – we’re still ahead of last year’s schedule delay, so everything is pretty much going as well as could be expected from an informal event such as this. Boxing Day is still Christmas, right?

Thanks for the quick reply and again, for all the hard work put into this event. Merry Christmas

Ok it's 7:38 AM I gotta go to bed now. Hope to see the gifts when I wake up

>>13555
Haha yeah. its nly 1:53 am here and im ready to pass out

Heck, its only 12 here, and i'm beat! Goodnight to all you lovely people, and especially to the coordinator of this entire thing. Must be hard to organize all this...but boy, its worth it.

Phew! Thanks for your patience, guys.

I have received the second-to-last submission now and will begin posting everyone’s gifts in a moment. The art gifts will go up first, followed by a short break while I convert the last of the fics to a ‘chan-friendly format, and then the fic gifts will go up past noon local time.

Three of you will not be receiving a gift today. I have e-mailed the participants affected and allied myself with team-spirited volunteers to get the orphaned prompts filled ASAP. Thank you, everyone who rushed to contact me with offers for help! You’re good people and you make me proud to be a part of this fandom.

I also apologise for the delay! I have learned some important lessons on logistics doing my first Secret Santa event for the ‘chan, including the necessity of having multiple contingency deadlines – 35% of you submitted your gift after the first official deadline, which is why it has taken me some extra time to get everything sorted.

I will write a review of the Secret Santa event after posting the gifts and I hope you’ll also take a moment to offer me comments and suggestions for improvements. All in all, though, it has been my pleasure to organise this event! I hope you have all had fun (as much fun as can be had with a deadline looming, in any case) and will enjoy the cornucopia of fanworks I’m about to unleash on you.

Now, time for gifts!

Sorry, I had my fic queued up to post on the 26th on tumblr so it's up just a bit early.

Quite likely a noob question but I'm a bit confused....are the gifts being emailed to everyone seperately or all posted in this thread? Just wanted to check as I've not had anything in the mail and checked all threads on the chan!

>>13561

The gifts are being posted to the ’chan.

The art gifts have all been posted here: http://tf2chan.net/afanart/res/4540.html

I am currently in the process of posting the fic gifts – you’re welcome to read the fics as they’re uploaded, but please don’t reply to the thread until I am done: http://tf2chan.net/afanfic/res/14058.html

I will only be mailing individual gifts to participants whose Secret Santas have provided high-resolution or alternative versions of their gifts.

Ahh, so many new stories, I'm in heaven. ♡

And it is done.

Two months, 100+ hours of work, and now finally all the gifts have been posted (with the exception of the three orphaned prompts—I haven’t forgotten!).

Art gifts: http://tf2chan.net/afanart/res/4540.html
Fic gifts: http://tf2chan.net/afanfic/res/14058.html

If you have sent in a gift and I haven’t uploaded it, please contact me ASAP. If you have participated and have neither received a gift nor an e-mail from me, please do the same.

I have made a tumblr announcement and I’d appreciate if you’d reblog it: http://writingcyan.tumblr.com/post/38913444895/the-tf2chan-secret-santa-is-now-finished

I will finish up the last details tomorrow and write my review post. All comments and suggestions for improvements for next year’s Secret Santa are welcome in this thread and in my mailbox.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!

On behalf of the whole chan, Cyan, I just wanna say thank you for organizing this. You did a terrific job, and I can't wait to do this again. I know I'm not allowed to post smiley faces, but I want you to know that if I could, I'd be posting a bunch of them, and those little heart emotes, too. You did great, and we all had a great time, I'm sure.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Yes, it was a good holiday season full of trial and errors for the Secret Santa event. I enjoyed working on my prompt, now just waiting on mine as I got orphaned so just a much longer waiting game for me.

Regardless, happy holidays TF2Channers!

Thanks a lot for this. I know I'll be back next year!

I see the mercs as more combat-sexual than anything else. They definitely get much more animated when there's killing to be had. (Just listen to the Administrator on Payload missions when the bomb is about to reach the final terminus.)