Blog Announcement | 2017 Secret Santa

Blog Announcement | 2017 Secret Santa

Calling all BTS writers, whether you follow me or not!

I know this is early in the year, but what I want to do might require a lot of planning and time to execute because it might take a long time to get the word out. So if I want this to be a success, I think half a year of registration would do better.

I want to host a Secret Santa for us BTS writers on tumblr. And because I’m poor, and probably we’re all poor, we I can’t do gifts. But what we can do is write. I want us to write a scenario to each other as a present. And because it’s secret santa, you don’t know who is writing your scenario. You might not even know the person you’re writing for.

I want to give us all a chance to get to know each other, maybe find a new friend/someone to follow, as well as give a gift. And if it’s someone you follow, then congrats, your work might be that much easier.

Here’s how it’ll go down:

Fill out this application to participate in 2017 Secret Santa. Deadline to apply is Jun. 12, 2017 - 12AM PST.

After everyone has applied, I will help you randomly choose your secret santa and message you who you are secret santa for.

The fun part is learning about the person you’re writing for. So go ahead, dig through their blog, send them asks on anon to ask questions about them, whatever. Learning about the person you are writing for will make the scenario even more special and personal for that person.

Everything you learn about them may not be necessarily fit for your scenario; it’s okay. You don’t have to incorporate everything you learn if it feels irrelevant.

Basic requirements in your scenario are these:

Christmas-themed scenario. Lol, it’s that simple.

Instead of “Y/N” or however you typically name your OC, use the name of the person you’re writing this for to personalize this.

Find out their BTS bias to be their pairing.

Please refrain from triggers you learn about that person that they are sensitive to.

Refrain from negative endings. Just in general. It’s like sending someone a nicely wrapped gift with an ipad box and then end up with old gym socks as a present. No. Just don’t do that please.

There is no minimum/maximum length to your scenario, do what is comfortable for you.

When you are done with your scenario, submit it to me, so I can post it anonymously on the blog, to keep the secret santa thing a secret. Submissions deadline is two weeks before Christmas – Dec. 10, 2017 – Dec. 16, 2017. You’re completely free to send it in way long before deadline.

I will probably send you an ask on the first week of Dec, to remind you to submit it (hopefully I’ll remember).

The scenarios will be queued to post on Dec. 24, 2017 12AM PST – Dec. 25, 2017 11:59PM PST

If you want to know who your secret santa is, let me know, and I’ll let them know to see if they want to reveal themselves to you

If and when you want to post your own scenario back onto your blog to reveal that you are the writer and claim that credit back, please tag me so I keep track of who revealed themselves and also to keep an eye out for plagiarism

This might be a hard part of this secret santa, but I should make this clear, because apparently common sense is not common. I don’t know what the chances of this, but I don’t want to leave it to chance.

On the off side that the person you are writing for is someone you don’t particularly like on tumblr, put that aside; I really ask you to not back out of this.

First of all, that’s super rude. Second of all, it will cause a whole mess (rechoosing secret santa’s because one person fell out).

Think of these as a couple reasons to be respectful. We all have three things in common.

We’re all writers. With that in mind, respect and appreciate fellow writers and their style. From writer to writer, let’s do something for one another that really appreciates one another.

We all love BTS/we’re all ARMY. With that in mind, respect that we choose to like and support BTS in our own way.

We’re all human. With that in mind, show some humanity.

If you know there is someone on tumblr you don’t particularly like and you know you can’t put that away for at least half a year, then don’t play at all, whether or not you find out that they are participating, whether or not there’s that little chance that you might be chosen to be that person’s secret santa.

I really hope there’s none of that here, or on Tumblr for that matter. Luckily, I’ve never been in the crossfires, never seen them first hand, etc., but I do know they happen on Tumblr, so I felt the need to make sure that doesn’t happen here. I want to protect us from that.

If you are not a writer, but you know writers you really like and you think can abide by these rules, please help spread the word and see if they will want to join. The more the merrier. ☺

Whether or not you plan to join, can you please help reblog this to get the word out to see if anyone else would like to join? Please and thank you!

I hope everyone will enjoy this, whether you’re a writer or a reader, or both!

Applications are open now!

- Love, Smiles

@rinrynren replied to your Handwriting Tag post

Your handwriting is actually quite cute lmao and I didn’t think there were handwriting work books?? That’s so cool :O might explain why my cursive can be pretty bad sometimes lmao and your thought behind your favorite number is so sweet!!

Lol, it’s not cute. I think it’s really ugly. I always opt out of being the scribe of every group project because everyone’s got ‘em cute handwritings, and my handwriting is like a 3rd grader “I is writing good” lmao.

Yeah. But tbh, I hated it because I felt like it was so tedious. Acting like it didn’t exist results in good handwriting for Smiles that doesn’t exist.

And thank you! I used to not understand why I always opt for #3 out of all other numbers, and then I decided to give myself a meaning for it lol

I imagine Seokjin is the kind of boyfriend who will slowly crawl under the sheets to gently wrap his arms around you and pull you close so he can get a decent night’s sleep

hello! i've read your secret santa post and i'm building up the courage to join haha. i have a few questions tho, i have a blog here in tumblr, but i don't post anything related to bts. am i still able to join with said blog alone or will i have to make a new blog which contains bts? btw thank you so much for arranging the secret santa event!!

Aww hello, you sound cute, idk why! Lol You do not have to recreate a bts blog if you don’t want to. Naturally, it helps if you are in the bts/kpop writing community, or even just writing community in general, because you understand the rhythm of things of having such blog but it’s not required. Its probably a more familiar format for people when they learn about you and your blog, but if you want to keep the integrity of your own blog with no bts related things, don’t force yourself, please.

I know someone who joined but she doesn’t necessarily have a blog that is BTS based either, nor does she write on it, it’s more of her personal blog. I want people to get to know others to follow or maybe make friends who have the common interests that is BTS and that they like to write. Who knows, maybe theyll find another common interest with what you post.

How about this:♡Are you a writer (blog or not)?♡Are you ARMY?♡Are you human?♡Do you want to do this?♡Do you have ill feelings for a bts writer on tumblr that you can’t put aside for half a year?If yes to the first four and no to the last one, then congratulations! You have fulfilled the requirements to join 2017 Secret Santa! 🎉🎉🎉

Now, do what you want to do, sweetie. The sky is the limit for you here 😙

I imagine Namjoon is the kind of boyfriend who loves it when you ask him to proofread, edit, critique, fix, and all-otherwise help look over your newest creative project

Blog Announcement | Candy Cane Continuation?

Previously there has been requests to continue one of my 2016 Winter Stars scenarios for Candy Cane

Summary line: Christmas Prompt #19: Character A doesn’t feel the Christmas spirit but Character B, who lives above them, keeps playing Christmas carols really loud. (Mafia!Namjoon)

After some considerations, I’ve decided to not continue it.

I originally did not intend for this or any of my other Winter Stars scenarios to be any longer than one scenario.

I have thought about how I would continue it, which the plot I came up with would end up a long-term fanfiction, which is not a format I really want to do right now because I already have another mafia!bts/con.artist!bts fanfiction on my back burners.

The plot I came up with is tbh, a really interesting plot, I cannot lie. Also, Candy Cane is one of my personal favorites and recommended. But I’m afraid I can’t even live up to my own expectation with how I want to go with that plot.

Most importantly, I’m afraid that if I continue it, it’s going to be like watching a really, really, really awesome movie and then the directors make a whole new franchise just to milk it but it will never beat the original

I’m sorry if I’ve disappointed you, but I really hope you understand.

Something I will offer though, is that if and when I find prompts or drabbles list that I’m ready to do, I fully support and encourage you to send in the “candy.cane!namjoon” au as one of the au choices for those prompts. (I’d rather not call that as mafia!namjoon because I already have another mafia!namjoon.) If not, just send in some really cute inspirations for me to write for that au ☺

(This whole announcement/notice also concerns all other 2016 Winter Stars scenarios, such as Tail of Good Deeds, which people also had interests in continuations. that au can be shorthanded as “tails!jimin”)