BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2014

**Posted by La Jolie** November 27, 2014 3:54 pm

Submitted.

What subtext? Did anyone doubt that we'd get the first one on Monday?

Schmiezi, I agree with your schedule, except with the dates towards the end. Maybe it's just me, but the actual Christmas days (starting with the 24th) are always real family time for me, which means I will just have absolutely no time whatsoever to read fic and comment on it... can't we have those just a little earlier? I'd be sorry to miss three whole stories and only get to read them when the authors are revealed and it's all over anyway... not to mention how rude and stupid I would feel if one of those was written for me...
(If it's just me, never mind, but maybe someone else feels the same?)

Last edited by La Jolie (November 27, 2014 3:55 pm)

**Posted by silverblaze** November 27, 2014 4:00 pm

Subtext? I just read that into it, Solar probably meant it straight but in my brain it translated as 'please? puppy eyes'. That's because I'm that way.

Personally it doesn't really matter to me whether we do stories at Christmas. Whatever everyone is comfortable with, it'd be nice to have as many people comment as possible IMO. Make it a fun December party.

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**Posted by gently69** November 27, 2014 4:02 pm

La Jolie wrote:
Schmiezi, I agree with your schedule, except with the dates towards the end. Maybe it's just me, but the actual Christmas days (starting with the 24th) are always real family time for me, which means I will just have absolutely no time whatsoever to read fic and comment on it... can't we have those just a little earlier? I'd be sorry to miss three whole stories and only get to read them when the authors are revealed and it's all over anyway... not to mention how rude and stupid I would feel if one of those was written for me...
(If it's just me, never mind, but maybe someone else feels the same?)

That's a good point. Didn't think about it first.

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** November 27, 2014 4:05 pm

gently69 wrote:
La Jolie wrote:
Schmiezi, I agree with your schedule, except with the dates towards the end. Maybe it's just me, but the actual Christmas days (starting with the 24th) are always real family time for me, which means I will just have absolutely no time whatsoever to read fic and comment on it... can't we have those just a little earlier? I'd be sorry to miss three whole stories and only get to read them when the authors are revealed and it's all over anyway... not to mention how rude and stupid I would feel if one of those was written for me...
(If it's just me, never mind, but maybe someone else feels the same?)

That's a good point. Didn't think about it first.

We did do it that way last year, but I can certainly how those dates would be problematic for many (I myself won't be able to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day , 'twill be a late Christmas for me) and if we all agreed it would make more sense to maybe skip those three days and start posting on the 27th? Maybe the last could be posted on New Years Eve? I don't know, whatever works for everybody , I'm fine with whatever is decided.

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 27, 2014 4:16 pm

Actually, for me (personally) the last three days are the most important days of Christmas, that's why I wanted to post one fic on each of the three days.

It's a countdown to Christmas, so it should, well, you know, end on Christmas.

But if I am the only one to think so, I wil change it.

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 27, 2014 4:17 pm

Important note, BTW:

All fics I have received so far are well-formated. I have tried them all and can post them within 30 seconds when they are due.
Thank you all so much for it!

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**Posted by SusiGo** November 27, 2014 4:19 pm

I can understand both arguments. But I think Schmiezi is right - it is a Secret Santa and should end at Christmas. We all know that many people are busy so maybe it would not be a problem if the comments arrived a bit later. What do you think?

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** November 27, 2014 4:20 pm

Schmiezi wrote:
Actually, for me (personally) the last three days are the most important days of Christmas, that's why I wanted to post one fic on each of the three days.

It's a countdown to Christmas, so it should, well, you know, end on Christmas.

But if I am the only one to think so, I wil change it.

Also a good point. If one of the issues is people not being to read them one those days and then coming back online to find the authors already revealed, maybe we could delay revealing of the authors to a somewhat later date? Whatever works.

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 27, 2014 4:21 pm

I could hide the final revelation in one of those spoiler thingies.

like this.

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**Posted by SolarSystem** November 27, 2014 4:24 pm

Schmiezi wrote:
I could hide the revelation in one of those spoiler thingies.

Sounds perfect!
I probably won't be able to read the fics posted on the 25th and 26th right away, either. I'll just have to stay away from this thread to avoid reading any comments before I've read the fics (we will post our comments in here, right? Like we did last year?).

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 27, 2014 4:26 pm

Yes. I will make a new thread just for the fics ... and for other things. It could be worth taking a look at that thread between fics, too.

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**Posted by SusiGo** November 27, 2014 4:27 pm

Pics? Did I overlook something?

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 27, 2014 4:30 pm

fffffffffffffics

Damn typos.

**Posted by SusiGo** November 27, 2014 4:32 pm

Now I am relieved. I thought I had to paint or draw as well.

**Posted by silverblaze** November 27, 2014 4:32 pm

Schmiezi wrote:
Important note, BTW:

All fics I have received so far are well-formated. I have tried them all and can post them within 30 seconds when they are due.
Thank you all so much for it!

Oh, wonderful, I spent so much time trying to work that out. I was quite nervous about that.

Christmas is fine for me too, the wonderful thing about comment threads is that you can read back and comment on earlier things. I don't think it's a problem if people comment on stories that were uploaded a few days earlier.

Schmiezi, what you could also do is just see whether most people have said something (not necessarily everyone) and then post the revelation in spoiler tags. It's nice to do the 'whaha, was that you? was that for me?' thingy, but we could also post that in spoiler tags of course.

**Posted by SolarSystem** November 28, 2014 10:10 am

silverblaze wrote:
Subtext? I just read that into it, Solar probably meant it straight but in my brain it translated as 'please? puppy eyes'. That's because I'm that way.

Perfectly sound interpretation. Of course I never doubted that we would get the first fic on December 1st, but there's nothing wrong with getting on Schmiezi's nerves, right?

**Posted by silverblaze** November 28, 2014 4:11 pm

Heheheh. That's not pushiness. That's enthousiasm.

**Posted by stoertebeker** November 28, 2014 7:01 pm

How about we do the revelation who wrote what a few days after chirstmas, on the 28th, 29th or something?

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 28, 2014 7:34 pm

Sounds good to me, stoertebeker.

Solar, feel free to enthusiastically get on my nerves anytime you want.

**Posted by SolarSystem** November 28, 2014 10:47 pm

Can't wait for the first fic, can't wait for the first fic! Why isn't it monday already..?!