Winterval is coming to town!

[gilpin25]

There has been fierce competition today for the most irritating moment, and the award goes to approximately 3.10pm when I opened my pack of this year's favourite Christmas cards - because you always save those for the people who deserve them, don't you? - and found that the envelopes were fractionally too small for the cards. WHY? Suffice it to say, they are no longer my favourite cards, especially after I spent another ten minutes trying every envelope in the house to see if anyone would notice opening a card that was bouncing around in an envelope twice its size. Conclusion: yes, you certainly will. ;)

Anyway, we all need some cheer - and I'm not even mentioning the LJ attacks, except I've been trying to post this since this morning so please leave LJ alone - and I know this has been all over my f-list already but, in case you haven't seen it, it's Winterval time again. It's an event at the very friendly pulped_fictions community, which runs from Dec. 1st to Feb. 29th. Which means there is plenty of time to take part and events designed to suit everyone, whether you have minutes or hours to spare, or simply fancy some Christmas reading, reviewing and discussions. It's a community for original fiction and art, there are three teams with the emphasis very much on having fun and challenging yourself to see what you can do, and it's frankly hard to resist events with names like Hot Chocolate, Bad Sweater and Candy Cane Pimp. Apparently someone has spotted the presents I've been buying this year.

There is still plenty of time to sign up, no worries if you can't play till January, and I'm in the mighty snow_flakers team (we're not melters) as you'll need to say where you heard of the comm. So come and play and enjoy the holidays with us.



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Comments

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

The sheer awesome of us rein_dears will melt you snow_flakers!

What? This isn't the place to talk Winterval smack? Sorry! ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Poor Sir Leon! When Merlin's all about dignity at all times as well, lol. (Actually he still looks cute.:D)

The sheer awesome of us rein_dears will melt you snow_flakers!

We're unique but we all stick together. ;)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

What's that about Merlin's dignity?!

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see he's about to confess to Arthur what a great wizard he is there, and how many times he's saved his life! (And the creepy eavesdropping on Arthur's proposal to Gwen... Oh, never mind about that one.;))

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

LOL. What was that about anyway? He wanted to be there to pick up the pieces if Gwen said no? ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Of all the unnecessary scenes... that might come in at number one. But I think your theory is right and the only question is who he'd comfort first. ;)

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

My other theory is that Merlin is the biggest Arthur/Gwen shipper on the planet, and he just could not stand to miss the proposal. ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

My other theory is that Merlin is the biggest Arthur/Gwen shipper on the planet,

Good. That makes three of us now. ;)

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Sir Leon looks good in everything. Believe it. :)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

*snorts* I like to think I'm not obvious but apparently I am as I'm a Percival girl. It's the short-sleeved armour fashion statement.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

I understand the appeal of Percival, because who wouldn't be into those biceps? But seriously, that is the world's least useful shirt of mail ever, lol.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I know, but nobody takes a swing at his arms! Thick or what?

I really must get my Merlin icons out of storage but arms obviously equals Jaime.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

but arms obviously equals Jaime.

OMG, the tragedy! :(

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Sorry to say your card woes gave me a chuckle, since I had the exact same thing, except that I over-zealously crafted my own cards and made them just fractionally too big for their envelopes (and then forced them in anyway,lol).

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Isn't it maddening? Though I tried brutal force and got a paper cut. That was Most Irritating Moment number two of the day.

[alias-amy.livejournal.com]

Envelopes too small? THIS. CANNOT. STAND.

Actually I'm horrifically late to get cards out. I bought mine at this lovely paper store and I think I'm going to have go back and get a giant rubber stamp that says "Happy New Year" and obliterate any signs it was supposed to go out any earlier. And while I'm at it I should probably look for a "Happy Vernal Equinox" stamp just in case.

An irritating day, you say? It got better, I hope?

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

You are cracking me up, because we aren't even at Dec 10 yet and you're calling this late?

I can't even think about cards until I've dealt with final grades...

[alias-amy.livejournal.com]

I blame Black Friday and all the Christmas sales! They've given me an artificially induced sense of accelerating time!

(good luck with final grades! I just helped my hubby do his -- I don't know about you but his school's computer system adds another day at least to the process.)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

You can't be late, just 'slightly' behind schedule like me. And I'm thinking of moving the schedule!

An irritating day, you say? It got better, I hope?

It did. My main gripe was not being able to log into poor old LJ again for the best part of the day. Fortunately matters improved once I'd moaned to everyone who'd lend an ear (Mr. G gave me a "Do I care?" look and wisely didn't lend any ears, lol).

[bratty-jedi.livejournal.com]

My Christmas cards came with envelopes that were barely big enough so I had to struggle to get the cards in and ripped a few envelopes while trying, but that wasn't my biggest problem. The envelopes didn't actually seal. They had a little slit for tucking the flap into it and that was it. There's no way that little slit would last at all so I had to tape them all shut. I was most annoyed.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that Santa needs to take a long hard look at his Christmas stationery department. There are worldwide problems that need to be sorted.

[bratty-jedi.livejournal.com]

Most definitely! I'm not demanding that elves be fired or anything as mistakes do happen, but given the global scale of the mistakes, I think perhaps some retraining during the spring downtime is in order.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Every year we get holiday cards with a picture of The Kid, mostly for family and close friends. I got those cards today, but in a moment of complete WTF-erty, there were no envelopes in the box. :(

In other words, I now feel your pain.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I could send you some (completely useless) envelopes! Of course, there is no guarantee they'd fit anything with you either - what is going on with Santa's stationery department? Grr.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Envelope woes! There's always something, like when they're just slightly the wrong color, or you run out of them before the cards, or...

But I admire you for being in the midst of card-writing already. ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

But I admire you for being in the midst of card-writing already. ;)

Yes, but I'm not trying to do several pressure-filled things at once like you are - merely being sent over the edge by stupid envelopes! They are turning out to be useful for my lists today, so maybe it's a silver envelope lining as they nearly say.

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!