Winter Exchange READY FOR PICKUP!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:16 pm

Well with the new year let's start things off right!

The Winter Gather exchange is finished!

Most folks got 2 large and 2 small images. Some only wanted large, some got just 1 and 2 because they were in the last batch. There *are* extras but not many (large anyway).

READY FOR PICKUP?! Well go get em! The bandwidth shouldn't go down, it's my paid acct and they have obscene amounts on em.

http://droppin-the-fork.com/winter/wg2k5.htm

Enjoy everyone! I tried to indicate where to link to, but a lot of people didn't give me a link locale so you're on your own.

Where there's no info listed, none was given, so gender and other things are obviously up to you - until someone says otherwise.

Thanks everyone for participating this year! Now we wait for the Flurry... wheee!

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:20 pm

What if we only want to get one or two dragons this year? I misplaced all last year's...and am dreading asking for them. Ooops.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:54 pm

I can go back and check which ones you got, and send em

That's not a problem. If you want to specify that you only want 1 large, then that's what you can do.

You got Cupid reindeerdragon, the Forest-star fazzle, and the Gold-Red dragon from... someone who gave a ton

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:08 pm

I don't have their images, I'd like them. o-o I remember them all...shouldn't be too hard.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:16 pm

No prob, watch this space and when you've got them I will delete the post so's not to confuse things.

Katasev · Post by **Katasev** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:03 pm

'sit possible to submit-but-not-receive? >>; i just know i wouldn't have any time to page anything i got, little or no... i'm already way behind on the gifties i DID get... ^^;

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:29 pm

Sure, that's always an option. This year it's whichever way you'd like. I would presume that 'overflow' dragons will be given away at different times or to fill 'I WANT MORE' requests.

LakotaWolf · Post by **LakotaWolf** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:32 pm

Shardles? Please forgive me for being blonde and stupid, but I just want to make sure 'fore I screw up because I didn't read something right (I do that a lot). This is SIMILAR to the "White Dragon" giveaway thing, yes? Except for we send the images directly to that email you listed, and they should be winter-themed, yesh?

Just wanted to check :D Thankies!

Post by **Dray** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:43 pm

We don't choose numbers, though, she just gives 'em away at a certain point, on nice and pretty pages! XDD It's very easy, and much fun! :D

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:34 pm

Yeah, that's it in a nutshell. I've done it 2 years now (well, 1 year took the requisite 2 years to do lol). So, please don't think that I'm stealing the idea from the white-dragon exchange, this is something that's been done before and now that I have a clue what I'm doing it'll go smoothly like it did last holiday.

hksherra · Post by **hksherra** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:49 pm

>_> And it was at my suggestion that first time! *giggles and hides*

Gotta get to work on my holidazed dragons! ^^

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:55 pm

*makes note to do this this year* *Facepalm*

Do winged wolves count for this or is it only dragons?

jess d · Post by **jess d** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:06 pm

Last year, I think it was pretty much anything goes, as long as it was winter colored/patterned. I know the sulanu I submitted was far from being a dragon

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:06 pm

It's whatever you like to send, as long as it's a WINTER kind of theme (which INCLUDES the holidays of that time), and basically anything bigger than a 'flit' counts as a 'large' creature - UNLESS folks want me to add another category (medium) but I'd rather not.

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:11 pm

Any holiday during winter? >D

*hides the pink heart splattered dragon behind her*

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:13 pm

Any holiday during winter, yes.

What ARE you thinking?

It might be fun to have a batch of Lucia (sp?) dragons, with the lights on their heads, maybe a 12 days of Christmas, a batch of Hanukkah themes, etc too. Those are the ones I'd make exceptions for large groups.

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:26 am

I might slip a valentine one in, but I've got a different idea now. Particually since in involves a template and a well known christmas song

GildedLilly · Post by **GildedLilly** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:22 pm

Rar. Must DRAW! Fixing template... rar.

Anyways, is small/large IMAGE size, or CREATURE size?

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:25 pm

Sizes kind of qualifies in two ways:

ONE - creature size. If the creature itself qualifies as a ridable thing, it's LARGE. If it's a flitter or some other attendant, unridable creature it's SMALL.

TWO - image size. For the 'large' images I just prefer that their pixel size be less than 700 wide - but it's not really essential. It's just easier to create a page with the specific less-than size, so I don't wind up with text overlapping the bg image and such.

GildedLilly · Post by **GildedLilly** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:32 pm

Well.... Um.... I'm drawing... HAMSTER DRAGONS! (A friend's little sister was demanding one, and so... yeah.)

they're only five feet tall, and I'm not sure how that counts. Y'see, you can't ride them, but they are way bigger than your average filtts.

Post by **Dray** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:44 pm

*wonders* Shard, is there any way to ask for certain kinds of dragons from this exchange, this year? :\ With my track-record and stupid-pickiness, I tend to come away from most that I enter being vaguely disappointed. >.< It just makes things so much funner when you /want/ to page a dragon, you know? If not, can I just submit a dragon or three and not recieve anything?

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:58 pm

Sure, just make certain to tell me in your email. I will probably keep notes about that stuff while I'm assigning. We don't want you disappointed!!

I've run it in the past with literally "who donated a lot - assign them in order; who donated the next lot, assign them to the others; whoops they got their own; flitflitflitflitflitflit; newcomer gets something;" etc

So if you do want something or DO NOT want something specific (like, hydra jesus or something... heh) please feel free to say so. I cannot guarantee that someone will fulfill the request but by all means let's try.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:04 pm

Silver Midnight wrote:What if we only want to get one or two dragons this year? I misplaced all last year's...and am dreading asking for them. Ooops.

Here you go
When you've got them saved please tell me, I'm going to be cleaning up some of my photobucket links.

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Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:52 am

Okay Shard, I got them. I've had them all day just realized I forgot to post. =P

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:27 pm

Well, since I've gotten basically no response to this, and the 15th is tomorrow... I guess unless everyone really bashes me with holiday cheer, there will not be a Winter Gather exchange this year.

Rachael · Post by **Rachael** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:18 pm

Shard - I'd really love to participate, though I was confused as to if we were required to send in new template dragons or not.

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:33 pm

:O I'd completely forgotten about it Shard, so sorry!

*sends you off a couple!*

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:40 pm

Rachael wrote:Shard - I'd really love to participate, though I was confused as to if we were required to send in new template dragons or not.

Whatever you want to send, basically. The sizes are the only concern I had, not the content.

jess d · Post by **jess d** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:47 pm

I sent in a few, you even sent me a confirmation email... you still have them, right?

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:02 pm

I'll try to remember to color up some holiday-dragons this evening and send them in...sorry Shard! I forgot too!