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Sign-ups Closed! Welcome to the Participants will exchange gifts valued around $20-30 USD ($25-30 CAD), but used ink samples/bottles or secondhand pens are fine as long as they’re clean. Gift cards are cool too. Check with your post office for shipping costs. Keep in mind that some goons live in places that freeze, which may affect ink. Another option is to ship directly from a shop like Goulet or Wonderpens. Want to play? First, send me an email at FountainPensSA@gmail.com. The subject line should say FPSASS18 <YourUserName>. In that email, please include: Your SA Profile link: (Optional) Your FountainPenNetwork Profile link: Name: Address: Where you’re willing to ship to: Anywhere? European only, North American only? Other? Outer space? Farther the better? Also include additional relevant information that you don’t want to publicly post, like maybe your Amazon wishlist. Secondly, please post in this thread with your Dear Santa. You can tell Santa anything, but especially: What you love, what you’d like to try, or what you definitely do not want. What you already have. (Link to a Google Spreadsheet with your ink collection. You can also include this in your email to me if you’re concerned about privacy.) If you’re cool with NSFW packaging or content. (Dong glitter exists. Just say’n.) How you use your pens. (Art? Organization? Nanowrimo-ing?) The shops you prefer, so your Santa can choose a gift-card. Try to be open-minded about what you might get. $20 doesn’t go far with fountain pens! Hopefully everyone can be matched up, but if you live in Africa and no one is willing to ship outside of North America or Europe you might not be matchable. I’ll do my best. Most exchanges have a deadbeat. We may vilify and shame them, depending on circumstances, but I’ll probably ask for volunteers to take on an extra Santees in January once the dust settles. I cannot promise that you won’t be deadbeated, as it’s out of my hands. In summary, the rules are: Send me an application email, and post in the thread. (Put your username and the number 18 in the subject line!) -- ie. FPSASS18 Pixelante. Don’t play unless you can afford to send a value of at least $20 USD, with shipping fees on top of that. If you aren’t okay with NSFW packaging or content, mention it in your Dear Santa post. Label ink samples clearly. Get your package in the mail before the 20th of December, preferably sooner. Don’t be a deadbeat and stiff your Santee without warning. If poo poo happens and you can’t follow through, let me know. [video type="youtu"]G8OIh0nvxgA[/video] FAQ * your Santa will almost certainly be different than your Santee. * you do not have to reveal your identity to your Santee, but I think it's fun. * you may open your present when you receive it. If you prefer to wait til Christmas day, go for it. * it's very nice to post a thank-you to your Santa, but not obligatory. * I'm not going to put a hit out on anyone who shipped too late to miss Christmas Day, but do try. Remember that shipping is way cheaper if you leave it lots of time--especially for those of us in Canada, who have rolling postal strikes on the go. Pixelante fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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Dear Santa, Surely, organising this exchange balances out some of my eviler deeds this year. Love: Just about anything to do with stationery. I burn through paper pretty fast, and rotate ink constantly. I doubt I'll finish a single bottle in my lifetime. I'm interested in trying a flex dip-pen, since my Noodler's Ahab is a bit stiff. Already Have: Here's a list of inks I've got, and what I like. Uses: I scribble a lot of notes for work, and enjoy elegantly crafted to-do lists. I wish my handwriting was better! Sometimes I do artistic things. I love italic nibs for personal stuff, but need to use fine nibs for conferences/work, since I end up doodling on cheap hand-out paper a lot. Shops: I'm Canadian, so Wonderpens is always great. So is Goulet, since they carry a lot more stuff. Amazon is cool too. The local landscape for FP shopping has improved vastly in the last couple years (more options than the legendary pen rear end in a top hat of Vancouver Island) but if I want anything other than Noodlers, Herbin, or overpriced Iroshizuku I need to shop online.
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Nov 12, 2018 19:37
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Assignments are out! Shoot me a PM or email if I hosed anything up. e: If you haven't posted your letter to santa yet, get hopping. Pixelante fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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Dec 3, 2018 01:30
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A rather damp and very late postman delivered my FPSASS the other night. Sounds like Canada Post is still a bit swamped! Thank you Nine of Eight for the BBS and heap of ink samples. Already trying out a couple of them, and really happy to have the fun-sized bottle of kiri-same. (I am never going to finish any of the larger Iroshizuku bottles.) Excellent choices with stationary, as well. I found some stickers stuck in the Rodia.  I hope you work in a lab because otherwise I'm a little worried about your access to blood sample vials.
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Dec 29, 2018 19:37
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On it. Hopefully things just went out late! If your Santa is truly AWOL, we'll see if anyone wants to adopt you.
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Jan 3, 2019 20:55
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Hopefully everyone is sorted out by now, but if you haven't gotten (or sent) anything by now, please shoot me an email or pm.
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Swan Illusion is probably my favourite right now. It's a really subtle grey/brown that seems to get darker as it dries. Blue Upon the Plains is a Canadian-exclusive. PlaneGuy says it's prone to clogging so you might need to water it down a bit, per Noodler-standards. (He also contributed the Fuyu-Gaki.) The playdoh is to hold ink samples so you don't tip them over on your desk!
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