MiroSanta2018

The MiroSanta2018 Gift Exchange is over! Many thanks to all our participants! We had a total of 6 participants and got some excellent fanfic and fanart!

Here's the gifts!

From: Molly (@itinerant-monk) To: Paynesgrey (@quirkypaynesgrey) Type: Fanart Title: Reflections at Dawn Tumblr Link

From: Paynesgrey (@quirkypaynesgrey) To: Angelhart (@angelhartsblog) Type: Fanart Title: A Free Moment Tumblr Link DA Link

From: Angelhart (@angelhartsblog) To: ScribeFigaro (@scribefigaro) Type: Fanfic Title: Worship Tumblr Link AO3 Link

From: ScribeFigaro (@scribefigaro) To: Brooke (@geldris) Type: Fanfic Title: I Need This Tumblr Link AO3 Link

From: Brooke (@geldris) To: Starzki (@starzki) Type: Fanfic Link TBD

Thank you to all the great participants of our 2018 MiroSanta!  We have some amazing artists and writers and we’re really looking forward to the incredible MiroSan fanwork we’ll be getting in late December.

Assignments have been sent out.  You still have lots of time before December 25, but now’s a good time to look over your giftee’s prompts and let those ideas simmer in the back of your head.

We’ll be checking in on everyone on November 21.  There’s no obligation to have started anything by then; it’s just a check to make sure your holiday plans haven’t made things too difficult to continue.

By early December we’d like to check on people’s schedules and see if we can arrange an unwrapping event, i.e., having as many people as possible on the Discord so we can text/voice chat during a gift exchange.

Also, anyone who missed the assignment deadline can still join the Discord and squee with us, and contribute whatever sort of small gifts (drabbles, sketches, moodboards, anything at all!) they’d like to share.

Welcome to the Secret MiroSanta 2018 Gift Exchange!

Introduction

This year is the 15th anniversary of the North American airing of “Enter Sango, the Demon Slayer,” the 24th episode of the Inuyasha TV series, and the springboard for a wave of fanfic, fanart, and other fanwork to celebrate this tragic but persevering character, and her moderating influence on that darn monk.

Over the course of the series, we see Miroku and Sango develop as friends, partners in battle, grudging love interests, and eventually, a happily married couple with a growing family.  We want to celebrate the fire-forged bond between them by creating fanfic and fanart with fellow MiroSan shippers, through the Secret MiroSanta 2018 Gift Exchange.

How it works

Want to join?  Fill out the form at the bottom of this page, so we know what kind of gift you’d like, and what sort of gift you can provide for others.

When the submission period is complete, MiroSanta Helpers will give your gift request to another participant, and give some other participant’s gift request to you. 

Since this is a Secret MiroSanta, nobody but you will know who you’re making a gift for, and you won’t know who is making a gift for you, until all is revealed during Gift Exchange Week.  You will have a little over six weeks to prepare your gift.

During Gift Exchange Week, you’ll share your gift with your recipient, and the MiroSanta group as a whole, and receive your own gift in return.  At the same time, MiroSanta Helpers will share gift requests with the MiroSanta group, so everyone can enjoy and be inspired by everyone else’s fanfiction and fanart ideas.

Schedule

Participants may deliver gifts no earlier than December 24

Participants may deliver gifts no later than December 31 (this can be extended!)

As we approach the deadline, MiroSanta Helpers will try to arrange for specific Gift Exchange Events so as many people as possible can be available to text/voice chat during gift reveals - basically, our own little unwrapping party!

Rules

Fanfiction gifts should be a fully-contained “one-shot” story, preferably 3000-6000 words.  Written works of similar effort (e.g. a series of vignettes) are fine too!

Fanart gifts should be either a detailed full-color image, or a black-and-white or simply-colored mini-comic

Gifts should be an original fanwork, made with the gift receiver’s prompts in mind.  If you have a work in progress that might fit the prompts, go ahead and use that as a starting point.  But please don’t “gift” someone a fanwork you made before getting a gift assignment!

Fanfiction gifts must be posted on AO3, Fanfiction.net, a publicly-viewable Tumblr page, or some other permanent text hosting site that all MiroSanta participants can view without registration.

Fanart gifts must be posted on a publicly-viewable image host, Tumblr page, or some other permanent art hosting site that all MiroSanta participants can view without registration.

A link to each gift must be delivered to MiroSanta Helpers so we can alert your recipient, and post the gift in the MiroSanta channel for enjoyment of all

Gifts must be posted no earlier than December 24

Gifts must be posted no later than January 1, although this can be extended so long as you let us know beforehand!

Deadlines

October 28: Signups open!

November 4: Signups closed!

November 7: Assignments delivered to participants

November 21: First check-in with participants.

December 5:  Second check-in with participants.

December 19:  Third check-in with participants.

December 25: Gift-giving begins!  Participants may share their gifts!

January 1: Gift-giving ends!  Participants must finish and and deliver their gifts!

So who’s running this?

Your faithful MiroSanta Helpers this year are Scribe Figaro and Starzki.  Please join us!

Okay, but where’s the MiroSanta party?

The MiroSanta 2018 discussion channel, Exchange Week, and all other events are hosted on the Team MiroSan discord server. 

What if I’m a MiroSan shipper, but can’t commit to making a gift?

No problem!  The Team MiroSanta server is open to all MiroSan shippers.  During Exchange Week, you’re free to drop in and enjoy the festivities.  If the spirit strikes you, feel free to look over the Wish Lists when they’re released, and submit stocking stuffers (drabbles, quick sketches, moodboards, gifsets, playlists) with the rest of us!

How can I participate?