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*jumps out from behind a tree* HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! EVERYONE
*cues the piano* what’s this? What’s this? There’s no white stuff in the air. What’s this, there are cookies everywhere. What’s this? I don’t remember the rest of this song without looking it up what’s this!? *bridge* The kids are throwing tantrums instead of throwing cash, and parents are so happy despite thissss

*morphs into the melody from When Christmas Comes to Town from the Polar Express* We have come so far, in times that we can’t choose. We will raise the bar, for the next new Wattpad youth…we just need to remember, we survived another year. Something something the holidays are here.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, or Hanukkah (forgive my spelling), WintersSolstice, Pastapiratarianism…. Or you have to wait until summer for Ramadan, -- or if you don’t celebrate anything at all, then fine that’s cool too, whatever it is you do or don’t do, happy holidays.

I am now climbing up to be what will be my third/fourth year on Wattpad (someone do the math, I started…Sept 2013), and man it has been a long ride. There are so many things that happened, some of it good, some of it bad, but all of it memorable in its own way. And I just want to thank all the people who brought me to this point. I am going to start from the beginning, so sit back.

Skip to the GIVEAWAY on the bottom if you don’t want to read a bunch of Thank You…Notes.

Starting with Ashley, Maddie, and Emily who forced me to join wattpad in the first place. I didn’t have a phone or a computer or any access to internet at the time, I just had a health class and a glitching Mac and you guys who said, join wattpad so we can message you even though you’re sitting right next to us – oh and reading and writing is a thing.

Alexis00010 you’re one of my best friends and I miss you, Lex. If it makes you feel any better, I did start rewriting Us and the Way it Ends. I’m not very far along, but I tried to make the plot simpler and more useable. Short plot summary, you, me, and Angelina (tragic background to each. You fall from heaven, Angelina’s lost her pack, and my dragon is out to kill me) now live together in an apartment, trying to get by, and things start happening.

IncandescentOnEarth I don’t know where to start. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without you. I didn’t think that wattpad was really for me until we met, I was several months along and nothing was happening, I was about on the verge to just stop with wattpad. Then you showed up on my news feed, the user who is currently called windswepted- had followed you, and I decided to check you out and read that story of yours. I still think it was a very interesting spin on bees XD I remember that icon you had at the time, the Harry Potter fanart one. For a while, everything was rainbows and skittles and Two Steps From Hell. Rainbows and shadows for the win. I’m a cliché and you’re a brightness and together we make something extraordinary.

By the way, I found Two Steps From Hell around this time and it changed my life forever. Music makes you braver. #Vanquishvanquishes If anyone listens to them, which is your favorite album?

Okay, moving on, demiraine after all this time, your username still runs smoothing on my keyboard as if it were my own. I don’t know why you left, but I know a lot of people miss you, and that life is a thing. I’ll always cherish the This Is War era as the golden year, when we were all a little innocenter, and all we wanted was to steal (and vandalize) the sun…with waffles…and llamas.

Phoenix Revenge and Dylan Umbra you guys moved my life. You shifted it in a direction that was unpredictable and kinda scary. But the children of the dark gods grew stronger, the revolution gained followers, and for a time, we ruled this orange world and the people in it. There was a time where we could stand on the edge of Olympus and have the gods bow down at our feet.  And I’ll always value you guys, even if it doesn’t seem like I do. Stay strong, you made it this far, you’ll make it through.

TamiAlber you are probably my oldest (not saying you’re old or anything) and most consistent follower, and may I dare call you a friend. You were around to read even when I still had my strange Eragon Fanfic up, sorry you never got to read all of it XD. But no matter what, at least during the school year, I could always count on you to be there reading and commenting your thoughts. It’s been years now and I think I’ve come to rely on your for writing support more than anyone else. When summer happened, I would be immensely sad because you would be gone, but I’d be enlightened by the fact that you’d be back next year. I loved your use of animals in your stories, and even though I sometimes fall behind in reading them, they make me very happy to read, and I beat myself up when I don’t because they are good stories and I never regret reading them. Keep writing, no matter what anyone tells you, no matter how many readers you have. With a bit of polish, your books could shine. If you ever need to talk about characters or stories, or you need an editor or something, for you, I am always willing to help. I feel like I don’t acknowledge how important you are to me, but you are – and ugh this is turning so mushy *thinks dragons, thinks crazy elves* much better.

-beWITCHed- Have I ever mentioned how much I love that username. By the way when you deleted your old account you scared the Hades out of me, and as a daughter of Hades that’s a little messed up. Anyway, here we enter a bridge between my old life and my current one. You’ve been there all the time, even when you have school or I have school or we have work or something, I don’t know what I’d do if you didn’t text back very two or three days or so. You were there during the revolution era, and the the Two and Three Era where I didn’t know if my life would get any better, and up into the Silent Symphony and Songless Eras where we can just sit back and talk about life, doggos, stories, roleplay, and my senior research paper on grave robbery. Oh and food, food is a must. You, Lilly, and Angelina are like the three people I can talk about anything with – which I suppose comes with the fact that I have co-written with all of you at one point or another (btw Ollie wants to finish TCD are you free at any point?). I really don’t know what to say, I think we’ve grown up a little, or maybe it was just me. There’s a lot less Kakey around, and it looks like Australia is starting to recover. Good luck and save me some ice cream XD.

PixelUp You make me really jealous sometimes because of the front you’re able to keep up. I know you’re still human on the inside, but you are the person I’ve always aspired to be and that scares me, which probably explains all the times I’ve threatened to kill you in the past. You’re still the only person I can have an intelligent dinosaur conversation with. You’re a good writer and good things are going to happen for you. Good luck. #Classof2017

eosophobic –Alllliiii when I found I was going to be working with you in the GuildofGraphics I kinda…ah, well it’s like with Pixel, you were everything I aspired to be, but you were also random and insane so I don’t think I threatened to crowbar your head as much. I loved your writing, and I remember sitting in the dining room on New Year’s Eve last year binge reading Unity. And you would comment right back and *congaparrot*

GuildOfGraphics after the revolution, I just floated on wattpad trying to hold onto the stragglers of my past, you guys gave me a fresh start and a new family. You all were a constant inspiration to me, and kept me doing graphics because I wanted to be worthy of such a group. I was so happy when I was elected Captain, and I know we’ve kinda drifted off, but we’re still family, and we’ll come back together even if I have to get some sheep to wrangle you all back into the slack. The group chats were awesome and the facetime was too. Lani, Llyn, Rachel, Sarah, Sibby, Phoebe, Nik, Alli, Steffie, Celin ….wiggle through life like them disco blobs.

windswept-- so many things have happened *hugs* that turkey tho. And Facebook. Your account goes back to the beginning for me.

RachelS8766 now we’re getting really recent (aggg it’s cold so my finger bones are popping in and out of their sockets as I type) You’re always there to talk to, usually when I’m bored out of my mind in my stats class. You’re Scottish allure is – something and you’re one of the nicest people I know. As Nike once said when she was captured by Athena, JustWriteIt.

I could keep going on, I really could but my hands are starting to die and you all want to get to the giveaway. This is just a little corner of my life on wattpad life.

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

To celebrate the holidays (because I’m too impatient to get to a thousand followers) I’m hosting a giveaway! (Duh) (I’ll host a smaller one when I get to a thousand followers). I’ll be putting everyone’s name in a random name generator – or maybe a hat, depending on my Wi-Fi situation and drawing out the winners at random.

To enter just write “I’m in” in the comments, and you’ll be entered once.

Every seven people you tag, I’ll add your name in again. Please space out your groups of tagging like this.

I’m in!

Tagging:
@username
@username
@username
@username
@username
@username
@username

@username
@username
@username
@username
@username
@username
@username

Okay! Now comes the prizes!!!!

Grand prize! Only one winner

• A book trailer for your book
• two of the following graphics
-banner
-book mockup
-book jacket
-bookmark
-icon
-header
-book cover

First prize! (Winner amounts vary depending on how many enter)

•A book trailer
OR
•two of the following graphics
-banner
-book mockup
-book jacket
-bookmark
-icon
-header
-book cover

Second Prize! (Winner Amounts Vary)
• two of the following graphics
-banner
-book mockup
-book jacket
-bookmark
-icon
-header
-book cover

Third Prize! (Winner Amounts Vary)
•one of the following graphics
-banner
-book mockup
-book jacket
-bookmark
-icon
-header
-book cover

I mean everyone likes free graphics yes? Even those graphic designers out there don’t turn them down, I mean why enter if you don’t want the prize? I’m still working on trailers, but I made one that I’m proud of, no voiceover, but it’s okay.

ENTRIES CLOSE ON THE 28th!

Happy holidays everyone!!!

The trailer example.