Holly on the Old Oak 2011

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In celebration of the Christmas Spirit, I wanted to write 12 more stories for the community. I don't have all of the stories planned yet but I'd love to get some ideas.

Read last year's 12 stories here! There is also some great artwork and stories from other TEF members there.

In addition, you can write your own stories or do Christmas artwork and I'll list them here.
Just provide me a link to it and I'll add it to the list!


This is my way of saying 'Thank You' for being a wonderful and supportive community for the past 4 years. Enjoy!




Preface With artwork by Trigger_Mortis


Story 1 - Peace on Earth Featuring Iaurdagnire

Story 2 - The Snowdeer Featuring Ryuu, Darkweaver, Kamikaze, Anjali, Seda, and Blue

Story 3 - The Weeping Tree Featuring Ourania and Ma

Story 4 - The Three Wise Deer Featuring Kody, Crucio, and Mar Sart

Story 5 - Christmas in the Afterlife Featuring Kinsha, Roe, Valentine, Birth, Brynhried, Laghodessa, Ghost Fawn, Shyla, and Trunks

Story 6 - A Dozen Pinecones Featuring Akemi, Mystress, and Seed

Story 7 - The Witching Hour Featuring Herla, Dillon, Nebel, Honeyfur, Umay, Medea, Marie Antoinette, Kerrigan, Sorrel, Illrose, Deadly Orchid, Nekumbra, Sparrow, Aura, Tesa, Midnight, Zerg, Aoide, SkyDancer, Violet, Kaoori, Wesker, Cay Lynn, and Yorres

Story 8 - The Endless Forest Grinch Featuring Tafari, Redd, Christoffer, Erza, Zera, Silun, Foxbrow, Scape, Aeis, Draak, and Cirrus

Story 9 - Evergreen Just for Me Featuring Bartholomew

Story 10 - The Nutcracker Strife Featuring Foxglaive

Story 11 - The Purse of Golden Acorns Featuring Luis, Tulio, Miguel, and Mr. Sanguine

Story 12 - Iugulare Claus Featuring Iugulare, Biqfiy, Tandem, Crucio, Toukan, Tails, Amadahy, Roxanne, Juniper, Virgil, and Quad


Revelation


Bonus Story - It all happened so fast... Featuring Quad

Bonus Story - The Replacement Featuring Tails




Check out these other gift-giving things going on! You might be getting a gift from them!
Do you have a Christmas Gift Giving List? Let me know and I'll add it here!

Secret Santa 2011

Trigger_Mortis' Casting Call
Baal's Don't open til X-mas
Bluejay17's Festivities (Christmas Siggies)
Scythe's 25 Days of Christmas
Kaoori's Chrismas is Coming
Santa Kao is comin' to town
Leveled's Cause I'm Original
Pegasicorn's O' Christmas Tree...
Silentlikethat's What Shall Be Done
Sianna's I want to do... Christmas art
Meadow's ...And a partridge in a pear tree
Amazon's Christmas Edition
Merry Early Christmas from SakuraFlower
Xylv's Christmas Countdown
KonohaHiiragi's Christmas is Coming!
Z.m123's X-mas fanarts
Wotsit's X-mas Prezzies
Starling's Christmas Gift Requests
Apparanza's Christmas Gift Requests
W0lfclaw's Christmas Art
Mr. Sanguine's We were dreamers not so long ago, But one by one we all had to grow up
MickKreiger's Christmas Requests
Splinter's Xmas Gifts
SnowSauria's Christmas Gifts

Ravenflight's On the first day of Christmas Ravey gave to me...

Declan's Christmas Gift no.1; Toukan
Declan's Christmas Gift no.2; Bartleby




2011 Christmas Artwork and Writings


Merry Christmas!! from taytay1997
Holiday Wallpaper from Echosong
One ornament on, about a hundred to go. by Zergarikiaka




Quad's Received Gifts

Iugulare by Bluejay17
Iugulare by Sypris
Iugulare by SakuraFlower
Nekumbra 1 and Nekumbra 2 by KonohaHiiragi
Blixt by Trigger_Mortis
Pema by Apparanza
Pema by Kaoori
Zephyr by Kaoori
Anirapio by Pegasicorn
Quad, Zephyr, Hex, Nekumbra, and Anirapio by Meadow
Pema by xXBlackFoXx





Xemi's picture

I think it'd be pretty funny

I think it'd be pretty funny to see what kind of "gifts" she could make, since she doesn't exactly have hands and opposable thumbs.. LOL ;; scary but funny. <3 I vote B as well 8D

EDIT: MYPAGE♥
quadraptor's picture

XD well she has an abundant

XD well she has an abundant supply of infection, so my thoughts would be she'd essentially make gifts made from her infection...maybe she molds them into things like flowers and miniature deer figurines.



Essentially Play Doh XD
Xemi's picture

^ROFL that's awesome

^ROFL that's awesome ;;
Infected play-doh... :')
quadraptor's picture

10 stories down, 2 more to go

10 stories down, 2 more to go XD

So many ways to decide which one to write next, haha! I could roll my 20 sided dice for even and odd...I could flip a coin....or someone could just pick for me XD
OkamiLugia's picture

Adfsdgf I keep forgetting to

Adfsdgf I keep forgetting to track.
Foxglaive's picture

Quadraprot! You can flip many

Quadraprot! You can flip many things so long as it have head and tail. You can flip deer or cat or dog or nut varmint or bird ... well, maybe not bird. That could be bad.

Very [pressevimi]! I mean ... impressive! You are almost done!
quadraptor's picture

Going to try to write the

Going to try to write the last story today sometime. Also I'm still looking for artwork for the Preface, which has been posted early. X3
quadraptor's picture

Wrote the last story today

Wrote the last story today X3

Also like last year, the symbols on the side of the stories will indicate which ones have been posted. The Preface has already been posted, and with each day I will update the list so you know what is up to read.

Keep in mind that some of the stories may be posted early or late this year as I will be going on a trip on December 3rd and will be busy for much of the time, but I will do my very best to post them on the correct days.

I hope you all enjoy this years stories. They were very fun to write, and I even enjoyed learning some new folktales along the way. I was glad to write the two Jewish stories for those who celebrate Hanukkah, and maybe next year I'll work on finding a good Kwanzaa story.
quadraptor's picture

If I've missed any

If I've missed any gift-giving blogs or such, please link me here so I can put them on the list Eye
quadraptor's picture

Special announcement! As a

Special announcement!

As a Thanksgiving gift (or an early Christmas gift if you'd like), I've decided to post the first story, Peace on Earth on Thursday, November 24th. The stories will continue on schedule on December 2nd.

I just can't keep these stories to myself for so long, so I want to share the first one early. Eye
trigger_mortis's picture

That sounds like a great idea

That sounds like a great idea Quad! I can't wait to read it! ^^ Fitting since I just woke up to a snowstorm! Eye
quadraptor's picture

XD I always like writing

XD I always like writing about Dag telling a story to fawns, not sure why. They're always very easy to write for me. And Dag's just such an awesome character to write about.

I may end up posting it now. Anyone object?
trigger_mortis's picture

No objections here.

No objections here. Smiling
quadraptor's picture

The next story will be posted

The next story will be posted in less than a week. You guys ready? XD

I liked writing "The Snowdeer". It was a lot of fun turning OkamiLugia's Ryuu into a "Frosty" type character, but I made it to where he really doesn't understand the world around him, so the young deer teach him through the story. And of course, Zerg's Darkweaver is the grumpy stag that loses his 'magic' antlers that bring Ryuu to life.

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I swear, it feels like the other day when I was writing last years stories. I vividly remember writing "Walter Scrooge" and "An Evil Christmas", I think because those two got the most hype last year. It's crazy how fast a year can go.
quadraptor's picture

Well since I'm going to be

Well since I'm going to be going on a trip on December 3rd, I think i'm going to change the dates I post these and post them earlier....maybe starting tonight. Anyone care? I'm sorry I know this may be too early but since I'm going to be gone for part of the time I wanted to make sure you got to enjoy them.
trigger_mortis's picture

Sounds good to me Quad, I

Sounds good to me Quad, I don't mind if you start them early! Smiling We all want you to enjoy your trip, so if it would reduce pressure on you to start them earlier, go right ahead!
quadraptor's picture

I wanted to ask those of you

I wanted to ask those of you who do artworks for a favor, but the problem is that it'll end up spoiling something that happens at the end of one of the stories. If you wouldn't mind doing a small artwork for me, please contact me through MSN at (or you can shoot me an e-mail at ) and I'll let you know what I'd like. I appreciate any help with this, and I'll credit you in the story, as I plan to post any of the artworks I get for it.
Foxglaive's picture

Ahh! Quadnod! There is reason

Ahh! Quadnod! There is reason for being alarm! Someone is posting your story already and it isn't not even December yet! Now is the time to make circles with mints - do not haste any longer!
quadraptor's picture

No need for alarm, Foxglaive!

No need for alarm, Foxglaive! I decided to post them earlier since I will be busy for part of this month. I couldn't wait to post them anyway.
quadraptor's picture

Just a heads-up: after

Just a heads-up: after tonight the rest of the stories may be late being posted since I will be on a trip. I'll try to get them up as soon as I can though.
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I've added as many Christmas

I've added as many Christmas gift blogs as I've seen, but if I've missed any, please link them for me. I've been on a trip for about a week so I may have missed something.

Also I'll have one more bonus story for someone special, so be on the lookout for it.
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Sorry everyone, I've tried to

Sorry everyone, I've tried to keep up with the Christmas art and gift giving blogs this year but I'm sure I've missed some things. If there's something that was posted and it's not here, please let me know and I'll add it as soon as I can.