Seasons Greetings! (in advance, haha)

I am a total moron for missing the vibes on creating a special Halloween one-shot collection for GG in October, and all because I was ‘getting an education’. Meh, we’ll get ‘em next year. But I woke up long enough to start promoting a second GG Christmas Oneshot Collection for 2016. Like 2015, I hope to break some boundaries with how many times I can make you all cry fluffy snow-flake sized tears of happiness over the sweetness coming your way for yet another special SNSD Christmas :-P As before, I’m inviting all of you OT9 fans out there to join me for a reading and writing extravaganza that will make you ho-ho-so-excited :-D I wrote both the intro and outro chapters last year, but if there’s anyone out there who’d like to take a crack at the championship belt, I’m more than happy to pass on my Santa Hat to you. It’s first come first served to whoever sends their intro and outro chapters to me. Submissions are open from today and I’m going to make the deadline for all one-shot submissions this year on Christmas Eve (24 December) at 23:30 CAT (Central African Time). If you need more time than that to finish off your one-shots, have a word with me in private and I’m sure we can come to an understanding which involves feeding me delicious Christmas food and cookies ;-P But before you all dash off on your reindeer-driven sleighs, please read the rules:

1. Your one-shot must be a minimum of 2000 words and a maximum of 5000 words. If you’d like to write more than 5000 words, then feel free to jingle all the way. That means ‘go ahead’ :-) (these Christmas puns are getting out of hand). The maximum can be up to 10,000 words.
2. Because this is a Girls Generation/SNSD one-shot collection, your stories need to feature at least one or a few members. And yes, I do mean all 9 members because Jessica never left (outrageous rumours, the audacity).
3. Your pairings can be within GG (Yulsic, Taeny, HyoSun etc), but you can also pair GG members off with other K-pop celebs, Korean celebs (Kim Soohyun anyone?) or a good old-fashioned OC (Christmas makes me strangely generous). Pairings can be hetero or yuri, whatever floats your boat.
4. No gender-benders or please. If you want to talk to me in private about this particular rule, I formerly went to law school and am always happy to engage in a hearty and whimsical debate about the merits of artistic license.
5. No either please as we don't want to possibly offend any sensitive readers. My apologies to any fans of Jessica and Krystal as a romantic pairing :-P
6. Even though I’m a er for romantic Christmas stories, you don’t need to write about romance if that’s not your cup of tea. You can write any genre so long as it has a nice Christmas-y feel to it (I’m all about the good vibes, people).
7. You can make your one-shot any age-rating. I’ll just put it with your story when I upload the entire collection. If there is any sensitive material in your writing which you think may offend the readers, just send me a DM please so I can add a disclaimer. I like to know if and when I may get sued or egged in the face. So you can write about drugs, ion and other similar topics if the muse takes you in that direction. 
8. Even if you don’t end up writing for the collection, you can always support yours truly by casting your votes for the name of the collection in the AFF blog I’ll put up this week and designing any pictures and borders I can put up for each chapter. If you have any other ideas or suggestions for the collection, please feel free to DM me or hit me up on my AFF wall. You can also find me on Twitter and Tumblr with the same pen name (‘Snapplelinz’ in case anyone forgot).

And that’s about it. If you know of anyone who’s interested in writing for this collection and can’t get hold of me personally, then spread the word. As the saying goes, ‘The more, the merrier.’ :-D I’ll put up notices here on AFF, Twitter and Tumblr. So if you aren’t following me already, darahae. I’m looking forward to pulling some Christmas crackers with all of you this year :-P

Snapplelinz out!