Howdy Everyone! 

Thank you guys for the all the hype and excitement so far! We have nearly 600 Participants this year (I believe it’s somewhere in the 570 range) and I couldn’t be more excited to see everyone receive their gifts later on this month.

Registration for Secret Santa is now closed, and I’m here to update y’all on the next steps in the process. All of our participants have been assigned groups, BUT as of right now Secret Santas haven’t been assigned. We’re just finalizing a few details, and it will either be later today or sometime tomorrow from what I’ve been told. I believe you should receive an automated DM from I-bot when that happens, so keep an eye on your inbox!

If there are any changes in that plan, We’ll be sure to let y’all know. If you’re participating and aren’t already in the discord server, be sure to join! Discord is the easiest place to give updates and announcements as they happen, so if anything pops up then Discord is most likely where you’ll hear it first. 

After Santas are assigned, you are SWORN TO SECRECY! Don’t be yapping about who you were assigned, it may spoil the surprise! Don’t stream work on your assignment in this server, or a server your person may be in! I also suggest you don’t follow your assignment person (if you aren’t already) as soon as you get it. Get sneaky with this! If you really need to ask a question about your assigned character, then reach out to someone on our mod team and we can help you get that information. 

IF YOU FINISH BEFORE THE 24th, DO NOT PUBLISH YOUR GIFT IMMEDIATELY! There is a way to set an automatic publishing date on an Art submission, set that for December 25th if you want to have a post ready! Don’t add your assigned artist to the post yet! It will spoil the surprise! From there, you can take the project url and paste it into the box of the same name on the Secret Santa submission page. There is a guide for this process (with pictures!) in the FAQ channel in the Discord server, so if you need a little more help be sure to join and check that out. 

If you have any additional questions about the process, you can still reach out in the discussion thread, the discord server, and this news post.

A couple extra updates- I’m going to reach out to the two winners of the Rules quiz game I’ll be gifting a month of supporter about those details today, just some info I need to confirm. 

About halfway through the drawing time, there may be another community day just to give everyone a bit of a break (and to remind you that about half of your time is up!), and it will be very similar to the previous one we had in the Discord before Registration closed! The date has not been set for this yet, I need to work out a couple details first so keep your eyes peeled if you’re interested. 

I’ll also be posting the magma/drawpile from our last community day within the week, and I’ll be making sure to get as many people who participated added to the art submission as possible!

A bit more of a small personal update, I’m planning on making a Thanksgiving/Christmas news post AFTER Secret Santa concludes. It’s a general update on what’s been going on with me, my plans moving forward with commissions, streaming, my other projects, and where I was before I came back for Secret Santa, but I don’t want it to impede or intrude on the event currently going on. If you’re interested in such updates, I’ll be giving those probably after Christmas. Thanks so much guys! 

I look forward to seeing y’alls submissions, and the entire team appreciates your patience.

Happy Holidays :)

sereneFalconer