Official Christmas Present Thread

[dragonsigma.livejournal.com]

This is the submissions thread for the LJ Hetalia fandom's Christmas project.

We're creating a mosaic/quilt of images, and uploading it to a webpage that will be emailed to Himaruya.
Submissions:

- Christmas cards
- any sort of thank-you message
- pictures of holiday celebrations where you live
- holiday fanart

Tehd's going to work on the website and the mosaic.
Submissions can be posted here!

Update:
Submissions are due no later than January 5th. Please don't submit more than 4 pictures! Minimum size: 768x768

Comments

[pink-cass.livejournal.com]

What size should the images be? And will .png be okay?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

HMMM, I will resize them so they can be as large as you want (well not too crazy that I can't even open the thing LOL) I think a range of NO LESS than 768x768 because I don't want to have to enlarge them and they look all blown up and blurry, but you can have them any big you want as long as you're well aware that they will be resized smaller to comfortably fit the page. ^^

And in fact I prefer .png files to any other! :D

[popcornsneezes.livejournal.com]

A question for the technology-impaired: is taking a picture with a camera and just uploading gonna work?

Can it be a picture of me celebrating Christmas, or are we not doing pictures of ourselves?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Yep! That's all good as long as you're okay with yourself being put up on the site. (:

I just wanna know...

[dorkishgrin.livejournal.com]

This may sound stupid, but when is the deadline?

Like after New Years?

Re: I just wanna know...

[tehd.livejournal.com]

lol that's a great question... xD

We have to wait til what Sigma says, but for my input I would love for submissions to end about a week after New Years, and then the site to be mailed about a week after then, which is similar to what we did last year.

Because I'm assuming people will be crazy busy with family and other holiday shenanigans up until then. And it gives us lots of time to gather the submissions and time for me to code it.

But yeah, gotta see how Sigma feels about that. :D

[tehd.livejournal.com]

oh! Also!
HERE IS A GOOD IMAGE HOSTING SITE WHERE YOU DON'T NEED TO REGISTER, IT DOESN'T RESIZE THINGS OR MESS WITH QUALITY, IN CASE ANYONE NEEDS IT. ^^ (http://imgur.com)

That is also the image host I will use to put all the pictures on. (Unless anyone can suggest any better, but I find it easy to manage and also I use this host for all the other gifts

[sindragosa.livejournal.com]

This idea is LOVE. ♥

I'll have to get together with my cousin and friend to take a group picture and maybe couple it with a Hetalia-themed holiday idea I've been kicking around in the back of my head.

[xxdarkangelx15.livejournal.com]

I'm a cosplayer, is it ok if I photograph myself and a few friends (most which are cosplaying as Hetalia) in full cosplay outfit and take a picture of us together with the christmas decorations in the background?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Yep, that'll be great! ^^

[khcrazeexd42.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely idea!!

[meromoko.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea. *u*
I have a good idea on what to do myself.
Another question, how many submissions per person? owo Not that I'm planning to do more than one, I'm just curious XD

[tehd.livejournal.com]

No more than 4 please! ^^

[belugaaa.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool! :D

[br-andedbyarose.livejournal.com]

tehd you lovely thing you.
I am so sending hima something :D
this is a wonderful idea!

[just-a-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Duuuuuuuude! Where did you get your icon?! I've been waiting for someone to do a big Hetaween icon dump but I haven't seen any yet. I saved a couple from during the event, but I want some nice coloured ones or something!

[pookie-mookie94.livejournal.com]

Ahh, this seems like a really good idea! I'll try submit something if I can :) (and, echoing someone else's question, is there any limit to how many submissions we post?)

[tehd.livejournal.com]

No more than 4. (:

[just-a-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Does the picture we send in have to be Hetalia related? I mean, what if we wanted to send in a picture of a Christmas-y kitten or alpaca or something?

And can we send in more than one?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

That's perfectly fine! In fact, I encourage many pictures not to be Hetalia related because he's more than just the creator of Hetalia you know? :D

And yes, you can, but please don't send more in than 4! ;u;

[taylorphantom.livejournal.com]

THEDDY AND DRAGON

YOU GUYS ARE QUALITY HUMAN BEINGS

QUALITY <3

fuckfuckfuckgottarushrushrushandgetapicturedone XD

[tehd.livejournal.com]

;////; OH TAY YOU ARE TOO SWEET LOL!!

I AWAIT YOUR GORGEOUS SUBMISSION!! >O

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that will be perfectly fine. ^^

[darkrai-lol.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a fabulous idea. You are fabulous people.

And I already have a fabulous idea.

[yulcera.livejournal.com]

I really dig this idea~ Thanks to those who thought of it and are helping out!
Have we decided on the shape of the mosiac yet?

[dragonsigma.livejournal.com]

I think the circle idea got the most attention. Maybe a circle with a heart inside it? If that's possible.

[xxdarkangelx15.livejournal.com]

I think I mentioned this somewhere before, but do we need to provide information, like, where was the photo taken and our country?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

You don't have to, but if you want then go ahead! ^^

[forever-pocky.livejournal.com]

Ooo this sounds like an awesome idea guys! I'll have to get on it and see what I can come up with~ :3

[heyyl0.livejournal.com]

How do we submit images on this site? (Just curious, I'm still kind of new on livejournal)

[tehd.livejournal.com]

To be honest I've never used the LiveJournal submit thing, so um... /doesn't know that either
I always uploaded things to imgur.com and pasted the link here (or I used <*img src="direct-url-to-picture-here.pngjpgorwhatever"*> just take out the *s :D)

[shiny-pachirisu.livejournal.com]

...I'm going to take a great picture just for this. :D

[irony-secondary.livejournal.com]

Hiya~

I'm thinking of taking photos of how Christmas is celebrated in my country (not that there was a big difference from how it was celebrated in any other country).

I also wanted to give a little description on my country itself, since Himaruya seems to like that kind of thing. Can I?

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Yep, that sounds great! ^^

[naotoshirogane1.livejournal.com]

Can anyone do this? I'm new to Livejournal and all so I'm still getting used to this site ^_^"

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Do what exactly? (:
If you mean upload your submission, here's what I told someone else, "To be honest I've never used the LiveJournal submit thing, so um... /doesn't know that either
I always uploaded things to imgur.com and pasted the link here (or I used <*img src="direct-url-to-picture-here.pngjpgorwhatever"*> just take out the *s :D)"

hopes that helps a tad xD

[tehd.livejournal.com]

Yup! Of course! Gotta make sure everything is okay with you guys before it finally gets shown. Teamwork! :D

And yepp~ DragonSigma/I will make a post on this comm when it's time (and probably a post on Tumblr too) but if you want to know ahead of time, it will be hosted on here (http://forhimaruya.web.fc2.com/) alongside the past projects. @u@;;;

[ventusbdaplayer.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Ven-chan's on it as soon as she finish up what she's doing! C:

[midori-shiki.livejournal.com]

From the looks of it, I might submit 3 photos. I happened to go to Japan during December some years back and I think they had the decor up already. Hopefully I still have the photos orz