The WORST Gift Exchange Ever 2021

alliyah · 2021-12-01T20:53:09Z

The Worst Holiday Gift Exchange Ever https://previews.123rf.com/images/deagreez/deagreez1612/deagreez161200477/67953704-confused-santa-claus-wearing-red-costume-reading-messege-on-phone-while-standing-white-background.jpg Sometimes it's fun to do those gift exchanges where the gifts.... leave a little to be desired. Incomplete doodles or horribly mishapen portraits, unedited first-draft songs, weird-mishmashed photo-edits, acrostics with a few misspellings, or awkward fanfictions from fandoms no one recognizes... you get the idea! :) Last year we tried to do one of these Worst Gift Exchanges and it turned out great with much horrendous hilarity. So we're trying it again! The great thing about a Worst Gift Exchange is there's zero pressure, absolutely none at all, so you have complete freedom for your creativity and humor to fly! Please note this is a different event than Secret Santa , but it is similar, in that you'll be assigned a person to give a gift to after completing the form below, but this gift is a bit different because the gift is not expected to be your finest work, in fact if you choose it can be comically bad and cringe-worthy! To participate: You fill out a form by the end of the day December 12 (11 pm EST), you're assigned a person, then you make them a hilariously bad gift by January 10th which you send to me in a PM and then I'll send over to them. If you want to give extra gifts to those you aren't assigned to that's alright, go ahead and send them over to me as well, but you're only required to make a gift for the person you're assigned! A few rules: 1) No real items will be exchanged... just YWS things ie. stories, poems, songs, picture edits, reviews etc. 2) The gift can be bad, but not BAD ... no swearing, no nudity, nothing gory or violent or blatantly insulting or harassing. All YWS-site rules apply, keep it family-friendly. 3) You can tell the recipient of the gift who the gift is from if you want to after the gift has been delivered - > when it's complete just send it in a PM to me. 4) You are responsible for completing the gift for the person you are assigned if you sign up for this. So don't sign up if you can't complete a gift for someone. If for some reason you can't manage a gift send me a PM and I'll help you write a haiku with miscounted syllables or something! 5) Forms should be filled out below & additional questions can be asked in this thread. Sign Up closes Dec 12 Gift Assignments will be out Dec 15 Gifts Due by Jan 10 If you want to participate, please fill out the form below: [b]What are a few things you hate? (colors, characters, literature tropes, random grudges, etc) [/b][i]remember this is the WORST gift ever exchange, so your gift-giver might just use this against you[/i]. [b]What are some things you love? [/b](fandoms, books, music, themes, colors etc) [b]What's your favorite part about YWS?[/b] [b]What's your favorite work you've put on YWS[/b] [b]What would you love to see in a worst-gift?[/b] [b]Anything else you want to say?[/b]

winterwolf0100

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:43 am

winterwolf0100 says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:43 am

Heyyyyy I was @tweezers worst santa ever XD And to whoever made mine, I was CACKLING the entire time I read it, it’s so beautiful.

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Elinor

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:38 am

Elinor says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:38 am

@Ignorance Omg thank you -- all the layers of the onion came together beautifully/terribly :''')

@looseleaf I made yours - you have to know I was laughing until my sides hurt throughout the entire process

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:33 pm

MailicedeNamedy says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:33 pm

@Seirre I hope it wasn´t too extreme. I tried to create some kind of neo-expressionism like Basquiat (with a big "I tried")...

Whoever made mine. Thanks for that! It's kind of eerie. But I still can't get away from it. It draws you in somehow.

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:45 pm

looseleaf says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:45 pm

Oh my God, @Elinor, yours was amazing.

@ShadowVyper, I made your Worst Gift Ever and your Secret Santa gift. :)

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:11 pm

Shady says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:11 pm

Thanks @looseleaf! It was so painful xD the ice cream. The misplaced apostrophe. The lack of capitalizing my V. So horrendous. I love it.

@MailicedeNamedy I made yours! I actually also made your Secret Santa xD I thought it was hysterical I got assigned to you twice haha

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:18 pm

MailicedeNamedy says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:18 pm

@ShadowVyper That´s a weird coincidence! It´s like sprinting from one extreme to the other. But thank you very much for both presents! I like them!

Reality is a prison and time is its guard

I´m just a random girl with gentle manners

Every bad voice in your head was once outside

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:32 pm

Hijinks says... · Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:32 pm

@MailicedeNamedy thank you so much for the worst gift!!! It's absolutely horrendous and I lovehate it :D especially all the missing 'u's ;-;

@starlitmind I was also your worst gift giver <.< It seems like we have a bit of a trend with looseleaf, Shady and I xD

When you're faced with something you don't understand, I think the most natural thing but also least interesting thing you can be is afraid.

-- Hank Green

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