Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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On the thirteenth day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...

...a MYSTERY!

Welcome to the last of the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch. Each giveaway has different rules and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 30th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, I am avoiding the post office as much as possible until that other winter holiday is over).

The final giveaway is for a mystery prize. Everybody loves a mystery. This is going to be a random number drawing, because honestly, that is all I am managing to keep up with. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. Tell me how good you've been this year, and why the RNG should favor you.
4. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Tuesday, December 20th.

Game on!
Tags: giving stuff away, happy hogswatch
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Tara Morgan

December 14 2016, 05:39:01 UTC 6 months ago Edited:  December 14 2016, 05:41:41 UTC

[domestic]

Idk if I've been a good person (or that you can define that as what you are and not what you do) but I've tried as much as anyone.

I found a new home for a friend's cat, and cotched a kitten independent of that. I started up volunteer work, and feel like I'm slowly becoming a person again. I don't know. I survived? That's something, right?

luck to all!


dryadtea

December 14 2016, 05:41:09 UTC 6 months ago

I love a mystery!

I've been trying my very best to be good, lots of working on being aware and present..... I know there is always room for improvement.

EliRaine2

December 14 2016, 05:46:14 UTC 6 months ago

What more can I say than every day of the last year I've lived to be kind, do good, and try to be a better me. I'm content with that.

shadowsync

December 14 2016, 05:51:09 UTC 6 months ago

All hail the RNG. RNG is all powerfull. I bow down to the RNG. May I be grated the wonderful mystery prize.

mirumototsubasa

December 14 2016, 06:09:52 UTC 6 months ago

1.) A comment!
2.) In the USA
3.) I have done my best to bring hope to people and keep the light alive as this year spirals ever downwards, despite my inner lights being snuffed.
4.) Yay!

peachtales

December 14 2016, 06:19:54 UTC 6 months ago

I have tried very hard to be good, but I've had road blocks of the medical and personal sort, and I still can't work. The biggest, however, has been losing my dad. I am good when I can be. Other days I'm lost. If it please the RNG, this would be a bright spot for the year.
Thank you.

steleka

December 14 2016, 06:31:32 UTC 6 months ago

I love mysteries!

I have been so good this year. I am applying to grad school and moved house and did my best, which is all anyone can do.

Sam Baskin

December 14 2016, 06:39:56 UTC 6 months ago

RNG please select me, as a mystery just makes me go SQEEEE!

As for how good I've been this year, I'd say I've been good overall, tried to help people out where I could, I'm sure others have been more generous and whatnot, but I haven't been bad (I feel in a coal vs present situation I'd probably get a present, but that's just a gut feeling and to be honest I feel I'm somewhat biased.)

As for why the RNG should pick me, besides my amazing rhyming above, I'm a huge fan would greatly appreciate winning the mystery.

I hope that is enough to favor me.

Susannah M.

December 14 2016, 07:09:40 UTC 6 months ago

I've tried hard to be good to others this year. My best example of that would be reading your short stories out loud to my father, who has lost his sight to macular degeneration. We both love all your work!

memnus

December 14 2016, 07:36:59 UTC 6 months ago

On a scale of one to thirteen I've been a solid eight at the very least. Maybe nine depending on whose word you want to take for it. The RNG should favor me because I have made proper sacrifices of ice cream and chocolate chips.

saxtherapist

December 14 2016, 07:58:10 UTC 6 months ago

I am US-based.
I've tried to be good this year, but mostly I'm just tired. 2016 has been a long, long year, and hopefully the RNG will smile upon me.
Happy Hogswatch to one and all!

lyssabard

December 14 2016, 08:25:07 UTC 6 months ago

Commenting--Still not international.

I have been (mostly) very good this year. Through medical bullshit untold and bureaucratic hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way through new insurance and referrals into better health care and managed not to bog, set fire to, or wish away any of my previously terrible doctors (who smiled and acted like I was a fretful girl thing who was just getting old, dear. I am 41 FFS!). I feel this is deserving of beneficent attention of the RNG, thank you kindly.





tsgeisel

December 14 2016, 09:01:10 UTC 6 months ago

Dear RNG. I've been mostly good this year, with the exception of [redacted] and [redacted]. You should favor me because you don't want [redacted] to become un-redacted.

myuki_chan

December 14 2016, 09:07:33 UTC 6 months ago

International and willing to pay.

This year has been very hard but I've tried to not let myself drown in sorrow. I like to think that means I've been good.

lefantz

December 14 2016, 09:10:07 UTC 6 months ago

I am in NZ and am happy to pay for postage.
I don't know if I have been good this year, I have tried but I have been depressed, I left a 6year relationship and my grandad and gramps both passed away this year leaving me with no more grandparents. But I have been working my dream job as a vet nurse and helping animals as much as I can. I have fostered and have just re-homed last night the first of my bottle-baby kittens. Three lovely babies off to new homes when they would never had a chance otherwise.

kikibug13

December 14 2016, 10:12:44 UTC 6 months ago

o/ Me, please! International participant and willing to pay postage, aaand. I have been good! I've done day job, some writing, and cheering/heartening/betaing for a friend as she was writing her fist original novel (it's now finished and in the process of sitting for a bit before edits happen so it's hopefully a bit more ready for submission). Good to others is what I've tried to do during this. Complicated year.

marziek

December 14 2016, 10:57:19 UTC 6 months ago

I am good because I survived this year.

Plus, I found homes for 11 of 13 cats whose owners died.

Here in the US.

Sarah 'Zim' Zimmerman

December 14 2016, 11:11:53 UTC 6 months ago

Commenting!
The joys of having access to Diplomatic Post offices, I have a US based address despite living overseas, so no extra postage needed!
I've tried to be good. Jury's out as to whether it's been enough. But I've tried. And attempting is worth it, right?

And because it should be reiterated, thank you for doing this! I, and I'm sure many others, appreciate !

naath

December 14 2016, 11:27:54 UTC 6 months ago

I have been a very good girl this year, so good I got myself a whole new exciting job.

I am an international type, I will cheerfully pay postage for whatever-it-is.

halloranelder

December 14 2016, 12:00:01 UTC 6 months ago

I've tried to be good, but I'd really like it if the RNG was good to me.

So far this year I was unexpectedly in hospital for a week for what I thought was a minor issue and eventually found out was life threatening when my liver and kidneys were thinking of shutting down. My mother has gone in to surgery twice to attempt to rebuild the spine in her neck which had mostly disintegrated due to osteoporosis, and my father had an unexpected heart attack, which lead to a pacemaker being fitted.

We're all fine now though (thankfully), but I would really love for the RNG to go my way for the start of the new year. (Also, I play World of Warcraft, and the RNG absolutely hates me on there. :) )

In Australia, happy to pay postage.

Aulayan

December 14 2016, 14:21:43 UTC 6 months ago Edited:  December 14 2016, 14:22:46 UTC

Oooh I love mysteries. And I've been doing my best to teach a young child right and wrong and be a good and supportive parent. And I've found people to recommend your books to who will buy them!

I'm All for a mystery!

Siobhan Kelly-Martens

December 14 2016, 14:42:51 UTC 6 months ago

Even is the shipping is expensive (yes, I am international, and will pay for shipping)!

And a Happy Hogswatch!

corucia

December 14 2016, 14:44:53 UTC 6 months ago

I'm in the US.

Are we using the relative or absolute scale for 'good'? Given the way the world around us appears to be going, relatively I am fabulously good. On an absolute scale, okay but nothing to get smug about. As to why the RNG should favor me - well, chance favors a prepared mind, and there are occasions in which I could be said to have the semblance of preparedness (if you hold your head in just the right way, squint ever so slightly, and the light is just right), so I've got that going for me.

lonesomeglory07

December 14 2016, 14:58:14 UTC 6 months ago

Yay! A mystery!

I've been...well, good enough, I hope! The RNG should favor me as I am occasionally cute, often hilarious, and just the right blend of good and evil. Also, I have a cat. A cute cat. And a snake living in my barn.

Happy Hogswatch!

Commenting!

jacylrin

December 14 2016, 15:15:34 UTC 6 months ago

Domestic.

I have been fairly good this year. I haven't killed or maimed anyone who pissed me off. Including the soon to be ex husband who finally moved out in April (yay!). We have a diagnosis of what's wrong with Spawn the Elder, and we're working on getting a medication mix to hopefully return her to the ranks of intelligent, more or less functional humans. I have brought you new readers, including the new boyfriend.
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