Also, want to reiterate how much @anon82218317 helped with the organisation, it would have been a shambles without her help and I am so thankful she lent a hand and sorted out the spreadsheets for me which were the key to everything running smoothly
You talk a lot on here about not being able to deal with challenging or new situations but I think yesterday proved the exact opposite. I know from running AQOS, especially the first time, how easy it can be to get muddled or flustered when posting but you dealt with it very calmly and seemingly effortlessly. You should have a lot more confidence in your abilities to do stuff outside your comfort zone.
Thatās all because of you. I have no idea how you kept at it all day like that. Truly incredible. It can never be understated or mentioned too much just how brilliant this whole thing has been. The whole place has a virtual glow around it, and we are all massively in your debt for that.
Iād also like to second your words about this place and the people here. I started posting again at the start of the year and have received some absolutely invaluable advice, encouragement and support here. Itās been an incredibly strenuous 18 months for me and this place has really helped. Iām very grateful in this respect for having the chance to give a tiny bit back through the raffle.
Tl;dr: we all you and your ex can go suck a fuck.
I can only really reiterate what everyone has already said, @anon89873996 & pals youāve done an amazing job here and lifted my spirits thank you all so much.
So happy and thankful to have found this place, stuck with and hopefully grown with it over the last decade. Many of you are an inspiration to me in how I should try and live my life and treat others.
Bless you all x
1000% this^
Yeah echo what everyone else has said. Iāve been away for much of the year but the community hardship fund is properly heartwarming, and this raffle has been great fun. I quite wanted the Marwell Zoo prize but I was so happy for @The_Excession
It was also really good to see the prize I/we gifted go to a good home.
@anon89873996 - you are an absolute gem. And all of you who put in a lot of time on this (@anon26275971 @anon82218317 @ynot and others?) - amazing work.
Best concept and thread in the 17(?) years of DiS? Iād say so.
Itās no Fish Puns but itās pretty good.
Fish Puns had a long run as DiSās best ever thread, obvs. But the raffle is a worthy successor to the crown. Couldnāt go to a better home.
Every item of this is so wonderful
- @anon26275971 - The Disposessed was on my Christmas list! I have been meaning to read me Ursula K. LeGuin for years (The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my absolute favourite books and every interview etc I read with her she was incredible), and was determined to finally get around to it, this is straight to the top of my reading pile once I finish my current book. Beautiful edition of it too and I loved your note inside
- I have a really nice bookmark to use inside it too!
- I am glad to see my obsession with Ritter Sport Joghurt hasnāt gine unnoticed and happy to be stocked up on it as itāll no doubt disappear for a while again soon. Also fitting as it was my snack of choice during the raffle.
- more tasty food too and if the book, card and fact I knew he had my address already hadnāt led me to thinking @anon26275971 had packed it, then his stated attitude that it is rude to send a parcel without Haribo would have led me to that conclusion!
- Bike Wanker vouchers, and so much! Going to see what cycling bits I get for Christmas but will probably do a lot of research on wiggle in anticipation of what I might be able to get,very excited.
- the hat is very cosy and is perfect as I have a navy blue coat, Iām going to enjoy being both warm and coordinated
- Looking forward to watching The Family Jams one afternoon, looks very cool (early Joanna Newsom )
- handsome pencils (love all stationery)
- the card is definitely going in a frame because a) I love the picture (canāt remember the artist?) and b) I can think of all this and all of you whenever I see it.
- last but not least: book tokens! I couldnāt see how much they were for anywhere? I donāt want to over- or underspend when I go to use them. Another thing to wait until after Christmas as I have books on my list, but I will probably get something nice for me and R (luckily we have similar taste in books).
- even the box it came it is excellent, lovely wave and fish patterns (perhaps the best sub-genre of patterns)
I love every part of it so much, thank you so much to everyone who put in for it I am really overwhelmed by how generous it is. Each part is like winning a raffle prize, and I got TWO @marckee likes as well! I love you all
ā¦and @anon76851889 says there might still be more?
I hope the group chat beeves werenāt too bad. You all did well organising this in secret!
Ā£60 I believe, but trickynips will confirmā¦
I lost track of what was being organised between the two groups (group three was minimal and doesnāt count), but thereās a minimum of one item in the post.
thatās a lotta books.
Or one massive one.
My book will be Ā£59.99.
Sorry, misplaced the decimal point.
Ā£0.05999
Sorry that Iām late to this party, had a busy couple of days and completely forgot this was happening on Wednesday. Just wanted to be the 200th person (or whatever it must be) to echo my thanks to @anon89873996 and the rest of the organisers, truly magnificent work!
Dead chuffed with the playlist win, really wanted one of the creative prizes. Will get a bit of brainstorming done and let @profk do his worst.
Gotta be honest, when I saw the range and invention in the rest of the prizes being revealed I did worry mine was a bit fucking boring, so seeing the excitement of @kermitwormit and (of course) @anon44830896 both before and after they won it really made my day when I was catching up on the thread just now. In one of those slightly weird twists, I offered up the prize at a time when I was getting absolutely nowhere with my own attempts to find a new job, but I interviewed for a post at the end of last week and found out Iāve got it. Quite excited to look at an application other than my own now, will be a real treat Iāll PM you both now
If anyone else needs any help with anything like that then just let me know. Should probably focus on the prize-winners first, but given how generous everyone hereās been it feels like the least I can do. Stupendous work, everyone
Congrats on the job!