Forum Secret Santa 2022

[Róisín]

dmeck, both the story and the music were lovely - thank you!

[Keep Looking]

I hope people enjoyed this year's Secret Santa, and thanks to everyone for participating and making this possible! This is a little bit late and people have already done their guessing, but here is the final list for who was gifting who this year:

Róisín --> Jitter
wavewright62 --> thegreyarea
dmeck7755 --> Róisín
Jitter --> LooNEY_DAC
thegreyarea --> Mirasol
Mirasol --> wavewright62
LooNEY_DAC --> dmeck7755

Happy new year, folks! Hopefully this'll be a good one.

[Róisín]

An excellent Secret Santa! Thank you everyone involved!

[wavewright62]

Most excellent indeed!  Thank you ever so much to Keep Looking for modding this one!

[dmeck7755]

Thank you very much Keep!!!

[Keep Looking]

Oh! Oh, wow!

It, ah, looks like I've had a Secret Santa knocking on my own door tonight!

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Thank you so much for organising this, Grey, and to everyone else as well - I totally didn't expect this and it has made my evening! Seriously I was smiling so hard when I opened this. I love the poster - all the art and songs and funny puns and details. And reading through all the filks and Looney's poem (which I thoroughly enjoyed. I promise my spleen is not inflamed) and the fic and art in the pdf as well... just wow! I'm gonna have to spend some more time looking through some of the different songs and links that were sent through.

You guys really made me smile tonight. Thank you all so much!

[thegreyarea]

I'm very glad that you liked it, Keep!   

As requested here's the link (postimages.org) where one can see the full-sized version:

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[wavewright62]

Let's give it up for that stage set! And, even though I saw some of these titles and a bit of lyrics during the brainstorming phase, some of them are just hitting now.  Eight bootlegs remix? Smells like bad breath spirit? Hey Dane nice shot?  Scouting in the Dark? 
Oh man, what a h :onni:t some of y'all are.

But, could I please see the finished filks and poem(s)?  What's this about an inflamed spleen?

[thegreyarea]

Thanks Wave! Here's a closer "photo" of the band:



Well, I know nothing about Keep's spleen (or any other organs) But I'm glad to know they are all ok. 

I also (presume) to know that Keep, and all the others that contributed, won't mind me sharing here the rest of her gift... So here it goes:

Songs names: inspirations, suggestions and links

lwise:

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OOps
   I Killed it Again (subtitle suggested by Grey, from Britney Spears's song...)

Wave:

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Horse with No Name
   Based (I suppose) on "Horse with No Name" from America

Jitter:

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Scouting in the dark
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Dark_(Bruce_Springsteen_song) (no filk, just a favorite of mine – the first verse could be about Lalli as it is, but the rest is more Tuuri)
Master of Kadelets
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Puppets_(song) (no filk because there just isn’t anything    that could be made to make it more suitable for the Kade situation)
Railway to Hell
   https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_to_Hell
Over the bridge
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Bridge
Smells like bad breath spirit
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit
Boulevard of Broken Homes    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_of_Broken_Dreams_(Green_Day_song)
Smooth-haired Cleanser
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Criminal
The Stave
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_(song)

Mirasol:

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Tribute: The Most-Best Song in the World
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_(song)
The Five Nation Council
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nation_Army
   (We´re going bookhunting / a five nation Council couldn´t hold us back…)
Let The Cattank Roll
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Bad_Times_Roll_(song)
Spirits
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirits_(The_Strumbellas_song)

dmeck:

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Annie
   

   (Amie Pure Prarie League)
They Love to Watch Her Hunt
   

They Love to Watch Her Hunt
   (Bob Seger - Her Strut)

JoB:

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A Design for Eternal Life
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Design_for_Life
Get Your Guns
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_Gunn
My Immortal Frenemy
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Immortal
Cold And Contagious
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Contagious
I Did Something Bad In
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_Something_Bad
SSSSnakepit
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sssnakepit
Dare You To Move
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_You_to_Move
   (no way to make this one any more fitting for SSSS!)
Hey Dane Nice Shot
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Man_Nice_Shot
Hairdresser on Fire (Swedehead medley)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairdresser_on_Fire
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suedehead
Burn It to the Ground
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_It_to_the_Ground
   (of Dark Horse World Tour fame)
Deathtank
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathcar
Totally harmless
   

Someone Check My Brain!  (feat. Alive But In Chains)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_My_Brain
The Silence Of Winter
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Winter
We Were Young (And Needed the Kronur)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Young
Take Y'all to The Church
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_to_Church
Heathens, All of Them (Pastor-A-l remix)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathens_(song)
The Crow & the Bottlefly
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_%26_the_Butterfly
Yet Another Way to Die
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Way_to_Die_(Disturbed_song)
Say You'll Haunt Me (eight bootlegs remix)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_You%27ll_Haunt_Me
Lonely Boy Scout
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_Boy_(The_Black_Keys_song)
Burn It All Down
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_It_Down_(Linkin_Park_song)
Hey Look Ma, I Made It Back (feat. Panic At The Library)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Look_Ma,_I_Made_It

Grey:

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How Hard Can it Be?
   Original by Paul Oxley's Unit
   

(lyrics on the comments)
Keep Looking
   Original by Sade
   

(lyrics on the comments)
Mutiny List
   Original "Mutiny" by Neoni
   

(lyrics on the video)
Notoros Thugs (feat. The Notoros Choir)
   Original "Notorious Thugs" by The Notorious B.I.G.
   

Filk Songs

Hello FoOd

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Had enough of hunger and of pain
I had a little sweet spot in the rain
For the dusk and skies so grey
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay?

You know I always liked some moving prey
But too much of it and it will stray
You walk too far you walk away
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay?

You know I always loved a lonely town
Those empty streets, no one around
Abandoned houses, filled with decay
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay?

You know I always liked that empty road
No place to hide, food all exposed
Stupid door hiding our prey away!
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay

Stupid door protects our prey!
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay
Hello FoOd why don’t you stay
Hello FoOd

Written by Jitter
   Inspiration: Hello Sunshine, by Bruce Springsteen
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Sunshine_(Bruce_Springsteen_song)

We Are The Champions

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I've paid my dues
From the silent place
I've done my hunting and killing
Succeeding each time

Trolls bad mistakes
They made a few
I managed to slay and hack
Wounded still
I've come through

And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for Monsters
'Cause we are the champions of the World

I've taken my arrows and bows
And shot true to form
It's brought me fame and fortune
And everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before
The human race
And we ain't gonna lose

And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for Monsters
'Cause we are the champions of the World

And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for Monsters
'Cause we are the champions of the World

Written by dmeck
   Inspiration: We Are The Champions, by Queen
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_Champions

Well, Obviously

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I.
Of course we want to thank our guiding force
The organizer of the whole event
In gratitude we’d render ourselves hoarse
But should our answer have a Nordic bent
When most of us are anything but Norse?
Regardless of the problem we’ll have sent
Another gift returning to the source
And hopefully we’ll be done before Lent

Of course Keep Looking is the sonnet queen
And efforts like this one must come up short
But hopefully this won’t inflame her spleen
And she’ll accept our gift like a good sport
Because she knows we don’t mean to be mean
And so we leave her without sharp retort

II.
Of course they can just put my name on it
Though they’d prefer that we all make it ours
So please forgive this clumsy little bit
As it exceeds my versifying pow’rs

Of course I thought this would be apropos
To send as thanks for all that you have done
Your own of course are better head to toe
But still I hope you’ll take this in good fun

Of course my muse is fleeing fast from me
Instead of hanging ‘round to see the end
You see I have performance ‘xiety
And to perfectionism I pretend

Of course this frumpery’s just that no more
But I do hope it hasn’t been a bore

III.
Of course I went and jumped the gun again
“Because I got inspired” is no excuse
How bad I am at drawing in the lines

Of course my thoughts go addlepated when
I want to spit out something less abstruse
Five pairs of syllables no more no less

Of course my brain rebels against confines
But that pretentious line does not defend
That my deficiency is of no use

Of course I walk this field that’s sown with mines
Because I’m egotistical I guess
To think that I could spit out some good rhyme

Of course this is no better I confess
But maybe reading this was worth your time


IV.
Of course I can’t leave well enough alone
My self-control is nothing so I find
I hope that the recipient is kind
With all the lack of talent I have shown

Of course I went and got into a bind
I cannot help myself it’s just my way
And all my actions align to betray
This faulty pattern engraved in my mind

Of course I fear this exercise will say
Naught of what I set out to extol
Naught of what I wrote down in my soul

Of course I hope she likes it anyway
But over that I do not have control
But I still hope I have met my goal

Written by LooNEY_DAC

Critics

Mirasol:

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five stars (5/5): 
"Emil´s pyro-technology alone is a reason to come see the show!"
- Cleanser´s Weekly, Sweden

four stars (4/5): 
“Quite the spectacle, but way too loud”
- Surma, racing journalist of the former Joensuu-area, Finland

five stars (5/5): 
"We can´t get enough of them! Do let them play more concerts around the lehtos!"
- a scrap of paper found at the bottom of a great oak

JoB:

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four stars (4/5): ☆☆☆☆
"I never would've thought I'd find headbanging that enjoyable!"
- Admiral "Whip Braids" Olsen
(four stars part added by me, because I think Olsen is the kind of person that would never give five stars to anything...)

mOooOoRE!

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Lwise provided the owl image used as the band's second, "Wise" album cover:

Wave provided the art for the latest album... "Keep Looking"
(and she even altered it later to better fit the idea)

JoB suggested Finntroll as the Opening band: Finntroll
and the location for the Tour finale as the Sauna Festival Sauna

He also offered a handy "How to" video explaining the necessary steps to turn one's boring electric guitar into a useful and funny flamethrower, just like Emil's...

(WARNING: Following these steps may have "unpleasant" consequences. Better not try it at home)

dmeck provided a beautiful colouring, used as cover for the first album, "Let the Good Times Troll".
(it was made to be the opening band, but I asked dmeck permission to repurpose it)

and dmeck also wrote a short story when we were still discussing the gift:

"Mum PLEEEEEAAAASE!! Let me go see them play.  They won't be back in a long time.  This is my bestest chance to see them."
"Best Chance. I don't know.  They have that troll band as their opening act. "
"They have a spell on them, they know their mind.  I am also immune.  "
"I don't know, they sing about very adult themes, We live in a safe area, you should enjoy your childhood as much as possible."
Pleaze mum!  I am 14.  You can't keep me home forever.  I want to See Sigrun in person. She is sooo cool, and Lalli is wicked cute.
"You know Lalli is seeing Emil."
"So! That don't matter, I just like to look at him.  Wait, how do you know that?
" I do not live under a rock.  Besides, I think Mikkel is very handsome."
"Ewww mum!"
"How about we go together?  A mother daughter outing?  I actually managed to get some tickets.  I was going surprise you."
"REALLY?  Oh wow they are floor seats.  How did you get them?"
"Well Reynir and I went to school together…."
"Really?  I did not think he was that old. "

 
uff, I think that's all...

[Buteo]

This Secret Santa exchange is the gift that keeps on giving!

Thanks so much, Grey!

[JoB]

This Secret Santa exchange is the gift that keeps on giving!

Indeed ... how did we manage to miss this one??

(I wish I had remembered their official video for Freak of the Week in time for the encore. Yes, these guys are Swedes.)

[thegreyarea]

This Secret Santa exchange is the gift that keeps on giving!

Thanks so much, Grey!

I'm glad that you liked it, Buteo! We did have amazing contributions this year. It has become a lovely tradition.

Indeed ... how did we manage to miss this one??

(I wish I had remembered their official video for Freak of the Week in time for the encore. Yes, these guys are Swedes.)

(Another) great find, JoB! I really appreciated those videos! And now I'm imaginig Emil with longer hair...

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[dreki]

(Another) great find, JoB! I really appreciated those videos! And now I'm imaginig Emil with longer hair...

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I have a thing for viking hair, which there is too little of in SSSS despite being Scandinavian (there is a bit!)

So I like the idea of Emil growing his hair out and braiding it Viking style.

[thegreyarea]

I have a thing for viking hair, which there is too little of in SSSS despite being Scandinavian (there is a bit!)

So I like the idea of Emil growing his hair out and braiding it Viking style.

Wow, dreki! That's one amazing hair! So intricate! I'm sure Emil would look fantastic with it, together with all the sparkling! 

Don't know if Lalli would be fascinated or call it stupid ('cause there's a lot of work and care involved). Perhaps both

[Jitter]

Braiding minimizes care, just braid everything and leave it until the campaing / mission / tour is over. Although Emil probably wouldn’t do it like that. And admittedly it probably becomes a bit grunge over a tour. But, it’s the best way to keep long hair and beard manageable when there are no grooming facilities available. Plus helps keep it out of eyes.

And I strongly agree, there’s nowhere near enough Viking hair in canon!