YOU GUYS NEARLY 11,000 OF YOU PUT UP WITH ME ON A DAILY BASIS. You guys listen to more of my crap than my own boyfriend generally does. That deserves rewarding. So this is an extra SPECIAL tea give away, and there will be THREE winners. Oh my god. Want a chance to become one of those lucky three people? Read on and follow directions.
THE PRIZES:
- First Place Prize: A set of all seven Sherlock Shipper tea blends [Sherlock/Moriarty, Sherlock/Irene, Moriarty/Moran, Mycroft/Lestrade, Lestrade/John, Lestrade/Molly, Molly/Moriarty]
- Second Place Prize: A set of all four* Avengers Teas [Thor, Loki, Steve Rogers, and Coulson *and possibly also Tony Stark if I make a tea for him soon]
- Third Place Prize: A set of all three Doctor Who Teas [The TARDIS, Amy Pond, and Rory]
- IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE PRIZE PACKS: Each winner will get ONE blend specially created for them. It can be a character or ship or show or book or whatever that I haven’t done that they’d like me to do. It can even be a blend made based on THEM. Whatever the winners would like. They each get to request one, and they will receive it with their other teas.
I MIGHT ADD TO THESE PRIZES. If this gets reblogged like, a lot, or something, I might lose my head and also send the winners mugs to go with their tea. Or a book. WE’LL SEE.
THE RULES:
- Anyone ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD can enter EXCEPT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND!! I am SUPER sorry for my followers down under because not only do you have to put up with terrifying wild life, you can’t even allow tea to be imported to help comfort you. Sorry, there’s like, crazy laws and stuff.
- You do not have to be following me to win, but it might be helpful to keep track of updates or changes (if any). Plus I plan to make some blends for other fandoms in the future, so if tea is your thing, it might not be a bad idea?
- Only two reblogs a day allowed.I did not realize how often people would reblog my last big give away soooo I’m going to enforce this LOL. You can reblog on as many days as you’d like, but yeah, only 2 reblogs a day please. I’ll be checking.
- LIKES DON’T COUNT. Sorry! You have to reblog!
- The give away will end and I will choose the winners on FRIDAY JUNE 1ST. I’ll probably do the drawing late at night on that day, so I’m going to say I’ll stop counting reblogs at 10 p.m. EST. Winners may not be announced until the next day or so, just to be aware!
- Here’s how the winners will be selected: Just like all of my other give aways, I’ll compile a spreadsheet or numbered list of all of the reblogs, and I’ll use the number generator on random.org to chose a number and find the corresponding username on the list. The first number I draw will win the first place prize (or, if they are more into Avengers or Doctor Who, they may chose one of the other prizes). Second number I draw will win the second place prize (or a choice between whatever two packs remain), and the third number drawn will receive the last prize!
[5/20 UPDATE] Dudes you guys are on a ROLL with this! I promised that if it hit 25k notes by the end of this weekend, I’d add another prize pack and, well, it happened. So now instead of three winners, FOUR people will win a prize. Same rules apply as before. The first place winner gets first choice of the prizes, then the second place winner, then so on. So what teas am I adding? CABIN PRESSURE!
The Lemon is in Play, Ottery Kisses, and Polar Bears are BRILLIANT!
And of course this prize pack will also come with a customized tea blend of the winners choice as well <33Thanks so much everyone! You guys seriously are just the best, and odds are, I may end up adding another prize pack at 35K or something if it actually gets to that o_o
[5/21 UPDATE] DANG GUYS. ANOTHER ADDITION ALREADY!
Not another prize pack, per se, BUT, I am possibly doubling the number of final winners. Basically, when I draw names for the prizes, the people that the winners reblogged the contest from will ALSO win the prize that the person drawn chooses. If the winner reblogged from me or themselves, they’ll still only get one prize. And I’m not going to win a prize in my own contest so….
Anyway, I guess this is a good reason to encourage your followers to reblog the contest from your blogs or something 8D;
[5/24] YOU GUYS ARE INSANE. SO. This has reached 35k. And I said earlier that if I created a Tony Stark blend, I’d add it to the Avengers Prize Pack. Well, I made Tony Stark, so he’s adding. But then I also made Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff as well. So I’m also going to add THOSE to the Avengers prize pack as well.
And hell, since I’m somehow about to hit 15k followers too (what are you guys even thinking, honestly), here’s another new prize pack so the number of potential winners is increasing:
Both of the Good Omens Teas! Aziraphale and Crowley! <3
Uh…. if this hits 50k I’ll think of something good.
Finally the last day of this crazy give away. I’ll actually allow you to reblog this until midnight EST tonight. I plan on sitting at home tomorrow, marathoning Doctor Who while I count all of the notes, so expect a winner ….sometime this weekend.
And, by some miracle, this crazy thing soared past 50k notes, and as I said, I’m going to add another prize pack!
My Harry Potter teas just came this morning and they all smell AMAZING! So The final prize pack will be a set consisting of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Severus Snape! (As well as a customized blend requested by the winner).
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
21:21
i made a friend today
someone tell me what steam powered giraffe is
23:47
i ship meenah/aranea
a lot
I fucking hate Kindles
Don’t think I’ve ever had such a high level of animosity for an inanimate object.
I mean, part of me tries to reason with it, fair enough, it makes literature easily accessible, it could get more people interested in reading and help culture pondlife. But no sooner have those thoughts fluttered across my psyche, that I think, nah there’s a fucking library in every town, there’s a book shop in every village, literature doesn’t need to be any more accessible and if it takes a shiny screen and dot com image to get someone interested in reading, then they don’t deserve the pleasures of literature in the first place.
The advertising campaign winds me up, “Lighter than a paperback”….so fuck? What kind of wet fart goes limp at the wrist picking up a paperback? Can’t say I’ve ever grumbled at the excessive weight of a book, nor have I ever rip-curled copies of Dorian Gray to feel the burn on my biceps.
Why anyone would favour this iPad-clone shitehawk over the character of an actual book is beyond me. Y’know when you pick up a book from a second-hand shop and the spine is creased, it’s bent at the edges and some of the page corners are turned over? I fucking love that, you can tell that someone else has cherished this book before you, someone else has turned the same pages, read the self-same words and maybe had the same thoughts, interpretations and emotions about the story. 90% of that intimacy is lost if you’re just reading paragraphs from a polished screen.
Marc wrote this post about the Black Books store near Kings Cross and even though it’ll probably always be in demand because of the sitcom, think of all the similar book shops around the world that’ll be forced out of business because of E-books, it’s sad.
Oh yeah, and they make you look like an absolute twat.The closest actual bookstore to me is over 100 miles away. No joking. If you want to buy a book in this town you have to go to Walmart and their one aisle of books which is one half Young Adult, one quarter Christian Literature, one quarter everything else. If the book you’re looking to buy isn’t brand new or part of a series that just released a new installment… you have zero chance of finding it.
The city public library has a limited selection and will not restock books that are lost or stolen unless they are reference books. If you’re looking for that hot new release then you better be willing to wait at least 6 months to a year because they’ll only get one copy and one copy only.
Why does reading a physical book matter? Will I be more connected to the story if I can smell the sweat of other people? Will the writing pull me in more if the spine is broken? It’s not the book, it’s the writing. That’s what connects you to the story and the characters. You can have the most wonderful and elegantly printed book in the world and it doesn’t mean shit if the writing is terrible. The book is just an access tool, as is an ereader.
in my area, the borders wiped out the barnes & noble and then the borders went out of business, so for about a year or 2 we didn’t have a single bookshop. local businesses don’t thrive here unless they’re chinese food places, so we don’t have any used bookshops or anything like that either. now we have a books-a-million, but the business in there is so sparse i can’t imagine it’ll be around for long either.
i don’t understand this whole BOOKS VS. KINDLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!1!1 war. i really don’t? i mean it’s totally cool to have your own personal preference (and mine is print books too) but i don’t get….poopin on kindles…..just cuz you personally prefer somethin doesn’t mean you should get all up in arms over it!
besides, i like print books for a totally different reason…i hate having used books, the thought of someone else touching it and getting their germs all over it creeps me out, i can’t read used books at all. but i’m pretty clumsy, and dropping a paper book has an outcome far more preferable to dropping a kindle
idk i guess what i’m sayin is why hate? why does it matter to you how people enjoy their books? just appreciate that people are reading!!
this post is very unorganized and i am very unarsed to care
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