it\u2019s been a big year, and a big year calls for a big take on one of my favourite internet princess institutions: the annual gift guide. writing the gift guide always feels special to me, in part because the holidays make me automatically weepy (i\u2019m just a girl, etc, etc) and in part because the process of writing about gifts for you always makes me think about what an incredible, life-changing gift Internet Princess has been for me (i know this is trite but sometimes i can\u2019t help myself). a week ago, we reached 70,000 subscribers, and i thought \u2014 community is the most beautiful thing in the world, i am sustained by love and maintained by all the lives that exist in conversation with mine, there is nothing to the world but people! and then i thought \u2014 i should text some of my friends about gifts. and then their ideas were so good that i texted even more people about gifts, and then even more. writing can be very solitary work, which is both very good for me and at times very horrible, and suddenly it felt really wonderful and special and invigorating to think about making something fun in collaboration with some of the most exciting people i know.