Dreams and Swords

Since apparently it's getting towards that time of year.

happy_trekmas and sga_santa, for those of you into those fandoms.

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I really need to be petted and told I'm loved right now.

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dark_puck is doing a Wild Hunt AtLA meme. It's awesome. Go over there and make requests.

Odd. I think someone on the internet just volunteered to be my punching bag. /non-sequitor

Maiko Week 2010

compaubigbang: Complete AU Big Bang. Any fandom, any characters, any crossovers, so long as it is 20k words and a complete AU. (The fusion!crossovers we tend to do around here would fit this perfectly, actually.)

I am, as ever, an easy mark for a rough-luck story. Which is why I'm telling you guys about graduate_maria, a fandom auction that I am not putting anything up for¹. Here is rm's explanation of what it is all about.


1. Unless someone asks nicely and is willing to be very patient, since I still have three other auction fics to write.

I like Lovecraft. His stories generally don't work as horror for me, but I love the language, the fantastic worlds and descriptions in them, and the few times the horror has hit me, it's hit me but good.

So, imagine my delight when I discovered The Innsmouth Free Press. It's a 'zine dedicated to Lovecraftian horror. :D

They're currently holding a fundraiser for 2010. I think they're awesome, but I currently have very limited funds with which to donate to them. But maybe some of my readers do!

As an added bonus, for every $1 USD donated, you can claim 100 words of requested story from me.¹ Just use LJ's note feature to talk to me if you want to claim.


1. Yes, this does mean I won't be posting any request memes for a while. Sorry, folks, I've got a lot of owed writing to focus on.

A multi-fandom fanfic meme where you post a particular "never seen it, but SO want to read it" wish and (hopefully) someone claims it and writes it. Also, you look through other people's wishes and see if there's anything there that speaks to you as something to write. Fun for all!

debsliverlovers is raising money to get a live donor across the USA to Deb Mensinger for testing and hopefully surgery to transplant a liver. Deb has porphyria, a genetic condition that has slowly destroyed her liver. She has reached the point where she requires a liver transplant to survive.

Her brother has volunteered to act as a live donor, however he is of limited means right now, and her insurance will only cover so much. This auction is raising money to get him to her, get him tested for compatibility, and hopefully transplant a lobe of his liver into her. In six to eight weeks, both livers will regenerate into fully healthy organs and Deb will never have porphyria again.

I heard about this through rm and checked it out myself. It is entirely legit.

The auctions will run from Saturday May 1 at 12:01am Eastern Daylight Time to Sunday May 23 at 11:59pm EDT.

I have two offers up: one for a New Orleans-themed care package and one for fanfiction.

Cool things I am into: Kickstarter and Kiva.

Kickstarter is a funding project/platform for creative types. Basically, you put up a project with a tangible goal and a specific bottom-line (opening a butcher's shop, issuing a print run of a short story contest winners collection, doing a documentary, whatever). You provide various gifts to backers who provide x amounts of money (such and such at $5, such and such at $25, such and such at $500, whatever intervals you like), then you advertise and try to get people to pledge to support your project. You've got anywhere between 1-90 days, depending on what you pick, to make the goal. If you do, you get the money and it's your job to complete the project and get the backers their promised gifts. If you don't, well, no money and the backers' credit cards don't get billed. Pretty cool.

I'm backing about two or three different things right now, but two of them are pretty far out on their deadlines. However, this one is only ten days away and only 50% funded. It's a project to fund another five months of weekly issues for an indie-scene New Orleans, LA 'zine. That being my hometown, I definitely want to support it.

Kiva is a charity micro-lending site. It connects donors with various entrepreneurs around the world. You lend a minimum of $25 to a particular person/project. If it gets fully funded, they will slowly pay you back while they use your money to improve their lives. If it's not fully funded, you get the money back. In both cases, it comes back as Kiva Credit rather than cash, which you can use to donate to someone else. Very cool.

I've got about $75 in the system right now, and I've been a member for about a year now. I tend to focus on female entrepreneurs for various personal reasons, with a lot of my loans going into Africa and South America.

I have two offers up on the fandom auction helptheproject.

- A care package from New Orleans
- At least 1000 words of fic on anything the winner wants (limited to the following fandoms: Avatar: the Last Airbender, DragonballZ, Sailor Moon (first two seasons only, please), The Matrix, Ooku (up to the current US release)