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FLASHFIC-A-THON for a good cause!
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divalea lost her house and her pets in a devastating fire. Lea is a self-employed comics and manga artist. I've known her for several years and she's always been very supportive of my cartooning -- as the founding editor of the comics website Girlamatic, Lea invited me to be part of the original gang of Girlamatic cartoonists and this has opened a number of doors over the years. She's also a very active feminist who promotes the interests of women in the male-dominated comics field, and offers grants to women webcomic artists.
She and her husband have two special-needs children and the fire, as you can well imagine, has left them in a very bad position, especially since Lea is employed at home, so as well as losing her home she has also lost all the equipment that she needs to make a living.
I would like to help Lea and I've decided to run a fic-a-thon to do it. I've never done this before and I have no idea what kind of response I'm going to get ... if any! But I really do hope at least some people will take me up on this.
Basically you make a pledge (see below for details) -- for the sake of simplicity, I'm only going with two kinds of pledges, a flat pledge or a pledge per 100 words -- and I write a short story to your specifications. Stargate Atlantis is, obviously, my current fandom and the fandom I'm most comfortable writing in, but since this is *your* story, you can request a different fandom if you like; see under the cut for some suggestions.
Instructions
Make a post in this thread, or email me at layla (at) ravenschildren dot com, or PM me from my Sholio ff.net account. Let me know what your pledge is and what sort of story you would like (see below for info on that). You can either give a flat pledge, e.g. $10, or per 100 words, e.g. $2 per 100 words -- and if you do the second option, LET ME KNOW if there's a cap on how much you're willing to pay for. Again for simplicity's sake, I'd prefer to do Paypal -- but if you'll be needing to send it some other way, please also let me know how to contact you so I can tell you where to send the pledge. (Since Lea is currently homeless, I will probably have people send them to me so I can send them to her.) As for the Paypal email, it'd probably be best to send the pledges to Lea directly so that Paypal doesn't take a cut of it twice, so her email for Paypal purposes is divalea (at) gmail (dot) com. Or you can send a pledge to me at layla (at) ravenschildren (dot) com, and I will see that she gets it. Just tell me which one you've done, so I know who has donated and who hasn't!
If you've never used Paypal and have questions, feel free to ask! All you need is a bank account or credit card, and there is no cost to sign up or use it. (Paypal takes a small percentage from each transaction, but it won't be passed along to you.) Another option would be gift certificates or gift cards to places like Wal-Mart or Best Buy -- if you have something like that laying around, for a business that operates in Texas (which is where she lives), it's just as good as cash for pledging.
I know I'm asking you to donate money to a person you don't know, so I don't expect the pledges to be very much; a little money from a lot of people is just as good as a lot from a few. What you will get for your pledge is a custom-made fanfic of whatever you would like, including things I don't normally write such as slash or non-SGA stories.
Let me know what characters you would like and whatever details of plot and setting you want, as well as any additional information (like ratings, pairings, humorous vs. serious, etc). More specific is preferred to less specific -- so rather than "I want a story with John and Rodney", maybe something like "...a Pegasus Project tag in which John apologizes for the lemon joke; the lemon must be physically present in the scene". Most stories will be about 500-1000 words long. Length is determined partly by the amount of your pledge (bigger pledges get longer stories) and partly on the nature of the story you requested.
While I don't normally write slash or romance, this is YOUR story and I'm perfectly willing to tackle whatever you want to see. So if you've always wanted to see a McShep story from me, this is the time to ask! I reserve the right to ask you to change your request if it's a pairing or scenario that I really don't want to write (for example, non-con is a big squick with me) and I'd rather not write graphic sex -- not because I have a problem with it, but just because I'm really *bad* at writing about it! Though you can always ask...
In addition to taking the opportunity to request genres and pairings that I don't normally write, you could also request a missing scene or sequel from one of my existing stories, or a crossover with something else. Have fun, and please ask for something you would genuinely like to see written (as opposed to playing "stump the author" *grin*).
As far as fandoms go ... as I said above, SGA is my main fandom and the one I currently prefer to write in. However, again, this is YOUR story and here is a partial list of some other fandoms besides Stargate Atlantis I think I could write in:
Books: Watership Down, Amber, Death Gate, Dark Tower, CJ Cherryh (Hellburner, others maybe), Coldfire; TV: Stargate SG-1, Lost, Firefly, Invisible Man, Forever Knight (1st & 2nd seasons); Movies: Gattaca, Narnia movie-verse; Animated & Comics: Saiyuki, YGO, X-Men. If there's something else you want, you can always ask!
You will be the first person to see your story, but you'll need to send your pledge first (since that is, after all, the point of the exercise). If you're making a flat pledge, you can send it at any time before I finish your story. (Sooner is better than later, since they need money now, and people who send their pledges sooner will get their stories written quicker!) If it's a per-word pledge, I will tell you the final amount when I finish the story, and you can send it then. After sending out the stories, I'll be posting them here and/or on ff.net so that people can read them, unless you don't want your story made public (in which case, tell me and I will honor your request).
Oh, for extra fun, I'll also do a running tally of the amount raised and the status of the stories! Because half the fun of pledge drives is watching the tallies grow!
So, to start us off, here is the current tally at ground zero:
Amount raised: $0
Stories in progress: 0/0
Stories completed: 0/0
Come on and help me make it grow!
divalea lost her house and her pets in a devastating fire. Lea is a self-employed comics and manga artist. I've known her for several years and she's always been very supportive of my cartooning -- as the founding editor of the comics website Girlamatic, Lea invited me to be part of the original gang of Girlamatic cartoonists and this has opened a number of doors over the years. She's also a very active feminist who promotes the interests of women in the male-dominated comics field, and offers grants to women webcomic artists.She and her husband have two special-needs children and the fire, as you can well imagine, has left them in a very bad position, especially since Lea is employed at home, so as well as losing her home she has also lost all the equipment that she needs to make a living.
I would like to help Lea and I've decided to run a fic-a-thon to do it. I've never done this before and I have no idea what kind of response I'm going to get ... if any! But I really do hope at least some people will take me up on this.
Basically you make a pledge (see below for details) -- for the sake of simplicity, I'm only going with two kinds of pledges, a flat pledge or a pledge per 100 words -- and I write a short story to your specifications. Stargate Atlantis is, obviously, my current fandom and the fandom I'm most comfortable writing in, but since this is *your* story, you can request a different fandom if you like; see under the cut for some suggestions.
Instructions
Make a post in this thread, or email me at layla (at) ravenschildren dot com, or PM me from my Sholio ff.net account. Let me know what your pledge is and what sort of story you would like (see below for info on that). You can either give a flat pledge, e.g. $10, or per 100 words, e.g. $2 per 100 words -- and if you do the second option, LET ME KNOW if there's a cap on how much you're willing to pay for. Again for simplicity's sake, I'd prefer to do Paypal -- but if you'll be needing to send it some other way, please also let me know how to contact you so I can tell you where to send the pledge. (Since Lea is currently homeless, I will probably have people send them to me so I can send them to her.) As for the Paypal email, it'd probably be best to send the pledges to Lea directly so that Paypal doesn't take a cut of it twice, so her email for Paypal purposes is divalea (at) gmail (dot) com. Or you can send a pledge to me at layla (at) ravenschildren (dot) com, and I will see that she gets it. Just tell me which one you've done, so I know who has donated and who hasn't!
If you've never used Paypal and have questions, feel free to ask! All you need is a bank account or credit card, and there is no cost to sign up or use it. (Paypal takes a small percentage from each transaction, but it won't be passed along to you.) Another option would be gift certificates or gift cards to places like Wal-Mart or Best Buy -- if you have something like that laying around, for a business that operates in Texas (which is where she lives), it's just as good as cash for pledging.
I know I'm asking you to donate money to a person you don't know, so I don't expect the pledges to be very much; a little money from a lot of people is just as good as a lot from a few. What you will get for your pledge is a custom-made fanfic of whatever you would like, including things I don't normally write such as slash or non-SGA stories.
Let me know what characters you would like and whatever details of plot and setting you want, as well as any additional information (like ratings, pairings, humorous vs. serious, etc). More specific is preferred to less specific -- so rather than "I want a story with John and Rodney", maybe something like "...a Pegasus Project tag in which John apologizes for the lemon joke; the lemon must be physically present in the scene". Most stories will be about 500-1000 words long. Length is determined partly by the amount of your pledge (bigger pledges get longer stories) and partly on the nature of the story you requested.
While I don't normally write slash or romance, this is YOUR story and I'm perfectly willing to tackle whatever you want to see. So if you've always wanted to see a McShep story from me, this is the time to ask! I reserve the right to ask you to change your request if it's a pairing or scenario that I really don't want to write (for example, non-con is a big squick with me) and I'd rather not write graphic sex -- not because I have a problem with it, but just because I'm really *bad* at writing about it! Though you can always ask...
In addition to taking the opportunity to request genres and pairings that I don't normally write, you could also request a missing scene or sequel from one of my existing stories, or a crossover with something else. Have fun, and please ask for something you would genuinely like to see written (as opposed to playing "stump the author" *grin*).
As far as fandoms go ... as I said above, SGA is my main fandom and the one I currently prefer to write in. However, again, this is YOUR story and here is a partial list of some other fandoms besides Stargate Atlantis I think I could write in:
Books: Watership Down, Amber, Death Gate, Dark Tower, CJ Cherryh (Hellburner, others maybe), Coldfire; TV: Stargate SG-1, Lost, Firefly, Invisible Man, Forever Knight (1st & 2nd seasons); Movies: Gattaca, Narnia movie-verse; Animated & Comics: Saiyuki, YGO, X-Men. If there's something else you want, you can always ask!
You will be the first person to see your story, but you'll need to send your pledge first (since that is, after all, the point of the exercise). If you're making a flat pledge, you can send it at any time before I finish your story. (Sooner is better than later, since they need money now, and people who send their pledges sooner will get their stories written quicker!) If it's a per-word pledge, I will tell you the final amount when I finish the story, and you can send it then. After sending out the stories, I'll be posting them here and/or on ff.net so that people can read them, unless you don't want your story made public (in which case, tell me and I will honor your request).
Oh, for extra fun, I'll also do a running tally of the amount raised and the status of the stories! Because half the fun of pledge drives is watching the tallies grow!
So, to start us off, here is the current tally at ground zero:
Amount raised: $0
Stories in progress: 0/0
Stories completed: 0/0
Come on and help me make it grow!