Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the forty-eighth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, February 20-Sunday, February 21. The theme is "Comfortable and Uncomfortable Situations." Visit the Creative Jam over on LiveJournal.
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 08:07 pm (UTC)The prompt: The struggle to claim and express one's identity against the background of a cultural matrix where doing so usually leads to exclusion or invalidation -- and the uncomfortable gap that remains, even when one's identity is recognized, between its recognition and its being fully validated, let alone affirmed and valued.
"Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Zoe is a girl
what other options are there?
she was born a girl
she can't grow into a man
Zoe is a girl
who doesn't find it fair
that she must be a girl
that it's all in God's plan
Zoe is a girl
why should she like makeup?
because she is a girl
but the foundation always cakes up
Zoe is a question
now she's heard the word 'transgender'
but it is quite a question
would she just be a pretender?
Zoe is a question
who doesn't think she's male
what else is there? she questions
society says, nothing
Zoe is a question
and the answer's doomed to fail
but she finds the right question
the right answer to be trusting
Zoe is an enby
she—they—cut their hair
they don't say they're an enby
and they wear skirts no more
Zoe is an enby
who doesn't find it fair
that saying they're an enby
will cause their family to abhor
Zoe is an enby
at last they say it loud and strong
people say she's crazy
people say she's wrong
Zoe's name is Jesse
spelled pointedly like men do
they're not a man, they're Jesse
to stay Zoe'd be too...residue
Jesse is an enby
they meet another like mind
who's proud to be an enby
doesn't care what one's assigned
Jesse is an enby
necktie and a skirt that flares
Nasim is an enby
lavender, dark green, and white
Jesse is an enby
Nasim too, and that's all right
the world may not like enbies
but Nasim and Jesse just don't care
Jesse is an enby
and they wonder sometimes still
would it be better were they not enby?
but they'll make it through, they will
Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 08:52 pm (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 09:39 pm (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 10:51 pm (UTC)What is an "enby"-- Bing made the problem worse when looking for a reference, USING quotes, because it kept changing the word to ENVY, which is probably the opposite of the intended connotation.
Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-20 11:40 pm (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-21 02:47 am (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-21 02:48 am (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-21 04:09 am (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-21 04:10 am (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
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Date: 2016-02-21 03:38 pm (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-23 07:27 am (UTC)Re: FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"
Date: 2016-02-23 03:40 pm (UTC)