Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the eighteenth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, May 18-Sunday, May 19. The theme is "magic." (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.
Open Playground: "Schrodinger's Heroes"
Date: 2013-05-18 08:23 am (UTC)The background material and some sample stories, poems, and scripts are linked from the menu post. If you do play with this, I'd love to know; I'll link to other people's contributions if I know where they are.
Open Playground: "Torn World"
Date: 2013-05-18 08:24 am (UTC)For more information about the setting, prompters should start here and contributors should start here. For specific information about submitting your work to our world continuity, rights and allowances, please see our contributor's rules. We have a space for sharing non-canon work on our site, so don't be shy about jumping in, even if you aren't familiar with the setting yet!
Prompts
Date: 2013-05-18 08:49 am (UTC)Conjuring rainbow
Meeting across the veil
Unicorn in field
Title Prompts:
"A Spell of Smoke and Notions"
"The Power in Her Blood"
"Incantations of Creation"
Text Prompts:
* Magic exists in rare things such as four-leaf clovers; the more a person has the patience to gather, the more they gain. But you have to do it yourself.
* The spell that keeps a dangerous faultline stable is slowly poisoning the water supply.
* A merman falls in love, not with a princess, but with a prince's valet; and the prince freaks right the fuck out. They live happily ever after anyway.
Prompt filled: Conjuring a rainbow
Date: 2013-05-18 09:44 am (UTC)Those are what I work with.
Smoke in the night, stars in the sky. I weave them together, braiding them into magic, into mysteries, into worlds that will spin on.
I cannot see but it does not matter, magic is a tactile thing. A thing that you need the tips of your fingers to use, not your eyes.
Smoke curls around my knuckles. stars burn the backs of my hands. I can hear the jingling of laughter waiting to be gathered. Magic wraps itself around me, even before it's been harvested.
And harvest it I will. It will become something ore than what it is now, become worlds and lives and people and love. It will be turned into everything one needs to create a new universe.
And I, in my quiet way, will sit back and feel that universe turn in my hands and I will smile.
A slice of something that could be larger. t may bleed into another universe in which people weave worlds together and this person may do the embroidery work.
Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 05:49 pm (UTC)Click image for full size. It's entitled "Smoke and Stars".
otherwise known as 'Elizabeth has no sense of proportion'
Re: Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 06:00 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt filled: Conjuring a rainbow
Date: 2013-05-18 05:54 pm (UTC)Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 04:00 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-18 06:00 pm (UTC)Prompt Filled
Date: 2013-05-19 10:17 pm (UTC)600 words. Buy it now for $3.
(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-18 09:05 am (UTC)- using magic to create or build something
- a summoning ritual from the point of view of the summoned entity
Prompt filled: a summoning ritual from the point of view of the summoned entity
Date: 2013-05-18 09:52 am (UTC)Please keep in mind these simple facts:
- You are not the only one that sleeps. Try to do things at a reasonable hour. Depending on what you are trying to summon, this time may vary.
- The blood of innocents is all fine and good but you know what would really be a good sacrifice? Chocolate. A lot of chocolate.
- Coffee is also acceptable.
- The most important thing we could ask for is respect. Don't fuck around with us and we won't fuck around with you (Yes, this manual has used the word 'fuck'. The English language is a virus, it infects even us).
((This is not a part of something longer but could very easily be the Rambling, Ranting Guide to Magic and Spellcraft. I may do exerts at random, so please let me know if you enjoyed this.)
Re: Prompt filled: a summoning ritual from the point of view of the summoned entity
Date: 2013-05-18 05:56 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt filled: a summoning ritual from the point of view of the summoned entity
Date: 2013-06-09 12:09 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2013-05-19 06:52 pm (UTC)61 lines, Buy It Now = $30.50
prompts (can you tell I like this theme?)
Date: 2013-05-18 02:55 pm (UTC)magic through creative endeavor
enchantment passing through
the rare magical achievement/innovation of one generation is commonplace in the next
magic of a non-Western tradition
the tradition of saying 'charmed' or the like to a new acquaintance
prince charming: literally both, figuratively neither
fire burn and cauldron bubble
those poor animals used for potion ingredients
illusion
transfiguration
wicked witch of the wherever, who is not wicked at all thank you except in the stories told by those who hate her
good witch of the wherever, who is good because she does what those who would otherwise hate her want her to do
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Re: prompts (can you tell I like this theme?)
Date: 2013-05-19 06:53 pm (UTC)31 lines, Buy It Now = $15
Re: prompts (can you tell I like this theme?)
Date: 2013-05-19 07:25 pm (UTC)Yay poetry!
(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-18 09:29 pm (UTC)• finding magic in unlikely places (big cities, boring 'burbs, etc)
• this comic
• "You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence." (Among Others)
• seventh sons of seventh sons
• the surviving twin sees and talks to the ghost of hir sibling
• sci-fi vs fantasy methods of traveling between worlds/dimensions
I'll add the bonus challenge of f/f queerplatonic relationships in any of those stories.
Poem
Date: 2013-05-19 06:54 pm (UTC)