Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the twentieth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, July 20-Sunday, July 21. The theme is "families of choice." (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: 2013-07-20 06:00 am (UTC)Open Playground: "Torn World"
Date: 2013-07-20 06:01 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: 2013-07-20 06:17 am (UTC)Gay parents
Rainbow family
Family gathering
Title Prompts:
Family Ties and Other Garments
The Family You Choose
Brothers at Heart
Text Prompts:
* What's it like to find people for whom, the thing your birth family kicked you out for, is either irrelevant or an asset?
* Recovering from childhood abuse/neglect by transplanting yourself into a new and healthier family.
* How alien families are different -- and the same -- compared to human ones.
Prompt fill: recovering from abuse by finding a better family.
Date: 2013-07-20 06:49 am (UTC)In the beginning they treat her like a feral cat, like something they need to be careful around, something with laws. Teddy is kind and nothing but kind to her while Dave feeds her, and lets her sleep in his closet because she doesn't want to be anywhere else.
They know she's come from something rough, something they don't even want to imagine, but they don't think about it often. It's easier that way, to pretend that the girl who's adopted them (because they can't say that they adopted her) came from something normal, rather than a life that dances close to Hell.
They get her to reveal herself slowly, showing off the layers that are underneath the angry exterior. They teach her how t love without claws, how to touch without burning. They teach her how to be kind.
And she's grateful in her own strange way. Grateful without words but with so many actions. She comes back to them instead of running away, she helps them when she can, she tells them that she loves them.
But she never says thank you.
And they don't need it, neither one of them, because they know. They see it in the way she acts, the way she sleeps in their closets or steals their food or laughs at them. It's not harsh or desperate, it's sweet and comfortable. A loved one teasing family instead of something that strikes just to be cruel.
And maybe she still goes back to them, dips herself into Hell every so often but they know she'll come out of it and they'll be there waiting for her when she does.
Re: Prompt fill: recovering from abuse by finding a better family.
Date: 2013-07-20 07:01 am (UTC)Yes, by all means, link to the rest of the series. That way if people like your work here, they can find more of it.
Re: Prompt fill: recovering from abuse by finding a better family.
Date: 2013-07-20 07:10 am (UTC)There are AUs and other such things that I want to pot up either in my own journal or in a created journal for this universe but none of that has been written yet, so you get this stuff for now.
Re: Prompt fill: recovering from abuse by finding a better family.
Date: 2013-07-20 07:16 am (UTC)I know how it goes with unwritten stuff; for all I've written down and posted, much more remains only in my head.
Re: Prompt fill: recovering from abuse by finding a better family.
Date: 2013-08-30 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-07-20 09:28 am (UTC)• "can I come to your house? winter lives in my bones." (Winter Bones - Stars)
• "these here are my desires and I won't give them up to you this time around" (Roll Away Your Stone - Mumford & Sons)
• "echoes of a city that's long overgrown, your heart is the only place that I call home" (Heartlines - Florence + The Machine)
• "you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town" (Academia - Sia)
• "though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them, in my life I love you more" (In My Life - The Beatles)
Prompt fill: winter lies in my bones
Date: 2013-07-20 01:07 pm (UTC)Maybe the cold is set into her bones, maybe she's harder than she as when she was young.
Maybe it's something he cant escape, something she can run from but never break down. Maybe he's doomed to know the chill of winter winds against her skin and the frozen taste of snow on her lips.
Maybe she's meant for the darker parts of the year, for the colder, harsher times.
Maybe she never knew what it was like to come into the sun, to feel the warmth of a fire, to know the hands of family brushing away the snow in her hair.
Maybe she wants to.
Maybe she longs for it, craves it, yearns for it. Maybe she aches for it in a way she doesn't understand.
And maybe someone will show her, take her in, scoop her up and place her by a fire. Maybe they'll stroke her back and hair, kiss her gently, tell her she's loved.
Maybe she'll find what she's looking for, maybe she'll redefine love as something more than what she knew.
Poem
Date: 2013-07-20 08:32 pm (UTC)84 lines, Buy It Now = $42
(no subject)
Date: 2013-07-20 01:09 pm (UTC)http://www.filk.com/songs/Fen,%20Don't%20Let%20Your%20Children%20Grow%20Up%20to%20be%20Mundane.htm
http://www.noreascon.org/interesting-bits/marty-first-worldcon.html
There are two songs I want to use as prompts and can't find:
"Weekend-Only World" by T.J. Burnside-Clapp
"Webs of Song and Light" by Gary Ehrlch
Poem
Date: 2013-07-20 09:01 pm (UTC)48 lines, Buy It Now = $20
(no subject)
Date: 2013-07-20 11:29 pm (UTC)http://filk.cracksandshards.com/FenDontLet.html
(which will redirect to the same filename in a path on my ISP's domain).
Let there be prompts!
Date: 2013-07-20 01:12 pm (UTC)You will become whatever you want to become. Even if you don’t know what that is.
And I'm sorry I ever learned any words that make you cry.
I'm still doing my best to learn the ones that make you smile.
But can you save yourself?
And you must love her, though she betrays you in a heartbeat --
you keep accepting the poisoned comb, the spinning wheel,
with open, pale hands.
You tell them your story, or as much of your story
as time or a fair degree of prudence allows
Re: Let there be prompts!
Date: 2013-07-20 09:41 pm (UTC)prompts (guess what I have been listening to lately)
Date: 2013-07-20 02:41 pm (UTC)Seanan McGuire, "Cartography" (the whole song is the prompt)
Families of choice and families of blood aren't necessarily mutually exclusive things. (I'm thinking of Seanan McGuire's "Carnival Glass" and "The True Story Here" by way of example.)
Re: prompts (guess what I have been listening to lately)
Date: 2013-07-21 03:04 am (UTC)20 lines, Buy It Now = $10