Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the twenty-ninth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, May 17-Sunday, May 18. The theme is "Quests." (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: 2014-05-17 05:35 am (UTC)Open Playground: Torn World
Date: 2014-05-17 05:36 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: 2014-05-17 05:50 am (UTC)Horseback riders
Girl and wolf
The questing beast
Title Prompts:
"Quest for the Horned Planet"
"Little Miss Macguffin"
"The Journey to Kilimanjaro"
Text Prompts:
A female questing band with one male member.
Lost in space and trying to get home.
A rational, scientific quest.
Prompts
Date: 2014-05-17 06:13 am (UTC)A quest to defeat Evil (only to find Evil is individual behavior, not some inhuman force).
Re: Prompts
Date: 2014-05-18 04:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-17 11:52 am (UTC)The quest object was at home or with the quester(s) all along. (Like Dorothy's slippers were.)
Spirit quest. (respectfully if you please, I don't want anybody appropriating Native tradition here, I just want to see it explored some)
Going out to find yourself.
Poem
Date: 2014-05-19 04:27 am (UTC)95 lines, Buy It Now = $47.50
Re: Poem
Date: 2014-05-19 01:34 pm (UTC)\o/
Open Playground: Nine for the Nebula's Heart
Date: 2014-05-18 03:05 am (UTC)To quote the introductory post in full:
I'm taking
I present thumbnail sketches of our nine questers:
1) Manisha Bhattacharya is the leader. She is assertive and attentive to others, but worries about anything that might go wrong (even if improbable) and blames herself for anything that does go wrong (especially when she could have done nothing about it). She has magic with rocks.
2) Amani El-Amin is the second-in-command. She is patient and pragmatic, but perfectionistic and private. She has magic with water.
3) Nakahara Hinata is the strategist. She is imaginative and flexible, but bossy and untrusting. She has magic with fire.
4) Ndidi Franklin is the researcher. She is serious and self-reliant, but absent-minded and easily upset. She has magic with words.
5) Jacinta Lopez is the caretaker. She is honest and kind, but shy and of the unshakable opinion that she has worth only in her ability to help others. She has magic with dance.
6) Kilikina Ruan is the medic. She is self-confident and conscientious, but trusts too easily and has a hard time saying no (even when she should). She has magic with plants.
7) Sinéad Gabrielli is the weapons master. She is practical and bold, but self-righteous and harsh. She has magic with fiber art.
8) Tamar Levine is the muscle. They are quiet and intuitive, but tense and impulsive. They have magic with air.
9) Paul Eckstein is the hacker. He is outgoing and matter-of-fact, but competitive and stubborn. He has magic with lightning.
At least six of these nine people are queer. At least two (counting Tamar) are trans. At least one person (who may or may not be Tamar) is both. The fellowship includes at least two physically disabled people, at least two mentally ill people, and at least two neurodiverse people.
Note the terms on the CC BY-SA license. I am explicitly inviting anyone who so desires to play with these characters, in hopes that we will build a collaborative (and doubtless multistranded, with contradictions between strands) canon.
Nine for the Nebula's Heart by the 9NH collaborators is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Re: Open Playground: Nine for the Nebula's Heart
Date: 2014-05-18 04:13 am (UTC)My contribution is "Tangled Threads," a free-verse poem in which Sinéad Gabrielli discovers her magic and sets off in search of companions.
96 lines, Buy It Now = $48
Re: Open Playground: Nine for the Nebula's Heart
Date: 2014-05-18 04:14 am (UTC)WOOT WOOOT