Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the thirty-fourth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, October 18-Sunday, October 19. The theme is "Paradigm Shifting Without a Clutch." (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.
Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 07:03 am (UTC)It crept on her so slowly, Jascha didn't notice.
Fading hair color... the slowly deepening texture on her hands, like orange peel.
The darkening tint under her eyes made it worse, and finally, she /saw/.
Babies so full of life they glowed. Babies so close to death they flickered, and she didn't dare /breathe/ for fear of extinguishing the tiny spark as she worked, filling the trash can she rolled from office to office, dusting the blinds, greeting the occasional patron as they rush-stumbled through the day with the same kind of blindness she used to have.
Women, half her age or younger, so feeble and pale that she forced a smile and a “Have a nice day,” past dry lips, wondering if this was their last. Women nearly forty with enough /zoom/ and /wow/ that she couldn't breathe, choking on the cloud of it that clung to them.
Men, children, teens... She couldn't predict them, only acknowledge them. No matter who she saw, she saw not just their mien but their /life/.
And then one day, she saw a tendril of light, drifting away from one of the bright-full-beauty ones, as bare and subtle as as strand of her own gray hair, long since bereft of its once deep oak color.
Within a week, the tendrils seemed to drift toward her, and within two, she could feel it on her skin like static.
Yesterday, she'd seen a wisp of gray on the back of her hand, and brushed it unthinkingly.
It wasn't a hair.
The world became sparks, sound, cinnamon and ashes, smooth rubber and brittle glass.
Today, she was going to try to touch a strand, someone else's. Jascha rubbed her palms against the work apron, studiously ignoring the man with the cane and the fine, brittle cloud of threads. Someone bright-full-beauty, someone... She touched...
and
HUNGER
gnawed in her belly, in the back of her thoughts.
Jascha pushed her cart into a storeroom, dumping her apron on top of it. The hunger growled, even as she padded toward the clutch of patrons browsing the new book arrivals.
Re: Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 07:07 am (UTC)That is CREEPY.
Must go steamroller the hairs on the back of my neck now.
Re: Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 07:12 am (UTC)I very, very rarely go for 'creepy.' This is why.
Sleep? What's that?
Re: Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 07:17 am (UTC)Same for me, and I nabbed the Matrix prompt and am working on a different flavor of really fucking creepy. But the victim has it coming, and I am a sadist, so. >:D
Re: Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 03:30 pm (UTC)Re: Seeing the Matrix
Date: 2014-10-18 04:01 pm (UTC)