Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the forty-second Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, July 18-Sunday, July 19. The theme is "Nobody Would Ever Write This." 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: 2015-07-18 05:13 am (UTC)Open Playground: Torn World
Date: 2015-07-18 05:14 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!
Open Playground: Nine for the Nebula's Heart
Date: 2015-07-18 05:16 am (UTC)prompts!
Date: 2015-07-18 05:35 am (UTC)explicitly queer protagonist, zero angst about how society / community / family / friends / love interest will take the revelation (kind of like how nobody in an all-or-mostly-het cast is ever angsty about their hetness)
everybody in the story is explicitly or implicitly Shinto or Ifa or Hindu or Kemetic (or whatever, but Christianity is definitely and other monotheisms probably excluded from possibilities) and it's depicted accurately and respectfully and is in-story a total nonissue (kind of like how so many stories have an all-Christian cast and it's depicted accurately and respectfully and is in-story a total nonissue)
100% female cast, no one takes notice of the gender imbalance (alternately, 100% genderqueer cast and still no one notices)
my issues, let me show you them
Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-18 09:17 am (UTC)Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-18 03:57 pm (UTC)Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-18 03:49 pm (UTC)Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-18 03:57 pm (UTC)Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-21 08:52 am (UTC)"Hostage to the Character" features two transpeople, Calliope and Hyperspaceman, dealing with a supervillain who is holding hostages in a bank. Not a lot of physical violence, but plenty of emotional drama. The only way to know that they're trans is if you've already read about them or check the character sheets; but there are hints of that experience in how they handle some of the issues that come up. Because yeah, when you're a superhero, being also trans will frequently be the least of your worries, oh hai messed up Bratva guy.
414 lines, Buy It Now = $207
Re: prompts!
Date: 2015-07-21 12:36 pm (UTC)Hey, no worries about taking a while. I haven't even started my Creative Jam thing this round.
Prompts
Date: 2015-07-18 05:45 am (UTC)Sexy girl in a corset and a wheelchair
Live, happy, sane lesbians
Psychotic unicorn
Title Prompts:
"That One Time People Actually Listened to Bruce Banner"
"Alien Technology Is User-Hostile"
"When the Supervillain Is Right"
Text Prompts:
* People who are arguing over how to solve a problem make a list of possible solutions, then get cities to volunteer to test each of those solutions, and then the one with the biggest improvement becomes the standard.
* Characters in a science fiction story trying to fix something when all the lab work actually takes weeks or months just like it does in real life.
* The supervillain who has trained all of his troops to shoot with stupendous accuracy. BANG! Send in the next hero. Okay, here's a team. RAT-A-TAT-TAT. Next!
Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-07-19 05:38 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-07-19 05:40 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-07-19 05:42 am (UTC)Prompt
Date: 2015-07-18 12:26 pm (UTC)A dream image that's lingered in my memory for 30-ish(?) years:
Someone chopping vegetables catches the tip of their finger with a knife. Instead of blood, a resinous tree sap flows out. They realize they are transforming into a tree. They are happy about this revelation.
Re: Prompt
Date: 2015-07-18 09:07 pm (UTC)49 lines, Buy It Now = $20