Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the forty-eighth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, February 20-Sunday, February 21. The theme is "Comfortable and Uncomfortable Situations." 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.

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Open Playground: Schrodinger's Heroes

[ysabetwordsmith]

Everyone is welcome to play with Schrodinger's Heroes. (If you're new to this project, you can start here.) This is an imaginary fandom for an apocryphal television show. A team of heroes practice quantum physics and other hijinks to protect Earth against invaders from other dimensions. The team is racially, sexually, and culturally diverse. Because the subject naturally deals with alternate realities, it lends itself well to crossovers and alternate-universe interpretations; you can use my version or make up your own.

Open Playground: Torn World

[ysabetwordsmith]

Torn World is a science fantasy shared world available for writing and creating in. Sea monsters! Giant furred unicorns! Crystals that control time! People of changing gender, or no gender!

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

[alexseanchai]

Autistic person(s) who hasn't grasped one of the social rules that the neurotypical person(s) in the same situation has intuited.

Thinking outside the box slash comfort zone.

One must do something that terrifies one in order to get the thing one wants.

One expects a situation to be massively uncomfortable but actually everyone else is remarkably understanding. (I am envisioning this as a transgender/genderqueer coming-out scenario in a generally transphobic/binarist world, but you needn't do that necessarily.)

Radical self-care.

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Image Prompts:
Two kids and a dog.
Terramagne shock rooms have snuggle furniture to help people recover from emotional trauma.
Uncomfortable alien romance.

Title Prompts:
"Snuggle Bunnies and Other Comfort Creatures"
"Those Intimate, Awkward Moments"
"The Importance of Uncomfortable Truths"

Text Prompts:
Seamless, tagless clothing for sensitive people.
That moment when your boss walks in on your doing something totally inappropriate at work.
Love is being comfortable with each other, even when the situation is uncomfortable.

Prompt[s]

[siliconshaman]

An uncomfortable meeting made worse by a tense situation ending in 'blow off' as they're evac'ed.[dialecticdreamer, I'm looking at you!]

An unexpected fur-pile./cuddle-puddle.

"No day that contains time spent with a contented cat, is a complete loss.]

Prompts

[serpentine]

- Dealing with a strong, uncomfortable feeling that is unfamiliar/new to the person

- Having to keep a calm face when you feel torn up inside

- Safe haven finally after a long day of pretending

FILL (freebie): "Zoe's Name Is Jesse"

[alexconall]

I can't remember my LJ password for the life of me and I hate leaving anon comments. Someone please ping ng_moonmoth on the LJ post to the tune of there's a response to their prompt?

The prompt: The struggle to claim and express one's identity against the background of a cultural matrix where doing so usually leads to exclusion or invalidation -- and the uncomfortable gap that remains, even when one's identity is recognized, between its recognition and its being fully validated, let alone affirmed and valued.


"Zoe's Name Is Jesse"

Zoe is a girl
what other options are there?
she was born a girl
she can't grow into a man

Zoe is a girl
who doesn't find it fair
that she must be a girl
that it's all in God's plan

Zoe is a girl
why should she like makeup?
because she is a girl
but the foundation always cakes up

Zoe is a question
now she's heard the word 'transgender'
but it is quite a question
would she just be a pretender?

Zoe is a question
who doesn't think she's male
what else is there? she questions
society says, nothing

Zoe is a question
and the answer's doomed to fail
but she finds the right question
the right answer to be trusting

Zoe is an enby
she—they—cut their hair
they don't say they're an enby
and they wear skirts no more

Zoe is an enby
who doesn't find it fair
that saying they're an enby
will cause their family to abhor

Zoe is an enby
at last they say it loud and strong
people say she's crazy
people say she's wrong

Zoe's name is Jesse
spelled pointedly like men do
they're not a man, they're Jesse
to stay Zoe'd be too...residue

Jesse is an enby
they meet another like mind
who's proud to be an enby
doesn't care what one's assigned

Jesse is an enby
necktie and a skirt that flares
Nasim is an enby
lavender, dark green, and white

Jesse is an enby
Nasim too, and that's all right
the world may not like enbies
but Nasim and Jesse just don't care

Jesse is an enby
and they wonder sometimes still
would it be better were they not enby?
but they'll make it through, they will

flinging in a prompt or two

[chanter1944]

For comfortable situations:

* A diverse and friendly knitting circle. Said diversity being on multiple spectra is a plus.

* A choir comprised of a mix of locals and refugees. This does not have to be religious, though it can be.

Basically, all the warm and friendly community interactions! XD

Prompts

[shiori_makiba]

{1} First day at new place - work, school, etc - for a shy introverted person.

{2} Public speaking.

{3} "This could be heaven or this could be hell."

{4} Welcoming Committee - but one that actually makes person feel welcome in their new surroundings and/or situation.

Prompty-prompts.

[curiosity]

1.) Tight fit
2.) Wide open
3.) No horizon
4.) Twisted like a pretzel
5.) Lost in the dark
6.) Finding a place of one's own

1.) Cosy kitty.
2.) Curled up in a comfy chair.
3.) Best place to sleep.
4.) Perfect outfit.
5.) Going for a walk.
6.) Lounge lizards.