Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the fifty-eighth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, January 14-Sunday, January 15. The theme is "Laughter." 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: 2017-01-14 08:45 am (UTC)Open Playground: Torn World
Date: 2017-01-14 08:46 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: 2017-01-14 08:59 am (UTC)Mixed group laughing
Laughing centaur
Laughing aliens
Title Prompts:
"Who Laughs Last"
"The Silent Laughter of Her Hands"
"Successful Relationship Secrets #3"
Text Prompts:
* The difference between "laughing with" and "laughing at."
* Laughter across species.
* Every evil maniac needs a maniacal laugh. Some go so far as to practice this in the mirror.
Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-14 06:01 pm (UTC)Kay sits at her desk before class, flipping her owl pendant around and around and around its chain. Two desks away, three classmates gather: Demetrius and Ted and Mary, who's pretty but Kay has never worked up the nerve to speak to her.
Ted is loudly telling a story he found on the Internet, about three kingdoms' armies and their squires. "The squire of the high pot and noose," he finishes, "is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides."
Demetrius bursts out laughing. Mary groans and starts hitting Ted lightly with her notebook. Kay flaps happy flaps, grinning.
"Hey," says Demetrius. "Look at the freak."
Mary and Ted turn Kay's way. Ted imitates the flapping of Kay's hands. Mary starts laughing too.
Kay's grin disappears and so do her happy flaps. She clutches her owl pendant, beginning to rock back and forth.
"UGH," says Jen loudly, coming up the aisle. She deposits her backpack at the desk directly between Kay's and Ted's. "Some comedian you're gonna be, Ted, if your response to someone laughing at your routine is to laugh at her." She drops into the desk chair, facing Kay. "So I was out at a bar last night with a couple friends, and you know how much more expensive beer is than soda, right?"
Kay doesn't, actually, but she nods anyway, cautiously, still rocking.
"So I ordered a root beer, and I brought a square cup to pour it into. And then I had a beer."
Kay blinks twice, smiles, and, despite herself—Mary and Ted and Demetrius are still staring—starts flapping with the hand not clinging to her owl pendant.
"Don't drink and derive," Jen adds, smiling herself, and Kay flaps harder.
"Don't encourage her, Jen," says Mary.
Jen shakes her head. "Don't mind the jackasses, Kay."
Kay gets out paper and pencil and scribbles an equation she's memorized, then passes the page to Jen.
"Oh, I know this one," says Jen. "A dozen, a gross, and a score—"
"Plus three times the square root of four—" Kay continues.
"Divided by seven—"
"Plus five times eleven—"
And together they say, "Is nine squared and not a bit more!"
Kay flaps so hard she almost falls over. Jen laughs aloud. "You into poetry, too?" she asks, and Kay nods. She takes back the equation page, adds a line, and hands it back.
Jen glances at the page, then at the professor who's just entered. "I'll email you after class," she says, folding the page with Kay's email address and sticking it in her purse.
(Mary nudges Demetrius and sniggers, before turning her attention to the front of the classroom. Kay...finds she doesn't care.)
Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-15 12:14 am (UTC)Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-15 12:32 am (UTC)Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-15 02:53 am (UTC)Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-15 02:53 am (UTC)Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-18 01:43 am (UTC)Re: Filled: "The Silent Laughter Of Her Hands"
Date: 2017-01-18 01:47 am (UTC)prompts
Date: 2017-01-14 05:13 pm (UTC)the story of Iambe making Demeter laugh
the last laugh
Re: prompts
Date: 2017-01-15 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-15 06:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-16 01:22 am (UTC)"Felines laugh silently with just the right position of whiskers at a perfect stalk-and-pounce, and birds laugh them to the skies with the whirring of wings as they evade anyway and rise up singing."
Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 02:32 am (UTC)One of the things I have written about is "a dog's red laugh," the way that canids hang out their tongues and grin.
Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 03:30 am (UTC)Can you, would you, tell me what made it work for you?
Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 03:35 am (UTC)* the exploration of laughter across different species
* the contrast between silent and sounding forms of laughter, neither the same as human laughter
* the word choice, with interesting and topical terms such as "stalk," "pounce," and "whirring"
* the phrase "rise up singing" is a favorite
* the two halves are well constructed in parallel
* just the fact that cats chasing birds that get away is, unto itself, always funny.
You really do have potential, and it's fun to watch you developing more of that in writing. \o/ For what it's worth, I used to watch for stuff like this when I was buying for PanGaia.
Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 04:04 am (UTC)Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 04:05 am (UTC)Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 04:06 am (UTC)Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 04:13 am (UTC)I would offer cat toys, but that would be a distraction from writing, and thus not optimal at the moment.
Re: Wow!
Date: 2017-01-16 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-16 04:31 am (UTC)Canine laughter. Joyful barks of ‘yes, now, please’ and yips squeaks and wags and full-body bounces and the tongue hanging out in a floppy grin - is it perhaps a furry fox softly stepping a few feet into the house of domestication? Or is it the wise wolf we call dog, who paced out the lines and circles of that house when it was a hide tent, a cave, a lean-to, a flickering little campfire in the endless glacial plain. Who corralled the cattle and guarded the grain and braved the blizzard and sailed the sea on all the long journeys; every journey is long when you can’t run back home. Who domesticated humans and didn’t abandon them when they went feral.
(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-18 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-18 02:07 am (UTC)applauding alliteration
Date: 2017-02-12 07:05 am (UTC)>> Who corralled the cattle and guarded the grain and braved the blizzard and sailed the sea on all the long journeys <<
That just ... sings!
>> every journey is long when you can’t run back home <<
This line really resonates for me ... especially when it's true because "home", as you knew it, no longer exists.
On a lighter note, as for cats chasing, birds escaping: it's one of many fun bits of the Echo's Children song, I Meant To Do That.
Re: applauding alliteration
Date: 2017-02-12 07:22 am (UTC)