Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the sixty-fifth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, September 23-Sunday, September 24. The theme is "Black Swans."
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: 2017-09-23 05:49 am (UTC)Open Playground: Torn World
Date: 2017-09-23 05:50 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: 2017-09-23 06:05 am (UTC)Australian black swans courting
African-American dancers
Black swan costume
Black swan theory diagram
Title Prompts:
"Divas, Swan Dives, and Other Disasters"
"Swans of the Black Lake"
"The Warrior and the Were-Swan"
"Black Swans and White Crows"
Text Prompts:
* The universe relies on improbable things.
* The world of ballet needs more black swans. And people who understand hair sculpture because nappy hair does totally different awesome tricks than straight flowing hair. You can build crowns with it. Or quite probably whole swans.
* Black swans are the shadows cast by the middle of the bell curve.
* What if black swans come from black holes?
Re: Prompts: prompt claim: black swan photo
Date: 2017-09-23 05:36 pm (UTC)black swans.
Here is the
coloring sheet
of a swan on the water -
left behind, still blank -
the would-be student artist
moving to the
next assigned location
hoping for
home.
In my hand,
as I go elsewhere,
an incomplete
rainbow-crayoned
butterfly.
On the sidewalk,
crow feathers
and dry grass.
Black gloss dusted
and smudged with white ash,
fading under
the gray of fall rains.
Fire season
has become unexceptional.
Breathing
is considered optional.
We meditate
to a virtual aquarium.
We compensate
until we can’t.
Try it; just give it a try.
Try harder.
Don’t make it look so hard.
Take care.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of yourself
so we don’t have to.
Take the time
but don’t
take too long.
I think the swans
are on the other side
of this screen
in photographs
of a hypothetical
springtime Australia.
(no subject)
Date: 2017-09-23 05:43 pm (UTC)nice pointed critique of modernity in there, too
♥
Re: Prompts: prompt claim: black swan photo
Date: 2017-09-23 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts: prompt claim: black swan photo
Date: 2017-09-23 08:13 pm (UTC)prompt
Date: 2017-09-23 03:03 pm (UTC)Re: prompt
Date: 2017-09-24 03:52 am (UTC)47 lines, Buy It Now = $20
(no subject)
Date: 2017-09-23 05:17 pm (UTC)Shifters. I always like shifters.
A black swan is a marked category, like women or POC. I'm not quite sure where that thought leads, but maybe it will inspire you.
A black swan's perfect feather
Title: The Black Swan, the Grey Panther, and the White Bear
Poem
Date: 2017-09-24 02:00 am (UTC)