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Welcome to the sixty-eighth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, January 20-Sunday, January 21. The theme is "Unicorns."

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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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.

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!

Image Prompts:
Black unicorn
Unicorn and dragon
Herd of unicorns

Title Prompts:
"The Horn of the Morning"
"The Way to Rainbow Valley"
"Unicorns, Nice Guys, and Other Mythical Beasts"

Text Prompts:
* "Some things must be believed to be seen."
* Unicorn as a metaphor for anything precious which is rare or impossible
* The special connection between unicorns and asexual people

Your prompt for "Some things must be believed to be seen." inspired the story "Belief is Sight."

Thank you! That's lovely.

Have you heard this? It's very much like your image.

After that, for comic relief, take a peek over here at what Kanef did to it.

LOL yes, those are old favorites. I've written about black unicorns before.

OK, so I wrote you a thing. I'm posting it separately because it came out rather dark and in need of trigger warnings. If you think it's borderline nightmare fuel, I'd add that to the warning list, too.

Hope you like it.

R: It couldn't have been real.
G: "The colours red, blue, and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody"—demolish.
R: It must have been thunder. Like drums...
G: A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population, or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until— "My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn." At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experience.... "Look, look!" recites the crowd. "A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer."
R, eagerly: I knew all along it was a band.
G, tiredly: He knew all along it was a band.
R: Here they come!
G: I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would have been nice to have unicorns.

(Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard)

This inspired today's freebie, "Unicorns Are Yellow."

Continuing in the same setting, "The Attack of the Dragon Shrimp" is a free-verse poem about giant shrimp that can seen invisible things, such as unicorns.
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Unicorn horn.

Unicorn hair.

Hunting unicorns.

The lion and the unicorn / were fighting for the crown...

Your horn prompt inspired the free-verse poem "Healing Horns." After a battle, the unicorns come to help the wounded.

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Your prompt for hunting unicorns inspired (slightly belatedly!) the story "The Longest Hunt."

The unicorn is said to be made up of elements from a horse, a goat, and a lion. What if those creatures (one or more than one) also strongly shaped the behavior of unicorns?

The current popularity of unicorn and rainbow items: unicorn toast/cake/lattes, unicorn slimes, unicorn emojis, etc

The lifecycle of unicorns

Unicorns in relation to sexual assault victims

Your sexual assault survivors prompt (flavored with your elements prompt) inspired "From Town to Forest", a freebie.

Edited (title!) 2018-01-20 16:56 (UTC)

*happy sigh* Oh yes, that was just right. Thank you!

*pleased*

Wow! That's very powerful.

*blush*

Your elements prompt inspired the free-verse poem "Greater Than the Sum." It looks as unicorns and the features they have in common with other animals.

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"...don't think zebras," or so the hoary saying goes. As far as that, it's on target.

But it loses its way when it continues, "think horses". For my money, it really should say, "think unicorns!"

Any takers?

This inspired the free-verse poem "Hearing Hoofbeats." The unicorns share their powers in the fever season.

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Crowdfunding Creative Jam

Open Playground: Schrodinger's Heroes

Open Playground: Torn World

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