We've made some changes to our FAQ, and welcome the community's opinion on these decisions. Specifically:

20. Are there any other guidelines I should know about before submitting a link?

Yes. Metafandom is about building community and facilitating conversations. It's not about bullying other fen because they disagree with you. Links to posts that "out" fans or that we feel otherwise act contrary to our goals will be removed. Knowingly editing linked posts, or link bombing metafandom posts to maliciously connect real life and fannish identities will result in banning from Metafandom. Period. Be cool with each other, mmmkay?

Further, starting with tomorrow's post, we will change our default settings to screen comments. We hope this will be temporary. Links are still welcome and appreciated, and still can be left as comments to our posts, however we do not want to be used to promote agendas that we feel are contrary to the metafandom ethos.

• twtd: Post Int'l Day of Femslash meta - So, the International Day of Femslash was yesterday. I'm betting that most people in fandom didn't know that. -
  
  (tags: femslash shipping fandom)


• zillah975: No, seriously. - One of the things I'm really freakin' tired of is this specious idea that there is some universal standard of "CIVILITY" that we ALL JUST KNOW and if we'd ALL JUST ABIDE BY IT everything would be peaches and sunshine. -
  
  (tags: fandom)


• villainny: On actor interactions - The key thing, though, is that we must allow the actors to establish their own comfort zones with this. It's awesome to have Joe tease the McSheppers, even if he's not aware exactly that that's what he's doing, but asking David Hewlett to buy into and dir -
  
  (tags: fourth-wall sga)


• telesilla: Sit down, suck it up and STFU - 2. Stop privileging one form of fannish participation above others. Reviews and rec lists are as legitimate a form of fannish activity as making videos or art, or writing.
  
  (tags: reviewing community etiquette)


• karjack: Deconstructing Dr. Horrible. - I suspect that, amusing moments aside, what I liked about it is precisely what a lot of the folks (including myself) who didn't like it hated. I think it was fairly biting social commentary, and I wonder how many people even realized they were being bitte -
  
  (tags: drhorrible jossverse feminism)


• zvi_likes_tv: How I Want Fandom To Be, by zvi - I believe that defining fandom civility such that it is impossible to offer critical advice ]...] to a stranger also precludes an environment in which fanfiction can be publicly discussed among the readers of it. -
  
  (tags: fandom criticism fanfic)


• nakeisha: Canon or fanfic - If you had to choose between watching/reading/listening to your main fandom(s) canon or writing fanfic based on it, what you choose? -
  
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• queenzulu: Not really the answer to a meme. - What I love about stories is storytelling. And my characters are constantly telling stories: to themselves, to the people around them. -
  
  (tags: writing house)


• seekergeek: Thoughts on concrit - Which brings us to the next part. Concrit is difficult to receive. It is easy to get hurt by accident. A person who is hurt may have a hard time getting out of that hurt headspace into one that is willing to listen to a justification of what was said. Or -
  
  (tags: concrit)


• cschick: On Internet Privacy . . .Welcome to the Internet, folks. The Internet, designed for redundancy, designed so that NOTHING EVER DIES. Designed so that information is preserved in the wider somewhere, and that someday, someone will be able to find it.
  
  (tags: privacy)

Hi ho. It's the beginning of the corporate work-week, and thus time to whittle down our options to decide what the last two yearly contenders for the shining crown of Best Thing Ever will be. Here we go!

Poll #1227516 Best Thing Ever: Year 4 / Merciless Fourth Quarter Eliminations: Round 1
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which of these is best?

http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2008/07/baker_08spoilers.php

This post contains BOOK-DESTROYING SPOILERS for The Sons of Heaven. The non-spoiler post is here.

http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2008/07/baker_08.php

Well, I've finished Kage Baker's Company series with The Sons of Heaven. What can I say about it outside of spoiler protection?

• I really, really hate what happens with Mendoza. Only having read nine prior books kept me reading past chapter 7.
• Unfortunately a lot of the resolution of the overall plot depends on Mendoza's thread, and so it's hard for me to decide whether I find the conclusion satisfactory. Certain elements of it, sure, but overall? Can't really say.
• Similarly, there are a lot of players to keep track of by this point, and the book spends a lot of time shifting among them. I think some of them might deserve more time, and a late addition was gratuitous, but again, can't really say.
• Though I'm pretty sure that all of the major questions get answered in terms of what happens to everyone and so on.
• As someone who is (1) an adopted child and (2) 39 weeks pregnant, I find the attitude the novel takes toward children really very peculiar indeed.

Thus, between the pacing issues I've been mentioning and the serious problems I had with this book, I can't recommend the series. But a quick look around the Internet suggests that most people's reactions were far more positive than mine, so, well, who knows?

A spoiler post follows.

• musesfool: right down the pipe - Okay, see, this is the thing. When you post publicly on the internet, you are posting publicly on the Internet. You may think that only the fifty people who have you friended and don't filter you out are reading, and 99% of the time, you are probably corr -
  
  (tags: fandom privacy)


• kyuuketsukirui: Wank, wank, wank + question for those who read my reviews - So what it comes down to is two groups of people who have fundamentally incompatible ways of interacting with fandom. People on one side can't bear for any critical comments to exist and think it's rude and mean to say anything not positive, and people on -
  
  (tags: reviewing community)


• cofax7: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Polar BearsMy position statement: Do not freak out about OTW. Honestly. In twenty years, there will still be porn.
  (tags: fandom otw)

• ineffabili_tea: TV Tropes Meta - Fan fiction asking the question "Where are the now?" [...] will usually tend to take it quite seriously, and without time and space constraints is able to provide all the detail fans and readers might want to feel satisfied with the possible future it pre -
  
  (tags: fanfic trope)


• ithiliana: How to Save Fandom From Being Outed by The Mean Girlz (TM) - Apparently in the wake of Rebecca Tushnet's (reportedly) awesome interview on NPR, there are fans concerned that someone is outing fandom which, in their minds, apparently has been a big secret until the Awful Girlz of OTW â„¢ got together and decided to -
  
  (tags: media fandom otw)


• harriet_spy: Article III, section 2, and you - You can't go to a court and say, "Will you please rule that fanfic is fair use?" There has to be an actual dispute over an actual story implicating someone's actual copyright before you can bring a case. -
  
  (tags: copyright otw fanfic)


• synecdochic: Why Monetizing Social Media Through Advertising Is Doomed To Failure (part one) - I've come to believe, though, that the gut instinct is correct: the existing advertising model is inherently unprofitable and unsustainable for a social media service and will never reach a level of profitability and sustainability... -
  
  (tags: LJ web2.0)

$43617.43.

And counting!

• ethrosdemon: And one more thing! - I think to some extent that the issue for me in the OTW thing (aside from fandom politics which just does not get addressed in this whole brouhaha) that bothers me about the aim to have fanworks respected as owned in some way by the fans who generate them -
  
  (tags: copyright, fandom otw)


• general_jinjur: summary of what's under the tag, in real [SPOILERS: dark knight, dr. horrible] - it isn't even the misogyny that bothers me the most anymore. what bothers me is my steadily strengthening impression that the creators of the show/movie/whatever expect to be congratulated for it. authorial perceptions vs my perceptions of what's happenin -
  
  (tags: feminism btvs firefly gender jossverse)

I'm just curious. It probably says around here somewhere, but I can't find it.

Did anyone let any of the three listed organizations know what we were up to, and that they should expect some donations headed their way? I'm just curious what they thought about the sudden influx of donations, especially since it appears it was so large. Also, I thought they would find the community's efforts heartening and solid evidence of the support this whole movement has worldwide.

Just checkin'. :D

http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2008/07/baker_07spoilers.php

This post contains BOOK-DESTROYING SPOILERS for Kage Baker's The Machine's Child. Here's the non-spoiler post.

http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2008/07/baker_07.php

I'd meant to take a break from Kage Baker's Company series to read the new Temeraire novel, but I'd mistakenly left that at work on a day that I found myself needing reading material. So, The Machine's Child it was.

There's very little I can say about this that isn't a spoiler. Plot ahoy, yes: though not quite to the pace of The Graveyard Game, the book still picks up most of the threads left hanging before the detour into short stories. But I'm apprehensive about the direction the series could be going, which leaves me unable to really evaluate this book on its own.

A spoiler post follows.

I'm seeing a number of instances where sad "losers" have been offered a matching win by the donor, if they are willing to match the winning bid!

In other cases, an author who did not originally list two offers has agreed to write a second story at a winning bidder's request!

These situations DOUBLE the donation, so I'm suggesting others might consider the idea.

This would mean MORE WONDERFUL FANFICTION for us all to read, plus more donations to keep Mr Sulu and all of us happy!

I'm just sayin'... because every little bit helps, and fandom ROCKS!

• elynross: Um. Okay. - I... am really boggling at the number of people who still seem to believe that 1) fanfiction/fandom is hidden/in the shadows/underground/secret/not readily available in millions of google hits, or that 2) fanfiction is still primarily something subversive -
  
  (tags: fanfic otw media)


• alizarin_nyc: Support Systems Go - How do you really feel about feedback? No really, you can tell me. Here in this public post no one will judge you. At least not to your face!//How important is it to have support or to be a support system for each other? -
  
  (tags: fanfic feedback)


• cereta: Oh, look, it's another "been brewing" post - Of course, the standard answer is that that little girls will watch movies/read books/etc with male protagonists, and little boys won't do the reverse. I'm pretty much ready to call bullshit on that, -
  
  (tags: gender media)


• penknife: It's those pervy aliens again. - The thing about having Aliens Make Them Do It is that it's a temporary fix, which is fine if what you want is PWP or humor. If you seriously want to get the couple together permanently, though, there's still the question of the original reason they weren' -
  
  (tags: fanfic writing)

I got this in my inbox yesterday and got permission to share it today:

I want you to know that I told Brad and George about this group and what you were doing.

They wanted me to tell you that they are touched and appreciate the support.

Kathleen David

I don't know about you kids, but I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW.

Current donations are now past $10,000 $30,000!!! and will continue climbing, as many people have not yet had a chance to donate. (I haven't only now have, though I am the proud winner of the Kazuya Minekura art book Backgammon and a Gundam Wing story by rushthatspeaks.) As several people have generously offered to duplicate their offer if losing bidders are willing to match the winning bid, God only knows how high the final totals will go.

Thank you to everyone who participated, bid, offered, and spread the word, and especially to lady_ganesh and telophase, who ended up doing most of the heavy lifting due to my prolonged absences due to my intense workload and, rather appropriately albeit heterosexually, new boyfriend.

This auction went beyond my wildest dreams. It was joyous, crazily inventive (legal critiques! hand-lathed dildos! Bavarian care packages! a soul!), and an expression of a whole lot of people's commitment to equality, justice, compassion, and love.

The glee which you all brought to such a serious and important cause reminded me of the American activist Emma Goldman's quote, "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things," and the popular paraphrase of her ideals, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution."

Let's all keep working, keep fighting, and keep dancing.

• executrix: Meta: Drowning in Waving - But also, I think that it's not so much Wave Theory as Wave Methodology, so we can analyze waves in the content of media properties, in reception of media properties, writing fanfic, reading fanfic, attitudes to canon, and lots more. -
  
  (tags: fanworks, history slash)


• princessofg: Het fanfic question - Does het fanfic have a similar wave pattern? Are there a few different patterns one can find, like the three waves of slash, or is het fanfic similar over the years? Does het have a parallel but different history than slash? -
  
  (tags: fanfic het)


• princessofg: more on "wave theory" in slash fanficThis material is by Lezlie, and was a posting to a mailing list called "Virgule" in 1996: 'original' wave theory:
  Slash fan fiction has four waves:
  
  (tags: fanfic slash)


• wemblee: waves of meta? - Like with waves of fanfic, do you guys also think there are waves of meta? -
  
  (tags: meta)

Hello and welcome to your brag post, which is open in order to post pictures of or links to the fruits of your auction, if you'd like to share instead of hugging it closely to your chest and squeeing madly in private. Or to give public thanks to anyone, that sort of thing. Even if it takes a while to get your swag, this post will still be here. :D

If you'd like to brag on something rated NC-17 or that could be termed squicky for a reasonable amount of people, a link with appropriate warnings would be appreciated.

THANK ALL OF YOU for your generosity and enthusiasm even if we did kill LJ twice! We'll be back in touch with more totals once we have them.

Holy Pudding I'm late, but, seeing the other post made me figure out real quick-like that I could offer up one last thing that might bring in cash for a really, really good cause.

Offer: lessons in a language you've probably never heard of, modern Assyrian! If you don't know what Assyrian is or who Assyrians are, please google it... because we're awesome. Just look at how many times we're linked to sinfulness and the need to be saved in the bible?

I am willing to, on web cam with voice, give you several hours of lessons on basic greetings, small talk, where the restroom is, ect. I'm Deaf, but I'm willing to gear on my hearing aids, fire up some text chat, and work with you.  I am a fluent and lifelong speaker. I have taught school-aged children, and if I can hammer in language to screaming 9 year old beasts, I'm sure I will be able to handle an adult. If you want to behave like a screaming 9 year old beast, that's OK too.

The base I am offering is five hours.

Higher bid, greater hours. For every additional 10 dollars in donations, I will include an additional hour. If you choose to bid at or above 50$, I will also try to find a children's language learning book for your use.

Contact: nahzee at yahoo dot com. I will skype with you for the lessons, unless you prefer another protocol.

Delivery: any agreed upon time, at least ONE WEEK after this auction ends.  Your lessons can be broken anywhere from 5 minute quick snips to 2 hours, but you MUST use your hours within a year or they will go down the drain.

Minimum bid: 15$

Buy It Now: 50$

Offer: I will draw 1-2 fanart (scenes) for your fanfic or characters and pairing you choose.

Medias could choose form: Watercolours - sample #1, sample #2. Ball point pens - sample #1, sample #2 (single colour or multi-colours - sometime more.) on paper, size are around 8 1/2 in x 11 in to 10 in x 14 inch for you to choose.

Fandom: Harry Potter only.

Pairing/Characters: I mostly draw Snape/Harry (Slash or Het if one of them become female). Also willing to draw Hermione, Lily, Remus, Luicus, Draco or others if you are interest in.

Extra(add $1 for each):  I like to draw animals, doesn't matter if they are magical or not, so feel free to ask for them.

Rating: It is depend on what you want and which scenes you choose, most of my fanarts are very tame (G to PG), but I am willing to do up to rate R.

You will receive high-res scanned files of finished artwork when I finished them, I will also mail the finished fanart to you. There might not have any line art or rough drawings, because I work on paper directly. (I could scanned each steps for you if you want to know how it made).  I will reserve the right to post the finished pieces at my journal, where they will be marked as commissions.


If you have any questions, feel s free to contact me: sealcat AT gmail dot com or leave message here.

Delivery: All fanarts will be finished and mail to you before December.

Minimum bid: $15

I'm very late, but...

My LJ name is no accident, ( I make jewelry )

This necklace is made from Smokey Quartz, Carnelian and Jade. It has a retail value of $85. My email is in my user information. I will ship within 1 week of receiving confirmation of donation. It needs to go UPS/FedX, because USPS is irradiating all packages, and that could affect the color of the stones. That means, no P.O. boxes. Min Bid: $60
Buy it now: $175

No bids yet!

Offer #1 - Help With an Academic Paper on Any Topic - Not proofreading, not subject expertise, just a very attentive reader and a probing conversation

I've spent three years with the Barnard College Writing Fellows Program, and our philosophy is that every writer could use a reader. I will read any kind of paper -- I've read econ, sociology, and dance papers this year, in addition to the regular slew of English essays -- and write you comments and questions about your logic, flow, use of evidence, and other vital elements. I'll then send you the comments and we can talk over the phone or video-chat about where you want to go next with the paper. Redeemable at any time during the 08-09 school year, with a bit of notice appreciated. NOTE: This is best done four or five days before the paper is due, so procrastinating -- like me posting this! -- is not the best with this offer.

Starting bid: $10 (5-7 pages; more $, more pages!)

Offer #2 - Irish Language Lessons - An dtuigeann tu Gaeilge? No?! Well, here's your chance to learn Gaelic/Gaeilge/Irish

Disclosure: I am not fluent in Irish, nor am I actually Irish, but I did spend six months there and really dove into the language in school and culture in the pubs. In a few hours of video-chat or phone conversation, along with voice recordings and written materials, I can have you ag caint about the weather, your family, and your feelings, as well as having a pretty good idea of basic Irish grammar and spelling, ie, which letters to leave out when you pronounce some of those crazy words! Awesome for language geeks -- the structure is so much fun -- and for fantasy fans, rennies, and the Irish -- and everyone is Irish at heart. ;-P

Starting bid: $15
BIN: $60

(This community is amazing!)

The first squares arrived today, very very soft yummy earth tones from a crocheter in Wisconsin. But no note as to fiber, and I don't want to burn or immerse in bleach to make sure. Please, if they're yours, could you post or email me fiber (and do you want to be identified, if the photos work that way?)

All right, there continues to be an interest so~ I'll offer two, right at the BIN!

This is a long, involved (also old) list of fandoms and such I'm familiar and comfortable with... http://community.livejournal.com/enchanting_muse/19293.html
http://community.livejournal.com/enchanting_muse/48550.html  is a more straight-forward list. Overall I'm long over anime (although still familiar with some series), only read manga (and not too often), play video games when I can, but am most familiar and involved with fandoms of tv and movie nature. =) Given that you mostly want prompts and ramblings and not actual fic, I can stretch out a bit. =)

Since I saw there was a want for these, I'll try my best to make one for someone who wants one.

I will go and purchase one neat looking journal or scrapbook and fill it up with inspiration. You can even specify to some degree what sort of journal you want me to get since I'll be buying it specifically for this. I'll be happy to include art also and I may even include a few other bonuses depending on the fandom (for instance, might color some art that goes with it just for you)

I'm also one who is very hard to offend, if you want prompts including sexual content, I'll include them to the best of my ability. I'm also willing to come up with stuff for rarer pairings, alternate universe settings, really about anything you could want from me.

I admit, I'm a bit unsure if I could do fandom specific prompts outside of the main fandom I write (Tales of the Abyss), but I will definitely try my best to give you something good even if I have to go learn it all over again.

For a list of fandoms I have some knowledge of check my other auction for a fanfic

If you don't see something you are dying for, feel free to ask. There may be ones I've forgotten I knew about.

I'm also happy to do general prompts that could work for anything. Whatever you want, I'll do my best to deliver.

Deliver: Hopefully no later than October 1st via USPS mail.

Contact: LJ message preferred

Minimum bid: $5 (Current $20 as of 10:22 AM PST)

Not going to do a buy it now since this is so last minute and I want to give people a chance to get in on this. And it's for a good cause, right?

Offer A: One watercolour painting or one pencil crayon sketch (approximately 8x10") in any of the following fandoms: Harry Potter, Prince of Tennis, Loveless, Kyou Kara Maou, Death Note, Firefly/Serenity. ETA, since I was asked: Junjou Romantica is okay. If there is another fandom you'd like, please ask. Any pairing, any rating, gen, het, slash, femme. No explicit chan please.

Sample Watercolour
Sample Watercolour
Sample Pencil Crayon
Sample Pencil Crayon

Contact: nimmery at gmail dot com

Delivery: October-ish. Hi-res (300dpi) scan suitable for printing, plus lo-res version for posting and bonus 100x100 px icon of artwork. If bidding goes over $50, I will also ship you the original.

Minimum Bid: $20

Offer B: One fic (approximately 1000-5000 words, possibly longer) in any of the following fandoms: Harry Potter (Harry/Snape for certain -- others please ask), Prince of Tennis (Seigaku or Hyotei), Loveless, Kyou Kara Maou, Death Note, Firefly/Serenity.

Fic will be plotty, any rating, any genre, slash preferred. I'm best at humour and darkfic (sometimes at the same time). Please provide a list of squicks and a prompt or list of requests (I will try to follow this as closely as I can but I make no guarantees).

Contact: nimmery at gmail dot com

Delivery: November-ish.

Minimum Bid: $20

Because the other auctions went so well, and because I am clearly INSANE, here's my fifth auction, for my 6th & 7th offered plushes. #3, delivery by or before Aug 26th, is still open for bidding here. If you're not in a rush, however, try these.

Offer: For the top two bidders of this auction, or for two BIN prices,
I will sew a fantastical/make-believe-creature plushie. Upon winning, you will design the plush in terms of fabric texture, size (no greater than 10" across), colors, and aspect (do you want it to have arms? Do you want it to be snakelike? Must it sparkle?) I will take your specifications and make up an entirely new, never-before imagined species of cuddly goodness, just for you (or your loved one)! If the toy is intended for a child, let me know after winning the bid and I will construct it with safety in mind. :D

Contact: rednightengale at gmail dot com. If you choose to BIN, please email me with some ideas ASAP, so I can consolidate my shopping trips!

Delivery: I'll put it in the mail within twelve weeks (by the first of October) of the auction's end. If you live in the Pittsburgh area, I'll meet you for tea and give it to you in person! ♥

Minimum bid: $20 EACH

Buy It Now price: $40 EACH

Edit: Only one remaining!

I saw a couple people asking for these on the wanted thread, and ideas and prompts are something that I'm good at. (The writing itself not so much, so I'll leave that up to you.)

Offer 1: A small journal full of writing prompts. You can pick a focus, or let me run wild. I'm can come up with especially good prompts involving mythology (esp. norse, babylonian, and christian, or modern mythologies), history (esp. women's history, queer history, and religious history), or fantasy worlds and creatures. It will be handwritten, with bits of art here and there.

I'm less confident about my abilities to write fanfic prompts, because I don't really read fanfic, but I can give it a try. I feel like I've watched all of television sometimes. I read Marvel comics and a bit of DC, Image, and Darkhorse. See my tv list or the books I own,or just comment and ask if you want something in particular.

(note: I'm pretty hard to squick, so if you want prompts for erotica, I can do that too. BDSM is okay, as are slash, femmeslash, or even het. My only major squick is people who are underage. I have a lot of historical sources if you want prompts for erotica in different time periods.)

I can do two of these, so the two highest bidders will each get one.

Contact: llamachameleon[at]gmail[dot]com or comment here
Delivery: By the end of August
Minimum Bid: $10
Current Bids: Top bids are $22 and $22

Offer 2:
Same as above, but I'll intersperse the prompts with random bits and bobs to inspire you. I'll try to tailor them to the type of things you write, so you might get vintage photos, old maps, tarot cards, vintage or foreign stamps and currency, pages from old art or home-ec books. (See a random sampling of the kind of things I mean.) You never know what will trigger a story idea, and I have a ton of random ephemera that I use for my artwork that might be just the thing you need. I'll write prompts that go along with each of the bits and bobs.

Feel free to email me with any questions, but realize that I won't have time to go through all my stuff before the auction ends, so I can only give you a general idea of what I have.

I can only do one of these.

Contact: llamachameleon[at]gmail[dot]com or comment here
Delivery: By the end of September (I might need time to track down interesting things)
Minimum Bid: $20
Current Bid: $31

Also, don't forget my custom hand carved stamp offers here and here.

I'll be away from the computer for the worst math class ever between 6 and 10 central time, but other than that I'll be glued to the computer until the end of the auction. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try to get back to you immediately.

Offer: As a response to misura's request, I will be receiving packages of non-dangerous items from ebay or other sites in which the owner/seller is not willing to ship internationally and forward them to to you, for up to one year or up to 75$ spent shipping things to you (this includes the cost of boxes, if the current one is inappropriate, and postage costs- I think I can manage to throw in a bit of free tape.)

For the purposes of this auction, food is not an appropriate thing to ask me to ship. Anything else that is not illegal to own in my country or yours (the exception being books, of which I am perfectly willing to try to get through for you), a risk to me in handling, or elsewise a threat to my safety or yours is fine.

Contact: nahzee at yahoo dot com

Delivery: I am willing to start shipping 30 days from the end of the auction and will continue for a full year from the date I first receive your package.

Minimum bid: 90$

Current bid: 90$

Buy It Now: 200$

For that cause I'm going to offer some of my most precious possessions.

The first is an original autograph of George Takei, collected personally at Fed-Con 2006 in Germany. It is a picture of Captain Sulu holding a cup of tea on board the USS Excelsior. Size is 25x20 centimeters

George and Brad are such a nice couple and I wish them all the best for their future and if this auction helps I`m gladly giving away this memento.

Then second autograph is a picture of Smeagol and Deagol signed by Andy Serkis and Thomas Robbins. I collected those autographs at the 2007 Ring*Con.

I will ship those worldwide, but please allow the snail mail some time to deliver the items.

minimum bid for each item is 20$

I hope I got this tag thingy okay, I never used tags before. *blushes with embarrassment*

Have you ever wished you could have a notebook with the cover of your favorite novel? (Probably not, this is kind of a strange wish. But if you think it would be really, really, unspeakably cool...) This last-minute offer is for you!

Offer: I will bind a notebook for you, into a custom cover. I'll try to find the appropriate cover at my local second hand bookstore, but if I can't, you may choose to mail it to me, or pick a different cover. Notebook pages will be made of blank printer paper (20lb). If, in this short time, bidding exceeds $30, I will include prompts in the fandom(s) of your choice, listed below.

( Fandoms I know well, mostly books )

But I am willing to try any fandom. (Or original fic)!

Note: I've done this once so far, with a "Bridge to Terabithia" cover, though I don't have pictures of it at the moment. It came out very nicely. I'll practice one more time before trying your notebook. Also, you have to pick a book that has actually been published in hardcover, and is less than 2 1/2" thick (I don't want to waste paper!).

ETA: I will keep the book block (whatever is between the covers) unless you would like to have it; just let me know.

Contact:charybidis at gmail dot com

Delivery: I'll send it out by October 1

Minimum bid: $10

Since it's coming down to the wire, I thought I'd make a special, last day deal. If there are additional bids on my fic auctions in these last thirteen hours, I will double the offering for the winner.

Twice the fic! Today only!! Other cheesy marketing gimmick phrase!

Good luck everyone!

Listing four of three four, because the other three went so well! (One of them still has an open bid, if you'd like to check it out!)

Offer: I will sew a fantastical/make-believe-creature plushie for the winner of this auction. Upon winning, you will design the plush in terms of fabric texture, size (no greater than 10" across), colors, and aspect (do you want it to have arms? Do you want it to be snakelike? Must it sparkle?) I will take your specifications and make up an entirely new, never-before imagined species of cuddly goodness, just for you (or your loved one)! If the toy is intended for a child, let me know after winning the bid and I will construct it with safety in mind. :D

Contact: rednightengale at gmail dot com

Delivery: I'll put it in the mail within eight weeks of the auction's end. If you live in the Pittsburgh area, I'll meet you for tea and give it to you in person! ♥

Minimum bid: $15

Buy It Now price: $30

I can offer this one more time, I think.

Again, a nod to nanthimus...

Offer: One year of fanfiction, including some rare fandoms. Once a month I will write you a ficlet (defining a ficlet as a work of 101-1000 words, though possibly more) in one of the following fandoms. It can be 12 ficlets in the same fandom, or 12 different fandoms; you may choose the fandom and characters and subject from month to month as the mood strikes.

Please note: any pairings/characters after a fandom indicate what I’m most comfortable with in that fandom, but all fandoms listed are negotiable as to characters or content.

-The Boondock Saints – Connor/Murphy
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Spike/Buffy, or any character (caveat: will only pair Spike with Drusilla, Angel(us) or Buffy)
-Casablanca
-Chronicles of Narnia (book-verse only!)
-Chronicles of Prydain
-Firefly/Serenity
-Gatchaman – Joe/Ken, or any character
-Good Omens – Crowley/Aziraphale, or any character
-Hands Off! (manga) – Tatsuki/Kotarou, Yuuto
-Ladyhawke (movie)
-Lord of the Rings – Boromir/Faramir, or any character
-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
-Robotech (or original Japanese versions – SDF Macross, SDC Southern Cross, Genesis Climber Mospaeda)
-Voltron (Lion Voltron or Vehicle Voltron)

Fandoms I'm less comfortable in, but still willing to try:
-Bubblegum Crisis (originals only! not 2040)
-DNA^2 (anime)
-Fushigi Yugi (both seasons and both OAVs)
-Kodacha: Sana's Stage (manga-verse only!)
-Mars (manga)
-M*A*S*H
-Saiyuki (manga-verse only!)
-Sensual Phrase (manga-verse only!)
-Weiss Kreuz (original TV series and Gluhen only)
-Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (aka Ronin Warriors)

What I’ll write: Slash, het, gen, femmeslash. Ratings may vary from G to NC-17. I can and frequently do write incest. Most of my fics are angst, pr0n or fluff, though I can also do drama and light hurt/comfort. Comedy and serious action/adventure are a little iffy, but I’ll give it a shot. Crossovers within the fandoms listed above are also do-able.

What I won’t write: shota, BDSM, furry. Other kinks or anything you’re not sure of, please ask!

Examples of my writing can be found on my LJ and/or my website.

Delivery: One ficlet per month from August ’08 to August ’09, emailed directly to you. If you have no qualms with me sharing with the rest of the world, I’ll also post on my LJ.

Contact: randi2204 @ lycos.com

Minimum bid: $5.00
Buy it now bid: $50.00

(Mods: I trust you to delete this if it's too far out there. My feelings won't be hurt or anything.)

Shamelessly ganked from octopusingenue and others, with appropriate modifications:

I try not to promise to write fic, because I never know when my brain is going to cooperate and when it isn't. Not to mention, my fandoms are tiny and obscure. So here's the deal: give me a prompt if you want. Based on stuff I've already written, or not. If my brain cooperates, I'll write something for it, and if that happens I'll let you know. If you like it, you donate whatever you're inspired to donate. I'm not going to even try to price this, because honestly, it's like playing the slots -- you might get something really good, but odds are you won't get anything back at all. Still, as they used to say in the advertising for the New York Lottery, you don't win if you don't play.

Fandoms I might be able to write for include: Saiyuki, Fullmetal Alchemist, Meine Liebe, Yami no Matsuei, LOTR (book only), Discworld, E. R. Eddison, BtvS (if and only if we say that seasons 6 and 7 never happened at all, even a little). There might be a few others I'm not thinking of right now, but I'm pretty much a dead loss on the big live-action fandoms. Stuff I've previously written can be found linked from this post, but I'm warning you right now that if you don't know YnM none of it will make any damned sense at all.

Offer: I offer to translate from English to Polish or Polish to English. I will translate a fic of up to 20 thousand words. Any fandom, any genre, any rating. I will translate gen as well as slash and het. In a word - anything.

Contact: At crimson DOT vipera AT gmail DOT com or at karminowa AT tlen DOT pl.

Delivery: Depends on the length and complexity of the fic. I will determine the date with the winner of the auction.

Minimum bid: $50. ( I know it might seem a lot but it really isn't. Also, it's for a good cause.)

Because this auction is doing really well - thank you all so much for your enthusiasm in supporting Live Long and Marry! - there's now a new twist to this auction, to be found here: http://community.livejournal.com/livelongnmarry/267889.html

Original offer: A batch of Mom's Secret Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies.

New addition: The cookies will come with Mom's secret to making the cookies, plus for every $5 increment starting at $25, I'll add a Christmas cookie recipe so old that my family doesn't know where it came from any more. (We bake a lot of cookies at the holidays, so we're in no chance of running out of recipes.)

Plus, I'll hand-write a story for each of the cookie recipes I send: the time I played cookie-fairy for the stressed-out seniors at college the night before their theses were due, why Hidden Ledgers are called that, where my grandmother got her famous-within-the-family Scottish Oatcake recipe.

So please go to the cookie auction and bid for really tasty cookies, childhood memories and family stories, and old, old family recipes!

Offer: I have a glossy photograph of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, signed by Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) and Michael Dorn (Worf). This is the photograph, minus the signatures. (I didn't have access to a scanner, so I just found this jpeg on the web.) I think it's about 8.5 x 11.

Contact: thistlerose 2002 at yahoo dot com

Delivery: Priority mail, no later than one week after bidding has ended.

Minimum bid: $20

Better late than never!

Also, with a nod to nanthimus...

Offer: One year of fanfiction, including some rare fandoms. Once a month I will write you a ficlet (defining a ficlet as a work of 101-1000 words, though possibly more) in one of the following fandoms. It can be 12 ficlets in the same fandom, or 12 different fandoms; you may choose the fandom and characters and subject from month to month as the mood strikes.

Please note: any pairings/characters after a fandom indicate what I’m most comfortable with in that fandom, but all fandoms listed are negotiable as to characters or content.

-The Boondock Saints – Connor/Murphy
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Spike/Buffy, or any character (caveat: will only pair Spike with Drusilla, Angel(us) or Buffy)
-Casablanca
-Chronicles of Narnia (book-verse only!)
-Chronicles of Prydain
-Firefly/Serenity
-Gatchaman – Joe/Ken, or any character
-Good Omens – Crowley/Aziraphale, or any character
-Hands Off! (manga) – Tatsuki/Kotarou, Yuuto
-Ladyhawke (movie)
-Lord of the Rings – Boromir/Faramir, or any character
-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
-Robotech (or original Japanese versions – SDF Macross, SDC Southern Cross, Genesis Climber Mospaeda)
-Voltron (Lion Voltron or Vehicle Voltron)

Fandoms I'm less comfortable in, but still willing to try:
-Bubblegum Crisis (originals only! not 2040)
-DNA^2 (anime)
-Fushigi Yugi (both seasons and both OAVs)
-Kodacha: Sana's Stage (manga-verse only!)
-Mars (manga)
-M*A*S*H
-Saiyuki (manga-verse only!)
-Sensual Phrase (manga-verse only!)
-Weiss Kreuz (original TV series and Gluhen only)
-Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (aka Ronin Warriors)

What I’ll write: Slash, het, gen, femmeslash. Ratings may vary from G to NC-17. I can and frequently do write incest. Most of my fics are angst, pr0n or fluff, though I can also do drama and light hurt/comfort. Comedy and serious action/adventure are a little iffy, but I’ll give it a shot. Crossovers within the fandoms listed above are also do-able.

What I won’t write: shota, BDSM, furry. Other kinks or anything you’re not sure of, please ask!

Examples of my writing can be found on my LJ and/or my website.

Delivery: One ficlet per month from August ’08 to August ’09, emailed directly to you. If you have no qualms with me sharing with the rest of the world, I’ll also post on my LJ.

Contact: randi2204 @ lycos.com

Minimum bid: $5.00
Buy it now bid: $50.00