Meme stolen from an awesome-sauce person:
Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love, like, and/or appreciate about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love.
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The Aunt Family Mini-Giraffe Call is closed! (LJ)
Over two days, I wrote 9 stories for 9 prompters and earned $20. This week, I will write a second prompt for each donor, and then their continuations.
Prompters who earned a free 500-word continuation are:
Friendly Anon
Rix-Scaedu
(chosen by random.org)
Fated (LJ)
Visiting Aunt Eva (LJ)
In The Attic (LJ)
Engraved Invitation (LJ), Ruan & Johias
Cleaning House (LJ) After What to do about Auntie X (LJ)
Accepting the Welcome (LJ) after Welcome to the Family (LJ)
Kitten Switchen (LJ), After Cleaning House
Visiting an Uncle (LJ) Rosaria, Evangaline
Glass and Steel (LJ) Zenobia!
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The Mini-Call is up! (and on LJ) Prompt on the Aunt Family series!
Since the last summary (and on LJ), I have written:
For the January Giraffe Call:
One-Off
And Before That? (LJ)
Backstage (LJ), technically Big Trouble in Little China fanfic
Fairy Town
In Mr. Ting’s (LJ), after Burning Summer Quest (LJ)
Katydid’s Camp (and on LJ)
Tír na Cali
Tea with HER (continuation 5) (LJ)
Tea with HER (Completion) (LJ)
Fae Apoc
When the Gods Attacked (LJ)
Delving in History (LJ)
Bringing Home History (LJ)
Bug Invasion
From the moment they breathed our air (Lj) after: Staying in the City (LJ) and Spooks vs. Bugs (DW)
Non-Giraffe Writing included:
Non-Giraffe
Addergoole Yr9
Moving On (LJ), Ahouva & Basalt
Damn List (LJ)
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clare_dragonfly wrote this story of Kayros and Vic.
kajones_writing created
these characters and then wrote
this story and
this story.
Addergoole: Boom
Meeting the Family (LJ) (a chat log)
Roleplay Log (Cya/Cabal, posted by cluudle)
Cleaning Up (LJ), One month later
cluudle wrote this story set in the same general timeline as my current Boom ‘fics, staring Yoshi’s paternal half-brother Etienne.
Legacy (LJ) – several years later
Tir na Cali:
Wrong Brother? ()after “Can we be that Close?” (no xpost). [Donor Perk]
Cali-Novel Ch17-most (LJ) [Beta]
Aunt Family:
Read my story “The Wish Machine” (from the Aunt Family ‘verse) in this month’s EMG-Zine!
And I’ve asked you, and asked you to ask me:
Pick a character to ask questions of! Any character of mine in any setting!
(and on LJ)
Ask Kendra here (LJ)
Ask Rin here! (LJ)
Ask Audrey Here! (LJ)
The donations reached an AMAZING $246!
Thanks to everyone who participated!
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The Mini-Giraffe Call is CLOSED! Thanks to all that participated!
For the next 36 hours, leave your prompts on the Aunt Family ‘Verse.
The Aunt Family has a landing page here (and on LJ)
Because this is a mini-Call, there will be mini-perks!
* For every $10 donated, one prompter chosen at random will get an extra 500-word story
* If the call reaches $30, I will write a second prompt for everyone
* If you donate, as always, you had sponsored 100 words continuation on any Giraffe story for every $1US donated.
Also! Because my goal for this mini-call is to raise $$ for character art, I will take donations in art as well. Talk to me to discuss reasonable words-for-art rate.
(Dwolla account available on request)
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Last Call on the poll for this weekend’s livewriting session:
LJ
DW
If anyone has a suggestion for a live-writing program that isn’t Google Docs, I’m open to test driving something else.
Pick a character to ask questions of! Any character of mine in any setting!
(and on LJ)
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The shortish black-haired woman steps briskly into the room, the silk of her formal tunic and pants rustling so very softly. The lines of the tunic show off an athletic but womanly figure underneath; the bright colours go beautifully with her dark-tanned skin.
She perches more than sits on the high backed stool. “So,” she smiles. “You want to ask me questions. So ask?”
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The January Giraffe Call (and on LJ) has reached an unprecedented $241.31!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
SO!
Tell me what character of mine you want to ask questions of! I will post, over the next few days, a Q-and-A thread for at least the first four characters mentioned (first 2 each LJ & DW).
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The January Giraffe Call (and on LJ) has reached an unprecedented $241.31!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
This means we’ve reached the ask-the-characters Chat Session donation level!! (hrrm. Now I have to figure out how to do that! 🙂
It also means I get delicious cake (mm cake).
I’m writing like the wind, too, getting through prompts as quickly/reasonably as I can! We may have some backlog… O_O
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For ysabetwordsmith‘s prompt.
Title adapted from the last bit of War of the Worlds.
Bug Invasion stories before this were:
Staying in the City (LJ)
Spooks vs. Bugs (DW)
The bugs weren’t winning.
This was confusing them to no end.
They were losing because of things they couldn’t understand – ghosts and faeries, monsters and spooks. They had no defense against things that did not exist on the material plane.
They were losing because of things they could understand – rebellion, tenacity, and ingenuity. They had lost to those before, Paula realized, but not so badly, not so quickly. They had never before been stopped like a wall before finishing their first sweep of a world.
They were losing because of things in the air – environmental pollutants, among others, smog and smoke and such – and in the water, most amusingly hormones and flushed pills, and this, they had no defense against. She asked her symbiote, ::has no other place you’ve invaded had such problems?:: but the symbiote was busy being upset by the suffering of the non-bonded and had no answer for her.
Those that bonded seemed to have a better time of it, which meant that the bugs left in their slowly-decreasing area were hurriedly kidnapping those they thought could take it and bonding, being less and less picky just to get in a body, just to survive.
…and then, and Paula had to giggle, even though it wasn’t funny, in their rush to get hosts, they didn’t ask important questions like “How do humans withstand this pollution?” or, more importantly, “are there humans that can’t handle it?”
It wasn’t funny, because the poor girl they got with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities just found her issues doubled by having a symbiote. It was, on the other hand, telling, because Paula got to watch what happened when a host rejected its bug. Which meant she knew it could happen.
Possibly more importantly, it meant the bugs knew it could happen.
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