alara_r

Now that I'm done with my Remix fic, I am of course taking on more stuff to do. :-) fan_the_vote is a community/project set up to encourage American fans to donate to the Kerry campaign or to anti-Bush progressive PACs like MoveOn.org or Democracy for America. The idea is that you offer to do fannish things for people in exchange for pledges from them that they will donate $x.

Well, my husband and I gave nearly $4000 to the Howard Dean campaign, and we intend to donate large amounts to Kerry in about a month or so when we're done paying off various debts we racked up while I was in the hospital having a baby. But I'm certainly in a position to incite others to donate. Particularly since politicizing fandom might be the only way I can get my husband to do enough baby and house chores to have *time* for fandom.

Unfortunately, only Americans may legally donate to a presidential campaign or a PAC. So for the first deadline, June 30th (chosen so the money will be in by the time of the Democratic National Convention, after which individuals may no longer donate to Kerry), I can only take pledges from Americans. Pledges may go to the Kerry campaign directly (JohnKerry.com), MoveOn.org, or Howard Dean's new organization, Democracy for America (aka DFA). After the convention I may, and after the election I definitely will, take pledges from non-Americans for organizations that are not PACs but support causes I believe in (an example might be Planned Parenthood.)



WIPs: I am infamous for my WIPs from hell. I am not going to promise to finish any of them because that would be a lie. But what I am offering is that I will do 3,000 words on the WIP of the donor's choice for a donation of $10 to Kerry, MoveOn.org or DFA. 3,000 words is about 3 8.5 x 11 inch pages covered completely with newsprint, or 30 drabbles.

These are the WIPs you can choose:

Star Trek: WIPs
Only Human
Familiar Strangers
Working in Groups
Prometheus in Chains

Star Trek arcs: you get either the next story, or the next 3,000 words of the next story, whichever comes first (approximately. If a single story comes in at 4,200 words I won't require two pledges to finish it.)

Judgement Day (the next story is Picard-centric, and will probably come in at 6,000 words or so)
Do It Again (next story deals with Q and Tasha Yar, and should only be around 3,000)
Jane Kirk's Enterprise (next story introduces the genderswap of Spock, and I have no idea how long)
the sequel to Guidance (either a short story about Q seriously attempting therapy, or an action/adventury hurt/comforty pre-slashy fic about Picard and Q's next meeting which rips some of its plot off of Generations-- first person to request this gets to decide which of the two I do first)

X-Men WIPs:
Journeyman of Magnetism
The Body Snatcher
Raison D'Etre (Gatchaman crossover)

X-Men arcs:
Moebius arc (next story is Joseph and Magneto)

Other fics:
Wheels Within Wheels (Doom Patrol WIP)
untitled Farscape/Star Trek Voyager fic about Scorpius ending up on Voyager due to a wormhole research accident

For any individual I will take just one pledge at a time, but if I finish your request you may pledge again. Pledges will be first come, first serve. Anything I don't finish in time for the convention, your pledge should apply to MoveOn or DFA (Democracy for America). Sorry, I can't take pledges from non-Americans before the convention, but I'll promise that after the convention I'll find a progressive organization I believe in that non-Americans can donate to, and do a round for that.

Web hosting: I have a web hosting company, www.fanficnetwork.com. We sell web space for either $10 or $20/month with a discount plan in effect that if you buy for a year you only pay for 10 months. The basic plan offers essentially unlimited space and bandwidth for a fan site, one logon, one domain (you provide the domain, or your site will be yourlogon.fanficnetwork.com), no server-side applications. For the upgrade plan you can get three domains/sites, five logons, Outlook email addresses and simple server-side apps such as ASP and Microsoft Access. If you donate your $100 or $200 to the Kerry campaign, MoveOn or DFA instead, I'll set you up a web site and throw in an extra month (so you get 13 months for your money instead of 12.) Will only do for yearly hosting-- monthly hosting is way too much of a pain to do like this.

Japanese: Will translate phrases into Japanese-- $1/phrase, $2/sentence. Will translate Japanese into English -- $10/1,000 English words or $10/single issue of manga or $10/single article from magazine, whichever comes first. Don't ask me to translate a whole story from English to Japanese; I'll provide phrases for your use in your story but I won't translate a whole thing. I can translate in the other direction, though.

My Magneto site: Hasn't been updated since Jan 2002. If I receive $200 in pledges by June 30th, I will go live on July 4th with a fully updated site including a separate Magneto/Xavier page indexing or archiving all M/X fics I'm aware of.