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livelongnmarry is building up steam, with over 200 members and a little over 100 offers. But I note a serious imbalance in the offerings here: there's tons of live-action fandom offers of fic, art, etc. but very few animated fandom offers (Besides, *ahem* mine). Anime fans represent! Go sign up and offer! I know I've got a lot of good artists and writers on my f-list, and I'd love to see you over there!

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I'm working on it! I'm working on it!

(But yeah, I woke up this morning to discover a flood of Harry Potter offers!)

:D It obviously got pimped on a comm or journal read heavily by HP fans. XD

Taking into consideration that I hardly ever get comments on my stories and tend to be very slow to write in general, I didn't think that offering fic would be a good idea. I'm thinking of offering some comics collectables, though. I just need to make up my mind to do it.

I've noticed that until someone gets a huge fic following, there really aren't that many comments given. If you look at

springgreen's and

edonohana's LJs, you can see how few comments they tend to gather on any given piece, and yet they write so well someone would be willing to bid for them, I bet.

I also think that possibly the Sweet Charity auctions tend to have a live-action fan audience, partly because that's mostly who's offering, and because it's pimped more in those circles. None of the anime comms and most of the anime fans I watch have mentioned it at all in the past year or so, while the live-action fans have. I'm doing my best to change that. XD (I'm sure it's also a factor that there's a general skew in ages towards older for live-action and younger for animated, though.)

No,

yuletide has convinced me that I'm pretty much just not that good. When people complain about there not being enough stories in a fandom and then don't leave comments on one anonymous story while heaping the others with praise, that tells me all I need to know. Which is fine, I do it because I want to, and not because I think I'm great. I just don't think it would be fair to ask someone to pay for a story that probably isn't any good.

I think a new in box set of Legion of Superheroes figures and a signed poster from the early 90s are probably better candidates. People know precisely what they're getting when they go to put their money down.

I wasn't comfortable doing fic on demand either, because I didn't feel like I could really guarantee it in a reasonable timeframe.

Some of the coolest things there I think are the items. (I'm seriously considering just how much I'd be willing to pay for a custom made historical doll costume.)

I'm repeating to myself: "I don't need pottery; it's one more thing to collect dust!"

Oh, yes, the pottery is lovely, too!

And then there are those graphic design services. My business cards really do need an overhaul and a set of outside eyes ...

I personally want the plot bunny.

I want a Mia pendant

chimera_fancies and a hand-knit lace shawl, and a Jayne hat-handbag ("A haaaaaaaaaandbag?!), and a plot bunny. And cake. And I kind of want the wooden dildo too, though I don't know where I could display it and it's so pretty it ought to be displayed.

Every time I look at the baked goods offerings I have to pinch myself (well, virtually) and remind myself that, dammit, I am perfectly capable of baking for myself if I want baked goods! Because there is no way Joe would authorize me bidding on baked goods.

So, in what time zone does bidding begin? :-)

12:01 AM (midnight) July 1, Pacific Time.

There's a custom made historical doll costume?!?! I must've missed that. *dashes to check it out*

I'd consider offering fic except it stresses me out terribly. Ditto vids. *sigh* (Besides, the only source I have all of is Angel and Neon Genesis Evangelion, and there is no way in heck I can vid either source without scarring the lizard for life.)

Speaking of anime and the lizard, I think Yu Yu Hakusho might be one that's lizardable. Basic setup is that Yuusuke is a kid from the wrong side of the tracks always getting in fights. One day he's hit by a car while pushing a little kid out of the way, and since he was a bad kid killed while doing a good deed, Heaven has no idea what to do with him and gives him a second chance. So he ends up as a Spirit Detective, tracking down rogue spirits. (Of course what it ultimately ends up being is a shounen tournament show, but by then you're invested in the characters, who are mostly all memorable.)

I noticed the lack of anime fics! I considered it, but in the end, I'm just not comfortable making people pay for my fanfic, since it tends to be rather hit-or-miss, and I have trouble doing longer fics. Since I do love writing longer original fics, however, I decided to have a crack at offering original fic. Not sure how that'll play, but hey. :D

You never know! XD

Yes'm.

Not that anyone will likely pony up cash for Y/A kink, but you never know.

I want some of those thing so bad. Those baked goods! The web design! The brownies! The dildoes! The plot bunnies!!

Yup, you never know until you try. :D And hey: even if nobody bids on it, you did your part. XD

Yes! I figure if I've offered three things, even if I'm almost positive two of them won't get bid on, you never know.

Anything's possible! I got an early bid on my iPod cozy already, to my shock.

I have stalker pinned the hand-dyed yarn.

You know, my problem is that I don't do fanfic or fanart, I can't create crafts to save my life, and no graphic I've ever made is worth money...

~~That hasn't stopped a lot of people~~ Wait, did I just say that out loud?

I have considered "DO BUY IT NOW AND I WILL MAKE YOU ICONS!!!!" but I don't think I make anything even worth that...

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