#Crowdfunding News

[downthetubes]

Crowdfunding Spotlight - B7 Media's "Pilgrim - Secrets and Lies": An Update from the Writer’s Chair

B7 Media need your help to get the word out about Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies #2, the second of a four-issue mini series written by downthetubes publisher John Freeman

[sergle]

ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, people dropping mad mad sums of money on gfms and charities and stuff are extremely impressive but that DOES NOT MEAN that putting like $5 towards someone's fund or any good cause is any less valuable, a lot of crowdfunding is about momentum and those single digits add up super fast, you do not need to be Rolling In The Dough to make someone's day!! moving the dial at all is extremely positive!!

[spiremint]

RUIN OF THE HOUSE OF THE DIVINE VISAGE IS NOW A PROJECT WE LOVE ON KICKSTARTER!

In a monastery where revealing one's face is an affront to the god housed inside its very chambers, what happens when one young man accidentally sees the face of another?

RUIN is the brand new collaborative graphic novel from @evegwood and @spiremint, a 130-page comic about religion and queer romance. Buy the completed graphic novel on Kickstarter!

RUIN is also being posted as a webcomic that you can read for FREE at visagecomic.com! Follow @thunderstormstudios to get new page updates every Tuesday!

[mothwithapencil]

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week!

Help a disabled lesbian afford its rent by MAY 5TH - and hopefully its other bills and groceries for the month.

PayPal, Venmo, and Ko-Fi are all @/MothWithAPencil

Anything helps! Reblogs are super appreciated!

$0/1000

[heba-baker]

Since October 7, our lives have completely changed for the worse, as the occupation deprived us of the basics of life, including: “water, electricity, education, health...”

Many families were removed from the civil registry, children were killed, and the elderly and women forcibly displaced citizens from their homes and burned and destroyed their homes.

The occupation left nothing but destroyed it. The war continues in the Gaza Strip and our lives are getting worse day by day

“Look at what our lives were like and what they have become.”

We were living in a beautiful, safe house, but the occupation destroyed everything beautiful and destroyed our lives

Save Gaza from occupation, genocide and famine and give us back life

[ilmughrabii]

We are only €400 to hit our €10,000 target 🙏🏻

Thanks for everyone who supported 🫂

Consider helping my pregnant wife 🤰🇵🇸

Please donate if you can and reblog 🙏🏻

[nerdykeppie]

Launching Tuesday - Historically Queer, our next enamel pin collection!

We Have Always Been Here.

Ten pins - two pairs, five single pins, and the La Maupin mega pin (she needed extra room for her headdress) - each with multiple unlockable colorways.

We launch Tuesday, 9/12, at 3PM Eastern, noon Pacific. Follow us on Kickstarter to be notified when we launch -- or just to help out! The visibility to Kickstarter from having followers on our campaign helps a lot. :D

Featured in this campaign:

Enheduanna, oldest named author. Incorporating trans themes into writing thousands of years old.

David & Jonathan, king & prince whose love surpassed the love of women.

Sappho, Lesbian poet. She should need no other introduction.

La Maupin, also known as Julie d'Aubigny. The original disaster bisexual. Opera singer, swordswoman. May have burned down a convent.

Publick Universal Friend, American religious figure. Going by gender-neutral pronouns since the year the Declaration of Independence was written.

Anne Lister & Ann Walker, the Gentleman Jack & her wife. Acknowledged as the first same-gender marriage in modern Britain.

Dr. James Barry, British surgeon. A transgender man, Dr. Barry performed the first C-section done by a European in Africa in which both mother & child survived. He is also credited with vastly improving conditions for wounded soldiers in the British military.

Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American genius. Listing Tesla's inventions would take a series of posts. Liked pigeons better than people.

If you don't see your favorite historical figure, don't fret! We've planned multiple sets of Historically Queer figures. We can't use them all up at once. :) Help ensure we can make future sets by helping us create this one!

Frequently Asked Questions under the cut.

Hey, what flag is that on Sappho?

That's the Sapphic flag, created by @tepkunset. NerdyKeppie's owner, Spider, is a butch lesbian who uses that flag for their art.

Hey - what about [historical figure]? How could you forget [historical figure]? This is erasure!

We didn't forget, we promise - this is the first of several installments of this project. After the absolute stress of the last Kickstarter when we had 300+ different SKUs by the end of the project, we decided to take a more focused approach to Historically Queer. We attempted to provide a good cross-section of identities, and will continue to expand in future projects. Spider has a huge folder on his computer full of planned pins and reference images.  

But historically...

Yes, we know that it isn't totally proper to use today's terms to discuss people who lived a long time ago. But also, how else do we talk about our community history in a way that's understood, and celebrate our shared queerness, other than to use the words and iconography which are understandable to us now? We celebrate our shared history with the words and understandings most accessible to all of us, and we hope that by providing not just the pins but a few elementary facts about these historical figures, we'll encourage people to read more about them in their original context.

[dragonbeak]

My jade and plum blossom lucky snakes🌸🐍❤️ Our campaign's a couple days in and at 25%!

💚Jade, status and success ❤️Plum blossom, perseverance

Kickstarter: [link]

[balljointcutie]

i was kicked out by my transphobic step-father , consider helping me stay afloat for the next few months

hi  everyone  ..  my  name  is  amara  and  i’m  an  eighteen  year  old  nonbinary  person  who  just  got  kicked  out  of  my  home  .  my  step-father  somehow  logged  into  my  personal  computer  while  i  was  away  from  the  house  and  went  through  everything  .  he  knows  everything  ,  he  knows  that  i’m  queer  ,  he  knows  about  my  partner  ,  every  little  secret  that  i  kept  hidden  about  myself  to  protect  myself  …  when  i  got  home  ,  he  was  in  the  process  of  ransacking  my  room  ..  started  calling  me  horrible  transphobic  and homophobic names , said i'm no longer allowed to  live  under  his  roof  .  he  told  me  to  get  the  fuck  out  ,  all  while  my  mom  watched  and  didn’t  do  or  say  anything  to  defend  me  or  stop  him  .

my  older  sister  is  letting  me  stay  with  her  which  i  appreciate  so  much  but  she  is  a  single  mom  and  she’s  already  struggling  without  me  adding  more  to  her  plate  .  i’m  trying  to  finish  this  final  year  of  high  school  so  i  can  get  my  diploma  and  go  to  live  with  my  partner  .  i  have  $75  saved  up  from  babysitting  but  that’s  going  to  go  so  fast  with buying  my  own  groceries  and  necessities  .  i’m  going  to  start  selling  my  art  soon  but  in  the  meantime  ,  i  could  really  use  some  help  ..  if  anyone  can  send  a  few  dollars  to  help  me  stay  afloat  until  i  graduate  ,  it  would  mean  absolutely  everything  to  me  ! 

moneyapp + payfriend

[codacheetah]

The start of the Loop segment of the Siffrin & friends twitter QNA, and the message that flipped Loop's answers from silly to dodgy and blatantly upset.

Loopchat from speaking to Loop 20+ times.

Certified Loop dysphoria post

[downthetubes]

Crowdfunding Spotlight: Andrew Wildman’s OXYGEN graphic novel

Groundbreaking comic creator Andrew Wildman’s Kickstarter campaign for his latest project, OXYGEN, which closes this Sunday, has now reached its first stretch goal

[chadfallout76podcast]

Zack from the Fallout Nuka Break series on YouTube needs help...facing EVICTION.

If you loved #NukaBreak, you know Zack. He's one of us and he needs help. If I've learned anything it's that this community helps our own. Zack lost his job, is facing eviction and just needs help. I donated. He needs to cover his back rent. Poor guy lost his job back in October because of company cuts and he's been trying so hard to find something else. If you can please reshare this, if you're in a position to, please help.

I loved Fallout Nuka Break, got so much enjoyment out of it.

Fundraiser by Zack Finfrock : Help for artist Zack Finfrock of Nuka Break (gofundme.com)

[animenostalgia]

You might remember hearing about Jan Scott-Frazier's amazing career as one of the first Americans to ever work full-time in Japan inside the anime industry. Years ago, she was on ANNCast, sharing stories of her adventures as an anime animator & director, and eventually becoming the President of the US branch of Production I-G. Now, sadly, she needs help. After being removed from the kidney donor list, she must now move into an assisted living facility, and needs help with her moving and medical expenses. If you can, consider donating a little to a true Anime Veteran! If you don't have the means to donate, please pass this along for others to see.

[osiiiris]

Oh, noooo. Not the expensive suitcase and bag Copia's.

You got me there. I thought this was about Terzo's paper bag arzgvjbzhxubi

Poor man was starved and locked away in a closet and only got out to sing, ifs 😭😭😭

NOOOOOOOOO NOT HIS POOR PAPER BAG NOOOOOOOOO

I was almost forgetting about it! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[mercedeslackeyblog]

There are eight days left to get in on the deluxe edition of my Valdemar short stories, Grandmaster.

This beautiful book is going to have illustrations for the stories, which are collected from most of the Valdemar anthologies, plus the novella from Herald's Companion.

The illustrations are just beautiful, and include one from the amazing Nene Thomas.

Thank you all for being fans and readers for all these years, and supporting me and all these amazing artists.

[ilmughrabii]

We are less than €600 to our target 🙏🏻

And sadly only 1 donation in 3 days and none since yesterday 💔

Can you please donate if you can and share to help me and my pregnant wife reach our target 🙏🏻🇵🇸