Originally posted by Laurach:
And thank you Carol, I was probably being impatient thinking that no one read it or everyone who did rejected the idea. I am glad I was wrong.
I am quite certain you are the only one here who is ever impatient. No one EVER EVER EVER hits refresh 3 minutes after posting a story part to see if there's a FDK folder yet nor do they continue to do so every 5 minutes until 10 minutes before time to post the next story part [because they need to finish getting it ready], stopping only occasionally for sleep breaks [because you can hit refresh and eat at the same time]. Nope not us. No one here.
Carol [who wonders if there's a group for people like that... and if the 12 steps would get interrupted by all the refreshing... perhaps a sister group to FARCE or what ever that fanfic recovery group Pam used to be? is? a part of...]
Okay in all seriousness... I was suggesting May 15 as a possible date for submissions so that you could promote it for the last 2 months or whatever as X number of fanfics! And X number of vids or trailers or whatever else you might include. I would imagine after that point you could send them to whoever's already donated and then to others who do as they donate etc. with some sort of cutoff so that you can organize it all by Dean's bday [the 31? am not sure...] though I don't know how you do it - do you make the donation ON his birthday or just around it in his honor or whatever *shrug* that's up to those running it I suppose... Anyway - there will be some costs involved with it of course - CD/DVDs, labels, cases, etc. not huge but that's something to think about - does someone donate those things or do you take it out of the donation money [cost per item will be fairly low but you probably want to know up front so you can tell folcs or folks $1 or $2 or whatever goes to actually making the CD and shipping it, the rest goes to the charity or that some kind person is donating the supplies/shipping or whatever]. Will you send one to Dean? To the charity to show them what was done to raise the money? [dunno if either one would actually look at it but...]
I would think actual pics of Dean would be out but fanfic posters [to go with the fics - another reason to have an earlyish deadline so the other media folcs would have time - unless you pair some up ahead of time or something - no clue how you might organize that...] or something maybe if someone is so inclined or drawings.
How long before they can be posted on the boards if someone chooses to do so? I think the boards fundraiser was a year but don't hold me to that - the thread referenced above would have more info on that I bet - or search for Fundraiser in the titles of fics because there were a bunch of them all at once.
As for a challenge... maybe a charity challenge? Something to do with a charity or something like that [do lois and clark help habitat for humanity or an in betweenie scene in SG [that one might be extra appropriate given that Dean wrote it and is FABULOUS in it - love little kid CK
] or a charity ball or something]...]
Just some thoughts...
Carol [again
, whose little guy born on 7/25 and named Christopher [NOT Chris] just rolled onto his tummy and is seriously not happy about it but can't get back over [nope, there he went and back again and still NOT happy about it] and who now has an idea percolating but just a bare smidge of one - I'm sure something will come to me, yeah that's it...]
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