Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics
This week, the poetry of Polychrome Heroics is on sale for half price from Monday, September 20 through Sunday, September 26. This series is superhero fantasy. It features themes of heroism, coming of age, diversity, identity kink, family of choice, friendship, and cultural engineering. Sale prices range from $7.50 to $475.50, so hopefully there will be something for everyone.
Prices on open epics are locked at the time of opening; however, if anyone wants to donate to open epics and buy poetry, spending $100 will get you the quarter-price rate on the new poems, regardless of the rate on the open epic(s) you support. There are two open epics at present, so you may start another if you wish. " Rainshadow Road" belongs the Daughters of the Apocalypse series. It needs $259 to be complete. " A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. It needs $100 to be complete.
We are repeating the special discount for purchases of $100 or more, in which you get poetry at 25% of its original price instead of 50%. (Note that this increases the amount of poetry you get, rather than reducing the amount of money spent; the point is to get this stuff off of my desk. Yes, I can afford it.) That size of donation also makes you a k-fan which comes with some other perks, like a year-end collection of a poetic series. If several folks want to bundle their orders to make the $100 threshold and have one person send it all, that's okay; you'll get the discount and I'll list all your names as donors, but you'll have to decide amongst you who gets the k-fan credit. If you host a pool, please close it the day before the sale closes, so you have time to collect funds and turn them in on time.
Some of the poems are in sequence of related action, so in places there are prerequisites before a poem can be published. They can be sponsored at any time, just might have to wait for publication until something else gets posted first. Those are marked accordingly. I have also made lists of poems which unlock sequels, and poems which have prerequisites.
Linkback perk: The followingpoems have verses left to reveal. Boost the signal for this half-price sale andtell me which poem you want to extend.
" Spirit of Truth"
" Everything That Blooms"
" In the Shade of the Mighty Oak"
" Let the Children Lead Us"
" Autumn's Palette"
" Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"
" Delight in Another"
" A Sense of Weather Changes"
" Ouroboros Insects"
" The Loving Embrace of Night"
" Generations of Cooks Past"
" Begin to Understand Ourselves"
About characters and storylines: The storylines feature multiple characters, so if you want poems about ONE specific character, look closely. The thumbnail descriptions here give some indication who features in each poem. The storyline pages are adding precise, complete information about which characters appear in each poem. If you need more than what's already visible, you can ask me.
About timing: If you want maximum choice, shop early. We usually send a batch of things to my parents near the end of a sale, and those poems will be posted as I have time.
About pools: Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to get the quarter-price rate. Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to buy a bigger poem. Yes, you can offer to match donations by other people. However, the wordsmith is not also a math whiz! After several attempts to find a way that I can work with pools and matches, I have concluded that this is over my head. (I did figure out how to avoid generating fractional pennies, though: all initial prices are now whole dollars, which means they cut evenly into halves and quarters.) So if you want to host a pool or a match, make a post for that in your blog or other venue, then comment here with what you're doing and include a link to wherever the discussion will be. You figure out the poems, you collect the funds, and when stuff is fully funded, you send me the money and the list of what it's for. Then I'll post the goodies. Please close the pool in time to collect donations by the end of the sale, so I can start posting pool poems no later than the day after the sale.
Before placing your order, please check this sale page to see what is still unsold! I will try to update the page as things sell, and it's likely to be the case that some poems will be marked SOLD before appearing in posts. People often buy things in batches, which means that selling gets ahead of posting. Also sometimes people ask for the same thing at the same time, so that not all overlaps are preventable. If you have alternate instructions in case you request something that has just sold, please include that in your message; otherwise I'll email you back and ask what you want to do.
Currently available are the following poems. Some are in series chronological order, and others are just kind of stuck wherever, because sequencing Polychrome Heroics is like trying to sequence a dozen different comic book titles from the same publisher. See the thread pages for Aquariana and Shiv.
Poems that unlock sequels: "The Choices Humans Make" "Life-Bonding Loyalty" "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement" "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation"
Poems that have prerequisites: "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul" "A Very Clear Mind" "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation" "Maturity to Outgrow Them"
FOR SALE
20 poems, $4,284 ÷ 2 = $2,142
prices from $7.50 to $475.50
AQUARIANA (3 poems, was $210, sale price $105)
"The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul"
Aquariana and the whales are called in for water rescue after the Big One.
279 lines, was $140, sale price $70 POOL
"The Choices Humans Make"
Aquariana and the whales defend Taiji from a tsunami caused by the Big One.
110 lines, was $55, sale price $27.50 POOL
(Available for publication after "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul" has been sponsored and published.)
"Camping on Finn Skerry"
Aida spends her first night on the beach.
33 lines, was $15, sale price $7.50 POOL
BROKEN ANGELS (5 poems, was $1652, sale price $826)
"Life-Bonding Loyalty"
Story Date: Afternoon of Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Cas meets Ned's family.
1541 lines, was $771, sale price $385.50 POOL
"A Very Clear Mind"
Story Date: Evening of Wednesday, March 8, 2016
Cas talks with Molly and Dave about what first aid supplies he should carry for serious emergencies.
629 lines, was $315, sale price 157.50
(Available for publication after "Life-Bonding Loyalty" has been sponsored and published.)
These three poems go together:
"The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement"
Story Date: Afternoon of Monday, April 4, 2016
Boss Blaster coaxes Cas into visiting his mother.
355 lines, was $178, sale price $89 POOL
"A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation"
Story Date: Evening of Monday, April 4, 2016
Cas meets his mother Freesia at the Crystal Wisdom store.
214 lines, was $107, sale price $53.50 POOL
(Available for publication after "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement" has been sponsored and published.)
"Maturity to Outgrow Them"
Story Date: Evening of Monday, April 4, 2016
Cas and Freesia have some fraught conversations.
562 lines, was $281, sale price $140.50 POOL
(Available for publication after "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement" and "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation" have been sponsored and published.)
RUTLEDGE (2 poems, was $511, sale price $255.50)
"Why People Hold onto Memories"
Story Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Oscar and Labib deal with an unpleasant prelude to the Fourth of July.
453 lines, was $227, sale price $113.50 POOL
"Essential to Well-Ordered Living"
Story Date: Sunday, October 5, 2014
Gideon takes Ibrahim and sons to a thrift store for winter clothes.
568 lines, was $284, sale price $142
MARIONETTES (2 poems, was $90, sale price $45)
"My Coffee with Cream, My Literature with Optimism"
Story Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
After developing superpowers, a policeman and a mobster take charge of the water in Venice.
57 lines, was $20, sale price $10 POOL
"Il difficile è scoprirle"
Canna-Rosa and Lavanda discuss the comare profession, asexuality, and kink.
139 lines, was $70, sale price $35 POOL
MERCEDES (3 poems, was $1,155, sale price $577.50)
"The Responsibility to Care"
Story Date: Monday, July 6, 2015
Summary: Molly and Dave deal with a new paramedic intern whose wealthy background gets in the way of meshing with the team when they first meet.
221 lines, was $111, sale price $55.50 SOLD to janetmiles
"Primordial Idiom"
Story Date: Sunday, February 21, 2016
Fred meets Blainn.
185 lines, was $93, sale price $47.50 POOL
"A Desire to Be Deeply Known"
Story Date: Friday, August 26, 2016
Pips and Bennett do hardcore nonsexual intimacy, talking about boundaries and relationships. For hours. I would say that they're doing it like bunnies only it's not sex (they have done sexy things, but not tonight) this time. What's an asexual word for smut? Let's call it smat. SMAT SMAT SMAT. Fifty-three pages of WALL-TO-WALL SMAT.
1902 lines, was $951, sale price $475.50
SHIV (3 poems, was $474, sale price $237)
"One of the Best Things in Life"
Story Date: Monday, February 22, 2016
Shiv helps Boss Finn.
184 lines, was $92, sale price $46 POOL
"Like a Shook-up Bottle of Soda"
Story Date: Friday, August 26, 2016
Summary: Shiv visits Buttons to explore new flavors of Azure Cap soda.
569 lines, was $285, sale price $142.50 POOL
"What Qiviut Is Made For"
Shiv trades for a bunch of new yarn, then makes something for Mrs. Wu.
194 lines, was $97, sale price $48.50 POOL
OTHER POEMS (2 poems, was $192, sale price $96)
"Acknowledging the Complicated Truth"
Bagira asks Lloyd about a home modification.
343 lines, was $172, sale price $86
"For the Totality of Who You Are"
Marge has gained somewhat more control over her superpowers, but they're still weird.
54 lines, was $20, sale price $10 POOL