All the clouds turn to words.

[antennapedia]

I still haven't finished meeting my obligations from last summer's charity auction (no, I have not forgotten, am still chugging), so I may not get involved in another one. But there is one going on if you're so inclined: help_japan. We've had a lot of humanitarian crises in the last year, but this one is staggering in scope. You might, however, want to

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[cooljello]

clamor, clamor, clamor - idstastic kink fic is always welcome.

[antennapedia]

Very well, then! I chug forward.

[clocketpatch]

Thanks for the link on effective donations. I've been sort of gasping at the scale of the disaster from the sidelines and wanting to to do something to help, but at the same time thinking that if the country hasn't asked for aid...

I mean, surely all the money pouring in must be going SOMEWHERE and hopefully to a good cause. And the help_japan auction is the biggest I've ever seen. I hope that people are giving open ended gifts to accredited relief organizations so that everything can be put to good use.

Mostly I'm just nervous about the whole charity V-gifts thing... I've got an awful feeling that our Evil Russian Overlords have found a new way to make money.

[antennapedia]

I really wouldn't do the lj v-gift thing. Ugh. I wonder how much of that money ends up anywhere useful. I'd do a direct donation to Doctors Without Borders. That ends up being my answer every time, because they do the hard stuff without flash.

[the_emu]

Ooh, interesting article, thank you

[antennapedia]

This is the Buffy & Xander with the dirty raw fucking. And other things now, a veritable laundry list of kinky things that Oz eggs them on into doing. I might post in chunks, dunno. Lots of it is fairly polished at this point, and it's not like it's story-shaped with any kind of definitive ending.

I was disconcerted when I first started reading about charities & where the stuff goes. Some really are just way more effective than others. And you need to make sure they support your overall goals. I am a huge fan of boosting basic medical services. MSF almost always gets my disaster donations as a result.

[daiseechain]

You don't see dreamwidth as a viable alternative to lj? (no agenda here, just interested in your opinion)

Japan. :-( The sheer magnitude of the disaster is, I think, stopping people from discussing it much as we just don't know what to say.

[antennapedia]

In the case of unexpected LJ collapse, people might move to Dreamwidth. But it's pretty clear that fandom doesn't really want to move there. I know that when I think of DW these days, three things flash through my mind: hideous layouts, those humorless twits who hate h/c and wrote metafandom screeds about it, and the Clan Mitchell anti-fanfic wank that the founder was involved in. I always end up asking myself if that's the kind of community I want to be associated with.