yuki_onna, nee Catherynne M. Valente (author of the two Orphan's Tales books - two of my favorite novels - and the recently-released Palimpsest) has a Problem.

Her S.O. lost his job some time ago, and though her books are really taking off, their combined savings have just. Run. Out.

In response, She is writing a book:

Starting Monday, I will start ( Read more... )

ninjahijinx works in the Bird Center of Washtenaw County...and the center is in trouble:

The bird center receives no state, county or federal aid. It runs entirely on the support of private donations. As you might imagine, in this economy, we haven't received as many donations as we have in years past. As of today, in fact, we can't keep the center open ( Read more... )

...because I promised linkage to several...

New LARP starting next year: Seven Virtues LARP (aka "School of Seven Virtues"). (Here are a few linkies which go into a little more back-end detail.)

Some quotes about the campaign from Melissa/ryxander:

( BEHOLD THE TEASERY GOODNESS... )

...this is mostly for the EndGame peeps, but applies for everyone...

I'd posted this around the Madrigal way, but need to put it somewhere that EndGame and other types can see it - I'll be changing my usual "OH GOD PLEASE COME NPC" -emails/posts to include this information, going forward ( Read more... )

Since we're all about the music, this week - boosting this signal, because I missed it during the first go-round...

( Embedded video within, REALLY should have sound. )

Everyone to please think Happy Hoopie Knee-Healing Thoughts for mulderitsme1, today...

Hey hey!

annthemun is participating in a short walk against hunger on April 18th (this weekend!).

Would you like to sponsor her, and feed a few hungry children? OF COURSE YOU WOULD. In that case, you should totally click here and PayPal her some money!

Yay!

Oh, hey. Friended by a 'bot.

*looks*

A whole BUNCH of us were!

Wanna know how to report it?

1) Report Bot link - clicky.
2) Fill in the "Suspected bot username" field, and click [Continue]

...all done!

Small, but important, safety tip...

If you're one of the many folk planning on going clubbing tonight, please take a moment to check the dress code of whatever club you might be planning to hit.

MANY of them do not permit blue jeans - this is primarily used to keep people from wandering in off the street who "don't belong there", aka drunks ( Read more... )

It's been said many times, but it's never a bad thing to mention it again... "Plot Staff" is not a faceless, nameless entity which crouches in the darkness and feeds on PC tears* - we're regular people, who PC other games (or have even PC'd our own), who volunteer to come up with plotlines which we THINK people will enjoy** and run them accordingly ( Read more... )