Poetry Fishbowl bonus sale pool

[ng_moonmoth]

ysabetwordsmith is running a Polychrome Heroics bonus sale this week, featuring recent work on the China's Mistake thread. As usual, a large enough donation lowers the cost from the standard half-price to quarter-price. fuzzyred and I are both interested in sponsoring some poems, and will be combining forces to get the quarter-price discount.

The way this works is that once a sufficiently large sponsorship amount is raised, anyone can contribute an amount that is meaningful to them toward the pool, and get poetry at quarter-price -- not only for the pool targets, but for anything else they wish to buy. So, if someone were to chip in $10 to the pool, and had a poem that would be $50 at half-price, they can indicate that they wish $25 of their contribution to buy that poem -- and that poem would be added to the pool and marked as fully sponsored.

fuzzyred and I have a similar idea of where to start, with poems that are prerequisites for others. Sponsoring all of them would be beyond what we are willing to commit right now, so we're looking for some help in getting everything we'd like out.

There are two sequences of prerequisites right now. If the last poem in the pricier sequence is put in its own category, there are three groups, each of which is manageable for one of us. Here's the list:

"A Dangerous Thing to Be a Doll"	89.50
"Subhan'Allah"	47.50
Total for this sequence	137.00

"Worth Defending"	23.00
"Comfort on Difficult Days"	33.00
"Beyond Any Other Emotional Pain"	67.50
"Too Angry to Be Safe"	9.50
Total for this sequence	133.00
"To Endure Pain with Patience"	123.25

I'm after the Kraken thread: "The Wings of Hope" (67.75) and "The Evolution of Society as a Whole" (130.75), for a total of $198.50. fuzzyred is after some China's Mistake/Shiv crossover poems: "Their Need for Our Disciplinary Assistance" (68.00), "Created by the Restitution" (34.75), and "The Production of New and Useful Things" (14.50), for a total of $117.25.

So here's the current plan: The pool will sponsor the complete two-poem prerequisite sequence and the first four of the five-column prerequisite sequence. If enough additional pool sponsorship comes in, "Their Need for Our Disciplinary Assistance" and "The Wings of Hope" will be sponsored in that order. If we're really lucky, there may be more contributions that could fund any of the four remaining poems; what gets done will depend on how much money is available.'

All right, who wants a piece of the action? The pool will stay open until I go to bed on the last day of the sale. I'm PDT (GMT -7), and will likely be up late this weekend, so at least midnight any time in the Americas will be good enough.

Comments

[fuzzyred]

Woohoo! I'm hoping we get a lot of interest, it would be reallu nice to sponsor a lot of the poems.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Let me know whenever you want me to mark something as reserved for the pool.

Re: Yay!

[ng_moonmoth]

Please reserve the first six poems in the tables, as mentioned in the following text. As I get further contributions, I will keep you updated.

Re: Yay!

[ng_moonmoth]

All the payments have arrived, and I have added my own share and sent it your way.

Here's the summary of what the pool has sponsored:

Prerequisite group 1 137
Prerequisite group 2 133
The Evolution of Society as a Whole 130.75
The Production of New and Useful Things 14.50
Those Tiny, Negative Elements 120.50
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total 535.75

[technoshaman]

I'm probably in; I'll need to check tomorrow.

Haven't heard yet

[ng_moonmoth]

If you're good for $40 or so, we can get a Shiv poem, "Those Tiny, Negative Elements", for zianuray, who has it as a stretch goal. Does that sound possible?

Re: Haven't heard yet

[technoshaman]

Possible; I'm gonna have to physically move some money around, as the account to which paypal is linked doesn't autocredit on a remote deposit... I can do that late in the day today or early tomorrow, does that work for you?

Re: Haven't heard yet

[ng_moonmoth]

It does. I can let ysabetwordsmith know that your contribution will be coming soon. I should confirm amounts with the other participants, and that will work best if I know how much you are planning on contributing toward the pool. (If you have targets of your own in mind, you can just add them to your

Re: Haven't heard yet

[technoshaman]

Is $40 sufficient for the one Shiv poem (Negative)? If so, I can just do that... not much brain bandwidth this weekend...

Re: Haven't heard yet

[ng_moonmoth]

Yep. I can throw in the small change to make it work out.

I believe you know the PayPal handle that gets the money.

Pool

[zianuray]

More interested in the Shiv poems, but I'm in for 25 USD, lmk where to paypal

Re: Pool

[ng_moonmoth]

edorfaus just showed up with a significant contribution. I'm checking with another potential contributor to see whether they are willing to join in, but your $25 would leave us about $40 short of getting "Those Tiny, Negative Elements." If I got that, and you preferred the other Shiv poem enough to chip in the difference at quarter-price, the pool could get that one instead.

Will let you know right away how things stand once I hear from the other potential contributor, and then we can work out your contribution.

Re: Pool

[ng_moonmoth]

OK, technoshaman checked in with a pledge. If you send your $25 along, the pool will have enough for a stretch goal for you. Thanks for helping out!

Re: Pool

[zianuray]

LMK -- if I don't respond within an hour on a weekday, chances are good i'm at work

Re: Pool

[ng_moonmoth]

Responded to by PM.

Pool

[edorfaus]

If I can earmark some of it for "The Evolution of Society as a Whole" and "The Production of New and Useful Things" (total $145.25), then I'm in for $200 (which leaves $54.75 for other poems). (And I can stretch that a little bit if it lets us reach another poem, just let me know.)

Re: Pool

[ng_moonmoth]

That would be way cool; those were stretch goals for fuzzyred and me. Let me check to see whether that would be enough to get a Shiv poem for zianuray with their contribution.

Final amount I'm hoping for, and PayPal handle to send the contribution to, by PM later today.

Thanks for participating!