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.

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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!