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The days are growing short, the nights are growing cold, and everyone seeks the warmth and light of the family fire. The merchants put out their shiniest goods, the churches open their doors to let music and welcome spill out to reach the masses, and people return to the simple joys of good food and giving. These are the days of Winterfaire, and fair they be indeed.

So it seems ysabetwordsmith is hosting another Winterfaire Market, a lovely online bazaar of creative goods for sale by their makers in this season of many gift giving holidays. I'll have a booth there as well, but I figured why not open my own cyber-pasture to the vendors of Winterfaire? If you'd like to set up a booth here, either instead of ysabet's or in addition to it (the cyber-pastures are tesseracted, there are lots of places with shared borders to set up on) simply comment below with a description of your goods, a price range, and a way for customers to catch your ear so you can do business. Links to etsy or deviantart or such are more than welcome.

Wander through the markets, looking at goods for sale, and if you can't find that perfect something, ask the shop-keep about it! Shoppers are welcome to reply to this post as well, asking for assistance creating that special something for your special someones.

The stars are out, there's a nip in the air, and streamers of bright colors flutter in the crisp breeze. Lights are shining in windows, the scent of pine and cinnamon combine to advertise the celebration of rebirth and renewal. Someone is singing around the corner, and a merchant offers you a sample of cider or cocoa. His neighbor holds up a shining treasure for your approval... it's Winterfest time again.

I'm starting a new tag for short, snippitly bits that aren't long enough to qualify as stories, but might become them. There's several reasons for this, the first of which is I need a place to put them so I can find them again. Another reason is that someone else might be inspired by them, and I'm all for the propagation of more fiction. If you're so inclined, anything in the "Story Seed" tag is free game to use as a jumping off point for your own work, no permission required. Grab it and go, folks, grab it and go. Thirdly, any story seed might also be something someone wants to see me write more of, and commissions are always open.

If you like something in a story seed and want to see it grow into an actual story-bush, just tell me you'd be interested in buying an expanded version, and give me a budget to stay in for my rates ($0.02 US per word, on average). If I wind up writing significantly more than your offer, I'll post your part, open the rest of the story for crowd funding, and we'll go from there.

Every so often, I'll "open the garden" for a Free Prompt Day and do some expansions just because I can.

Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith is hosting a Winterfaire market, a lovely online bazaar of creative goods for sale by their makers in this season of many gift giving holidays. I'll have a booth there as well, but I figured why not open my own cyber-pasture to the vendors of Winterfaire? If you'd like to set up a booth here, either instead of ysabet's or in addition to it (the cyber-pastures are tesseracted, there are lots of places with shared borders to set up on) simply comment below with a description of your goods, a price range, and a way for customers to catch your ear so you can do business. Links to etsy or deviantart or such are more than welcome.

Wander through the markets, looking at goods for sale, and if you can't find that perfect something, ask the shop-keep about it! Shoppers are welcome to reply to this post as well, asking for assistance creating that special something for your special someones.

The stars are out, there's a nip in the air, and streamers of bright colors flutter in the crisp breeze. Lights are shining in windows, the scent of pine and cinnamon combine to advertise the celebration of rebirth and renewal. Someone is singing around the corner, and a merchant offers you a sample of cider or cocoa. His neighbor holds up a shining treasure for your approval... it's Winterfest time again.

This is the landing page for all the things left over from various sales, bingos, and jams. Here will be a continually updating list of things you can buy and their current prices. At the end of each month, I'll have a clearance poll and post one thing from here for free, based on reader feedback.

~The Register~

For buying your goodies! Click here to get to my PayPal and pay for what you want to buy. Let me know what you want and what name/username to shout out too, and I'll post your purchase post-haste!

~Tip Jar~

The link above is my tip jar, adding a bit of cushion to my life's finances. Because it's extra that doesn't go to a specific thing, I'll keep track of the tip jar and run polls for when I get a fair amount of random change. That's based on you all, so it's not a regular schedule, but if at least three things are under the amount in the jar, I'll run a poll. Italics on the title means it's going to be up next in the tip jar polls.

Currently Unsold

STORIES

New Nights-- A short story in the Calamity Johnson and Chicane line of Super-Queers. Calamity is having trouble changing her nightly routine, and Chicane has a meeting to attend. They both find what they need. Buy It Now: $21

Bi Bi Birdy- A farce of two bi girls and a Winter Screw Dance. Also, lots of puns. Buy It Now- $30

A New Kind- When the homeless, poor, and queer start to disappear, is it suicide, or is it emigration? 245 words. Buy It Now- $8.70

Saving a Unicorn- A Unicorn hunter gets more than he bargained for. 577 words. Buy It Now- $6

Traced Lines- Martin and Kyle from Kasperov discuss family. 445 words. Buy It Now- $5

POEMS

Star-Promised Lovers-- A set of twelve haikus discussing the dance of physics involved in spaceflight. 36 lines. Buy It Now: $6.80

Elegy To The Unnamed Civilian- A poem in memory of those lost. 43 lines. Buy It Now- $11

Polychrome Morality- The expanse of morals in Polychrome Heroics isn't black and white, why shouldn't nemeses pain with all the complementary colors? 28 lines. Buy It Now- $5

Black Swan's Tale-- Sometimes, the black swan isn't an ill omen, and sometimes sorcerers get what they want. Retelling Swan Lake from Odile the Black Swan's perspective. 35 lines Buy It Now: $5.25

Gal Pals- Lesbian erotic poem. NSFW. 22 lines. Buy It Now- $6

It's baaack! And this time the theme is Moving the Body. Feel free to prompt me here or to pop over to the Jam Page to prompt there for lots of awesome authors. I'll be writing like mad all day Sunday on various prompts and posting the titles of what I've finished here with prices. At the close of the day (and after posting anything sponsored) I'll put up a poll for a freebie from my finished work.

What I Have Written:
Real Friends Help You Hide The Bodies-- A character introspective poem in the Calamity Johnson, Supervillainess line of Super-Queers. Calamity reflects on the ways her friends help her hide the bodies. 15 lines. ~~Buy It Now: $5~~ POSTED

A Break(dance) For Freedom-- A freestanding poem about capoeira forming from different groups of people under Brazilian slave-ownership, using dancing and fighting to rebel. 33 lines. Buy It Now: $8.50

I Come Dressed To Dig-- A short story in the Darkmatter line of Super-Queers. Dacia asks a friend to help her with gardening, and her relationship with Quest is discovered and discussed. Buy It Now: $28

From My Prompts:

I'll be doing the Crowdfunding Creative Jam this time around, and the theme is Black Swans. I'll be taking any prompts you want to toss my way, as well as filling some that are posted on the comments of the Crowdfunding Creative Jam's main thread. All prompters I fill for get a free private copy of what comes of the prompt, and I'll post a list with prices here. Remember you can toss a few dollars out of the price towards something and I'll keep the post updated to the amount funded, so everyone can see how much is left to finish funding.

What I've Written:
Black Swan's Tale- Sometimes, the black swan isn't an ill omen, and sometimes sorcerers get what they want. Retelling Swan Lake from Odile the Black Swan's perspective. BUY IT NOW: $5.25

From My Prompts

Well, we're getting quite close to the end of the month, so lets's review the bingo status!

Cotton Candy Bingo- the bingo card is almost to a perfect checkerboard bingo, just missing "Seeking/Finding Love" and "Meeting in a Treehouse"

Works for Cotton Candy Bingo are:

Save Game: The Social Experiment
Special Gifts in Super Queers (I may need to rename that world, a lot of the main characters are queer, but not all of them.)
Winter Gifts in Super Queers
Do Not Write Me Poems
Sans-Pants-o-Clock
Water Haikus
Grandmother's Trunk
Under Cover Fashion in Super Queers
Hostile, Paranoid, and Okay in Super Queers
New Nights in Super Queers
Ears to Hear

New Nights is in the Calamity Johnson and Chicane line of SuperQueers, and is available for purchase at $13

Origfic Bingo- the bingo card is close to a one-line bingo down the middle, just missing "doppelgangers/clones/impersonators/evil doubles"

Works for Origfic Bingo are:

If you'd like to prompt something for "Seeking/Finding Love", "Meeting in a Treehouse", or "doppelgangers/clones/impersonators/evil doubles", please let me know!

Current Mood: working

This was purchased by

chanter_greenie from my Queer Writing June '17.

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Words change.

Words change their meaning.

What Awful once meant was Full of Awe

Inspiring and amazing and wondrous.

Words change.

Languages change.

Common slang becomes uncommon and esoteric

And what once meant one thing can now mean something

Beyond any scope of what was intended by the first lips

To speak that word or phrase.

Words change.

Languages change.

Cultures change.

What was common but inconvenient can be

Repainted as vile and sinful and wrong, demonized.

What once was hated and feared and rejected out of hand

Can be accepted by a later people, welcomed home

With open arms and flying colors declaring love.

Words change.

Languages change.

Cultures change.

People don’t.

People are bright fires of candles and the wrath of a storm

They are the beauty of flowers blooming in a glass house

Or hiding, ready to burst out in a moment’s warmth, for now

Surrounded by freezing snow and killing winds shrieking.

People must be watched like flame and respected like storms.

Because if you do not listen when they cry out for warmth

You will kill that fragile bloom.

So words change,

And languages change,

And cultures change.

And people cry out the names they want to be called

Fights don’t change.

And every false-hearted ally of a long war

Joining at that last moment to receive the laurels and not the scars

To bear the red of ribbons not of blood,

Will use the argument of words and languages and cultures shifting

To claim their prizes over our dead

And we; the buried flowers of snow, howl like wind and burn like flame.

We will be called what we will.

We will take the names we find fitting to our statures and our souls.

We will do this whether or not

You decide we deserve it and we will always fight back against your attempt

To keep our reclaimed arrows

For the quivers of those who cruelly shot us down with them in the first place.

And our cry will echo the same

That is not a slur it is my name!

Current Mood: excited

Okay, so after much finagling of numbers, here's the buy it now price list! Everything is much cheaper than it ordinarily would be in crowdfunding, due to this not being how I originally said I'd publish (i.e. this is crowdfunded, not individual buy) and I want to be fair.

Bi Bi Birdy- A farce of two bi girls and a Winter Screw Dance. Also, lots of puns. 855 words. Buy It Now- $9

Gal Pals- Lesbian erotic poem. NSFW. 22 lines. Buy It Now- $6

The Poly Alphabet- A poem about a polycule using an alphabet structure. Safe For Work. 18 lines. Buy It Now- $5

~~Changing Unchanging- A Poem about the reclaimation of the word Queer. 58 lines. Buy It Now- $15~~ Purchased and Posted!

Saving a Unicorn- A Unicorn hunter gets more than he bargained for. 577 words. Buy It Now- $6

Traced Lines- Martin and Kyle from Kasperov discuss family. 445 words. Buy It Now- $5

~~Love Like- A poem of Demisexual and Demiromantic love. 33 lines. Buy It Now- $8~~ Purchased and Posted!

Elegy To The Unnamed Civilian- A poem in memory of those lost. 43 lines. Buy It Now- $11

You can buy these through my Pay Pal with a note of which you're buying. If there's no note, I will add it to the next-nearest amount and update the Buy It Now price. Everything here is over $5, if you wish to leave a smaller amount let me know what it's going towards anyway and I'll keep the log of these current on this post. Remember that the "Purchase" option on Pay Pal involves a small fee from what you send, so it's a touch more effective to use the donate/give option, although I'm not a super stickler about only doing donation. If you choose to send by payment instead, I'll grab the extra I need from my "Tip Jar" fund on Ko-Fi to finish off coin-level amounts unless I'm out of that.

Current Mood: awake

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