eid_ka_chand | Announcing the Sponsored Eid-al-thon for Pakistan

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Announcing the Sponsored Eid-al-thon for Pakistan

It is almost two weeks into Ramadan, and two weeks to Eid-al_Fitr. We hope your creations for our festival are going well!

We would also like to throw in our support of fannish fundraising efforts (such as

help_pakistan) for the terrible floods that have killed over 1,500 people in Pakistan and displaced more than a million. What has been especially troubling for

kairia and me has been seeing a link between Islamophic perceptions of Pakistanis as 'terrorists' and 'honour-killing savages' and an apathetic desire to 'let them die'.

As you know, one very crucial goal of our fanworks challenge has been to increase the responsible representation of Muslims in fandom, because we know the real world effects of what distortions and erasures in the media we consume can have.

So we would like to encourage you to support this challenge, and at the same time support the much more pressing and urgent need in Pakistan, by signing up to sponsor our Challenge.

How it works:

You comment to this entry, making a pledge to donate a certain amount of money per fanwork generated. You can put conditions on your pledge, such as "I promise to donate $2 for every piece of fanfiction over 1,000 words", or "I will donate ₤5 for every fan vid, ₤3 for every fanart, ₤2 for every icon post", or "I will donate ¥1 for every fanwork up to a total of ¥30".
On September 11th we will post a master list of all the fanworks created for the challenge, with a breakdown by type.
By the end of September 12th, we will reply to your pledges telling you the amount you have committed to donating.
We ask that you, when possible, send us reciepts of your donations, so that we can post the actual amount of money raised by this challenge. You can email them to dhobikikutti@dreamwidth.org with private info blacked out; all information will be kept confidential.
The charities we are encouraging donations to are Edhi Foundation, Relief4Pakistan, or the organisations listed here.

Please do help us get the word out for this double challenge; we need both generous donors who will sponsor fanworks, as well as enthusiastic fans committed to increasing the number of fanworks in our challenge!

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I will donate $10 for every fanvid and $5 for every fanart up to a total of $100.

I'll steal your example: I promise to donate $2 for every piece of fanfiction over 1,000 words.

I will donate $2 for every fanwork.

I will donate $2 for every fanwork up to a total of $100. (Unless I'm feeling flush that week!)

I pledge $10 to Doctors without Borders/MSF for every work of fiction or meta over 1000 words, which is not written by myself.

Because I am Brokey bint Brokenstein: $0.50 per fanwork.

"Thanks for sponsoring our challenge! We will let you know the final amount you need to donate after our challenge goes live.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We will let you know the final amount you need to donate after our challenge goes live.

Yay! Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate after our challenge goes live.

That's great - thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We will let you know the final amount you need to donate after our challenge goes live.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We will let you know the final amount you need to donate after our challenge goes live.

Brokey bint Brokenstein - that made me smile! Thank you for sponsoring our challenge, we'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

I will donate $2 (USD) for every fanwork up to a total of $80 (USD).

I will donate $1 for every 500 words of fic, up to $50.

I will donate $1 per fanwork, up to a total of $50.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

Thanks for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

I will donate $2 for every fanwork up to $70 to MSF.

Ten dollars per piece of meta generated (up to $100).

(And my offer to beta/brainstorm/guide/play cheerleader for such meta is here.)

I will donate $2 USD for every fanwork.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

Thank you for both sponsoring the challenge and offering to beta! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live.

I'll donate $2 for every fanwork up to $100.

Thanks for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live!

I will donate up to $5 for every fanwork, with a limit of $500.

I'll donate $1 per icon ($2 per icon featuring female characters), up to $50.

Thank you for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live!

Thanks for sponsoring our challenge! We'll let you know the final amount you need to donate once the challenge goes live!

£1 per work :) yay!

Hey there! We've totalled up the amounts generated by all the famworks, and according to your pledge, your sponsorship has earned $30 for the charity of your choice.
Please do send us a copy of the reciept (with your personal info blanked out, of course) at dhobikikutti@dreamwidth.org so that we have an accurate account of the actual amount we managed to raise.

Thank you once again for your support for both