Hello, internet!
My name is Emily, and I am the girl who used to write a bunch of fic that I guess you guys liked! You might remember me from this journal; I used to also write as![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6)
opensound. I come back to you all, sweet-ass plaid fedora in hand before me, to ask you all a favor.
In the years since you all knew me, I have grown from a teenie with pink hair and too much eyeliner into a fine young woman with blue hair and too much eyeliner. I also now have an unfortunately strong fondness for argyle. I still write a lot (you can even read my poetry over atrustedveins), and given as I live with two other bandom members (astaria51 and lunamorgan) I still love the fuck out of MCR and assorted bands, and think frequently about how much I miss them.
The problem with being a fine young woman is that, in the modern vernacular, this translates to "adult". And this adult lost her job in July, and has had serious difficulty finding a new job since then. I've finally gotten a job, but I don't even start training till next week, which means no paycheck for at least three weeks. And in the meantime, the first of the month is coming up, and I'm still figuring out exactly how I'll get rent in while still managing to eat and pay for bus transportation TO work.
None of this is intended to come off as begging for pity; I'm sure many of you are in the same boat yourselves, or living paycheck-to-paycheck, or paying off student loans. Those of you who are have my sympathies, and hopefully you'll understand that my situation has grown fairly dire for me to reach this point.
However, fandom has always struck me as a big extended family, and one more than willing to open their pocketbooks in exchange for nonmaterial goods. Hence why I feel comfortable coming to you all, pride swallowed, to ask for an exchange: You donate a small amount to me - let's say $10? - and in return, I will write you a fic based on a prompt of your choice. (It will have to be MCR or FOB-based, simply because I just don't know any of these damn newfangled bands kids these days listen to.) It will be a minimum of 3000 words, if not quite possibly far more, and it will be pretty awesome. I can promise that it will be awesome because if you thought I was awesome five years ago, I've gotta be like five times cooler now, right?
My intention in posting this is not to guilt-trip anyone, or to demand money; I want to make that clear. I appreciate anything that comes my way, but honestly, we're in a fucking recession and I'm some chick you knew two or three years ago, at best. If you don't want to donate, I completely understand. However, if you're in a shitty place right now too and just can't pull the money together, please leave a comment & talk to me. Once I have my job in place and my other debts paid off, I will make an attempt to pass the love along to others in need.
Thank you all for reading this. I hope everyone's doing wonderfully, & anyone I knew back in the day is welcome to use this post as a place to catch up on the past couple years.
Lots of love from Chicago,
Emily /paloma_cayendo
ETA (10/30, around 3pm): OMG YOU GUYS. Y'all have donated enough money to pay for my unlimited-ride transit card for the next MONTH. (And it means you've essentially donated to the Chicago Transit Authority, which - despite what everyone in this city says - is really pretty awesome.)
I'm overwhelmed by everyone's generosity, and I've definitely teared up numerous times over the past couple days upon checking my email. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ♥
& another ETA, shortly thereafter: the wonderfultempore pointed out, and rightly, that in the legal sense this might get kind of sticky. Therefore, I want to clarify that every dollar I get from this will, in the future, be paid forward along to another bandom member in need (who will not even need to write me anything, because otherwise I'd just use the whole thing as an excuse to pay my roommate to write me an epic America's Next Top Model AU, and that very solidly defeats the purpose of this.)
But yes: as I put it, think of this as an intercommunity loan. I do not want to take money for fic. I want to ask people to help me out by lending me money, that will then be passed on to others who need a loan once I'm stable. I am a compulsively grateful person, and so I cannot just accept a loan without offering my firstborn in return, hence the offer of fic response; I am still open to writing fic for those who can't donate.
I don't think anyone within bandom is enough of an asshole to get all legal up in my grill, but on the off chance someone else stumbles across this, I hope those last couple paragraphs clarify it for you.
OKAY BACK TO ME CAPSLOCKING IN THANKFULNESS AT EVERYONE. ♥
My name is Emily, and I am the girl who used to write a bunch of fic that I guess you guys liked! You might remember me from this journal; I used to also write as
opensound. I come back to you all, sweet-ass plaid fedora in hand before me, to ask you all a favor.In the years since you all knew me, I have grown from a teenie with pink hair and too much eyeliner into a fine young woman with blue hair and too much eyeliner. I also now have an unfortunately strong fondness for argyle. I still write a lot (you can even read my poetry over at
rustedveins), and given as I live with two other bandom members (astaria51 and lunamorgan) I still love the fuck out of MCR and assorted bands, and think frequently about how much I miss them.The problem with being a fine young woman is that, in the modern vernacular, this translates to "adult". And this adult lost her job in July, and has had serious difficulty finding a new job since then. I've finally gotten a job, but I don't even start training till next week, which means no paycheck for at least three weeks. And in the meantime, the first of the month is coming up, and I'm still figuring out exactly how I'll get rent in while still managing to eat and pay for bus transportation TO work.
None of this is intended to come off as begging for pity; I'm sure many of you are in the same boat yourselves, or living paycheck-to-paycheck, or paying off student loans. Those of you who are have my sympathies, and hopefully you'll understand that my situation has grown fairly dire for me to reach this point.
However, fandom has always struck me as a big extended family, and one more than willing to open their pocketbooks in exchange for nonmaterial goods. Hence why I feel comfortable coming to you all, pride swallowed, to ask for an exchange: You donate a small amount to me - let's say $10? - and in return, I will write you a fic based on a prompt of your choice. (It will have to be MCR or FOB-based, simply because I just don't know any of these damn newfangled bands kids these days listen to.) It will be a minimum of 3000 words, if not quite possibly far more, and it will be pretty awesome. I can promise that it will be awesome because if you thought I was awesome five years ago, I've gotta be like five times cooler now, right?
My intention in posting this is not to guilt-trip anyone, or to demand money; I want to make that clear. I appreciate anything that comes my way, but honestly, we're in a fucking recession and I'm some chick you knew two or three years ago, at best. If you don't want to donate, I completely understand. However, if you're in a shitty place right now too and just can't pull the money together, please leave a comment & talk to me. Once I have my job in place and my other debts paid off, I will make an attempt to pass the love along to others in need.
Thank you all for reading this. I hope everyone's doing wonderfully, & anyone I knew back in the day is welcome to use this post as a place to catch up on the past couple years.
Lots of love from Chicago,
Emily /
paloma_cayendoETA (10/30, around 3pm): OMG YOU GUYS. Y'all have donated enough money to pay for my unlimited-ride transit card for the next MONTH. (And it means you've essentially donated to the Chicago Transit Authority, which - despite what everyone in this city says - is really pretty awesome.)
I'm overwhelmed by everyone's generosity, and I've definitely teared up numerous times over the past couple days upon checking my email. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ♥
& another ETA, shortly thereafter: the wonderful
tempore pointed out, and rightly, that in the legal sense this might get kind of sticky. Therefore, I want to clarify that every dollar I get from this will, in the future, be paid forward along to another bandom member in need (who will not even need to write me anything, because otherwise I'd just use the whole thing as an excuse to pay my roommate to write me an epic America's Next Top Model AU, and that very solidly defeats the purpose of this.)But yes: as I put it, think of this as an intercommunity loan. I do not want to take money for fic. I want to ask people to help me out by lending me money, that will then be passed on to others who need a loan once I'm stable. I am a compulsively grateful person, and so I cannot just accept a loan without offering my firstborn in return, hence the offer of fic response; I am still open to writing fic for those who can't donate.
I don't think anyone within bandom is enough of an asshole to get all legal up in my grill, but on the off chance someone else stumbles across this, I hope those last couple paragraphs clarify it for you.
OKAY BACK TO ME CAPSLOCKING IN THANKFULNESS AT EVERYONE. ♥
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