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Defying Doomsday is on Pozible!

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tsanasreads:

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Regular readers of my blog will hopefully remember me announcing
Defying Doomsday, the anthology I’m editing. Here’s a quick reminder:

Apocalypse fiction rarely includes characters with disability, chronic illness and other impairments. When these characters do appear, they usually die early on, or are secondary characters undeveloped into anything more than a burden to the protagonist. Defying Doomsday will be an anthology showing that disabled characters have far more interesting stories to tell in post-apocalyptic/dystopian fiction.

The anthology will be varied, with characters experiencing all kinds of disability from physical impairments, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses and/or neurodiverse characters. There will also be a variety of stories, including those that are fun, sad, adventurous and horrific.

The stories in Defying Doomsday will look at periods of upheaval from new and interesting perspectives. The anthology will share narratives about characters with disability, characters with chronic illnesses and other impairments, surviving the apocalypse and contending with the collapse of life as they know it.

If that sounds exciting, you will hopefully want to check out our Pozible campaign where you can pre-order the book (due out in 2016) or choose some other goodies. To check it out visit: http://ift.tt/1F1LoS7.

And if you missed our other social media links, here they are:

Twitter: http://ift.tt/1H402ez
Website: http://ift.tt/1EStDrW
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I just heard about this anthology on the Twitters and backed it! THIS IS VERY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. Y’all should take a look and become a supporter, too! :D

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tumblngkori:

pigeonbits:

bilu-anthology:

Hi, folks.  Early this morning, Eric and I woke up to find that our Kickstarter had jumped from around $1,500 pledged to over $10,000 overnight.  While that may look like great news, 90% of this funding is coming from a single account, who pledged $9,000.  This is from a new account who has not so far successfully backed/given money to any other projects, and their history of backing does not in the least show that this could possibly be a real and generous miracle pledge.

This is highly likely a troll.  We are currently doing our very best to fix this issue as quickly as possible.  In the meanwhile, PLEASE continue supporting the Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/arroyeah/boy-i-love-you-a-boys-love-comics-anthology

Despite the sucky situation we’re currently in, we are genuinely happy that we have legitimately reached $1,875 funding.  Thank you for everyone who has supported us early in the campaign.  Your help is irreplaceable!

People who post fake pledges to indie cartoonists’ kickstarters are actual pond scum, and stuff like this can have serious negative financial consequences for the victims. If you’d like to help, please signal boost and consider sending this project some *real* pledges. You’ll get some rad queer comics out of it, AND the satisfaction of pissing off the jerkface who’s trying to sabotage them!

OH MY DING DANG, screw fake pledgers!!!!  This project is amazing, go back it with some legit funds (I was the first pledger to it, hi yes I’m very proud!)  I hope this gets resolved!

UGHHHHHHHH I will do everything in my power to make sure this doesn’t happen to other folks! Signal boost and spread the word, get this project some backers!

A kicktroller pledged (then later filed a chargeback for) $1000 for my first KS.  IT SUCKED A LOT.  To the OP, report the profile to Kickstarter so they can take action!

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prettysickart:

So, you may or may not know, but I am a HUGE fan of Lego.  Have been since I was a kid, but I recently started amassing lego sets/loose legos again.  I discovered that putting together the creator/expert sets is a really effective pain distraction for me.

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While perusing the Lego Ideas site (where fan-based designs and sets are potentially picked from to create new lego sets), I ran across these 2 accessibility-themed sets.

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So awesome!  But they need your help.  In order to move forward in the process, they have to amass 10,000 votes of support!  The first project is  just over halfway there with 21 days left, and the second is just starting out with 65 days left.

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Supporting accessible themed items/sets in Lego opens a door to visibility in toys that doesn’t really exist yet.  So go support these projects.  You will have to sign up for a lego id in order to vote, but it’s totally worth it if it means getting this kind of visibility and consideration  into a super popular “kids” toy line.

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For the first project: VISIT THIS LINK

For the second projecT: VISIT THIS LINK

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GO! VOTE! ASSEMBLE!