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helptheproject is an auction to help the Virginia Avenue Project, a free afterschool program that combines the performing arts and one on one mentoring to help kids discover their full potential. They have a phenomenal success rate -- 100% of their kids graduate high school, 95% go on to college.

beckyh2112 has a post about this auction on her journal, where she's offering a fic for auction.

Craig's Pissed -- advice for artists and designers. Found on the Something Positive Twitter feed.

Broad Universe is an international organization with the primary goal of promoting science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women. Anyone excited about that project is welcome to join us. If you would like more information, email info(at)broaduniverse.org or check our Resources pages.

Their Broadsheet archive has essays and interviews and interesting thinky bits that go back, in most cases, to 2001. They've got a catalog of books and short stories written by members and they have resources for writers and readers.

Has anybody ever used Paperbackswap.com? I signed up for it today but I'm wanting some feedback before I give it a shot and start listing books. Basically, I'm looking for some books that I don't want to pay a lot of money for (or, preferably *any*), but I'm willing to trade for what I want.

See, a couple months back, I was at Barnes and Noble and on my way toward the science fiction section, I caught a glimpse of a title that took me straight back to the darker side of my existence as a child of the 1980s -- Endworld.

Endworld, for those not in the know (which is probably most of you), was one of many (and I do mean *many*) "post-apocalyptic survivors struggle on noblely After The Bomb." The series takes place 100 years after a nuclear war has devestated the United States (and presumably the rest of the world). The heroes are the Warriors of the Alpha Triad who serve the Family who live in the Home (and really, having read the first two books, that name is appropriate on sooooo many levels...). The setting is long on guns, and short on sense -- which may require another post to outline 'cause whoo doggies...

But, as bad as these books are -- and they are *bad* -- I want to read more of the genre. Part of it, I'm sure, is an attempt to recapture a bit of my childhood (prior to going to college, I ate these sorts of stories up -- call it a way of dealing with my very real fears of nuclear war) and part of it is the desire to point and mock (one of the series I'm looking for, Doomsday Warrior, involves the descendents of people who survived WWIII by being trapped in a highway tunnel through a mountain in the Rockies).

So, that's why I'm looking to find out if Paperbackswap.com is worth it. Or if there's a better site to use.

Though, I have to say, as bad as Endworld is, it's still more readable than "Key to Conflict" (last year's crappy book) was. Way more readable...

Oh No, You Didn't -- From Mercenaries 2: World In Flames. This? Is what Swindle would sing to his kids at night, if he had kids. Or if he'd acknowledge any kids he had. Maybe Onslaught sings it to the Combaticons...

Video above is the full-length version; Commercial is here

As for Metal-Head: the Brutal Legend TV commerical is all about a heavy metal roadie transported to a Heavy Metal album cover world where he is the one Chosen to either save the world or destroy it. But, yeah...this is where Metal-Head goes when he sleeps, aww yeah.

Because I have it in my head to write something (original) about superheroes and because these articles are cool:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080818/jackson-c.shtml

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20081006/jackson-c.shtml

Both are about superheros and various aspects of the law. Awesome sauce!

Geocities announced that it was closing a couple months or so back, but today they've finally announced the official "You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here" closing date: October 26, 2009

For more information: Geocities Closing FAQ You've got a couple options: download and save your files or upgrade to the new Yahoo Web Hosting.

Though, if you're looking for information on how to download and save your site, it amounts to "Right-click on your page, hit Save As, lather, rinse, repeat."

Title: Job Offer
Author: Dunmurderin
Fandom: X-Men/GI Joe
Characters: Sabretooth, Zartan, Dreadnoks
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: approximatley 1500
Summary: Zartan meets with Sabretooth and offers him a job.
Warning: N/A
Author’s Note: Takes place at some point after the events in the GI Joe cartoon episode "Computer Complications" -- exactly when I am not sure. Story is set outside my "regular" GI Joe continuity. Written for dragoness_e's request for Zartan making Sabretooth an offer he could (or couldn't) refuse.

( Job Offer )

Title: Joined at the Hip
Author: Dunmurderin
Fandom: Transformers (G1)
Characters: Red Alert, Inferno
Rating: G
Word Count: approx. 650 words
Summary: Red Alert and Inferno talk about their friendship and how others see them.
Author’s Note: Found in my WIP file; just a character study snippet. The Wildfire Academy is a real training program for firefighters who work in wilderness areas. This fic takes place directly after events in Compulsion and references (loosely) events in Witnessing

( Joined at the Hip )

Title: Optimism
Author: Dunmurderin
Fandom: Transformers (G1)
Characters: Optimus Prime, Huffer
Rating: PG
Word Count: approx. 1083 words
Summary: Optimus Prime meets with Huffer and learns there's more to him than expected.
Author’s Note: Written for corax_onyx for the request Optimus Prime and Huffer, prompt word "Optimism". Ok, so it's a *bit* longer than a drabble...eh-heh...

( Optimism )