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Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief Fund

Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, working to end violence against indigenous women and children and provide resources for the MMIW campaign

Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation

Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.

for @starstruckzipperoperatoralmond  

All completed works 

What We Have Is Magic by starryharts (a short beautiful Harry Potter setting au with Hufflepuff Alex and Gryffindor Willie)

(i’ll spend forever wondering if you knew) i was enchanted to meet you by zoeysdianetti (a cute Willie teaches Alex how to skate first date fic)

Love’s worth the pain by Immortal_Dreams (a sweet post ep 9 fic in which Alex seeks out Willie after performing at the Orpheum.)

Willie sees Alex play for the first time… by Moonchildmarauder (basically what it says in the title short sweet and 100/10 would read again)

Lifting The Curse by malecnificenttyrus11 (another post s1 ep 9.. don’t wanna spoil it but I would die for willex in this one)

For What Greater Purpose Is There, Than to Love? by RavenReyesoG (ya’ll wanna cry read this.. another post Orpheum performance fic)

Hi everyone, Sam (@burninghoneyatdusk) here.

This is an opportunity for the bellarke community to directly support the Black Lives Matter cause through reading and writing fanfiction. All of this information can be found on the tumblr page, but I’ve included it here too so we can get the word out. 

THE INITIATIVE

For every fanfiction prompt I receive in this ask box, I ask that you donate money to an organization that supports the BLM cause. When I post the fanfiction, I will post confirmation that I matched your donation at another organization.

THE RULES

GENERAL PROMPT RULES

I am open to pretty much any prompt - any trope, any rating, AU or canon-verse. If for some reason the prompt is outside my comfort zone, I will simply ask that you submit another.

I am open to one-shot or multi-chapter fic prompts. If you have a multi-chapter fic prompt in mind, please note that the challenge applies to me posting the first chapter. I will try my best to finish the fic, but the donation obligation is for posting the first chapter.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Reader submits a prompt for a bellarke fic to the ask box. The more specific the better.  

If submitted anonymously: I will post the prompt publicly, confirming that I will write it. I ask that since it is anonymous, you DM me the confirmation of your donation to your organization of choice that supports the BLM mission (amount of $ and organization). That DM/information will remain confidential. I only ask for the amount of money so that I can match it - I’m not here to judge how much one donates.

If submitted non-anonymously: Please clarify whether you want me to post the ask prompt publicly or not. You can either attach confirmation of your donation to the reblog of the ask if posted publicly, or DM me privately if you’re more comfortable with that. If you provide me with your AO3 username, I will gift you the fic when it is finished.

Once I’m finished, I will post the fic to the AO3 collection and post a link to it as a tumblr post. As part of the tumblr post, I will post a photo for confirmation of my matched donation to an organization that supports the BLM mission.

GET INVOLVED

WRITERS -  I encourage other bellarke (or even just the 100) fic writers to participate with me. I am going to set up a page on the blog that lists writers who want to participate so that readers know who else they can submit prompts to. If you do write something for this initiative, I only ask that you please add the fic to the AO3 collection (link under navigation menu on tumblr page) and tag me in your post so that I can share your fic on this blog. 

ARTISTS - I welcome any artists to create companion art to go with the fics. If that’s something you’re interested in, you can DM me and we’ll figure out a fic for you to create art for. This can also include moodboards for the fics, as I won’t have time to create those for these prompts. Same rules apply - you submit art for the fic with confirmation of a donation and I’ll match that donation as well. I will post your art or moodboard when I post the fic link and tag you in the post.

OTHER NOTES

Keep in mind that I am one person. I promise that the fics will absolutely be written (in order of submission), but I have a full-time job and the fic could take up to a month or more to be posted.

I’m aware I’m incredibly financially privileged to be able to offer this challenge, especially at a time when many are not. If you are not able to financially donate (however small an amount), I will still accept prompts and donate a standard $10 to an organization. If this is the case, I would love to hear of another way that you are able to support the cause - anything from attending protests, supporting protesters, or even having hard but necessary conversations with white friends and family members.

With the above in mind, I am also nothing close to “wealthy”. I’m really not sure what this initiative will grow to be, but I may add a matched donation ceiling later if I can’t financially keep up with it. I will update you all if this becomes the case. 

There is no “close date” for this initiative, as I know it’s important to keep our foot on the gas at all times, not just when the hashtag is trending. That being said, my availability may increase or decrease at different times depending on work, life, etc, but I will try my best to remain consistent. 

I’m very much still learning about the array of organizations that are available to support and am more than open to suggestions on where to donate and any other general information and resources. 

Once I get the ball rolling, I will create a page on the blog that tracks how much money we’ve donated to each organization as a group.

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Please spread the word on this initiative so that we can pull in maximum participation from all parts of the fandom. I do not have Twitter, so it would be especially helpful if anyone who is active on Twitter could share it there too. 

Tagging some mutuals who are creators and/or those who reblogged my initial post:

Hi everyone! I’ve gotten questions from writers asking if they can participate if they’re not able to match the donations. That is ABSOLUTELY okay. In this case, the person submitting the prompt would still submit a donation for the writer to write the fic, but the writer does not need to match it if they are unable to. I am only doing so because I’m financially in a position to do so.

Additionally, I want to point out that these don’t need to be enormous donations. Do what you can afford during these crazy times! If that’s $5, $10, more or less, that’s okay. Anything is always better than nothing. And as I said in the original post, there are non-financial ways to help the cause. This just seemed the easiest to organize around fic writing.

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